Tag: faith
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When God Doesn’t Answer
If you knew for a fact that God was not going to change any of your most negative life circumstances, what would you do?
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Religion As Mental Illness
If the modern day atheist wants to say that believing in the resurrection of the dead or in an all-powerful invisible Being in the sky is lunacy, let them. We’re in good company.
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Learning Obedience
“Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.” Hebrews 5:8 Now wait a minute! What do you mean Jesus learned obedience? He never disobeyed. We have to learn to obey God, but Jesus always obeyed the commands of God. Jesus “was in all points tempted as we are,…
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Forsake Me Not
One of our elders recently asked us, before partaking of communion, to think of someone we are really close to, someone we trust and rely on, like a spouse, a parent, or a child. Then he asked us to imagine the pain we would feel if that person turned on us.
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Yawning In Church
Have you ever fallen asleep during a sermon? We usually assume, if that happens, either the preacher is boring or the person is spiritually weak. But there are many reasons someone might fall asleep in church.
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What Shall We Do?
Some Pharisees spent just as much time and energy trying to get rid of the apostles as they had spent getting rid of Jesus. Eventually most of the apostles died as martyrs, but the church still spread and continues to this day. These unbelievers were fighting against God, as Gamaliel put it in Acts 5:39,…
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The Jesus We Want
If Jesus could just miraculously multiply food, why not do it for his disciples every day? It would make life a lot easier.
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Analog Time Keeping
Are you old enough to remember car dashboards before the digital age? Remember how the odometers worked? The numbers would turn very gradually, one little 0-9 dial for each place— the ones, the tens, the hundreds, and so on— so that when it turned to 100,000 miles, for example, you had the excitement of watching…
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