Tag: God the Father
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God Doesn’t Need Us
Why does God tell us to pray? Doesn’t He already know what we want and what we need?
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Toxic Parenting?
When we apply terms like abuse, dysfunctional, bullying, and toxic to normal imperfect human behavior, we diminish the value of the terms, making it harder to confront real and serious cases of abuse, bullying, and suchlike.
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Why God Wanted Children
In family relationships, including our relationship with our heavenly Father, we often say and do foolish and selfish things. When a child becomes estranged or a spouse commits adultery, there will be sorrow, anger, jealousy. It is no different for God when we reject Him. (After all, where do our emotions come from?)
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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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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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How High Can You Climb?
Just as with climbing a jungle gym on the playground, with adult ladders of success, there are risks. You could lose. You could have some success and then fall. The one that bugs me the most is the risk of my endeavors proving to be a waste of time.
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In Defense of the Minor Prophets
Has the church of God gone so far astray in stubbornness, disobedience, and idolatry, that God is using extreme measures to get our attention?
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Fear Of Fire
When I was a girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old, the house behind ours caught fire in the middle of the night. Our whole family got out of bed and watched it from our sliding glass door. We knew the neighbors were safe, but I still cried because I was afraid the fire would…
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My Not Needed Place
One afternoon not long ago, my son was in a bad mood for some reason and he decided to go hide in my closet. I found a piece of paper taped to my closet door and it said: My not needed place (Do not disturb please just knock) Also my not loved place
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