Tag: God
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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
We all have dreams as kids. Some are silly and unlikely; some are very much possible. But we all face obstacles in life too…
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I Have Been Young And Now Am Old
When the psalmist wrote in Psalm 37:25, “I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,” he didn’t mean he had never seen the righteous suffer. Suffering and being forsaken are not the same thing.
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An Engineering Marvel
From the deceptively simple splitting of a single-celled amoeba to the rotation of the earth around the sun, God’s systems are perfectly designed and boggle the human mind. But perhaps His greatest engineering masterpiece is….
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Dual Citizenship
Citizenship in heaven doesn’t erase or nullify earthly citizenship. Jesus indicated that we have responsibilities to both our earthly and our heavenly countries.
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Separation
That same night at the jail we talked about how easy it is to make excuses and shift blame by pointing out others’ faults. We want to justify ourselves.
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It’s Not Hurting Anyone
It’s up to us to show people that God’s laws are reasonable. But the morally relativistic world has its own way of thinking, and its arguments often seem reasonable too.
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When God Seems Unjust
Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you;And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.For the LORD is a God of justice;Blessed are all those who wait for Him. Isaiah 30:18 Last time I wrote about the idea of seeking God’s help rather than standing on…
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Personal Justice
There is a time when justice should not be very high on my list of concerns, and that is when I myself am treated unjustly.
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Kill Your Demons
You can’t overcome your sin or your pain if you allow those to be the place where you live. Do you live in the strength of Christ, or do you live in your weaknesses?