Tag: Jesus Christ
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Behold The Man!
It is something very dramatic to behold— all the ways that God has reached out to man even after we over-reached by our collective disobedience. God has always been reaching out to us.
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Feeding Gratitude
My friend and I were talking the other day about how easy it is to fall into complaining, and how it makes us like the nation of Israel in the days of Moses. If God wasn’t happy with complaining then, He isn’t happy with it now. But what is the antidote for a complaining spirit?
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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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The Coverdale Bible
If loving Bible study makes me a nerd, then I don’t wanna be cool. For nerds like me, even the study of different Bible translations is fascinating. Certainly the Bible should be studied from a religious perspective. It’s also valuable for its historical significance and its unparalleled influence on philosophy, art, and literature. Furthermore, it…
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The Undiscovered Country
Sometimes change is painful. We may get so miserable in our current state that we take a step or two toward change. But then we feel that resistance. We feel those uncomfortable feelings of unfamiliar territory. And so we retreat. We “change back.”
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May I Have Your Attention Please
Life for most people is so very, very busy. We divide our attention like cracker crumbs over the top of a casserole. Sometimes that’s what life feels like— like we’re strewing crumbs all over the place.
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Take Your Medicine
What’s the biggest problem in your life? If you had a guarantee— an absolute 100% guarantee— that following a certain course of action would eliminate your problem after a year, but that following that course of action for a year would be pretty miserable, would you do it? Would you take the medicine?
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Carrying On When We Don’t Understand
We can always think of some tragedy horrible enough that it just doesn’t seem fair for God to allow Satan to take it that far.
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Persecution
Whether the persecution you and I face is great or small, Jesus understands. He was persecuted too. He was put to death because he was popular, his influence was growing, and his teachings didn’t fit the cultural narrative.
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