Tag: Jesus Christ
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Lists
We like lists of do’s and don’ts. If we can boil right and wrong down to a list of rules, we feel we have a better idea of where we stand and where we need to go.
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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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Lighting The Fire
Sometimes we speak of our spiritual lives as a fire. We ask God to “light the fire in my heart again.” But building a campfire is not always easy, and it can also be difficult to light the fires of Christian zeal.
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Maturing In The Lord
Have you ever run into a Christian who seems to take God’s forgiveness for granted? They willingly admit their mistakes but are so quick to claim God’s grace, they sound like a kid who has made a mess and flippantly says, “Oh well, Mom will take care of it.”
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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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Don’t Settle For Lesser Things
Children are not good at judging and comparing the value of things. They will often choose whatever pleasant thing comes first, even if it is of far less value. This idea comes from C.S. Lewis in The Weight of Glory, and he applies it to the difficulty we have in comparing the value of physical…
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