KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Mercy breaks the cycle. Love has a built-in multiplier effect. A loving heart is a grateful heart. In other words, if you love like Christ, and you know it, you are forever grateful for the gift to do so! All Things Are Lawful – blog 3/22/24 As a child of God, […]
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How do you react to pain and stress? I have observed, in both myself and others, that people tend to turn inwards during times of pressure and suffering. This always reminds me of pill bugs. Those are the little gray bugs you see that roll up into a ball when distressed. Poor little guys, I
KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: A clean, moral life condemns the sinner. A filthy one encourages them! Mercy breaks the cycle. William Lane on Heb 12:15-16 “Christian vigilance is the proper response to a peril that poses and imminent threat to the entire community. The danger is first envisioned as the forfeiture of the grace
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “Strive” – from diokete – means to pursue with all haste (“chasing” after), earnestly desiring to overtake (apprehend). “everyone” from pas – means “all” in the sense of “each (every) part that applies.” The emphasis of the total picture then is on “one piece at a time.” How to Love Like Jesus – blog 2/13/2 To love like Jesus is
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TODAY’S VERSE: Revelation 3:19 “Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.” As we move on in our study to chapter 2 of Jonah, let us first review chapter 1. God commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh and warn the people that He would destroy them if they did
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Did you know that you have a superpower? It’s true! When someone is attacking you, you have an indestructible defense that allows you to withstand even death at the hands of your enemies and still not sin! Like any shield, it must be held up by a strong arm when in battle. That arm is
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: When you understand GOD’s divine design for suffering, then you EMBRACE it!!! “Strive” – from diokete – means to pursue with all haste (“chasing” after), earnestly desiring to overtake (apprehend). “everyone” from pas – means “all” in the sense of “each (every) part that applies.” The emphasis of the total picture then is on “one piece at a time.”
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Before I get into this topic, I want to say that the concept of partiality is, in many ways, only used in our language to describe a human characteristic. In other words, I don’t believe that either this word or it’s opposite, impartiality, were necessary expressions before the Fall in the Garden of Eden. Give
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As a child of God, you have been PREDESTINED (your destiny was set before you were born) to be “conformed to the image of His Son”!!! When you understand GOD’s divine design for suffering, then you EMBRACE it!!! You must have a balanced diet of training and discipline so that your whole body is ready
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: As a child of God, you have been PREDESTINED (your destiny was set before you were born) to be “conformed to the image of His Son”!!! When you understand GOD’s divine design for suffering, then you EMBRACE it!!! Since our Father loves His children, He disciplines them. Said discipline is meant
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