Tag: relationship with god
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March 06, 2009 11:50 AM EST --
Keep your eyes open for you know not the day or the hour. Mt 25:13
Would Jesus have said such a thing? Did Jesus believe in judgement? And what, at any rate, does it say about God? . . .
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June 04, 2007 08:18 AM EDT --
If our gospel can be called “veiled” in any sense, it is such only for those who are headed toward destruction. Their unbelieving minds have been blinded by the god of the present age . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:16 PM EDT --
As your fellow workers, we beg you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 Cor 6:1
Ok, this passage is ripped from context. But what an astounding statement! Paul clearly assumes . . .
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February 15, 2007 10:19 AM EST --
With Jews and Greeks alike I insisted solemnly on repentance before God and on faith in our Lord Jesus. Acts:20:21
Luke has Paul saying that his message was twofold. Actually it was manifold, . . .
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February 16, 2007 02:34 PM EST --
I set the Lord ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence; Because you will not abandon . . .
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August 14, 2007 10:49 AM EDT --
Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, . . .
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October 09, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
Continue, therefore, to live in Christ Jesus the Lord, in the spirit in which you received him. Be rooted in him and built up in him growing ever stronger in faith, as you were taught, and overflowing . . .
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February 21, 2009 03:26 PM EST --
ten men of every nationality, speaking different tongues, shall take hold, yes, take hold of every Jew by the edge of his garment and say, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” . . .
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March 20, 2009 12:59 PM EDT --
He told them a parable on the necessity of praying always and not losing heart: “Once there was a judge in a certain city who respected neither God nor man. A widow in that city kept coming to . . .
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February 23, 2009 12:33 PM EST --
we thank God constantly that in receiving his message from us you took it, not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God at work within you who believe 1 Thes 2:13
The word of God at . . .
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September 23, 2009 09:36 AM EDT --
Who can ascend the mountain of the Lord? Or who may stand in his holy place? He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean who desires not what is vain, nor swears deceitfully to his . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:09 AM EDT --
“You have heard the commandment imposed on your forefathers,’Do not take a false oath; rather make good to the Lord all your pledges.’ What I tell you is: do not swear at all. . . .
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August 01, 2007 11:39 AM EDT --
I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God himself, since I have given you in marriage to one husband, presenting you as a chaste virgin to Christ. My fear is that, just as the serpent seduced . . .
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November 14, 2008 09:52 AM EST --
God is one. One also is the mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all. 1 Tim 2:5-6
See. Here is one reason why we should write . . .
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September 18, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
To other towns I must announce the good news of the reign of God, because that is why I was sent Lk 4:43.
Not many of us can say this. I must announce the good news of the reign . . .
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January 30, 2009 08:42 PM EST --
You will be hated by all on account of me. Mt 10:22.
Why will all hate me because of Jesus? I am thinking this is not the sort of thing Jesus would say. Rather, to understand why we find . . .
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July 20, 2007 12:37 PM EDT --
Whenever you pray, go to your room, close your door, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees what no man sees, will repay you. Mt 6: 6
Matthew has Jesus saying that . . .
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September 03, 2007 08:57 AM EDT --
You can tell a tree by its fruit. None of those who cry out, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of God but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. When that day . . .
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September 19, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. Ps 17:8
Jesus continued his tour of all the towns and villages. He taught in their synagogues, he proclaimed the good . . .
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August 01, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
Through Apathy Strayed or A Path Aptly Laid?
There is a distinct difference between the practice of religion and the exercise of faith. On the one hand (depending on that to which . . .
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