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God Started This Conversation!
We’re left, like Job, to trust without knowing why. Part of love is learning to trust even if you don’t know or understand everything the other person is doing. Continue reading
Why do Bad Things Happen?
The Cross proves it all. If we can’t trust Him with the temporary problems of this life, when we have the proof of His love at the Cross, then we need to re-wire our thinking. Continue reading
Posted in Daily Christianity
Tagged Fairness, Faith, God's Plan, No Excuses, pain, Romans 8, Scripture, suffering
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Eight More Thoughts on Joseph
6.Joseph must have wondered just how many “loud-mouths” there were going to be when the wise men started talk all over Jerusalem about his family (Matthew 2:1-3). Yet, these “loud-mouths” served at least three purposes. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Faith, James, Jesus, Joseph, jude, Mary, Obedience, Self-control, Wise men
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Thankful for my Pulmonary Embolism
God is not less good just because we don’t understand yet. Continue reading
Posted in Daily Christianity
Tagged Faith, gratitude, pain, pulmonary embolism, Thankfulness
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Finding Christ in Proverbs — and Finding Proverbs in Christ
Proverbs, for all its work of conviction of sin, as a schoolmaster, is also a book of hope. If our case was hopeless, if there were no way for God to be pleased with us, the entire book would be wasted words spoken to wasted hearts. Proverbs, after knocking us into the pit of despair by revealing our desperate conviction, says to us, “God gives wisdom. Do not despair. God can and will be pleased with you, if you follow wisdom and the fear of the Lord. He will make a way.” Continue reading
Posted in A Proverb for Today
Tagged Christ in Proverbs, Faith, Gospel, Jesus, Proverbs, Saviour, Sermon on the Mount, teaching, wisdom
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Motivated by the Promise of His Coming (part two)
Yet the truth of our Lord’s Second Coming is not just a glorious truth. It is also a motivational truth. It is a truth that should motivate us to live aright even now. In fact, this promise of our Lord’s Second Coming is employed as a principle of motivation at least once in every book of the New Testament except Galatians, Philemon, 2 John, and 3 John. Let us consider such passages from Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, and 2 Corinthians. Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Prophecy, Motivated by the Promise of His Coming
Tagged Christ's Return, Faith, hope, Motivation, promise, prophecy, repent, service, suffering
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Do Christians “Speak for God”?
The more I can help people (Christians or not) see God as He is, the better. If I start to “speak for Him”, I’m putting myself in the way, obscuring the view. Instead of speaking for Him, we should point towards Him and what He has said. Continue reading
Posted in Ambassadors for Christ
Tagged ambassadors for Christ, authority, Bible, Faith, speak for God, spokesman
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Mind Renewers 