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the wiles of the devil « Jesus community
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The wiles of the devil. By Ted M. Gossard. In the secularist culture in which we live I gladly hold to actual spiritual entities of evil. I have a hard time calling them personal, since by their acts they are sinning against personhood, and descending to something less than what people are, which at its heart is relational. Call them forces, entities, what not, but they can be addressed as persons. One particular aspect of the devil’s wiles or strategy (in. 8220;schemes” in Ephesians 6. Jesus' death...
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“being Jesus online” « Jesus community
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8220;being Jesus online”. By Ted M. Gossard. My friend and Bible teacher and writer at. Our Daily Bread Ministries;. Etc, Dennis Moles, wrote a most interesting new booklet which we just ran (I think for the first time) this week:. It really got me to think, even though I’ve been online for some time. We who are in Christ are indeed living letters written by the Spirit of God, known and read by everyone ( 2 Corinthians 3. May people see Jesus more and more in us, through these humble jars of clay. Love f...
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Newer posts →. What does God bless, and what is the way of Jesus concerning fleeing refugees? Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”. Do we believe in a God who sees and blesses and judges? The politics of Jesus. Book of Common Prayer. That said, an anxious foreboding about what lies ahead is not foreign to any of us. Job expressed this, a man who had great wealth and was esteemed for his wisdom:. What I feared has come upon me;. What I dreaded has happened to me.
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being a Bible person « Jesus community
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Being a Bible person. By Ted M. Gossard. I am rereading Scot McKnight’s book. On the meaning of the kingdom of God in scripture, and as has been the case, find myself resonating not only with the book, but with his words something to the effect that he is a Bible guy. In other words, he wants to go back to scripture to figure out what’s up or down. What’s what. In the case of Scot I not only have no problem with that, but I’m fully on board. His book,. The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible.
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the pressure cooker of life « Jesus community
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The pressure cooker of life. By Ted M. Gossard. But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord, as in days gone by, as in former years. And tagged God's work. Way of ...
