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A Mother's Hopes | Her Eyes
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A Personal Journey into Love. A Monologue of Life. A Mother’s Hopes. February 13, 2015. Mom’s favorite verse was Psalms 138:8:. Will perfect that which concerns me. She didn’t know the Psalmist meant something else: that God would be on retainer for him, a legal defender, in the court of public opinion to. Ps 57:2 NIV] his honor and protect him from plotting tongues and the real dangers that ensue. The Lord will plead my cause. A mother’s hope for good things that lay ahead for her children is more...
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Just This Week | Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts. Reflections on The Bible and The Church. March 22, 2014. It may be possible to anticipate 3 types of events and prophecy at least hints at this that together describe the elements of an extinction event. Christ’s Coming after the fact would be an incidental historical blip on the radar of time and space. We would cease to be looking as a human race. In Michigan 61% of the state in a referendum defined marriage as one man and one woman. This was overturned. People aroun...
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts | Reflections on The Bible and The Church - Part 2
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts. Reflections on The Bible and The Church. October 27, 2015. Most often in those more quiet , alone, times my thoughts drift toward family and to prayer but on occasion I sit or lie in silence ruminating over some thought that has me stumped. It is as if I hold a piece to the academic puzzle that doesn’t seem to fit anywhere in the picture of life. How might a gay man leave his parents and cleave to his gay partner and become one with him? Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5; Eph...
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On Biblical Authorship | Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts. Reflections on The Bible and The Church. April 5, 2015. I have been ruminating over the percent of criticism the Bible has received in relation to other writings. Perhaps, the Bible opened itself up for this because it is the source for the doctrines of two major religious groups: Judaism and Christianity. And what if that edited version was a translation of the language the author originally wrote in. Could our profiling of their writing skills and interests be off?
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Galatians 6: 6-18 | Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts. Reflections on The Bible and The Church. Fulfill your obligations which Christ has given you. But unless you fail to see it: that includes support in temporal blessings, all good things including financial support for those who are instructing you in the Word. You are in partnership with them. Galatians never went to kindergarden; they never learned to share! Don’t be deceived into thinking that you can stick your nose in the air at God in contempt. Sowing to the Flesh.
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Fun With OF | Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts. Reflections on The Bible and The Church. The word ‘. 8216; in a phrase in our New Testament is probably connected with something the grammarians call a. In English we have simplified the idea by calling it a possessive (remember grammar school English class? Shame, if you don’t.). So the boy’s hat is the same as the hat. The boy. And we call that the possessive case. (About now, you’re thinking I am possessed.). Will you do that for me? On the Study of Words, Lecture.
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The Carrot or The Stick | Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts. Reflections on The Bible and The Church. The Carrot or The Stick. April 21, 2015. Steve McVey of Grace Walk Ministries. Tells us that evangelists like Charles Finney, back in the day would, use the law until you are bleeding from every pore. This was the age of Billy Sunday and in the spirit of Jonathan Edwards’ most famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. They will use the law to bring you to a sense of guilt, so that you’ll see your need for Jesus. But h...
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Under Law | Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts. Reflections on The Bible and The Church. April 19, 2015. Paul informs us that we are not under the law. But under grace. I don’t think he and I attended the same church! If by ‘law’ he meant the practice of sacrificing lambs and sprinkling blood over everything, I am not under that. Law But in the churches I have ‘worshipped’ there have been doctrines to promote, rules to follow, rituals to learn, practices to emulate as well as a personality-type to be shaped into.
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Childhood | Her Eyes
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A Personal Journey into Love. A Monologue of Life. February 20, 2015. Childhood is a time of discovery. This means much more than learning that mud wasps are friendly and hornets are not. It is not only taking things apart to see how they work or appreciating the value of empty boxes or a yard full of junk. Childhood is a time to be alive, a time of new feelings beckoning us in the course of wandering through play to experience new adventures. A child denied adventures into self is denied life itself.
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts | Reflections on The Bible and The Church - Part 3
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Beliefs, Studies and Such Thoughts. Reflections on The Bible and The Church. Goo, Goo, Ga, Ga. September 24, 2015. Peter Ward in “Rare Earth” writing about “. 8221; and the new science of astrobiology, the study of complex life in the universe, candidly admitted:. 8220;We humans are like 2 year olds, just beginning to comprehend the immensity, wonder, and hazards of the wide world.” p. 287. In my upcoming work, “. Held Accountable: Living My Faith in a Postmodern World. 8221; the knowledge we do have wit...
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