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Living Hope Church Bible Study: We Worship
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012. The worship of idols and false gods diminishes and shrivels our souls and turns us into shadowy reflections of lifeless things while the worship of the Beautiful Creator is part of the process of being transformed into the image of the Son. As Paul puts it, when God does the work of transformation we are changed from glory to glory. Engage in worship of the one and only God, and you will begin to find the joy of people who live in the kingdom of the great and glorious One.
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Living Hope Church Bible Study: Keeping the Ways of the Lord
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Monday, August 20, 2012. Keeping the Ways of the Lord. The wise person recognizes they are surrounded by temptation every day. If there isn’t an external pressure to ignore the ways of God, there are internal pressures that lure us from the path of Wisdom. So what is it this wise person does to not only recognize temptation but to avoid it? The Apostle Paul once told the Corinthians that the Lord does not allow us to be tempted beyond our power to overcome, and yet we continue to fall. The fool, however,...
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Living Hope Church Bible Study: God with Us?
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Ahaz was waiting for a treaty to be signed that meant, “Assyria is with you! 8221; God was giving him what only God can possibly give, “God is with you! 8221; Ahaz missed it. Will we? Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Every Thought Captive Blog. Husband, Pastor, college instructor in philosphy and ethics, theology, and spiritual formation, book lover and hiker. View my complete profile. The Voice and Character of Wisdom. Keeping the Ways of the Lord.
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Living Hope Church Bible Study: March 2012
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Monday, March 26, 2012. The Blessings and Curses. 8221; Imagine the liability of the people of God publicly proclaiming that because they belong to God they are subject to the terms of that covenant. Being the people of God, both then and now, comes with a set of terms regarding reality. Though God’s laws stand as immutable no matter who believes them, this is a unique conversation God has with his people about their lives as humans who both belong to him and represent him on this earth. The final call a...
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Living Hope Church Bible Study: October 2011
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Monday, October 10, 2011. God's Loves, God's Hatreds. One of the fundamental transformations that takes place in the hearts and minds of disciples of Jesus Christ is that they learn to love the things God loves and hate the things God hates. While it may be easy and even common for us to reflect on and talk about loving the things God loves, we don’t always take into account the things God hates. Much less do we meditate on hating the same things. To love (or as Paul puts it, “hold fast to”) ...Learning ...
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Living Hope Church Bible Study: A Promise Given in the Dark. Ezra 1:1
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Monday, April 27, 2015. A Promise Given in the Dark. Ezra 1:1. Though the book of Ezra appears relatively early in your Bible, it represents events that happen at the very tail end of recorded Old Testament history. What happens in Ezra, and the companion volume, Nehemiah, happen 400-500 years before the birth of Christ, so there is a lot of history and theology that gets focused in this book that then leads us straight to the New Testament and God's plan in Christ. Monday, April 27, 2015. A Promise Give...
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Living Hope Church Bible Study: October 2012
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012. The worship of idols and false gods diminishes and shrivels our souls and turns us into shadowy reflections of lifeless things while the worship of the Beautiful Creator is part of the process of being transformed into the image of the Son. As Paul puts it, when God does the work of transformation we are changed from glory to glory. Engage in worship of the one and only God, and you will begin to find the joy of people who live in the kingdom of the great and glorious One.
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Living Hope Church Bible Study: November 2011
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011. The Ambition of the Call. As Paul wraps up his letter to the Romans, we get a glimpse into his calling. And though many of the specifics of Paul’s calling are unique to him, we learn a lot about our calling as we learn how Paul approached his call. The way he treats the life God gave him gives me insight into how God wants me to treat my life with him. 8220;And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel” (vs 20). Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Tuesday, November 22, 2011.
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Living Hope Church Bible Study: September 2014
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Monday, September 15, 2014. God Shows No Partiality. Neither Should We. Part of the simple logic of the Christian faith flows from the nature of God. God reveals himself to. Have certain qualities, and since his people belong to him, they ought to begin displaying the same qualities. At a crucial point in the life of the early church, the typically heavy-footed Peter came face to face with this logic when he entered the home of Cornelius the Roman Centurion. But the Christian belongs to another God, a di...
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Living Hope Church Bible Study: June 2012
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012. The love of God has dirt under its fingernails. Contrary to popular opinion, love, properly understood, is not an ephemeral emotion floating in the atmosphere just above treeline. Christian love builds callouses on its fingers and feet. Love does things. It motivates us, teaches us what is good and what is destructive for the the human life. It is - or it becomes - the love of God among us. After all, this is how God did it. We need to love people. God did. Tuesday, June 12, 2012.
