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A Special Antenna
As a Christian, I sometimes get frustrated with people who just can’t seem to grasp spiritual issues. No matter how many Bible passages I cite, how many illustrations I use, or how eloquently I explain a subject, these folks simply … Continue reading
Posted in Backsliding, Communication, Discernment, Discipleship, Evangelism, God's Guidance, God's Work, Personal, Salvation, The Holy Spirit, Truth, Witnessing
Tagged a special antenna, christianity, Christians who tune out the Holy Spirit, god, holy-spirit, illustration about Sirius XM Satellite radio, the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, things that are spiritually discerned
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A Hard Truth
Samson was conceived in the womb of his previously barren mother. And why did God choose to open her womb at that time? It was because Israel needed a leader (a Judge) to deal with the Philistines. As is the … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Aging, Atheism, Belief, Bible Study, Death, Disappointment, Faith, God's Timing, Honesty, Patience, Perseverance, Personal, Prayer, Prayer Requests, Problems, Scripture, Suffering, Trials, Trusting In God, Waiting
Tagged Bible, But if not, Faith, god, judges, Samson, Though He slay me yet will I trust Him, trusting God when He doesn't answer your prayers, waiting on God's deliverance, when deliverance doesn't come
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Becoming Childlike
A man was driving down a treacherous mountain road. Suddenly, a deer bolted out in front of him, causing him to instinctively jerk the steering wheel to his left. The next thing he knew he was headed off a steep … Continue reading
Posted in Assurance of Salvation, Belief, Children, Doubt, Faith, Fear, God's Provision, Heaven, Needs, Problems, Salvation, Trusting In God, Worry
Tagged becoming childlike, christianity, Faith, god, jesus, Mark 10:15, receiving the kingdom of God as a little child, the difference between childish and childlike, What does it mean to be childlike?
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The Sacrifices Required by the Law
Any Jew today who desires to keep the Old Testament law faces an unscalable mountain of a problem. The problem is, the law required five types of sacrificial offerings that were to be offered up to God. Such sacrifices, of … Continue reading
Posted in Sacrifice, Series: "The Old Testament Law", The Old Testament Law
Tagged god, Holiness, leviticus
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The Elderly Woman
My previous post was the first of a two-part series on the Bible’s description of the ideal elderly man and woman. This description is found in Titus 2:1-5, and with that first post I covered the passage’s description of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, Aging, Anger, Character, Children, Desires, Doing Good, Family, God's Word, Headship, Love, Marriage, Motherhood, Parenting, Priorities, Rebellion, Service, Sex, Sin, Submission, Teaching, The Tongue, Wives
Tagged Bible, blaspheming the word of God, christianity, description of the elderly woman, Faith, god, how to age well, how to finish well, older women teaching younger women, submission is not inferiority, the older generation, the roles of the husband and the wife, titus, Titus 2:1-5, what should women teach each other?, wife submitting to husband
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Fear
George Truett, the well-known Baptist pastor, was asked to speak twice a day for a week-long series of messages at a leading university. Before Truett’s arrival, the President of the college sent a questionnaire to the students, asking them to … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Aging, Comfort, Courage, Elderly, Faith, Fear, God's Love, God's Provision, God's Word, Inner Peace, Needs, Problems, Salvation, Sickness, Trials, Trusting In God, Work, Worry
Tagged Bible, bible verses about fear, Faith, Fear, George Truett, god, jesus, the Christian and fear, the fears of college students, what the Bible has to say about fear
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Filling in the Gaps of My Learning
I grew up in a small, rural, conservative Southern Baptist Convention church. I believed in Jesus as my Savior at a young age, was baptized, and joined the church. I went to Sunday School just about every Sunday and stayed … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Bible Study, Children, Church, Disappointment, Discipleship, Doubt, Faith, Parenting, Persecution, Perseverance, Personal, Prayer Requests, Problems, Scripture, Spiritual Warfare, Suffering, The Bible, Trials, Trusting In God, Youth
Tagged Bible, children's ministry, children's Sunday School classes, christianity, Faith, god, jesus, what we don't teach in our churches, what we don't teach to our children, what we don't tell people about God, youth ministry
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The Disciple's Road 