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Browsing all posts from February, 2012.

If God Should Let You Go

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One of my favorite theologians is Jonathan Edwards. “if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out [...]

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Matthew 20 Should A Murderer Receive Same As Faithful Saint Of God

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I want to talk about why it is a denial of Christ to look upon someone with disapproval who has lived their entire lives in gross sin only to be converted at the hour of their death. Those who are concerned about why a murderer should receive the same as someone who has lived a [...]

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Be Anxious For Nothing Philippians 4 6

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Don’t Worry Be happy. Do you remember that song? It was sort of a silly song I think in the 80s which is of course when I was growing up . I guess that tells you how old I am. Anyway I thought of that song as I was reading Philippians 4:6 this morning. Don’t [...]

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Feeling Far From God or Like God is Distant

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  Do you remember a few years ago when some private letters from Mother Teresa were made public and people found out that she had experienced difficult times in her faith where she felt that God was distant. She admitted to living in a state of deep spiritual loneliness. She even referred to it as [...]

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Angels Watching Over Me

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Have you ever thought for a minute about how exciting it is to know that angels are watching over our lives? The writer of Hebrews 1:14 says that angels are ministering spirits sent out to serve those who will inherit salvation. If you do a thorough study of Scripture you will find that Angels are [...]

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His Will Or Ours?

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“That which is often asked of God, is not so much His Will and way, as His approval of our way.” S.F. Smiley

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Learning How To Trust In God

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It’s very easy to say that we trust God when you is going as planned. But it is when the rug is pulled out from underneath us that we find out what faith really means. It is when we really have to trust God because we have no other hope that we find out the [...]

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In Prayer In Faith

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As soon as we are in God in faith and in love, we are in prayer Fenelon

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