Tag: connecting with god
member name: James Stemmle
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June 04, 2007 08:18 AM EDT --
If our gospel can be called “veiled” in any sense, it is such only for those who are headed toward destruction. Their unbelieving minds have been blinded by the god of the present age . . .
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February 16, 2007 02:34 PM EST --
I set the Lord ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence; Because you will not abandon . . .
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February 23, 2009 12:33 PM EST --
we thank God constantly that in receiving his message from us you took it, not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God at work within you who believe 1 Thes 2:13
The word of God at . . .
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May 30, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
For if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Faith in the heart leads to justification, confession . . .
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August 08, 2008 10:54 AM EDT --
Happy the man who makes the Lord his trust; who turns not to idolatry or to those who stray after falsehood . Ps 40:5
In a marketplace of ideas where we cannot know God exactly but only . . .
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September 03, 2009 11:30 AM EDT --
Woe to the city, rebellious and polluted, to the tyrannical city! She hears no voice, accepts no correction: In the Lord she has not trusted, to her God she has not drawn near. Zeph 3:1-2
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August 14, 2007 10:49 AM EDT --
Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, . . .
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July 20, 2007 12:37 PM EDT --
Whenever you pray, go to your room, close your door, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees what no man sees, will repay you. Mt 6: 6
Matthew has Jesus saying that . . .
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September 03, 2007 08:57 AM EDT --
You can tell a tree by its fruit. None of those who cry out, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of God but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. When that day . . .
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September 19, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. Ps 17:8
Jesus continued his tour of all the towns and villages. He taught in their synagogues, he proclaimed the good . . .
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February 19, 2009 11:56 AM EST --
Consider your ways! You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; You have drunk, but have not been exhilarated; have clothed yourselves, but not . . .
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April 18, 2007 01:35 PM EDT --
A rambling analysis and re-imagining of Paul’s . . .
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September 26, 2007 09:34 AM EDT --
You will be hated by all on account of me. But whoever holds out till the end will escape death. Mt 10:22.
Why will all hate me because of Jesus? I am thinking this is not the sort . . .
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September 04, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
He will provide relief to you who are sorely tried, as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels; when “with flaming power he will inflict punishment on those . . .
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July 07, 2009 09:15 AM EDT --
One day Jesus was teaching, and the power of the Lord made him heal. Lk 5: 17
Before I ponder how Luke and the people of his age might have linked sin and forgiveness to God, I first want to enter . . .
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October 28, 2009 11:35 AM EDT --
His mercy is from age to age on those who fear him. Luke 1: 50
Does God, from age to age, have mercy on those who fear him?
I’m looking back over history. Way back over the murky . . .
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December 20, 2006 09:22 AM EST --
As the hind longs for the running waters, so my soul longs for you, O God. Ps 42:2
Let’s see how much water this metaphor can hold. The hind – deer – longs for running water when . . .
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November 18, 2005 06:33 PM EST --
Believers have only two options: Invent their own God, or accept one that others invented. Because God is unknowable.
I believe it's time to create our own God. To write our own scripture. Legacy . . .
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April 01, 2006 10:11 AM EST --
Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind. Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For . . .
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February 13, 2007 01:12 PM EST --
So a bunch of people are sitting around the table on the Isle of Patmos writing down stories about Jesus which reflect what they have come to believe of him. Hey, that’s cool. We should . . .
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