Tag: organized religion
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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December 06, 2008 03:10 PM EST --
Those slaves whose masters are brothers in the faith must not take liberties with them on that account. They must perform their tasks even more faithfully, since those who will profit from their . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:16 PM EDT --
As your fellow workers, we beg you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 Cor 6:1
Ok, this passage is ripped from context. But what an astounding statement! Paul clearly assumes . . .
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March 24, 2009 12:31 PM EDT --
In the temple precincts he came upon people engaged in selling oxen, sheep and doves, and others seated changing coins. He made a [kind of] whip of chords and drove sheep and oxen alike out of . . .
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November 11, 2009 01:35 PM EST --
In times past, God spoke in fragmentary and varied ways to our fathers through the prophets; in this, the final age, he has spoken to us through his Son, whom he has made heir of all things and through . . .
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August 01, 2007 11:39 AM EDT --
I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God himself, since I have given you in marriage to one husband, presenting you as a chaste virgin to Christ. My fear is that, just as the serpent seduced . . .
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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 07, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
Let not the foreigner say, when he would join himself to the Lord, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people”; Nor let the eunuch say, “See, I am a dry tree.” For . . .
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March 14, 2006 11:04 AM EST --
John gave this testimony also: "I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from the sky, and it came to rest on him. But I did not recognize him. The one who sent me to baptize with water told . . .
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December 22, 2006 07:26 PM EST --
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who lives in me and I in him will produce abundantly, for apart from me you can do nothing. Jn15:5
I love that metaphor. I’m certain it . . .
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February 10, 2007 01:09 PM EST --
“John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He used to tell the people about the one who would come after him in whom they were to believe — that is, Jesus.” When they . . .
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October 04, 2007 09:56 AM EDT --
To you has been given a knowledge of the mysteries of the reign of God, but it has not been given to the others. To the man who has, more will be given until he grows rich; The man who has not will . . .
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December 18, 2006 12:51 PM EST --
No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him Jn 6: 44
Wait. Jesus is exclusive. No one can come. Ok they can come but there is a condition. A ticket . . .
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June 19, 2008 11:17 AM EDT --
Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of? Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live? Or did any god venture . . .
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December 13, 2007 02:44 PM EST --
This treasure we possess in earthen vessels to make it clear that its surpassing power comes from God and not from us. We are afflicted in every way possible, but we are not crushed; full of doubts, . . .
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