OUTLINE: Php 4:6-7do not be anxious [imperative mood = command]about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.1Pe 5:7casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares […]
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Please don your philosophical cap for a moment while I dissect the concept of obedience with you. First, let me begin with a fair enough definition: Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of “social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure”. Obedience is generally distinguished from
The question on the table is this, “What, exactly, is authority orientation?” The term “authority orientation” is a theological one used to describe a person’s willingness to orient to God-ordained authority. Can this type of orientation be perverted, where a person claims it’s one way but the truth, in God’s eyes, is another? Of course, hence the
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I was reading my Bible this morning and was struck by something I already knew to be true. Has that ever happened to you? I mean, have you ever relearned or rediscovered a fact that jolted you? It happened to me while I was reading the Gospel of Matthew, chapter twenty-six, beginning with, “You know that
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I’m convinced that hard work is a part of God’s plan for us (I once wrote a blog titled, “40 Hours a Week – Says Who???”). If you read your Bible regularly, I’m sure you agree. Yet, there are some folks I’ve met, even Christians, whose perspective on work makes me scratch my head. Now,
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OUTLINE: “good works”They are never, ever by means of work done by you in the absence of His grace. “for good works” – Tit 2:14“Good” implies God’s scale of values, not man’s. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above…” (Jas 1:17a). “for good works” – Tit 2:14If we’re sanctified for the purpose of being “zealous for good
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OUTLINE: TranscendenceA transcendent viewpoint can still see all that is below it. With our minds fixed on the “things that are above”, we are not blind to “the things that are on earth” (Col 3:2) – we can/should still observe the things around us, on earth. Deliverance is a mindset, not blindness or willful ignorance. 80 Messages Is
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OUTLINE: God’s Timing Is Impeccable!Sunday’s Message (5/3): “Thank God for Mercy” – March 4, 2018Thursday’s Message (5/7): “Why All the Complexity and Chaos?” – May 24, 2018Blog (5/9): “This, Too, Shall Pass” – Diary of a Journeyman – Volume 1 Deliverance is but a change of perspective away.The Book of EcclesiastesSolomon’s wisdom is on full display for all to
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OULINE: Should we need a ‘holiday’ to celebrate the Lord (e.g., His birth or resurrection)?“be ready”from ephistemi – to set upon, set up, to stand upon, be present; in context, the active voice, imperative mood means that it is a command to be personally obeyed The General Truth About DemandsThe Bible is chock full of demands that
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OUTLINE: Gal 2:20 [Amplified]I have been crucified with Christ [that is, in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the Son of God,
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