Posts Tagged ‘bible’
no, i am not
Do not judge me on your preconceived notions. Do not apply the mistakes of others to me and account me guilty.
I am not of Paul, or Apollos, or Mike, or John or anyone else. I am of Christ. I am His. I have to find my own way, make my own mistakes and learn from [...]
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Tags: belief, bible, christian life, christianity, Jesus, jesus christ, john piper, michael pearl, no greater joy, reading, religion, scripture
on rainy days
Today is a rainy day. This might be appropriate as it is considered the first day of Fall for my area of the world. The grey leaden skies don’t inspire any lofty thoughts today, but here is a question to consider.
In your faith, is repentance something that occurs once in a life, or is it [...]
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Tags: bible, christ, christian life, christianity, pondering, rain, religion, repentance, scripture, thoughts
interesting stats from england
I was reading an article in the Christian Today website about the use of the bible in British churches. I don’t know whether to be happy that at least some people find the bible relevant or sad/shocked about the stats.
The Bible Society conducted an extensive poll with churches in England and found that one in [...]
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Tags: believers, bible, british, christianity, england, faith, religion, survey
veritas II
We spent last night view the second part of the Truth Project from Focus on the Family (fotf) dealing with Philosophy and Ethics. The first key thing that stuck out at me was something Dr. R.C. Sproul said. A paraphrase of what he said is:
We are using the words morality and ethics interchangeably now. Morals [...]
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Tags: bible, carl sagan, christianity, cosmos, ethics, faith, God, matter, morality, philosophy, religion, scepticism, sproul, tackett, the truth project, truth project, veritas, worldview, wright and wrong
the beginning of the start
When reading the book of Judges today, I came across a passage that gripped me as I had never noticed the wording before. Judges mainly goes through the works of the men (and a couple women) who led the nation of Israel before they demanded a king from God.
The passage that popped out was chapter [...]
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Tags: bible, christianity, deliverer, faith, freedom, holiness, israelite history, judges, nazarite, reading, religion, samson, sanctification
veritas
A few people I know have assembled to view and study Focus on the Family’s new “course”. The Truth Project is conducted in a classroom manner, recorded for our edification. I have trained myself to be skeptical of anything main-stream (ooo, look at me being all counter-culture. sheesh) and obviously dislike this habit in [...]
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Tags: bible, christianity, counter-culture, course, faith, focus on the family, inspiration, mainstream, media, religion, sarcasm, skepticism, timothy, truth, truth project
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Places I Wander
