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What does God require? deuteronomy 10:12-18
What does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good? Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your ( Read more... ) -
If you could just have . . .
a good job,
a good wife or husband,
a couple of good kids,
a nice car,
long weekends,
a few good friends,
a fun retirement,
a quick and easy death,
and no hell . . .
. . . would you be satisfied?
Here is a link to these questions asked in John Piper's must-read book Don't Waste Your Life2007 ( Read more... ) -
the roller-coaster myth and the Holy Spirit
i remember back in high school (a long, long time ago) when Christian believers who i respect would describe their lives as "roller-coaster" implying a lot of ups and downs (if you're a brainiac, think of it as the sine wave back in trigonometry) . . . and i thought about it and i became convinced that the roller-coaster lifestyle is NOT what God ( Read more... ) -
Come Get on My Hit List - romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse. romans 12:14 (NKJV)
Do you really think that you want to tick me off? My calling is to glorify God in all that I think and do, even in handling unpleasant circumstances with self-centered egomaniacs who only operate in the physical realm. When someone annoys me, God presents that situation as ( Read more... ) -
My Influence on God's Actions - psalm 78:41
Yes, again and again they tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. psalm 78:41 (NKJV)
This passage reminds me that irrespective of God's sovereignty sometimes He acts or fails to take action based upon whether I do the part of God's plan which He sets before me. To me one of the mysteries of God is why He sometimes refrains from taking ( Read more... ) -
A Christmas story
It was Christmas eve in the midwest. There was a man who had been in a family where his wife and his children were Christians but he was not. And he rejected it. He sat home that Christmas eve in front of the fire. It was cold out and the snow was blowing. His wife and the little children had gone to the chapel in the nearby village for a Christmas ( Read more... )