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Category Archives: God’s Heart
5 Truths about God I need to remember
Reflect deeply on five truths about God Continue reading
Posted in Blessed by God, God, God's Patience, God's Heart, God's Love, God's Will, Seeing God, Seeking God, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom
Tagged truths about God
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Four servants of God who battled fierce despair
Four servants of God. Each one reached an extremely low point in life. All of them felt that life was no longer worth living. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Assurance, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Call to ministry, Character, Childhood trauma, Christian life, Comfort, Complaceny, Conceit, Conflict, Contentment, Crisis, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Divine Lottery, Doubt, Elders, elders in the Church, Emerging Leaders, Emotions, Encouragement, Failure, Faith, Fear, feeling hopeless, Freedom, God's Patience, God's Heart, God's Love, Grace, Gratitude, Grieving, Hope?, Kindness, Leadership, Life of a pastor, Loss, marriage problems, Meaning of life, Mercy, Middle life, Mind Renewal, Nihilism, Pain, Pastors, personal, Praise, Prayer, purpose, Questioning God, Repentance, Sadness, Seeking God, Selfishness, Spiritual Detox, Spiritual inventory, Spiritual transformation, Suffering, Suicide, Temptation, Trials, Truth, Victory, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom, Worship
Tagged burn out, Despair, Discouraged, feeling lost, helpless, hopeless, loss of perspective, spiritual exhaustion, Suicide
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God’s dispositional will
This dimension of God’s will reveals that God is not inwardly disposed to or delighted by… Continue reading
God’s actions and our responses
Deep and urgent matters that must be talked about and taught the way Scripture reveals them. Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Evangelism, God as Potter, God's control, God's Heart, God's Will, Questioning God, Salvation, Seeking God, Sovereignty, Study of God, Will of God, Wisdom, Witness
Tagged God's control and man's respoense, how to talk about God's sovereignty, Human responsibility and God's sovereignty
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Where can we find security and safety?
When you feel vulnerable or anxious, or when you feel misunderstood or misrepresented… Continue reading
Posted in Comfort, Faith, feeling hopeless, God, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, God's Protection, Hope?, Suffering, Trials, Weather, Wisdom
Tagged afraid, Anxiety, Fear, feeling vulnerable, security needed, Worry
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Learning the ways of God
Is your trouble a sense of failure? The knowledge of having made some significant mistake? Go back to God; his restoring grace waits for you. Continue reading
Posted in Failure, God, God as Potter, God's Patience, God's control, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, God's Will, Godly sorrow, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom
Tagged Failure, Forgiveness, Loss
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It’s not the way you think it is
Delusional self-confidence based on self-accomplishment is not far removed from self-righteousness. It’s an insidiously deadly poison that can be… Continue reading
Posted in Attitude, Blessed by God, Christian worldview, Christianity, Church, Church Leadership, Church membership, Deception, Following Christ, God's Heart, God's Love, Gospel, Gospel-centered, Greatness, Jesus Christ, Judging others, Kingdom, Legalism, Love, Meaning of life, Mercy, Missions, Personal thoughts, Poor in spirit, Pride, purpose, Radical love, Repentance, Self esteem, Self love, Self-deception, Selfishness, Spiritual inventory, Teaching of Jesus, True Christianity?, Walking with God, Worldview
Tagged A true church, Ladociea, Pharisees, Revelation 3, Who are the true followers of Jesus?
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Meet the citizens of heaven
It might surprise some to meet the true citizens of heaven. Many religious leaders “shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces” (Matthew 23:13). Jesus said of them, “You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. ….You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are” (Matthew 23:14-15). Jesus said to these religious leaders, “religious leaders “shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces” (Matthew 23:13). Jesus said, “You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. …Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you” (Matthew 21:31). Continue reading
Posted in Afraid to die, Afterlife, Assurance, Atheism, Atheists, Belief, Blessed by God, Born again?, Christian worldview, Christianity, Cliches, Comfort, Cross of Christ, Cross of Jesus, Crucifixion, Death of Christ, Depravity, Disciple-making, Elentics, Eternal life, Eternal security, Evangelism, Faith, Fear of death, God's Heart, God's Love, Godly sorrow, Gospel, Gospel-centered, Grace, Greatness, Heaven, Human depravity, Humility, Jesus Christ, Justification, Legalism, Main problem, Matthew 7:1-6, Meekness, New Creation, Pharisees, Poor in spirit, Proud, Reconciliation, Regeneration, Religion, Religion-not the answer, Repentance, Salvation, Searching, Security of salvation, Seeker Services, Seeking God, Selfishness, Sin, Spiritual inventory, Teaching of Jesus, The cross of Christ, Unbelief, Walking with God, Witness, Worldly sorrow
Tagged How to know if you're going to heaven, Religion-not the answer, Who will be in heaven?
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Transformed pain…
Let God transform your pain so you can become a transformer of pain for others. Continue reading
Our forgiving God
Remind yourself often of these truths “If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness.” (Psalm 131:3-4) “The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have … Continue reading
