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Redemption (Part 2): Garbage in, Garbage Out « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    To experience God's Redemption we must relinquish our worldview/value-system and accept God's instead.
angelapardie

The significance of God taking the name Jesus in the Age of Grace - 0 views

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The Relationship Between Each of the Three Stages of God's Work - 0 views

The Relationship Between Each of the Three Stages of God’s Work  Relevant Words of God: From the work of Jehovah to that of Jesus, and from the work of Jesus to th...

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IN Too

Redemption (Part 1): LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    No one comes to God before first recognizing that he/she is separated from God...
IN Too

Redemption (Part 3): Disobedience Disables. « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    If we are ever to live victorious Christian lives, we must first seriously seek to live obedient sacrificial lives. It's not more 'churching', it's not louder singing, it's not even better preaching that's going to transform us. We will be transformed when we "offer ourselves as living sacrifices" to God (Romans 12:1-2): when we sacrifice our will to live in obedience to His will.
IN Too

Redemption (Part 4): Knowledge [of God] is Power! « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    We CAN overcome sin by continually submitting our will to God's authority, by studying, memorizing and frequently contemplating God's Word, so that it can transform us by replacing our human desires with Godly desires. Then God's will and God's plan will consummate in us to produce righteousness to the Glory of God.
IN Too

Redemption (Part 4): Knowledge [of God] is Power « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    We CAN overcome sin by continually submitting our will to God's authority, by studying, memorizing and frequently contemplating God's Word, so that it can transform us by replacing our human desires with Godly desires. Then God's will and God's plan will consummate in us to produce righteousness to the Glory of God.
IN Too

Miracles of Jesus: The Ten Lepers: "It takes more faith to give your life to ... - 0 views

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    When Jesus is our Master, we focus on how we can glorify Him, not on how He can satisfy us.
IN Too

Elijah and the Captains of Fifty | The Good, The Bad and the Uh… Seriously?? ... - 0 views

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    If we humble ourselves to God, we will enjoy success (as God defines it) in this earthly life and in eternity; and we will avoid the fires of judgment. Don't force God to show you who is King: serve Him and be fireproof; challenge Him and you will get fire proof.
IN Too

You Are Loved « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    You don't have to be on the A team. You don't have to be on the B team. You don't have to have made the team. You are loved.
IN Too

Man of Contrasts « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    He who is the Bread of Life began His ministry hungering. He who is the Water of Life ended His ministry thirsting. Christ hungered as a man, yet fed the hungry as God. He was weary, yet He is our rest. He paid tribute, yet He is the King. He was called a devil, but He cast out demons. He prayed, yet He hears prayer. He wept, and He dries our tears. He was sold for 30 pieces of silver, yet He redeems sinners. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, yet He is the Good Shepherd. He gave His life, and by dying He destroyed death.
IN Too

License, Loopholes, Legislation and Legitimacy « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    Righteousness is not proven by what you don't do; it is not proven by what laws you don't break. Righteousness IS proven by what you DO!!!
alexis sullivan

One Last Chance - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious short story written by Alexis Sullivan. In this story a prostitute attends church and receives Christ.
IN Too

The Wrong Approach to Sin « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    No matter how much we deny, distort or disguise the evidence of sin, we can never change the fact of sin… Only God can remove the stain and penalty of sin. The longer we hide from Him the longer we have to live with the cancer of sin eating away at our lives… Nobody forces us to sin and God does not put us in a situation where we must sin. We are NOT powerless. We CAN choose to resist the influence of others. We CAN rise above our circumstances.
IN Too

Where are you going in this New Year? « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    …if we do not have a crisis that changes things, we're headed for more years like the years we've been experiencing…
J. B.

Do not Ask for whom the Bell tolls…… A Chapter by Chapter review of 'Love Win... - 0 views

  • in the Preface there is the disclaimer— ‘nothing in this book has not been claimed before within the parameters of the broad stream of historic orthodox Christianity’  (p. x).   As it turns out, and as we shall see, this is actually not quite accurate, if one is referring to creedal or confessional or conciliar orthodoxy.  If one means no more that some church father somewhere at sometime said something like this before, whether we deem him to be making an off-handed comment or not, then perhaps this claim can stand.
  • What is entirely missing from this chapter is any sort of discussion of sin, sin as the alienating cause of human lostness,  sin as the reason why persons are not going to heaven.  Let me be clear that I think Rom. 1.18-32 is crucial to this question.  Unfortunately Rom. 1 is not dealt with in this first chapter and what texts he does cite he does not treat in any detail.  Rather Rob sort of flits from one text to the next like a butterfly hoping to drain the tiny bit of nectar in each flower.
  • people are not condemned to hell or judgment for what they have never heard about God.   What Romans 1 says is that the reality of God and God’s power is evident in all of creation, and people are judged for what they do with the light about God that they have indeed received.  What Paul says they do is that while they know God exists and is powerful, they refuse to acknowledge God,  the most primal sin of all. In other words,  most of the questions Rob raises in Chapter One are entirely irrelevant.     People do not go to Hell (whether in a handbasket or by some other means of conveyance)  due to ignorance of God or of Christ. 
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  • Rob wants to suggest that a just or righteous or holy or judging God is somehow not good news. Tell that to the oppressed Christians in North Korea.   Tell that to the ordinary citizens of Libya longing to be set free from a wicked and brutal dictator.  Tell that to the Jews during the Holocaust in WWII.   In a sin-soaked world,  Good News involves both redemption and judgment, both vindication and liberation, both holiness and love.    The God of the Bible is holy love.  Not love without holiness which would fail to deal with the cancer called sin.  And not holiness without love, for if that was the way God related to us all— no one could stand.     The Good News of and about Jesus Christ, who will be the final judge of the world, is that justice, mercy and grace are all a part of this story.
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    The first of an eight part review of Rob Bell's book "Love Wins." By Ben Witherington III
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