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Marie Lin

Contemporary religious battles: Faith vs. Tolerance - 1 views

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shared by Marie Lin on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Marie Lin on 10 Sep 09
     
    We're living in an age where we're supposed to be tolerant, not only of other faiths, but of everyone and everything. Yet, if you look around, all you seem to see is a lot of fighting and protesting. If someone says or does something that goes against someone else's point of view there's always trouble. Where's the tolerance?
Marie Lin

Christian understanding of how and why to become like little children in faith - 0 views

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children innocent suffer trusting faith God little unwavering

shared by Marie Lin on 30 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Marie Lin on 30 Aug 09
     
    Children are so innocent and trusting. Nothing much gets in the way of their faith, does it? They totally trust someone to take care of them and provide for their every need. When God says to come to Him like "little children," this is exactly what He means. We must come to Him with unwavering faith, trusting in Him to provide for all our needs.
Ingrid Funk

Reflections on reflections-online.net - 3 views

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shared by Ingrid Funk on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ingrid Funk on 01 Feb 10
     
    God thinks you're wonderful It may be difficult for you to believe that God knows your name ... but He does. Written on His hand. Spoken by His mouth. Whispered by His lips. Your name....
IN Too

Three Steps to Freedom « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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shared by IN Too on 10 May 11 - No Cached
  • IN Too on 10 May 11
     
    A Believer becomes new creation at the point of salvation, but that new man does not automatically have control over the old, but still present, sin-nature. Sanctification is the process of putting to death that old sin nature so that Christ can reign in us… a Believer with God's Word incorporated his/her heart is Word-driven and Spiritually centered, free from the power of sin.
Marie Lin

A satanic kind of love: Why Christians must balance love with hatred for sin - 0 views

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shared by Marie Lin on 20 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Marie Lin on 20 Oct 09
     
    As Christians, it's natural to oppose lies or any other kind of ungodly acts, but does this mean it's okay to hate?
IN Too

Hope for the Future gives us Hope for the Present « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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shared by IN Too on 12 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • IN Too on 12 Oct 11
     
    Jesus' resurrection… gives us hope that we too can live our lives unburdened by sin/sinfulness/the sin-nature. We have a hope for the present, for our day-to-day walk, that sin does not have to rule over our lives: Jesus' resurrection means we are free.
Robbie Lowdown0

The Lowdown Truth #16 The Jesuits -- The Elephant in the Room - 0 views

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shared by Robbie Lowdown0 on 29 Dec 18 - No Cached
  • Robbie Lowdown0 on 29 Dec 18
     
    What role does the Society of Jesus (a.k.a. the Jesuits) play in our modern day world? Are they still the spearhead of the counter-reformation? Are they still the inquisitors of old?
chakiry95

How to make your long distance boyfriend love you more - relaationship - 0 views

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shared by chakiry95 on 24 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • chakiry95 on 24 Apr 18
     
    Relationships can have their fair share of conflicts and problems in any normal situation. Let's face it, even so-called healthy relationships have had their fair share of ups and downs. And with distance relationships, you can not exclude the possibility that at some point you fall with your partner. Without tiny words, the distance can cause a huge gulf between two inseparable lovebirds. No wonder the cliché "out of sight does not take into account"
aproudchristian

Does Someone Need To Attend Church To Be Spiritual? - 0 views

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Does Someone Need To Attend Church Be Spiritual?

shared by aproudchristian on 30 Sep 21 - No Cached
  • aproudchristian on 30 Sep 21
     
    The church plays a vital part in most Christians' life, and it gives a good feeling in mind and body when visiting the churches. It is an undeniable factor that churches aids in enhancing the spiritual levels of the people.
C L

What about the issue of suffering? Does this prove that there is no God and that we are... - 0 views

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shared by C L on 04 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • The issue of suffering is not something the Christian should avoid. It is glaring evidence that man has rejected God; all is not well on board the flight. It works for our cause, not against it. All these things, pain, disease, droughts, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. should cause the thinking person to investigate the claims of the note of God's Word, and see its explanation.
  • However, the ultimate convincing agent is, of course, the unbending Law of God. It is the knowledge of the Law and the fearful consequences of transgressing its precepts that should cause fear to kick in, and hopefully common sense should then cause the sinner to seek after the Savior, who lovingly died and rose again, so that they might be saved.
C L

The Cape Town Commitment - Lausanne Movement - 0 views

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shared by C L on 26 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Discerning the will of Christ for world evangelization
  • Unreached and unengaged peoples
  • thousands of people groups around the world for whom such access has not yet been made available through Christian witness
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  • pastor-teachers. We will make every effort to identify, encourage, train and support them in the preaching and teaching of God’s Word
  • evangelism at the centre of the fully-integrated scope of all our mission, inasmuch as the gospel itself is the source, content and authority of all biblically-valid mission
  • Oral cultures The majority of the world’s population are oral communicators, who cannot or do not learn through literate means, and more than half of them are among the unreached as defined above. Among these, there are an estimated 350 million people without a single verse of Scripture in their language. In addition to the ‘primary oral learners’ there are many ‘secondary oral learners’, that is those who are technically literate but prefer now to communicate in an oral manner, with the rise of visual learning and the dominance of images in communication.
  • Christ-centred leaders
  • only those whose lives already display basic qualities of mature discipleship should be appointed to leadership
  • Leaders must first be disciples of Christ himself
  • authentic Christian leaders must be like Christ in having a servant heart, humility, integrity, purity, lack of greed, prayerfulness, dependence on God’s Spirit, and a deep love for people
  • ability to teach God’s Word to God’s people
  • long-term work of teaching and nurturing new believers
  • long that God would multiply, protect and encourage leaders who are biblically faithful and obedient
  • accountability within the body of Christ
  • focus more on spiritual and character formation, not only on imparting knowledge or grading performance, and we heartily rejoice in those that already do so as part of comprehensive 'whole person' leadership development
  • Half the world now lives in cities. Cities are where four major kinds of people are most to be found: (i) the next generation of young people; (ii) the most unreached peoples who have migrated; (iii) the culture shapers; (iv) the poorest of the poor
  • All children are at risk. There are about two billion children in our world, and half of them are at risk from poverty. Millions are at risk from prosperity. Children of the wealthy and secure have everything to live with, but nothing to live for.
  • God can and does use children and young people - their prayers, their insights, their words, their initiatives - in changing hearts
  • For God to send labourers into every corner of the world, in the power of his Spirit; For the lost in every people and place to be drawn to God by his Spirit, through the declaration of the truth of the gospel and the demonstration of Christ’s love and power; For God’s glory to be revealed and Christ’s name to be known and praised because of the character, deeds and words of his people. We will cry out for our brothers and sisters who suffer for the name of Christ;  For God’s kingdom to come, that God’s will may be done on earth as in heaven, in the establishment of justice, the stewardship and care of creation, and the blessing of God’s peace in our communities. B)    We will continually give thanks as we see God’s work among the nations, looking forward to the day when the kingdom of this world will become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ.
alice venura

Valentine Story! - 0 views

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shared by alice venura on 29 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • alice venura on 29 Jan 14
     
    A Quest On Origin of Valentine's Day by CashInYourLaptop We all knew Valentine's Day (February 14th) is renowned as Romantic Day by lovers in most of the countries. Does anyone know how it became as Valentine's Day? Here, I have given a story about this auspicious and romantic day.
Adam Skinner

The Woman's Headcovering - 0 views

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christianity covering head

shared by Adam Skinner on 01 Aug 07 - Cached
  • the headcovering practiced in the churches is emblematic of womanly submission; and he also indicates that this is a symbol which even the angels (who are not subject to changing fashions) take a real interest in. So the practice cannot be dismissed as being merely cultural
  • when we consider that the bare-headed fashion of our times came into vogue at the same time that the "women's liberation" movement began, along with the wearing of pants and the cutting of hair, we ought to pause before we say that these things are really so devoid of symbolism in the culture at large
  • Paul provides a rationale which is based on an appeal to creation, not to the custom of Corinthian harlots. We must be careful not to let our zeal for knowledge of the culture obscure what is actually said. To subordinate Paul's stated reason to our speculatively conceived reason is to slander the apostle and turn exegesis into eisogesis.
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 01 Aug 07
       
      This is Sproul speaking here.
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  • I do not think it is safe to assume that, despite his arguments, Paul's real intention is merely to affirm and interpret the fashions of his day (especially in Corinth) or that he would affirm in like manner the fashions of modern women if he were writing the letter today. Rather, it seems that Paul wants Christian women to observe a churchly tradition, irrespective of what happens to be in vogue outside the church. (20) Are we really honoring Scripture if we say that, despite its conspicuous absence in the passage, the counsel of cultural conformity is the real and unspoken motive for the ordinance?
  • It often becomes difficult for me to hear and understand what the Bible is saying because I bring to it a host of extra-biblical assumptions. This is probably the biggest problem of "cultural conditioning" we face. No one of us ever totally escapes being a child of our age ... I am convinced that the problem of the influence of the twentieth-century secular mindset is a far more formidable obstacle to accurate biblical interpretation than is the problem of the conditioning of ancient culture.
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 01 Aug 07
       
      Zing!
  • Fashions of women's dress have changed and will continue to change, but Paul in this passage has explained very carefully that the headcovering symbolizes something which does not change.
  • How are we to apply this rule to ourselves as Christians in the twenty-first century? The whole passage has been treated with some uneasiness in recent times. Since about 1960, not only have hats and scarves gone out of fashion for women in Western nations, but it has become "politically incorrect" to even suggest that women ought to submit to male authority. The very idea that women should be required to wear headcoverings as a sign of their subordination is almost intolerable in the modern context.
  • After a few paragraphs Sproul goes on to say, "What if, after careful consideration of a biblical mandate, we remain uncertain as to its character as principle or custom? If we must decide to treat it one way or the other but have no conclusive means to make the decision, what can we do? Here the biblical principle of humility can be helpful. The issue is simple. Would it be better to treat a possible custom as a principle and be guilty of being overscrupulous in our design to obey God? Or would it be better to treat a possible principle as a custom and be guilty of being unscrupulous in demoting a transcendent requirement of God to the level of a mere human convention? I hope the answer is obvious."
  • We should not be asking how much we are allowed to ignore the literal instructions of this passage or any other passage of Scripture so long as we claim to be observing the "spirit." We should be asking how we may best obey it both in spirit and in the letter.
  • Symbols have a powerful effect on our lives, and it is not safe to treat them with contempt, especially when the symbol in question has been appointed in Scripture itself.
  • Adam Skinner on 01 Aug 07
     
    I happened to be listening to 1 Cor this morning and it stuck me again that the argument for women wearing a head covering doesn't come from the culture, but is a physical manifestation of a spiritual submission.  Paul spoke strongly on the matter.  I did a little more looking, and the argument presented here is well laid out, with man salient points (especially Sproul's comments).
Adam Skinner

PWM - Homo Nexus - 0 views

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shared by Adam Skinner on 23 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Could they be “changed” so that they are no longer created in the image of God?
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 23 Sep 08
       
      All of his further statements in this paragraph are hinged on the veracity of this speculation.
  • Homo nexus will never exist! Mankind will never evolve into a higher lifeform! For macro-evolution only takes place in the minds of those who have rejected God!
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 23 Sep 08
       
      This is a mischaracterization. Macroevolution, or "evolution as a theory of origins", is a different concept than one species changing into another over time.
  • Cross-breading was attempted in the Bible
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 23 Sep 08
       
      Referenced here is the (plausible) theory that the Nephilim were angelic crossbreeds. I'm not sure if they were ontologically different from humanity at that point insofar as their relationship to God and his expectations from them are concerned.
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  • ionlike men of Moab
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 23 Sep 08
       
      misinterpreation to support the argument. "lionlike men" just means mighty warriors. cf: http://jfb.biblecommenter.com/1_chronicles/11.htm et al
  • every hand six fingers
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 23 Sep 08
       
      Six fingered men are post-human? This does not support the argument.
  • Being converted into a transhuman no longer bearing God's image is the real hazard of re-engineering the human race!
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 23 Sep 08
       
      "no longer bearing God's image"? So we bear the image of God in our genetic code? Is that it? Is that interpretation even within the pale of orthodoxy? If we lose this image when we "add superhuman capabilities" due to genetic changes, why is it that these images are not lost when genetic mutations naturally occur (eg "genetic disorders")? They both stray from the path of the "image" of the genetic code, supposedly perfect and complete in Adam. I don't buy this argument.
  • But to give up the physical image is eternally damning, with no chance of salvation!
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 23 Sep 08
       
      This assertion is a fabrication, and unsubstantiated by scripture.
  • Noah and his family were spared. Why? They were perfect in their generations (Gen 6:9). They were fully human.
    • Adam Skinner
      Adam Skinner on 23 Sep 08
       
      misinterpreation. If Noah was spared because he was "fully human", why weren't the other fully human people on earth spared? Is that really the rationale that scripture gives? I don't think so. "blameless in his generation", "a righteous man" seems a more correct interpretation.
press1

Happy Easter Day Facts - 2 views

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started by press1 on 07 Dec 18 no follow-up yet
Adam Skinner

Why Does God Allow Suffering? - 1 views

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shared by Adam Skinner on 17 Apr 08 - Cached
  • The questions readily rise to mind and on the surface seem reasonable: yet a candid look at them shows that they carry certain implications. They imply that suffering in human life is inconsistent either with the power or with the love of God: that as a God of love either He has not the power to prevent the suffering, or if He has the power then He has not the will, and is not a God of love. It is assumed that the prevention of suffering as it now affects the apparently innocent is something we should expect from a God of love who is also Almighty. Are these assumptions justified?
  • Underlying all the loose thinking on the subject which has been surveyed so far is one basic assumption: it is that suffering is evil in itself.
  • suffering is not evil in itself, but a symptom of a deeper evil. The Scriptures portray suffering as a consequence of sin: not necessarily the sin of the individual who suffers, but sin in the history of man and in human society.
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  • The larger problem of suffering remains, and the only answer to be extracted from the Book of Job is that man cannot question the majesty and wisdom of God: He is the Creator and Sustainer of all life, and His works are beyond man's knowledge.
shekinahangel

The God Whom We Worship - 1 views

The quality of our worship depends upon our knowledge of the One whom we worship. If we have a poor understanding of God's character and nature, our worship will be very weak. Little knowledge mean...

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started by shekinahangel on 04 Feb 21 no follow-up yet
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