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Marie Lin

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me - 0 views

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    Its in my weakness that His strength is made perfect. I am no longer a perfectionist, trying to do everything on my own, but someone who knows "I can do all things (only) through Christ who strengthens me."
IN Too

He's an On-Time God, Yes He Is: A True Story of God's Perfect Timing « Reflec... - 0 views

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    Sometimes God chooses to let us walk through the storm so that we can learn that He will never leave us or let a situation be more than we can handle with His help. And sometimes He just plain steps in and fixes everything better than you could possibly have dreamed. Sometimes it happens in a moment, sometimes after years of patient waiting. We'll never see it if we don't let Him work, if we don't step back in faith and let God be God.
IN Too

Our Father's Perfect Plans « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    From the beginning of time God has wanted the heart of mankind. He wants us to call on Him and come to Him in prayer, to seek His will, and trust Him in all things. When we do, He is always available to us, longing for all to look to Him and live. His arms are always open to any who will turn to Him. He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
C L

Help End Women's Suffering - 0 views

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    In many Asian cultures, it is wrong for a woman to interact with a man who is not her husband. That is why women missionaries are the perfect solution! Listen to their testimonies, see their passion and join them as they help end the suffering of thousands of women in Asia. See also http://www.gfa.org/women/ Send a trained and dedicated woman missionary to share Christ's love with women in Asia
Adam Skinner

PWM - Homo Nexus - 0 views

  • Could they be “changed” so that they are no longer created in the image of God?
    • Adam Skinner
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      "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
       
      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
       
      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.
anonymous

Good Luck!! Good Luck!! But How?? Have a look on it - 0 views

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    Good Luck wising is a fashion now-a-days. But having good luck is not obvious in a person's life. If a man wanted to make his chances by spiritual way then here is the perfect solution. Here are so many products which will help you in every walk of life. The first one is Love Talisman. This pendant promotes unity and harmony. Pearl increases both inner and outer beauty, facial luster and charm. Pearl brings good luck, inspires love and eliminates melancholy, increases enthusiasm and vitality. There are several more like that as Agni Talisman, Brahma Talisman, Devamani Talisman, Ganesh Talisman, Kamadeva Talisman, Hanuman Talisman and Surya Talisman. These are all for your good luck. Like Surya Talisman. The wearer gets the quality of the sun- to rule and to move continuously with brilliant radiance and strength. It gives happiness, popularity and material gains; it removes worry, suspicion, guilty, fear and all kinds of physical and mental illness. For more details follow the title
IN Too

The Man with the Palsy | Salvation vs. Miracles: How do you see Jesus? « Refl... - 0 views

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    How do we see Jesus? Is Jesus our Saviour onto eternal life in fellowship with God? Or, Is Jesus a tool to fix problems in this life? When faced with life's problems what do we want from Jesus? Do we want exercise our faith or ease our flesh? Do we want His "strength to be made perfect" in our "weakness"?
IN Too

The Father's Good Gift « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    As Jesus sent His disciples out into a world that would be hostile to them, that would imprison them and beat them and kill them, what they needed to succeed wasn't a new car, or perfect teeth or a retirement plan. What they needed to live successfully (as God defines it) was The Comforter. 
IN Too

Suffering: The Forgotten Gift « Reflections in the WORD - 0 views

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    …the Believer who is completing his course of suffering for Christ's sake is completing the process of ceasing from sin. In other words, suffering for Christ's sake transforms the Believer from sin-FULL to sin-LESS; suffering for Christ's sake perfects Believers.
Marie Lin

Is it possible live a life without sin? - 1 views

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    Some Christians believe it is possible to live without sin. Is it?
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    "The origin of sin is weakness, the weakness is the curiosity to knowledge, the desire to unveil the truth; the shame of your nakedness and the fall of a perfect creation. Perfect in every way, know that we know the difference between good and evil, we only have left to fight our selfish will to obey the Father."
chakiry95

What sacrifices are you going to make to stay married? - relaationship - 0 views

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    Marriage is never perfect nor always imperfect. Perception plays a big role in the happiness of marriage or the unhappiness of marriage. So what makes some marriages last 50 years and less than 6 months? Is the wrong 2 people getting married for the wrong reason? Maybe it's less about people and more about perceptions and expectations. Maybe, just maybe, it has to do with sacrifices or a lack of sacrifice.
chakiry95

One of The Best Ways to Attract Women and Have Them Pursue You - relaationship - 0 views

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    Movies and friends have led us to believe that if you are interested in a girl, you must pursue her desperately, take her to expensive dinners, buy her things and spend tons of money to impress her. to interest him in you. Of course, this could work on a gold digger who just wants your money. But that's not the way to attract the "perfect" girl.
chakiry95

How to get a girlfriend: the 3 important steps to get the girl of your dreams - relaati... - 0 views

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    Getting a girlfriend, for many men can be a difficult task. They should join tons of online dating sites, use social media, join a cooking class with the hope that they will find the perfect girlfriend. Yes, these are some of the things you can do to become a wife. Or you can follow what I teach in this article and get the girl of your dreams. Here, I teach you how to get a girlfriend using 3 safe steps.
chakiry95

11 best ways to keep a man interested - relaationship - 0 views

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    Although it is difficult to find the perfect man, it is even harder to keep the man interested. Once you have established that two of you are equal, you must learn to keep it interested. Men want someone who is desirable but still admired by many. So do not completely adjust your life. Be mysterious, live your best moments with others. Here's how to keep a man interested.
chakiry95

5 Things You Need to Know About Spring Break Safety | buzitnow - 0 views

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    At this point in the semester, our brains are ready to burst thanks to schoolwork, job and internship applications and the everyday bustle of college life. Spring break is that perfect mid-semester gift that promotes relaxation and fun more than any other break (no uncomfortable or stressful holiday dinners, right?).
anonymous

JEHOVAH SHALOM - The Lord is Peace - 1 views

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    The root meaning of shalom is to be whole or sound and this leads to translations that speak of Peace (shalom from salam/salem/shalam) = to be safe, sound, healthy, perfect, complete
jessahfelton

Good and Evil - Marilyn Taplin - 0 views

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    The Bible is basically and almost entirely about good and evil. When evil is defined and understood then we can see that every story in the Bible is speaking of those who believe truth or those who believed the lie in Eden as Adam and Eve did. We are instructed to divide the truth. "Study to shew thyself approved unto God … rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15). The entire Bible is truth: the truth about God and the truth about Satan. We are instructed to rightly divide truth.The story of Noah it is an example of how to divide God from Satan and good from evil. "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God" (Genesis 6:9). Noah and 7 others were in the Ark.
jacobmike12

Amazing facts of learning to become a Barista - 0 views

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    Every profession demands training to become an expert and to bring out the best-hidden skills of the professionals, every novice requires a teacher. Coffee education offers so many benefits, from someone's career progression or whether is it job satisfaction to just get a deeper understanding regarding coffee-making skills. A barista is a coffee artist. You will want to make sure that your coffee business has the best baristas, employees who know the difference from a cappuccino and a latte. A perfect cup of coffee is enough to taste its originality and experience its worth. To all those who want to pursue this coffee, excellence can join classes to learn the industry-level expertise at The Canadian Barista & Coffee Institute in Vancouver and Calgary. All trainers provide fresh and unique content which is not available in the market and is as competitive as it should be. They are deeply concerned about course content and do not provide any other irrelevant course offering which will reroute students and be the cause of their money wastage. Their mission is to demystify coffee and to make barista classes more informative and more accessible. At the end of your course completion, they offer a certificate. The certification accomplishment adds to the career capital of a learner, which proves a brighter future. This helps to strengthen the CV of a struggler in the market to start a coffee business or a barista to pursue a career as a coffee professional. This is a very economical option for all the learners who are seeking to gain the coffee knowledge and expert level skills.
C L

Living Loved - The Narrow Road - 0 views

  • We are simply called to follow him, in the simplest of choices as best we recognize his invitations. As we do, his life will unfold in us with ever-increasing reality.
  • You only have to have a heart that wants to follow him and he will teach you how he speaks to you and invites you into life.
  • Listening to him is not living by feelings, but by recognizing those impulses he brings to your mind and following them. Initially they will encourage you to rest in his love and to be more gracious to people near you. In time, he will show you more of his wisdom to guide your life.
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  • You will only learn by practice. Yes, you will do some things you thought God was leading you to do, only to find out by the fruit of it that it was more your thought than his. That's part of the process. How else will you learn? But you'll also get some things right and the joy of that will help tune our heart to his. In the process, you'll be drawn closer to him and come to recognize your more selfish aspirations, and the misplaced trust you have in your own wisdom or abilities.
  • You can usually tell if someone's listening to Jesus by how open and relaxed they are. If they are closed and defensive when someone questions them, be careful.
  • One thing I know about people who listen to God, they don't act destructively and they aren't arrogant about what they think they hear. Learning to listen to God is a humbling process. You're never one hundred percent sure of what he's asking. You just have an impulse in your heart you can't explain. It grows over time, but he is never forceful or manipulative, and that is also true of people learning to listen to him. They can be firm, but not defensive and are always willing to sacrifice for others, instead of asking others to sacrifice for them.
  • God does love you, but that love only transforms you to the degree that you can trust his love enough to follow him on to the narrow road. His love doesn't mean that everything will work out the way we want, nor that we won't be the victims of other people's hurtful and destructive choices.
  • But he wants to be with us in those moments to help us navigate our experience in a broken world and be transformed through it. He invites us to participate with him, which is why love and obedience go hand in hand in the Scriptures. As you grow to trust his love you will want to obey him, and it's in following him that you get to live in the fruit of his love.
  • Jesus repeatedly made clear that our actions matter. Scripture often invokes the reality of sowing and reaping to express this truth. How we live either leads us more into his life, or draws us away from it, whether we'll contribute to his redemption in the world, or be part of its destruction. That's what Jesus meant when he affirmed those who followed, Well done! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness! (Matt. 25: 21)
  • If we follow a bit, the road will get clearer. If we follow our own way instead, we'll lose sight of him.
  • That doesn't mean you have to be perfect for God to work in you, or that you can't reverse the trend any day you want to. He is always ready to lead you one simple step at a time and never asks for what you cannot give. Following in small things today will open more doors tomorrow. If we're indulgent and dishonest in little things, we will be indulgent and dishonest in larger things. If we can learn to follow him in simple ways of loving others and being true to our word even when it hurts, his work in us will grow in ways we'd never conceive.
  • This is not about earning his life by our obedience, but participating with him as he transforms us. Everything I get to experience of God today began with simple choices years ago. They set off a chain of unforeseen consequences that opened doors to where I live now. The simple nudge to go to public schools with our children and volunteer to help began a series of opportunities that eventually led to twenty years of consulting public schools on religious liberty conflicts. Listening to Jesus say, "I have more to teach you if you walk away," when my former co-pastor wanted to force me out of the fellowship we helped build together, opened a trailhead into personal transformation I adore and opportunities for growing and sharing I would not have found without him.
  • At the outset, all these choices looked more difficult than other options I had in mind. I'm glad he won me into following him and the choice to do so now is far easier. I don't even trust my own desires anymore because following him, even though painful at times, has always yielded better fruit.
  • Learning to merge off of the broad way and onto the narrow road is a process that he wants to work in you, not a requirement he's made for you. It's simply a matter of learning to lean into him a bit more each day and leaning away from what draws you down the broader road. You can't do this alone. And this does not mean you have to carefully listen to Jesus at every moment and try to figure out what he wants so you won't miss out. Doing that will leave you frustrated and exhausted. We find his way much more simply than that. In fact, the anxiety of having to hear him will make it more difficult to do so. Instead go through your day with a growing awareness that he is with you. Whenever you have it, follow that inner sense that seems to encourage you one direction or checks you from going another. When you come up against choices of significance, ask him what he has in mind. Let him show you in his time. You don't have to hear something every day or in every circumstance. Relax in him as he connects your heart with his.
  • Learning to live out of your spirit, rather than your intellect or emotions alone, will take some time. Ask him to show you the next step ahead and relax in a growing trust that he will. The Spirit makes his direction clear in a variety of ways--it might be that stray thought in your mind, affirmed by something that you read or hear, perhaps even a lyric of a song in the background that resonates with your heart. Don't look for a "voice" per se, but a growing awareness of his thoughts in your mind. Of course, familiarity with his words in Scripture and conversations with others on a similar journey will also bring clarity to what he's showing you.
  • As I go about my life, I become aware of options that are better than my own, especially in helping someone near me, or drawing me into a quieter space with him. At first, I don't always like where these nudges would lead me, which is why Jesus saw this journey as a narrower road and why most people miss it. Our flesh so easily dismisses what it doesn't want to consider. And, no, you don't have to always get it right. No one does.
  • As you make a few choices down the narrow road, you will find yourself becoming more relaxed and able to live in the moment instead of trying to manipulate your circumstances. The questions you'll find yourself asking might be these: What does he want to show me about himself today? What might love lead me to do in this situation? How does loving others, even at the expense of my self-interest perpetuate the kingdom? How does my forgiveness or service to someone else today, make the world a better place?
  • But even when you miss him and find yourself on a path of your own making, he is there, too, still nudging you toward a better road. Don't be hard on yourself, just keep coming back to him over and over. You are loved, even in your brokenness. Today is the day God cares about. As they say, the best time to plant an oak tree was twenty years ago, but the second best time to plant it is today.
  • As you learn to live more on the narrow road, you'll have a better idea just how destructive the broad way was, to yourself and others. Rather than be embarrassed by it, embrace that new reality. One of the most redemptive things we do on the narrow road is to go back to people we've wronged, seek their forgiveness and offer restitution where we can. Such moments bring great healing and clarity to all involved. Yes, it may not be easy, but that's exactly the point of the narrow road--most fruitful things aren't fun at the outset, but yield great joy later on.
  • Perhaps the most effective form of discipleship is not teaching a curriculum, but simply being alongside others when they are at a fork in the road and being a cheerleader for the road less traveled. We don't have to manipulate or pressure them, but simply through a question or observation give them an opportunity to make a choice that matters. And if they make it, lend them our support and encouragement. That's how people find their way onto a journey that will be full of his life.
  • The only reason why his way may seem difficult is because we're so busy following the crowd that we miss his invitation to a narrower road. But once we learn to believe him, it becomes far easier than most think possible. And though you'll find yourself on a road most others can't understand, it will change the way you think, live, and how you treat others. You'll find yourself on a transformative journey that you will never regret.
  • The reason this journey seems so difficult is because it is far easier than we dare to believe! I know it isn't easy for people to find their way into a loving relationship with the Father. Everything we've learned and believed before runs counter to the dynamics of recognizing and resting in his love. However, it isn't difficult because God makes it complicated, or because it takes a certain skill set or sensitivity, but because we look in the wrong places for how his life takes root in us. But Jesus knows that too, and is still up to the challenge of engaging us in a fruitful relationship with his Father.
  • Only the religious would twist them either to take pride in thinking they practice the right doctrine or ritual, and delight in the fact that those who don't will get what they deserve. Jesus didn't want to provoke exclusivity or fear with his words, but rather to equip hungry hearts to know how to know him. Following the broad way of self-interest will devour us, but there is a narrower path that will lead us to life.
  • At first, everything in us wants to resist his nudge. No, it can't be that way. I could get hurt. I could make a mistake. What if it goes wrong? But if he's the one inviting us, we are safer doing what he asks than anything we do to save ourselves. We are not asked to indulge our preferences or live in resistance to them. We are simply called to follow him, in the simplest of choices as best we recognize his invitations. As we do, his life will unfold in us with ever-increasing reality.
  • Making space for him and his thoughts and following them is the only way off the broader road. We find the narrow road when we find rest in his love for us and then recognize his leading as he offers us a different way to see what's going on around us. We often don't even see a new trailhead until he nudges us towards it.
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