Two things Christ does for us that make him matter. Thanks to him, Romans 6:11, we’re “dead to sin” and “alive to God.” But why does being “dead to sin” matter? Because it means we never need sin again, verses 6, 14. Sin actually loses its power over us. And how did Christ pull that off for us? [...]
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A lot of people nowadays consider themselves to be very spiritual. I wonder what they use as a definition of “spiritual,” though. Is it the deep emotions one feels while seeing or hearing something inspiring, or “out-of-body” sensations one experiences from deep meditation, or visions one receives when being intensely religious, or hearing voices in [...]
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Isn’t science grand? It knows when our universe began, it confidently states how it began, and now it talks of our universe expanding so fast it will exceed the speed of light and the stars will disappear from our sight. They’ll be moving away faster than the light travelling back from them, so to our [...]
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I was on my first train at 5 years and I’ve loved trains ever since – waiting at the station as the train draws in, jumping on board, pulling out of the station, picking up speed, watching the landscape flash by. It’s wonderful. All is under control, the destination is fixed, no worries, just sit [...]
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Aren’t some people so terrible they’re beyond saving? Like Attila the Hun who killed for the thrill of killing, or the priest who abuses hundreds of children and mocks his prosecutors. Brutal criminals they are, with no conscience or remorse. But even the worst of them has been “reconciled to God through the death of [...]
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God told Adam that knowing good and evil would be the death of him. But later on he says that knowing good and evil would make Adam “like one of us,” Genesis 3:22. So why would knowing good and evil be the death of Adam when it made him like God himself? Because it would put [...]
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Does God have everything figured out, or does luck come into the picture, too? When I hesitated for a second before crossing the road and that little pause meant the difference between crossing safely and being hit by a passing motorbike, was that luck or God? It can only be one or the other, right? [...]
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I don’t believe “pray without ceasing” is telling us what to do, I believe it’s telling us what we’ve got. It’s not a “should” it’s a “realize.” Realize we now have endless contact with our Creator, because of Jesus Christ. As our brother, the ascended Jesus now represents us in the presence of the Father, [...]
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Colossians 3:4 says Christ is our life, but why would I want Christ to be my life? Because Christ’s life is the only life worth living. And why is that? Because he lived life the way it was meant to be lived. He was the only who ever did, too. None of the rest of [...]
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Jesus came to reveal God to us. It was “job done” for him, then, when he could report in, “I have revealed you to those whom you gave me,” John 17:6. He also said, “I have made you known to them and will CONTINUE to make you known,” verse 26, so Jesus is still on [...]
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