Tag: christian
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Are you doing these 3 things?
6Leave your simple ways, and live,and walk in the way of insight.”–Proverbs 9 In the book of Proverbs, you are heeding the call of one of two ‘women’–Lady Wisdom or Madam Folly. Those of us who follow Jesus already understand these. But, frankly, every person is a disciple of another. In some way or fashion.…
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What are you neglecting in your life?
33Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.—Proverbs 8 In my pastoral role I oversee support and recovery groups at my church. And I was the special guest at a men’s purity support group last night. I gave the room instruction from the Bible to take the purity journey seriously. I then challenged…
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Are you fighting the war within you?
24And now, O sons, listen to me,and be attentive to the words of my mouth.25Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;do not stray into her paths…–Proverbs 7 This is a chapter of the Bible that involves illicit sex. A married woman was pursuing a man. Adultery is wrong. Sin is sin. And yet,…
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Take wisdom throughout your day!
20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. 21Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.22When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.—Proverbs 6 I do a weekly worship service at…
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Don’t go to war with gaps in your armor!
10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,…
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More controversial than predestination?
1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God….22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his…
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Why do you go to church?
11And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of…
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Change Your Story to God’s Love
17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.–Ephesians…
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ICU or Morgue?
1And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires…
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Chosen and Adopted
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5he predestined us for adoption to himself as…
Joel M Bradshaw 