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What is Generosity?
I love generous people! Don’t you? And my congregation has many such people, who share their homes, their time, their talents, and their money. And God loves generous people, too, because generosity is a part of holiness. Our God is … Continue reading
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Tagged generosity, gift, giving, grace, holiness, investment, money, riches, share, sharing, stewardship, thankfulness
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How to Give the Right Way
Note: This posting comes from an article that I wrote for the Manchester church of Christ on January 9. I thought that perhaps those who are in ministry or others who are disciples generally might be interested in thoughts about … Continue reading
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Tagged amount, attitude, Christ, church, collection, contribution, evangelism, faithfulness, false teaching, generosity, giving, grace, heart, love, meaning of life, mercy, obedience, pattern, religion, stewardship, wisdom, worship
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The Angels Still Praise Him
Over the last few weeks we’ve been taking a look at the stories surrounding the birth of Jesus, the Christ. In these little meditations I’m hopeful that you’ve noticed that the more things change about mankind, the more they remain … Continue reading
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Tagged accomplishment, angels, Christ, church, eyes of faith, faith, generosity, glory, Gospel, grace, high priest, incarnation, judgment, king, love, Messiah, praise, redeemer, redemption, religion, sacrifice, salvation, sin, suffering, victory
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The Pattern of God— The Pattern of Personal Growth, Part 2
Though we sometimes think of spiritual growth as being a personal journey, different for every individual, the Scripture tells us that there actually are certain things that universally promote the spiritual growth of the Christian — call them patterns. Last … Continue reading
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Tagged attendance, Bible classes, church, church attendance, communion, encouragement, friends, generosity, giving, hymns, influences, Lord's Supper, love, obedience, pattern, prayer, preaching, salvation, singing, spiritual growth, wisdom, worship
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The Pattern of God— The Pattern of Personal Growth, Part 1
Although we might not be initially inclined to think of spiritual growth as a pattern, there is a definite expectation in Scripture that that everyone who becomes a Christian will grow spiritually. Just as in the physical realm, when a … Continue reading
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Tagged apostles' teachings, Bible, Christ, church, discipleship, faith, faithfulness, follow, generosity, Gospel, grace, growth, hope, how to grow spiritually, love, meaning of life, New Testament, pattern, sin
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The End — Revelation 19-22
Well, with today’s reading we come to the end of our daily journey through the Bible. It has been a challenge to me personally to both read, reflect, and try to write something cogent that people might want to read. … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, blood, Christ, church, courage, faith, faithfulness, generosity, Gospel, grace, heaven, hope, judgment, justice, love, marriage, meaning of life, mercy, Messiah, obedience, persecution, promises, prophecy, purpose, resurrection, sacrifice, salvation, sin, suffering
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Hang tough – Hebrews 12,13
The great crowd of witnesses — 12:1 Although it isn’t likely that those who have gone on before can really see what the current world is doing, the figure of speech here does motivate us to faithfulness to think that … Continue reading
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Tagged abundant life, beautiful life, Christ, christian faith, church, comfort, covenant, disciple, discipleship, discipline, discouragement, divide, division, doctrinal controversy, doctrinal matters, encouragement, example, faith, faithfulness, false prophets, false religion, false teaching, family, generosity, generous, heaven, home in heaven, household of God, immoral, immorality, jew and gentile, Jewish, jewish messiah, kingdom, kingdom of god, kingdoms, loyalty, money, parable, perseverance, praise, prayer, sexual immorality, sexual morality, sexual purity, sexuality, spiritual, spiritual reality, suffering, Temple, Temple of God, temptation, temptations
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The man of lawlessness — 2 Thessalonians
Paul’s second letter to the church in Thessalonica is a much fierier encouragement. This is probably coming from a heartfelt sympathy toward the church and anger toward persecutors Paul felt due to a possible escalation in persecution and perhaps violence against the … Continue reading
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Tagged freeloading, generosity, Hell, help, man of lawlessness, persecution, revenge, Satan, second coming
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Dawkins and Moral Compasses
Richard Dawkins has made quite the splash in recent times with books arguing against religion and belief in God. He is an evolutionary biologist, an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and the author most recently of The God … Continue reading →