As if the difficulties outlined in my previous post aren’t enough, it gets even more complicated. Messed up theological constructs prop up human brokenness and the two work together to hinder growth and faith. I’ve discovered a major incongruence in my theological understanding of God. It is necessary to hold two aspects of God’s existence [...]
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I was sitting in church one day a few years ago, minding my own business, when God spoke to me. Not directly mind you. He does that too sometimes, but that’s not what I’m referring to here. Jimmy Evans was preaching as a guest at my church, talking to us about our past. He pointed [...]
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Heb 4:12-1612 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all [...]
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Luke 4:18-1918 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor;He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind,To set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of [...]
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Judg 6:11-12Now the Angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, [...]
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2 Cor 3:16-1816 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the [...]
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Luke 11:22 So He said to them, “When you pray, say:Our Father in heaven,Hallowed be Your name.Your kingdom come.Your will be doneOn earth as it is in heaven. John 8:3232 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”NKJV What we experience deeply shapes us. We are who we are today [...]
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John 3:5-85 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, [...]
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