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May 18, 2013

Those who intend to contend with a child of God enter dangerous territory.

Do What You Will

May 2, 2013

In all his scheming, the wicked arrogantly thinks:” There is no accountability, since God does not exist.”

Psalm 10:4

This is the hope of the self-proclaimed atheist, and a core doctrine of the Humanist Manifesto: “No deity will save us; we must save ourselves“. The atheist earnestly desires to do whatever he well pleases. Removing God is a handy way of freeing himself to do just that.

What an extreme, self-propagated delusion. I believe their rage against God is an indication for most atheists that they actually believe in His existence, and they don’t like that one bit.

The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.” They are corrupt; they do vile deeds. There is no one who does good.

Psalm 14:1

Living Like a Fool

Pretend God isn’t real. Get your university degree. Assume your knowledge is all-surpassing. Disdain to receive truth. Claim it does not exist, except for your special enlightened truth, nowhere more highly exalted than in your own head.

Declare with conviction the absolute that there are no absolutes. Ignore the Source of truth with the pretense that you and your esteemed colleagues have just lately, after all these millennia, put everything together for the rest of us. Fail to discern the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

Worship yourself

‘God doesn’t exist.’ (Are you sure?) Your words betray you. You are a fool. On the current course, there is no hope.

But, God is gracious and ready to redeem. Many former atheists will testify to that. You can have hope, too, but you have to quit being a fool.

Scripture quotes: Holman Christian Standard Bible

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Go ahead. Be giddy.

April 15, 2013

Most of us don’t really get grace. It’s too unlike how we usually think. We usually want to gain approval or get revenge, depending on our understanding of life.

Submission

We all worship.

We can’t help ourselves. It’s built-in. As a fish cannot not swim, so humans cannot not worship. Fish are made to swim. We are made to worship. It’s an innate quality that cannot be excised.

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Accept His Invitation

My heart was lifted and my spirit encouraged by “An Invitation to the Supernatural Life”. I was challenged in my thinking and understanding of God and how He works. I want to spend more time interacting with what Michele has written. This book is an invitation, and elicits a response. I want to walk with the Lord more intimately.

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There is something more

August 18, 2012

I have come to believe we will never be fully content in this life. There will always be a degree of yearning. That is because we live in a broken world. We were designed for another Kingdom – another land. Sin and death were not in the original covenant.

We were never meant to have the knowledge of good and evil. The whole creation groans because of bondage to decay. We know there’s something more. 

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August 13, 2012

Money is a drug. Its power and sway is more pervasive than I realized. When you have lived for years in comfort and ease, you don’t grasp how your allegiances may have been affected.

(I’m using “money” for understandable communication. What we use for exchange in the US isn’t money and hasn’t been for a long time, but that discussion is for another day.)

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December 21, 2011

They have treated My people’s brokenness superficially, claiming, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they acted so abhorrently? They weren’t at all ashamed. They can no longer feel humiliation. Therefore, they will fall among the fallen (Jeremiah 6:14-15, source Holman Christian Standard Bible 2003).

Our culture has disavowed shame as being always bad, and to be avoided. We seem to see shame as a false and invalid feeling. That weeping prophet Jeremiah describes our state more accurately.

Shame has been renounced. It has been forgotten. All feelings are equally valid in such thinking. The thinking is wrong. (Actually, it’s more accurately termed thinking avoidance.)

Shame can help us recognize our sin and need for a holy God.

That’s the problem. We don’t want that reminder.

Our lack of shame is probably a contributing reason Christ-Mass is more sentimental silliness (or brutal battles for meaningless merchandise) than reflection on the reason for the Incarnation: our relentless rebellion.

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(Small church building in north Idaho near where my maternal grandfather’s body was laid to rest years ago)

December 21, 2011

Each year at this season my love for the language and meaning of the first chapter of John is renewed. The Word (Christ the Messiah) is described as being “full of grace and truth”. That phrase has me captured.

When it comes to balancing grace and truth, humans have a hard time. We go to one side or the other.

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July 24, 2010

My worldview places the fellowship of believers-in-Christ – the church – as essential to life. I made a comment once on my desire to see church “done” differently. Someone asked me to elaborate. The elaboration follows. The first phrase that came to my mind, and which I said out loud when asked to elaborate, was: “It would be less safe”.