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Not My Will, But Yours, Be Done
“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” Luke 22:42 ESV These are the words Jesus prayed to the Father as his arrest, trial, and execution were drawing near. Luke also tells us that He was in such distress that His sweat became like drops of blood and an angel came down from Heaven to strengthen Him. What we have here is a picture of pure…
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Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to everybody out there. Psalm 100 (ESV): Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!2 Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! 3 Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! 5 For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 69:30 (ESV): I will praise the name…
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In His Death He Showed Us How To Live
We have previously talked about one of the most heart-wrenching verses in the Bible, I’m talking about when Jesus cried out to the Father in heaven asking why He had abandoned Him. You can read that article here. Today I wanted to write about a couple of Jesus’ other words from the cross because I have been struck by the idea that even in His death He showed us how to live. The first example…
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Why Do You Call Me Good?
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone” Luke 18:19 ESV There are two instances in the book of Luke of people walking up to Jesus to ask Him what they must do to inherit eternal life. In chapter 10 a lawyer asks Jesus this question and after an exchange we are told the lawyer wanted to justify himself in Jesus’ eyes by questioning Him more.…
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Evolution AND Creation?
Is it possible to be a Christian and to believe in evolution? Is the Biblical account of Creation correct? Does evolution discount the Creation narrative in Genesis? Is evolution fact, fiction, or flawed? How should we debate an atheist who believes evolution proves the Bible is wrong and God was not needed to create life? We are going to try to look at some of those questions in this article. Disclaimer: This article draws heavily…
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Before Abraham Was, I AM
Many people who do not know God have a simple question, if God exists why doesn’t he just make himself known? Where is he? They simply do not perceive that all of creation points to God, they want concrete proof. Some of them also deny that Jesus ever existed, but most people agree He was an historical person. Instead they deny the divinity of Jesus and many of them deny that Jesus ever claimed to…
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Thought Meets The Word
As Paul tells us in Acts; “all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.” The Greeks had thought while the Jews had the Word, until the two met one day in Athens. Many of the ancient Greeks tried to think their way to God but never quite got to the truth. Aristotle had the “prime mover” or the “un-caused cause” which created…
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This is My Name Forever
This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations-Exodus 3:15 (ESV) So, what is this name that we are supposed to remember throughout all generations? Well, that question is not as easy to answer as it should be. In English versions of the Bible we learn in Exodus 3:14 that God’s name is I AM, or I AM WHO I AM. However, after Exodus 3:14 we hardly see the name…
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A Silent Battle and a Still Small Voice
A man sat in a hospital bed with a decision to make about his future. He had just had a “cardiac incident” and was going to need heart surgery. This was not a surprise, he knew growing up that his heart condition would mean surgery in the future, and he knew for about two weeks prior to the incident that the time was close. This decision was not the decision, there was no alternative here,…
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A Peace Which Surpasses All Understanding
We have all seen the famous “Footprints in the Sand” poem; a man dreams he is walking on the beach with God when scenes from his life flash before his eyes. He sees two sets of footprints in the sand representing his walk with God, but he notices that during the hard times in his life there is only one set of footprints. When he asks God why He left him during the hard times…
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How great the chasm that lay between us.
How high the mountain I could not climb.
In desperation, I turned to heaven,
And spoke Your name into the night.
Then through the darkness, Your loving kindness,
Tore through the shadows of my soul
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