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Tradition is a four-letter word
This is just one of many times when tradition is spoken of in a negative connotation. We get caught up so easily in traditions but then they can ensnare us. I remember the first Easter Sunday when I attended…
Created over 1 year ago
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Flesh vs Spirit
It is sometimes hard to tell a Christian from a non-Christian. In fact, two people can claim to be Christians and one actually not be (or both!). Even here it says "if". It's a matter of the heart. Just…
Created over 1 year ago
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Exempt?
He was alive until the law came into his life. This, to me, is why many Christians believe in the "age of accountability." We are all born "bent" toward sin, but until we are aware of what sin is, we…
Created over 1 year ago
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Guidelines
The commandments are God's guidelines for living a holy and better life. Life is hard enough. When we follow His commandments, life isn't quite so hard. However, once we are aware of the commandments…
Created over 1 year ago
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Death - not everlasting punishment
Yet another reference to what happens to those not in Christ - death - not eternal punishment. Yes, they will spend a long time in hell - no less than 1000 years - but not forever. Eternal life is the…
Created over 1 year ago
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No guilt
Those who are not in Christ see nothing wrong with sinning. There is no guilt, no remorse. That is why those of us in Christ cannot place the same expectations on those who are not followers of Christ.…
Created over 1 year ago
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Understanding "fear of the Lord"
This to me is something we really need to think about. The reality of who God really is and what He could do if He so chose. I mean, He destroyed the entire earth in a flood! What could God do if He became…
Created over 2 years ago
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Sound advice
How we can all benefit from this advice. Quit worrying/telling everyone else about what they are doing wrong and worry instead about what we, ourselves, are doing.
Created over 2 years ago
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Traditional belief
Oh how I've struggled with this same set of beliefs - that if someone is sinning, it will be apparent in their circumstances. That if someone is innocent, it will be obvious as well by their circumstances.…
Created over 2 years ago
Job 11:14 (ASV), Job 11:15 (ASV), Job 11:16 (ASV), Job 11:17 (ASV)
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living soul v breathing creature
Interesting choice of words. There is a difference between a living soul and a breathing creature. God shows us that in Genesis when He created man versus the animals. The animals are all breathing creatures,…
Created over 2 years ago
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An arbitrator
We have what Job didn't have - an arbitrator - His name is Jesus.
Created over 2 years ago
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Been there
How many times have I been there - what Job is saying is so true. How can we even begin to understand the mind of God? Sometimes we end up in a place we don't want to be. Here, Job is there because God…
Created over 2 years ago
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How quickly we forget
How long has Job been suffering? I don't think this has been going on all that long. How long did he have it good? Long enough to have grown children. How quickly we are ready to throw in the towel when…
Created over 2 years ago
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Good and bad days with God
What Job says is so simple yet so profound - "we take the good days with God, why not the bad?" We readily praise God when things are good, but when life deals a blow, for some reason, we get angry with…
Created over 2 years ago
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3rd person
Why does God refer to Himself in the 3rd person? He says that Job is "totally devoted to God". Why not "totally devoted to me"?
Created over 2 years ago
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Father of Abraham - and of us
Here is Terah - the father of Abraham and the line to Jesus. And as someone else noted, he was a godless man. God uses everyone.
Created over 2 years ago
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Communication is key
We often talk about how communication is vital to success - success in marriage, in business, in parenting, in life! Here is a great example. When everyone was speaking the same language, i.e. communicating,…
Created over 2 years ago
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God remembers
I always thought the rainbow was for us to remember God's promise to us. It is for GOD to remember. With all the evil in the world, He is probably tempted to start all over again.
Created over 2 years ago
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A Children's Story?
You know, the story of Noah is one of those we readily tell our kids. We have songs about it "build an arky, arky". And yet what a tragic event. The entire human race died excepting a few. The reality…
Created over 2 years ago
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How does it jive?
Our lifegroup looked at the ages of men after the flood. Some who were born after the flood still exceeded the age of 120. Most of us don't live that long today, but why did God say it and then allow…
Created over 2 years ago
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Line to Jesus Begins
I find it an interesting note that in the verse immediately following Seth's and Seth's son's births, the men begin to call upon the Lord. Seth is the line through whom Jesus will come.
Created over 2 years ago
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Naked before God
Here Adam reminds us that he was not just naked with Eve but with God as well. God already sees us as we really are. We can't hide from Him - no matter how hard we may try. :)
Created over 2 years ago
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Less one rib
I didn't know until recently that all men have one less rib than women. Why am I surprised?
Created over 2 years ago
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Holy rest
God "hallowed" the seventh day, "because" he rested. So could we not make any rest day a holy one?
Created over 2 years ago
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