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Who is this Jesus?

posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
I was looking my Bible reference pages one day and all of the names attributed to Jesus in Scripture were listed. I had fun listing them out and "gathering them up" and this was the result. In some cases, I didn't give the verse or even chapter re...

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UPRIGHTNESS is inherent IN God

posted over 4 years ago, updated 19 minutes later | 1 comment
10/4/#9 Copyright 1993/2007

"Inherent" simply means "it's a given". Or it might be described as "something everybody knows and if you make a big deal about it the reponse will be 'DUH!!' " As in--"we KNOW THAT!"

:::God IS straight, level, entire...

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UPRIGHTNESS: Who qualifies for the blessings?

posted over 4 years ago, updated about 2 hours later | 1 comment
10/3/#8 Copyright 1993/2007

One quality of "uprightness" is spelled out in Psalm 15:2. It simply means telling the truth in my heart. If we understand the truth of the cross, new life in Christ, and the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, it is...

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UPRIGHTNESS:Scripture Changes My Mind

posted over 4 years ago, updated about 3 hours later | 0 comments
9/25/#7 Copyright 1993/2007

Psalm 119:9-16 contains so many words that imply THINKING at one stage or another. Within this text are words and phrases referring to past and present actions, choices, requests of God and repeated commitment to "thin...

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UPRIGHTNESS: The Long Way Around

posted over 4 years ago, updated about 2 hours later | 2 comments
9/15/#6 Copyright 2007

"Setting my mind"...and what can happen if I won't

Several years ago, I was in the middle of an emotional and spiritual "struggle to the death" and it seemed to me at the time that I could not break out of it. My pastor r...

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UPRIGHTNESS: The Long Way Around

posted over 4 years ago, updated about 13 hours later | 1 comment
9/14/#5 Copyright 1991/2007
THE WORD OF GOD Understands...Searches...Knows

Posting #4 acknowledged that we dare not allow any other than the Spirit of God and the Word of God to deal in lifechanging ways with our hearts--"where life starts" (The ...

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UPRIGHTNESS: The Long Way Around

posted over 4 years ago, updated 21 minutes later | 1 comment
9/13/#4 How Does God Touch the Inner Man?

God's designated access point for changing the inner man after salvation is my brain! He says He wants to change MY THINKING. That goes on in the BRAIN, which we call "the heart". If you were in Papua New...

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UPRIGHTNESS: The Long Way Around

posted over 4 years ago, updated 21 minutes later | 1 comment
9/12/#3 IT IS ALL OF GRACE!

In Galatians 2:21, Paul has just completed that victorious declaration, "I have been crucified with Christ! It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith ...

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Humility is profitable

posted over 4 years ago, updated 4 minutes later | 1 comment
I Peter 5:6 says, "Humble yourself THEREFORE under the mighty hand of God THAT in due time He may exalt you..." There's a reason that humility makes good sense. It is the only posture before God that reflects personal honesty and spiritual reality...

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He Doesn't Quench the Smoking Flax

posted over 4 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 0 comments
"When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands and my soul refused to be comforted." Psalm 77:2

My Lord, it's very silent back here in this deep forest. I bow here, shivering in the snow.

It's so quiet. And ...

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