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Loneliness and the Design of Fellowship
. Loneliness can be a big problem. It can lead to oppression and depression, hopelessness and even suicide. You can be alone without being lonely, but real loneliness is often evidence of an emptiness of soul. And there’s only one … Continue reading
Posted in ---Doctrine and Understanding
Tagged alone, bond, connect, connected, emptiness, empty, fellowship, loneliness, lonely, lonesome, love
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When Jesus Christ Becomes Boring
. Most of what I teach is what the spirit of Christ has been revealed within me. I teach it from the Bible, and mostly from the writings of Paul. His writings are the primary means by which God has … Continue reading
Posted in ---Growth and practice
Tagged apathetic, apathy, beguile, beguiled, bored, boring, deceit, filled, fullness, lord, lordship, philosophy, revealed, revelation, spoil, spoiled, thankful, thankfulness, vain, vanity
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Developing the Mind of Christ
. The mind of man is an amazing thing. It is the organ of our mental perception, and it contains what is referred to in the Bible as our emotions and passions, our identity, our logical reasoning and even our … Continue reading
How God Works in Me
. I am always on the lookout, in my reading of the Bible as well as in my prayerful, contemplative meditations of the things of Christ, for the specific thinking that will position me to connect with the working of … Continue reading
Posted in ---Growth and practice, WORD STUDY
Tagged energize, salvation, work, work out
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The Importance of Paul’s Gospel
. The ministry of Jesus while on the earth was to only Israel, as he preached and taught the things of the kingdom of God, (while they still waited for the redemption of mankind), and that Israel should repent and … Continue reading
Posted in ---Doctrine and Understanding
Tagged Gentiles, gospel, ministry, mystery, Paul, spirit, true, truth
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From Faith to Faith
. . For I am not ashamed of the gospel (of Christ), for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek; For therein is the righteousness of … Continue reading
Posted in ---Doctrine and Understanding, IN-DEPTH STUDIES
Tagged faith, gospel, reveal, revelation, righteousness, spirit
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Division in the Body
. . Whenever and wherever I have preached and taught Jesus Christ and people have responded, there has come a time when a spirit of division rose up within the resulting fellowship(s). Some person or group began speaking evil about … Continue reading
Posted in ---Growth and practice
Tagged devil, devil spirit, differ, different, divide, division, energizing, evil
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Life in Christ Without Meetings
. . Is there a life, a living in Christ without meetings? Oh No! And what could/should any meetings “in Christ” look like? The New Testament has very little to say concerning gathering together as believers of Jesus Christ, at … Continue reading
Posted in ---Growth and practice
Tagged assembling, assembly, church, ekklesia, fellowship, meeting, sunagogia
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Is the Holy Spirit (Ghost) a He or an It?
. . I was at a home fellowship once which was not my own, and I happened to reference the Holy Spirit as an “it.” One young man spoke right up in an affronted tone. “You called the Holy Spirit … Continue reading
Posted in ---Doctrine and Understanding
Tagged holy ghost, Holy Spirit, pneuma, spirit
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Spiritual Math
. I find it amusing when a scientist claims that he/she doesn’t believe in God, and that the reason is that God’s existence can’t be proven. Meanwhile, that scientist’s understanding of their specific discipline most assuredly involves the use … Continue reading
Posted in ---Growth and practice
Tagged disciple, learn, logic, math, philosopher, philosophy, science, spirit
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