We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God… […]
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Heart Hardening or Heartening
His devotion to religion distorted his understanding of God and hardened his heart. ~ Jo Helen Cox Religion. A system of faith. A set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, that whole being doctrine, discipline, theology, practices, […]
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The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Locations 1193-1194) What do I know about prayer? Just do it. You can say anything. Define your own god, one who makes sense…to you. […]
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It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, […]
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From darkness eclipsing my hope, my dreams leaving me wretched, unable to cope, I found hints of a power, as strange as it seems, who perhaps might stoop to grant me hope. Powerless, mired in loathsome gunk I acted “I’m […]
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