We make mistakes, but sin requires deliberate trespass against a law set by an authority and held by community. God asks us to repent. Do not intensify what God simply erases. ~ Jo Helen Cox What God erases. Like a […]
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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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I am powerless, my life unmanageable. I cannot do it, have not the willpower, have failed and failed and still fail whenever I try it alone. But I’m not alone. I’ve found a fellowship of people like me, people who […]
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Our God is a jealous God who will not accept arrogance in place of obedience. ~ Jo Helen Cox God is jealous? The Bible tells me so but that it’s not over things, over affection, over talents… why would he […]
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