Tag: Eternal

By micoots
01/07/2016 0

You Connect the Dots

Clearly, there can be no eternal subordination in terms of being. That would deny what the Nicene Creed affirms and affirm what it denies. But describing the social dimensions of the Trinity is far more difficult. I decline to speculate where I am not authorized by Scripture to go, but there is something important to the fact that the Father is eternally the Father and the Son is eternally the Son. Affirming separate wills within the Trinity would be heresy, but ..

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By micoots
01/07/2016 0

A Man Named Dallas: Top Ten Books #7

In the late 1980s and early 1990s an intriguing question burst into the evangelical conversation: what is the gospel? Many evangelism ministries were taken back as if saying, “Are you kidding us? We all know what the gospel is. It can be packaged in four steps to God, four laws for salvation, or a simple bridge diagram on a napkin.” Other voices, however, would not be stopped. “That may be your idea of ‘gospel,’” they countered, “but it is certainly not what Jesus and the New Testam..

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By micoots
01/07/2016 0

What is Lordship Salvation? A Christian Study

Since the beginning of time, salvation has been about God providing a Savior to die for the sins of humanity. However, despite God’s simple plan of salvation, like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, man insists on doing things his own way. One such way is the idea of Lordship salvation, which has permeated churches and discouraged the masses from really understanding God’s simple plan of salvation. What is Lordship Salvation? A short Christian study will help us to understand this dangerous doc..

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By micoots
01/07/2016 0

Five first steps to experiencing more of God’s presence

Five first steps to experiencing more of God’s presence.
“Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there” (Psalm 139:7-8).
Living among a busy and distracted people, followers of Jesus need to live in God’s presence. We do not need a theology of his presence: we need the experience of his presence. He is here, now. Are we awake?

By micoots
30/06/2016 0

Thought for the morning of Thu June 30, 2016

Verse: “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” — joh 17:22
Thought: Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for he hath given us his all. Although a tithe of his possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was he not content until he had given us all that he had. It would have been surprising grace if he had allowed us to eat the crumbs of his bounty beneath the table of his mercy; but he will do nothing by halves, he makes us sit with h..

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By micoots
30/06/2016 0

Top 7 Bible Verses About Mediocrity

Here are seven Bible verses about mediocrity in the hopes that you can avoid it in your life.
Colossians 3:23-24 “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.”When we are working at our job, the Apostle reminds us that it’s not really an employer we work for but it’s the Lord and it is from Him that we will receive our rewards, not from our employers. A pay raise and a..

By micoots
30/06/2016 0

Let the Holy Spirit Guide Your Lives! (Jun 30th)

Verse: So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves.
— Galatians 5:16 nlt
Thought: What has the most influence in my life? Who guides my steps? What determines the values that I live? Whose voice and whose words are most important for me, especially when I am making my day-to-day decisions? The issue is quite simple: if the answer to those questions is not the Holy Spirit, then we are going to find ourselves repeatedly facing our own fai..

By micoots
29/06/2016 0

One Simple Thing that Would Help Your Next Internet Debate

Here is one of the most important points that Mortimer Adler makes in his ironically titled book, How to Read a Book:

Every author has had the experience of suffering book reviews by critic who did not feel obligated to do the work of the first two stages first. The critic too often thinks he does not have to be a reader as well as a judge.

Every lecturer has also had the experience of having critical questions asked that were not based on any understanding of what he had said.

You yourself m..

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By micoots
29/06/2016 0

Top 7 Bible Verses About Tomorrow

Here are seven Bible verses in reference to tomorrow.
Proverb 27:1 “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.”It’s natural to talk about tomorrow and things you’ve planned to do but no one knows if tomorrow will even come for us. We do know that everyone has a day appointed unto death and that judgment will follows (Heb 9:27), so this side of the grave we must be sure we’re in a right relationship with God. We can boast about our eternity because of the Savior’s work..

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By micoots
29/06/2016 0

10 Lessons from a Hospital Stay, part 2

In my previous post, I shared five of the lessons the Lord has been teaching me through my three-year-old grandson Chandler’s illness illness and hospitalization with severe pneumonia. These are in no real order—just the raw truths the Lord has been teaching me during one of the most difficult times in our family’s life.

(If you’ve just come across this and are seeing part 2 first, I hope you’ll take a moment to read part 1 which more thoroughly develops those first five lessons with Scripture ..