Tag: Idolatry

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By micoots
09/08/2016 0

7 Great Bible Verses For The First Day Of School

Here are seven great Bible verses that can help during that first day of school.

Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

There is nothing more important for a student to know than the fear of the Lord is the very beginning of wisdom. It begins there and stays there. Students will be under a lot of influence in school and be exposed to a lot of different philosophies and theories. The student must guard their mind by staying firml..

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By micoots
09/08/2016 0

5 reasons you might want to stop judging others

5 reasons you might want to stop judging others

Standing in judgement over other people is one of the most simultaneously natural and unnatural things we do in life. It is natural– or perhaps I should say, instinctive– because the desire to judge others goes back to the original sin described in the book of Genesis. It is unnatural all at the same time, as the ability to stand in judgement over others was the one thing God drew a bounda..

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By micoots
08/08/2016 0

Discipled by Calendar

By Michelle Van Loon, who blogs at patheos.com/blogs/pilgrimsroadtrip and tweets at michellevanloon.com
Once upon a time – and for most of Judeo-Christian history following – there were no Sunday School classes or parachurch youth programs that focused on transmitting faith from one generation to the next. There was simply the kind of lifestyle God prescribed in Deuteronomy 6:4-9.
Certainly other forms of apprenticeship, and eventually, more formalized forms of theological education, emerged ove..

By micoots
03/08/2016 0

Plumb Line #6: Live Sufficiently, Give Extravagantly

Plumb lines are a series of short, pithy statements that we, at the Summit, use as rallying points—both for our staff and for the entire church. They are a way to encapsulate our ministry philosophy in short, memorable phrases.

Plumb Line #6 at the Summit is: “Live sufficiently, give extravagantly.”

Certain topics in Scripture aren’t questions to be solved so much as they’re tensions to be balanced. Our approach to money falls into that category. We know, on one hand, that God gives us richly ..

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By micoots
01/08/2016 0

Should Christians Be Spiritual Enough to Not Love God’s Created World?

A few years ago, I spoke at a Desiring God National Conference in a session titled “C.S. Lewis on Heaven and the New Earth: God’s Eternal Remedy to the Problem of Evil and Suffering.” One of the things I shared is the irony that in a day when many people edit theology to fit their desires, they ignore biblical truths about eternity that are far more desirable than what they falsely believe.
Shouldn’t we embrace the true biblical teaching of the resurrection and the New Earth and let ourselves an..

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By micoots
01/08/2016 0

Pope says it’s wrong to identify Islam with violence

ReutersPope Francis said aboard the papal plane that Islam is not a violent religion.

Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was wrong to identify Islam with violence and that social injustice and idolatry of money were among the prime causes of terrorism.

“I think it is not right to identity Islam with violence,” he told reporters aboard the plane taking him back to Rome after a five-day trip to Poland. “This is not right and this is not true.”

Francis was responding to a question about the kil..

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By micoots
28/07/2016 0

Aaron Burr’s Mother: An Example of Evangelical Friendship

When I was in high school (and this is dating me now), a new ad campaign for milk became the most famous pop-culture reference to Aaron Burr:

But now, with the popularity of the Hamilton musical, more young people know more about Aaron Burr than at any other time in recent memory.

At the age of 45, Burr became the third Vice President of the United States (1801–1805), serving under President Thomas Jefferson. But in 1804, he became most famous for being the first sitting Vice President to shoo..

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By micoots
21/07/2016 0

Bible Study: July 24, 2016

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Bible Study: July 24, 2016

NASHVILLE (BP) — This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing team, LifeWay publishes Sunday School curric..

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By micoots
21/07/2016 0

Saudi Arabia renews fatwa against ‘un-Islamic’ Pokémon

A player plays Pokémon in Times Square, New York City.

Saudi Arabia's top clerical body has renewed a 15-year-old edict that the Pokémon game franchise is un-Islamic, Saudi media said on Wednesday, although the fatwa made no mention of the successful new Pokémon GO mobile game.

Nintendo's augmented reality app, in which players walk around real-life neighborhoods to hunt and catch virtual cartoon characters on their smartphone screens, has become an instant hit around the worl..

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By micoots
20/07/2016 0

Who Was Nebuchadnezzar? Things To Learn From Him

The late President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, had this belief that he was a reincarnation of the ancient King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar. In his desire to make this belief public, he ordered that the archaeologists and construction workers restoring the ancient city of Babylon replace every other image of Nebuchadnezzar embedded in the walls with a similar style image of himself. Who was Nebuchadnezzar and what can we learn from him?

Humanly speaking, Nebuchadnezzar, also sometimes spelled Nebuch..