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Help Me, I’m Depressed
You are a Christian and you are depressed. Okay let’s talk about it, and no this is not your friendly therapist, I am your worst nightmare. I am going to shock therapy you into the space you are supposed to be in. So brace yourself weenie boy or girl and hold on for in approximately
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Book: Loving God, chapter 11 Not Your Battle
How To Love the Lord thy God With all your heart, soul, mind and strength Chapter 11 Not Your Battle Perhaps you tried to resist sinning on your own strength, that’s a blueprint for disaster. You may be struggling with a works based righteousness. I did early on in my Christian life, it took
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Book: Loving God. Chapter 10 Rinse and Repeat
How To Love the Lord thy God With all your heart, soul, mind and strength Chapter 10 Rinse and Repeat I am assuming once you get to this chapter you have put into practice the very difficult task of trusting Christ to give you the victory over sins temptations. Victory! Yes at last. So now
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Book: Loving God, Chapter 9 Defeat
You were tempted to sin, you tried to resist but you failed and you caved in to the temptation. So now what? “Isn’t there an easier way?” You ask. The short answer is no. John the Baptist preached, “ Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” The kingdom of heaven has come near?
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Book: How To Love God, chapter 8 victory
Chapter 8 Victory “This is the victory that overcomes the world – our faith.” 1Jn5:4 After the prior couple chapters I sense you are ready for me to quit beating around the bush the tell you what you want to know, how to get the victory. The secret (if you want to call it that)
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Book: How to Love God, Chapter 7 endurance
How To Love the Lord thy God With all your heart, soul, mind and strength Chapter 7 Endurance Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
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Reprobates
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 2 Cor.13:5 KJV Reprobates! Who uses that word anymore?
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Uncomfortably Empty
“Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone at home? Come on, now I hear you’re feeling down Well I can ease your pain Get you on your feet again” Uncomfortably Numb by Pink Floyd I don’t know about feeling uncomfortably numb, that is not what us Christians
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The Two Stages of Salvation
Two Stages of Salvation Stage One We are saved by grace through faith at the time that (1) be believe in Christ, (2) repent of our sins, and (3) are baptized. In referring to it as “stage one”, I am not implying that we are only half saved at this point. We are fully saved,
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Chapter 6, The Point of Tension
The tension we experience is all about the temptation that we get ourselves into. We have repented, we want to serve the Lord. We have made resolutions, promises etc. But now we are faced with another path to take, “at least temporarily”,we say to ourselves, certainly not permanently. “Why not give in this one more
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