17 days ago by teresaklassen

So, another one of those tricky questions: when is it ok to get a divorce? This was the question put to Jesus by those rascals, the Pharisees. Rule-keepers have a thing for policies. Jesus, in response, gives them the narrowest permission because He knew they weren’t looking for grace, they were loo ...

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25 days ago by bgovanus

Looking around at then with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. Mark 3:5 When it comes to hardness of heart… the Pharisees are not the only ones who Jesus can be angry with. I will stand be ...

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69 days ago by Rick Lannoye

One of my favorite movies is Idiocracy (directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph), a satire about a future United States in which everyone has become stupid, thanks in large part to the long-term effects of corporate advertising. The main character (Wilson) wakes up in the ye ...

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80 days ago by Chris Cole

"For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died." Robert Murray McCheyne was a minister of the Church of Scotland in the early XIXth Century. "We have so choked up the avenues of self-examination - there are so many turnings and ...

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82 days ago by Rick Lannoye

Whenever we read the Old Testament, it’s very important to realize why it’s called old–because it’s been superceded by a new one! No dah, right? Well, sad to say, there are a lot of Christian believers who have been fed a lot of confusion on this point, so please allow me to explain further. But fir ...

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107 days ago by Mr. Science Utah, Steve Hill

9 And now Alma began to expound these things unto him, saying: It is given unto many to know the mysteries of God; nevertheless they are laid under a strict command that they shall not impart only according to the portion of his word which he doth grant unto the children of men, according to the hee ...

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111 days ago by bartimaeus

Healing the Broken Hearted “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised …” (Luke 4:18) ...

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116 days ago by Mr. Science Utah, Steve Hill

Chapter 10 Lehi descended from Manasseh—Amulek recounts the angelic command that he care for Alma—The prayers of the righteous cause the people to be spared—Unrighteous lawyers and judges lay the foundation of the destruction of the people. About 82 B.C. 1 NOW these are the words which Amulek preach ...

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120 days ago by Mr. Science Utah, Steve Hill

5 Now they knew not that God could do such marvelous works, for they were a hard–hearted and a stiffnecked people. 6 And they said: Who is God, that sendeth no more authority than one man among this people, to declare unto them the truth of such great and marvelous things? Alma 9:5-6 (Emphasis mine) ...

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137 days ago by Mr. Science Utah, Steve Hill

20 And it came to pass that their brethren, the Lamanites, made preparations for war, and came up to the land of Nephi for the purpose of destroying the king, and to place another in his stead, and also of destroying the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi out of the land. 21 Now when the people saw that they ...

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