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You won’t be able to find the term, “Legalism” in the Bible, but just about every New Testament author, and some Old Testament ones, address it as a concept. I don’t think there’s ever been a Christian who, to some degree, hasn’t fallen prey to its lure. In fact, if you don’t think you have, …
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As you can see this is one piece of a five-part essay. If you’d rather read it all at once, you can find it in barneywiget.com “I tell you, no!” said Jesus disagreeing in no uncertain terms with their premise that bad things happen exclusively to bad people. Spiritual blamers of all types might be …
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As you can see this is one piece of a five-part essay. If you’d rather read it all at once, you can find it in barneywiget.com Luke 13:1 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, “Do you …
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As you can see this is one piece of a five-part essay. If you’d rather read it all at once, you can find it in barneywiget.com Picking up where we left off in John 9... Later in the narrative John tells us: His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the …
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As you can see this is the second piece of a five-part essay. If you’d rather read it all at once, you can find it in barneywiget.com Mother Teresa told of a time when she spoke at a conference on world hunger in Bombay. "I was supposed to go to that meeting and I lost the …
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