This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God... 1 …
Greater Than Our Hearts (part 1)
This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God ... 1 …
TRUST ME, FORGIVE, AND LEAVE THE JUDGING TO ME
[This is the third of fourteen passages that sustained me in the while in the dark.] Psalm 37:3-9 3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. 4 Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your …
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Still more on forgiveness (forgiving God)
Heaven renders unanswerable "why" questions irrelevant and inspires us to live with them in hope. Gregory A. Boyd Lord, if this is the way you treat your friends, no wonder you don’t have many! Mother Teresa Back at the beginning of the bleakness, over Chinese food my friend Joe asked me if my faith in God …
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Unhooking from the bumper (On forgiveness) part three
I was feeling pretty good about all this letting go stuff when I ran into a snag, one of the many snags in the Bible on which I’ve gotten hung up. I got to thinking about Jesus’ prayer from the cross, “Father, forgive them…” He didn’t look down at his wild-eyed crucifiers and say “I …
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