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~ I love the Lord because He hears my voice and my prayer for mercy, because He bends down to listen

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Category Archives: sin

what is forgiveness all about

March 12, 2013

I fall into sin so easily. And it really feels like I fall into it. I say something that, after …

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married to God

January 6, 2013

In my last post, I wrote that “God likes me” is a notion that gets much closer to the real …

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the shutout

December 16, 2011

In the last post, I posed the question, “How can it be that churches offer the Bread of Life to …

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the setup and the hook

December 9, 2011

A lengthy comment was left on the post why are we not good at the central thing. It is a …

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only what’s done for Christ

September 29, 2011

Congregations in many evangelical churches sing a hymn composed by C.T. Studd titled, “Only One Life.” The chorus includes this …

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whether we live or die

September 22, 2011

Do you ever read a Bible verse and think, “Yea, right.” Here’s one: The LORD performs righteous deeds And judgments …

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sin is bad because…

September 15, 2011

Jerry Bridges, in Respectable Sins, observes that sin has fallen on bad times in our society. We don’t hear the …

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why is sin bad?

September 8, 2011

I work in an academic setting, where the quality of the question being asked makes the difference between the great …

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