Tag: faith
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Storms Might? Come
“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the…
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If Satan’s Got Your Number
If Satan’s Got Your Number, Rest Assured He Will Call You. While still cowboying for a living, I had a little mare named Crazy Alice. She was a stocky, well-bred sorrel mare and a good ranch horse. Crazy Alice got her name as an homage to the horse in John Wayne’s movie The Cowboys. The…
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The Interpretation Circle
Hermeneutics is not a dinner table term but is part of everyday life. It is the process of interpretation, usually of Biblical text, but it is part of every area of study. The sciences, legal system, and philosophy employ hermeneutics. The hermeneutical circle looks at the parts of the information and the whole body of…
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Good Sense, Bad Sense, And No Sense At All
Not to oversimplify the topic, but I believe faith can be boiled down into two categories: (1) Faith that responds and (2) faith that doesn’t. There are surely other concepts of faith, but they all fall into one of these two categories. We will consider only one other, and it is an extension of faith…
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Prophecies Worth Remembering
II Pet. 1:19-21 reads: “And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture becomes…
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“Patient Continuance” In Romans 2:7
The text reads, “eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality” (Rom. 2:7). I might prefer the NASB rendering, “perseverance.” Those who choose to be faithful to God, no more and no less—will be looked on favorably by God. But this can’t be accomplished by floating…
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