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I know that every good thing comes from You, Heavenly Father. How thankful I am for what you have given me. Now at this hour I pray that You will bless me with understanding, for there are many distractions in this life that can pull me down. All of Christian Forums members and I need Your...
I often am asked about recommendations for commentaries on the Bible. Below is a collection of recommendations by a man who I respect for his scholarship on these matters.
Source: Index to Commentary Recommendations « Green Baggins
Further comments on these recommendations and more are...
No it has not. God decreed from eternity all that was, is, and will be. Nothing in God’s eternal plan for His ultimate glory to be realized requires change. If God must change His future then He is not omniscient, nor omnipotent, and we are all still lost in our sins. Knowledge without power is...
Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything.
{Now look closely around and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever is seen}
This table does not mean anything.
This chair does not mean anything.
This hand does not mean anything...
"Doctrine - What Christians Should Believe" by Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears
This is definately not the best book out there that I've read on the subject of Christian doctrine - although I will say I did enjoy reading this book. It is definately written for the average layman and quite...
God does not change. God does not need to change to have a “true” relationship with His creatures. God sets the standard, and the terms of His relationships, not man.
Some believe that God cannot know anything exhaustively until His creatures have exercised their liberty of indifference...
Someone pointed out to me that I haven't been posting in my blog since I joined staff. I hadn't thought about it but then I realised it was true.
The reason is simple but also very wrong. I had gotten it in my mind that as a staffer I should be flawless and close to perfect.
No one has said...
No, this is not possible. God foreordains all that is to come to pass. As a necessary consequence, God foreknows because He as foreordained. God does not foresee and then ordain. God ordains and necessarily foresees what He has ordained.
God knows all contingent events, but God’s knowledge is...
1. There is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is not harder or bigger than another. They are all the same. All expressions of love are maximal.
2. Miracles as such do not matter. The only thing that matters is their Source, which is far beyond evaluation.
3. Miracles occur...
Introduction to Workbook Lessons
A theoretical foundation such as the text is necessary as a background to make these exercises meaningful. Yet it is the exercises which will make the goal possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the...
Holy Lord, help me to be a vessel of mercy and kindness to those who are having physical problems. Also help me to have continued good health, and those things that have tried to tie me down physically, let them pass and become distant memory. Lord, please let your healing power flow through...
At this hour, Holy Lord, I turn to You in quiet prayer to ask for Your great blessing of prosperity. Please look upon me with favor and show me how to manage better, how to have the things I need to live comfortably. I ask, too, that all of my brothers and sisters at Christian Forums find their...
We know that suffering builds character. Some days I want to ask Him, "Lord, do I really need this much character?"
This is one of those days. My fibromyalgia is being vicious this evening, and I am not able to get out of bed without help. (Fortunately my loving fiance Michael is here with...
Prophecies of future events are not in and of themselves evidence of foreknowledge. Every now and then someone comes along and makes some prediction about world events that comes true. I don’t think anyone, other than the so-called seer, would claim that this person foreknew the future...