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Recent content by DesertJoe

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    The quiet place

    I wrote this story today, inspired by a story related by Ed Wallace on KLIF 570 on Saturday morning, on his backside of American history. I am dedicating it first to the glory of God, and also to a young lady severely injured in the line of combat duty while on mission to save life in the field...
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    No Longer Left To Die

    I wrote this story today, inspired by a story related by Ed Wallace on KLIF 570 on Saturday morning, on his backside of American history. I am dedicating it first to the glory of God, and also to a young lady severely injured in the line of combat duty while on mission to save life in the...
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    Is this SoF Baptist?

    This SoF has added Calvinist doctrine that is not necessarily present in a general Baptist SoF
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    Your username

    Interesting question. People have often asked me why the name DesertJoe. I have recently become a resident of the UK (Scotland to be exact), and back in the states I started doing an encouragement ministry online. We so often go through deserts in this life. These can be deserts of the heart, of...
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    Christianity as a "personal revelation".

    May this "un-knowable" God bless you. As a new resident of the UK, I want to say hello. I so understand where you are coming from. So many opinions. So many who have heard from God, and yet they all seem to say different things. As a Christian, I am amazed at times by all the personal revelation...
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    The quiet place

    There are many in evangelical circles,particularly the Reform/Calvinists,that rely very heavily on intellect in there approach to belief,& as I stated about Barth,He loved God with all the intellect that he had.That is kind of a loaves & fish statement.God gives to all a measure of gifts &...
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    The quiet place

    How deep an intellect does it take to know Jesus? Jesus said this to His followers when they were trying to prevent little children from coming to Him in Matthew 19: 13Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked...
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    The quiet place

    This message was something that I have had on my heart for many years.I never really sat down & put this into words before,but God said that this was the day to actually write this.If there is anything here that is of worth,give the glory to God,for the thoughts came from Him.Any roughness or...
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    The quiet place

    A bumpy ride to Jesus 38“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’g 39But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as...
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    The quiet place

    On October 28th,1949, Jim Elliot wrote these words in his journal, and I quote "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." On January 8th 1956, Jim was killed by the Huaorani ( also known as the Auca) natives in Peru,while on mission to bring the good news of...
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    The quiet place

    Philippians 3:10 & 11 10)I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,11) and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. To know Him in the power of His resurrection is to know Him in...
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    The quiet place

    If you have not already done it, accept the ultimate friend request while there is still time, For it says this in 2nd Corinthians 2:6) For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of...
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    The quiet place

    Isaiah 28:21) The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon--to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task. In the context of Isaiah 28, We see a proud nation (Ephraim,AKA Israel) that is facing coming judgment. Sound...
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    The quiet place

    In the book of Job Chapter 31 verse 1 Job said this : “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?" Job was saying that he was CHOOSING to have eyes ONLY for his wife. Guys, we can do this. If Jesus Christ is truly the 1st love of our life, we can truly "Only have...
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    The quiet place

    Dayenu... the chant sung at Passover (Pesach in the Hebrew). Dayenu is a compound word meaning literally "enough to us", & dynamically understood as "It would have been enough". When Jesus came to earth, He celebrated a last seder (We call it the last supper) where He drank from the 3rd cup...