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Apathy…Not Bill Hybel’s Premise

“Apathy is a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, and concern. Apathy is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, and/or passion. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest in or concern about … Continue reading

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What Prayer Means to Me…

I began on November 10, 2016. Here it is March 7, 2017. I began after the presidential election of 2016 for a reason. I had been posting on Adam Hamilton’s book Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White. … Continue reading

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Getting Past “Gimme God”

I should let it go. I have already announced through my church that we are moving on to a new book: Holy Discontent by Bill Hybels. But here I go again. I have wrestled with this post for a couple … Continue reading

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To Be At One With Jesus Christ

To be at one with Jesus Christ. Bingham Hunter quotes Samuel Chadwick [author of The Path of Prayer]: “To pray in the Name of Christ . . . is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose … Continue reading

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The Meaning of Important Bible Words

Exegesis and grammatical analysis. Probably two things that will put the normal person to sleep. Yet doing exegesis and analyzing grammar are what W. Bingham Hunter does in the final chapter of his book The God Who Hears. Exegesis is … Continue reading

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What’s In a Name?

“Well my daddy left home when I was three and he didn’t leave much to Ma and me. Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now, I don’t blame him ’cause he run and hid but the … Continue reading

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The Tough Choices…

Sometimes it does a body good to just pause. Not too long ago, I was forced to sit, literally sit for almost three months. Walking was tough because I had to avoid pressure on my right foot.   I had to … Continue reading

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Jesus: His Lessons On Prayer

First Corinthians 13:11: “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” In the context of … Continue reading

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What Can Jesus Teach us about Prayer?

As we have worked through the book The God Who Hears*, it has been a pretty thorough examination of all aspects of prayer and ideas related to prayer. However, the book has yet to focus directly on the personage of … Continue reading

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What We Don’t Want To Admit…

Doubt. As Christians, we don’t want to admit that we ever have it. We believe in the Bible and we declare it is a book of truth and honesty. Yet there are examples of people who have doubt within the … Continue reading

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