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(2 Thessalonians 1:6) If you imagine God to be the slightest impersonal or disinterested, you have yet something deep within us finds it peculiarly attractive and yet we are constantly tempted to dismiss it as too Even the Old Testament Law says such things as, “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering This intimate connection between Jesus’ words, and the Old Testament is to be expected. You don’t fight corruption by becoming corrupt; you don’t end anger by getting angry.

What of all the times I have been just too dumb to do better – especially on the spur of the moment, I don’t know that they had pogo sticks back then, but if they did, they played under the table for too To scorn them is to act like a thirteen-year-old despising childish behavior in his little sister – behavior Being alone with my thoughts was so torturous, however, that when my mind was too weary to engage in was – but it has proved itself a precious gift of God because it prevented me from resorting to my old

Is anyone too macho or mature to have ever been a child? “Alter” sounds too alien and even “insider” sounds a little spooky. Not as Weird as You Think   An older term for Dissociative Identity Disorder is Multiple Personality This, too, might increase the chance of a reply.   It is most unfortunate that in old, ill-informed circles, schizophrenia was mislabeled “split personality

Poor old tongue-twister – one foot in the grave, and the other in his mouth. (If you wrote poetry like this, you’d be humble, too.)   If God forgives you, to refuse to forgive yourself is to have the audacity to imply that you have higher A world-wide survey of mathematical ability in thirteen-year-olds was most revealing. A frail old lady with child-like faith in Christ can make a muscle-bound, positive-confession-crazed

Here are some more thoughts that tend not to sit too comfortably with modern Christians. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. If not, can you really expect those same people to feel good about having the same old spouse they had If this is so, who can expect him to feel good about himself if he keeps the same old wife, year after

Thankfully, there aren’t too many “friends” like that, but we imagine their numbers are more inflated And it is not just how much you listen but  how  you listen that shows how important someone is to you We, too, can make the mistake of undervaluing our role as someone’s friend, confidant, sympathizer, and Yet we could let the Accuser convince us we are not doing enough and that things are moving too slowly She believes far too many Christians try to do the Holy Spirit’s work.

understand why, for instance, many former addicts, after enjoying freedom and victory, fall back into their old One day I took a turn way too fast on a slick, muddy road. I would tell God to kill me, because I was just too ugly and dirty. “You cannot possibly love me and I will prove it to you!” I had always thought that if I had let God get too close to me that he would use and hurt me.

If this happens day after day, it will get very tiring, but alarms are designed to be too irritating If you need convincing, quickly scan  You’re Forgivable: A Sample of the Bible Proof  and  Life’s Too spiritual concerns, but as I kept conversing with more and more people, the link kept occurring far too enough air and so I breathed harder, totally oblivious to the fact that I was actually suffering from  too to your old mistaken thinking that  feels  so intuitively right.

If you want to go straight to where it discusses Old Testament pointers to Jesus’ death and resurrection It’s a full week since you claim you last saw Jesus. Isn’t it about time you all came to your senses? And especially you, taxman.  Part of me wanted to rush off and bury myself in a Bible for a few moments to find out, but I was too I now appoint you to go to the ends of the earth, telling everyone, so that they, too, may believe and

It is no surprise that she is under daily attack when you consider that she is a highly talented woman “You need it to survive,” he pleaded, “Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head” (Acts 27 Overwork – insufficient sleep and recreation – has caused too many Christian leaders to burn out.

Ancient History  states: The Israelites certainly manifest a genius for historical construction, and the Old and writings of the Old Testament, inspired the New’ said the Professor, ‘but it is certainly true that , most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. ‘Mine, too!’ grinned Jake. It’s not too easy arranging your own public execution and resurrection, but harder still when it must

He, too, was cruelly treated by people who should have known better. God, too, knows that pain. No one loves humanity like its Maker. I had told myself that I was not saintly enough, and in just too much pain to forgive. I had almost convinced myself I was being humble, but I now see that thinking forgiveness is too hard The sobering fact, however, is that I, too, deserve hell for my sins.