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What Really Happened in the Garden
disobedience of the first humans introduced shame, which drove them away from God and hindered them from agreeing with God about their sin and returning to him, This is always the effect of shame, which comes from us, not from God.
I had originally planned to write next about the odd history by which Christianity, originally a faith which taught individual friendship with God as practiced by a group of social outcasts, became the official, established religion of whole nations of people who mostly had no individual relationship with God at all. I was, in the process, planning to write about the importance to this process of…
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Sin, Offense, Guilt and Shame--Definitions, God's Work and the Social Order.
Defines the common sets of terms pertaining to sin, offense, guilt, shame and honor, with a discussion of God's work and initial comments on the importance of their confusion in maintaining the social order.
In this post, I will simply define some terms necessary to the remainder of this series and offer a brief discussion of the distinctions made, with minimal argument and citation of authority. These terms all occur in groups of three or four concepts that are commonly confused with each other in everyday use, in Christian preaching and teaching, and most pointedly in Christian hymns and worship…
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The Son of Man has Power on Earth to Forgive Sins
God has already forgiven. But, like Jesus the human, we have the power and mission to offer forgiveness on Earth.
Jesus directly told us that we have the power to forgive sins:
And they brought to Him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. And seeing their faith, Jesus said to the man who was paralyzed, “Take courage, son; your sins (hamartiai, plural) are forgiven.” And some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!” And Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said, “Why are you thinking evil…
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The Power of My Forgiveness and Unforgiveness, Revisited
My forgiveness or unforgiveness of you has real power. If I hold onto a grudge against you, or you hold onto a grudge against me, it binds both of us, limits the Body of Christ, and affects the whole world, until it is released.
My forgiveness or unforgiveness of you has real power. If I hold onto a grudge against you, or you hold onto a grudge against me, it binds both of us, limits the Body of Christ, and affects the whole world, until it is released. Therefore, if I am aware that you hold something against me, it is my duty to go to you, to seek reconciliation. I am not to wait for you to come to me, and neither of us…
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Music, Prophecy and the Hand and Voice of God
Explores the intimate connection between music, God's image in us, and God's voice to us.
Yesterday morning, in a conversation at church, I stated that I thought real musicians, as opposed to mere skilled musical technicians, all have at least a buried gift of prophecy or tendency toward that gift. This is true even of musicians who do not know Christ and musicians who are the presently our spiritual enemy’s propagandists. I also said that I could not rigorously prove this…
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Time, life, and congratulations to my granddaughter
It’s true–time moves faster as you age. dt/dt, the rate of movement of time with respect to itself, should always equal 1, but it doesn’t. When you’re 3 and your favorite question is “why?”, dt/dt is about 0.0001. You want everything NOW, and everything takes FOREVER, until after you “grow up.” When you’re approaching 70, and your favorite question is “why me?,” dt/dt is about 10,000. You wish it…
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And be in us our King of Peace
God will bring his peace to the world through judgment. In the meantime, he brings his peace in and through us who believe while war and chaos continue around us.
Or, as John Neale’s original translation and English versification of the Latin hymn says:
Bid all our sad divisions cease
And be Thyself our King of Peace.
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” is one of my favorite Christmas songs. Emmanuel–God with us. Actually, it can be sung any time of year–the core of our message is that God came as one of us. In Jesus, God is with us. And, since he rose from the…
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A Note to a Future Historian
To the far future historian who will read this: Though the Church does not replace Israel, God's way of working with his people doesn't change. I have signed the deed and placed it in a jar, to be kept for a long time. The field will be productive again!
This note is really not written to the whole world. It is written to a historian–a single person–who will find it on some archive that contains portions of this blog in some future year, likely far in the future. Therefore, while I am posting this note, I will neither make a video of it nor actively promote it.
The prophecy I was given in 2000 (Part 7I, recently posted and the static page) and…
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Part 7J. The Importance of Kindreds
The importance of broad family and kindred groups to God’s work on Earth and my initiative to my own.
Here is the link to the associated video:
Part 7J: The Importance of Kindreds
Subtitle: The Importance of Kindreds and My Initiative toward My Own
Slide 2: The Initiative is to:
Broad Extended Family
Even Broader Kindred and Ethne
These first two extend beyond my lifetime via
Writings and videos
Contact lists and Lost Cousins
Others With Common Interests
Many of these ideas started to…
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Part 7I. My Personal Experiences With Prophecy, Presented for Review and Comment.
What happened when I prayed for the gift of prophecy in the middle of 2000. How did God answer? The jury is still out. Discussion is invited.
And I mean that!
Here is the link to the video associated with this post:
Personal Experiences With Prophecy
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Slide 2. My Experience: A Request I Prayed in 2000
Slide 3. Background [my personal background on the issue]
As of 23 years ago, I had been in a mainline Pentecostal church for most of the 1990s
so almost 10 years
The church had an emphasis on tongues as “evidence” of Spirit…
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Part 7H: Is God Speaking? Determining Who is Speaking.
Tests for whether a voice is God's. these apply regardless of whether the message comes from an internal voice or through the mouth or writings of another person who claims to speak for God.
Once again, this blog post and its accompanying video will mostly collect and organize Scriptures. Each passage will be more completely explained, by itself, in a later post.
Here is a link to the video that accompanies this blog post:
Is God Speaking? Determining Who Is Speaking.
I will later correct a few small errors in verse citations in the video which I discovered while preparing this…
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God's Work and Voice in Me, Part 7G: Didn't the Apostles Say God Was About to Quit Speaking to Us?
Examines the scriptures in which the Apostles spoke to the question whether God would keep speaking to us after the Bible was completed.
Once again, this post mainly collects the scriptures on the subject, which I intend to discuss one by one, in detail, in later posts and videos.
Here is a link to the video associated with this blog post:
Didn’t the Apostles Say God was About to Quit Speaking?
Slide 2. The answer is “NO”
But here are the passages often argued to insist that the answer is “yes.”
The question is raised because…
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God's Work and Voice in Me, Part 7F: To Speak or Not to Speak, that is the Question
If God is still speaking to us, why don't we hear him more? This presentation reviews the reasons given in Scripture.
And we can’t have it both ways!
Once again, I will be doing mostly quotations with organizer cards. I plan to cover each of the Scriptures quoted, more thoroughly and one at a time, in later devotional presentations and blog posts.
Link to the Video associated with this blog post:
Slide 1. Heading: Reasons We Can’t Hear
Slide 2. Heading: We Aren’t His Sheep
If we aren’t his sheep.
Slide 3.…
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God's Work and Voice in Me, Part 7E: God's Voice in the New Testament
Examples of God's voice speaking to individuals or groups in the New Testament.
LINK to parallel Video:
Slide 1. Title and Explanation
I’m going to be doing things a little bit differently now. Fo the next few videos, I’m going to be reading–just straight reading–the introductory cards that keep the outline and the series of scriptures that’s on the subject on the first card. I will be going through all of the scriptures one at a time, God willing, in a later piece of…
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God's Work and Voice in Me, Part 7D: Voices Anyone? An immodest proposal,
I propose to the Church at large that we should 1) treat spiritual “voices,” in general, as real and not as mere symptoms of mental illness, 2) learn to distinguish God’s voice and 3) resolve to follow it.
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Link to related video:
(82) Gods Work and Voice in Me Part 7D Voices Anyone – YouTube
A continuation from the series “You Are Not the One to Build.” I will probably go back and redesignate all of Part 7 into this new series.
Slide 2. The Proposal
Treat spiritual voices generally as real, not “imaginary,” “hallucinations” or “delusions.”
Learn to consciously distinguish the good voices…
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Part 7C: God Speaks to Us--He Never Quit Speaking
Discusses a few New Testament passages in which God tells us that he intends to continue communicating with us. This set of passages have at least plausible interpretations that do not require present-time vocal communication.
Here is the link to the video for which this linked post is the script:
Slide 1: You Are Not the One to Build—Part 7C: God Speaks to Us—He Never Quit Speaking
This part will be much shorter. It will read and very briefly discuss fifteen New Testament passages which either promise or suggest that God communicates or will communicate with us, but which can be read as referring to non-vocal…
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Part 7B: What Does a "Relationship" with God Mean?
A strange thing happened in the 1970's--we learned for the first time that what we need is a "personal relationship" with Christ. But this terminology is not scriptural, and was left largely undefined, with curious results. What does it mean?
Here is the link to the video presentation which this linked text accompanies:
https://youtu.be/T7BtX-e7SIU
Slide 1. Title and explanation:
You Are Not the One to Build, Part 7B
What Does a “Relationship” with God mean?
I grew up during the “Jesus movement” of the 1970s, which some call our last great “revival” in America. Regardless of the actual spiritual dimensions of the Jesus movement,…
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