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Bearing Fruit
Posted on July 16th, 2010 No commentsI’ve often heard teachers say that Christians are supposed to ‘bear fruit’. I’ve also heard them teach that we don’t earn our way into heaven. Those two ideas are seemingly contradictory, until I finally understood the true meaning of the word ‘bear’ as it’s used in ‘bearing fruit’. Read the rest of this entry »
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Abide
Posted on July 16th, 2010 No commentsI’ve always taken the word ‘abide’ for granted, without really grasping the word’s full meaning. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Battle for My Time
Posted on July 16th, 2010 No commentsTonight, I struggled inside with what to do with some extra time I had available when my wife and kids had all gone to sleep. Initially, I wanted to watch what I consider to be an entertaining movie (Avatar). Then, as I was getting myself a cookie and milk for dessert (I like my dessert), I had what was basically a battle in my head over whether I should watch Avatar or something that is more ‘aligned’ with the Lord’s will. The battle went something like this, to the best of my recollection about 20 minutes ago… Read the rest of this entry »