To the One Who Hurts

What wisdom is behind your suffering?
What lesson is there to gain?
When everyday carries ceaseless hurt, you wonder what you have done.
Is there virtue or reason as worry increases?
Knowing the why may alleviate the senseless, and yet question is felt.
Silence seems the response to prayer and doubt, the true watcher. In all that you know of His Word...His character...His love, is there glory in pain?

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Discord of Disconnection

There are times when I feel such a disconnection from the Lord. When from Him I wonder where I am. How did I get into this desert valley - the only one crossing this "no-man's land"? I hunger... I thirst and every step grows heavier as my shoes fill with sand and sink below the surface. Sweat fills my brow. Pain enflames every limb. Doubt clouds even the notion of confidence. My direction has faded....

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An Appeal to Authority

As I read the Scriptures...as I hear the Word of God preached, time and time again nothing brings more comfort to my heart and shakes me to my very soul than that of His sovereignty. Feed me messages of His love...His power...His mercy and grace, but deny me not characterizations, examples, or illustrations to His everlasting authority, without which would He be able to be completely faithful to His Word...without which would He be worthy of worship?

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Three Relationships

Can you define Christianity without simply citing Bible verses to me? It's not just about your personal relationship with Jesus Christ - to say so sounds selfish. A relationship with Him is the heart of the spiritual body encompassing the whole belief. The body can no more live when separated from the heart than the heart from the body. To live, in loving Christ you must love others too, and in loving others you must also love Christ. With these you have established primary and secondary relationships, yet there is still a third.

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To What is Sacred

Updated on Friday, July 26, 2013 at 12:24PM by Craig Gilley, Technical Director

Sacredness - rooted in the very nature and character of God as expressed in His Word, His Law, and the created order so that to violate this is to stand in direct opposition of Him, to reject blessing, to ransom yourself to the flesh and/or the world, to treat the great gift of salvation as nothing more than a rechargeable feeling, renewable high, or replaceable trinket.

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