Month: October 2016

2 John 1:4,5 I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth…And now I ask you… that we love one another. As I wrote a few days ago, God is a perfect balance of both love and truth.  As we have been made in his image, we too have this head…
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1 John 5:14,15 …If we ask anything according to his will he hears us…we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. As I was watching my Cornhuskers play last night I found myself contemplating this passage, the outcome of the game and the location of my red pen. I do…
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1 John 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. As a kid, I was easy pickings for anyone giving an alter call. Anyone who grew up in an evangelical church knows that of which I speak.…
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1 John 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. I had a rough day yesterday.  I lost my red pen while grading tests.  I had it one second and then it was gone the next.  My computer had died earlier in the week.  I had more stuff to do than…
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1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. I have found myself to be very hypocritical in proclaiming love for God and then failing to follow through with my behavior.  My hypocrisy has always been most apparent to me in church worship. It has been all too easy…
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1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us. I knew, when I met my wife, that she was the one.  I was just absolutely convinced that she was the woman I was going to marry.  She did not reciprocate this sentiment.  For seven years.  For seven years, I pursued. When she did begin…
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1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. In my addiction, I lived in constant fear.  Fear of daylight.  Fear of discovery.  I lost many hours of sleep to the terror of…
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1 John 4:16 God is love… I tend to think in black and white.  I can comprehend that something has more than one dimension, but it takes effort for me to do it.  It is my first impulse to embrace a single aspect of almost everything.  So when I read that God is love, I…
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1 John 4:1,2 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God… By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. I am, at times, a little slow to hear God’s voice.  Sometimes,…
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1 John 3:11,15,18 …We should love one another… Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer… let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. At times, the bible reads like a broken record, repeating certain ideas over and over.  As my blog is just walking through the bible, it…
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