Category: Faith in the Struggle

1 John 2:9-11 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light… But whoever hates his brother walks in the darkness… Yesterday’s Conversation With God… God, I think I am going to skip this passage. Why is that? I just don’t…
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1 John 2:4-6 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar… whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. My biggest failure in life has not been any one particular dark deed. My biggest failure in life was knowing God, claiming…
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1 John 2:1,2 I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have… Jesus Christ… He is the propitiation for our sins. Once upon a time, I had a coach whom we called All or Nothing. He was a man of extremes. When on the…
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  1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We all love the story of the one who used to be…
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1 John 1:5-7 God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. I tend to think in very black and white terms. I like concrete and I like uncomplicated. I tend to…
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  2 Peter 3:16 There are some things in them (Paul’s Letters) that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction… I identify with Peter’s sentiment when he says that some of Paul’s words are hard to understand. There is a lot about the bible and God that I do…
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2 Peter 3:10-12 …The day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved…Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,…
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2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. Anyone who knows me well knows that I am not patient. I want what I want and I want it now. When…
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2 Peter 3:8 …With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. When I was a kid (and sometimes still as a near-grown-up) I would literally make my head hurt trying to comprehend eternity. How could God not have a beginning? How could there not be an…
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  2 Peter 2:3 …Scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. In the late 80s, I had a sweatshirt that had a look-a-like Guess logo on it with the inscription, I Don’t Guess, I Know, followed by some bible verse. I cringe now, but at the time, I…
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