Meeting Jesus
Index to this series of features.
| Adopted | A look at being “born again” and adopted into God’s family which gives you the privilege of calling Him "Father." |
| Becoming Happy and Fulfilled | A look at what truly gives life meaning and worth and how to get it. |
| Belonging |
A look at a problem for most of us, we try to get our needs for relationship met elsewhere instead of in God Himself. |
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A look at joy and celebration in God's presence when we have confidence that His judgment has passed from us to His Son. | |
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A look at God's prescribed remedy for our sin and our need to comply with His prescription- believing that Jesus death for us opens the way to God's forgiveness. | |
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A look at the way insignificant things and events in our environment steal our attention from things that really matter. | |
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A look at how the human tendency to infrequent moments of "spiritual wakefulness" works against us hearing from God. | |
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A look at the kind of faith we all start with - that borrowed from our first care givers - and its tendency to let us down in the hard times. | |
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A look at the difference between the object of faith being a person or a set of facts, rules or propositions. | |
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A look at one kind faith which attempts to control the circumstances of our lives by doing certain things in certain ways at certain times. | |
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A look at the necessity of testing our faith to prove its authenticity. | |
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A look at the temptation to deceive or "fake it" when the stakes are high enough, pretending that we are somehow better than we are by denying a weakness or inflating a strength. | |
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A look at two of the most challenging things we ever have to do in life - asking for forgiveness when we've wronged someone and extending forgiveness when it is asked for. | |
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A look at the idea of freedom which discovers that the real thing is quite different from what usually passes for it. | |
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A look at the way in which Jesus shows us what God is like, especially regarding His attitude toward people. | |
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A look at being all that God wants us to be. Godly character is recognized by purity, peaceableness, gentleness, a willingness to yield, the expression of mercy, and the producing of good spiritual fruit. | |
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A look at how we can learn about God by looking at Jesus, who embodies the fullness of God in human form. | |
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A look at the kind of environment which God created for His human creation to enjoy. We are drawn to such a place, but there is a fly in the ointment. | |
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A look at independence - something that is highly valued in western culture. But we're often unaware of just how dependent we really are. | |
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A look at the emotional injury we feel when someone else rejects us in a way that ignores our very existence. | |
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A look at some common misperceptions about God which keep us from truly knowing Him along with an introduction to who God really is | |
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A further look at common misperceptions about God which keep us from
truly knowing Him, contrasted with a balanced biblical view of God. | |
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A look at what it takes for us to truly "live right" - something that God requires of us. | |
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A look at the principal quality of the faith that saves us - it must be alive. | |
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A look at the characteristics of the kind of love God has for us (and that we should have for each other). | |
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A look at how to experience God’s forgiveness so that the process of renewal can begin - dismissing old patterns of thinking and behaviour and welcoming new ones. | |
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A look at human conscience and how it affects our behaviour. It might not be as significant as we think | |
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You might have to peal back a few layers of commercialism, personal excess, and meaningless tradition, but the spiritual aspect of Christmas is there. | |
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A look at the message of the cross, what it is, and some common responses to it both historically and in our own time | |
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A look at the difference between attempting to have a relationship with God in a way that appeals to me or the way God has provided for us. | |
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A look at the two ways people choose in life, one broad, comfortable and well-travelled, the other narrow, dangerous and lonely. | |
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As we approach the end of life, many would like to return to some earlier point which would yield a different ending. There's only one way to change the final outcome of life. | |
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A look at ideas associated with everyday kinds of work to highlight the spiritual truth that Jesus has done all the "work" necessary for our salvation. | |
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A look at the importance of acting “now” on the most important issue of life: preparing for death. | |
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A look at the effect the inescapable presence of God should have on our lives. | |
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A look at how our thinking affects our emotions and actions in light of passages from Colossians and Romans which touch on the subject of the mind. | |
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A look at the difference between pleasure - which is typically addictive - and satisfaction - which is, well, satisfying. | |
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A look at the transient nature of the material world, including our own physical lives and a challenge to consider the things that last | |
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A look at various Bible passages to consider the difference between the few things that last and the many that don't | |
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A look at our perception of being on the brink of a new year, when in fact, we are only on the brink of a new day. A new day in which we find ourselves full of fear or resting in faith. | |
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A look at various Ecclesiastes 3's classic description of the times and seasons of life | |
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A look at our need to see ourselves as God does, not thinking more or less highly of ourselves as we make comparisons with others | |
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A look at the central facts concerning what Jesus Christ did for us - He died for our sins on the cross, was buried for three days, and then rose from the dead conquering sin and death for people everywhere. | |
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A look at the rules of the game of life and that they must be kept - win or lose. | |
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A look at the nature of faith at its most basic and the question: Why believe in anything at al | |
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A look at a question from a friend “How could any father allow his child to suffer as Jesus did?” | |
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A look at our tendency to believe that if we don't speak of something, then it's not true. |
That the world may come to
Faith By Hearing.
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