A Layman’s Thoughts

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Song of Solomon 4:9-10
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
My sister, [...]

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We want to please God.  We read that without faith it is impossible to please Him.  Yet we get all wrapped up in performance.  The minute we “try to do better” we shift the focus from Him to ourselves.  What we do does not dictate who we are.  Who we are dictates what we do.
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God is The Source! Every good and perfect gift is from above, but there is more to it than that. In Him we live and move and have our being. If you’re feeling down or stressed, the answer isn’t shopping or eating, or drinking, or any other thing that comforts the flesh. [...]

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If you have ever wondered what is going on in this crazy world.  If you find yourself concerned, even frightened, about the direction things seem to be heading.  If Oprah Winfrey’s “many paths to God” doctrine has you scratching your head, if you can’t figure out what is going on with cults like the FLDS [...]

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Scripture tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God, but just what does faith look like?  Is it something we can work up within ourselves?  Listen to my latest audio message and hear what the Word has to say.

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I gave a message entitled “The Easy Yoke” last night.  The audio can be found at the link here, or over on the Audio page as usual.  This message stems from the passage in Matthew where Jesus says “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me… for my yoke is easy and my burden [...]

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I brought a message last week entitled “The Constant Battle“.  This came out of some struggles with the flesh I had been dealing with.  I found strip poker virtueltorneo poker gratisjugar omaha pokertorneos de poker gratisbajar juego pokercartas lineapoker descubiertojuegos de poker eroticospai gow poker portalesbwin pokerjugar poker internetjuegos de poquerjugar poker lineapoquer on linejuego [...]

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I taught from Philippians 3 on Thursday night. The message is entitled Circumcision!.

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This post is just a reminder that the Audio page contains the recordings of messages I’ve given recently. I’ve put new ones up today, so be sure to drop by.

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I have been thinking a lot about my last two posts on Grace. Since I wrote them I have felt that I really did not say everything that was on my heart. Therefore I have decided to rewrite them and post new versions. This entry is simply to make you aware of [...]

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John 3:16 tells us that God loved the world so much that He gave His One and Only Son. He did this, the Scripture goes on to say, so that anyone who believes in Him could have eternal life.

A lot of times we stop right there, and if we would really meditate on what [...]

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I’ve been ignorant for most of my life to this point. I was raised in a Christian home and became a child of God at around age 12. If you asked me I would have told you then, as I’d tell you now, that it is by grace we are saved, through faith, [...]

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Seeking Faithfulness Blog has ceased to allow comments and shuttered its doors to discussions about child rearing, pastoring, etc. But Holly has turned her attention to a series of posts in which she talks candidly about her life and walk of faith. She is an excellent writer and knows the Lord well. [...]

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Holly over at Seeking Faithfulness appears to have decided to cease blogging–at least for a while. One of the things she says factored into her decision is that no matter what she wrote, someone took offense. You can see the post here: Slow Death of a Blog
I want to state for the record [...]

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I’ve posted links to recordings of some of the teaching I’ve been doing of late. You can find a list on the Audio page. I plan to list the three most recent in bold text so that there is some sense of time in the listings.
Drop by and have a listen!
I get lots [...]

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I know it’s been almost two months since you’ve heard from me here, but I am finally back–I hope :).
The summer months have been consumed by family duties associated with some big changes, such as the relocation of our daughter and son-in-law and their two children to our home for a while.
Now that I am [...]

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I changed the theme of A Layman’s Thoughts today. Let me know what you think. I also made it possible to get here using http://www.aLaymansThoughts.com - I hope you like the changes.

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All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
There are several versions of an old joke that begins with the question, “What’s black and white and red all over?”. In [...]

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All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
Romans 8:3b1-39
31b …If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him [...]

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Mary at Home-Steeped Hope has been active with Blogging games lately and asked folks to answer five questions she posed.
OK, here goes:
1. What book are you currently reading, or have just finished reading?
“The Living God - Systematic Theology Vol. I” by Dr. Thomas C. Oden. This is yet another re-reading of this wonderful work. I [...]

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8 RANDOM THINGS……
Mary over at Home-Steeped Hope tagged me for “8 Random Things” the other day.
This is my post in keeping with the rules, which are:
1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves
2. People who are tagged write a blog post about their own 8 random things and post these rules
3. At [...]

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I wrote this letter to thank my Dad for some of the ways in which he has blessed me over the years.  Opening it here has been a scarey thing because it is very personal.  I decided to do it because I hope that it will inspire you to do something similar.  In addition, it [...]

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All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
I was recently asked whether the Trinity was eternal.  Let me begin this dissertation with two foundational Scriptures that point us in the [...]

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All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
Galatians 5:1, 13-251It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again [...]

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