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Blindness and Hardness of Heart
For many people awareness is difficult, because they are unable to see. The reality is much of the time they are blinded by their sin. There is a song that is sung in church, which says, “Open the eyes of my heart Lord.” Sin is blinding and creates blindness. Any sin and in particular sexual immorality is blinding. Unfortunately, this makes the awareness process more difficult. What does this mean for me? Interestingly Paul singles out one sin above all other sins as one that
Trent Meistrell
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Biblical Theology of Suffering
Most Western Christians have a very poor theology of suffering, which works against them since life is filled with suffering that cannot be avoided. Having a biblical understanding of this particular concept is quite freeing and actually creates an environment that allows one to be in suffering and do well. Some of the concepts are listed below. What does this mean for me? 1. The importance of having an eternal perspective. 2. The resurrection of Christ is proof that sufferin
Trent Meistrell
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Believing Lies
Pamela Meyer on a TED Talk talks about the idea of lies, lying and believing lies. She has some very interesting thoughts on this topic. Lying is a cooperative act: a lie has no power by its mere utterance, but only when the other person agrees to believe the lie. If you got lied to, it is because you agreed to be lied to. Henry Oberlander (a legendary conman) made a very interesting statement: people are willing to give anything for something they are hungry for. So the crux
Trent Meistrell
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