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Are we following God’s rescue and rehabilitation plan for abundant life? Or, are we caught in the errors of society that make us victims of despair with a decreasing life expectancy?
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Jesus spoke of the great challenge that his disciples through the ages would face. That was the difficulty of being in the world, but not buying into its values and lifestyles. How are we doing in our 21st century society?
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We all have a choice to make. Are we going to choose to embrace a life of meaninglessness and materialism? Or do we have a vision and purpose that transcends these things?
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Have we forgotten important things that we should have remembered? God gives us some advice about remembering and not forgetting.
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Created for Good WorksWe are God’s artwork, created for good works! From the very beginning God had planned a path for us to walk and work for us to do. As God’s workers, drafted into his service, he is able to empower us to accomplish his purposes. He gives us the faith, the divine persuasion and loyalty, to fulfill our purpose with strength and energy. And he asks us to do his will and embrace our spiritual journey with him. He expects good works. More
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I am looking out on an ethereal scene of sunlight through the fog illuminating mottled tree trunks and backlighting golden autumn leaves. But I could not do this except for the wonders of a brain and nervous system that allow me to fathom my world and react to it. This amazing integrated system of intricate structures functions to help me experience life on many levels. These structures were designed to be inextricably linked through complex feedback loops. Working interdependently through a system of bio-electrical impulses, neurons send and receive messages using an amazing array of chemical transmitters and elemental gatekeepers.
This interplay of structure and systems allows me to think, feel, and express myself in many different ways. More
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Luther’s LegacyThere has long been contention in the Christian world concerning the relationship between faith and good works. Over 500 years ago in late October, Martin Luther, opened up this “can of worms” in the fall of 1517. He had posted his 95 Thesis on the Wittenberg church door in the hopes of stimulating intellectual debate. But 4 years later at the “Diet of Worms” he found himself fighting for his life over the questions he had raised. He had broken the church monopoly and championed the ideas of freedom of conscience, speech, and religion. This was a great boon to all those who wanted to embrace the principal of ‘sola scriptura’ and reject the authority of church councils.
Unfortunately, Luther’s tentative steps towards recapturing the ‘faith once delivered to the saints’ were limited due to Medieval misconceptions. More