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Here are some questions that I will cover in our Family Worship time on 31 July. What is peace? 
Where does peace come from? Have you ever went to bed at night and couldn't sleep? Psa. 4:8 Where do we get peace? Psa. 119:165; Prov. 3:1-2, 16:7; Jn. 14:27; Rom. 5:1, 8:6 You will have joy when you plan peace. Prov. 12:20 When we become a follower of Christ, we are at war with our sin nature but it

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This Sunday we will talk about our speech and what the Bible has to say about how we talk to and with others. I will post some questions Tuesday for you to look over in preparation for this time together. I will also post some thoughts and comments Thursday too.

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John outlines in chapter one the fallacy of the feminist movement. The movement of woman usurping God’s plans goes back to the original sin of Eve and Satan. Satan was determined to undermine God’s creation and convinced Eve that she did not have to follow God’s instructions, which were handed down to her by Adam. God had designed the perfect relationship between Himself and His creation, Adam

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Here are some questions to start the study on the roles of men and women from a Biblical perspective. Post your thoughts and opinions on these questions and we will see where the study takes your thoughts and opinions over the next few weeks. 1. Before there was sin in the world, what was the relationship between Adam and Eve? 2. What sins did Adam and Eve commit at the Fall? Describe their sins

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We are going to embark on a study of men and women and what the Bible has to say about our roles as men and women. The main reference book that I will use will be John MacArthur's book "Different by Design". This book can be downloaded to read on your computer or at the bookstore. I have read the first chapter and will post the comments and questions on the first weekend of February. Enjoy and

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Let’s look now at Ruth and Boaz. These four chapters are a great love story about two people. Ruth married into a family where her father-in-law, brother-in-law, and her husband died. Now all that was left was Ruth, Naomi, and her sister-in-law and only Ruth remained after Naomi told her to leave. Women in that time didn’t have the privileges of today so they had nowhere to live or anyone to take

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So, is marriage for you? Before jumping into marriage, let’s look at some questions and then we will delve into the subject. How do you know whom to marry? Does God have that “special” someone for me? How do I know when I have found that person to marry? What if I marry the wrong person? What do I do if I mess up? With the enormity of the situation, deciding whom to marry is stressful and

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Is it God’s will for me to marry or remain single? That is the question before we ever attempt to decide on whom to marry. There is not one scripture that forbids or commands us to marry. This decision falls into the freedom of choice but the Bible does tell us what remaining single means and what being married means. So, we will look at what each path looks like and then you must decide which

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The third principle is God gives us wisdom to choose when there is no command. As we study through this third principle, I would like to ask this question to get us thinking about wisdom. When there is no biblical command, on what basis is the believer to make a decision? Before you read on, jot down your thoughts and maybe even post them. In non-commanded decisions, you will not find people “

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The second principle is our God-given freedom to choose. In his book Decision Making and the Will of God, the author gives a hypothetical story of what might have transpired at the first meal with Adam and Eve. God gave them the freedom to choose any fruit of the garden to eat but there was one tree that He forbade them to eat from at the penalty of death (Genesis 2:16-17). So, did God give them

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The first principle that must be understood is that God’s Word is truth for us to follow in our life as we make decisions. So with that statement, we are given commandments in the Bible to follow. Jesus was asked what is the greatest commandment and His response was from Deuteronomy. Do you remember those verses? The commandments that we are to follow are encased in one concept-love. So, God is

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1) Making ordinary decisions happen everyday. Do you ask God which route to take somewhere? If you are grocery shopping, do you ask which gallon of milk or which box of cereal to buy? If you prayed about every ordinary decision and then waited on a response, you might not make it out of the store before it closes. God has given us the ability to make ordinary decisions each and every day. As the

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In the tradition view of determining God’s will we see God has His sovereign will, moral will, and individual will. First off is God’s sovereign will and it is described as God’s secret plan that determines everything that happens in the universe. Ref. Daniel 4:35; Proverbs 16:33, 21:1; Revelation 4:11; Ephesians 1:11; Romans 9:19; 11:33-36; Acts 2:23; 4:27-28. God’s sovereign will does not

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After talking with Jonathan, we decided to take the predestination study in a different direction for the remainder of the month. I will be using a book that the BCLR men did in a previous study titled "Decision Making and the Will of God" by Garry Friesen. We will look at the following topics from the book; God's Will, Decision Making, Singleness, Marriage, Ministry, and Vocation. I look

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Who is God? He is all-powerful. We know this from creation (Genesis 1 and 2). The word for God in Genesis 1 is Elohim and means divine, exceedingly, great, mighty, and ruler. He spoke the heavens and earth into existence. He created them from nothing. So, this is the all-powerful God. So, let’s look into the scriptures and see what it says and learn what God wants us to know about predestination

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Before we can begin to understand this concept of predestination, we must first consider who is God. How would you describe God? What abilities does He have? Does He have limitations? If He has limitations, what are they and why or if not, then why not? So, in this part of the study, you answer for yourself, who is God and what is He capable of.

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I start this study by first using three quotes from the New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition. The English ‘predestinate’ comes from Latin praedestino, which the Vulgate uses to translate the Greek prohorizō. RSV renders prohorizō as ‘predestine’ in Acts 4:28; Rom. 8:29–30; and ‘destine’ in Eph. 1:5, 12; though as ‘decree’ in 1 Cor. 2:7. RV has ‘foreordain’ in all six places. The OT lacks words

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We start predestination this weekend. I will have some scriptures and some questions to start with before we get into the meat of the subject. Later...

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In concluding this part of the study, coveting is a sin of the heart like no other sin. God puts this as the last commandment as the culmination for the Decalogue. Jesus equates coveting with murder, theft, and sexual immorality. Paul speaks further about this sin in Ephesians and that an idolater will have no place in Heaven. God must have a serious issue with covetousness! This sin originates

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Eph. 5:3-5 is where Paul addresses coveting. Paul lists sexual immorality, impurity, and covetousness. Now, that is an interesting grouping of sins. Here, Paul is addressing sexual immorality with sex outside of marriage. Impurity is covering three areas: physical, cultic, and moral. Lastly, Paul addresses covetousness. Where does covetousness originate from? There are two examples of coveting

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There has been some good discussion so far on coveting and the sin that it truly is. I will post later this week what Paul had to say and some comments from my study. I have enjoyed revisiting this topic and we will finish this up by the end of the month. This study has been a good reminder for me in my personal life too. Predestination or the Doctrine of Election will be next.

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Let us now look at what Jesus has to say about coveting. I draw your attention to a passage in Mark. In Mark chapter 7, Jesus is confronted by the religious leaders of the day. They are once again totally consumed with trying to trip up Jesus that they are questioning Him again. They want to know why the disciples are eating with “defiled” hands. Our Savior responds with a verse from Isaiah

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Before we look at what we are suppose to learn here, let’s look at what the word “covet” means. The Hebrew word used in Exodus and Deuteronomy is chamad. The word chamad means to desire or take pleasure in. So, if you replace the word covet in Exodus 20:17 with the words desire or take pleasure in, how does that verse sound now? So, one of the basic teachings from Moses is that we are not to

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What does the Bible say about coveting? It is commandment ten in the list of commandments that God gave Moses. Oh, what does the word “covet” mean?Why did God give this commandment? What do you think His reason was for telling us in Exodus 20:17 that we should not covet? Why do you think that Paul chose it from all the list of possible sins in Romans 7:7? He could have chosen lying, murder,

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We will give my old blog a shot to see it will work any better. Sorry the other site wouldn't work. I know this one will and I will post the first study later today.

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