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God Doesn’t Talk to Me

I didn’t want to be left out. All the cool girls were hearing from Jesus – on the regular – and I wanted to be cool and popular, too. So I told people I was hearing from God. 

But I wasn’t. 

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Theology Thursday: All Things are Possible with God

Claiming a “life verse” of “nothing is impossible with God,” or saying that you’re going to dream “God-sized dreams” because of Scriptures about miraculous conceptions of prophets and Messiahs is absurd.

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Best of Theology Thursday: Psalm 46:10

This verse has absolutely nothing to do with devotion to God, quiet times, waiting to hear from God, expecting God to speak to you or reveal things to you, or any number of things that women have made it out to mean over the past decade.

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Theology Thursday: Sex, Shrimp, and OT Law

So, you see, while Jesus may not have specifically said, “Thou shall not…” in a red letter edition of the New Testament, Jesus is God. Jesus and the Father are one. If you know and love Jesus, you know and love the Father. “But Jesus never said” is not an excuse for any sin, period.

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Book Review: Evangelical White Lies (Mike Abendroth)

“When people are not satisfied with God’s Word (and by the way, there is a whole lot of Bible to study), nothing will satisfy them” (page 122).

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Consequences of Mishandling Scripture

Ladies, the consequences of mishandling the Word of God, especially in a casual medium such as a Facebook post, can be spiritually deadly for a fellow believer.

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Theology Thursday: Psalm 46:5

Again, this is a verse completely taken out of context and used to give false hope to countless women desperate for the real Truth that only Christ can bring.