Showing posts with label providence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label providence. Show all posts
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Women of the Bible: Naomi

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Ruth 2:1 Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. 2 Ruth the Moabit...
Monday, December 21, 2020

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 by Thomas Watson. Excerpt 45

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Watson continues discussing reasons to be contented, or "contentation," as he puts it. The consideration that all God’s providen...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 by Thomas Watson. Excerpt 41

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Watson continues discussing reasons to be contented, or "contentation," as he puts it. 7th. excellency. Contentment hath this ex...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Impressions, by Martin Wells Knapp, 52

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In a previous excerpt, Knapp stated that there are four features of "impressions" from God. These are Scriptural; Right (consist...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Impressions, by Martin Wells Knapp, 24

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In the previous excerpt, Knapp states that there are four features of "impressions" from God. These are Scriptural; Right (consist...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

Excerpts from Impressions, by Martin Wells Knapp, 7

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Providences. The events of the moment are also often the wire on which good impressions come.  God the Father delights through them to spea...
Saturday, May 03, 2014

Things that the Bible tells us are God's will

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We are told that we should pray according to God's will, and that He will answer if we are doing so. What, then, is God's will? What...
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Saturday, December 07, 2013

I'm thankful for money

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I’m thankful for money. The Bible warns me that I shouldn’t love it – I must not make the pursuit of money the center of my life – but it d...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Prayer and Trouble, Part 4, by E. M. Bounds

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Three words practically the same in the processes of Divine discipline are found, temptation, trial and trouble, and yet there is a differe...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Prayer and Trouble, Part 2, by E. M. Bounds

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What an infinite variety there is in the troubles of life! How diversified the experiences of men in the school of trouble! No two people h...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien

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I have read Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novels several times, the first being over five decades ago. (The Wikipedia page on Tolkien ...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Intelligent Design and Providence: Oliver Barclay

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The Biologos Foundation recently posted a paper by Oliver Barclay. Barclay has been active in a UK organization which considers questions o...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Two thoughts on the story of Moses

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Exodus 2 :1  Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2  The woman conceived and bore a son, and when sh...
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Monday, January 04, 2010

Do Your best for us!

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I frequently pray, over all kinds of situations, "Do Your best for us," or "Do Your best for them," according to the sit...
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Monday, December 07, 2009

Fire at McDonald Hall, Southern Wesleyan University (Used to be Central Wesleyan College) in 1962, 47 years ago today

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My wife and I attended the annual employees' Christmas dinner at Southern Wesleyan University recently. (See also Wikipedia article on ...
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Sunday, May 03, 2009

No Old Navy or Shoe Carnival.

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Deuteronomy 29: 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off y...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008

God's care for the tribes East of Jordan

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Numbers 32 :16 Then they came near to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones, 17 but...