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Admiring Christ: Why Christians are the Happiest People
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Monday, April 13, 2015. Why Christians are the Happiest People. Mel Jenkins, one of our church's elders, is a veteran missionary, church planter, and pastor. Recently he shared a devotional about happiness, and it was such a blessing I wanted to pass it on to you. Thanks, Mel. At the end of the film the researchers suggested five things that make people happy:. Taking time to play. Close connections to friends and family. Appreciating what we have.
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Admiring Christ: Did the Raindrop Fall From His Hand?
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Saturday, January 10, 2015. Did the Raindrop Fall From His Hand? Is it harder to believe that God sends a raindrop than to trust natural processes God set up millions of years ago? Does it seem superstitious and “backward” to imagine that Almighty God crafts the clouds, kindles the lightning, and blows the wind? I’m been thinking a lot about this because Dionne and I have started reading John M. Frame’s Systematic Theology. Heaven and earth, seas and d...
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Admiring Christ: What If I'm Not Predestined?
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Friday, August 10, 2012. What If I'm Not Predestined? What if I’m not predestined to go to heaven? The Bible teaches predestination. Christians differ in their understanding of what it means, but no one who takes the Bible seriously can deny that the Scriptures teach it. That we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined. On His own will and plan, and not because of anything we could or would ever do. 8221; I believe in Jesus, I lo...
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Admiring Christ: The Prayer of Relinquishment
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Monday, July 1, 2013. The Prayer of Relinquishment. Dionne wrote the following for a daily devotional book for church planters. We read the book together every morning, and the June 30 entry seemed prophetic in light of her health challenges. (If you'd like to check out the book, it's available at Amazon. Click here. After we read it Sunday morning, I asked her, "Is there anything we need to relinquish? But what You will.” Mark 14:36. We all come to pe...
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Admiring Christ: Five Miracles God Works for All Christians, Part 5 of 5
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Monday, August 19, 2013. Five Miracles God Works for All Christians, Part 5 of 5. One of the undeniable truths about getting older is that we’re not getting better, despite what birthday cards might say. We might be getting wiser, or mellower, or funnier. But physically as we age we’re getting fatter, saggier, balder, slower, blinder, and weaker. This post is about the last one: glorified. He brings us safely home. For those whom he foreknew. To be con...
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Admiring Christ: Mysterious Stranger: Christ's True Identity (What I Love About Jesus - Part Three of Four)
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Monday, February 3, 2014. Mysterious Stranger: Christ's True Identity (What I Love About Jesus - Part Three of Four). In the first book of J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy The Lord of the Rings,. First impressions don’t always pan out. What will the person you admire from a distance be like when you get closer? Two scenarios are possible. The second scenario is much happier, and very rare. You find the person you admire is far nobler and more praiseworth...
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Admiring Christ: A Life Cut Short?
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Saturday, January 3, 2015. A Life Cut Short? When they woke up on Saturday, December 20, neither Officer Rafael Ramos nor Officer Wenjian Liu knew it was their last morning on earth. They were murdered as they sat in their squad car. Their killer had been targeting cops. Evidently Officer Ramos was a believer in Christ. World Magazine. Has a great story ( click here. Or as the Psalmist reminds us, Our God is in the heavens;. Pleases, he does,. God rule...
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Admiring Christ: Reading to His Glory
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Sunday, April 19, 2015. Reading to His Glory. I've mentioned previously that Dionne and I are reading John Frame’s massive Systematic Theology. Did the Raindrop Fall From His Hand? We discovered early in our marriage that we like reading aloud to one another. When we were newlyweds we read the Narnia Chronicles. For the first time and then Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. This was all back in the dark ages, before we had kids. Maybe we don’t always q...
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Admiring Christ: Where Do You Find Buried Treasure?
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Tuesday, October 15, 2013. Where Do You Find Buried Treasure? In the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption,. A banker named Andy Dufreyne spends nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison for murders he did not commit. After years of painstaking planning and effort, he tunnels out of his cell, escapes through the prison sewer system, and heads to Mexico with a fortune he has embezzled from the corrupt prison warden. When I was a young man someone told ...
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Admiring Christ: Three Jokes That Made Me Laugh in the Middle of Life’s Heaviness
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Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Solomon 5:16. Monday, March 16, 2015. Three Jokes That Made Me Laugh in the Middle of Life’s Heaviness. But one of the gifts God has given me in the middle of Heavy Things is laughter. More than once in recent weeks, my wife and I have been stressing late at night, and what helped us keep our sanity is silliness. Busting up over dumb jokes, or stupid movie lines we both remembered. Here are three examples that cracked us up. And the actual dialogue. An unmarried wom...
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