Author: luann.rogers
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Eternal Things
A Bible Study on the words Eternal and Everlasting. During our worship service Sunday, we sang “Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand”. This lyric in that hymn caught my attention…”Build your hopes on things eternal”. I began thinking, what are things eternal? Are my hopes on them or on temporal things? “Build Your Hopes on Things…
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Endings Bring Beginnings
Our lives are filled with endings. As mothers, the endings in our children’s lives make us melancholy: weaning is an end to a unique bond, potty training is an end to “baby hood,” the onset of puberty marks the end of the innocence of childhood and high school graduation nominally ends their dependence on us. …
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BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD BIBLE STUDY
This is usually called the Inductive Method of bible Study. I did not create it and it is not new. This will help to direct your notes in your notebook as you consider your passage. READ the passage once the passage again – aloud ESTABLISH THE CONTEXT Consider and Understand the passage in the CONTEXT of…
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Every Time I See It
Every morning, going to work, I pass a very large cemetery in Atlanta. There on the sloping hill sit hundreds of tombstones, all giving honor to the person who was laid to rest there. I think about all of these people. Who were they, what were their lives like? I know that some were celebrities,…
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Self-Control
In the bible, self-control is always presented and praised as righteous and a desired trait. Its absence is listed among the unrighteous traits of men in the “last days” (2 Tim. 3:1,3). In 2 Peter 1:6, Peter admonishes us to add self-control to knowledge. The Greek word is egkrateia1 which comes from egkrates, and it…