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4 days ago · “Don’t let yourselves be deceived”: all that matters is perseverance. When Luke’s community remembered the words of Jesus, they were living a very tense moment. Many of them expected that Jesus’ definitive coming –his return in glory – would happen soon.
1 day ago · Self-deception developed as a way to maintain status in the eyes of others. Self-deception can also be a way to conceal less-than-noble, selfish motives. When we deceive ourselves, it can lead to ...
3 days ago · The Bible says, “friendship with the world is enmity with God” ( James 4:4 ). Too many of us take a laid-back stance on sin by thinking, “It’s really not that bad; we don’t really need to surrender all to the Lord Jesus.”. We are deceived if we think we can control sin. A long time ago an old preacher told me, “Sin will take you ...
4 days ago · We listen, follow, and obey Christ Jesus until the end, and do not follow false doctrines and those who teach doctrines of devils! Galatians 6:7, "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this ...
5 days ago · The death of a someone close to you is a deeply painful time. When they don’t have a Christian faith, or we don’t know what they believe, it can be even more difficult. Will Dobbie recounts his own experience and offers some hope. Source: Pexels. We first met when he was posted to my army unit in Germany.
4 days ago · The hard problem is the question of why these mechanisms are accompanied by the feeling of pain, or why these feelings of pain feel the particular way that they do. Chalmers argues that facts about the neural mechanisms of pain, and pain behaviours, do not lead to facts about conscious experience.
5 days ago · Let us not be deceived by easy solutions. Let us instead be passionate about the common good. Our task is not to manipulate the word democracy or to distort it with empty titles capable of justifying any action.
