Closer To Heaven
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The moaning howl of a 50 mph wind woke me from a deep sleep last night. I could hear the whining gusts moving through the tree line that runs alongside our property, and I pulled the blankets up tighter around my chin. “Ooooooooooo-Eeeeeeeee.” There’s something both comforting and foreboding about this hollow, eerie sound, and I can’t quite understand how I can feel both of those emotions simultaneously. I do though, and when a windstorm begins its noisy utterance at night, all sorts of destructive scenarios present themselves to me.
When my ears are confronted with particularly high winds (and we hear them quite often on our small farmstead), I am uncomfortably aware of my human vulnerability because of the immense potential power that could be displayed. I’ve seen the effects of tornadoes that ripped through the homes of people just like me, and it’s both frightening and awe-inspiring to think that wind could do that much damage to anything in the physical realm. Wind cannot be seen, but the effects of the wind are often tangible.
“Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit” ( John 3:7-8, NKJV).
Jesus used this windy metaphor to aptly describe the work of the Holy Spirit. When holiness meets humanness, amazing things begin to take shape. Former desires for self dissipate, and the heart of the affected individual takes a positive direction in ways that may seem almost impossible.
“I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed” ( Ezekiel 36:26, Message).
Wind is an amazing agent of potential action. We can’t see it but the effects of it are too clear to ignore. The divine “wind” of the Holy Spirit can move in someone who was previously unable to make changes by themselves. Its power is not readily noticed with the naked eye, but the inevitable effects are witnessed when a negatively challenged life is positively altered.
Michael Temple writes from North Dakota.
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Downey Adventist Church Worship Service Family of God Cary Fisher 08 Dec. 2018 downeychurch.org Cast: Downey Church Tags: Downey , Adventist , Church , sermon , worship , SDA , God , religion , seventh-day , Sabbath , Bible and christian
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Read Matthew 4:8-9 . What was Jesus’ third temptation in the wilderness
Read more at the source: Monday: False Worship
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Sabbath School Net.
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Adventist Today is a quarter century old and we thought we would celebrate with a video and a little bit of nostalgia about what life was like in the early 90s. Enjoy the video and please help us celebrate by giving to our year-end fundraiser!
Read more at the source: Check Out This Video To Help Us Celebrate 25 Years!
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Adventist Today.
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by Eugene Gerasimov | 9 December 2018 | There is widely quoted statement by Karl Marx that “Religion is the opiate of the people”. We who love our faith will disagree that religion has a narcotic effect. But you should know that religion can be very dangerous. Serious faith is risky, like having dangerous job—a […]
Read more at the source: How the Church Can Make You Worse Than You Were Before
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Adventist Today.
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But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
Read more at the source: Isaiah 53:5
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Daily Bible Promise.
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Source: https://fulfilleddesire.net/11-2-false-worship-unity-in-worship-pastor-kurt-piesslinger-m-a/
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In discussions about worship, we often highlight elements of worship, what it includes and how it is done. But what is the deep meaning of worship?
Read more at the source: Sunday: Worshiping Our Creator and Redeemer
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Sabbath School Net.
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Worship flows from the reality that God loves us in spite of our sinful state; and from the knowledge that God loved us first. Video from the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Read more at the source: Lesson 11: Unity in Worship
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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