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By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Feb 15, 2017 I have known many people in my life who worry a great deal about Jesus’ statement in the Sermon on the Mount, found in Matthew 5:48: “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” They spend their lives trying hard to keep every rule, make […]
Read more at the source: Being Perfect
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By S M Chen, posted Feb. 16, 2017 It is not recorded in Holy Writ just how Enoch was translated without tasting death. It was after he became a father at age 65 that his walk with divinity became closer (exemplifying this syllogism: father:child::God:man). He lived on Earth another 300 years. Considering that Adam lived […]
Read more at the source: Nocturnal Musings
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Painting by Cherilyn Clough, posted Feb 16, 2017 Editor’s note: There is a wonderful blog that goes with this painting. It speaks of the necessity of speaking up for love and inclusion. To read it, go to Clough’s Little Red Survivor blog and scroll down to Feb. 11.
Read more at the source: Don’t Shut Up
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See more posts by Sabbath School Lesson “In modern language the passage in Galatians 5:22-23 could read something like this: ‘The Fruit of the Spirit is an affectionate, lovable disposition, a radiant spirit and a cheerful temper, a tranquil mind and a quiet manner, a forbearing patience in provoking circumstances and with trying people, a sympathetic insight and tactful helpfulness, generous judgment and a big-souled charity, loyalty and reliableness under all circumstances, humility that forgets self in the joy of others, in all things self-mastered and self-controlled, which is the final mark of perfecting. Image © Stan Myers from GoodSalt.com This is the kind of character that is the Fruit of the Spirit. Everything is in the word Fruit. It is not by striving, but by abiding; not by worrying, but by trusting; not of works, but of faith.’ “-S. Chadwick, in Arthur Walkington Pink, The Holy Spirit (Bellingham, Wash.: Logos Bible Software, n.d.), chapter 30
Read more at the source: Friday: Further Thought – The Holy Spirit and the Fruit of the Spirit
**To share this story: Aaron Atkison fills orders for tornado survivors in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Read more at the source: Baptized Teen Serves New Orleans Tornado Survivors
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Adventist Church Connect.
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