Showing posts with label knowing God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knowing God. Show all posts
Sunday, April 16, 2023

"Omniscience" in the Sermon on the Mount: Opening our eyes to see God

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"God sees everything," and "God knows everything," -- and that fuels our distrust of him. Human experience is that reput...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

God's hospitality

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The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. (Matthew 22:2) God is not what we would expect. Where we ...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Cross: Challenging how we think about God

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One of my Sunday school classes once told me that God was omnipotent, omniscient, and omnivorous. They were teenagers, and the big words con...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

What do we want from orthodoxy? Does that tell us anything about the true identity of orthodoxy?

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We look to our ideas of "orthodoxy" time and again; we have given "orthodoxy" a number of jobs. We want orthodoxy to kee...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

God's singing and music

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When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. (Matthew 26:30, Mark 14:26) If we view God through Jesus, if Jesus can do n...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

The joyful God

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Previous in this series: The humility of God Another attribute of God that we often miss is his joyfulness. When we take Jesus' words t...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

The humility of God

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"Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." -- Jesus (M...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Christ's Humility (2)

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Please pardon the light posting schedule lately. Mom was in the hospital (it worked out fine though it gave us a scare at the time) and I lo...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Christ's Humility (1)

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Pride hoards all recognition for itself. In contrast to us and our human ways of thinking, Jesus did not demand recognition or acknowledgmen...
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