James MacDonald (Walk in the Word) is currently doing a series on Revelation, today’s scripture is Rev 20. His presentation of the opening of the books struck me: If a name is not found in the Book of Life, it will be looked up in the other books, where every deed, thought, word, and rejected opportunity are listed. It’s the scales or the cross, the book of deeds or the Book of Life.
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Rollercoaster Day
…just another one o’those days when the emotions go everywhere…
Church, Online
There are no accusations, no measuring rods, no bullwhips or bullhorns – just empathy, encouragement, a few suggestions of where others found help – one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread – church, online. Is your church anything like what these people are finding online? Shouldn’t it be?
Week 6
Would you like to know where week 5 went?? So would I!! Let’s just say that Entrepreneurship isn’t one of my spiritual gifts…
Who Leaves New Religious Movements, and Why?
Generally speaking, the transition out of a cult is the reverse of the transition into it. As events, relationships and impressions occur that disrupt the rewards, ideology, intensity, or affective ties of the cult, members choose whether to stay or move on to something different (or back to something they had before). Balch defines stages …
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