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Spiritual Appraised
Published on 2012-01-27 21:01:00
When I was in college, I was reading a book called "Billy Budd". I hated that book. More than just hate it though, I didn't understand it. It was confusing and I might as well of been reading French or some other language foreign to me. I complained to a friend's mother about it and she took pity on me and bought me a copy of the cliff notes for the book. Largely because of those cliff notes, I was able to make enough sense of it to pass.&nb
Inside Out
Published on 2012-01-22 12:23:00
I don't know if you've had the pleasure of reading any of the work of Dr.Larry Crabb. I had to read about his counseling model for a class last fall and now I am reading one of his other books on my own called "Inside Out". It is about how God desires to change us from the inside out. To be honest, Dr.Crabb is a deep thinker and I'm not sure I understand all that he is saying, but one of the things that he talks about is that as people we tend to seek out thi
Sanctified
Published on 2012-01-15 12:36:00
So, I was reading through 1 Peter 1 and I noticed a word in verse 2. The word is "sanctifying". The word "sanctification" is an interesting word. In Baker's Evangelical Dictionary it says that this word means "the state of proper functioning" in other words to sanctify something is to set it apart for its intended use, the purpose for which it was made by its creator. I thought that was an interesting idea, that God sanctifies us in Christ, so that we c
