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Language and Speech

Human language and the ability to communicate through speech are a part of God’s image

Answers to Some Reader Questions about Prayer, Prayer Burdens and National Sins

June 7, 2020 2 Comments

A reader recently asked some very perceptive questions about my views concerning prayer, prayer burdens, and prayer for national sins. Here, I am publishing my answers to those questions. (The reader also asked some personal questions, which I omit from this posting): You asked:  “Also that what matters is your relationship with the Lord not what denomination someone is or…
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A God who Speaks, An abuse of God's image, Conversation with God, Emotions, Events and Signs, God Speaks to Us, God's rationality, His Children, His Friends, Human Rationality, In prayer, Language and Speech, Personal Background, Prophecy, Rejecting God, Replacing Relationship with Morality, The Bible, To live in unity, Trusting sight over God's words

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The Human Being as a Picture of God’s Complex Unity

June 2, 2020 4 Comments

Human beings are made in God’s image, a picture of his complex unity. Body and spirit must be united to form a soul. Each of the faculties of the soul and parts of the body together form a single, unified person.

Complex unity, Emotions, Free will, God's Existence and Nature, Human Rationality, Language and Speech, Logical thinking, Meaning of Unity, To be in his image, Unity

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Hearing God Speak – Conversational Prayer — One Pursuit

May 1, 2020 0 Comments

This guest post from One Pursuit blog is another writer’s good account of God speaking directly to us. He also makes the very good point that we too often think of “answered prayer” only as “seeing action” in the world, not as hearing his voice.

Conversation with God, God Acts by Speaking, In prayer, On speaking terms again

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The Period of High Creativity that Followed, 2000-2006

April 27, 2020 2 Comments

He wants to talk us through doing his will, instructing us every step of the way, as we learn to trust him. He is the one with the whole picture. Learning to hear his voice and trust him is the whole point of our friendship (the word “relationship” is entirely too sterile) with him on the present earth. This is what restores his image in us. Accomplishing his work is only a by-product.

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God’s Initial Response to my Strange Prayer for the Gift of Prophecy

April 26, 2020 2 Comments

God said “yes” to my request in the year 2000 to exercise that gift. The prophecies I was given were intended to, and did, awe me into recognizing the seriousness of prophecy–and even more so as they seemingly have been fulfilled in the 20 years since.

God Acts by Speaking, God Speaks to Us, Language and Speech, Personal Background, Prophecy

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My Strangest Prayer and My Personal Experience with Prophecy

April 26, 2020 3 Comments

My personal journey from a liberal church that had little belief in spiritual gifts, through local churches of various other flavors, to the point of praying for prophecy, as 1 Corinthians 14:1, 12 and 39 seemed to say was appropriate.

A God who Speaks, Conversation with God, God Speaks to Us, God's Voice, Other Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Personal Background, Prophecy, To be his ambassadors, Uncategorized, What is God's Word

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The Existence of Invisible Things

April 19, 2020 5 Comments

Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious, Thy great name we praise. To all life Thou givest, to both great and small; In all life Thou livest, the true life of all; We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, And wither and perish,…
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Eternity Present, Language and Speech, Rejecting God, The Invisible God's Self-Existence, Trusting sight over God's words

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Young children as mystics

April 14, 2020 5 Comments

Confusion, and the need to find what I believed around people who did not believe precisely the same things I believed, has characterized a good deal of my faith journey in Christ. I have frequently associated with churches, not because of their formal doctrinal stance, but because of the people who were there–because I felt God had called me to…
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Conversation with God, God Speaks to Us, Personal Background

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