Not having read Malcolm Muggeridge's book Something Beautiful for God, I was ---disturbed by the following excerpt which I read. Allow me to quote/copy it as I read it.
John 5:13-15 (NLT) 13 The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. 14 But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.” 15 Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him. Lord give me grace, power, and effort to maintain a resilience against sin. Sin is ALWAYS a dark path. It ALWAYS pays wages. The wage of sin is death. Sin will always hurt, always destroy, always wound—you, relationships, stuff, goals, etc. It is a killer. It is a wound-er. It is a consumer of all that is healthy, strong, good, and perfect. Learn to hate sin. Learn to fear sin. Learn to run as fast as you can away from sin. Search deeply for hidden sin. Be disgusted with your sin. Repent, repent, repent daily for your sin. Be afraid of your sin. Be petrified of your sin. Be worried ab...
About a week ago I had breakfast with a dear friend of mine who is a missionary in Russia. He told me the following interesting story. His daughter was involved in street evangelism in Russia. She, along with other youth, carried clipboards and were doing surveys. One of the questions they asked was this: “Do you believe in heaven and hell, and if so, where will you spend eternity.” Ninety-five percent of the people interviewed responded along these lines: ‘Yes I believe in heaven and hell! I will spend eternity in hell because I am such an awful sinner.’ Now this same daughter moved to Canada and organized the same kind of outreach doing the same thing, asking the same question: “Do you believe in heaven and hell, and if so, where will you spend eternity.” Ninety-five percent of the people interviewed responded along these lines: ‘Yes I believe in heaven and hell! I will spend eternity in heaven because I am a go...
Psalms 139: (NLT) 13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. 15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. 16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. I’m not quite sure what was meant by the following statement I recently read: 'Additionally, in Judaism, we believe life starts at the first breath, not conception.’ Now, I’m not a Jewish scholar, but I know the Psalm passage was written by a Jew—so there is a problem there. I am aware that this is counter cultural—however this is the way I see pro-choice as taught in Scripture. I am also aware that this will not be a popular blog! I want to delicately suggest that I believe the Bible tea...
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