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Amazing Memoir about God
Posted on 4/20/24 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 4/20/24 at 12:42 pm
This book is a memoir by Jonathan Nettles about his long and difficult journey of faith to find God. He was visited by God three times at age 13. It's very interesting and funny. You'll laugh and cry. Check out SHINE LITTLE LIGHT if you're looking for something different.
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This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 6:17 am
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Posted on 4/20/24 at 12:43 pm to Innocent War Vet
All God really wants is your LOVE and your heart. Give Him that and everything else falls into place. Crownsoffaith.org
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:25 pm to Innocent War Vet
Yes, as long as we define what “everything else falls into place.”
Posted on 4/20/24 at 10:05 pm to Innocent War Vet
I sometimes find it odd how caught-up God is in being praised and worshipped. Is this really an admirable trait?
Posted on 4/21/24 at 6:13 am to Hoodie
Let me answer by saying this from my own heart, I know God and can't help but worship and praise Him because He's been so good to me. Even when I didn't deserve it, God loved me, protected me, and never left me! He's been better to me than anyone else ever has. Even better to me than I've been to myself. To know Him is to love Him. Peace and joy come with God.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 6:15 am to Tigertown in ATL
The statement means, if we do our best God will do the rest. Just trust Him.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 6:38 am to Innocent War Vet
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The statement means, if we do our best God will do the rest. Just trust Him.
Have to go deeper.
Have to define what “the rest” is.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 9:08 am to Hoodie
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Posted on 4/21/24 at 9:12 am to Hoodie
quote:Worship and praise is what he deserves and what his holiness and perfection commands.
I sometimes find it odd how caught-up God is in being praised and worshipped. Is this really an admirable trait?
However, he is so not caught up in it that he took on a limited human form, appropriately called the humiliation of Christ, lived in poverty, served and ministered to the weak, lame, marginalized, and outcast before giving up his life in crucifixion on the cross.
All that to have a personal relationship with us as individuals.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 11:41 am to Hoodie
That’s always been a question for me.
Did God create us for the primary purpose of worshiping him?
Did God create us for the primary purpose of worshiping him?
Posted on 4/21/24 at 12:21 pm to VOR
Colossians 1:16 says, “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.”
We were created because it is in God’s nature to be creative. We were created so that we could relate to him. And yes, we were created to bring him glory.
I can see how one might think the last part is vain, but there are subtleties. First, God deserves all glory and honor, so no amount of exaltation could ever be excessive. Second, the one God exists in three Persons. His actions don’t just bring glory to himself but also to full Trinity. Each Person of the Trinity honors the other.
We were created because it is in God’s nature to be creative. We were created so that we could relate to him. And yes, we were created to bring him glory.
I can see how one might think the last part is vain, but there are subtleties. First, God deserves all glory and honor, so no amount of exaltation could ever be excessive. Second, the one God exists in three Persons. His actions don’t just bring glory to himself but also to full Trinity. Each Person of the Trinity honors the other.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 2:18 pm to Tigertown in ATL
"The Rest" is whatever we need. And what we need most is: Salvation, peace, joy, hope, wisdom, knowledge and understanding. He's our real, true Father and sees us as His children. Just talk to Him and He'll listen. Guaranteed.
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Posted on 4/21/24 at 2:22 pm to AllbyMyRelf
Well said. But what we must realize is, God gave us all freewill because He wants us to choose Him. He could force us to worship and praise Him. But that's not how He is or who He is. God is love! And perfect love is not forceful or offensive.
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Posted on 4/21/24 at 7:37 pm to Innocent War Vet
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The Rest" is whatever we need. And what we need most is: Salvation, peace, joy, hope, wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Yes. I agree.
Some think “the rest” is comfort, success, and everything going right.
It needed to be defined.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 8:16 pm to Tigertown in ATL
Jesus said it best, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and everything else will be added."
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:09 am to VOR
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That’s always been a question for me.
Did God create us for the primary purpose of worshiping him?
I'm not sure if you want to actually have that conversation, but surrendering your will to God is "worshipping" God. Which takes many, many forms - especially on Earth.
It doesn't only mean "worship" in the sense of how you think about it.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:10 pm to AllbyMyRelf
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that he took on a limited human form
What does “limited human form” mean? Honestly curious and a bit confused.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:23 pm to Innocent War Vet
Just ordered it. Thank you!
Posted on 4/27/24 at 2:39 pm to Mr. Misanthrope
quote:God is infinite, omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. He came to earth and was born as a man and lived a human life, setting aside his God-nature and took on a human-nature. He “emptied himself” and lived as all men do. He tired, hungered, thirsted, and was tempted like all men, yet did not sin.
What does “limited human form” mean? Honestly curious and a bit confused.
Jesus, God the son, is both fully God and fully man.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 12:17 am to AllbyMyRelf
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God is infinite, omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. He came to earth and was born as a man and lived a human life, setting aside his God-nature and took on a human-nature. He “emptied himself” and lived as all men do. He tired, hungered, thirsted, and was tempted like all men, yet did not sin.
Jesus, God the son, is both fully God and fully man.
Yes. This is what I believe. You have precisely and concisely stated who Jesus is. I was confused with “limited human form”. It sounded like something less than fully man.
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and was tempted like all men, yet did not sin.
Some seem to think God places demands on us and he doesn’t really understand how “hard” it is for we mortal men to meet those demands. Like Jesus was playing with a stacked deck, so to speak.
It’s interesting Job saw the problem during his troubles and prophesied the answer to the objection.
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For he is not a man, as I am,
that I might answer him,
that we should come to trial together.
There is no arbiter between us,
who might lay his hand on us both.
Let him take his rod away from me,
and let not dread of him terrify me.
Then I would speak without fear of him,
for I am not so in myself.
Job 9:32-35
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