Keys to the Kingdom: Sensing God 2

“To be honest, most of my prayers are a monologue. I tell God what’s on my mind, and then my prayer time is done. The communication flows one direction. And most of the time I don’t even verbalize my prayers. I simply offer words in my head.” – Rodney Reeves, in Christianity Today, June 11, …

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Keys to the Kingdom – Our Chief End

“Take time for the quiet moments as God whispers and the world is loud”  - Ancient Irish saying. “But let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows me; that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth, for I delight in these things” declares the Lord.”  Jeremiah …

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Keys to the Kingdom – Belief into Jesus.

“You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ”  - CH Spurgeon “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.”  Jesus, speaking of Himself as the Son …

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Oneness: Living Communion

“If religion is only the garb in which Christianity is clothed – and this garb has looked very different in different ages – what then is religionless Christianity?”  Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer asks the most pertinent of questions; “What then is religionless Christianity?”  It is living in a state of growing oneness with our God, having …

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Oneness: You in Christ and Christ in You

"Union with Christ is the ground of everlasting joy, and it is free."  - John Piper Jesus in His death and resurrection fulfilled and therefore eliminated forever the old covenant requirements and the separation of people from their God.  At the death of Jesus on the cross, the veil in the temple was supernaturally torn …

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