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Worship-less Religion

“And if it is with difficulty that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner”  1 Peter 4:18  NASB Godless man – Peter calls these people “godless” and “sinners.”  “Godless man” is the Greek word asebes.  It literally means, “without worship.”  This is a person who does not honor…
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Exit Wound

At the entrance, sin lies in wait.  Talmud, B. Sanhedrin 91b. In wait – Commenting on Genesis 4:7, the rabbis note that sin takes opportunity to entice us from the moment of entrance into the world.  “To be born is to leave the simplicity, the ‘sincerity,’ of life-with-mother and to cross a threshold into a…
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What’s the Purpose?

“Why then have You brought me out of the womb?  Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!  I should have been as though I had not been, carried from womb to tomb.”  Job 10:18-19  NASB Had not been – The story of Job challenges the belief that God is just.  All…
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Disappointed

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.  Proverbs 22:6  ESV Train up – In the movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio takes on the task of reconfiguring the thoughts of a man who is about to inherit an empire created by his father. …
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Fuzzy Math

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!  How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand.  I awake, and I am still with you.  Psalm 139:17-18  ESV Count – Certainty is one of the great problems of life.  What can we know for sure? …
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