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Do You Have Caregiver Fatigue? | Been Thinking About
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. Can A Person Be Free in A Relationship:. When My Wife Said: I feel like I’m a . . . ! Do You Have Caregiver Fatigue? I shared the feelings listed above, but these feelings were accompanied by a desire to move to another place and start again. I had questions about my place in the universe and what difference would it all mean after I died? Would they like/love me for who I am if I did nothing for them except be a friend?
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. Several years ago, one of our senior adults who had terminal cancer and only few weeks to live, gave me a call. She had a strong faith relationship with God through Christ and was ready for death. So, the reason for her call surprised me. Not one of the Baptist ministers on our church staff had ever seen or thought about an anointing, so I was the designated anointer. My ten years of rubbing shoulders with Anglicans ...
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TheTyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible: 2. What is Literalism? | Been Thinking About
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. The Tyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible: 3. What is Inerrancy? A Call to Conversion (John 20:19, Mark 18:1-7) →. TheTyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible: 2. What is Literalism? What does it mean to read the Bible literally? Many people who profess to read the Bible literally do not read it that way do not really read it literally. Meaning of know your ropes means you know a lot about ropes. The. Throughout the whole world.
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Can I Forgive? Part I | Been Thinking About
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. When My Wife Said: I feel like I’m a . . . ! Part II →. When I have been wronged, what response should I give? This is a universal question for all people. In our own time we have seen this question answered with revenge in Northern Ireland and in the Middle East. We have read of people being shot dead after an argument. This desire to get even seems to be a part of the human psyche. Kingdom of heaven is like this. Forgi...
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inner peace | Been Thinking About
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. Feelings: Yours and Mine. Christians often have a difficulty time with feelings, especially those feelings that they consider to be sinful. After all, didn’t Jesus talk about lusting in the heart is the same as committing adultery? So, doesn’t that mean my feelings can be sinful? By allowing our feelings to take control we can sometimes act and speak in ways that we later regret. Feelings can keep us from doing what ...
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The Tyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible | Been Thinking About
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. The Tyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible →. The Tyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible. The Bible says it, so God must have wanted it to happen that way. Who wants to worship a bloodthirsty God like that? These young adults are not asking dumb questions, but too often they receive some pretty dumb answers. Why do the four gospels have different accounts of the same event? They have been taught that if Genesis is in error, th...
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The Tyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible: 3. What is Inerrancy? | Been Thinking About
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. The Tyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible. TheTyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible: 2. What is Literalism? The Tyranny of a Literal Inerrant Bible: 3. What is Inerrancy? According to the online Webster-Merriam dictionary, the word inerrant means free from error and Inerrancy means exemption from error. The way the terms are used varies widely among conservative and fundamentalist theologians. They all can’t be correct. ...
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well-being | Been Thinking About
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. My wife and I spent time with family over the holidays, and it got me to thinking about family values. This is a very popular topic for politicians and preachers, for they champion family values for their respective audiences. Rarely do they, or any of the rest of us, define what is meant by family values. I can go with this definition, but I would add a fourth task: faith. I would also add social responsibility....A goo...
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anger | Been Thinking About
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. In the last blog I wrote that I can forgive if I know what forgiveness is not. That is because many people have an uninformed view of forgiveness. In this blog I am saying that I can forgive if I know how to forgive. Throughout the New Testament the followers of Jesus are repeatedly called to forgive those who wrong them. Jesus said we are to forgive our brother. Who is our brother? Paul wrote to the Colossian Christians.
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Can I Forgive? Part II | Been Thinking About
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This WordPress.com site is a collection of thoughts on the Bible and related topics. Part II →. In the last blog I wrote that I can forgive if I know what forgiveness is not. That is because many people have an uninformed view of forgiveness. In this blog I am saying that I can forgive if I know how to forgive. Throughout the New Testament the followers of Jesus are repeatedly called to forgive those who wrong them. Jesus said we are to forgive our brother. Who is our brother? 3:13] Notice that Paul does...