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A Practical Purpose for Prayer: Hearing God Speak
I recently put up a post that some might see as prayer-bashing. My intention was to highlight ways in which I believe prayer has been (sometimes) misrepresented, and to touch on what I see as one very important purpose o… -
What Exactly is Prayer?
Prayer is something that I've been thinking, and probably should have been writing, a lot about lately. I'm starting to think that I've grown up with an incorrect concept of what prayer is and what it does. I've also sta… -
I Am Not My Own
This is not 'my' life. I've been bought with a price; I don't own myself. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) Likewise, you as a Christian are not your own. To be perfectly honest, no one is their own person; we are all either slave… -
What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? (Part Ten)
Part of being a Christian is being grateful for all our God gives to us and does for us. We should be operating every day with an attitude of loving thanks to our God. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 tells us clearly and without qu… -
What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? (Part Nine)
I want to talk about grace. Grace is not something that I have understood very well, and I still really don't understand it. As far as I was concerned, grace was a cute term people used for the reason why God offers us s… -
What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? (Part Eight)
I'm realizing that I have a lot of fear in my life. It's been around for so long, and I'm so familiar with it, that I think, in a lot of ways, I've become accustomed to it and I just let it be there. Fear can be a hard t… -
What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? (Part Seven)
This post was originally going to be about our love for God, sort of a second side to the previous post about God's love for us, but something else has intercepted my thoughts, and I want to talk about it. The thing I wa… -
What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? (Part Six)
In the strive to continually give our all to God, it can be easy to forget why we're doing it. It can be easy to lose sight of the very thing that made us want to give ourselves to God, that made us want to be a Christia… -
What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? (Part Five)
What is the cost of discipleship? What is the purpose of it? The idea of discipleship, as I have been looking at it, has its basis in Mark 8:34-38: 34And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, &ldquo… -
What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? (Part Four)
I hate waiting. I'm trying to let God have my life, but I still try to take control, despite the fact that I know better. One of the ways I do that is by expecting things to happen on my schedule. And when they don't, I…
About DreamPet@xanga
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- From: DreamPet@xanga
- Name: James
- Location: Ohio, United States
- About Me: I am a young man without much to say. Ok, maybe that's a lie. I chose my name for a story I wrote called Killing Pet about a boy who has nightmares. I am living with a man I love, and am also a Christian. Is everyone a paradox, or is it just me?
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