tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84414988862244313432011-04-21T17:29:08.442-05:00"'The word is near you, in your own mouth and in your own heart'; that is, the word of faith, which we are preaching. For if you publicly declare that 'word in your own mouth,' that Jesus is Lord, and exercise faith in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved." —Paul to the RomansC. J. Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872186295008632240noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441498886224431343.post-28212017849499865862009-02-04T15:51:00.014-06:002009-02-27T12:14:48.331-06:00

Previously, prayer was highlighted as the means by which we communicate with God, but now the question is, does God also speak to us? How?WHAT MANY EXPECT FROM GODMany people think that communication with God is only one way. In reality, God has communicated with us and continues to do so. The scripture says "[God] is not far off from each one of us," and "draw close to God and he will draw close

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What is the point of prayer? Prayer is conversation with a being that we cannot observe with our physical senses. It is our approach to the divine. But there is only one being with whom we should pray to: our Creator.Prayer is about a personal relationship with God. Can you know someone if you never communicate with them? You can know about them, but you will never have a close, personal

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The word "koinonia", from "koinos" ("common"), is applied to "fellowship", but means literally "commonality" or to "be in common with". It indicates to gather together for something you have in common. In that way, it indicates a brotherhood where all have a thought in common and each one is agreeable to the next.One might ask why all Christians can't be considered a part of the same brotherhood,

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What assurance do I have that Jehovah's Witnesses have the whole truth? For me it is the logic of the message from Genesis to Revelations. Faith is described as "assured'. It suggests an experience that it is true, not just a credulity in just any religious message. God asks us to "Taste and see that Jehovah is good, O all you people; Happy is the able-bodied man that takes refuge in him." We are

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The Scriptures speak of various types of foundations, but there is only one foundation that we need to be intently concerned with. By building on it, we can give a fine foundation to our students in the faith. —1 Timothy 6:19In the letter to the Hebrews, after discussing the cornerstone teaching of salvation through Christ's impalement, the apostle Paul wrote: "So, having left the cornerstone of

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The dismal cradlings of a rock bottom existence take people to the deepest inner workings of their own mind and their own heart. When all is lost all one has to reach out to is that which they cannot see, because all that they have seen has rejected their miserable existence. (Psalms 42:6) Is this the creation of God by our own desperation? Or is it a base instinct that God has placed within us

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