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What is God Really Looking For? |
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Written by Jonathan Gallagher
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Friday, 27 November 2009 06:19 |
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What is God Really Looking For?
Olympia, WA. October 2-3, 2009
1. Concepts from the Sacrificial System
2: Systems, Rules, Observances
3: Trusting Friendship... that lets him make us right
An Adobe Acrobat PDF file with all three talks' notes is available here.
Audio available here |
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Last Updated on Friday, 27 November 2009 06:34 |
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Written by Graham Maxwell
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 What We Believe -- A message from Graham Maxwell
I believe that the most important of all Christian beliefs is the one that brings joy and assurance to God's friends everywhere -- the truth about our Heavenly Father that was confirmed at such cost by the life and death of His Son.
God is not the kind of person His enemies have made Him out to be -- arbitrary, unforgiving and severe. Jesus said, "If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father." God is just as loving and trustworthy as His Son, just as willing to forgive and heal. Though infinite in majesty and power, our Creator is an equally gracious Person who values nothing higher than the freedom, dignity, and individuality of His intelligent creatures -- that their love, their faith, their willingness to listen and obey may be freely given. He even prefers to regard us not as servants but as friends.
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The Problem with Analogies |
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Written by Jonathan Gallagher
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 08:11 |
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The problem with analogies is they only work so far. They’re useful as some kind of picture, but they can’t tell the whole story.
So when we talk about the “trust/healing” model of our relationship with God, that’s fine. We all recognize that what God asks for is trust, so he can heal us. Concepts of healing are much better analogies for our sin problem than legal, “forensic” ones. But even here, we can get into trouble if we push the analogy too far.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 September 2009 07:55 |
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Written by Jonathan Gallagher
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Monday, 12 May 2008 09:58 |
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A few introductory thoughts So many different English translations are available that it might seem redundant to add another. A few comments are clearly appropriate. Some while ago a couple of visitors came to our regular Bible study. They were working on a project that required use of the whole Bible. When they went to the different Bible publishers, they quickly discovered that all modern English versions are subject to copyright. In many cases this is not a problem because permission is readily granted for the use of a few verses without charge. However to use the whole Bible requires a license fee of tens of thousands of dollars. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:39 |
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Written by Jonathan Gallagher
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Friday, 27 November 2009 05:42 |
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Ice white traces black
Four Haiku
Ice white traces black
Among the trees, snow shadow
Caught upon the breeze.
Crystals of star night
Broken by dawn, early mist
Veil crumpled and torn.
Life as the sad snow
Fallen from high, to break in
Wind’s cold empty sigh.
Born as winter’s death
Destruction dies, new life flames
The Supreme Sunrise.
Jonathan Gallagher 1976
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