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Devotional Notes Romans 12 B1 What does this mean? C1 Do Not Conform to the World’s Ways D1 There are only two ways to live our life in this world. This would include one’s worldview and lifestyle. What one believes is how they live public and private. E1 God’s way can be understood…
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[All emphasis below is mine] Compliance B1 Definitions C1 Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants. (Source) C2 Psychological definition: Compliance Definition: Compliance refers to an overt, public action performed in accordance with a request from an external source. The request can be from another person(s) or from an object, such…
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Deception B1 Defined: C1 the act of causing someone to believe an untruth, or the state of being so deceived. (Source) C2 For better or worse, here is a Wikipedia article on Deception. D3 Why Do People Lie? (non-Christian but gives a nice summary). B2 Effects of deception C1 A classic on deception is…
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B2 Encourage members C1 8 Men D1 What does God want the Christian man to do? D2 God wants men to pray, not fight and argue. E1 Prayer is having fellowship with God. E2 Can we understand this as having a cup of coffee with a good friend to converse? That is fellowship, too.…
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Micah 7:1-6 NLT How miserable I am! I feel like the fruit picker after the harvest who can find nothing to eat. Not a cluster of grapes or a single early fig can be found to satisfy my hunger. 2 The godly people have all disappeared; not one honest person is left on the…
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MORNING Psalm 128 B1 What does this mean? C1 The fear of the Lord D1 Most say this is to respect Him, not be afraid of Him, but the word fear is the word to be afraid. D2 Two things about the fear of God. E1 It refers to the fear of judgment. F1…
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B7 Teaching about Christian lifestyle 12:1-16:27 C1 Chapter 12 D1 Romans 12 begins with an appeal for us to give our life in thoughts, desires, words, and deeds under Jesus’s rules and lifestyle for us. Most of this chapter and the following give us these rules. E1 Romans 12:1 PickNT Now then, brothers, I…
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3 Teaching about sin 1:18-3:20 C1 The remainder of chapter 1 deals with the downhill course of humanity. D1 All people know of God’s existence at some point in their life. D2 The downhill course begins with rejection and suppression of truth. E1 Truth is reality. E2 All know truth at some point,…
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Titus 2:9-10 Slaves and Masters Advice to Servants and Masters Titus 2:9-10 WEL [Tell] servants to be under the authority of their own masters, to be well pleasing in everything, not talking back [to them], 10 Not stealing [from them], but demonstrating complete trustworthiness, so as to adorn the doctrine of God our Savior…
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A worldview is defined as A worldview is the set of beliefs about fundamental aspects of Reality that ground and influence all one’s perceiving, thinking, knowing, and doing. (Source). A list of worldview includes: Buddhistic, Islamic, Jehovah’s Witness, Christian Science, Narcissistic, Feminism, Postmodernism, Social justice, Atheism, Agnosticism, Pantheism, Panentheism, Spirit, Simulation, satanic, Secularism, Marxism,…