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Category: Understanding God

Who is God and how can we connect with Him?

The Measure You Use

By Terry Posted on August 18, 2020 Posted in Understanding God, Understanding Ourselves Tagged with Endurance, Faith, Praise
The Measure You Use
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Songs about counting blessings can sound patently glib. Yet there’s a lot of truth to their advice. When trouble comes, counting can become a weapon. Jesus warned us in John 16:33 to expect tribulations, so we don’t often have a …

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What is Living Bread?

By Terry Posted on August 11, 2020 Posted in Understanding God Tagged with Abundant Life, Bread, Living Bread, Nature of God
What is Living Bread?
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“I am the living bread which came down from heaven” (John 6:51 NKJV). It was a peculiar thing for Jesus to say. And it left the Jews of the time quarreling and confounded. It was one thing to compare Himself …

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Unless a Seed

By Terry Posted on August 4, 2020 Posted in Garden Notes, Understanding God Tagged with Death, Fear of Death, fruitfulness, trusting God
Unless a Seed

This story originally appeared on CBN.com. They titled it “Tenacious Seeds” though that was actually the name of another devotion I sent them at the same time. At any rate, I received an email from Alan Newcombe who reads and …

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Help at the Altar of Incense

By Terry Posted on February 11, 2020 Posted in Tabernacle Treasures, Understanding God Tagged with prayer
Help at the Altar of Incense

Today’s blog post is an excerpt from my devotional A Place for Me in God’s Tent. Before you begin, you might want to read Exodus 30:1–10. Once more, we stand at the altar of incense—a piece of furniture which will …

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Bringing Down Giants

By Terry Posted on January 28, 2020 Posted in Understanding God Tagged with 1 Samuel 17, David and Goliath, obstacles
Bringing Down Giants

Last time, I shared some insights from Malcom Gladwell on David’s advantages over Goliath. In this blog, we’ll consider Dutch Sheets’ perspective on David’s spiritual strengths in his book Giants May Fall. While David had visible weapons (a sling and …

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