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Learning about what the freeze state is and how to get out of it; Polyvagal Chart
(This is an AI generated image that I will explain at the end of this post.) I had a breakthrough this week about being able to see what the freeze state is and how to get out of it. I have written about how I am stuck in a state of immobility. This is a…
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Prayer Request
I wanted to let you know that my Uncle Harold passed away on July 8th. He had been having health problems in recent years and then he fell earlier this year. He was not doing well, so we were preparing ourselves for him to pass away but we were hoping he was going to have…
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Notes on Chapter 2 of Kept for the Master’s Use by Frances Havergal; Imagery of our moments as diamonds
It really helped to write out a prayer in my last post, so I will try to keep including prayers. As I was meditating on what we talked about in my last post and praying for glimpses of Jesus, God reminded me of something I had read in Frances Havergal’s book Kept for the Master’s…
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Quote from G. Campbell Morgan’s sermon “The Burning of Heart”; Imagery of a flame of love to God
I was looking through G. Campbell Morgan sermons recently and saw one entitled “The Burning of Heart.” I am still having trouble with this flare-up of acid reflux, or heartburn, so the title caught my eye. It reminded me that there is a good kind of burning of heart – when your heart is aflame…
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Part 4 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s Sermon “The Cross the Proof;” Imagery of God’s love as an artesian well; Imagery of our sin as a mountain-wall; The cross is the present proof of eternal love
“God loves by what I may venture to call the very necessity of His nature.” – Alexander MacLaren I will pick up today where we left off in Part 3 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s Sermon “The Cross the Proof” – Learning to Live by Faith. Here is a link to the full sermon: The…
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Part 3 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s Sermon “The Cross the Proof”
I will pick up today where we left off in Part 2 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s sermon “The Cross the Proof” – Learning to Live by Faith. Here is a link to the full sermon: The Cross the Proof by Alexander Maclaren | SermonIndex The Death That Does Prove the Love MacLaren says that…
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Part 2 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s sermon “The Cross the Proof;” Imagery of staggering faith staying itself against the cross of Christ
I will pick up from where we left off in Part 1 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s Sermon “The Cross the Proof” – Learning to Live by Faith and start writing notes about Alexander MacLaren’s sermon “The Cross the Proof.” Here is a link to the full sermon: The Cross the Proof by Alexander Maclaren…
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Part 1 of Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s Sermon “The Cross the Proof;” Study Notes on 1 John 3:16, 1 John 4:9, and Romans 5:8
In Alexander MacLaren’s sermon The Cross the Proof by Alexander Maclaren | SermonIndex, the text he is preaching on is Romans 5:8 in which the apostle Paul says, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8 KJV) MacLaren says that the word “commendeth,”…
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Notes on Alexander MacLaren’s sermon “Christ ‘Must’ Die;” Jesus’ death was necessary for our salvation, voluntary, and motivated by His love for us
“Nothing held Christ to the Cross but His own desire to save us.” — Alexander MacLaren We have been learning about God’s love for us…about how God’s “perfect love drives out fear.” After that fear/dread of punishment has been driven out, we can better feel God’s love for us. And, in return, love to Him…
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Different Types of Fear: Reverential Awe of God, Terror/Dread of Judgment, and Lack of Faith
You might have noticed in my previous post that when G. Campbell Morgan was describing the fight between the forces of good and the forces of evil, he expressed it by saying it was a battle between fear and faith, which meant that fear was something we were not supposed to feel. Then later in…
Learning to Live by Faith 