God Centered Life

What is it you're using to numb the pain and lack of hope that you feel? Is it alcohol, a drug, or just entertainmentwatching movie after movie that make you forget your sense of meaninglessness? We all experience some degree of pain as a part of the human condition, and that issue is addressed by this passage.

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The answer to the human problem is not systemic cultural change or socio-economic class revolution. The answer is dealing with human nature and the human heart, starting with ourselves.

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How do you know whether you've been feeding on spiritual junk food? You'll get spiritually sick, and you won't be able to tell the difference between good teaching, bad teaching, and outright heresy. It's so important to develop our spiritual health and work to maintain it long term.

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We all have our down moments and times when we feel less spiritually alive. In these situations, we turn to other things to satisfy our thirsts, our spiritual desires, and our emotional needs. We don't go to Jesus. We say we believe that He is the ultimate satisfaction; we need to practice that.

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We live in a culture which is entranced with the idea of the American dream. We have been told over and over again that we must have a dream so that it can come true. The story of Joseph includes a dream that God himself plays a part in.

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The only way to not be frightened about our circumstances or death or disease is to develop a different kind of fearthe fear of the loving, gracious, good, awesome God.

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Perhaps you are disappointed with your life and with your God. You have asked Him for so many things and tried to do what is right, but you do not think your life measures up the way you think it should. But we need to get beyond looking at what we don't have and realize what we do haveJesus!

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When we hear the word Pharisee, we tend to think of the caricature of the "bad guys" of the Bible. We can't imagine that anyone would be pharisaic anymore. But in some ways all we need to do is look in the mirror. We all have a tendency to think our way is the right way.

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Fake news has become a regular part of our current lives. This passage deals with credibility and points us to what Francis Schaeffer called "true truth." In Jesus' name and in His light, we can discern the difference between real and fake, truth and lies.

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Even in Bible times, people rejected the idea that Jesus is God. In this passage, Jesus addresses this issue of his deity from a number of different angles. Jesus walks us through good reasons to grasp onto this truth and follow Him.

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