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Doug Brown audio, pdf, and power point available @ karenvineyard.org. Analog to Digital.
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Doug Brownaudio, pdf, and power point available @ karenvineyard.org
Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. The Message
“What we are witnessing today is not so much a disappearance of religion, but rather a relocation of the sacred . . . which resides in the deeper layers of the self.” The Spiritual Turn and Decline of Tradition, Dick Houtman and StefAupers
Objectivism - “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”AynRand
Fullness and hunger go hand in hand together. Both are necessary for spiritual health. • Fullness is evidence of transforming influence which is reserved for the hungry. • In the Kingdom we live out of fullness, but we get hungry by eating. • .
Truth and reality are not in themselves pluralistic. Truth and reality do not adapt to us. It is up to us to adapt to them.
v.12 • Buried with him • Raised with him • Through your faith in the power of God
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetite.” Edmund Burke
“from the fullness of His grace we all have received . . .” John 1.16
My list to find approval with God • Do more • Suffer more • Serve more • Be more • Fast more • Pray more • Repent more • More, more, more, more, more
v.15 He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets. The Message
Christ’s cross is such a burden as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird. - Samuel Rutherford
For the past troubles will be forgottenand hidden from my eyes. See, I will createnew heavens and a new earth.The former things will not be remembered,nor will they come to mind. Isaiah 65.16-17