To the degree
we treat our neighbors
as we would want
to be treated,
we show we
Love Mercy
Do Justice
Our obligation
is to treat others
as we want to be treated.
Spiritual growth depends on desire for and submission to God. These three books have aided many Christians grow closer to God.
Spiritual Growth
is deepening, expanding, and developing your relationship with God, not in knowing fact about God, the Bible, or doctrine.
When God gives a desire to know Him, we need to respond as David, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.”
The second important component to spiritual growth is submission, yielding to God. Yielding is saying, I will walk with you the way you are calling me to walk.
Different people have different journeys. Only in yielding to God’s will can we identify and walk how God has prepared for us.
Thoughts of God
Developing Studies in
Thoughts of God
My walk with Jesus has always guided me to the text of the Old Testament.
In the books of the Old Testament I see Jesus as the great ‘I Am’.
I see the work and person of Jesus in the feasts, laws, wisdom, psalms, and stories.
The themes of Ecclesiastes can be seen in these first 11 verses;
- First – the author sets his authority to speak,
- Second – the author declares – all life is fleeting,
- Third – the author points out, life and its natural cycles will always repeat,
- Finally, front and center, the author declares the futility and emptiness of everything – Hebel – Vanity
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My desire is that people
come to experience
a deeper relationship
with Jesus Christ.
Bible study is
foundational for getting
closer to Jesus.
Interlinear Greek & Hebrew
Concordance and Summary
Word Studies
Study how various
words
are use throughout the Bible.
A concordance is a
valuable tool for
further understanding the
Thoughts of God
Let It
Flourish
Thoughts
of God
My interests are
eclectic. I want to
understand.
I derive great
contentment
from learning.
The areas of
investigation that
always draw my
attention are those
related to
knowing God.
Nature, religious rites, and people all implicitly point us to God,
They can draw us and start us on a path toward desiring God.
In the end we are
defined by our
relationships,
our relationship
to God,
to people,
to ideas,
to matter,
and to beliefs.
People are of
great value.
“Let it be”
is not enough.
“Let it flourish” is.
