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    • Archive for May 3rd, 2005

    A powerful story…

    3rd May 2005

    …of God’s grace, mercy and love. No matter what happens in our lives, if we are willing to allow Him to be a part of it, and let our story to become His story, He can bring solace, meaning and healing.

    He uses people and circumstances to mold us into beautiful people who reflect His glory. And, sometimes the people He chooses to work through are the least expected ones.

    Once we have walked through the dark valley of despair, He can turn us into channels of blessings so that others around us can also catch a glimpse of His healing power. Jennifer of Idle Rambling Thoughts has bared her soul on part of her life journey involving her husband’s suicide.

    You can read the entire series here, here, here, here and here.

    I have to complain about her blog title though. I think you will agree with me that her writing is neither rambling nor idle. 

    Posted in Inspiration | 3 Comments »

    Eating food offered to idols

    3rd May 2005

    Recently, I was thinking about such practices as yoga and kung-fu, and discussed a position that argued against Christians being involved in these activities because of their supposed malevolent spiritual nature. I suggested then that these activities are actually spiritually neutral.

    The support for this can be found in I Corinthians 8, where Paul deals with food offered (or as the NIV says, sacrificed) to idols. Paul says, we all know that there is really no spiritual power, malevolent or otherwise, behind what people think are idols (vv. 4-6):

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