Showing posts with label Questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Questions. Show all posts

6/20/21

Big questions in life and arriving at your own answer

Reading What Are the Major Worldviews? relates how we all piece together some ideas like John Godfrey Saxe poem “The Blind Men And The Elephant.” - Each one of the blind men was partially right in what he experienced but ultimately wrong in his conclusion. Together they confused their limited viewpoint with the whole of reality.

The article concludes with how some believe in the scientific method as the ultimate guide to truth while using transcendental meditation (a pantheistic practice) to relieve stress. Others think like existentialists, believing that all objective values are meaningless while joining a social activist organization to fight for social justice.

1 Cor 13:9-12 puts it this way regarding the mystery of God's Love for people, "...Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely."

I'm so glad for https://alphausa.org/ that helps people ask some of life’s most heartfelt questions:

What is real?

Who am I?

Where did I come from?

Why am I here?

What is the basis for my values?

What does the future hold?

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12/19/17

Big Questions unveils beliefs and helps us build relationships and understanding

Four big questions everyone comes up against in life. Where did I come from, how should I live, what's the meaning of life, what happens when I die. These center around origins, morality, meaning, and destiny. Achieving success can bring us here or surviving with a sense of failure. We ask these questions when a loved one dies or we're trying to have a baby. The struggle around these questions creates tension in our relationship all around us. Having an honest dialog in a workshop style setting will help you clarify your beliefs and see why Christians believe the way they do.


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7/24/17

Is God Really Good


"Is God Really Good?" - Psalm 73 - Troy Dobbs
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Pain suffering illness 
 - heartbreak in general 

Marriage, call our mentee couple 

Psalm 73

until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
Psalms 73:17 ESV

Worship and prayer changes everything in our lives.
 - worship reveals reality 
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When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
Psalms 73:21‭-‬22 ESV

When we worship God, we understand our own faults before God. 
 - if while you give your offering it comes to mind someone has something against you. Drop it and go make it right.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.
Psalms 73:23 ESV

God holds us through our questions
 - come together in corporate worship, hear the truth. He doesn't leave us.
 - we don't his hand. He holds ours. Like us with children. Protection, caring 
 
He councils us through our pain
 - not abandoned 
 - gift of Himself

****Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
Psalms 73:25 ESV

People in relationship with God have the best of both worlds 
Phil 1:21, live and die, all gain

****My flesh and my heart may fail, BUT GOD is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalms 73:26 ESV

Titus 3:4, But...

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
Titus 3:4‭-‬6 ESV

Good is being perfect, finished, whole, complete. Genesis 1...

Good is abundance, it wasn't good to be alone... Adam said, it's good!

Good is morally right, Psalm 25:8, 

Is God Good? Take it out of our context, to God's word. Is he perfect, abundant, morally right? God can do nothing other than the best. God is always good without fluctuating. 

Hope in God, not a job.

He councils us, doesn't freeze us out. 

*****But for me, it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Psalms 73:28 ESV


Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.....My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
James 5:13‭-‬16‭, ‬19‭-‬20 ESV
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