Living a Christian life while at the same time using our brokenness and pain as an excuse to not be closer to our Heavenly Father is another form of hypocrisy and religious performance Jesus wants us to be free off.
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Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it’, while really it is finding its place in him.
- C.S. Lewis
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"God is in the business of growing Abram into a man of great faith, and this requites circumstances where Abram must trust God."
- David Guzik
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"Simple Prayer"
My son Gilbert was eight years old and had been in Cub Scouts only a short time. During one of his meetings he was handed a sheet of paper, a block of wood and four tires and told to return home and give all to "dad".
That was not an easy task for Gilbert to do. Dad was not receptive to doing things with his son. But Gilbert tried. Dad read the paper and scoffed at the idea of making a pine wood derby car with his young, eager son. The block of wood remained untouched as the weeks passed.
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The Lord's prayer, in Matthew chapter 6, is Jesus' substitute for hypocrisy and religious performance.
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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