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Never Alone-Written by Barlow Girl
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I will be with you (Tchaikovsky Symphony no 6)
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Be Thou My Vision
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rjwagener
Jun 01
Exquisitely sweet and solemn in equal measure, with such a beautifully moving video of wonderful scenes. Thank you so much for sharing.
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About God words and music by Rita Springer
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Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell cover)
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Job words and music by Cindy Morgan
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rjwagener
Jun 02
A lot of sad things to process. I’m so sorry for your losses of both people and animals. I lost my youngest brother in 2020; Matt Wagener. He wanted to be a singer and left a lot on YouTube. I watch it every now and then.
I’ve also had my fair share of heartbreaks with cats, and the toughest always seem to be with cats called ‘Misty’. Chapter 1 of my book ‘The Good News’ argues for an afterlife for animals, Iand I console myself with those thoughts. But whatever we think, we must all take Proverbs 12:10 on board.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
I’ve started reading, 'The Parliament of the Fowls' and was interested to read the following in relation to the dream of Scipio the Younger:
But breakers of the law, to tell the truth, and lecherous people, after they die, will whirl about the earth, always in pain, till many a world passes away, no doubt, and then, forgiven their wicked deeds, they will come into this blissful state for which God sends his grace for them to come.
It is interesting to see how universalist ideas have always found the way down the centuries. The gates of hell cannot prevail against the true Church of God!
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What does the Bible say about Itself?
Old Testament
A large part of the Bible contains prophecy. And 2 Peter 1:20 says that ‘no prophecy of scripture came about by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.’ All prophecies made by scripture are therefore the words of God, not men.
In keeping with this, Old Testament prophets are consistently portrayed as being the mouthpieces of God, proclaiming His very words (Exodus 4:10-17; 1 Kings 22:8-16; 2 Samuel 23:2; Isaiah 59:21; Jeremiah 1:9; 25:1-13; 31; Ezekiel 23:26,27). And looking back over Israel’s history, Zechariah blames the nation for ‘refusing to hear the words which the Lord had cried by the former prophets’ (Zechariah 7:7,12). Given this, it is perhaps not surprising that the phrase, ‘thus saith the Lord’ appears more than 2,600 times in the Old Testament!
Elsewhere in the Old Testament, we are also told that…
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rjwagener
Apr 19
The 'filtered through human beings' raises some interesting questions. Man is sinful, changeable and error prone. So is it inevitable that the pure water of God's word would be contaminated beyond recognition if it were filtered through human beings? And if that is the case, why would God choose to do this?
Jesus said that heaven and earth would pass away, but His words never would. If filtering these words through sinful human beings always distorts God's words, then Jesus's words would never have left the 1st century AD.
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Free Will
This issue has been raised by all of the authors we've reviewed to date as a major potential stumbling block to universalism, the argument being that there is no guarantee people will choose to be saved or perhaps remain so. Here are some thoughts on this issue.
Traditional View
‘Free will’ is defined by the dictionary as ‘the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate’. ‘Fate’ is defined as, ‘the development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power’.
The traditional view is that, as God is entirely without sin, He cannot be the cause of sin. As a result, it is impossible for there to be any cause-and-effect relationship between God and mankind’s sins. Although God created us and could foresee how we were going to misuse our free wills, He did not, and never has, caused us to sin: we…
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brittysuz
May 28
Thank you, Robert. When I read your article I was really surprised to read "surely God knows His own mind." I wrote a song about worship in the dead of winter (I think maybe I was suffering from SAD) and that exact line was in the song. Of course, I spent an hour looking for that song and I've misplaced it. But I felt compelled to reconnect with this ministry. Thank you for this website! If I can get myself back to recording I will certainly share music.
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