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Patience Beyond Ourselves
According to Guinness World Records, the world’s longest continuously running laboratory experiment is the pitch drop experiment. Pitch is a sort of tar that was used back in the day to waterproof boats. You may remember it being mentioned in the story of Noah (Gn 6:14). Now if you don’t know anything about pitch, you…
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Supernatural Worship Music
In today’s podcast episode, I read a chapter about supernatural worship music from my new, soon-to-be-released book, “The Rush and the Rest.” As it ends up, the Bible gives us several stories about how music can be used to engage God and influence the spiritual realm. Check out today’s episode on 1208GREENWOOD’s webpage or simply subscribe…
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Patience for God’s Timing
You’d think we’d understand God’s patience better by now given how long it has taken some prophecies to take place. I mean, there seems to be prophetic references to Jesus not just in the prophets, but all throughout the Old Testament. Moses seems to talk about Jesus in Deuteronomy 18:15-19, which scholars think was written…
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How Jesus Treated Crowds
The Bible seems to list over and over again that Jesus was filled with compassion for people and that this compassion moved him to do his ministry (Mt 9:36; 14:14; 15:32; Lk 7:13). Out of that compassion he healed, comforted, fed, and taught people. He didn’t have to do these things—it’s clear he was exhausted…
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God Promises Himself
One of God’s promises was so strong that he didn’t even make the promise to a person, but rather, to himself. In a vision or dream of sorts, God told Abraham to set up a covenant ceremony. From what many commentators have come to understand, it seems that in ancient times you would perform these…
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Cosmic Calendar Patience
If you want to learn even more about God’s patience, take a look at science. Scientists have created a concept they call the cosmic calendar. On this calendar, January 1st at 12 AM is the beginning of existence and today is December 31st, 12 PM. If you were to condense all of existence into this…
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The Girl God Healed of Cancer
I remember a girl being brought before our college chapel one day to be prayed over. She had been told she might have cancer and so the whole school lifted her up in prayer for healing, with hundreds of people putting their hands on the people in front of them. After that chapel service she…
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Why We Practice Peacemaking
In today’s podcast we talk about peacemaking and violence. Violence is accepted by most in some way, shape, or form, but the Scriptures show us how Jesus refuses to endorse it and even goes so far as to disarm Christians. If we can embody this kind of radical peacemaking, then we’ll be ready to make…
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Kindness from a Cosmic View
In 1990, Voyager 1 left our solar system. As it departed, scientist Carl Sagan asked NASA to turn the camera around and take one last picture of the earth from its position 3.7 billion miles away. This famous photo was entitled, The Pale Blue Dot. In reflecting on this picture, Sagan stated, It has been…
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Jesus’ Teachings on Money
Jesus proposes the generous life to a man wondering how he will inherit eternal life: You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’” And he said, “All these I have kept from my youth.” When Jesus heard this, he said to…
