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Philippians 4:6
6)Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God.

What is the Gospel story? Many people believe that the Gospel story is the story of Jesus coming to earth to show us the way to get to Heaven. A once popular worship chorus put it this way:

“You came from heaven to earth to show the way...from the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky...”

This is not the Gospel story. God didn’t create a good world only to make His main object to show people how to escape it!

The Apostle Paul sums up the end goal of the Gospel this way:

“For He (God) has made known to us his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan...to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth.” Ephesians 1:9-10

The plan is to reconcile the creation with the creator. This is why the Gospel is good news for the whole person and the whole planet. All things can be reconciled to God.

Thank you DingDashers! I am writing my next book and sometimes I need a mental break. You guys are helping me break away from writing and giving my brain a much needed break!

Sermon Illustration 61: Water Connect Puzzle and Harmonization of Doctrines and Contradictions
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Slavery. Something most people believe to have died a long time ago, but the sad truth is that it is still alive and well today.
As believers we carry the only hope - the Gospel is the only way to bring true freedom.

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Lost in translation part 2. (I don’t understand Chinese, but I understand that the English translation is not really proper).

One of my cousins just sent me this old school photo.
Any guess which one is me?

@sinbach Whitney Houston. Even her beautiful funeral made me cry (it was happier than a regular Finnish worship service). I watched on YouTube a friend of hers telling about a meeting with her shortly before her death, how she was longing to live for the Lord and how she was touched by the Holy Spirit. I have watched two documentaries about her. I think it can help us not to judge her... ok she made bad and sinful choices, but at the same time she had always a relationship with the Lord. She was a victim of child abuse, and one of her female relatives, who used to babysit her and her brothers, sexually abused her. Then she was seduced by her best friend and had a lesbian relationship with her for a while. Her brother introduced her to drugs in her teens. Bobby Brown was not the best husband, and they were doing drugs together. At the same time she was put on a pedestal, and there were high expectations on her. She felt that she was never good enough - even if she was adored. Etc.

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