1 Peter on Natural Laws

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1 Peter 1:3-4, Colossians 1:19-20, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Romans 8:11, 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, Philippians 2:6-8

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonish...

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What Do You Believe Doc?

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D. Michael Lindsay

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1 Peter 1:8-9, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Mark 9:24, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 10:17, Hebrews 11:6

In a quiet hospital room in North Carolina, an eager young doctor with a bright future evaluates his elderly patient with not much future left at all. She has a terminal heart condition, inoperable. A...

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Dallas Willard

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Titus 2:10, Matthew 5:16, Proverbs 3:3-4, 1 Peter 3:4, Galatians 5:22-23

[Beauty] “is goodness made manifest to the senses.

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Albert Einstein

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Isaiah 11:6, 1 Peter 3:4, Proverbs 22:6, Ecclesiastes 3:11, John 8:32, Psalm 27:4

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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Christopher Marlowe

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Titus 2:7, Isaiah 61:3, 1 Peter 3:4, Romans 12:21, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Exodus 33:19

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

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Wendell Berry

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1 Peter 3:8, Philippians 2:3-4, Galatians 5:14, Romans 12:10, Ephesians 4:32, Luke 6:31, Matthew 7:12

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

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Fire Renews Life

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Mia Levetan

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Isaiah 43:2, Malachi 3:2-3, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Hebrews 12:11, Isaiah 48:12

According to Bill Tripp, a member of the Karuk tribe in Northern California and a forest manager, Fire is that which renews life. A lot of people have been conditioned to look at it as a threat and...

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Almighty God, Creator: The morning is Yours, rising into fullness

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George F. Macleod

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Psalm 33:6, Psalm 113:3, Psalm 74:17, Ecclesiastes 3:1, Romans 11:36, John 1:3, Luke 12:27, 1 Peter 1:24-25

Almighty God, Creator: The morning is Yours, rising into fullness. The summer is Yours, dipping into autumn. Eternity is Yours, dipping into time. The vibrant grasses, the scent of flowers, the li...

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Philip Melanchthon

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Romans 5:1-2, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:27-31, 1 Peter 1:6-9, Hebrews 11:6

Faith cannot but pour forth from all creatures in most eager service to God as a dutiful son serves a godly father. The efficacy of faith is such that from its fruits it is very evident in whose heart...

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Lysa TerKeurst

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Assumptions

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John 8:32, Proverbs 12:19, Psalm 119:160, 1 Timothy 6:20-21, Psalm 15:1-2, 1 Peter 3:10

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

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Philip Melanchthon

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Romans 5:1-2, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:27-31, 1 Peter 1:6-9, Hebrews 11:6, Romans 4:3-5

For although faith alone justifies, love is also demanded…. A living faith is that efficacious, burning trust in the mercy of God which never fails to bring forth good fruits.

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G. K. Chesterton

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Hebrews 11:1-6, Isaiah 1:18, 1 Peter 3:15, John 1:1, James 1:5, Colossians 2:8, Romans 12:2

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

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Augustine of Hippo

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Genesis 1:31, 1 John 4:7, Psalm 27:4, 1 Peter 3:3-4, Ecclesiastes 3:11

Only the beautiful is loved . . . we cannot help loving what is beautiful.

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Less is More

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Mardy Grothe

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Luke 16:13, Matthew 6:21, 1 Corinthians 14:33, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Titus 2:11-12, 1 Peter 1:14-16

Less is more. Coined by Robert Browning and popularized by the German-born American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, nothing could be further from the literal truth. But when people use this exp...

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Philip Melanchthon

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Romans 5:1-2, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:27-31, 1 Peter 1:6-9, Hebrews 11:6, Romans 4:3-5, James 2:14-26

Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ…. This trust in the goodwill or mercy of God first calms our hearts and then inflames us to give thanks to God for his mercy so ...

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Philip Melanchthon

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Romans 5:1-2, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:27-31, 1 Peter 1:6-9, Hebrews 11:6, Romans 4:3-5

A living faith is that which pours itself out in works.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Beauty

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Romans 10:15, Isaiah 61:3, Proverbs 31:30, 1 Peter 3:4, Zephaniah 6:3

Glory be to God for dappled things.

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Victor Hugo

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Revelation 21:23, 1 Peter 2:9, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Psalm 36:9, Isaiah 60:1

To love beauty is to see light.

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Joy must be morally clean

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Christopher H. J. Wright

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Galatians 5:19–23 , 1 Peter 4:3–4 , Psalm 100:1–2, Deuteronomy 16:14, Numbers 25:31:16, Exodus 32:34

Joy must be morally clean. God warned Israel not to be tempted by the kind of debauched “joy” of the Canaanite festivals, which included sexual immorality, drunkenness, gluttony, and idolatry. They ha...

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Augustine of Hippo

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1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Luke 10:25-37, Colossians 3:14, Galatians 5:22-23, 1 Peter 3:3-4

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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Philip Melanchthon

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John 14:26, Galatians 2:15-16, Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 3:5, Romans 5:1-2, Romans 3:23-31, 1 Peter 1:6-9

But we must add at once that the pious will not cease from good works simply because it is impossible to gain any merit by them. Rather, the greater our faith, the more and greater our works…. For sin...

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Beauty

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Matthew 6:28-29, 1 Peter 3:3-4, Proverbs 31:30, Genesis 1:31, Isaiah 61:3, Song of Solomon 4:7

Beauty is that which, when seen, pleases.

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Excitingly Absurd Rules

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Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie

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Romans 8:7, Romans 13:1-7, Titus 3:1, 1 Peter 2:13-17

In Arkansas, it is illegal to pronounce Arkansas incorrectly. It is illegal to build, maintain, or use a nuclear weapon within Chico, California, city limits. In Connecticut, a pickle fit for human co...

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Alister E. McGrath

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1 Peter 1:8-9, Philippians 3:20, 1 Corinthians 2:9, John 20:29, 2 Corinthians 5:7

Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.

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Edmund Burke

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Proverbs 15:1, Genesis 24:17-20, Daniel 1:8-9, Colossians 4:6, 1 Peter 3:15-16, Psalm 34:13-14

Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their wh...

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Tension Leads to Breakthrough

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Justice

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1 Peter 3:8-9, Galatians 3:28, Proverbs 31:8-9, Matthew 5:9, Romans 12:18

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and ob...

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D. L. Moody

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Romans 12:2, 1 Peter 1:15-16, Matthew 5:14-16, Ephesians 5:8, Philippians 2:14-15, 1 Timothy 4:12, 2 Corinthians 7:1

A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns, they just shine.

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William L. Watkinson

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Matthew 18:10-14, Luke 15:1-7, John 8:12, 1 Peter 2:9, Isaiah 60:1, Psalm 18:28

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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Without an Outlet

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Billy Graham

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2 Corinthians 9:6-8, 1 Peter 4:10, Philippians 2:12-13, 1 Timothy 4:8, Galatians 5:6, Matthew 5:16, James 2:17

Just as our bodies need exercise to be strong physically, our faith needs exercise if we are to be strong spiritually. It has often been noted that several rivers flow into the Dead Sea, but no river ...

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Scripture Guide, Mark 2:23-3:6

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Gabe Fung

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Mark 2:23-28, Mark 3:1-6, Acts 12:12, Acts 12:25, Acts 15:37-39, Colossians 4:10, 2 Timothy 4:11, Philemon 1:24, 1 Peter 5:13, Mark 1:14-15, Mark 2:1-22, Exodus 20:8-11, Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Exodus 34:21, 1 Samuel 21:1-6, Luke 11:37-54, Mark 2:1-17, Genesis 1:26-31, Genesis 2:1-2, Genesis 3:null, John 19:30

Context Authorship of Mark Mark’s account of the story of Jesus is commonly held to be the earliest of the four canonical Gospels. Early church tradition identifies the author as Mark (or John Mark)...

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