#Attributes of God

[averagechristiannet]

Allow Psalm 8 to Refresh Your Soul Today

This article goes through Psalm 8 and how it focuses on the majesty of God and humanity’s place in God’s world. From BibleStudyTools.com……… https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/allow-psalm-8-to-refresh-your-soul-today.html

[deweybertolini]

A Simple Game of Word Association

As you will hear in this PODCAST, this is so simple that a kindergartener instinctively knows this. And so do we! Thank you for listening, and for sharing this message!!! Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

[plong42]

John C. Peckham, Why We Pray: Understanding Prayer in the Context of Cosmic Conflict

John C. Peckham, Why We Pray: Understanding Prayer in the Context of Cosmic Conflict -

Peckham, John C. Why We Pray: Understanding Prayer in the Context of Cosmic Conflict. Grand Rapids: Mich, Baker Academic, 2024. pp.; Pb.; $24.99. Link to Baker Academic This new book deals with a particular issue raised in Peckham’s award-winning monographs, The Love of God: A Canonical Model (IVP Academic, 2015; my review here) and Divine Attributes: Knowing the Covenantal God of Scripture…

[jkoessler]

Playing God: The Unexpected Attribute

My wife, Jane, spent her career as an elementary school teacher. On one occasion, the principal brought a new student to her class who had a reputation for being a behavior problem. “This teacher doesn’t play,” he said. It was both a compliment and a warning. I think most of us might be inclined to say something similar about God. Playfulness is not typically attributed to the divine. We think of…

[martyschoenleber]

The Knower of Those Who are His

Simple meditation on the book of Nahum

Who is God according to Nahum? I love reading the Bible with questions. Today I had some time sitting in Panera by myself because an appointment had to cancel due to a family health emergency. So I pulled out my Bible and started reading Nahum with one question: What does Nahum tell about God? Here’s what I found: God is a jealous God. (1:2) God is an avenging God. (1:2) God is wrathful against…

[kdmiller55]

The Wrath of God

When discussing God’s attributes, it is only natural to focus on the more positive aspects of His character such as His love, mercy, grace, all-sufficient power, and faithfulness. We are drawn to those marvelous attributes because of their attractiveness and the potential benefits they offer us as God’s children. But they lose all their meaning if they are not considered against the backdrop of…

[brianchilton]

God and Logic

By: Brian G. Chilton, M.Div., Ph.D. | March 3, 2024 One of my students wrote about an interesting topic. It concerned the relationship between God and logic. The student’s discussion caused me to think more deeply on the topic of God and logic. Logic is understood to be the “methods of valid thinking.”[1] Logic is the basis for all reasonable thought.[2] Since truth is absolute and understood to…

[pastorkevinc]

What if everything collapsed around you?

What if everything collapsed around you? In normal day-to-day living, some days are worse than others. But then there is that one day. Possibly out of nowhere, your world collapses around you. The worst thing you could imagine happens. What once was a manageable life now seems as if the wheels have fallen off. Everything around you seems in shambles. If someone were to tell you what was going to…

[psalmonesermons]

The attributes of God: Grace

Part 2 the all-sufficient enabling grace of God

The all-sufficiency of God’s grace

This passage of scripture (below) tells of Paul’s experience with his so called ‘thorn in the flesh’.

2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Many have speculated on the nature of Paul’s thorn in the flesh with various approaches including it being an eye condition etc. However, I am persuaded that since Paul uses the Greek word ‘angelos’ in v7. translated as ‘messenger’ this refers to a hindering spirit that followed Paul and stirred up trouble and persecution of him everywhere he went.

Sometimes as we try to discern the nature of the thorn, we can miss the big story. Paul’s thorn in the flesh whatever it was, we should note that God’s grace was enough to cause Paul to succeed in everything God had called him to do. God’s grace was enough to keep Paul going through many trials and difficulties. Paul realised that he could welcome the many difficulties in his life because where his own strength was insufficient then God’s all-sufficient grace kicked into action to enable him to succeed and keep on going in his mission. Whatever buffeted Paul, God’s grace was sufficient to keep him going…what about you?

Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

Whatever sin can do in the life of a person, God's grace can thwart it and overcome it to produce wonderful outcomes. How amazing is God's grace?

God’s enabling grace for us.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

God’s attribute of grace seems to have a double action which firstly deals with sin in our lives bringing us to repentance and salvation which in turn enables us to have the sublime rewards and privileges of being seated in heavenly places as members of God’s royal family. Without God’s grace we would never be enabled to come to repentance, salvation, and the heavenly rewards.

Amen

Personal Prayer

In Part 3 of God's grace we consider how we ought live in light of His grace.

[buggie-hagen]

No persons are required to elect themselves. This depends entirely on God necessitating the future on the basis of his one essential attribute: God does not lie. If God should make a promise to you, then it is necessary--not contingent--based solely on the face that God never lies. ~Steven Paulson, Luther's Outlaw God, vol. 2: Hidden in the Cross, 181.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

‘Poseidon left a party in Ethiopia because the sea vibes went rancid after Odysseus set sail’ feels like a bit I would make up, but no. That actually happened.

[the-apocalypse-is-upon-us]

are you guys seeing this shit

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[thresholdbb]

I'm a Kai Winn apologist but not because I think she's a good person. She's a compelling tragic character

[kdmiller55]

The Love of God

God is love. Most of us are familiar with that phrase but may not know its source. In his first letter, the apostle John wrote of God’s symbiotic relationship between God and love. Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. – 1 John 4:7-8…

[darkwood-sleddog]

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

This is your reminder that the Alaskan Malamute is NOT an indigenous dog breed. It may have indigenous ancestry but its creation, the standards imposed on it, and every aspect of its direction have been steered by white people from the very beginning. Even it’s name is inaccurate to its ancestry.

There are still Inuit breeding traditional sled dogs today. They are not some mythological people of old. They’re uploading photos their dogs, their hunting, their friends, their communities to social media as you read this.

Inuit dog breeds such as the Canadian Inuit Dog and Greenland Dog share struggles the Alaskan Malamute never has. The Canadian Inuit Dogs were culled en mass in the 1970s by the Canadian government which is still a source of trauma for people today. Knowledge of traditional dog keeping has been so fractured that I know of several young people using YouTube to learn their traditional crafts instead of being taught by people in their communities. The Greenland Dog is perhaps one of the most isolated dog breeds in the world and is extremely vulnerable to changes from Global Warming. As the climate warms it is harder and harder for the dogs and the people that seek to continue their traditional way of life to function as they desire. Much of Greenland subsists on hunting and tourism of their landscape and traditional activities. Climate change will make both more difficult.

Yes, the Alaskan Malamute has had its own struggles, World War II took a massive toll on the breed as it did many others. But we cannot let ourselves be deluded by the false histories and mythologizing pushed by the breed club, the kennel club because at their base they are clubs ruled by the west and the west alone. Our breed went to Antarctica successfully where many breeds did not, but somehow that wasn’t enough for the people in charge. They will flush and turn their heads away when you fact check their made up delusion. They will claim the breed is SO different than the other indigenous freight dogs that they HAD to create a new breed while at the same time saying “wow this breed is ancient!”. Is the 1930s ancient? Why must we sell this lie? Where does it fucking stop.