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Anthony Keith Whitehead
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14th August 2007
The Role Of Emotions
Emotions are a legitimate and essential part of our human make-up. However, they should be regarded as serving a similar function to the senses. Our senses give us information about our environment and situations. That informatio...
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14th August 2007
KNOWLEDGE I
What is the knowledge which God desires of us? It obviously has much to do with faith. Through faith we must have knowledge of what God wants from us, how he works, what God is and what God does and does not do.
Having The Knowledge Of Go...
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13th August 2007
It is conceivable that we can attain such a degree of spirituality that no one can hurt us by anything they say. That possibly seems a long way off for most of us. But it is obvious that, unless we start moving towards such a position, we can never attain...
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13th August 2007
Most of us have the problem that, from time to time, we are troubled by the encroachment into our minds of thoughts that we really do not want. Getting rid of them, however, can be a protracted problem and we therefore need the help of Scripture to deal...
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10th August 2007
We all like to think we know ourselves inside out. What other person can know me as well as I know myself? Well, whatever the answer to that might be, it is not necessarily a very relevant question. The really important question is: how well do I actual...
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10th August 2007
The Difference Between Love And Emotion
Very often people confuse love and emotion. They are not the same, although there is a connection, because love is the highest expression of which we are capable, and it would be strange, therefore, if our emotions...
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09th August 2007
People differ from one another in almost every possible respect. Where speaking is concerned, some have a relatively tight tongue, in the sense that they do not easily speak out against something in a critical or wounding way when a thing is done or sa...
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09th August 2007
As Christians we often hear people telling us of the need to be more like God, perhaps through being more like Jesus, through whom we get our best impression of what God is like. But is it realistic to expect to grow to be like God? Does God actually expe...
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09th August 2007
Anyone reading the Bible, not least the New
Testament part, must be struck by the considerable
emphasis which is placed on faith. Of course, faith is what ultimately ensures our salvation so we would
expect it to receive considerable stress. That a...
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08th August 2007
Praise of God is essential to our spiritual well-being and development. It can be a private approach to prayer, but there are great advantages in also making it a public one.
Collective Praise
We can, and should frequently, praise God on our own. But ...
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08th August 2007
Our thoughts often lead their own life, in the sense that they can wonder and concern themselves with things, and in ways, without any conscious decision on our part. This seems to happen especially when our mind is partly but not wholly occupied with som...
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08th August 2007
Those who were brought up and live in the Yorkshire county of England are used to the idea that people speak their minds — and that they should! Yorkshire people are known for that. So are some other people who have never even seen Yorkshire!
Is T...
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07th August 2007
Scripture repeatedly refer to praise as a sacrifice. But it also refers to it as other, seemly contradictory things. For example, in a particularly important part of the Bible we read:
For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for th...
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