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When Life Breaks You but God Doesn’t Leave

01/26/2026UncategorizedGod, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God's love, Jesus Christ, life, live, love, Old Testamentabarkley8

There are moments when life hits so hard that you feel shattered. Dreams fall apart relationships fail and pain becomes overwhelming. You try to stay strong but inside you feel completely broken. In those moments it can feel like God should have stepped in sooner and the silence makes the hurt even deeper.

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE PT2

11/11/2024UncategorizedChrist, crucifixion, dead, died, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Herod the Great, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus death, John, life, live, Luke, Mark, Matthew, ministry, new testament, Old Testament, Passoverabarkley8

GOD’S STORY

When the Events of This Book Happened:

During Jesus’s earthly life, 7 B.C. – A.D. 30

Luke’s Gospel begins earlier than either Matthew or Mark, with the announcement of John’s birth, around 7 B.C. it ends with his ascent to heaven in the spring of A.D. 30. Jesus was born before Herod the Great died in 4 B.C., possibly two or three years earlier. The probable year of Jesus’s birth is 6 B.C.

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HOW THE PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST IS IMPORTANT IN OUR EVERYDAY LIFE.

05/03/2023UncategorizedChrist, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, King James Version, life, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, parablesabarkley8

The parables of Jesus Christ are an essential part of His teachings, and they still hold relevance and importance in our everyday lives. These stories were used by Jesus to explain complex spiritual truths through simple and relatable examples. The parables contain valuable life lessons that can guide and inspire us to live our lives with purpose and meaning.

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THE PEACE OF GOD: A SOURCE OF STRENGTH

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The peace of Christ is a powerful force that can provide us with strength, comfort, and hope in difficult times. This peace comes from a deep sense of inner calm and security that comes from a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. This article will explore the peace of Christ, its source, and its benefits, along with several relevant scriptures.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (ROMANS 6:1-23 “DEAD TO SIN, ALIVE TO GOD”)

10/24/2022Uncategorizedalive, baptized, body, Christ, dead, death, delivered, died, dieth, flesh, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, grace, Holy Bible, indeed, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, life, live, living, Lord, members, Mortal, new testament, newness, obedience, obey, Old Testament, raised, resurrection, righteousness, Romans, Romans 6:1-23, servant, servants, Sinabarkley8

1.What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

²God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

³Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

⁴Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (CROSS,CRUCIFIXION)

09/22/2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, 5, acts, bearing, believer, buried, burry, Christ, Christian paradox, cross, crossbeam, crucified, crucifixion, crucifying, dead, death, death of self, definition, definition of the day, definitions, Ephesians, Faith, five times, Galatians, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, imagery, imitate Jesus, individual, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus crucifixion, John, life, longer lives, Mark, martyrdom, Matthew, nail, nailed, necessary death, new testament, Old Testament, paul, Paul symbol, purpose, resurrection, Roman practice, Romans, sacrifice, self-denial, symbolabarkley8

THE SYMBOLIC MEANING: Jesus Himself establish established the primary figurative interpretation of the cross as a call to complete surrender to God. He used it five times as a symbol of true discipleship in terms of self-denial, taking up one’s cross, and following Him (Mark 8:34; 10:38; Matt 16:24; Luke 9:23; 14:27). Building on the Roman practice of bearing the crossbeam to the place of execution, Christ intended this to point to the necessary death of self, involving the sacrifice of one’s individuality for the purpose of following Jesus completely; and a willingness to imitate Jesus thoroughly, even to the extent of martyrdom.

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A PRAYER ABOUT (GOSSIPING)

07/22/2021Uncategorizedbusiness, Christ, devil, Ephesians, evil, Father, forgive, friends, gabfest, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gossip, gossiping, group, guilty, guit, Heavenly Father, Holy Father, jesus, life, malice, Matthew, Men, mind your business, new testament, night out, Old Testament, others, people, relationship, Satan, speak, talk, talkative, terrible, womenabarkley8

Lord, I got caught in gossip today. I didn’t mean to though. A group of us were just talking about this and that, and You know how women are. We’re so into relationships and what others are doing.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (JOHN 14:1-31)

07/06/2021Uncategorizedbelieve, Christ, Father, glorified, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Heart, jesus, Jesus Christ, Know God, life, many mansion, Matthew, name, new testament, Old Testament, Old Testment, place, seen him, seen me, sufficeth, troubledabarkley8

1.Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

²In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TRAP/SNARE PT 3 OF 3)

05/13/2021Uncategorizedanimals, arrogant, bid, cords, cruel, death, ecclesiastes, eternal fire, everyday life in bible times, Ezekiel, Fall, fish, harsh, Isaiah, jeremiah, last day, life, live, Luke, misfortune, path, Promised land, Psalm, ruin, snare, snares of death, trap, trapsabarkley8

Times of misfortune are also likened to the unexpected and inescapable nature of a trap: “Makeover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them” (Eccles 9:12). These harsh times could be the product of their own making, as in the case of the exile of God’s people from the Promised Land that entrapped them (Isa 42:22; Lam 4:20; Ezek 19:8).

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WILL GOD ELIMNATE ALL TROUBLE FROM OUR LIVES?

05/10/2021Uncategorizedabraham, christian life, christians, cry, David, eliminate, eternity, God, God's Helper, grace, happiness, history, hopelessness, joy, life, lives, Moses, paul, poor, preach, Psalm, theology, troubleabarkley8

Some Christians actually preach this idea, and many people become disillusioned when their experience turns painful. The only people who can claim to live trouble-free are those who redefine “trouble” into a word that describes absolutely nothing.

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