Romans 8:1-26
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: Bring Us to Tears 9 months ago · View
“They don’t know how to cry,” I heard the Spirit whisper. Some of God’s people don’t know how to cry. Maybe that was one of the problems with the Laodicean church. (Revelation 3:14-22) Maybe a preoccupation with material wealth had quenched the Spirit which would have moved them to tears had they recognized their spiritually [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: AGONY IN THE GARDEN 11 months ago · View
“I come to the garden alone….” This hallowed hymn always strums an emotional chord deep within me. It beckons me to that place of sweet delight with the Lover of my soul. “And the joy we share, as we tarry there, none other can ever know.” It is there that we enter the Holy of [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: Insights from Isaiah 11 months, 1 week ago · View
INTRODUCTION When I was a baby Christian, a Bible teacher was inquiring which books we would like to study. I chimed in, “Isaiah!” His comment, however, was in the negative, saying it was a lot of dry history and judgments. That was certainly not my take on the prophet. Even as young in the Lord as I [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: City of Peace 11 months, 3 weeks ago · View
“The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.” Jeremiah 31:40 Some people think that all the Old Testament prophecies have been fulfilled already. Certainly, enough of them have been that we can be assured that God’s word is true. But there remain numerous prophecies to be ultimately fulfilled regarding Jerusalem, the City of Peace. [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: What’s In A Name? 1 year, 4 months ago · View
My precious granddaughter’s name is “Hephzibah”. It’s a beautiful name but it isn’t simple and it isn’t convenient. When people first hear it, they want it re-pronounced, spelt, and explained. But the meaning is lovely: “my delight is in her”. Would every child know that their parents delight in them! God placed this name in [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: Are you dead? 1 year, 6 months ago · View
Christ “speaks and list’ning to His voice, new life the dead receive”! “Hear Him, ye deaf!” Who are these “dead” that Charles Wesley refers to in his hymn “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”? These dead are sinners! The concept of death is separation. God is life. Separate from Him, you are spiritually dead. [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: Christ will come again! 1 year, 6 months ago · View
We confess this frequently at my church: “Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.” These are foundational Christian beliefs. Do you believe Christ is coming again? Many,many Scriptures reference the Lord’s Coming. Some of these just reference the “Day” or the “Revelation” but are included to show how foundational the Second Coming [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: “Abba!” 1 year, 7 months ago · View
“….but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” Romans 8:15 How different is true Christianity from man-made religions! We have a heavenly Father! I’m reading Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, a best-selling novel for about a century. The story is set in Rome about AD 54-68. Christianity [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: The Oldest Lie in the Book 1 year, 9 months ago · View
Perhaps you’ve heard the cliché “the oldest lie in the book” referring sometimes to “the check’s in the mail” but “the oldest lie in the book” is literally in the Book of Beginnings, the book of Genesis. It is spoken by the “father of lies”, satan. Satan’s opening line, posed as a question (Gen 3:1), [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: A LABOR OF LOVE 2 years, 4 months ago · View
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. (Lamentations 2:19) LET THE CHILDREN There is a sinister, ugly spirit, a [...]
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natalie wrote a new blog post: Restoration 3 years, 7 months ago · View
Galatians 6:1 — Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual shoud restore him gently. Just a quick note on restoring… We should rebuke our brothers and sisters who are caught up in a sin. In our rebuking, though, we should restore. That means we are to strengthen, perfect, complete, and to [...]