A Noble Berean

  Understanding God's Will #6: But if God can read our minds, isn’t just thinking about what we want to pray good enough?    Isn’t saying, “I’ll pray for you” and intending to do it as good as doing it?    You know, “It’s the thought that counts,” right?                I used to think this.    I used to think that if prayers were just formalities and if He could read my thoughts, then He knew what I wanted to pray.    And that was just as good as praying.    Right? Wrong!    Once again, it wasn’t until Job actually prayed for God to forgive his friends that God forgave them.    Even though God planned to forgive, He didn’t act on that until Job prayed.    And on top of that, it wasn’t until after Job obeyed and prayed that God blessed him again.                Job 42:9-10 :     “... and the...

With the anniversary of 9-11 approaching, I thought I'd share on my blogs some quotes from my Calvinist ex-pastor's sermons about 9-11 or around the anniversary of 9-11.  Enjoy!  (I've shared all these before, so skip them in you want to.)   And I'm so sorry to share these.  (Please don't read them if you were greatly hurt by 9-11, or any other tragedy.)  But it's a great example of how hyper-focused Calvinists can be on God's "sovereignty", to the point that they can't even hear how heartless and tone-deaf (and unbiblical!) they sound about a horrible tragedy that destroyed many people and families and that greatly wounded our country.  They can't even comprehend - or don't care about - the damage they might be doing to someone's faith in God.  All they can think about is that they are supposedly glorifying God by singing the praises of His "sovereign control" and encouraging others to do the same, regardless of the trage...