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Calling

What Does the Likeness of God Look Like?

by Wes Bridel on May 3, 2010

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Leaving off from our last post about the image and likeness of God, how do we attain to the likeness of God who is so vast and unknowable?  God’s likeness looks like Jesus.  Jesus told His disciples that if they had seen Him, they had seen the Father.
Hebrews 1:3  says, “The Son is the radiance [...]

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God is Working Out His Purposes in Man

by Wes Bridel on April 27, 2010

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Continuing our discussion of image and likeness from last week, God’s purpose in Man will be completed.  His purpose is that through Christ (His life, death, & resurrection) He would restore Man’s original place which He intended Man to hold….to be God’s dwelling place in the Earth through whom He would rule & reveal Himself [...]

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God’s Image & Likeness: A Real Life Example

by Wes Bridel on April 20, 2010

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As we continue the theme of image and likeness from last week, my wife is pregnant.  We’ve not yet had a child born.  When my son comes out of Kara’s womb, he will look like me.  He will be in my image.  We don’t know yet which of us he will look more like, but [...]

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The Difference Between Image & Likeness (Genesis)

by Wes Bridel on April 19, 2010

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To understand the image and likeness of God, let’s look at when God first introduced the concept…
“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all [...]

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God is Eternal

by Wes Bridel on April 16, 2010

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Rev. 1:8)
Picking up from our last discussion, the last will be first and the first will be last.  You’ve heard this teaching before, but let’s look into what it means.  First of [...]

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Sacrifice: Bearing the Image and Likeness of God

by Wes Bridel on April 14, 2010

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Continuing on the topic of image and likeness from previously, a sacrifice on the alter is not enough!  On Mt. Sinai God prescribed to Moses and through him, to all of his people Israel, in great detail exactly how to make sacrifices so that they could be a people of God and come close to [...]

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Scriptures Pertaining to the Kingdom of God

by Wes Bridel on March 17, 2010

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Here are some scripture we felt were strongly relevant to this topic, the Kingdom of God. We put them here for your reflection.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the [...]

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We said in the Coming Storm presentation that a new season was upon us and we talked about the fact that Jesus told us to be aware of the signs of the times.  We said that the changes that were coming were not just financial and economical, but that these signs would be of every [...]

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Jesus Brings the Kingdom

by Wes Bridel on March 10, 2010

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When Jesus came, He entered a highly religious society.  This was not a time like the one where people half thought about God’s Law and spent most of their time visiting temples to other gods.  This was a society who knew their theology better than anyone.  They knew God’s ways better than He did!
They had [...]

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A Remnant

by Wes Bridel on March 4, 2010

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If you follow the history of God’s people, it’s a story on repeat.  Over and over, God blesses His people, they prosper, they turn away from Him, and He sends His prophets to call them to repent, they don’t, and then He sends calamity on them, then they see how much they need the God [...]

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