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God NEVER changes, BUT His mind seems to.  A little more to the blog CAN WE REALLY CHANGE GOD'S MIND (Things That Make You Go Hmmm). There are a handful of Scriptural passages that speak to God not changing.  The most well-known, at least in my mind, is Hebrews 13:8 - "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. "  Another one is Numbers 28:19 - "God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. "  In addition,  Psalm 110:4 - "The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek . "  The theme continues in Malachi 3:6 -  "I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. "   The New Testament gets involved with the previously mentioned Hebrew passage and  James 1:17 - "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like sh...

I need forgiveness.  I feel like I am worse than Paul, at times, when it comes to being the worse sinner of us all. "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.   As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.   I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out." - Romans 7:15, 17,18  "But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners , Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life. " - 1 Timothy 1:16   What is the difference between forgiveness provided by Christ through His death on the cross and the forgiveness He says He will NOT give unless we forgive others?  How is it that a believer can be saved/born again, his/her sins forgiven, the penalty of sin paid for in full and y...

Carolina wins!  They beat duke at The Hill on March 5th.  I wouldn't be surprised if you said you could hear me from wherever you were that night.  I was so raising the roof and screaming my head off, I'm shocked I had a voice to sing at church the next morning. The ACC Tournament was disappointing as far as quality of play from the Heels.  It took a last second shot from Zeller in UNC's first game and OT in the second to secure the wins.  And that was after coming back from 14 and 19 points respectively.  This is not "Secretariat" (coming from behind all the time)!  And all Carolina fans knew they could not do that against duke and survive.  UNC did not show to give the devils a game (it's that simple).  The Heels could have been resting and practicing if they were not going to correct their mistakes and make an attempt at beating their rival - pathetic. Now, March Madness is upon us.  The NCAA Tournament arrives and the Tarheels la...

Are we in God's dream?  Are we in an aware conscious, a very creative daydream that God will snap out of or a deep REM sleep?  In addition, will any of the content of God's dream somehow make it back to God's reality when God awakes?  Does God's dreaming make things reality?  Or will God simply leave all that was created in the dream-state?  Is it appropriate to assign human characteristics to God - like dreams?  What kind of God would we have and how could we describe this God if we did not?   If God is in a dream-state of any sort, who is going to wake God?  Observing God as the perfect being, God's dream would be perfect - in depth, width, height, space, time, and relationship.  Either way, whether God is dreaming or conscious, all that God does is perfect.  So, is God dreaming or is God awake? They say that only a fraction of brain power is used while awake.  So, imagine the possibilities harnassable...

I have got alot of catching up to do.  Duke, Clemson, WF, BC, NCSU, MD, and FSU have all played the Heels since the last write-up.  So, here we go..... The Duke game was a contest that displayed not only a Tale of Two Cities but a tale of two halves .  Carolina showed up in force in the first half, Duke did not.  Duke showed up in the second half, UNC disappeared. When I saw the Clemson game, at that point in my college hoops watching experience, that was the worst game I have ever witnessed in my entire (almost 41 years) life.  That is to say until I saw the game after next game - Boston College vs. North Carolina.  This game at least tied that game for worst performance on the hardwood floor.  No shooting skills from one player on the whole roster.  UNC could not buy a bucket, much less pee in the basket if it was a toilet bowl even if they were standing over it yet they squeaked out a W.  The Wake Forest g...

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him:  'I'm ready to acdept Jesus as a great moral teacher, btu i don't accept His claim to be God.'  That is one thing we must not say.  A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.  He would either be a lunatic - on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell.  You must make your choice.  Either this man was, and is, the Son of God:  or else a madman or something worse.  You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.  But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.  He has not left that open to us.  He did not intend to." (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity ) [A Favorite Quote Of Mine] So, which colomn, cate...