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Spiritual nuggets of nourishment to enlighten and inspire you on your spiritual journey. In a day in which most people live entirely outside of themselves allowing themselves to be defined, formed and manipulated in their directions by the world's standards; Beneath My Rib offers something other. Intimacy and fascination with the God of the universe who leads us on.
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The 'Mind of Christ' is defined in the Bible in Isaiah 11:2 as the seven-fold Spirit of God: The Spirit of Wisdom, The Spirit of Understanding, The Spirit of Knowledge, The Spirit of Counsel, The Spirit of Might and Power, The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord, The Spirit of the Lord. We, Bible- reading believers, often have knowledge of the scripture…
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Be careful that no one among you lives in immorality, becoming careless about God's blessing,like Essau who traded away his rights as the firstborn for a simple meal. And we know that later on when he wanted to inherit his Father's blessings, he was turned away even though he begged for it with bitter tears, for it was too late then to repent. Heb.…
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Courage is the greatest of all the virtues because all the other virtues stand on one’s courage. C.S. Lewis God commands us to be courageous and delineates the penalty for not being courageous. Kathleen asks the question in this podcast; WHY? Why is it a command and one that carries a penalty for not complying. It is very clear from the scriptures …
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And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them have governance over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.’ Gen.1:26 Our greatest gift from God after HE gave us life was the gift of our free will. Free…
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The body of believers who follow the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God and our redeemer from sin by virtue of His crucifixion and resurrection are often call ‘the Universal Church’. Jesus defines His body of believing saints as both a Family and as an Ecclesia. These two limbs of the body of believers, just like our arms and the legs, both belong…
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In times of great turmoil we find the body suffering from the cracks of stress; anxiety, depression and reaching out for substances to ingest in hope of quelling the weakened and challenged physical condition. Is there a healing essential oil - a balm in Gilead- available for us? Yes, it is the essential oil of the Spirit, PURITY. Why is Purity, a …
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At the heart of man’s instinctual response to life is an insistent, nagging, impulse to bring all uncertainty under control. We need to keep a lid on the explosive threat that uncertainty poses to becoming fear-dominated. Uncertainty keeps us from putting our hands on tools to wrestle down unwieldy circumstances. Uncertainty becomes a breeding womb…
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Man is desperate for a sense of relevance in his life. We need to know our life 'counts' for something. We envision goals which we believe will mark our life as 'being worth living'. The psychological sciences tell us that man fears two things above all others; death and irrelevance. We often move through our life with a sense of being hidden - out…
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Living through the pandemic experience of the Coronavirus and its imposing confining protocols can bring with it serious physical, emotional and mental consequences. But God's Word tells us: Lev 26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and none shall make you afraid. This podcast is an integrated experience of spiritual teachi…
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Being Christian doesn’t mean being exempt from suffering, but it does mean we have the opportunity to suffer differently from the world. Since suffering is definitely a part of our life in this world, we need to know how to help others and ourselves. If we trust God, suffering has redemptive qualities which God uses to bring glory(a manifestation o…
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Guilt is a reaction to unrepentant sin and it is a crippling burden Jesus said. So if we don’t want to recognize this guilt as being in us because our world view denies the existence of a universal moral law, does this eliminate guilt in us -No. How does man unburden himself from this onerous weight of guilt? How does man think about moral guilt in…
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There are two tables offered to us at which we can dine. What we eat there will either strengthen us and cause us to flourish or will poisonous us and diminish our life giving properties. One is the table of the Lord and the other is the table of toxic delights. The table of toxic delights presents tempting delicacies to our emotional appetite in t…
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I Sam. 14:6 Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by few or by many. Too many of us don’t feel inspired, courageous, successful or totally trusting in God as we face the challenges which obstruct the pathway to our destiny.We instead are often intimidated, fearful and hopeless in trying to overcome the resistances which threaten our forward movem…
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Around two years of age, we, as human beings, start to discover that we are a 'self' and we begin our journey to identify that new self. However, the psychological sciences tell us we are not capable of being objective and unable to self-identify. We are rather invisible to our self. We are dependent on the reflexion of our self coming from other's…
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The radical scandal of grace means that we have the freedom to choose to live in a kingdom of superlatives - unspeakable joy, unmeasurable love, incomprehensible peace, unfathomable intimacy with Christ and infalliable justice. Part II of Living in the Humility of Grace explores the spiritual trail we need to walk in order to leave behind the shack…
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Kathleen Ann Thompson shines light on the understanding that the offenses we hold onto are often hidden out of our awareness. Through denial, suppression, resistance and lack of introspection these offenses live like trolls in our life. They padlock the gate to 'Wonderland', the land of grace which Christ brought back from the grave for our inhabit…
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Where are you God? This question dogs much of our spiritual queries as we travel our challenge-packed journey through life. Is it possible that we are missing his ever-present personal involvement in our daily lives? Kathleen Ann Thompson engages the listener in a supposition that if we change the perceptions of our mind so they perceive the world …
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Before the beautiful—no, not really before but within the beautiful—the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it. Balthasar We were made by God for ecstasy. Beauty triggers our wonder and yearning for something beyond this life - something inexpressible. Beauty…
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