By Jill Roberts
Posted: October 21, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé How many times have you heard it said that what is impossible with man is completely possible with God? The implication of the title of this blog contemplates just that. As Michael says, “Don’t think that God is powerful in any human dimension of the word ‘power.’
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: October 14, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael and I were talking about the idea of how some iconic Biblical figures have actually bargained with God, when he raised the subject of something much deeper. Michael introduced the idea of how this was actually thematic in Scripture. And as such, he began to look
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: October 7, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael calls our reading of the passage of Scripture about which each week’s blog concerns itself, a beautiful term — he says that we are “LISTENING to the lessons of the Bible.” How perfectly that sums up the experience! Biblical scholars exegete, some others study or read, but
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: September 30, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael, as every reader of this blog already knows, has a way of going directly and so astutely to the very heart of a circumstance or issue. Today, in discussing this week’s Scripture, he said, “God is so easy. He gave us a Book of
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: September 22, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Recently, Michael was talking about about the spiritual journeys on which we all are traveling He said, “We hear of people seeing a bright light when passing from this world. What we need to actually remember, is that you can move toward the light while you’re still
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: September 7, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Have you ever noticed how episodic life is? During one season, there exists a time of relative calm, even peace and prosperity, on many levels. Each day flows into another quite easily and seamlessly, lulling us into a common misconception that life will always be this way.
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: September 2, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé As we were discussing this week’s study, Michael so very astutely said, “Before we can show the amazing relevance of Abram in the life of every reader of our blog, we have to ask ourselves this most important question: ‘Who was Abram WHEN GOD CHOSE HIM?’ We
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: August 24, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé There is a legal concept, the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine, with which every law student, just beginning to tackle their first year Criminal Law Class, quickly becomes familiar. The term is a legal metaphor which states that, if the source of the evidence itself is tainted,
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: August 18, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael so wisely says, “The truth of God is gestures and kindness. This is the essence of God’s truth.” How clearly it is evidenced in this week’s study. Last week, Michael and I left Abram and Lot at the dramatic moment when they had, as Scripture says,
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: August 12, 2022
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé As the title of this week’s blog represents, Michael so wisely says about Scripture, “This Book is all about the failures and hurtles that become stepping stones that grow into building blocks that make knowledge. With that knowledge comes truth.” The knowledge and truth of which
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