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Truth Behind Reality blog – 2011 Annual Report
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [T], Happy New Year
Tagged Happy New Year, postaweek2011, Truth Behind Reality
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The Church is Indestructible
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always survives her conquerors. Hilaire Belloc ♦ 1 Peter 1:3-9 says that our spiritual faith will be tested like gold in the fire. In order to obtain pure gold, we must first … Continue reading
Why Should I Worship God?
Pure worship is pure humility which is complete openness to God. Through this alone God fills us with his fullness, full and overflowing – always. ♦ Apart from pure worship we close our self both to God and our self, … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [W], Worshipping God
Tagged postaweek2011, Todd Beal, Truth Behind Reality, Worship
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Happy Thanksgiving 2011
I want to wish everyone here at Truth Behind Reality a Happy Thanksgiving! This is a very special holiday for me. I so appreciate God’s unending blessings in my life. Just when I think life is dealing me a major … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [H], Thanksgiving
Tagged Gratitude, postaweek2011, Praising God, Thanksgiving, Todd Beal, Truth Behind Reality
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What Happens If I Sin?
Providing one’s heart is oriented rightly toward God, he will not sin out of calloused blatant rebellion but instead out of weakness due to our fallen nature, and he is therefore covered by Christ’s blood sacrifice on the cross, should … Continue reading
Can I Lose My Salvation?
Willful and unrepentant rebellion always assures separation from God, and ultimately incurs his wrath. Todd Beal ♦ There is a certain element to the doctrine of “eternal security” that strikes accord with me, but I don’t believe the scriptures ever … Continue reading
Why Does Newness Become Old?
Newness is deviation from normalcy, but when newness becomes sameness, it becomes a way of life, commonplace, not new. Todd Beal ♦ Normal is good when it maintains stability of truth and structural completeness, but otherwise stifles life itself. Within … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [W], Tradition
Tagged new, newness, old, postaweek2011, sameness, Todd Beal, tradition, Truth Behind Reality
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Universal Law of Connection
All things connected share a universally common set of laws inherent to the realm within which they reside. Todd Beal ♦ More than one realm exists in all, with each realm nested hierarchically within a parent realm. Each realm is … Continue reading
Is Faith the Same as Trust or Belief?
Without faith we are as weak as the mighty oak whose taproot dies in the soil that feeds it. Todd Beal ♦ I want to thank Lance Ponder for stoking the fire yet again with his post, “Faith: Sell, Tell, … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [I], Faith
Tagged Belief, faith, faith in God, postaweek2011, Todd Beal, trust, Truth Behind Reality
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Itching Ears
The last person to know that his beliefs contradict truth is the one who stubbornly holds to his ego over the truth that would set him free. Todd Beal ♦ II Timothy 4:1-4 [NASB] “I solemnly charge you in the … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [I], Truth
Tagged ego, ego versus truth, postaweek2011, Todd Beal, Truth, Truth Behind Reality
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Criteria for System Integrity
The key to ongoing development of a fully functional and reliable system is limiting your options to those changes that improve its efficiency only, but within both the scope of its function and the service it provides while not straying … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [C], Systems
Tagged just write, postaweek2011, system criteria, system design, system integrity, Todd Beal, Truth Behind Reality
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Made In the Image of God
Do I study myself and yet still reject God? Do I accept he is real and yet reject my design, and his? How do I discover his structure: and dare I compare his to mine? Am I made in his … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [M], Image of God, Trinity
Tagged image of God, omnipresent, omniscient, postaweek2011, Todd Beal, trinity, triune, Truth Behind Reality
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Foolish Fear – Or Justified?
Fear of the unknown is pointless. Fear of the known is either pointless or it is justified. Todd Beal ♦ Upon what do you base your fear: truth, or speculation? If you fear what you don’t know, then your fear … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [F], Fear
Tagged delusion, fantasy, illusion, imagination, postaweek2011, Todd Beal, Truth, Truth Behind Reality
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How Would You Know?
Had you not ever experienced God’s presence, if you had not heard of the Bible, how would you know if it is true, or not, upon reading its content cover to cover? Todd Beal ♦ Sometimes, the best “atheist” is … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [H], Discerning Truth, Knowlege versus Experience
Tagged atheism, Belief, blind belief, postaweek2011, Todd Beal, Truth, Truth Behind Reality
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Truth – The Totality of Life
If I were to start at one end of the world and make my way around it only to arrive where I first began, would I be no further than when I first set out? To travel full circle and … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [T], Life
Tagged philosophy of life, postaweek2011, Reality, Todd Beal, Truth, Truth Behind Reality
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Meet the Challenge
In the midst of a storm stands a tree and within that tree grows strength. If you are the tree and life is the storm, which way will you bend to meet its challenge? Todd Beal ♦ Even the strongest … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [M], Perseverance, Personal Growth
Tagged compromise, life and death, life challenge, postaweek2011, taproot, Todd Beal, Truth, Truth Behind Reality
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Why Do I Keep Sinning?
If I sin then feel remorse, why do I relent and yet sin again? Is it not enough to ask forgiveness, to petition God “Destroy my desire against you”! Oh would that I please him, and release my desire for … Continue reading
Posted in By Title [W], Repentance, Sin
Tagged postaweek2011, remorse, remorse versus repentance, self-indulgence, sinful desire, Todd Beal, Truth Behind Reality
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Cause and Effect
No thing is the cause of itself, and effect is subordinate to its cause. Cause is not and cannot be less than its effect – this renders evolution false. Todd Beal ♦ So, who or what caused this effect that … Continue reading
Just Weather
Two farmers say prayers for their crops: one for it to rain so his crops will grow; the other for no rain because his crops have too much already. Whose prayer does God
Posted in By Other Authors, By Title [J], Personal Growth
Tagged Don Branham, personal growth, postaweek2011, Truth Behind Reality
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Creed of Personal Integrity
I will make my own path, I will follow my own rules and if necessary will die for what I know is true. Todd Beal ♦ What is your path; is it yours or predefined by someone else?
Posted in Belief, By Title [C], Integrity
Tagged faith, individuality, integrity, postaweek2011, Todd Beal, Truth, Truth Behind Reality
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