Posts Tagged ‘joy that jesus gives’
Trials Bring Us Into Real Joy
TRIALS BRING US INTO REAL JOY By Ernest O’Neill Trials Bring Us Into Real Joy By Rev. Ernest O’Neill James 1:2 is a well-known verse: “Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials.” Well, I don’t know how often you’ve quoted that verse. I know the hundreds of times I’ve quoted it…
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ENDURING JOY By Ernest O’Neill Enduring Joy By Rev. Ernest O’Neill It seems that in some way, God is saying, “The joy that my Son has is a joy that continues in the midst of affliction.” It is something that is independent of the so-called “joys” that we are used to. Unless you put away…
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EARTHLY SOURCES OF HAPPINESS ARE LIMITED By Ernest O’Neill Earthly Sources of Happiness are Limited By Rev. Ernest O’Neill It’s as if God is saying, “You come to a place of reality where you see that there IS no truth in all those things.” “Yes, the chocolate chip cookie gives me a momentary satisfaction, or…
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WHAT IS REAL HAPPINESS AND JOY? By Ernest O’Neill What is Real Happiness and Joy? By Rev. Ernest O’Neill You could call this morning’s subject, “Happiness: “What is Happiness?” The title isn’t important. God did seem in the night to make a phrase real to me — though like so many other things you wonder,…
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