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	<title>William Cody Bateman &#187; mercy</title>
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		<title>The Lords Controversies</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2009/12/11/controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, if God has a controversy with His own people, what of other nations? God will seek reconciliation with His own backslidden people, but the God-despising nations of the world face utter destruction. “A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, He will plead with all flesh; He will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. . . . And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other” (Jeremiah 25:31,33).]]></description>
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		<title>When God Says, &#8220;Leave Him Alone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2009/05/13/yoga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our God is long-suffering and full of mercy, but there is a line which must not be crossed. It is dangerous to presume that God will always continue to forgive; He can become a "consuming fire" (Hebrews 12:29). 

The leaders of Ephraim (a collective term for the ten northern tribes of Israel) had passed this point of no return. They had become completely infatuated with the pantheistic polytheism of the nations, being "joined" to their symbolic models of natural forces and all the immoral practices which accompanied such nature worship. The word for "joined" means "fascinated by." They had been brought so deeply under the occult powers behind these nature-god idols as to be irrevocably committed to them, so that it would be a waste of time and tears to try to reclaim them now.]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual vs. Carnal Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2009/02/25/thanksgiving2008/</link>
		<comments>http://codybateman.org/2009/02/25/thanksgiving2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." (Hebrews 13:15)

Unique to the United States is the national holiday Thanksgiving. We are encouraged to recognize the bounty and wonder of our land, and express gratitude in some formal way.

In many homes, however, thanks have become a vague expression of happiness for prosperity rather than a "sacrifice of praise" to our El Shaddai. 

This is the natural man's character and is temporal, oft times self-centered.

Unique the the Christian Church however, we are told to, 

"...cry out with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of your wonderful works." Psalm 26:7

Not only by our outward expression of voice to offer thanks, but with song too. 

"I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving." Psalm 69:30

When we come before our God of grace to offer our thanks to Him, we remember that we are spiritually approaching the very One who sustains us in the day to day and for eternity through the death, resurrection and promise of salvation wrought by God the Son Himself, Jesus Christ.]]></description>
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		<title>Raining cats&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2009/02/25/cats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust for a day of judgment, to be punished, and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil." II Peter 2:9-10

 MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A cat's last-second grasp of a tree branch is credited with saving its life just before it ended a 17-story fall from an apartment west of Toronto.

Building superintendent Daniel Ambaye told the Toronto Sun he found the cat in a messy apartment its owners had abandoned in Mississauga. He spotted the black and white cat in a bedroom as he surveyed the mess, and said he backed away so as not to frighten it.]]></description>
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		<title>Juliek &#8211; the last sonnet of a dying violinist</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2009/02/15/wiesel/</link>
		<comments>http://codybateman.org/2009/02/15/wiesel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“For a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.” John 4:23

In the book Night, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel describes a moment in the concentration camp frozen in his memory. In the darkened corner of room, where the dead were slumped beside the living, his friend Juliek sat with his violin. On the brink of his own grave, he played notes pure and heavy to an audience of dead and dying men. Wiesel recalls, "[I]t was as though Juliek’s soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again."(1) 

I cannot make sense of this scene other than to say, there are times when the gravity of a song flattens us. To this day, Wiesel admits, he cannot hear the sound of a violin without memory of Juliek dismantling all other thoughts. Perhaps similarly, you have been floored by a memory locked in a melody or leveled by the words of a song. In a very real sense, these are the images of worship. The Hebrew word for worship conjures a physical image, an outward response to an inward affection; to worship the Lord whether in song or in silence means "to prostrate oneself" before the Almighty. Far too often, this is not the result of the songs I sing.]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s mercy is our escape</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2009/01/08/gods-mercy-is-our-escape/</link>
		<comments>http://codybateman.org/2009/01/08/gods-mercy-is-our-escape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." Psalm 136:1

God’s "mercy" is a monumental theme in Scripture. 

This word, "mercy", appears some 341 times in the Bible. Variations of this word in both Hebrew and Greek appear a total of 454 times and are also translated by "kindness," "lovingkindness," "goodness," "favor," "compassion," and "pity." 

Of the 66 books of the Bible, only 16 do not use one of the words for mercy. Even though "mercy" is an important concept, it is somewhat difficult to prescribe a definition for it, especially since "grace" is occasionally coupled with it.]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Music History &#8211; part one</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2008/10/27/ccmgold01/</link>
		<comments>http://codybateman.org/2008/10/27/ccmgold01/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes in our lives, seemingly unrelated events come together in such a way they make a very strong point. Such was the case for me a few weekends ago. I had just received the two video set First Love and planned on watching it Saturday evening. 

In the Saturday morning paper, within just two pages, were two stories that impacted me significantly. First was a long story about Mitch Albom, the Detroit sportswriter, who wrote the monstrously successful book Tuesdays with Morrie. The point of the article was that Albom could with great eloquence recount the lessons he learned from Morrie Schwartz, his former professor, yet in reality he struggles to show evidence of the lessons in his life. Then came a review about a biography of Henri Nouwen, which talked with some sharpness of Nouwen's shallow theology and the life he led. While these stories were interesting, I passed them off as interesting weekend reading.

I sat down on Saturday evening expecting to watch just a portion of First Love Part One. Some four hours later I found I had watched both tapes in their entirety and was anxious to see more.]]></description>
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		<title>When NOT to pray&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2008/02/12/when-not-to-pray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?" (Joshua 7:10)

After the mighty victory at Jericho, it was abundantly obvious that God was fighting for His people as they entered the land of Canaan. God had promised Joshua: "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life" (Joshua 1:5), so nothing could stop them now.

Except one thing--sin in the camp! After a humiliating defeat at Ai, "Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face" and began to complain to the Lord about how He had let them down (Joshua 7:6-9).

Now, normally prayer is a good thing, especially in such times of great need as this. Yet God rebuked Joshua for praying! There is a time to pray, and a time not to pray.]]></description>
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		<title>The walk of a &quot;Christian&quot; is anything but easy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2008/02/05/the-walk-of-a-christian-is-anything-but-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://codybateman.org/2008/02/05/the-walk-of-a-christian-is-anything-but-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our lives today are continually badgered by various trials, or "manifold temptations." The trials are to bring about a pure and effective faith, pleasing to God. But the apostle Peter is not referring to trials or their results when he declares: "Wherein ye greatly rejoice." On the contrary, he is summing up a list of blessings given in the preceding three verses. As we delineate them, let us rejoice as well.

"His abundant mercy" (v. 3). Mercy implies a compassionate act on one who is in desperate need. In context, God's mercy was granted to us in salvation when there was nothing we could do to save ourselves.

"Begotten us again" (v. 3). We have been born again! We are now His children, born into His family. We now have spiritual life--eternal life.]]></description>
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		<title>Why are we not in one accord?</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2006/05/04/why-are-we-not-in-one-accord/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 15:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind" (Philippians 2:1,2).

Churches haven't changed much in 2000 years. The call to unity in these verses is as needed now as it has always been. Let us examine the prerequisites for unity found here.]]></description>
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		<title>Help Me, O Lord</title>
		<link>http://codybateman.org/2000/08/02/help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Cody Bateman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy: That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it” (Psalm&#160;109:26,27). 
There is disagreement as to the proper interpretation of this psalm of David. Its center section (vv.6–20) consists of a strong denunciation and curse, while the [...]]]></description>
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