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Your Future Depends on the Free Will of God
When scientists try to make predictions about the future based on past events, they are in grave error. Scientists often believe in a deterministic universe of causes and effects. They will look, for example, at someone’s medical history and give them a ‘prognosis’ based on records they have kept. But in reality, God controls the… Continue reading
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Emotional Abuse: It’s Complicated, but God Can Help
I was close to my mother. She passed away from cancer when I was in my early twenties. Her illness followed a period of great tension and conflict in her marriage to my father. I have often wondered about the connection between abuse and cancer. I have wondered whether my mother became ill because of… Continue reading
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Career Decisions / Projects in the Pipeline
Dear all, I recently shared that I’ve now been blogging for 14 years. It was timely to get the reminder from WordPress about this anniversary because I have recently been going through a process of reassessing my life and thinking about how to move forward. I’m so thankful to God for this opportunity to regroup… Continue reading
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Greetings / Prayer Request
Hello all, How are you? I hope things are well. I’ve had a tough few days but God has mercifully brought me out into a place of greater peace. Ever since my period in intensive care last year, I have struggled being out in public and I get easily overwhelmed. I’m hoping to find a… Continue reading
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Extra Nos: Liberating Theology
I had been waking up every morning worried and doubting my salvation. I haven’t been able to go to church regularly in recent weeks, and despite reading from my One Year Bible every day, I was struggling on a deep level to have peace in my walk with God. Although the Lord kept reassuring me,… Continue reading
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How Are You?
Dear friends, It’s been a while since I last posted. Having recovered to large extent from my three spells in hospital last year, I’ve been looking to the future and trying to discern the will of God concerning what I should do for work. If you could see my notebook, you’d have a giggle. I’ve… Continue reading
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My name is Steven Nicholas Colborne.
I’m a philosopher and author living in the United Kingdom. On this blog, I write about matters of philosophy and religion and share a variety of personal articles.
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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy whole heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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