The Playground

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AuthorHouse, 2007 M08 22 - 208 pages

This book, The Playground, is actually a childrens story. When I saw there was a need to explain to my fourteen year old daughter, spiritual principles in the simplest of ways, I referred her to the elements found within a playground.

I thought it would be the easiest way for her to retain information if she drew an analogy from each element of play and it worked.

Here I use spiritual applications of the slide, a swing, a see saw, some monkey bars, a sand box, a round a bout, a barrel, and finally a balance beam to illustrate metaphysically spiritual terms in the simplest of manners.

Realizing myself how effective this is as a teaching tool, on how we relate to God, I also wanted to share this with my readers.

Socialization, parental guidance, and leadership are some more of the topics addressed, along with more wonderfully crafted poems to strengthen ones faith.

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
3
Section 3
11
Section 4
17
Section 5
19
Section 6
25
Section 7
35
Section 8
45
Section 11
75
Section 12
89
Section 13
95
Section 14
99
Section 15
103
Section 16
107
Section 17
119
Section 18
124

Section 9
51
Section 10
65
Section 19
195
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Page 62 - Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
Page 79 - How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!
Page 107 - Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Page 58 - I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
Page 62 - For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
Page 58 - So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
Page 63 - And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
Page 59 - For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.
Page 61 - The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Page 63 - You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of GOD lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

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