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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 44,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 16 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
As Brazil counts down the minutes to midnight, I wish a very happy new year to all, and the blessings of God on you and yours.
I read this in some recent research: “The wise man must not know after but know before.” —Epicharmus (460 BC), cited in C. Spicq, TLNT, 2:472
I used it on my blog, also, but here’s a question for you to answer in the comments or, if you’re a long-winded Fellow (which is a good thing), in a separate TFR post: What must the wise man know beforehand?
Yup, I made a Nudge out of it.
That he does not know.
How about what he himself would do in a certain situation? Or maybe even the real source of wisdom? (Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 9:10) Of course this is from a Christian perspective. I have a hard time giving opinions from any other perspective now…but if you ask my wife she says I do very well with seeing things from a “man’s perspective” especially when it comes to stinky things like perfume :) But she knew that before she married me – there’s another answer for your question!
Good question.
Yesterday, I wrote 2163 words; today, 1420 on 2 separate projects. Goal for 2012 is to write 1000/day. Is a can-do.
BRO. RANDALL YOU ARE THE “WORD MAN”
At most, I hope I’m a man of the Word, brother. Thanks!
Matthew was a Jewish man, but a Jewish man working for Rome. Not a healthy combination. He, I am sure, was not too unlike any other Jewish man of his day, apart from his desire to make some money. Did he make more than he should have? Who knows, but perhaps he went about his business in the proper way. Just the same, he would have been considered an outsider by the Jewish community. Maybe one Jew said to another about him, “He is a Jewish son that only a mother could love!” When Jesus saw him, He showed His love to him when He called him to come and follow a man he hardly knew if he knew Him at all. Matthew answers the call. What do we know about Matthew? Not much, but that which we have of him is his telling of the Master that changed his life. Have you gone to tell it on the mountain?
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Have you noticed that when Jesus walked about the geographical area of Israel, He walked about teaching and preaching (not that there is a lot of difference between the two)? In fact, it was of primary importance that He teach; whatever miraculous He did, He did it to confirm the authority by which He taught (cf. John 3:2).
"That I May Finish My Course"
Father, grant ‘ere set of sun
That I may see my task well done;
Something attempted — let it be
A finished work, Dear Lord, for thee.
At dawn I looked upon my field
And dreamed of harvest’s golden yield;
I set my hand, Lord, to the plow,
Nor have I yet turned back, but now,
I pray Thee strength and wisdom send
To carry on unto the end.
Through winter snow, and summer heat,
I’ve walked Thy way with willing feet.
I’ve cleared Thy land of brush and weed
And plowed the soil and sowed the seed,
And felt the joy of those who know
The seed they sow will live and grow.
But other fields are waste and bare,
And I would fain go labor there:
Give me strength, O Lord, and years,
To work with joy and even with tears.
That other workers may be won,
To take the task when mine is done.
And grant me ‘ere the darkness close
To earn a share in that repose
That waits for those who spend their days,
In faith and prayer and work and praise —
The joy of harvest, full, complete
Sheaves to lay, Lord, at Thy feet.
~ brother G. C. Brewer
"Contending For The Faith"
“Thoughts For Today to Brighten Your Day” by Glenn, Mercedes and Lauren Hitchcock
As we draw closer to the beginning of a new year, thoughts of past accomplishments and failures might crowd our mind. Thinking back over the last twelve months we might wonder what we could and should have done better and what things worked out like we wanted them to. Many will also now take this time to make “resolutions” to be undertaken during the coming new year.
Christians are in like manner commanded to “…walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Eph. 5:15-16). As children of God let us look at some things that we should lay aside and things to resolve to do which will bring us closer to Him.
First of all, we should lay aside “all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings” desiring “the sincere milk of the word” (I Peter 1:1-2). Unless we put off those qualities that are sinful hoping for closeness to the Father is wasted effort. The Christian should also lay aside lukewarmness, which is, being neither zealous for nor ambivalent toward godly service. Revelation 3:15-16 gives us this warning: “…because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
Additionally, those who would faithfully serve Christ must lay aside worldliness. This is exactly what is written about in 1 John 2:15-17. Nothing should be in our lives that might hinder our entrance into heaven. Most of all we should lay aside anything and everything that keeps us from growing stronger in faith and knowledge. As the apostle Paul wrote,
“I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:13-14).
There are also some resolutions that each Christian should make. For instance, a faithful child of God will resolve to be happy in the new year. The prophet David wrote “Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD” (Psalm 144:15). If indeed God is the one you serve, than each day should be filled with some happiness.
A Christian should also resolve to improve themselves. This is what Paul wrote about in Phil. 2:5. To become more like Christ is another resolution that a Christian should make. In fact, it is written to “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phi 2:5). Servants may never be above their master but they can be like them (Matt. 10:24-25).
Each of us should resolve to read the Bible and pray every day. This was Paul’s exhortation to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:13 when he said “…give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.”
Perhaps most importantly, Christians should, as all should, resolve to resist the devil. James says that when you resist Satan that he will “flee from you” (James 4:7). At the eve of the New Year, lay aside everything that will keep you from getting closer to God and resolve to do that which will take you closer to Him.
In Christ,
Steve Preston
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The last few months I have conducted a thorough study of what the Scriptures say about the will of God, which has been extremely enlightening to me personally.
This has resulted in three lessons, which are now on the Internet at the addresses below. I pray that this material will be of encouragement and help to you as well.
(The Dutch series is not yet completed. Lord willing, I hope to add it within a few weeks.)
May the Lord bless you.
Roy Davison
August 29th in the Monday edition of the USA Today, Dean Nelson wrote a Monday Focus article titled “Why certainty about God is overrated.” The substance of the article was a review of physicist John Polkinghorne, the man who discovered the existence of quarks and gluons, and his faith and doubt. Polkinghorne is a believer in spite of being a world renowned scientist. Moreover, Polkinghorne admits to doubts both in his science and in his faith. But doubt does not diminish faith in either. Neither quarks nor God can be seen but there is sufficient reason to believe in both. It is not a sin to doubt. Doubt questions, Doubt seeks answers. But as Polkinghorne says, “It’s not a knock-down argument, but it’s strong enough to bet my life on it.” This is Just-A-Minute
HAPPY NEW YEAR
H EAR GOD’S WORD . . . . . . . . . ROMANS 10:17
A nswer God’s Call. . . . . . . . . Matthew 11:28
P ardon receive . . . . . . . . . . Acts 2:39
P EACE POSSESS . . . . . . . . . . .ROMANS 15:33
Y IELD TO GOD . . . . . . . . . . ROMANS 6:13
N O CONDEMNATION. . . . . . . . . . ROMANS 8:1
E TERNAL LIFE IS A GIFT . . . . . . ROMANS 6:23
W ALK UPRIGHTLY . . . . . . . . . . EPHESIANS 5:2
Y OUTH IS THE TIME FOR SERVICE . . .ECCLESIASTES 12:1
E EARLY SEEK GOD . . . . . . . . . .PSALM 63:1
A TTEND TO GOD’S WORD . . . . . . . PSALM 1:2
R EJOICE IN THE LORD . . . . . . . .PHILIPPIANS 4:4
“Thoughts For Today to Brighten Your Day” by Glenn, Mercedes and Lauren Hitchcock
How do you regard authority? The centurion regarded authority as he had been taught, and Jesus was impressed. Is Jesus impressed with how you regard authority, especially the Lord’s authority? Over the years Christians have placed a premium on the teaching of the Lord’s authority: if we don’t have authority from the Lord, we can’t do this (whatever it is that might be under discussion). This frustrates some, but it ought not to. The apostle Paul said words to the same effect in Colossians 3:17, and it is only a matter of honor and prudence that we hear what both the Lord says and what the apostle taught.
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That Peter had a mother-in-law (8:14-15) is not news that is of particular note – unless you address it in the context of the Catholic Church. In the Catholic Church “Marriage was never allowed after ordination… If an aspirant [to the priesthood] were already married, he had to practice celibacy from the day he became a Priest.” In order to justify their teaching of celibacy to priests they declare: “Thus right back to the 2nd century you have explicit testimony that in the Catholic Church once a man became a Priest he had to renounce marriage, and practice celibacy” (Radio Replies, Fathers Rumble and Carty, #1194, p. 242, 1938; this is a 3-volume work with the Catholic Imprimatur). From Catholic teaching, therefore, we are to understand that Peter “renounced” his marriage to his wife? Yes, that is what we are to understand. Be sure to read Matthew 7:15.
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Do you love animals, especially pets? We have a house-trained dog that we love (we keep it outside most of the time). We care for it, play with it, and give it the necessary love that two people desire to give. However, the love we have for our dog (and yard/barn cats) does not compare with the love we have toward our children. This is expected, I know. Yet, when you listen to some people their regard for animals is rather unhealthy. There was once a man who had livestock, a herd of swine. The Lord knew of their value, but the cumulative value of the heard did not compare with the soul of one person.
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Was he making a delivery up there, or was he just passing by?
A blessed Christmas and new year that takes you closer to God. http://randalmatheny.com (photo)
The same to you, Mr. InternetMan!
A good looking crew here, Randal!
Thanks to you both, and to Mike on the family. The ladies got the good-looking part. I’m just a tag-a-long.
Happy New Year, brother.
It’s pathetic when those who won’t get in Jesus’ “camp” by obeying Him want to lump Him into their “camp” as if He supports their ungodly cause! Jesse Jackson has added Jesus to his list of social-agitators (MLKing, Ghandi, Mandela) and professes Jesus would be part of the “Occupy” demonstrations! http://www.theblaze.com/stories/jesse-jackson-jesus-was-an-occupier/
By way of rebuttal:
1. Jesus did not demonstrate against “social injustice” but against hypocrisy. In Mark 7:14-23, Jesus plainly stated that an individual’s sins are caused, not by external, social conditions, but solely by one’s own heart!Thus Jesus was no “Occupier” who blamed others for one’s own individual condition!
2. In John 12:42-50, Jesus plainly shows the hypocrisy of those who profess they “believe God,” while only stating what they feel the “public opinion” would allow, and refusing to follow Jesus. Jesus showed that God endorsed Him by miracles, and to refuse to follow Jesus is to refuse to follow God! Thus Jesus was no “Occupier” who thought only in terms of earthly, selfish, material gains!
3. In Philippians 2:3-11, Jesus’ Apostle, Paul, shows that if one follows the mindset of Jesus Christ, there will be NO forcible “takeover” (a.k.a. “theft”) of others’ properties, and no motivation of envy for others’ things. Rather a Christian will learn to be concerned that all men/women learn of, and obey, Jesus Christ’s splendid example! Once again, Jesus was no “Occupier” who thought only in terms of elevating one’s “self” over others’ souls!
4. If Jesse Jackson had been a disciple of Jesus Christ all the years he has claimed to be a “Reverend” he could not be so ignorant of what the Bible teaches, and surely would not lump Jesus Christ into the camp of social agitators. When Jesus had done the only miracle recorded in all four biographies of Him, the multitude was going to make Jesus “occupy” an earthly throne, but “when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone” (John 6:15). Jesus was no “Occupier” who thought only in terms of elevating one’s “self” over society’s governments without individual conversion to God’s Way!
Indeed, Jesse Jackson, and all those like him, fail in their feeble attempts to make Jesus like them. Instead, they should make themselves like Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:26-29).
Amen and Amen!
Recently there’s been a marked increase in FB posts about animal cruelty. Is there some campaign about?
If you want to find a “Bible student” on the street who will let you know just how wrong you are in judging others, it will be the one that brings verse 1 to your attention – judge not that you be not judged! Be sure, however, to not ask them where the words they assert are located and, most definitely, do not ask them the context of the passage, because then you’ll just be intolerant and a legalist!
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When one considers 7:13-14, it is so easy to look upon others for this warning to be applied; it would be wise, however, if we look at ourselves. While a conscientious person will be hard on self – much harder than those on the outside will be – still, that conscientious person knows the personal motivations and, perhaps, purity that prompted one to take a path too broad. Yet, that path had been taken and no matter what prompted it, one is on it. Look at self, and then help others do the same with regard to themselves.
Christmas is a time of peace on earth and good will toward men. Or so we are told.
Rather, in our modern day, it is a time of insane commercialism and insatiable greed. We spend all of our money for gifts and fight on, tossing future earnings, plus interest, into the melee. All of this to buy gifts for our loved ones, no matter the cost or physical harm that may come to our bodies.
I wonder why we never pause, reflect and ask why. Why do we damage our health and finances to find the perfect toys or electronics? What lies behind our behavior?
Words we need to ponder. I have really focused on an change of attitude this season and it has taken tough financial times to bring me here.
August 29th in the Monday edition of the USA Today, Dean Nelson wrote a Monday Focus article titled “Why certainty about God is overrated.” The substance of the article was a review of physicist John Polkinghorne, the man who discovered the existence of quarks and gluons, and his faith and doubt. Polkinghorne is a believer in spite of being a world renowned scientist. Moreover, Polkinghorne admits to doubts both in his science and in his faith. But doubt does not diminish faith in either. Neither quarks nor God can be seen but there is sufficient reason to believe in both. It is not a sin to doubt. Doubt questions. Doubt seeks answers. But as Polkinghorne says, “It’s not a knock-down argument, but it’s strong enough to bet my life on it.” This is Just-A-Minute
Chuck Swindoll used to say: “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it.” I believe he was point on! A young couple, she was pregnant, showed up at worship this summer in old dirty clothes. We welcomed them and when they explained they were homeless and had spent the night in a culvert beneath the road, we went into action. They were put up in a local motel for a week, bought new clothes, and generously fed. I explained that if they would put forth the effort to improve themselves, we would help them find a job, an apartment and new lives and a future as Christians. After that Sunday we never saw them again, but I did sadly notice that the culvert was once again occupied. This is Just-A-Minute
To those who get the posts by email, the site has a new header and background, in the spirit of the season. Check it out! Even got snow falling!
Better for you to have the snow than me…hahaha God bless, Will
Only on the website. Here in Brazil, we’re in the 80s, I’m sure.
We have reached the time of year when billions of people in the world are to some degree at least, remembering the birth of Jesus. That is good. We know that God never instructed us to place a special emphasis upon the birth of Jesus and we have a lot of evidence that He certainly was not born on December 25th. However, it is ALWAYS good to remember Jesus. In fact, we are told by Jesus that we are to remember Him each Lord’s Day when we eat the Lord’s Supper. LUKE 22:17-20.
I want to suggest that all of us remember some things about Jesus which we need to keep in mind at all times.
Let me also urge you to remember Jesus this Sunday when it is Christmas Day. Do not forsake the assembly of the church in order to be with family and friends. Enjoy a wonderful and pleasant day, but don’t forget to worship God. May God bless you with a great week.
With Much Love,
Ted & Barbara
THE EDIFIER
I Corinthians 14:26
“Let all things be done unto edifying”
An E-Letter from Ted and Barbara Knight to EDIFY our Brothers and Sisters in Romania
December 20, 2012
Good morning to everyone. Our new memory verse is 1 Tim. 5:22 containing an admonition for us all, “…keep thyself pure.” Purity is as purity does. Our text today is Eph. 4:29-32. “29: Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30: And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31: Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”
Our mouths so often get us in trouble. Through the O.T. and the N.T. we are admonished to control our mouths. The word “corrupt” means rotten, putrid, unfit for use. It is a word applied to rotting vegetation or meat. You can imagine how the filthy speech so commonly used by some can make this meaning apply to our words. Many individuals, before becoming Christians, form habits of “corrupt communication” and “evil speaking.” This last phrase primarily means to defame God. Unfortunately, the name of God is used very vainly and vulgarly by too many. James speaks at length about the problem of the tongue. In James 3:6, he calls it a “world of iniquity.” This entire chapter is worth your reading and a good one for your home Bible studies. With the same mouth that we worship God, we demean, belittle and curse men (sometimes those in our own family).
But, brothers and sisters, our Lord touches at the root of the problem in Matt. 12:34 when he says, “…out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” We do not say or do what we do not first think. What is the condition of your heart? What is the nature of your speech? What are your kids learning from your mouth when you are not thinking about teaching them? Be careful, “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by the words thou shalt be condemned” (Matt. 12:37).
Mike Glenn
Not my usual style, but on one of my favorite topics, time, specifically evening. http://2.ly/p9ug
Nothing Christmasy on the poetry horizon yet, but who knows what the mind may whip up in time.
Ch. 1 – Source of the message / Blessed are those who read & obey / Signification of the message / Shortness of the timeframe / The glorious Christ
Ch. 2 – Letters to the churches at Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, & Thyatira
Ch. 3 – Letters to the churches at Sardis, Philadelphia, & Laodicaea
Ch. 4 – John summoned to heaven via a vision / Sights in heaven / Song of heaven
Ch. 5 – A sealed book / Lamentation because no one is worthy to open it / Manifestation of the Lamb, worthy to open the book / Exaltation of the Lamb
Ch. 6 – The 1st 6 seals: white horse, red horse, black horse, pale horse, martyred souls under the altar / The great day of His wrath
Ch. 7 – 144,000 sealed / An innumerable host worships God, cared for by the Lamb of God
Ch. 8 – The 7th seal opened (7 trumpets) / Silence in heaven for half an hour / The 1st 4 trumpets sound: (1) hail & fire mingled with blood – third part of trees & all green grass burned up; (2) great mountain burning with fire cast into the sea – third part of the sea becomes blood, third part of sea creatures die, third part of ships destroyed; (3) great star falls from heaven, burning as a lamp (star called Wormwood), fell upon third part of rivers & waters – waters made poison, & many men die; (4) third part of the sun, moon, & stars darkened
Ch. 9 – The 5th trumpet: bottomless pit opened & locusts / The 6th trumpet: 4 angels loosed / No repentance forthcoming
Ch. 10 – John is given a book/scroll, told to eat it (sweet in eating, but bitter in his belly)
Ch. 11 – The temple measured / The 2 witnesses / The 7th trumpet: all heaven worships God
Ch. 12 – The woman, the child, & the dragon / Satan cast out of heaven / The woman persecuted
Ch. 13 – The beast from the sea / The beast from the earth
Ch. 14 – The Lamb & the 144,000 redeemed / Proclamations of 3 angels / Reaping the earth’s harvest & reaping the grapes of wrath
Ch. 15 – Prelude to the 7 bowl judgments
Ch. 16 – The 7 bowls: (1) loathsome sores; (2) sea turned to blood; (3) waters turned to blood; (4) men are scorched; (5) darkness & pain; (6) Euphrates dried up; (7) earth utterly shaken
Ch. 17 – The great harlot & the scarlet beast / Meaning of the harlot & the beast
Ch. 18 – The fall of Babylon the great / The world mourns Babylon’s fall / The finality of Babylon’s fall
Ch. 19 – Heaven rejoices over Babylon’s fall / The triumphant Christ on a white horse / Defeat of the beast & his armies
Ch. 20 – Satan bound for 1000 years / Souls of martyred saints reign with Christ for 1000 years / Satan cast into the lake of fire & brimstone / The final judgment
Ch. 21 – New heaven & new earth / Those who will be cast into the lake of fire & brimstone / The new Jerusalem
Ch. 22 – The river of life & description of heaven / Jesus’ final invitation & warning / Benediction
A Few Thoughts From: Matthew 6. What has been called “The Lord’s Prayer” is more aptly described as the Lord’s “model prayer.” The disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. Jesus replied with this model prayer.
. The latest census figures say that there are 131,729 same-sex marriages in America. While that is far fewer that they anticipated, it is still 131,729 too many! God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve! Moreover, when Sodom and Gomorrah got into the same-sex business, God put an end to it by raining fire and brimstone on their heads. The way the US is going, if God does not step in soon, He will have to apologize to the cities of the plain. Men burning in lust for men and women committing shameful acts with women, is both debased and perverse. It is not natural! If it were natural, children could be conceived from it. Had it been Adam and Steve, mankind wouldn’t have lasted long. This is Just-A-Minute
I happened to come across your blog. Nearly every person who acknowledges an aversion to homosexuality does so on the basis of what he or she believes the Bible has to say. In their mind, there is no doubt whatsoever about what the Bible says and what the Bible means. Their general argument goes something like this: Homosexuality is an abomination and the homosexual is a sinner. Homosexuality is condemned in both the Old and New Testaments. Therefore, if we are to be faithful to the clear teachings of Scripture we too must condemn homosexuality. This premise is being widely debated among evangelicals today and seriously challenged by biblical scholars, theologians and religious leaders everywhere.
It rarely occurs to any of us that our reading of Scripture is profoundly colored by our own cultural context and worldview. Clearly, throughout church history most Christians who have used the Bible to condemn other Christians believed they were acting in good faith. However, history has revealed that what many were defending was their presumption of what the Bible teaches, not the truth of Scripture.
Since I happen to speak and write on this very topic, I thought you might find some of these posts of interest. I would particularly recommend to you the following: “Romans 1: What Was Paul Ranting About?”, “Romans 2: Paul’s Bait and Switch” and “Why No One in the Biblical World Had a Word for Homosexuality.” You can find links to these and others on my “Index” page. I trust you will find them applicable and relevant.
-Alex Haiken
http://JewishChristianGay.wordpress.com
This evening, a good friend of mine who lives in Seattle and I carried on a lively discussion with two or three people on Facebook who had never obeyed the gospel.
One of our purposes was to encourage them to reduce to writing what they believed. They had an extremely difficult time doing this, but when they did we discovered some interesting things about their thinking:
1. Proving their position was unnecessary. One of the people expressed their belief as being a necessity to “accept Jesus as their personal savior.” However, when we asked where in the New Testament this was required, the person denied needing to do this. Another person said, “One does not have to prove why they believe the way they do.” In addition to giving her 1 John 4:1 and 1 Peter 3:15, we asked if a Muslim should prove his belief. She said, “Nope.”
2. The scriptures were not important to them. After asking one of them to provide scriptures in support for their belief as we had for ours, one said, “No you have offered Scripture not proof and that is my point.” After then offering Hebrews 11:1 and its definition of faith being “evidence of things not seen,” the person continued to deny the importance of scripture in what one believes.
3. The scriptures do not provide real faith. One wrote, “We believe through faith not because it was proven to be real.” At that point, it seemed to me that the possibility of reaching this person was pretty close to nil. How can one deal with someone who believes this? It was clear that:
4. These people were entrenched. This is the hardest part of trying to teach the gospel in the United States. People are so entrenched in their man-made doctrines they have no room in their minds for the truth. Yet, we must keep trying to reach them and give them an opportunity to obey the gospel.
It was enjoyable putting the light into the darkness, even though it was clear that people “loved darkness rather than light.”
Your words remind of the very things I encounter (especially point #2) when I have conversations with people on wordpress almost on a daily basis. Even though I have only been on there for about a month it absolutely amazes me how many people who write under the topic of “Christian based, Jesus believing, God loving” articles have disdaining and negative attiudes toward and about the Bible and absolute truth. I just had one right before I came here.
It really is sad when someone wants to talk about Christianity or Jesus but they will not accept anything that the Bible says unless it supports what they believe. If it doesn’t then it “automatically” becomes “just the words of Paul” or something that another man wrote in and “not what God wanted taught.” It has really made me think about the saying, “there are none so blind as those who will not see” in a whole new light.
You’re right, brother. This idea that one can believe what one wishes without even understanding it and a reluctance to accept biblical teaching as the objective word of God is becoming more widely accepted. I could not believe that one of the people we had the discussion with said it was not necessary for a Muslim to prove his assertions. That kinda got my attention.
Quote by Picasso, + watercolor, starts off today’s devotional, ends with Christ and DOING. http://2.ly/p9s2
Deirdre is discussing. 
Will are discussing. 
And you and yours also!