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    CV-19 PREP

    Found this on an Instagram post...
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    Give this One a Title please

    I was browsing through some 3 year old emails and seen I had sent this to myself to keep for some reason. I don't remember writing let alone figure why I wrote it. I kinda like it and maybe one of you can give it a title? I've been here before and swore I wouldn't come back. Words written on...
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    Has a 'Personal Relationship with Jesus' eclipsed 'Justification by Faith Alone'?

    The clarion call of the Reformation was that a person was justified freely by grace alone through faith alone. Even Luther said 'justification is the article by which a Church stands or falls.' Yet today it seems the clarion (false) call is 'have a personal relationship with Jesus'. The...
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    Help! Ice Cream.

    I am 'sheltered at home' living in a predominately Spanish neighborhood. It is about 97deg F outside this day of April 24th, and I hear an ice cream truck rumbling through the barrio playing Frosty the Snowman. I am going out of my mind growing fat at home. Should I run out and buy ice cream...
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    The Curse Reversed

    The Blood was spilt, The Chains were broken. The Sky did open, The Water did flow. The Heart thawed, The Mind cleared. The Youth returned, The Aged renewed. The Thorns crumbled Pain had fled. Tears were shed
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    Pastor Testifies of Eternal Hope Before His Execution

    Lawan used the video his terrorist captors took of him to declare his trust in a good God. Feb. 13, 2020 | Nigeria A pastor executed by Boko Haram militants left an inspiring legacy in the form of a hostage video. The Reverend Lawan Andimi was kidnapped from his village in Adamawa state on Jan...
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    The Road to Zion Passes by Bethlehem

    On the road to Zion, I had to pass by Bethlehem, before stopping at Calvary. In Bethlehem, I saw that God became man and was wrapped in swaddling cloths. At Calvary, I saw God, wrapped in our sin, die for mankind. In Bethlehem, men gave the God/man temporal gifts At Calvary, God...
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    Persecutions of the Anabaptists

    I really don't understand how Christian brethren can hunt down and torture and kill other Christian brethren when that type of behavior is 180 degrees from the teachings of the Bible... unless the ones' doing the persecuting weren't born again to begin with.
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    This Flies in the Face of Evolution

    8min 17sec... How would biological evolution explain this?
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    Ecumenicism: To Be or Not To Be?

    Unity at the expense of Truth? or Truth at all cost! Where do you draw that line?
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    Theresa May Quits, UK set for new PM by end of July

    BBC Theresa May has said she will quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister. In an emotional statement, she said she had done her best to deliver Brexit and it was a matter of "deep regret" that she had been unable to do so. Mrs May said...
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    Why the 'Church Fathers' Don't Thrill Me.

    I know the Fathers have some good things to say as most Christians do, but this? Ignatius Bishop of Antioch (98-117A.D.) – Epistle to the Magnesians For if we are still practicing Judaism, we admit that we have not received God’s favor…it is wrong to talk about Jesus Christ and live like Jews...
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    Globalism/Nationalism and Antisemitism.

    Nationalism has usually been associated with antisemitism. ("We need to make our country strong, so let's get rid of these undesirable Jews.") But today we are seeing a surge of antisemitism coming from the Globalists ("Israel and Zionism is counter productive to a one world system with it's...
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    Google on Psalm 23

    The New Millennial Version (NMV) (Psa 23:1) A Psalm of Page and Brin (to be sung by the masses). Google is your Guide; you shall not want. (Psa 23:2) It makes you to lie down in cyber pastures: it leads you besides muddy waters. (Psa 23:3) Google restores your lusts: it leads you in the...
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    A Surer Foundation...Creeds or Scripture?

    Which would you say is more foundational to the Christian faith...the Nicene / Apostles Creed or Holy Scriptures. (I'm basically curious where many here stand on this issue). I definitely believe the Scriptures are God's Word whereas the Creeds are a man made summary of the essentials. I'm not...
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    Bring Back the Wise Men

    Lately you have been told to put away the Wise Men from your nativity scene because Jesus was about two years old when the wise men arrived to worship Him? Look at these passages again... (Luk 2:1) And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all...
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    The Pope kissed a notorious Islamist anti-Semite

    "The most important picture taken during the Pope's trip to the Arab Emirates was the Pontiff's close encounter with the imam of Al Azhar, Ahmed al Tayyeb. They kissed each other after signing a joint declaration which repudiated violence justified “in the name of religion”. Religion? I don't...
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    O Empty Cup

    O Empty Cup O empty cup, which way will you turn? Filled by the world, it's dainties they do burn. Filled by the flesh, fading strength, failing self will. Filled by the academies with it's ivory and swill. Or filled by God in His grace meeting your needs? Filling you with peace, granting...
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    Truth Triumphs

    Notice the progression, Truth-->Purity-->Love Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, (1 Peter 1:22 NASB) Too often these days truth is sacrificed on an altar called 'love'. That would be a...
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    Haiku on Haiku

    seventeen pebbles being carried by the tide no place to anchor (a Haiku commentary on the transitoriness of that which is not anchored in the eternal)