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If They Say, "Come With Us"SJL, Thank you for your time in response. Mine was not a wolf in sheep's clothing but my own father, who knew the real Truth. Yet, I am still...
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If They Say, "Come With Us"Jim, thank you for reading and for responding and for sharing your thoughts on this subject. It would take a book to share it all with you, and...
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If They Say, "Come With Us"Dear Christsfreeservant, Thank you for sharing your spiritual insight. Your topic is very timely, personally speaking, as I have struggled with...
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Learn to EndureYou are loved by God and nothing will change that. There will be more in the future. Jesus knows all of it, yet loves you with an eternal heart...
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A “God” conversation between a 6 year-old relative of mine and I began casually enough. Ben, whose parents are professed atheists, was making an improvised house from playpieces. He’s a gifted child, able to keep a detailed focus on tasks at-hand and yet be attentive enough to talk with someone...
2 Peter 3:1 (NKJV)
Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder).
One might well think after reading the above, "Hey, I thought we got our act together when we came to Christ!" In a real sense, true. However, the act of...
When the hearts of believers are pure before the Lord, there is no incongruence between some being glad and others among them, sad.
The Apostle Paul showed the Church the best way to live in such an environment of varying demeanors:
Romans 12:15 (NKJV)
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn...
I like to write with certain music pieces sounding in the background.
Yesterday, I wrote this while listening to some of Beethoven's music.
For each set of four lines, I provide the range of the recording time.
If one listens to the music and slowly reads the words (in some cases, a syllable...
A highway shall be there, and a road,
And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean shall not pass over it,
But it shall be for others.
Whoever walks the road, although a fool,
Shall not go astray. (Isaiah 35:8) NKJV
How secure should we consider ourselves to be in our daily walk...
The Apostle Paul wrote For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth (2 Corinthians 13:8 NKJV).
The attitude of the Christian who walks obedient to the Messiah and His Word should be, "I am in Christ,
and He in me; therefore, nothing said or done to diminish me as a just person...
Church, the Lord has given us a Spirit of certainty. We must avoid the fad of “hyper ragamuffinism”, this tendency that stresses lamentation above rejoicing (unsatisfied even in rejoicing with those who rejoice and weeping with those who weep), the overuse of self-examination and critique more...
So, it is communion that defines our relationship with Abba?
Then, I must admit that there are times when He has missed me.
Oh, we say that Abba "is a perfect gentleman" and will not force
Himself upon us. That cannot be, I know He is missing me,
my person within the act of trust, when it...
Every moment of my being
is now pegged into Your eternity:
meaningful, enduring, grafted into Your legacy.
Mine is Yours, Yours is mine,
this life continual in the Vine.
Our years add up, the sum
dwarfed by Salvation history
rushing toward the Throne,
where the heavenly clock chimes
with the...
(after reading about Saul's "Damascus Road" humbling--and his subsequent healing and conversion in Acts 9:1-19)
What ran through Saul's mind as he lie, in a Damascus house, recovering from having crumpled to the ground and been rendered blind by Divine light? Surely one whose life centered on...
When one passage of the Scriptures resounds with
a similar inspiration as another passage, these
are the "deep calls unto deep" (Psalms 42:7) moments
that stir my heart with confidence that the Lord reigns.
His truths are so beautiful and weave indestructible
pictures of God's character and...
One often comes across the question, “Is Christianity true?”, which for some who ask is a loaded question, as if to say “Christianity is a product of Christians”.
Really though, it is Christ himself who taught Christ followers. Christians simply pass the truths along. Therefore, yes...
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire,
and it shall be done for you (John 15:7 NKJV)
I have given consideration to Your Word, O Lord. You have loosed within me
the assurance that knowledge, planted and settled into an active, abounding trust,
will yield a...
(I wrote this a week ago for some future use. Learning of the shootings in PA, I see it, unfortunately, as all too pertinent—but in Christ, there is a great consolation)
Men will just go on killing each other, with bullets, words, and negligent ways. History has taught us, we can’t get...
Followers of Messiah Jesus go to the Scriptures to get honest and true
questions and answers, for: "the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper
than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit,
and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and...
I’ll bear your burden,
you’ll know my own.
We each have our cross,
our shoulders sore.
But somewhere along the way
to self-denial,
suffering for the Faith,
together, makes it worthwhile.
I wrote the short meditation below, after reading Psalm 26, with a special look
at the beginning of verse 11: “But as for me, I will walk in my integrity…”
I end some lines by citing a verse I was focusing on.
At the beginning of Psalm 26, we could easily think that David sounds rather
cocky...
I wrote this after reading the Scripture verses provided below:
What! Live it up?
Rather, we shall live it out.
Emotions handcuffed, discarded? Hardly.
There are more stirrings where service shouts!
The "new man", in us, seeks to move through sinews that bend
to fulfill God's call...
My baptism, sometimes, helps me overcome
the bumps in the road;
there’s nowhere but up.
I learn to better trust others
(didn’t two hands take me under?)
when I recall the drenching of myself,
all coverings for naught,
and all of me rising body, mind, and soul
to clapping affirmations from others...
After reading the story told by Jesus of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32):
What I hold the most dear on this earth,
among those things we would count as providential blessings,
would I begrudge my bitterest enemy receiving any of them, even if it meant that the gift to him was a sign of God’s...