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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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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...
LISTEN, FOLKS, TO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS! THIS COMES FROM
THE BOOK OF LUKE:*
As He [Jesus] entered a village, there met Him ten men who were lepers,
who stood at a distance. They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus,
Master, have pity on us!” When He saw them, He said to them,
“Go, show...
After reading this from Psalm 22:26 (MEV):
…They who seek the Lord will praise him - may
your hearts live forever!
And also thinking about that street phrase,
"Don't be so heavenly-minded that you're no
earthly good"
Just how grounded is untethered faith?
Is it “no earthly-good” to be...
(After reading Hebrews 2:1-4)
This salvation first announced by the Lord:
that He the Lamb of God for sinners wore
all guilt for sin, it on the Cross bore,
so by repentance we live evermore.
Evermore, rescued for the promised place,
that new Earth and Heaven where Christ shall reign.
In so...
(after reading Hebrews 2)
Lord, You help descendants of Abraham,
bypassing angels to give to them
so great a salvation,
Oh saints, pay attention!
Jesus, our High Priest
declares, where we meet,
He is not ashamed
to call us His “Brethren”!
When we consider the "whole counsel of God", there is one irrefutable conclusion:
the existence of creation and humanity confirm that God is.
For instance, the Apostle Paul conveys that Creation essentially announces the Person,
reality, and power of God:
19 For what may be known about God is...
(after reading Luke 24:50-53 and Acts 2:1-41)
Rumors of the Upper Room
were that they cowered from fear, in gloom.
Yet, acts of God (that different kind)
moved them in joyful prayer to abide.
Thus, though they knew not whence He came,
the Spirit of Jesus, as promised, flamed
and breathed upon...
(After reading Proverbs 4:20-27, Psalm 25:3, Luke 4:40, and Revelation 3:20)
Bend your ears, so you can hear
for your needy soul the written Word.
Incline your heart, your pulse—who you are,
God will work, Himself impart.
Christ healed them all, why not you?
No one who trusts will He refuse...
Revelation 21:21-23
21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls,
each gate made of a single pearl. The
great street of the city was of pure gold,
like transparent glass.
22 I did not see a temple in the city,
because the Lord God Almighty and the
Lamb are its temple.
23 The city does not need the sun...
When Christ receives us to himself,
above green pastures and mountain elm,
where snowbound peaks are specks, starlights,
the Bride, prepared, bejeweled, shall shine.
Her fervent hope, by Abba arranged,
shall be fulfilled when trumpets blaze,
and she is taken quicker than sight
makes comprehend...
Matthew 26:31-34
31 Then Jesus told them, "This very night
you will all fall away on account of me,
for it is written: " 'I will strike the
shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will
be scattered.'
32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead
of you into Galilee."
33 Peter replied, "Even if all...
From 1 Timothy 1:6-7
5 The goal of this command is love,
which comes from a pure heart and a
good conscience and a sincere faith.
6 Some have wandered away from these
and turned to meaningless talk.
Sometimes, in tomes of seeking minds
we find how far the erudite
can stray from love, that life...
What is dark to us is not even dark to You, O Lord.
That which is brightened by your Light ushers You in.
Dark is dispelled from us. Your Presence--Light occupying the seized.
Basking, here is the new creation you’ve made of your shining saints.
Change undeniable! This knowledge...
The Lord paid the Spirit-bail over my destiny,*
to walk on, my soul set free!
The old master, sin, wields no whip to make cower.
Scars of the past are just that: a past hour.
“Done left the plantation”, I have for some time.
Each step within Jesus’ will recalls the sublime
that New Jerusalem...
(After reading John 15:1-17)
Father, I extend my soul to follow your rules,
to befriend your heart, do service for you,
because your Son sought you, fulfilled the Law,
I seek you, too, demonstrate love.
First by the knowing he gave all for me.
By this grand mercy, I show grace secondly.
Thirdly...
Over the past few years, I've noticed that in praise music, emphasis on
the Lord taking our shame away has been the norm for many song lyrics.
All well and good when we isolate the emphasis to its meaning. But,
the trend also seems top-heavy and out of proportion to what a balanced Christian...
...after reading Isaiah 40:27-31
We can have strength without fully understanding
the depths of God’s seas and the timing of waves,
those fresh days when gales gather over the oceans,
the moments when gray skies loom over the lakes.
When we no more question the answers of each day,
we log every...
...from Isaiah 62:7
6...You who call on the Lord ,
give yourselves no rest,
7and give him no rest till he establishes
Jerusalem and makes her the praise of
the earth (NIV-1984)
Matthew 6:10
your kingdom come, your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven (NIV-1984)
What now, Bethlehem? You...
Pondering...
Micah 5:2 (KJV)
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
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Luke 2:8:17
8 And there were in the same...
(thinking about Luke 2:8-20)
Every day is Christmas-like, the graced belief in Incarnation’s gift.
Yet, what is special on this Eve is the masses feel the void, Heaven’s mark missed.
The Church? We feel a strong but happy impulse: to share the Good News of Salvation come.
So sing the...