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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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Trust, the hallmark of the union
of the Father-Spirit-Son,
each forming forever the One true God,
Whom believing Israel adores.
Though we read not, "Trinity",
revelation thrusts Him forward,
instilling in us awed allegiance
to the One who thus sovereignly comes forth
as loving Father, sending...
A few thoughts on John 2:23-25 (NIV-1984)
23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the
Passover Feast, many people saw the
miraculous signs he was doing and
believed in his name.
24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to
them, for he knew all men.
25 He did not need man's testimony
about man, for he...
Concerning 2 Samuel 11:14-17, 2 Samuel 23:8 and 2 Samuel 23:39. Then, imagining
Uriah the Hittite’s last day of loyal service to the Lord G-d and King David:
As men, set ‘round Uriah, slunk deftly away
and enemy arrows struck sinews and veins,
could these have stung more than being betrayed
by...
When I have a party, dancing is part;
the joy of companionship is how it starts.
We clap for the fiddler as he taps his toes,
and the swaying of happy collaboratin' flows.
As we are one Body, we rejoice as one kin,
the joy of our fellowship is how it begins.
We clap for the Master, who in...
Contemplating Philippians 1:3-6
3 I thank my God every time I remember
you.
4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always
pray with joy
5 because of your partnership in the
gospel from the first day until now,
6 being confident of this, that he who
began a good work in you will carry it on
to...
(Scripture is taken from the NIV1984; information in brackets is taken from the Interlinear on biblehub.com. Italics are mine)
1 John 2:1
My dear children, I write this to you [2nd person singular] so that you [2nd person singular] will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we [2nd person plural]...
Life before light,
before substance illumined.*
Life before light,
grace, before saints’ soul-soothing.**
To each dead of night,
Daystar came pursuing^:
a crash per dark’s knights,^^
for us, soft-landing to His bosom.+
___________
All scripture quotes are taken from the King James Version
*...
When we are thinking about the relationship between our "faith" in Messiah Jesus and our "works",
it helps to consider the words that Jesus said to the Apostle Paul:
Acts 26:17-18
I am sending you to [the Gentiles] to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from
the power of...
Psalm 25:15 (NIV, 1984)
...according to your love
remember me,
for you are good, O Lord.
Think of us only by way of your love,
manifest presence, in us, covenant.
Why else the exertion to raise Jesus up,*
He ascending, then sending his promise, your Dove?
Wafting, the fragrance of our praises...
He is not served by human hands,
rather by hearts, his breath in them.*
Though he lacks nothing, God wanted us
for fellowship, desire filled from dust.
If he had made us from the best of things
of heavens glory, what delight would that bring?
Instead, he made us, mere to majesty,
to just lesser...
Concerning Luke 2:21-24:
On the eighth day after Messiah Jesus was born, Joseph and Mary had Jesus circumcised. This could have been done by a rabbi at Bethlehem or in Jerusalem:
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before...
Love is ultimately a description of fruit growing in our lives, in the “Garden of With All”,*
where the divinely commanded grows naturally, having roots of belief, trunks of hearing,
waters of faith.** Love’s seeds, full of zeal, find receptive soil in heart, mind, soul and
effort—these...
Could the action described in Mark 2:3-5 be an early form of “retaining and forgiving sin”?
The point is that when Jesus “saw their faith”, it was then that He told the paralytic “your sins are forgiven.
It appears to me that the ones carrying the stretcher knew that the man needed healing...
Matthew 19:16-17 (NASB-1995)
16 And someone came to Him [Jesus] and said, “Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?”
17 And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if
you wish to enter into life, keep the...
It's been a good while since
I thought of the sea as a friend.
I've come to the waters to reconcile
God's call to peace with all of life's frictions.
But the Lord has a way
of busting up crutch paradigms.
He says lean not wholly on reasons,
but, yes, we can on words from the Christ.
Here is the...
Lord, how we love your appearing!
Lord, appear! Lord, appear!
The Spirit says the hour is a mystery.
Yet, desiring your Kingdom-come cheers.
It’s not as if our restless yearning,
of itself, could turn to the time.
Yet, You earnestly wish that our turning
in expectation is always ripe.
Lord...
Truth, be told this Christmas
as with every morn.
Prophecy has come to pass,
the Messiah is born.
True, it was for centuries
God told time to wait,
till magi saw the Lord was pleased
by the sign He gave.
Wondrous revelation:
Immanuel from His courts
took good news to Bethlehem,
grew as lad and...
Trembled, shepherds at the shout *
of the angels near Zion’s Mount.
Filled with words of “Fear ye not”,
sandals rightly ran with awe!
Babe, too small to open the door, **
lay in a manger at the floor.
Better than dining is to adore, ^
thus the shepherds communed more.
Tremble, saints at Holy...
After reading Psalms 119:145-152
Promises ring through the night,
like owls, good-haunting the wise,
echoing through forests of days,
promises--what moonlight can’t shoo away.
Wicked schemes may feel so near,
yet far away are they from the clear
conscience that is succored by law
of the...
Come up from your wounds as deep as the sea,^
enter the Lord’s ark for comfort and healing.^^
Every inch of man, once plundered and poor,+
shall leave the soul sick—Oh God, such hearts restore!
Jerusalem, jewel and joy of the earth,
fell into captivity and callous-cruel scourge.++
Prophets...