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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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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...
(Whether one is “Arminian”, “Calvinist”, or in-between in their theological bent, there is something to be, shall we say, “wildly joyful” about in knowing that God intimately thought about us and stretched his arms toward us even before “the beginning of time” (2 Timothy 1:8-10 NIV)...
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and
God our Father, who loved us and by
his grace gave us eternal
encouragement and good hope,
17 encourage your hearts and strengthen
you in every good deed and word.
There we have it: divine encouragement already
given and...
The Apostle Paul carried the banner
theme of "faith, hope and love" everywhere
he went. We mostly recognise this as if
it were the refrain of the 1 Corinthians
"Love Chapter":
1 Corinthians 13:3
And now these three remain: faith,
hope and love. But the greatest of these
is love.
This trifecta...
A poem, after considering these Bible verses:
Jeremiah 17:5; Jeremiah 17:7-8
5 This is what the Lord says: "Cursed is
the one who trusts in man, who depends
on flesh for his strength and whose
heart turns away from the Lord.
7 "But blessed is the man who trusts in
the Lord , whose confidence is...
A meditation, after considering Colossians 3:11-17
11 Here there is no Greek or Jew,
circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian,
Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all,
and is in all.
12 Therefore, as God's chosen people,
holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves
with compassion, kindness...
I recently heard a pastor assuage his congregation's
perceptions about the Old Testament, assuring attendees
that even if it (the OT) seems "weird", it forms part of the
canon of the inspired word of God. For my part, having
thoroughly read both testaments, I'm struck by how "weird" one...
Our well-being in the Lord puts his splendor on display.
From Isaiah 61:3 (NIV Bible 2011):
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
Wanting to know THE ultimate plan that God the Father has for the future?
The Bible clearly states it in Ephesians 2:6-7. We know why Messiah Jesus
came to save, but there is an ultimate "What?" that is loudly asked in the
universe, throughout every generation, until "what" happens^...
After reading Isaiah 49:13-16…
13 Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O
earth; burst into song, O mountains! For
the Lord comforts his people and will
have compassion on his afflicted ones.
14 But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken
me, the Lord has forgotten me."
15 "Can a mother forget the baby...
Not in a corner, but on every corner,
from high to unlearned, the lofty to leper,
the halt and the lame, some proud: all ready
to earth's salt be, to this very day.
He is Lord, Jesus is Lord!
He opens the door, in dark lights a torch.
He makes sin, the grievous, become almost myth,
displaced as...
Isaiah 49:5-8
5 And now the Lord says- he who formed
me in the womb to be his servant to
bring Jacob back to him and gather
Israel to himself, for I am honored in the
eyes of the Lord and my God has been
my strength-
6 he says: "It is too small a thing for you
to be my servant to restore the...
From Galatians 4:9...
But now that you know God--or rather are known by God...
In our salvation-relationship with Messiah Jesus, it is revealed to us that
God knows us, thus we in turn know him. The knowledge that we are
infinitely understood and loved, even though we are infinitely finite,*...
In the first chapter of 1st Corinthians, the Apostle Paul
expresses his concern that some of the believers were treating
fellowship with God as a matter of which minister of
the Gospel one is following:
12 What I mean is this: One of you says,
"I follow Paul"; another, "I follow
Apollos"...
1 Corinthians 15:40-41
40 There are also heavenly bodies and
there are earthly bodies; but the
splendor of the heavenly bodies is one
kind, and the splendor of the earthly
bodies is another.
41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the
moon another and the stars another;
and star differs from star...
2 Chronicles 20 explains how Jehoshaphat, King of Judah,
called the people his kingdom together to earnestly pray while
invaders from Moab and Ammon threatened them.
What followed was like an Early Church charismatic service:
(1) United as One
2 Chronicles 20:13
All the men of Judah, with...
It is a blessing to discover how the Bible is so divinely authored through human hands that the verses, as it were, “network within themselves”, producing a “The Bible explains the Bible” phenomenon.
When I find a passage that speaks strongly to me, I like to dig for other passages of the...
(Pondering the Apostle Paul’s teaching in “Romans” about election and predestination)
Based on God’s righteousness and His commandments, the nation of Israel became estranged from God, ushering in the age of the Gentiles, i.e., the Age of Grace. Since then, a remnant among the Gentiles is...
His hymns are ever in our hearts
because He loveth the first
to bring us to salvation,
into redemption-works.
The call of Christ at ev’ry door,
He, responding to our thirst,
caused many to form remnant choirs,
as healers to the hurt.
We form a temple not made with hands,
with art b’yond...
Heavenly Father, “Whom have I in Heaven but You?”* That was easily answered: You.
And Father, whom have You on earth but those who believe in, hope for and trust in You? This, also easily answered, by those who “have ears” to hear your call and respond in kind.
We have You, You have us...