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“Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. And we have...
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your...
This entry seeks to offer an understanding on soft power, apply it to U.S. developmental aid, and to an extent assess this type of aid in general. Lastly, I will offer some understanding of whether such aid is biblical.
It has been a several decades since Joseph Nye wrote the book, Soft Power...
An Original Work / February 8, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“O you who love the Lord, hate evil!
He preserves the lives of his saints;
he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Light is sown for the righteous,
and joy for the upright in heart.
Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,
and give thanks to his holy name!” (Psalms 97:10-12...
Proverbs 21 Select Verses ESV
10 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
16 One who wanders from the way of good sense
will rest in the assembly of the dead.
24 “Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man
who acts with arrogant pride.
25...
“The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the plans of his heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
The Lord...
“The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord;
I am not guilty of turning from my God.
All his laws are before me;
I have not turned away from his decrees.
I have been...
An Original Work / February 3, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
protect me from those who rise up against me;
deliver me from those who work evil,
and save me from bloodthirsty men.
For behold, they lie in wait for my life;
fierce men stir up strife against me.
For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord...
An Original Work / February 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ‘For who has understood the mind of the...
Chapter Seven
Majority Versus Minority
May 28, 2023
I am still reading in the book of Acts. And Paul had just finished giving his defense to King Agrippa. Then the king rose, and the governor and Bernice and those who were sitting with them. And when they had withdrawn, they said to one...
Chapter Six
Crazy for Jesus
May 27, 2023
And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.” But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking...
1 John 3:1-2 (KJV)
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath given unto us, that we should called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when he shall...
“Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous...
Chapter Four
Hear My Case
May 27, 2023
I am now reading in Acts 25. The Apostle Paul was being held in custody under the authority of the governor Felix. And during this time, Felix would visit him on occasion and would listen to Paul sharing about his faith. And this went on for two years...
Chapter Three
We’re Not All the Same
May 27, 2023
Acts 21,22,23 and Acts 24:1-23 Summary
The apostle Paul was now in Jerusalem, and he was being accused by some Jews of things he did not do. And so the tribune arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. And he was placed in...