Hello folks. What is your favorite Catholic Bible version? Mine is the NRSV-CE, which would be between "word-for-word" and "thought-for-thought" on the first chart. Sadly, these charts are missing a lot of Catholic Bibles.

Chart 1: Bible translations: Comparison charts - Chapter 3 Ministries



Chart 2: Ward: A Rising Tide Sinks All Boats: The Legacy Standard Bible and Stewarding the Church’s Trust

Hello folks. How can we discern if a church is worldly (idolizes the world) or spiritual? Have any of you encountered a "worldly" church? What were some warning signs or red flags that helped you decide to leave a church?


Here is a 10-part checklist to help aid us on our church journeys.

1. Lack of emphasis on prayer and the study of scripture. If a church does not prioritize these spiritual disciplines, it may indicate a drift toward worldliness.

2. Emphasis on entertainment or popularity rather than holiness and worship. A church that focuses more on providing an entertaining experience than cultivating a holy and reverent atmosphere may be becoming too worldly.

3. Compromise on biblical truth for the sake of inclusivity or cultural relevance. Churches should strive to be welcoming and relevant, but not at the expense of abandoning core Christian beliefs.

4. Materialism or wealth-focused messages. A church that places undue emphasis on material possessions, financial success, or prosperity may be drifting into worldliness.

5. Toleration of sinful behavior among members. A truly biblical church will uphold God's standards for morality and sexual purity, and will lovingly confront and correct any member who persists in sin.

6. Lack of accountability or transparency from leadership. Church leaders should be above reproach and subject to oversight by other mature Christians. Any hint of secrecy or deceit could suggest worldliness.

7. Focus on self-help or personal fulfillment rather than discipleship and obedience to Christ. While personal growth is important, it must always take a back seat to following Jesus and obeying His commands.

8. Worldly associations or partnerships. A church that allies itself with unbelievers or secular organizations without careful discernment may be compromising its witness for the gospel.

9. Watered-down preaching or teaching. Messages that avoid controversy or challenge listeners to repentance may be catering to worldly sensibilities instead of proclaiming the full counsel of God.

10. Absence of true community or fellowship. A church that emphasizes individualism over unity and interdependence may be reflecting a broader trend toward worldliness in society as a whole.

Verse about worldly churches: A Warning from 2 Timothy 4:3 - The Gospel is not a Cafeteria
Another verse about worldly churches: Rebuke The Worldly Churches (1 Timothy 5:20)

Does it make you angry that you can't get women as easily as women can get men? This was just on my mind and I don't know if it makes me angry but it is the reality is all I know. I'm in a situation where if I were female I could get at least someone. But being male theres expectations of me I can't fulfill due to being disabled and low on money. I really feel like if I just approached people in my neighborhood I could find someone but I just don't feel the pull to do so. I kinda have it good since all my needs are met and I don't have any responsibilities or anything to do but I do like being in a relationship.

Jehovah Witnesses have been knocking on my door. I was hoping there was a polite way to turn them away. I don't want to get into a debate with them, but I want them to understand that I have no desire to study their bible.

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Hebrews 1​

1 Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways.​

2 In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son. God has appointed Him heir of all things and made the universe through Him.​

2 But now, in the acharit-hayamim, he has spoken to us through his Son, to whom he has given ownership of everything and through whom he created the universe.​

3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature,​

3 continued- sustaining all things by His powerful word.​

3 continued- After making purification for sins,​

3 He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.​

Tomorrow, we will have to dive in to a simplified pictorial representation of the Jewish Tabernacle. This is How deep Hebrews really is! We are only 3 verses in and it is full of things that are the very deepest depths of the Gospel. It is by far, the most Revelatory book in the New Testament! See you there, tomorrow.

All Love in Jesus Christ to All of you!

Yes, Mark 7:

19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

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Paul confirmed that in Romans 14:

14 I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. … 20a Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean.

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More generally, Colossians 2:

16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

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Eating pork or shrimp is fine but you don't have to. If you can avoid eating pork and shrimp, good for you

See also

• Those who sanctify themselves by eating pig’s flesh shall come to an end together
• Dietary laws from Adam to the apostles.

Excavations in Israel are offering a rare window into Christian pilgrimage in the Byzantine era.

Finds from the dig at a Byzantine-period church in Rahat, in the Northern Negev, have revealed a trove of wall art by pilgrims featuring ships.

"These intriguing drawings may have been left by Christian pilgrims arriving by ship to the Gaza port — their first inland stop was this Rahat church; continuing from here on to other sites throughout the country," excavators from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) explained.

One drawing depicted what appeared to be a two-masted ship, and its exacting details testified to the artist's familiarity with maritime life, but "since the drawing was found upside-down, it seems the person placing the stone during construction was either unaware it bore a drawing, or did not care."

The IAA has been conducting excavations at the site for several years.

"This is a greeting from Christian pilgrims arriving by ship to Gaza port," the IAA said.

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Do you have to learn Greek and Hebrew to understand the bible fully?

No one can fully understand the Bible. Studying the Koine Greek and ancient Hebrew languages will help you understand some verses better. It is not a prerequisite to know God, who dwells in you.

Should you study Koine Greek and ancient Hebrew?

If you are interested in grammar and syntax, then yes. If not, then no. Would you read something like Grammatical Mood on a daily basis?

Some claim:

I was listening to a wonderful Bible scholar and he said you should at least know the Greek and Hebrew alphabet to appreciate the deeper meaning of scripture.

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That's superficial. Knowing the spellings does not give you that advantage. Worse, it makes you think that you have that advantage over people who can't spell in Greek or Hebrew.

The best way to learn Greek or Hebrew is to study it in a classroom setting from a professor.

Studying grammar is a serious business. If you enjoy doing lexical-syntactical analysis, then go ahead.

John 2:

10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

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Did Jesus create good wine that the wedding guests got drunk on?

No. Barnes explained:

We should not be deceived by the phrase "good wine." We often use the phrase to denote that it is good in proportion to its strength and its power to intoxicate; but no such sense is to be attached to the word here. Pliny, Plutarch, and Horace describe wine as "good," or mention that as "the best wine," which was harmless or "innocent" - poculo vini "innocentis."

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Pliny lived in the 1st century A.D.

Pliny expressly says that a good wine was one that was destitute of spirit (lib. iv. c. 13). It should not be assumed, therefore, that the "good wine" was "stronger" than the other: it is rather to be presumed that it was milder.

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The wine referred to here was doubtless such as was commonly drunk in Palestine. That was the pure juice of the grape. It was not brandied wine, nor drugged wine, nor wine compounded of various substances, such as we drink in this land. The common wine drunk in Palestine was that which was the simple juice of the grape.

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According to Barnes, what the wedding banquet MC called "good wine" was what we call "grape juice" today. So according to Barnes, everyone serves the grape juice first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the grape juice until now.

That does not make very good sense. Particularly, the Greek word for "drunk" is G3184.

Strong's Greek: 3184. μεθύω (methuó) — 6 Occurrences

BDAG μεθύω:

to drink to a point of intoxication, be drunk.

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G3184 appeared in Matt 24:

48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards [G3184].

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Berean Literal Bible:

and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”

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You can't get drunk on grape juice.

Were some guests drunk before Jesus produced the fine wine?

I don't know. There might be.

Did Jesus create a wine that the wedding guests got drunk on?

I doubt it. I doubt that more guests got drunk on Jesus' fine wine.

Mark 7:
20 And He said, What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders,
22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.

One of many disturbing facts about the world is the taking of ideas from the Bible and applying them
in a contemporary way that clouds the truth. The evil eye is not a stare or giving someone a dirty look.
Consider this statement by the owner in the parable of the vineyard for insight.

Matthew 20:
14 Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you.
15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things?
Or is your eye evil because I am good?

Now, hear the words of the prophet Isaiah.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light,
and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

At a most basic and essential level, every believer must address the carnal tendency
to see every fault in others, while making every excuse to downplay or own shortfalls.
A fine example from the teachings of Paul to elaborate.

Romans 14:
4 Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls.
Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother?
For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to Me,
and every tongue shall confess to God.
12 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this,
not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.

This becomes a critical issue when we understand that an evil eye clouds our ability
to perceive and follow the Spirit in every area of our Christian walk.

Luke 11:
34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good,
your whole body also is full of light.
But when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
35 Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.
36 If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark,
the whole body will be full of light,
as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.

The “good eye” receives the light of Truth, and the Lord’s discipline

Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light;
and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.

This is central to receiving the “sure mercies of David”.

Psalm 132:17 There will I make the horn of David to bud:
I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

GOP elections board member refuses to certify Georgia primary results

Fulton County elections board member Julie Adams was a holdout in voting to certify the votes, and gave an ultimatum that she would do so only if granted access to detailed voting data, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

On May 22, a day after the state's primary, Adams sued the board and the county’s elections director, lodging accusations that she was "unable to fulfill her oath of office” and demanding that she get access to “essential election materials and processes."

Adams, who also serves as director for the Tea Party Patriots, is one of two board members nominated by the Fulton County Republican Party to the five-member board and was sworn in back in February.

Can't wait to see how many knuckleheads like this we have in November.

I just don't get it. Everything seem chaotic.

“The burden of proof is an important one to remind everyone: It’s on the prosecution, right? They need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he commit — that Donald Trump broke the law. And you think after listening to all of this, you think they fell short. How?” host Kate Bolduan asked.

Zelin responded, ““They fell way short, because let’s start with reasonable doubt. What is reasonable doubt? And it’s not simply a doubt based upon reason. Any time a human being needs to make an important decision in life, if you have enough information, for example, doctor says you need open heart surgery. ‘Doc, go ahead and schedule. I don’t have a reasonable doubt.’”

“Conversely, if I say ‘I appreciate it, but I need a second opinion, I need more information,’ that is having a reasonable doubt. There is reasonable doubt all over this case,” he added.

Are you in favor of a mandatory retirement age for all three branches of the government?

I've been settled in this for as long as i can remember, or apparently not. All things were made clean in acts? Pigs and sea creatures, etc?

Has anyone read Neale Donald Walshe and of his revelation of God, so is it the same God as the Holy Spirit? Is God revealing Himself apart from the Bible and church history? Or is this fake or a deceiving spirit?

Out of curiosity I watched "NCIS - Sydney" tonight for the first time. The introduction had a shark coughing up a former US Navy Seal's arm in a tidal swimming pool.

I was sceptical about a shark being swept into a tidal swimming pool, but apparently it did happen once at least. Mind you it was a juvenile and wouldn't have been big enough to swallow an arm.


Part of the reason I watched the show was that I knew there really had been a "Shark Arm Murder" case involving a boxer murdered by a criminal associate or associates in Sydney, but it was a long time ago in 1935.


No doubt the scriptwriters picked up on the old case and used it to underpin an NCIS episode.

Hi everyone, I just recently bought a game called Watchdogs 2 on Steam, however it has alot of profanity in it and drugs and alcohol, my question is it acceptable to play this? The scripture does say that all things are permissible. I uninstalled it because I didn't think I should have it, but it is not possible to permanently remove a game from Steam and I thought that maybe I would have to eliminate Steam completely to get rid of it. I have like $1000 worth in games on Steam, am I spiritually confused? Thanks

It didn't even last a month.
In late April, Congress waved Ukraine's colors once again while appropriating another $60 billion for the Ukraine war. Within days, though, the same people who pushed for the package on the Hill, in the White House, and throughout the Washington establishment began saying our aid wouldn't be enough for Ukraine to stop Russian advances.

They're already beating the drum for more support.

Make no mistake. My organization, the Heritage Foundation, wants Ukraine to win and America to flourish. So do the American people. What most Americans don't want, however, is for Washington to prioritize Ukraine's security to the detriment of our fiscal health and other pressing domestic priorities, such as the crisis at the southern border.

A recent poll we conducted of voters in battleground states found that three out of four respondents opposed sending more aid to Ukraine without fortifying our own border. Most (56 percent) also felt that the United States had already sent too much aid to Ukraine—and that was before this latest package passed.

They're right. Since 2022, Congress has designated more than $173 billion for the conflict in Ukraine—nearly as much as the Army's annual budget and about $1,300 per American household—and there is still no plan for victory or peace from the commander in chief. All of this, of course, comes on top of an $895 billion budget for the Department of Defense this year.
The lack of serious thought behind this massive investment is startling, and merits further scrutiny. Even as Democrats and Republicans inside the beltway congratulate one another on doing "the right thing" by shoveling another unpaid-for tranche of taxpayer dollars at the problem, there remain many unanswered questions on the war in Ukraine.

Where’s purgatory in the Bible? Protestants ask this all the time.​

“Where’s purgatory in the Bible?” Protestants ask this all the time.

Any Catholic who is familiar with apologetics knows to answer with 1 Corinthians 3:11-15:

For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each man’s work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

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Paul is talking about the Day of Judgment, which comes after death (see Hebrews 9:27). And in light of the “fire” that tests the quality of a person’s works, Catholics argue that the person is being purified. Fire is used metaphorically in Scripture as a purifying agent—in Matthew 3:2-3,11 and Mark 9:49—and as that which consumes: Matthew 3:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8). This state of existence can’t be heaven because the individual has the defilement of bad works and is suffering loss. Nor can it be hell because Paul says the person “will be saved.” A state of purification in the afterlife that is neither heaven nor hell—that’s purgatory!

But for Protestants it’s not so clear. They offer a few reasons why they think this doesn’t refer to purgatory.

One is that Paul says these things will only happen at the Final Judgment—“for the Day will disclose it” (v.13; emphasis added). For this text to support the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, so the argument goes, it would need to speak of an intermediate judgment before the Second Coming. Since it doesn’t, a Catholic can’t use it to support purgatory.

What should we make of this Protestant counter? Is it a precious stone that would survive the fire of scrutiny? Or is it more like straw? Let’s test it and find out.

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If you stop reading right there, you might get the idea that God’s grace to us overlooks all our sins, that he does not correct, chastise, rebuke, discipline, warn, and judge us if we continue living in deliberate and habitual sin once we profess faith in Jesus Christ. For that is the picture of God’s grace which is commonly being taught today, here in America, anyway. Some people even go so far as to say that God no longer sees when we sin and so when he looks at us, all he sees is Jesus, regardless of our lifestyles of choice.


But here is where we learn who those words apply to, and they are not for everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ with their lips. They are for those who fear the Lord (stated here 3 times), who keep his covenant, and who remember to do his commandments. We are those who have these promises, who walk in obedience to our Lord, and not in sin, in practice, and who take God’s words to us (us who believe in Jesus) in all seriousness, and who, by the Spirit, are putting them into daily practice, in the power of God.

And now I know that this is Old Testament teaching, but the New Testament teaches the same thing. For Jesus said that if anyone would come after him, he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow him in obedience to his commands, then we have the hope of eternal life with God (see Luke 9:23-26; cf. Ephesians 4:17-24).

And he said that not everyone who says to him, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING the will of God the Father. For many will stand before him on the day of judgment proclaiming him as their Lord and claiming all they did in his name, and he will answer them, “I never knew you! Depart from me you workers of lawlessness.” Why? Because they did not fear (honor, revere, obey) him, they did not keep his covenant, and they were not obeying his New Covenant commands (Matthew 7:21-23).

And God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s return. For Jesus Christ gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works, the works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them, as his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works (Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10).

And to fear the Lord means to honor him, to revere him, to respect him, to do what pleases him, to believe him, and to take his words seriously (to heart), and to obey them. It is for us to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord, i.e. what is acceptable to him, in his power and strength. And it is for us to worship him by presenting our bodies to him as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to him. For it is also to cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

[Matt 10:28; Luke 1:50; Acts 9:31; Acts 10:34-35; Rom 3:10-18; Rom 12:1-2; 2 Co 5:6-11; 2 Co 7:1; Php 2:12-13; Heb 5:7; Heb 12:28-29; Rev 11:18; Rev 14:7; Rev 15:4]

The whole purpose of Jesus giving his life up for us on that cross was so that we would be crucified with him in death to sin and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. So we are not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires, for if sin is what we obey, it leads to death. But if obedience to our Lord is what we obey, it leads to righteousness and to sanctification, and its end is eternal life (Romans 6:1-23; 1 Peter 2:24).

And his word teaches us that if sin is what we practice, and not righteousness, and not holy living, and not walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, that we do not know God. We are not in fellowship with God. And if we claim to be, we are liars. We are not born of God. But we are of the devil. And that is because we have not died with Christ to sin and we are not walking in obedience to his commands, so we don’t have forgiveness of sins, and we do not have salvation and eternal life with God.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

Hymn lyrics by William Williams, pub.1745
tr. by Peter Williams, pub.1771
Music by John Hughes, 1907

Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,
Pilgrim through this barren land.
I am weak, but Thou art mighty;
Hold me with Thy powerful hand.
Bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven,
Feed me till I want no more (2X).

Open now the crystal fountain,
Whence the healing stream doth flow;
Let the fire and cloudy pillar
Lead me all my journey through.
Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,
Be Thou still my Strength and Shield (2X).

Lord, I trust Thy mighty power,
Wondrous are Thy works of old;
Thou deliver’st thine from thralldom,
Who for naught themselves had sold.
Thou didst conquer, Thou didst conquer
Sin and Satan and the grave (2X).

When I tread the verge of Jordan,
Bid my anxious fears subside;
Death of deaths, and hell’s destruction,
Land me safe on Canaan’s side.
Songs of praises, songs of praises,
I will ever give to Thee. Amen (2X).

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Asking for prayer to find a suitable job. Because of my disabilities, I'm looking for a remote from home job.

I'm considering medical transcription. A friend of mine is going to try to contact someone they know who is in the medical field about how I could get hired by a company who would pay for the course/certification, because I can't afford to do that on my own.

If that falls through, then something like that would be good. Where I can work on my own and not have to use the phone. Thanks.

Why Does the Bible Say So Much about Widows?​

All Over Scripture​

Much earlier in my ministry, I began to include widows in the public prayers of the church where I was the pastor. I spoke at a gathering of ministers on public praying and mentioned widows among those who were often neglected in the prayers and ministry of the church. Called to care for widows in my own congregation, I began to study the Scriptures.

I soon discovered that there were very few books written about caring for widows but was taken aback by how much the Bible said about them. Whether you read Moses and the prophets, the Psalms and the Proverbs of Solomon, the four Gospels, or the book of Acts and the letters to the churches in the New Testament, you will not be able to read far without the subject of widows coming up. There are about eighty direct references to widows in the Scriptures. Why?

The Defender of Widows​

Fundamentally, God is the kind of God who keeps a careful eye on the widow. He is profoundly concerned for her, together with the stranger and the fatherless. He is righteous and protects them for he is “a father of the fatherless, a defender of widows . . . in his holy habitation,” (Psalm 68:5).

The incarnate Son of God is like him. He cared for his widowed mother (John 19:25-17), he raised from the dead the son of the widow of Nain and returned him to his mother (Luke 7:11-17), and, in the spirit of the prophets, condemned those who took advantage of widows (Matthew 23:24).

Called to Imitate God​

In line with this, God commanded that the nation of Israel care for widows, being diligent to not isolate them or take advantage of their vulnerability. Deuteronomy 16:11-14 shows how God provided for widows so that they were not excluded; instead, they enjoyed full participation in the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles.

However, when the nation of Israel turned away from serving God, they also turned away from his commandments. Who suffered when that happened? Widows were among the first casualties. The Old Testament prophets reproached those who wronged widows and called the nation back to its God-given responsibilities (e.g. Isaiah 10:1-3, Jeremiah 22:1-5, Ezekiel 22:6-7).

The church is called to be God-like, imitating his example and obeying his commandments. The early church cared for widows (Acts 6). In fact, the task was so important that seven men of good reputation, full of wisdom and the Holy Spirit, were selected to be responsible for the matter.

What's more, Paul laid out clear instructions in 1 Timothy 5 about how widows were to be regarded and treated. James did not mince his words in James 1:27. He said, in effect, “Let’s be clear about the nature of real religion. It must be visible and practical. It visits widows and orphans in their trouble as well as maintains moral purity in an evil world.”

Pray that GOD will soften the hearts of Jake, Brandon and Daniel. Remove the spiritual blindness from their eyes, and help them to understand the truth about Jesus. Bring them to repentance and salvation. Help me to let my light shine before men that they may see my good deeds and glorify my Father in heaven. Pray that a friendship will develop. A specific need would be Jakes marijuana usage. Please pray that he will be sent free from it. Thank you.