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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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Original Publish Date, 01/09/2004, Voted Most read article for over a year.
I am the reason you stand.
The advocate pleading your cause,
Intervening on your behalf.
I am the one praying for you.
Believing in your success,
Praying for your faith,
I do not want you to fall away.
I am the one who...
“For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David, when Saul sent men and they watched the house in order to kill him.
“Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
Set me securely on high away from those who rise up against me.
Deliver me from those who do iniquity
And save me from men...
“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand. Moreover, the Lord...
The shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICE nurse at the local VA hospital seems to be a turning point for many who are firm in their belief that ICE has gone too far. There were protests across the city this weekend...
Scripture Study Principles
All Scripture is written for us, but not all Scripture is written to us.
Myles Coverdale's classic interpretive grid still holds:
Of whom is it spoken? To whom? With what words? At what time? Under what circumstances? What comes before & after? What is the intent?
In...
The minute I felt safe-
The ground shook.
Then I shook.
I had to change.
The Holy Spirit was speaking-
And, I couldn’t ignore him.
He pursued me in my sleep.
In my thoughts-
I could no longer run.
If the Holy Spirit wants something-
He won’t be denied.
He won’t take no for an answer.
Once...
October 4th, 2024
I had two dreams about Donald Trump.
In the first dream, I saw him in a black suit, asleep in a bed with two young blond women—one on each side. I don’t think they looked like twins, but they were very similar. He was in the center, and his hands were together, like when...
“So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and...
So, first, the thoughts that are clamoring for my attention.
I went to visit someone today. On my way, I was turning a corner and thought of Spongebob. This led me to worry that I might have taken the mark of the beast.
Here are the steps of reasoning for those who wonder how I could have...
It was as the group of individuals grown and very young of this early community saw as they are together in the circle around the fire pit that was used in heating their food, there were three of the big hairy creatures that walked upright, walking by within sight. This was as close as any of...
“If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire, [where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.] If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for...
1 Cor 15:20 Jesus is the "1st Soul" Resurrected!
Matt 27:
50 Jesus dies on Passover (Nisan 14) inaugurating the new covenant.
51 The temple veil is torn in 1/2 opening direct access to God' presence as Jesus departs for paradise. (Heb 4:16 & 10:19-22)
52 Many believers "Souls" are...
Levitical priestly order is established at Aarons ordination:
Lev 8:1-12 God commands Moses; get some anointing oil, VS 6, wash/purify (full mikveh - precursor of NT baptism) Aaron & his sons with water, VS 12, Moses pours the anointing oil on Aaron's head to sanctify = "set him apart" for...
We are misunderstood.
The people who walk quietly.
Nonetheless, we have a message—
We have been left behind by society.
Left to fend for ourselves.
Left to our own devices.
Left to survive on peanuts.
It’s hard to even find a church that will consider us.
We rely upon non profit...
“There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” (Ephesians 4:4-6 ESV)
Now, regarding this ONE BAPTISM, I am finding that there are...
“With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel...
Acts 4:12 declares that salvation is found in no one else and in no other name under heaven. God has given only one saving name > the name of Jesus Christ. There is no 2nd option, no alternate path, no ritual substitute & no competing authority.
THE SUPREME NAME: Higher Than Angels, Higher Than...
Step Of Faith
Our journey goes beyond salvation.
A chosen generation.
Holy priesthood.
Expected to mature in faith.
Be ready when God calls us,
To serve Him,
Carry out a task ,
Challenges us to step out.
Lay down our excuses.
Of unworthiness,
Age and wisdom,
And, let past failures go...
“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.’ Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you...