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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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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words: QUICKEN [ G2227, zoopoieo ] to make alive:" See LIFE, C.
[ G4806,suzoopoieo / sunzoopoieo ] "to quicken together with, make alive with" (sun, "with" and No. 1), is used in Ephesians 2:5; Colossians 2:13, of the spiritual life with Christ...
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. Everyone who...
Not hearers only
“But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves” (James 1:22 NASB1995).
When Jesus Christ died on that cross, it was not just to save us from the punishment of sin and to give us eternal life with God, but it was to deliver us out from...
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many...
The 25th amendment is needed badly!
The texts between Trump and the PM of Norway can be seen here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/politics/trump-norway-prime-minister-texts-greenland.html
Here is the unhinged text sent by DJT with my comments in red:
"Dear Jonas: Considering your...
Understanding baptism through the lens of Jewish purification, apostolic preaching & the New Covenant High Priest.
(NOTE: Source: Jewish Virtual Library, Topical Bible, Sefaria & Hirsch)
Under the Mosaic Law, Israel practiced many ceremonial water‑purification immersions (Ex 30:19–21, 40:12...
Tongues: There purpose & why it's not the normative pattern today.
They were public verification, prophesied in advance & given at major New‑Covenant expansion moments.
Deut 14:2 God chooses Israel & for over 1400 yrs the Nation lives under Mosaic law. The book of Acts maps the transition from...
“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:12-13 NASB1995)
Obviously this...
We now live in a world of complete human divisiveness. There are fanatics on both sides, of both the secular and the religious world. At this point in history, the fanatics of both sides have taken over and the majority, who once were moderates creating better times, have ether been overwhelmed...
My personal phrase of the times is 'Dependency Will Be Our Demise'. We, in the first world, have in less than a century gone from
millennia of independence in every aspect of life, to total dependance on someone/thing else to provide. Simple survival is a lost art. There are product shortages...
“If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.” (Galatians 5:25-26 NASB1995)
Today I got word that the pastor I had from 1967 to 1977, from when I was 17 years old to 27 years old, went home to be...
20 And again [Jesus] said, “To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?
21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures
of meal till it was all leavened." (NKJV)
I wonder if to some degree Jesus might have had his own mother, Mary,
in mind when he said, "a woman".
"Three...
Seeds and nuts were some of what was brought, along with fruits and berries they had growing right there. It was more than what had been available the day before, when there was so much affected from the recent great storm. Now they could use these things to eat for the earlier part of the day...
Wanting and working--
God moves us to bring these forth:
Life of the reborn. ^
Children without gripe.
Whine, displaced by word of life,
Sign that we run well.^^
Christ took hold of us!
Resurrection-faith thus grabs,
Tightly, as we grip.^^^
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^ For God is the One working in you both...
Another school of eschatology in the world today is that of the Devil's human upper management. They see advancing technology as bringing in a new age offering the benefits of the biblical vision, but under their direction and control. Two of these are life extension and space colonization...
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us. If someone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he...
“For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from...
We all share a deep reverence for Scripture, but are we sometimes holding too tightly to specific words, ‘clinging to the letter. The variation in Mark 1:41, for instance, serves as a compelling example.
We love the Bible. We rightly call it the inspired, authoritative Word of God (2 Timothy...
