First, the Word
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).
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The Wonder of the World
“Jesus, the baby at Bethlehem, grew to become the greatest man in history. He had no servants, yet they called Him Master. He had no degree, yet they called Him Teacher. He prescribed no medicines, yet they called Him the Healer. He had no army, yet they were awed by His power. He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world. He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him. He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today. He was and still is…the Wonder of the World!
On December 25 we will celebrate His birthday. So…It’s time to pull out that all-time best Christmas Bible Study and give it a little polish:
FIVE WONDERS OF THE FRIST CHRISTMAS
“Great is the mystery” of our faith, Paul intoned in I Timothy 3:16. The Incarnation of God in Christ is the mystery that unfolded in Bethlehem long ago. Here are five of the wonders of that holy night when Christ was born:
- So Young and Yet So Old
…Just a newborn baby with Mary and Joseph in the stable, but our Lord’s existence didn’t begin there; in fact, He didn’t really have a beginning, He always was (John 1:1; John 8:58; 
Col. :1:17)…As Charles Wesley sang:
…O wonder of wonders
Which none can unfold;
The Ancient of Days
Is an hour or two old.
- So Small and Yet So Great
…The God of a million galaxies, filling all in all became the size of a pinhead at conception, and only 7 pounds at Bethlehem…smaller that a period at the end of sentence…
…I know not whether the Infinite is greater in the cradle or among the stars, but I know that “in Him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily”…
- So Poor and Yet So Rich
…The NT does not conceal the fact that Jesus was poor…He alone could choose His parents and His ancestors…Yet “He made himself of no reputation… “Jesus Christ, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich…Having nothing, yet He owned the cattle on a thousand hills…So poor he couldn’t pay His taxes, but He could tell Peter where to drop a line to catch a fish that had the exact amount of money to pay their taxes…
- So Mute and Yet So Vocal
…The stable scene was so incredible…There was the infinite Word who was unable to utter a 
single syllable…Him who framed the organs of speech was incapable of saying, “Mama”…
…Him who spoke the worlds into existence, could form no word…Yet it would be said of Him, “Never man spake like this man”…No words came from this mute mite in Bethlehem, and yet His words would be translate into over 2500 languages and heard by every generation since…
- So Earthly and Yet So Heavenly
…Every baby is a blend of earthliness and heavenliness…absolutely physical; a bundle of biological needs…of the earth, earthly…Yet this earthly babe at Bethlehem was “the Lord from Heaven”…Very human and yet very God…
…Wonder of wonders…God didn’t send a committee to save the world, He came Himself…“God was manifest in the flesh”…
…Those tiny hands, so cute, so lovable…Yet someday spikes would be driven through them, and there, less than 10 miles from where he was born, He would die to pay for our sins…
…Those hand reached up that night, for his mother, but now, today, they are reaching down for us, to lift us from our sinful life into His love…Wonder of wonders…we can take them right now…
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Christmas is all about giving
Give someone in your neighborhood a witness and an invitation to join you for whatever special service is planned at your church this Christmas season.
Give your pastor or an evangelist friend, or a missionary a copy of your favorite book.
Give your wife a break. After all the Christmas activities you had planned with family and friends, 
take her to a nice restaurant the next day (or as soon as possible) for a relaxing meal together away from the hustle and bustle of the home.
Give yourself some memories to enjoy in your later years—funny pix, unposed moments with family and friends that you will enjoy for a lifetime.
After all the hullaballoo has settled down, give the Lord some face time to make the week complete. Give Him some thanks for family, for love, for all the elements that make Christmastime special.
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You knew this
- Light travels faster than sound. That is why some folks seem bright until you hear them speak.
- The recent government shutdown hurt a lot of people. But the one before that lasted four years
and hurt everybody. - “If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson—3rd US President
- An honest man shapes his ideas to fit the truth; a dishonest man shapes the truth to fit his ideas.
- It is good to have a faith; better yet to have a faith that possesses us.
- Success is often the result of a dozen failures. Sometimes we succeed because we have learned from our failures.
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Don’t deny everything that appears impossible
Achieving the impossible has seemingly become the probable. When we consider some who did it, our minds immediately go to folks like Neil Armstrong, Roger Bannister, the Wright brothers, or Helen Keller. Someone reading this may be about to add to the list.
“Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.” – Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of the Radio, Grandfather of Television.
“The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value 
to us.” – Western Union internal memo; 1876.
“Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You’re crazy.” – Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859
No one can go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive, they said. Bobby Leach did in 1911. Later, he slipped on a peach peeling on the sidewalk, hurt himself badly and died as a result.
When God gives His divine direction, but the task looks impossible, remember that the word “impossible” is used only by those who don’t operate in the realm of faith. With God, all things are possible” ( Matthew 19:26 ).
[Now don’t go jump off the Empire State Building to prove it is possible to survive the fall. Only fools tempt God with idiocy!]
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Stop the radicalization of our youth
Allowing our kids access to the kind of information that got into head of Charlie Kirk’s assassin begs for a similar senseless response from other radicals in the chain. Our kids 14-18 years old are filling their eyes and ears and minds with radical anti-American and anti-Christian images and ideologies. 
They can then take those images and thoughts into college classrooms and have the radical professors provide impetus and justification for those concepts. That is why kids are coming out of college thinking they would enjoy being another gender, or some furry animal, or worse, a full-blown assassin to take down some corporate icon or politician, along with any religious folk that get in the way. How can we stem the tide flowing into anarchy and socialism, or even civil war? Think about it. Develop a plan of action and get started.
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Glancing back
An enlightening perspective is shared by historian Adam Nicolson as we draw nearer to the 250th birthday of our beloved Republic:
“As the early American settlements widened and deepened, and their political processes matured, the need for a Separatist gospel ebbed. The relationship of Puritan church and Puritan state in early America soon became, strangely enough, as close as any relationship between the Jacobean Crown and the Church of England. In early Massachusetts, heresy, witchcraft, profanity, blasphemy, idolatry and breaking the Sabbath were all civil offences, to be dealt with by civil courts. The new 
Americans may have dispensed with archbishops, surplices, and the Book of Common Prayer, but they had not replaced them with a utopia of religious freedom. Seventeenth century America was a country of a strictly enforced form of state religion. As such, they needed a Bible much more attuned to the necessities of nation building than anything the Separatists’ Geneva Bible could offer. It is one of the strangest of historical paradoxes that the King James Bible, whose whole purpose had been nation-building in the service of a ceremonial and episcopal state church, should become the guiding text of Puritan America.”[1]
[1] God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (New York: Harper Collins, 2003), pp. 229,230.
PS: A strange thought occurred to me recently as I was writing about the text of our beloved Bible. It went something like this: What if the NIV, the ESV, the NASB, or even the NLT had been produced in the early seventeenth century and became the primary Bible of the English speaking world—then the KJV came along early in the twentieth century. Would the reaction have been similar to what we have seen in our own time? Would we have an ESVOnlyism movement complaining about the way the KJV has rendered verses like Romans 9:5, Acts 3:15, Titus 2:13, II Peter 1:1, I John 5:7-8, et al? Would we be publishing articles and books, and airing podcasts claiming that the KJV is attacking the deity of Jesus and the Oneness of God?
An interesting thought, but I had to let it go. It was giving me a headache.
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A word too late
The vast majority of American Christians point to Ephesians 2:8,9 as God’s plan of salvation for this age: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works lest any man should boast.” Salvation by faith alone has been the cornerstone of Protestantism for 500 years. But isn’t it strange that about five years before Paul wrote those words in c. AD 61, he had sent a letter to the church in Rome saying, “Ye are saved by hope” (Romans 8:24). Was he confused? It would be unlikely. In neither of those passages was Paul indicating that his words were the fullness of his soteriology for this or any age. If he was, it came too late for all those who lived and died during the 25-30 thirty years between Calvary and the writing of those passages. They never knew of that plan. If repentance and baptism are considered “works,” current theologians will deny their role in salvation. But does one have real, saving faith if he rejects obedience to the commands given in the context of the salvation experience (John 3:36 NLT; John 3:3-5; Acts 10:48)? The actions involved in obedience gives life to the entire process. James said, “Thou believest in one God, thou doest well; the devils also believe and tremble, But wilt thou know O vain man, that faith without works is dead” (James 2:19,20)? In other words, if you believe something, so what? The devil can do that and it doesn’t save him. Faith is dead without works. That which is dead is powerless and worthless. Active obedience give life to faith: “Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by faith was works made perfect” (v. 22)? Faith and works flow together to achieve a desire end.
Peter did not mention “saved by grace through faith alone” on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2 at the opening of the church age. Philip ignored it during his revival in Samaria in Acts 8. Peter was sent to Cornelius’ home to open the kingdom to Gentiles but he failed to mention salvation by faith alone. He repeated his Pentecostal message…and it worked! Paul said nothing that resembled Ephesians 2:8 when he preached salvation to the converts of John the Baptist in Acts 19. In all places the only salvation formula mentioned was one that included faith, repentance, water baptism in the name of the Lord, and the subsequent infilling of the Holy Spirit. Kneeling in the dust and debris of a collapsing jail in Philippi, the jailer asked what he must do to be saved. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved…and your house.” Paul couldn’t have meant that faith could save both him and his household at at the same time, they being blocks away. He couldn’t speak for them. Could his faith save them? If so why did he go to the jailer’s home? Standing there in the midst of catastrophe wasn’tk the time for a full message as at Pentecost. Paul said something like, “Take us to your house and we will tell you more.” Acts 16:32 reads, “And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.” He gave them the full message of how to get right with God. Then, “he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.” No faith alone gibberish. If that had been the case, there would have been no need to go home with him and say any more. He’s saved. Case closed.
Ephesians 2:8 was not given as a complete plan of salvation. Paul was merely saying to the church in Ephesus that their abiding faith was keeping them through the troublesome vicissitudes of life in a pagan culture. A consistent faith helps Christians maintain their walk with God. Any salvation message that does not include the steps in Acts 2:38 is shortchanging those who need to be saved. If someone is wanting to find salvation truth, don’t look only in the Gospels, it wasn’t fully operational for our dispensation then (John 7:37-39). Don’t look in the Epistles—those folks are already saved and have been living by faith and hope. The Book of Acts is the place to look. The full message is there.
Yet another major religious denomination splits
Joining the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Southern Baptists, and some other denominations of lesser size, the worldwide Anglican Communion has fractured down the middle.
What has caused the rift, the weakness, and finally the complete breakup of the centuries old Communion? Several internal moves by the Anglican leadership over the last two or three decades had shaken the priesthood. Cultural inroads, a woke ideology, the abandonment of scriptural authority and conformity—those adjustments pushed them toward the political left. Finally, the weight of a last straw broke the camel’s back. Dame Sarah Mullally, became another famous “first” as she was given the Archbishopric of Canterbury. She becomes the spiritual leader of millions of Anglicans worldwide, holding the zenith of spiritual authority. The previously mentioned factors weakened them drastically, and the communion could not endure this action. Perhaps the Bible seemed too clear, or the record of other denominations was not encouraging. Whatever issues may be involved, “We can’t go there,” said one-half of the world’s Anglican Communion.
Are others on the path to that fate? Are they watching…listening…learning?
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The Last Word
Enjoy the greatest Christmas season ever with family and friends!…AND…
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or at the top of the orator’s register, but he has an eye for what needs to be done and is doing it.]
The result: The almost universal answer was: during their college years. A few were noted in their late high school period, and a few others after their marriage. But the vast majority were college student when they turned away from their faith and upbringing after coming under the influence of college professors. Why would any parent prefer a lost soul for their son or daughter just for the potential prestige of some degree or other?
majority of voters. They advocate for language that shields the real purpose of their positions. I have yet to see a new definition of “woman.” Why is that such a difficult term?
Why the lean toward such heterodoxy? Here’s a tip: the Rev. Janet DeVries was named to the post of “general presbyter” of PCUSA in 2010, exercising authority over the Texas Presbyterian churches. She stated that she was thankful for the $7.8 million settlement the church must pay to leave. There was no shift in her position. To her, it was like something was wrong in local congregations that want to hold to biblical tenets of the faith. The culture must be accommodated.
this fold,” so he was not going to say who they might be, leaving the question open to the opinion of the caller. The Bishop should not have let his friends and associations steal the truth and shut his mouth. Why don’t they ever ask the Muslims if Christians are going to go to Paradise? You can believe that the Muslims on the Commission would not say the infidel Christians were going to be saved. But, of course, that’s OK with the press.
…how Trinitarians will be able to explain that doctrine if Matthew 28:19 is finally proven to be an interpolation, as many scholars now believe. Me, too.
Evil thinking, evil attitudes, evil actions are the end result of minds confused about who and what one truly is. That cannot be denied. How many suicides must we see, how many shootings and murders must occur, how many lives and families destroyed must we endure before we arrive at a consensus on the result of this evil trend? Churches and pastors have the responsibility to stand firmly on the right side of this issue. There is nothing wrong, immoral, or unethical in teaching our youth to appreciate God’s creative genius, or urging our national leaders to stay within the bounds of science and common sense with their legislation. Youth need to know that their gender is something God built into them, not something they can choose to adjust without dreadful consequences. The youths themselves are not necessarily evil, sometimes they are victimized by older teachers or significant others. But those who are pushing them toward this physical blunder might may well fit that description. Beware!
The Nicene Creed, a foundational Christian statement of faith, states that Jesus was “begotten of his Father before all worlds”. This emphasizes that the Father-Son relationship is not a creation within time but an eternal reality within the Godhead.
Harris. “Source” precedes “result.” Fathers are older than sons. If Jesus is the “only begotten Son” of God (John 3:16), there was a time when He was not. One is not a “begetter” until someone is begotten. Jesus Christ of Nazareth was the Almighty God acting in the position of mankind’s Savior, which His very name indicates. Therefore, He could truthfully say, “Before Abraham was, I Am.” In the OT, Christ was basically a promise, a plan, ink on a drawing board, both a present design and a future reality.
Lyndon Johnson.
institutions in the United States. It originated in the 1970s and 1980s among legal scholars like Derrick Bell and Kimberlé Crenshaw, 
ethnic studies, 
never be repaid. Nothing less than a full innocents-led scapegoating and laying-low of white transgressors and the inheritance associated with whiteness—the whole Western cultural and political tradition—will suffice for atonement.”
exasperating moments when we are tempted to say something less than is appropriate. Committed Christians resist the temptation and try to keep any disrespectful words from innocent ears. Habits formed early are hard to break, so we try to example moderation and decency.
church you expected to be thoughtful and quiet— prayerful, sober, reflective The service was ordered so that the Word of God was central. It was read and proclaimed with the aim of leading you to understanding, conviction, transformation, and elevation. The structure was deliberate, and the objective was for people to have an encounter with God through an understanding of His truth, with an opportunity to express it in corporate worship.”
It claims to be a word-for-word translation but misses that mark, as all others have who make that claim have. That is not a reachable goal. A word-for-word rendering would be virtually unreadable and not understandable at all. Syntactical issues would be enormous. But let’s give the translators a kudo for setting a high bar for themselves.
done no more than make a simple expression of their faith in the historicity of Jesus—basically, His death and resurrection.
enter” (Matthew 7:21 NLT). There’s that “do” word again. That means works have to follow faith to make them effectual. And we must remember that “works” connected to salvation in a negative way are in the context of the works of the law, not the obedience expressed by sinners coming to Christ.
Anyone who doesn’t obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under God’s angry judgment” (NLT).
There are great problems before the American people. There are problems which will need purity of spirit and an integrity of purpose such as has never been called for before in the history of this country.
In a pessimistic era of his life he was apparently holding forth about the advantages of life over death. He was making a comparison of the present life and what he knew about the dead. Those who have passed on no longer know or experience the joys and pleasures of life, no light is present to illuminate possibilities, no laughter of children, no touch to convey hope. Of what were they aware? Solomon did not know of “anything.”
to keep illegal immigrants who are MS-13 gang members, wife beaters, and human traffickers here and free on the streets.
and a formulator of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, said this about the role of the Bible in education: “We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We are starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We’ve become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hand of children containing fables and moral lessons. We are spending less time in the classroom in the Bible, which should be the principle text of our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better that any man-made text.”
church is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” Unfortunately, in time, a philosophical shift took place in America, and the biblical principles for education were slowly eroded and abandoned, with sad and tragic consequences that continue to unfold. John Dewey, known as “The Architect of Modern Education,” said, “There is no God, and there is no soul. Hence, there a no needs for the props of traditional religion.” Those props have been knocked away, and the loss of moral standards has opened the door to untold numbers of unwanted teen pregnancies, abortions, drug abuse, alcoholism, violence, and suicide.
AI can be a great tool to assist a student or teacher in the preparation of materials for learning or to hone an argument or to find obscure references that would otherwise have gone unexplored. But there are some things that invite caution. As with any technology, it is a tool and not an answer. Used properly AI will prove to be a boon to those that are researching a particular topic. Used improperly it can lead to unsupported argumentation and false confidence about the weight of our own beliefs. Let’s take a look at the good and the bad side of AI when it comes to biblical studies.
empowerment and cultural change. Keener focuses on Ephesians 5:21 to insist that it includes the relationship of husbands and wives in the general mutual submission principle. Is that what Paul is teaching in this verse or is it merely being put forth as part of a larger agenda?
that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God” (I Corinthians 11:3).
He may be saying, “Am I obligated to give you an accounting of My secret purposes? Am I subject to whatever your wishes may be? Am I, the Maker of all things, to be told what to do with the work of my hands? Am I subject to your criticism? You may ask and inquire of Me about the future, who alone knows it, but please recognize that I am your Master, not your servant.” Some commentators and translators also express the interpretation that God is giving them a rebuke for questioning His works in a sense of critiquing Him or giving Him orders. The ESV, NIV, NLT, NET, the Orthodox Jewish Bible and others tend in this direction.
additional editions. In early 1781, he petitioned Congress and received the approval to print the entire Bible. Thus originated the first American printing of the English Bible in 1782, what has come to be called the “Bible of the Revolution.”
Leaked documents from 2016 show that George Soros had set his sights to enlarge the electorate by 10 million voters by 2018, mostly by illegals being enabled to vote, and by keeping certain criminal elements out of jail and free to vote. He would have succeeded if DJT had not entered the picture.
address other topics, but to deal with passages our subscribing ministers and lay leaders ask about will be our primary objective. God’s Word is the most vital element of our faith, teaching us, warning us, guiding us, and in the end, judging us.
Christian converts from Judaism. It was easy to yield to the pressure to drift back into a Jewish mindset after giving the Christian life a try. Converting from one religion to another, even if both feature the same deity, always presents opportunities to return, or compromise one with the belief system of the other. In this case, one system, Judaism, focused on divine acceptance by works, but the other, Christianity, operated by faith.
straight path without curves or corners. The word translated “straight” references a vertical direction. In other words, the thrust is that the path—literally, “wheel tracks”—needs to be made smooth and level, with as few bumps, dips, and rocky places as possible, aiding those coming behind to avoid stumbling. Make the way level, even, flat by removing all obstacles to provide a safe journey for the travelers. Those with slackened hands and weakened knees will find the way more to be clearer and moe accommodating. The writer may have had Proverbs 4:25-27 in mind as he penned these words: “Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you, and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left; remove your foot from evil” (NKJV).
lifted up, revived and “bettered.”
individuals and undocumented immigrants. “There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives,” Budde gushed.
in the USA. Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job! She and her church owe the public an apology!”
It was a message of “let’s discard the Bible and what it says about issues like lawlessness, morals, and sexual perversion, about gender differences, about commandments that oppose the current sordid vision for America held by feminists and political leftists? They accuse conservatives of “breaking up families” by their advocacy of scriptural commands. Yet they, like Bishop Budde, appeal for compassion for the “gay and lesbian and transgender” communities who are proving to be experts at dividing families, breaking up homes, abusing and corrupting children. They remind us of the street magicians who urge, “Watch my hand,” while they with the other hand take your watch, your money, and your innocence.
wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, but will go deep into their hearts and they’ll forever speak of this day and rejoice!”
the last four years.
“You wouldn’t believe your eyes, seeing the makeup that women smear on their faces. It is unbelievable. I have to think of something else, otherwise I get violently nauseated. Those bright red lips, those painted faces, their black highlighted eyebrows, the revealing dresses, and their dazzling nail polishes. Behind this flashiness hides a lot of xxxxx.”
tithe for the maintenance of the Levitical priesthood (Numbers 18:21,24), for the Lord’s feasts and sacrifices (Deuteronomy 14:22-24), and for the indigent folk among them (Deuteronomy 14:28,29).
experience His peace and bring healing to relationships. When we do not, we are consumed by bitterness and bring strife to relationships.
stoned him to death. “Then he fell on his knees and cried out, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them.’ When he had said this, he fell asleep” (Acts 7:60 NIV).
to build miracles. So God’s children in turn need to value the seemingly incidental.
Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. God lifts you up out of the dirt, washes all the grime off of you. Then He opens you up, touches you deep inside and scoops out all the stringy, yucky stuff—including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside to shine for all the world to see.
the better.
their involvement and disloyalty.
women. After Joe Biden, women have come to think that America needs a female president, so she is leading in the polls of that demographic. Ignoring inconceivable financial burdens, wars on multiple fronts, challenges at home and abroad that call for decisive action based on facts and/or pragmatic military decisions, she purrs the insinuation that America needs a president who is soft and furry, ready to take the people into her arms and fulfill their “hopes and dreams and aspirations.” She views Americans as needing a motherly, compassionate, kiss-all-the-hurt-away type. and give everyone “a new sense of joy.”
perform differently for distinctive tasks and responsibilities. He fashioned Adam and Eve with different bodies and different minds for contrasting functions. Both are essential for stability in the human community. That combination was complementary, not adversarial, in order to achieve what Deity envisioned for the human family.
the term daily in the current press. So we looked for an expert’s definition.
anything if she wins.
M: All right dog, tell me about yourself.
horse remains motionless. “Now you, Chester! Pull!” The horse again, does nothing. “Come on, Blackie, pull!” Finally the horse takes some steps and effortlessly pulls the car out of the ditch and back onto the road. “Whoa, Blackie, that’s good!” the Amish man calls, and the horse stops. The motorist shakes the Amish man’s hand and says, “I really appreciate the help, but why did you call that horse by three different names?” “Oh, the Amish man says, that horse is blind. He’s easily strong enough to do it, you see, but if he thought he was doing it alone he wouldn’t even try.”
their own thing freely without any input or response.” Sorry, that is not the message of either Jesus or the Apostles.
our international headquarters. Going to and from our offices, we viewed it several times a day. To keep His hair in such a fashion, Jesus would have needed a hairdresser on staff. None of the apostles seemed to be of that ilk. And what would that type of “do” look like after a night on the stormy sea? Or after forty days of fasting alone in the wilderness? Or after three days in a tomb? Reckon that’s why some disciples failed to recognize Him? I trow not.
“[The Article under] Divine Healing states that healing is in the Atonement and is for believers. Saying that healing is in the Atonement simply means that Christ’s sacrifice has made it available, which is true of all the gracious blessings of God that the church enjoys. This language does not mean that healing is automatic in this life if only a person names and claims it, or that if someone has faith to be saved then he will necessarily be healed immediately. We will not fully receive some of the benefits of the Atonement, such as a glorified body, until the catching away of the saints.
be.” This is why some call her “Kamelion.” However, she is bold regarding abortion for any reason at any time—all on taxpayers’ expense.
The five years Greta Thunberg gave the world to stop using fossil fuels or perish are up. Anyone out there still standing? Seems so. But the young lady is still being given air and face time.
knew the difference.
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