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Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee Hebrews 10:9-36
Have you heard about the "new and living way" by which we can come into God's presence? That’s what the Apostle Paul is talking about in this study of Hebrews 10. Draw near to God, study His Word, and encourage one another in this terrific message.
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
Worship And Service
Worship and service go together. You can’t serve God without worshiping God, and you can’t worship Him without serving Him. When I see a lazy saint doing nothing for God today, I’m not questioning his salvation. I do question his worship. Does he really worship God? Oh, if you fall down before Him in adoration and praise, then you’re going to get up on your feet and start walking for Him. You’re going to take your hands and start using them for Him. You’re going to start doing something for Him, friends. And that’s so important for us to get hold of today.
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/thru-the-bible-minute-with-mcgee/
Daily Promises
O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory? The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law. But thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:55-58)
Death defeated! The Law stripped of power! No longer crushed beneath the fell weight of the curse! Praise the Lord that the resurrection of Christ has secured your own resurrection, O people of the Almighty! Hell can hold no victory over you, O believer, for you are a child of the Most High, made into a new creation. Perfect! Righteous! Clothed exquisitely and adorned in beauty befitting the bride of Christ Himself! Christ has cleansed you unto righteousness, so go forth in that righteousness, steadfast, immovable, and always abounding in the good work that all God's children desire!
A Solid Foundation
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. -- Matthew 7:25
If our lives are not founded on a solid foundation, we are at risk for collapse.
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/a-solid-foundation
“The strong do what they can. The weak accept what they must.”
Thucydides
Today's Wins
1 President Trump Drops His Final Video of 2024
https://rumble.com/v64krdv-president-trump-drops-his-final-video-of-2024.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
2 Recapturing the qualities that made America exceptional
3 The Amish Are Doing More for Western North Carolina Than FEMA Has Done With Another $29 Billion
4 Bible App Sees Record Breaking Global Engagement With The Scriptures
https://harbingersdaily.com/bible-app-sees-record-breaking-global-engagement-with-the-scrpitures/
5 What does the 2024 Bible 'verse of the year' reveal about our culture?
https://www.theblaze.com/abide/what-does-the-2024-bible-verse-of-the-year-reveal-about-our-culture
6 The DOGE Brothers Meet the Swamp
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/the_doge_brothers_meet_the_swamp.html
7 Justin Baldoni Sues New York Times for $250 Million Over Blake Lively Smear Campaign Story
8 A Real Health Care Hero
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/a_real_health_care_hero.html
9 Court Upholds $7.8 Million Verdict for Transit Workers Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
10 Clementine Breen Was Given Puberty Blockers at 12 and Double Mastectomy at 14 — Now She’s Suing
11 Black-Eyed Peas: A New Year’s Tradition Rooted in Heritage and Hope
Look What The Dog Dragged In
12 A Conspiracy to Overthrow the 2024 Elections
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/a_conspiracy_to_overthrow_the_2024_elections.html
13 Trump Supporters Are Debating the H-1B Visa—What is it? Here’s what to know about the controversial and widely used temporary working visa.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/trump-supporters-are-debating-the-h-1b-visa-what-is-it-5783969
14 Special Counsel Withdraws From Case Against Trump Documents Co-defendants
15 Another blue state gives up on having competent teachers
16 Georgia Judge Kills Himself Inside in His Own Courtroom
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14239747/georgia-judge-shoots-courtroom-day-office.html
17 The “Fog” Phenomenon Is Getting Weirder
https://rumble.com/v64n0da-the-fog-phenomenon-is-getting-weirder.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
Dog Woo
18 Borrowed time
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/borrowed_time.html
19 Hold On To Your Crown: Don’t Let Anything Rob You Of The Anticipation Of Jesus’ Soon Arrival
20 Jimmy Carter Was the True Change Agent of the Cold War...There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-obituary-legacy-cold-war-soviet-union/
21 Lost: The art of the handshake
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/lost_the_art_of_the_handshake.html
22 Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/great-scientists-follow-intuition
23 Arthur C Clarke predicts the future in 1964
https://youtu.be/YwELr8ir9qM?si=T6GK8QOqNFV3pSSw
24 Tuesday Poem... Margaret Avison - New Year's Poem
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51733/new-years-poem
25 Image courtesy of Todd Schowalter Productions.
https://images.americanthinker.com/tb/tbltxmzvoeqvzl5mgyci_800.jpg
The Worst Of Babylon Bee
26 The Babylon Bee's Predictions For 2025
https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bees-predictions-for-2025
27 Trump Names Buc-ee's Beaver Secretary Of Transportation
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-names-buc-ee-the-beaver-as-secretary-of-transportation
28 Hoping To Win Back Conservatives, Disney Announces New Animated Film 'Jumpy The Homo-Punching Kangaroo'
29 Reformed Man Spends Relaxing Lord’s Day Blasting People In Theological Arguments Online
30 Scientists Admit They Have No Idea How Planes Fly And Frankly They Are Shocked They Don't Crash Into The Ground Every Time
Not Quite brain_dead
1 Humans injected with the CSL Seqirus H5N1 Bird Flu vaccine (AUDENZ), which is currently being globally distributed for human use, died at a rate of 1 in 200 (0.5%) compared to 0.1% in the placebo group, in one of the clinical trials (Study 3).
https://x.com/McCulloughFund/status/1806068661146513417
2 Elon Musk Launches Twitter Purge, Bans Critics of His Push to Expand Indian Immigration.
https://x.com/01brain_dead/status/1873995263557460301
3 Joe Biden’s Legacy: Homelessness Hits Record with 18 Percent Increase in 2024 Alone
PowderRoomPolitics Presents Animal Antics - Preferences, Harmony & Peace
1 Cat's Hilarious Owner Preference Sparks Laughter
https://healthyhappynews.com/cats-hilarious-owner-preference-sparks-laughter/
2 Cat Thinks Peacock Is A Walking Toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBxAe8npYPQ
3 St. Bernard Has No Clue How Big He Is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fylyKY2EdAs
4 Red Cat Charisma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX0YTqfT9-o
5 Brilliant Pet Inventions You Didn't Know You Needed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkqCkLCMlQ
6 Cat Burglars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8o12jt9L8c
7 Dogs On The Job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGFTV0YwCY8
8 Ebony And Ivory Dwelling In Harmony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp58uGAK2NM
9 Pets Finding Their Forever Homes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeVNOXBmtuY
10 Nervous Pup Becomes Uber Co-pilot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1giGNEXhL
Meow Mix With The Missouri Wildcat Taffy333
1 2024 Year in Pictures...A look into the world through the lens of photography.
2 Epoch Times 2024 Top 10 Best Movies of the Year
...Goodnight Newshounds...
Head Up
Eyes Forward
Hold The Line Patriots
Keep Calm
And
Howl On
Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 31st — Evening Reading
"The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." — Jeremiah 8:20
Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life, and yet at this moment not saved! You know the way of salvation, you read it in the Bible, you hear it from the pulpit, it is explained to you by friends, and yet you neglect it, and therefore you are not saved. You will be without excuse when the Lord shall judge the quick and dead. The Holy Spirit has given more or less of blessing upon the word which has been preached in your hearing, and times of refreshing have come from the divine presence, and yet you are without Christ. All these hopeful seasons have come and gone—your summer and your harvest have past—and yet you are not saved. Years have followed one another into eternity, and your last year will soon be here: youth has gone, manhood is going, and yet you are not saved. Let me ask you—will you ever be saved Is there any likelihood of it? Already the most propitious seasons have left you unsaved; will other occasions alter your condition? Means have failed with you—the best of means, used perseveringly and with the utmost affection—what more can be done for you? Affliction and prosperity have alike failed to impress you; tears and prayers and sermons have been wasted on your barren heart. Are not the probabilities dead against your ever being saved? Is it not more than likely that you will abide as you are till death for ever bars the door of hope? Do you recoil from the supposition? Yet it is a most reasonable one: he who is not washed in so many waters will in all probability go filthy to his end. The convenient time never has come, why should it ever come? It is logical to fear that it never will arrive, and that Felix like, you will find no convenient season till you are in hell. O bethink you of what that hell is, and of the dread probability that you will soon be cast into it!
Reader, suppose you should die unsaved, your doom no words can picture. Write out your dread estate in tears and blood, talk of it with groans and gnashing of teeth: you will be punished with everlasting destruction from the glory of the Lord, and from the glory of His power. A brother's voice would fain startle you into earnestness. O be wise, be wise in time, and ere another year begins, believe in Jesus, who is able to save to the uttermost. Consecrate these last hours to lonely thought, and if deep repentance be bred in you, it will be well; and if it lead to a humble faith in Jesus, it will be best of all. O see to it that this year pass not away, and you an unforgiven spirit. Let not the new year's midnight peals sound upon a joyless spirit! Now, NOW, NOW believe, and live.
"Escape for thy life;
Look not behind thee,
Neither stay thou
In all the plain;
Escape to the mountain,
Lest thou be consumed."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon January 1st — Morning Reading
"They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year." — Joshua 5:12
Israel's weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land. Perhaps this year, beloved Christian reader, this may be thy case or mine. Joyful is the prospect, and if faith be in active exercise, it will yield unalloyed delight. To be with Jesus in the rest which remaineth for the people of God, is a cheering hope indeed, and to expect this glory so soon is a double bliss. Unbelief shudders at the Jordan which still rolls between us and the goodly land, but let us rest assured that we have already experienced more ills than death at its worst can cause us. Let us banish every fearful thought, and rejoice with exceeding great joy, in the prospect that this year we shall begin to be "for ever with the Lord."
A part of the host will this year tarry on earth, to do service for their Lord. If this should fall to our lot, there is no reason why the New Year's text should not still be true. "We who have believed do enter into rest." The Holy Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance; He gives us "glory begun below." In heaven they are secure, and so are we preserved in Christ Jesus; there they triumph over their enemies, and we have victories too. Celestial spirits enjoy communion with their Lord, and this is not denied to us; they rest in His love, and we have perfect peace in Him: they hymn His praise, and it is our privilege to bless Him too. We will this year gather celestial fruits on earthly ground, where faith and hope have made the desert like the garden of the Lord. Man did eat angels' food of old, and why not now ? O for grace to feed on Jesus, and so to eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year!
Happy and prosperous New Year to you AD! High energy as always
...this is going to be an epic period of history, no doubt...
...praying for an abundant New Year for you and your pack...
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...valid observation, nicely stated...
The happiest of New Years for you and your pack!