...the persistence of memory...
God bless you for your readership and encouraging words.
...where we howl 1, we howl all...
...valid observations...
...I haven't the slightest inkling of what you are referring to...
...and am I missing you name on the mod log?
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
Obey Him
“But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.” In other words, He says, “I want you to obey Me.” This business of coming into the temple, it’s great. It’s wonderful. But when your lives contradict it. And someone has said that some people go to church to eye the clothes and others to close their eyes, not really to worship God. Their lives have not been changed. It’s not the testimony you give in church; it’s the testimony you give out yonder in the world that counts, friends. Oh my, this is personal, is it not?
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Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee 1 Thessalonians 4:3-12
Practical advice for Christians, that’s what we’ll hear in this study of 1 Thessalonians. Travel with us through the pages of chapter 4, verses 3-12, and hear our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, tell us that “a true Christian cannot continue in sin … but will long for holiness.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon June 14th — Morning Reading
"Delight thyself also in the Lord." — Psalm 37:4
The teaching of these words must seem very surprising to those who are strangers to vital godliness, but to the sincere believer it is only the inculcation of a recognized truth. The life of the believer is here described as a delight in God, and we are thus certified of the great fact that true religion overflows with happiness and joy. Ungodly persons and mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing; to them it is service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure or delight. If they attend to religion at all, it is either that they may gain thereby, or else because they dare not do otherwise. The thought of delight in religion is so strange to most men, that no two words in their language stand further apart than "holiness" and "delight." But believers who know Christ, understand that delight and faith are so blessedly united, that the gates of hell cannot prevail to separate them. They who love God with all their hearts, find that His ways are ways of pleasantness, and all His paths are peace. Such joys, such brimful delights, such overflowing blessednesses, do the saints discover in their Lord, that so far from serving Him from custom, they would follow Him though all the world cast out His name as evil. We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
Delight and true religion are as allied as root and flower; as indivisible as truth and certainty; they are, in fact, two precious jewels glittering side by side in a setting of gold.
"'Tis when we taste Thy love,
Our joys divinely grow,
Unspeakable like those above,
And heaven begins below."
Inside Mexico’s Anti-Avocado Militias
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/11/inside-mexico-anti-avocado-militias
...dark comedy...
...send it to me in a message and I will post it in Unleashed...
Another Uvalde outrage
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/another_uvalde_outrage.html
...where we howl 1, we howl all...
...you have a firm grasp of the situational reality...
...stocks are a lock compared to crypto...
...but I agree with your assertion in principle...
...doggy winks...
"Good judgement comes from experience...
...experience comes from bad judgement."
Grandma Dog
"The boy is crazier than a sack full of cats".
Grandpa Dog
...the enemy of my enemy is my friend...
“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.”
Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, Henry John Temple. From a Speech in the House of Commons, 1 March 1848
...compelling addendum....
...you have a firm grasp of the situational reality...
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
Sons Of God.
Now, no individual Israelite ever called God “Father.” He was a father to the nation, and He called Israel “My Son,” but He never called David His son. He says, “David my servant.” He never called Moses His son. He called him, “Moses my servant.” It’s only in this day of grace. How wonderful it is. How privileged we are today. “To as many as received him”—that is, the Lord Jesus—“to them (those that received Christ) the right (the “exousia” power) to become the sons of God” to those that don’t do any more nor less than just simply trust in His name. Oh, is He your Savior today from sin? If He is, you’re not only a saved sinner, you’re a son of God.
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Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee 1 Thessalonians 3:13—4:8
Sanctification. That’s what the Apostle Paul is talking about in this study of 1 Thessalonians 3 and 4. Join us as we continue to see the depths of God’s love for us and examine the role of the Holy Spirit in producing holiness in our lives.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon June 13th — Morning Reading
"Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." — Revelation 22:17
Jesus says, "take freely." He wants no payment or preparation. He seeks no recommendation from our virtuous emotions. If you have no good feelings, if you be but willing, you are invited; therefore come! You have no belief and no repentance,-come to Him, and He will give them to you. Come just as you are, and take "Freely," without money and without price. He gives Himself to needy ones. The drinking fountains at the corners of our streets are valuable institutions; and we can hardly imagine any one so foolish as to feel for his purse, when he stands before one of them, and to cry, "I cannot drink because I have not five pounds in my pocket." However poor the man is, there is the fountain, and just as he is he may drink of it. Thirsty passengers, as they go by, whether they are dressed in fustian or in broadcloth, do not look for any warrant for drinking; its being there is their warrant for taking its water freely. The liberality of some good friends has put the refreshing crystal there and we take it, and ask no questions. Perhaps the only persons who need go thirsty through the street where there is a drinking fountain, are the fine ladies and gentlemen who are in their carriages. They are very thirsty, but cannot think of being so vulgar as to get out to drink. It would demean them, they think, to drink at a common drinking fountain: so they ride by with parched lips. Oh, how many there are who are rich in their own good works and cannot therefore come to Christ! "I will not be saved," they say, "in the same way as the harlot or the swearer." What! go to heaven in the same way as a chimney sweep. Is there no pathway to glory but the path which led the thief there? I will not be saved that way. Such proud boasters must remain without the living water; but, "WHOSOEVER WILL, LET HIM TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY."
...distinct possibility...