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2025-05-10 12:28:54

"God will never give you more than you can handle."
Not True!
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. (2 Corinthians 1:8–10)

2025-05-02 16:07:12

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And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” (Mark 4:39–41)
Jesus controls wind and waves. You fear a man like that. . . and when you begin to grasp his majesty, and grace, and love, and his excellency, and his power, and his mercy...you Love him too.

2025-05-02 11:37:17

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. (Proverbs 9:10)
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2025-04-09 08:57:53

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1)
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning. https://m.primal.net/QJVE.jpg (Lamentations 3:22–23)

2025-04-08 16:41:57

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2025-04-04 16:24:46

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13–14)
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2025-04-04 16:22:21

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2025-01-18 17:09:04

i would like to suggest to you that you desperately want to be happy. since that is so, listen/watch this, and then read piper's book 'desiring God'. life-changing. eternity changing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8TX8ZAey4

2025-01-18 17:05:37

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2025-01-10 22:07:49

Peter Mosellanus’ vivid portrait of Martin Luther:
“Luther is of medium size, his body thin, and so worn out by burdens of responsibility and study, that you can almost count all his bones. He is in the full maturity of his powers. His voice is clear and beautiful. His learning, and his knowledge of Scripture, are so extraordinary, that he can quote anything perfectly from memory. He understands Greek and Hebrew well enough to give his own judgment on what words and phrases mean. When he speaks, he has a rich store of subjects at his command, and a huge forest of thoughts and words at his disposal. There is nothing lofty or proud about him; he knows how to adapt himself to different people and circumstances. He is always fresh, cheerful and relaxed, with a pleasant expression on his face, no matter how hard his enemies press him—you just cannot help believing that heaven is with him in his mighty labour. However, most people criticise him for not being moderate enough when he argues against his foes; he lacks prudence, and is more cutting in speech than a theologian and reformer ought to be. During the debate he carried a bunch of flowers in his hand, and whenever the argument became heated, he looked at his flowers and smelled them.”
(Peter chaired the Leipzig disputation in July 1519)

2025-01-06 11:18:38

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2024-12-28 11:56:21

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2024-12-28 11:54:30

What does the Bible say concerning itself? https://m.primal.net/NJJd.jpg

2024-12-27 14:37:40

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trey have you read the bible ?

2024-12-24 14:07:26

The Christian Gospel! Good news at Christmas!
"Divine love triumphed over divine wrath by divine self-sacrifice." John Stott
If you do not understand this sentence, then you do not understand Christianity at all. And if that's the case, DM me.

2024-12-23 11:33:18

Romans 11:35
“Who has given a gift to God that he might be repaid?”

2024-12-23 11:22:16

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2024-12-23 11:10:54

The end of Narnia; Lewis's take on Heaven:
“And as Aslan spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”

2024-12-23 10:59:12

R EV . M R . M C L AREN , of Talbooth Church,
Edinburgh.
When Mr. McLaren was dying, he was visited by his
colleague, Mr. Gustart, and asked.
"What are you doing, brother?"
"I will tell you," said
he, "what I am doing, brother: I am gathering together
all my prayers, all my sermons, all my good deeds, all
my ill deeds, and I am going to throw them all
overboard, and swim to glory on the plank of Free
Grace.”

2024-12-09 23:38:28

“The story of Christmas is not a cozy fairytale, but an exhilarating romance about a king who came to claim his rightful throne and rescue his beloved” Ryan Whitaker Smith

2024-11-29 12:17:03

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I don’t understand “least cucked” phrase

2024-11-29 11:54:22

Which one is your favorite? https://m.primal.net/MkJt.jpg

2024-11-26 12:25:06

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. (Acts 17:30)
Advent starts soon.
Christmas is coming.
St. Paul told the Athenians that now, after the first Advent of Christ, there was no more excuse for groping-about in ignorance. Now, God has appointed Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords.
The Christmas season is a wonderful time for you to repent of your rebellion against a Holy God and receive his mercy.

2024-11-22 11:36:42

2 Timothy 2:1
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

2024-10-30 21:34:32

"All the mojo appears to be with the Trump campaign, and the Harris campaign is in disarray. She is manifestly out of her league, in over her head, and also under water. Those three are hard to do all at once."
https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/brace-for-impact.html

2024-10-21 11:33:23

Ecclesiastes 7:7 — A bribe corrupts the heart.
“You can stop your heart being corrupted by going to the funeral home and listening to death’s sermon about money. Extra cash? What are you going to do with it? You could always use it to line the walls of your coffin.” —David Gibson

2024-10-18 13:31:06

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (John 15:2)
"The branch has but one object for which it exists, one purpose to which it is entirely given up,to bear the fruit of the vine wishes to bring forth. And so the believer has but one reason for being a branch--but one reason for his existence on earth--that the heavenly vine may through him, bring forth his fruit." Andrew Murray
You exist to bear fruit for Christ.
You ask: "well, what if I don't want to do that? What if I reject the vine altogether?"
Answer: If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. (John 15:6)

2024-10-16 11:07:16

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2024-10-14 15:39:17

What does man gain by all the toil
at which he toils under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 1:3)
Answer: nothing.

2024-10-04 10:21:19

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2024-09-27 16:54:43

To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. (Philippians 3:1)
“The lack of the presence of good things in our mind lays us open and makes us fit for all companies and occasions of sin.” (Richard Sibbes)
Wonderful sentence. We must read Christ-exalting things non-stop. We must listen to truth non-stop, if we would avoid sin.

2024-09-24 11:09:06

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2024-09-18 13:05:46

"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace–bottle after bottle of pure distilate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the Gospel–after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps–suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started…Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, nor the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case." ROBERT CAPON

2024-09-09 16:11:41

"The reason that secular progressivism has such an egregiously low view of human rights is because they don’t believe in God, and God is the only possible foundation for any kind of human dignity at all. You cannot dispense with the God who created humans without simultaneously losing what it means to be a human. And when you have lost that, you no longer have any right to speak about human rights at all."
https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/whats-wrong-with-human-rights-2.html

2024-09-07 13:53:12

Psalm 2:12:
“Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way.”
All rulers of the nations are commanded to become Christians. This includes: presidents, Supreme Court justices, prime ministers, legislators, et al.
If they don’t, they will face the wrath of the resurrected Jesus.

2024-09-05 15:37:02

Christ was master of the paradox:
Last is first.
Giving is receiving.
Dying is living.
Losing is finding.
Least is greatest.
Poor is rich.
Weakness is strength.
Serving is ruling.

2024-08-30 12:07:32

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“There really is a difference between being brought up as a Christian and being brought up as a Jew or a Moslem or an atheist. The difference is that every Catholic child has learned from pictures, and even every Protestant child from stories, this incredible combination of contrasted ideas as one of the very first impressions on his mind. It is not merely a theological difference. It is a psychological difference which can outlast any theologies. It really is, as that sort of scientist loves to say about anything, incurable. Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his mind between two ideas that most of mankind must regard as remote from each other; the idea of a baby and the idea of unknown strength that sustains the stars.” —G. K. Chesterton

2024-08-30 11:52:31

“the scientific critic. . . mildly condemns as improbable something that we, as Christians, have almost madly exalted as incredible; as something that would be much too good to be true, except that it is true.” G. K. Chesterton.

2024-08-24 02:01:17

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Not me

2024-08-24 01:58:00

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John 5:23: Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

2024-08-24 01:04:42

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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7)

2024-08-23 23:01:58

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It may resonate more with your heart….but your heart is deceitful! And rebellious.
And broken.
And perverse.
And corrupt
And so is mine

2024-08-23 20:45:06

Film producer Marty Kaplan:
“The God I have found is common to Moses and Muhammad, to Buddha and Jesus. It is known to every mystic tradition. In mine, it is the Tetragrammaton, the Name so holy that those who know it dare not say it. It is what the Cabala calls Ayin, Nothingness, No-Thingness. It is Spirit, Being, the All. I used to think of psychic phenomena as New Age flim-flam. I used to think of reincarnation as a myth. I used to think the soul was a metaphor. Now I know there is a God—my God, in here, demanding not faith but experience, an inexhaustible wonder at the richness of this very moment.”
Blah blah blah — babble.
Me?
I’m going with the apostles creed.
I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth
And in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, our Lord
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary
Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead and buried; He descended into hell
The third day he rose again from the dead
He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead
I believe in the Holy Ghost
I believe a holy catholic church; the communion of saints
The forgiveness of sins
The resurrection of the body
And the life everlasting. Amen.

2024-08-23 11:41:09

“human beings desire optimum joy and unending pleasure … and it is good that they do! We must come to grips with the fact that the Bible unashamedly appeals to our desire for pleasure and happiness. And it does so because God built into us an undeniable, unrelenting, inescapable hunger for joy and satisfaction and delight. God built us to be fascinated, to be intrigued, to be exhilarated, to be stunned.”
Sam storms
Fascinated
Intrigued
Exhilarated
Stunned

2024-08-22 16:33:11

“Happiness is the great question confronting mankind. The whole world is longing for happiness and it is tragic to observe the ways in which people are seeking it. The vast majority, alas, are doing so in a way that is bound to produce misery.” Martin Lloyd jones

2024-08-19 20:23:37

“We all know that each snow flake is different and unique, because we’ve all been to preschool. Each one is beautiful, yeah, yeah, we know that too. But how can we possibly value these things when their maker slings them around like so much trash? Actually, I’ve never seen anyone sling this much trash. Doesn’t He realize that people will curse this tomorrow? That they’ll shovel it and salt it and SUV it into gray slop? Does He know that my daughters are going to roll in it, melting thousands of flakes with their flushed cheeks and tens of thousands with their tongues?”

2024-08-19 19:41:10

“This is not a sober world… bats really do exist. Caterpillars really turn into butterflies—It’s not just a lie for children. Coal squishes into diamonds. Apple trees turn flowers into apples, using sunlight and air.” ND Wilson

2024-08-16 17:33:25

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2024-08-15 12:03:44

“As the earth screams through space, balanced exactly on the edge of everyone burning alive and everyone freezing solid, as we shriek through deadly obstacle courses of meteor showers and find them picturesque, as the nearest fiery star vomits eruptions hundreds of times bigger that our wee planet (giving chipper local weathermen northern lights to chatter about), as a giant reflective rock glides around us slopping the seas (and never falls down), and as we ride in our machines, darting past fools and drunks and texting teenagers, how many times do we thank God? We are always in His hands, but we often feel like we are in our own. We can’t thank Him for every breath and every heartbeat, but we can thank Him every day for not splatting us with the moon or letting us drop into the sun.” (ND WILSON)
Romans 1:21
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

2024-08-13 14:47:29

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. (1 Timothy 1:15)
Paul persecuted believers. dragged them off to jail. endorsed the execution of Stephen. was self-righteous and a hater of God.
and he was given mercy.

2024-08-12 11:13:13

Jesus dealt with time.
Callouses.
Sore back
Needy people.
Sweat
Pain
Betrayal
TIME PASSING like a freight train.
Nothing could stop his destiny.
And he was fearless.
He was such a man.
THE MAN.
‘behold the man!’ Pilate declared.
Root of David. Offspring of the woman. Snake-crusher.

2024-08-12 11:00:18

Atheist Fortune Cookie:
“There is only the material world. Don’t ask me where hyper-hydrogen came from, but I am pretty sure it blew up because I’m here (I think). The “laws” of nature and reality and logic and morality are non-binding and are merely internal descriptions of the accidental explosion by another part of that same explosion and are likely to further explode or implode into something else as stuff continues to splatter around. You have no soul, and love and loyalty are chemical by-products of the accident and have no authority as the explosion neglected to accidentally create any. You have no purpose, no deeper meaning, and are no more valuable than any other mobile composting machine, engulfing and expelling until you are engulft and expelt. Also, as you have no soul, the concept of you is itself shaky, as your self-identity is simply the result of an arbitrary atomic boundary imagined by static electricity in spongey tissue inside a spherical bone that appears to be proud of any carbon-based meat that happens to be electronically connected to it. You’re not important. Your molecules prefer fragmenting to binding and will inevitably and absolutely fly apart. So suck on that, sucker of thatness. Also, you should be open to new opportunities this month.”
ND Wilson

2024-08-11 01:34:30

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13)

2024-08-10 11:48:54

“the moral value of the discipline of trial cannot be appreciated till the trial is past”
A.B. Bruce

2024-08-06 12:19:06

the human heart...

2024-08-04 01:05:15

“And what is Christianity incarnate?
Merry Christmas. Join the wise men and find out. Follow the shepherds. Be blind by the road or hungry in a crowd or terrified in a boat or lame at a pool or dangling through the ceiling or a whore with too much perfume or a thief in a tree (or on a tree) or an adulteress facing execution or a liar or a sodomite or a hypocrite or a traitor or all of the above. Be guilty. Betray and despise all that is true and good and beautiful. Walk past that shocked soldier with the sour sponge on the stick. Stand with Mary at the foot of the cross. And see.
The cross is no idea.”
ND Wilson

2024-07-30 12:02:14

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2024-07-29 17:30:53

cool. cheap sats. its all good, really good and extremely good for nakamoto token

2024-07-29 16:40:08

the wicked want to destroy God.
they can't.
the perverts want to destroy the image of God.
they only destroy themselves.
Man is the glory of God.
Woman is the glory of man. She is the glory of the glory. The crown on his head.

2024-07-28 00:50:43

i commend this to you. it's 39 min long. at 2x speed you can listen to the whole thing in 20 min.
https://www.ccctullahoma.org/podcasts/media/2024-01-14-the-true-disciple-s-boast

2024-07-27 11:33:07

Jesus answered. . . "My kingdom is not from the world.” (John 18:36)

2024-07-22 16:25:53

78 year old orange man v. montel williams side piece.
"He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision." (Psalm 2:4)

2024-07-15 00:54:40

the lady SS agent = "Pat" from SNL

2024-07-03 20:58:47

This really is bonkers
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2024-06-24 09:15:13

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(David Roberts, The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans under the Command of Titus (1850).)
And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” (Mark 13:1–2)

2024-06-22 23:40:58

the glory of the man is the woman. We live in a culture that is in high rebellion against this kind of glory. . .pretty much everyone is confused about the roles of men and women. . . Some people have heard just enough bible verses to make them very dangerous. . the ones that say things like:
“A husband is to be the head of his wife”
Feminists across the country get pretty upset when preachers say these kinds of things. and yet, in the middle of all the anger & confusion are bible verses like 1 Corinthians 11:7
“For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.”
Yes it is true: the husband is the head of the wife. . . but so many people seem to be unaware of what’s supposed to be on his head: a Golden crown, with many beautiful jewels.
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband. (Proverbs 12:4)
We often forget that In the Genesis account , the woman was the very last thing created: not because she was an afterthought, but because she was intended to be the very capstone of the temple.

2024-06-22 11:10:56

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2024-06-22 11:09:36

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2024-06-20 14:47:00

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” (1 Corinthians 15:54)

2024-06-20 14:44:35

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2024-06-20 12:19:25

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2024-06-19 13:42:32

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2024-06-18 11:43:16

Frodo asked Goldberry “Then all this strange land belongs to him?”
she said, “The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves. Tom Bombadil is the Master. . . No one has ever caught old Tom walking in the forest, wading in the water, leaping on the hill-tops under light and shadow. He has no fear.”
Tom is free.
Tom fears nothing.
The ring has no hold over him.
We should all aim to live this way.

2024-06-17 15:46:15

John 7:37 (ESV): On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. “

2024-06-17 12:19:39

1 Corinthians 15:24–26:
“Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”
When Jesus comes back: death dies

2024-06-15 21:30:53

"Nouns matter, and pronouns matter. If anybody should be permitted to select their own pronouns, it would be God, and He has chosen He/Him, both of them with a capital H." Douglas Wilson

2024-06-15 14:55:14

Some themes of the Bible:
Light
Bread
Wine
Water
Atonement
Feasting
Love
Glory

2024-06-14 20:05:42

bitcoin price on june 14, 2015 $233

2024-06-14 19:09:37

The first known European born in North America was named Snorri Thorfinnson

2024-06-14 17:58:53

“ for us there is only the trying. The rest is none of our business.”
TS Eliot

2024-06-14 15:36:44

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2024-06-13 15:46:27

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2024-06-13 15:16:56

“if you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.”

2024-06-12 18:14:53

reading the bible is critical for life:
"If you do not wield a true Jerusalem blade you are in grave peril; your weapon will break off at the hilt, and where will you be?" (Spurgeon)

2024-06-12 15:51:16

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2024-06-11 11:52:34

John 7:46 (ESV): The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!”
Still true

2024-06-09 23:17:44

A STORY is told about the famous 19th century evangelist D.L. Moody:
He was once approached by a woman who needed counseling. Two men, she claimed, were following her. Whenever she stepped onto the city trolley, they stepped onto it behind her. When she stepped off, they stepped off. With a nervous twitch in her neck, she insisted that she had even been followed to his office by these very two men.
Moody could easily detect that this precious woman was suffering from a mental delusion. There was no one following her.
But to put her at ease, he told her: “Those two men following you are David’s men. Their names are Goodness and Mercy.”
(He opened to psalm 23:6 to prove it)
She was relieved and exclaimed: “That is wonderful. I have always wondered what their names are.”

2024-06-09 23:16:36

“God is not hesitant or indecisive or tentative in his desires to do good to his people. His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger.” (John Piper)

2024-06-09 23:15:44

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2024-06-08 23:02:23

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the NT use of the OT. amazing.

2024-06-08 22:55:34

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2024-06-08 20:49:29

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2024-06-07 20:52:17

i dare you to read chapter 8 of Paul's letter to the Romans.
double dog dare you
message me to discuss when you finish.

2024-06-07 18:39:20

“And as long as we live after the fashion of this world, as long, in other words, as we make our life an end in itself, no meaning and no goal can stand, for they are dissolved in death. It is only when we give up freely, totally, unconditionally, the self-sufficiency of our life, when we put all its meaning in Christ, that the “newness of life”—which means a new possession of the world—is given to us.” Alexander Schmemann
This is true, whether you want it to be or not .

2024-06-07 16:22:22

GK Chesterton on how he came to faith in Christianity:
“If there is an element of farce in what follows, the farce is at my own expense; for this book explains how I fancied I was the first to set foot in Brighton [i.e. Christianity] and then found I was the last. It recounts my elephantine adventures in pursuit of the obvious. No one can think my case more ludicrous than I think it myself; no reader can accuse me here of trying to make a fool of him: I am the fool of this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.”
Christ is the end of all searching. Christ is the whole point of everything. In HIM all things hang together. Chesterton realized this…and thought he was the first!
Gotta love that last phrase though: “.. I am the fool of this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.” Brilliant

2024-06-07 16:18:26

Have you ever marveled at the fact that rhinoceros's exist?
"I never in my life said anything merely because I thought it funny; though of course, I have had ordinary human vainglory, and may have thought it funny because I had said it. It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn’t." chesterton

2024-06-07 15:13:54

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Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (Philippians 4:6)

2024-06-07 15:13:00

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2024-06-06 20:30:06

“Sacrifice is the most natural act of man, the very essence of his life. Man is a sacrificial being, because he finds his life in love, and love is sacrificial: it puts the value, the very meaning of life in the other and gives life to the other, and in this giving, in this sacrifice, finds the meaning and joy of life.” —Alexander Schmemann

2024-06-06 12:35:09

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