Hello Everyone! Well, Marlene has been the great motivator and has enabled me and I am sure that she is working on others to start using the Blog again! I have updated a few things, and at Marlene's request I have attempted to make it so that when someone posts something, everyone should get an email saying so! So hopefully you got an email telling you that there is this new post. Well, I hope that everyone's Week has been going great and I will see you around!
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Improve!
First Live Improve Show!!
Gifts...
Those gifts that are obviously given through love...
Tithing...
Don't we all have our tithing moments?
Cafe Theater 2006
Sharing the Slaw
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Aaron you are a gem! We hope you will come some Monday night. Come see the show on Friday if you can!
Aaron, this needs updating again, for the week of Sept 28 - Oct 4.
I am always intrigued, when we read verses, like in Zechariah and other places in the prophets, that make mention of spirits or angels either on horseback or walking, going to and fro in the earth - protecting it, keeping watch over it, giving God reports on it, etc. It just always reminds me of how little we know and understand of what is going on all around us in the unseen spirit realm. I find it both exciting, and encouraging.Not to mention humbling.
By the way, Beth and I went to see the new Fireproof movie, and we highly recommend it.
Bring tissues
Oh my goodness! Don't make God mad! :)
verse 12: And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem : their flesh shall rot away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes shall corrode away in their sockets, and their tongue shall decay away in their mouth."
I think it is a fearful thing, to fall into the hands of an angry God. I would not want to be Bill Maher!
Isn't it kind of interesting (among other things) how sweetie sweet we have always been taught to share the gospel, and yet when you read how the apostles did it, you are struck a ) with the thoroughness of their explanation of the chronological history, leading up to Jesus; and b) how brutally honest they were! No sweetie sweet."You stubborn and stiff necked people, still heathenish and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always actively resisting the Holy Spirit. As you forefathers were, so you are and so you do! Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? And they slew those who proclaimed beforehand the coming of the righteous One, Whom you now have betrayed and murdered, you who received the Law as it was ordained and set in order and delivered by angels, and yet you did not obey!"(Amplified version). Gee. Funny that this approach ticked them off! :)
The other notable thing to me, once again, was just the reminder that when "bad things happen to good people", it could well be because Satan wanted to try to discredit us, and God is proving to Satan that we really do love Him, by allowing him to try. Even when Jesus said to Peter: "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked excessively that all of you be given up to him - out of the power and keeping of God - that he might sift all of you like grain..." (Amplified), he sort of made the point that although He had prayed for them, it was still going to be allowed to happen. His prayers suggest that He didn't pray that it not happen, but that He simply prayed that they would make it through, with their faith still intact (and especially for Peter, than after the sifting, he would still have the faith and strength to encourage and strengthen the others). It just goes to show and remind us, that we haven't got a clue, for the most part, about what is going on "behind the scenes". It is for us to just hang on, and keep trusting God, no matter what. And for the rest of us to always be there to encourage one another.
I read something today in Job, that I never noticed before. I could be wrong, of course, but up to this point in his friends' discourse, it almost sounds like they are accusing Job's children of having been the ones who were guilty of some wrong doing, and worthy of punishment -not Job. Why else would 4:7 read: "Think earnestly, I beg you; who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were those upright and in right standing with God cut off?" (Amplified). It doesn't seem as though they could have meant Job because Job was still alive. So, it almost makes it sound, as though those lousy friends came up to Job, after he lost those he loved most, and said to him, "They must have had it coming!"
y, I was reading a book entitled RESTORING THE JEWISHNESS OF THE GOSPEL - A Message for Christians, by David H. Stern.There were a couple paragraphs in it, relating to today's reading in Acts:
" Kefa (Peter) had a vision in which three times he saw treif [unfit to be eaten, according to Jewish dietary law; literally "torn"] animals being lowered from heaven in a sheet and heard a voice telling him to 'kill and eat'. Unlike those interpreters who instantly assume the passage teaches that Jews need not eat kosher food anymore, Kefa spent some time 'puzzling over the meaning of the vision.' Only when he arrived at Cornelius' home did he get the pieces of the puzzle put together, so that he could state, 'God has shown me not to call any person unclean.' The vision was about people, not food. It did not teach Kefa, who had always eaten kosher, to change his eating habits, but to accept Gentiles equally with Jews as candidates for salvation. For it must be remembered that the sheet lowered from heaven contained all kinds of animals, wild beasts, reptiles and birds; yet I know of no Bible interpreters who insist that eagles, vultures, owls, bats, weasels, mice, lizards, crocodiles, chameleons, snakes spiders and bugs must now be considered edible. God specifies in Leviticus 11 what Jews are to regard as "food." Even if there were a secondary message in this vision about eating, it would not totally overthrow the dietary laws but would state the same rule we found above in Galatians 2:11-14,that preserving fellowship between Jewish and Gentile believers supercedes observance of kashrut [the Jewish system of dietary laws]."
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