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Bad Leadership updates: for those 50 Million who will vote for Democrats .....
State of the Union address 2024 Bingo Card
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
When we take communion, we are brought face to face once again with the cross of Calvary, face to face, with God's mercy, God's grace and God's kindness.And we're invited through communion to soak in God's goodness, to meditate on his grace, to be transformed once again by his mercy, and to be filled up again so that we can release it to others by having it flow through us.
And as we reflect on the cross, we experience the benefits of Jesus laying down his life for us.
And from that place we respond to his call to lay down our own lives, to love him and love others. You can try to give from a place of emptiness. But it never works real well, and it's not what the Lord is asking you to do.
Jesus said, come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest, take my yoke upon you and learn for me, for I am gentle and lovely and heart and you'll find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light, says the Lord. If I'm not experiencing the kind of rest that the Lord speaks of, perhaps it's because I'm ignoring the part where he says, come to me.
Come to me. And I'm trying to draw water from a well that is dry. Verse 8 seven is a reiteration of Exodus 25 through six, so you can go back and listen to that study, if you want that explanation, let's skip down to Verse 8. So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. That's always the right response to a revelation of God. Why do we worship after the message at our church services as well as before?
Because we want to do this. We want to respond in worship to the revelation of God that we've received through his word. It's always right to follow revelation with worship.
Verse nine. Then he that's Moses said, If now I have found Grace in your sight. Oh Lord, let my Lord I pray go among us. Even though we are a stiff necked people, a stubborn people and pardon our iniquity in our sin and take us as your inheritance.
If I were you, I have it in my Bible, I would underline all of verse nine because there's something here I really want us to notice and see. It's your next fill. Honesty, confession and repentance release God's grace.
Honesty, confession and repentance release God's grace, Moses's appeal to God is never listen, Lord, you're overreacting. We aren't that bad. Our sin isn't that big of a deal. We're still better than most of the other pagan cultures around us.
No. Most Gas is appeal is always. Lourdes, you're right. We are stubborn. We are sinful, we do mess up all the time, but we're your people and we're sorry. Please forgive us and show us mercy and grace anyway. The word declares, God resists the proud. But gives grace to the humble.
Honesty, confession and repentance release God's grace, and if you haven't noticed, that rule is generally true for human relationships, too.
We still see offenders even found guilty or innocent based on whether they show contrition.
We see sentences adjusted based on whether the offender shows contrition.
Why? Because we're made in the image of God, there's just something in us that responds to contrition and honesty, confession and repentance tend to release and activate grace even in us.
Why do you think Satan is constantly working in culture to inflate our view of our own importance? Why do you think our culture is constantly telling us that we need to view ourselves as mini gods for all intents and purposes?
Why do you think our culture is so obsessed with concepts like self-love and puffing up our self-image?
It's because my first step towards salvation. Is the recognition that I'm a sinner and I need a savior. I'm broken and I cannot heal myself, and the more you and I buy into the culture's message of self-importance, the more difficult we find it to accept that first step toward Calvary. That we are indeed broken sinners in need of a savior. The Christian self-worth comes from the Lord, we're not valuable
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
I want to share with you a truth of the Christian life that is absolutely essential. It is foundational. This does not mean that it is only for those of you who are young in the Lord. Those of us who've been walking with the Lord for decades are still incredibly able to forget this truth with ease, myself included.Here's the truth I'm talking about. It's the first fill in on your outline.
We can only love like the Lord loves if we're constantly experiencing the Lord's love. I'll say it again. We can only love like the Lord loves if we are constantly experiencing the Lord's love.
Because if we're not. Then we are indeed trying to draw water from a well that is dry and I hope you know this, the Lord doesn't ask us.
To give or pour out from a place of emptiness, now, let's be honest, we often try we often try to give from a place of emptiness, but that emptiness is never because the Lord is withholding anything from us.
It's because we haven't returned to him to be filled up again.
The Lord's invitation is always to first experiences goodness be filled with it before letting it flow out of you.
You see, that's the issue.
We do not intrinsically have the love of the Lord in us to pour out to other people. We can't produce it within ourselves.
The love of the Lord can only be found in one place and we can only be filled up with it again in one place.
The presence of the Lord, the presence of the Lord. And this is why we need to experience God's presence every single day. This is why we need to connect with the Lord throughout the day. And this is why our brother Paul exhorted us to pray without ceasing.
Because as we go through our day, God's love and mercy, goodness and grace are meant to be flowing out from us, meaning that we need to be filled up again over and over and over again. And I believe that's what Paul is talking about when he says pray without ceasing. He was just constantly talking to the Lord throughout the day, going into conversations, coming out of conversations, in and out of meetings and interactions with people, because he had this awareness that he needed to be filled up over and over and over again because he was constantly pouring out God's love to others whenever you feel like you're running low.
On some Christlike quality, the answer is to come into the presence of God and experience it for yourself again. So when he that's Jesus had washed their feet. Taking his garments and sat down again, he said to them, Do you know what I've done for you?
You call me teacher and Lord and you say, well, for so I am. If I then your Lord and teacher have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly I say to you a servant is not greater than his master. Nor is he who was sent greater than he who was sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you, if you do them.
Jesus didn't just say serve people. He himself served people and he himself served us, and then he said, now you know what it feels like, what it looks like to be served. So now go and do that for other people.
One, John for 19 tells us simply, we love because he first loved us. Jesus didn't just command us to love people. He loved us first, exorbitantly, extravagantly and ridiculously. Jesus calls us to love others out of our own experience of being loved by him in Ephesians.
Four thirty to Paul commands be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
We're not supposed to stir up forgiveness within ourselves.
We're to draw on our own experience and encounters with God's forgiveness toward us. And then we are to forgive out of that, out of our own experience of being filled with God's forgiveness. Being inundated with it were to pour out forgiveness from that place. This is one of the primary reasons for communion.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Re-establishing RelationshipDate:5/9/21...Series: Exodus
Passage: Exodus 34:1-35.....Speaker: Jeff Thompson
When Moses comes down from Mount Sinai the second time, his face is glowing. In this study, we'll look at how we can radiate God's mercy, grace, patience, goodness, and truth to those arou
We've been watching Moses intercede for the nation of Israel following their catastrophic fall into sin at Mount Sinai, where they forsook the true and living God in favor of worshiping an idol of a golden calf.
In our last study, we got to listen in on the conversation between God and Moses. We saw Moses acting as a type a picture of Jesus serving as a mediator between God and man. At the end of that conversation, Moses asked the Lord to show him his glory. And incredibly, the Lord did just that, showing Moses as much of his unrestrained glory as possible, which involved allowing Moses to see his wake as one would see the wake left by a boat even after the boat has turned a corner and disappeared from view.
And so now we pick things up in Exodus, chapter 34, verse one, let's dove in. And the Lord said to Moses, cut to tablets of stone like the first ones. And I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.
So be ready in the morning and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. And no man shall come up with you and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain. Let neither flock's nor herds feed before that mountain.
So we cut to tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with them there and proclaimed the name of the Lord, and the Lord passed before him, and proclaimed the Lord the Lord, merciful and gracious in the Bible, names are significant because generally they reveal something of the character of the person God declares his name, literally Yahweh. Yahweh is how we think it was pronounced.
And then God speaks of his own character, explaining what your way means or part of what it means.
It means mercy not getting what we deserve, which is judgment, condemnation and eternity in hell. Yahweh means grace, receiving kindness that we don't deserve in the form of forgiveness, blessings, adoption into the family of God and eternity in heaven. God tells Moses my name.
Yahweh speaks of my mercy and it speaks of my grace. It also means long suffering. We would say patient.
Aren't you glad that one of our gods defining characteristics is patience, ma'am? Bless God for his patience with you and me.
One of the wonderful reassurances that Israel's story provides for us today is that we serve a God who keeps his promises and is incredibly patient.
And I'm so thankful for that reassurance. And then the Lord says his name also means that he's abounding in goodness and truth, abounding in goodness and truth.
So think of a fire hydrant that's just gushing out water. That's the way goodness and truth flow from our God.
There's an infinite supply of goodness and truth, and it's just constantly flowing from him, pouring out of him.
I want to pause here and ask you a question that I don't want anybody to ask me.
Do the people the Lord has placed in your life regularly experience God's mercy, grace, patience, goodness and truth through you? That's a painful question, isn't it? Do the people the Lord has placed in your life regularly experience God's mercy, grace, patience, goodness and truth through you?
And what are we supposed to do if we find ourselves trying to exemplify those Christlike qualities, but it's like we're trying to draw water from a well that's dry.
RE: The Never Trumpers...
Well if anybody wonder what they say about the question of supporting trump (or not) if haley is out they squirm of the thought, and is likely to just as well support biden. Chat, that is not really surprising.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
I just view it differently and it would had been easy to make peacewith the socalled aggressor here.
Instead we're fueling the fire. But that is just my view.
Your blog, your opinion and that will stand no worries.
RE: The Never Trumpers...
Thanks Chat, but it's still not available in my country.
RE: Did Victoria Nuland resigned under pressure?
Too long read for me, but I'm happy each time a warmonger steps down.Nothing personal, strickly business. And me I don't love this war business.
RE: ZELENSKY & GREEK PM Russian attack
Esp at wartime.Had on the other hand Sweden been invaded by Putin last year- we'd have a war
Nato member or not. You see we all know where the lines are. At least us who live here.
Even Putin knows what lines not to cross.
RE: ZELENSKY & GREEK PM Russian attack
No.Article five do not including visitors to a non Nato country.
The Never Trumpers...
jac, I'm not sure why it was blocked.A different link to the video is attached to this Yahoo story:
Hopefully that one works.
HOW TO INCREASE PASSION
SuziecuteYes, I think you have to like the person first, or none of the suggested foods would have any effect. And developing a relationship by sharing activities and exploiting humour, and of course what you wear would probably be more conducive to enjoying someone's company to the fullest.
RE: HOW TO INCREASE PASSION
Oysters are supposed to be a huge aphrodisiac, a fella fed me a dozen once, can't say they worked but then I didn't really like him anyway so they couldn't work miracles. I certainly didn't drive home looking hopefully for hitchhikers.I like garlic but some are violently against the smell and taste so don't buy too much of it. If your target likes it, report back on whether it made a difference?
RE: The Never Trumpers...
Thanks GS, but I still can't get the one Chat is referring to.RE: The Never Trumpers...
Hi Jac
Just one of many videos on You Tube. Just type in the title and loads come up.
UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
GrandsiozeDo you really think the people in Ukraine are not fighting for their freedom? Are all those towns and villages smashed to rubble, just an illusion? I suppose you think Ukrainians should be happy and welcoming to Russia. I suppose all the refugees that have evacuated to Poland, UK etc are rejoicing at the destruction of their homes and the breakdown of normal life. Perhaps all those drones and missiles constantly threatening the existing population are just sent for fun. Life in and out of cellars and underground subways for families, destruction of schools and hospitals. I think you must have been asleep over the last couple of years.
RE: The Never Trumpers...
Video not available in my country.What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
What Does the Bible Really Say?But is it really true that the Bible teaches we should execute homosexuals? Is that the biblical solution to an issue that has become one of the main subjects of discussion in today’s world—capital punishment for gays?
For those who want to apply Old Testament penalties to sinners today, consider the implications of such a practice. Do you want to put adulterers to death? Do you want to put sabbath-breakers to death? And what about blasphemers? Surely, they need to be stoned. Should the same then be true for rebellious children, witches, sorcerers, and idol-worshippers—execution?
For New Testament Christians, the purpose and meaning of Mosaic law is not the same as it was for Jews under the Old Covenant. For the Jew in ancient Israel, Mosaic law provided a blueprint for the civil order, a Divine directive to be carefully followed. For the New Testament Christian, Mosaic law provides types and shadows of Jesus whose life and ministry fulfilled those types and shadows.
The laws of the Old Testament are provisional and temporary. The revelations of the New are permanent and final. In fact, Hebrews 8:13 clearly spells it out, “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayed and waxes old is ready to vanish away.”
We should not execute sinners on the basis of a law that “decayeth and waxeth old,” or in modern terms, is “obsolete.”
A Matter of Chromosomes
God’s laws and standards are unalterable. There are males and there are females. It’s not a matter of choice but a matter of chromosomes. Is homosexual practice still wrong in God’s sight? Most assuredly, yes. Is there ever a circumstance in which God will approve of a “homosexual marriage”? Never.
Just because I do not believe that homosexuals should be executed “because the Bible says so,” does not mean I am soft on the sin of homosexuality.
By now the reader knows that I don’t believe that practicing homosexuals should be executed. Please don’t think that I am soft on homosexual sin nor that I deny that homosexual practice is sinful behavior. I don’t deny that.
What I do deny is that behaviors considered capital offenses in the Old Testament should be considered capital offenses in today’s world by those no longer living under the Mosaic covenant. All Scripture is given for us, but not all Scripture is about us. Old Testament law was given to guide the principles and practices of the Old Covenant community.
We must not ignore the big differences between a Jewish theocracy and the New Testament church. Today, Jesus is building His church. This group is no longer defined by political and ethnic unity and obedience to the laws of a Jewish theocracy.
On the contrary, the church is a worldwide gathering of people from all nations, all ethnicities, scattered among all different political and national systems, and not identified with any one of them, unified only by their spiritual connections to the Head, the Lord Jesus Christ.
As long as Christians keep claiming the Bible teaches that we must execute homosexuals, we will consistently misrepresent the Word of God, increase opposition to the outreach of the church, and be the architects of our own misery.
The natural man is innately hostile to the message of salvation. Why feed that hostility by claiming that “the Bible says” when it really does not?
RE: The sirens...
They should have sirens for the movement of alligators.I read Floridians are eaten by alligators as they stroll for walks.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Does the Bible Really Say “That”?....Larry SpargiminoNovember 3, 202...The New Covenant Provides Contemporary Wisdom
Capital punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a number of countries. The death penalty remains a legal punishment for homosexuality in several countries and regions, most of which have sharia-based criminal laws. In some areas, first offenses have a lesser penalty, such as flogging.
With the seeming acceptance of homosexuality and its rapid proliferation in many parts of the world, some professing Christians in America are claiming that the answer is to execute homosexuals, allegedly, “because that’s what the Bible teaches.”
The number of professing Christians in the U.S. who make this claim is growing every day. This American phenomenon has been credited with ultimately producing Uganda’s harsh anti-gay laws.
According to an article in The Independent published in March 2014 titled “How Uganda was seduced by anti-gay conservative evangelicals,” critics of Uganda’s harsh anti-gay laws blame the views of American Christian fundamentalists.
They argue that it is not homosexuality that has been imported from America but homophobia. Roger Ross Williams, director of God Loves Uganda, said “The anti-homosexuality bill would never have come about without the involvement of American fundamentalist evangelicals.”
One of the first to investigate links between American conservatives and the African anti-gay movement was a Zambian clergyman by the name of Kipya Kaoma. He explained that homosexuality was illegal in Uganda under existing colonial laws but, “Nobody was ever arrested or prosecuted based on those old laws. People turned a blind eye to it. Homosexuality was not a political issue.”
Is there any substance to these charges against American evangelicals? From my investigations, it seems that there is. There seems to be a growing movement among some Christians in our country to make the claim that, “the Bible teaches that homosexuals need to be executed.”
For example, a 2022 Newsweek headline read, “Pastor says ‘Solution’ to Gay People is Executions: It’s in the Bible.’ ”
The article says, “Pastor Dillon Awes said that the ‘solution’ to gay people is presented in the Bible: ‘They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head.’ ”
Pastor Awes ministers at The Steadfast Baptist Church that moved this summer from Hurst, Texas, to Dallas. In a Sunday sermon focusing on the so-called “biblical solution to the problem of homosexuality,” Awes suggested that those who disagreed with his sermon were not real Christians because the execution of gays “is what God says.”
Tom Ascol, a well-known Calvinist Baptist pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Fla., blasted U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, when the senator called Uganda’s new “Kill the Gays Law” “horrific and wrong.”
“Any law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ is grotesque and an abomination. ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse,” Cruz tweeted.
In response, Pastor Ascol quoted the book of Leviticus, writing, “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.”
Ascol asked, “Was this law God gave to His Old Covenant people ‘horrific and wrong?’ ”
Two hours later, Ascol tweeted, “Amazing how many professing Christians, even self-designated ‘conservative’ ones, are embarrassed by God’s Word. Just quote some unpopular words of God & watch what happens. Many so-called Christians react the same way that unashamed unbelievers do. It’s a commentary.”
What Does the Bible Really Say?
Useless trivia
Some Labradors and flat-coated retrievers can't help being fat, scientists say, due to a genetic mutation that makes them constantly hungry while burning fewer calories.The mutation was found in one-in-four Labradors and two-thirds of flat-coated retrievers.
Is it true England is a permanent Welfare State and anyone who works there is a sucker.
Impolite society: Who is to blame for Britain's bad manners?Britain is ( still ) in the grip of an epidemic of rudeness and anti-social behaviour. And finding a cure has never been higher on the political agenda. But it was only when William Leith got into a fight over a taxi that he realised the unpalatable truth: we are all to blame...
Sunday 27 May 2007 00:00 BST
seems nothing has change for the better since then.