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1 Peter 3:8

So finally I conclude with this:

all of you be like-minded and harmonious (like music that is please to the ear), feeling and expressing mutual sympathy, support, and loyalty back and forth to each other; be fond of each other with a brotherly love and have a deep awareness of and sympathy for each others suffering; and have a humble opinion of yourselves and a deep sense of your own moral littleness apart from Christ.

1 Peter 4:7 & 8...

(1) Because of what I just wrote about judgment in the church and about suffering, I want to call aside the presbyters (elders) who have been put in position in your local church and beseech them and implore them from where I sit as a co-presbyter (I too am an elder) as well as a witness of the hardships, pain, and emotions of our Messiah and as one who will also share the apparent glory when it is revealed:

(2) Tend to the flock of God which you are positi...

This look at Ephesians 4:11-13 is my part in examining those questions and trying to find answers to them. I would love any reader’s thoughts and feedback and additions and critique.

(11) Christ adventured to bestow on local churches:

1. those who are His delegated commissioners and messengers who are sent out by Him with miraculous powers on His mission to establish new works for Him on this earth;
2. as well as those who ...

A couple of weeks ago at our church’s prayer meeting, the Lord led me to Jeremiah 6:16:

Thus says the Lord:

“Stand by the roads, and look,

     And ask for the ancient paths,

Where the good way is; and walk in it,

    And find rest for your souls.

             But they said, ̵...

One of the things that has captured my attention recently is the Scriptural phrase “your God”. Every people had their god or gods—their local gods—their elohiym. Each nation had their various gods—the gods of Egypt, the gods of the Philistines, the gods of the Greeks, and the gods of the Romans to mention a few. Yahweh introduces Himself to the Jews as a local god and promises to them that He would be their own elohiym or local god (Exodus 6:7; Genesis 17:7). As ...

This is the fasting (abstaining) that I’ve selected as acceptable and therefore require of you:

Loosen and open wide the painful fetters caused by your wickedness and iniquity;

Untie and shake off the yoke that you have strapped on;

Let those who are discouraged; bruised, and oppressed from their struggles be free from care;

And tear off every single yoke that burdens you and those under you.

It is to distribute your food to those w...

1 Adonai, You exist as our abode of refuge, our asylum, and our retreat throughout all our generations-in ages past and for our posterity.

(1 January 2010)

12 So cause us to observe, discern, be instructed in and have an understanding on how to weigh out, enumerate, count, number, prepare and appoint the days of our life times so that we may surely be granted, enter into and attain skillful wisdom at the center of our being.

written October 2009

My Summary: 

In this new economic and cultural climate, I believe that Christian education plays an even more important role that it has been given credit for in the church and even in the world of Christian education. As we move forward, I believe that Christian education needs to quickly transition from being another option of educating our children alongside the public and charter schools and homeschooling; and from an opportunity ...

In the last 6 months I’ve read the online commentary of the Internet Monk on what he calls “The Coming Evangelical Collapse” (this is the first of 3 blogs on this subject).  I recommend reading it and would love to discuss his ideas and its implications for youth ministry and especially for Christian education. Here is my summary of his th...

Resolved:

• I will let the peace of God which passes all understanding guard my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus;
• I will employ the joy of Yahweh as my strength
• And therefore, I will have a relaxed attitude which (apparently) will lengthen my life.

Therefore, I will not be grieved, worried, dejected, vexed, or angry about anything, but will instead pray about everything, listing my concerns to God and thanking Him for all that He has done.