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2024-08-24 02:12:29

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And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” (Revelation 19:9)
that's my hope. one of many. inheritance. everlasting life. see God face to face. be rid of sin. no tears. righteousness forever. but no blind leap into the dark. -- faith based on historical fact of resurrection.

2024-08-24 02:06:17

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The truth is a person.
Before Abraham was “I AM”

2024-08-24 02:04:40

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John 5:21–22 (ESV): For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
22 For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

2024-08-24 02:02:44

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James 4:12: There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy.

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 01:56:05

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If your fear doesn’t result in worship of Jesus…then it’s value-less

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.

2024-08-13 23:37:33

“Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.”
ND WILSON

2024-08-07 18:41:56

Let the alliteration flow
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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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2024-06-05 19:36:16

president bukele: 'the first thing we need to do is pray and seek God's wisdom.'

2024-06-05 17:02:08

"But when you are prosecuting your chief political rival on the basis of arcane oppo research stuff, you are not cleaning up elections but rather are guaranteeing that they will become increasingly dirty."

2024-06-05 14:44:26

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2024-06-05 13:06:59

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2024-06-04 23:14:12

ESPN is a joke
Talking heads
Discussing WNBA
😂

2024-06-03 11:19:41

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2024-06-01 22:04:22

of the 150 psalms, 'lamenting' is the theme of 59 of them; 'praise' = 41. interesting. God knows that life is filled with suffering & grief.
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2024-06-01 12:55:37

“ It will not always be the blaze of noon even in my soul concerns, I must expect at seasons to mourn the absence of my former joys, and seek my Beloved in the night. Nor am I alone in this, for all the Lord’s beloved ones have had to sing the mingled song of judgment and of mercy, of trial and deliverance, of mourning and of delight.”
Spurgeon

2024-06-01 11:37:08

"If life is a journey, then the million-word-long Holy Bible is the large-scale map with everything in it."
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2024-05-31 12:24:58

“The obedient Christian is one who counts the Word of God as the surest truth he knows, as his “presupposition,” because the deepest commitment of his heart is to serve the God of the Word. The unbeliever is one who rejects that presupposition, though also holding it after a fashion. The commitment of his heart is to oppose God, and so he seeks to escape his responsibility to obey any scriptural law, including the norms for knowledge. But he cannot succeed. Indeed, he cannot even attack the law without assuming its truth, and thus his thinking is muddled.” —John Frame

2024-05-30 22:51:43

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2024-05-30 14:58:46

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2024-05-29 14:34:03

“The ultimate test and measuring stick of wealth is time. What remains scarce when all else becomes abundant is our minutes, hours, days, and years. Time is the only resource that cannot be recycled, stored, duplicated, or recovered. Money is most fundamentally tokenized time.” -- George Gilder

2024-05-29 12:16:55

Ephesians 6:16
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;

2024-05-25 19:32:06

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2024-05-24 14:25:40

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2024-05-23 13:32:10

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2024-05-23 12:02:25

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All my fountains are in you
Psalm 87

2024-05-22 20:31:15

"Is it not true that the more “time-saving” devices we invent, the less time we have? The joyless rush is interrupted by relaxation (“sit back and relax!”), but such is the horror of the strange vacuum covered by this truly demonic word, “relaxation,” that men must take pills to endure it, and buy expensive books about how to kill this no man’s land of “modern living.” Alexander Schmemann

2024-05-21 22:43:56

Homemade flatbread and marinated fajita meat
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2024-05-21 18:44:16

'Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for him.'
Alexander Schmemann

2024-05-20 20:00:52

Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman . . . her seed. . . shall crush your head.
Judges 4:21
Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple. . .

2024-05-20 17:17:21

Skirt skirt
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2024-05-20 14:00:05

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Being a Christian is better Carla. Psalm 23!

2024-05-19 23:49:56

jordan peterson can say several wonderful, thought provoking, true things....and then, 30 seconds later say 'humans evolved from lobsters about 350 million years ago.'
make it make sense 🤣
maybe i should cut him some slack...the video i saw was at least 6 years old.

2024-05-18 17:49:16

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the secret to real REST is embedded here.

2024-05-18 13:08:23

“The LORD is. . . with me”
Psalm 23

2024-05-18 01:13:58

'people are starting to realize how important it is to have money that's real' -- tomer

2024-05-18 00:04:10

@npub1qny…95gx what mempool interface was running during @npub1j87…3hzx interview?

2024-05-17 17:21:44

“The late Dr. R. W. Dale, the great preacher of Birmingham, described how one day, while he was writing an Easter sermon, the fact of the Resurrection broke in upon him as it had never done before.
“ ‘Christ is alive,’ I said to myself: ‘alive!’ and then I paused: ‘alive!’ and then I paused again; ‘alive! Can that really be true? Living as really as I myself am?’ I got up and walked about repeating, ‘Christ is living! Christ is living!’ At first it seemed strange and hardly true, but at last it came upon me as a burst of sudden glory.”

2024-05-17 17:19:36

“The discrepancy between the depth and sanity of Jesus’ moral teaching and the rampant megalomania which must lie behind his theological teaching unless he is indeed God has never been satisfactorily explained.”
C. S. Lewis

2024-05-17 14:04:29

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2024-05-17 12:52:11

“Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them”. (Luke 12:37)
More wine? A second helping? If you belong to Jesus by faith, one day he will ask you personally.

2024-05-17 02:26:55

my son went 2/3; single & RBI double
Struck out 9.
not too bad for 10 years old

2024-05-16 21:20:34

whenever someone makes a lame attempt to discredit Christianity...i feel in my soul something along the lines of: Christ is my shepherd man. he's the promised bridegroom; my comforter; a genius. gentle and lowly...he's the fulfillment of every page of my Old testament. i have found in Jesus the one in whom my soul delights. . . and you're gonna say he's not buddy? c'mon.

2024-05-16 21:13:47

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2024-05-16 20:01:46

holiness is the secret to happiness

2024-05-16 16:12:23

Heidelberg catechism question 28: how does the knowledge of God‘s creation and providence help us?
Answer: we can be patient when things go against us, thankful when things go well, and for the future, we can have good confidence in our faithful God and father, that nothing will separate us from his love.

2024-05-16 13:48:30

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2024-05-16 11:33:30

“On the one side clear, definite moral teaching. On the other, claims, which, if not true, are those of a megalomaniac, compared with whom Hitler was the most sane and humble of men. There is no half way house and there is no parallel in other religions. If you had gone to Buddha and asked him, ‘Are you the son of Brahman?’ he would have said ‘My son, you are in the vale of illusion.’ If you had gone to Socrates and asked ‘Are you Zeus?’ he would have laughed at you. If you had gone to Mohammed and asked ‘Are you Allah?’ he would first have rent his clothes and (might) then cut your head off. If you had asked Confucius ‘Are you heaven?’ I think he would have probably replied, ‘Remarks which are not in accordance with nature are in bad taste.’ . . The idea of a great moral teacher saying what Christ said is out of the question. In my opinion, the only person who can say that sort of thing is either God or a complete lunatic suffering from that form of delusion which undermines the whole mind of man.”
C. S. Lewis

2024-05-15 19:35:00

preface to the 1611 KJV:
But now what piety without truth? What truth, what saving truth, without the word of God? The Scriptures we are commanded to search. They can make us wise unto salvation. If we be ignorant, they will instruct us.
If we are in the wilderness, they will bring us home. If we are out of order, they will reform us. If we are suffering, they will comfort us. If we are dull, they will quicken us. If we are cold, the Scriptures will set us on fire.
The Word of God is not only an armor, but also a whole armory of weapons, both offensive and defensive; whereby we may save ourselves, and put the enemy to flight.
It is not an herb, but a tree, or rather a whole paradise of trees of life, which bring forth fruit every month, and the fruit thereof is for food, and the leaves for medicine.
The Scriptures are an entire shower of heavenly bread sufficient for a whole host, a whole cellar full of oil vessels; whereby all our necessities may be provided for, and our debt discharged.
It is a physicians shop of preservatives against poisoned heresies; a complete body of laws profitable for rebellious spirits; It is a treasury of costly jewels!
Finally, the Scriptures are a fountain of most pure water springing up into everlasting life. They are not from earth, but from heaven. The author is God, not man.
 The end and reward of the study thereof, is fellowship with the saints, participation of the heavenly nature, fruition of an inheritance immortal, undefiled, and that never shall fade away: Happy is the man that the delights in the scripture, and thrice happy that meditates on it day and night.
#Bible

2024-05-15 19:33:03

i am thankful that i am not getting poorer slowly.

2024-05-15 12:05:51

1 John 3:20:
“for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.”
His love is greater than
His mercy is greater
His compassion is greater
He remembers our frame

2024-05-13 18:01:20

@npub132e…zmdh seems to make a lot of sense to me #optimism

2024-05-12 11:15:23

do you have restless heart syndrome?
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” -- Augustine

2024-05-12 11:01:25

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2024-05-12 01:16:15

Messi
Sourdough bread
Psalm 23 tomorrow

2024-05-11 22:50:24

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” (John 8:58)
i.e i am being what i shall be being

2024-05-11 01:19:07

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c'mon man. quit joking. "I care not if the sceptic says it is a tall story; I cannot see how so toppling a tower could stand so long without foundation. Still less can I see how it could become, as it has become, the home of man." chesterton. read 'everlasting man'

2024-05-11 00:33:52

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Fictional? Yikes

2024-05-09 18:26:40

This verse describes our government:
Deuteronomy 16:19: You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.