Tag: Scripture
Sunday Scripture – Friendship
Friendship
You adulterous people,
don’t you know that friendship with the world
is hatred toward God?
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world
becomes an enemy of God.
Or do you think Scripture says without reason
that the spirit he caused to live in us
envies intensely?
But he gives us more grace.
That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”*
— James 4:4-6
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*James, the actual half-brother of Jesus,
is quoting, here from the
Proverbs, chapter 3, verse 34.
Sunday Scriptures – Today
Now then, just as the Lord promised,
he has kept me alive for forty-five years
since the time he said this to Moses,
while Israel moved about in the desert.
So here I am today, eighty-five years old!
I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out;
I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.
— Joshua 14:10-11
Sunday Scriptures – Summer
“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” –Jesus (Matthew 24:32-34)
The Greatness of God
Such timely observations! A truly great site.
The whole world is being shaken! And followers of Jesus around the world are experiencing one common issue: FEAR is taking hold.
- USGS reports 47 earthquakes (greater than Magnitude 2.5) around the world on one day, Tuesday, 2/26/2012;
- Tsunamis and hurricanes/typhoons ravaging countries;
- Arab regimes are falling in many Middle Eastern countries. Most are being replaced by radical leadership seeking to impose Shariah Law and anti-Israeli sentiment, while destabilizing relations with Western democracies;
- Pressure from all over the world against Israel; to divide Jerusalem; to give Samaria and Judea to the Palestinians; to exercise restraint and allow the Iranian-backed forces to continue their relentless rocket barrages, killing people and destroying properties in Israel;
- Economic turmoil in the European Union; Greece bailout causing riots and potentially threatening the stability of all Western banking systems;
- US government in a stalemate over increasing debt limit, balance of trade, unemployment, and the radical environmentalism that…
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Sunday Scriptures – Distorted
For we know in part
and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes,
the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child,
I talked like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection
as in a mirror;
then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known.
Paul — The First Letter to the Church at Corinth 13:9-12
Sunday Scriptures: Indulge
I thought in my heart,
“Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.”
But that also proved to be meaningless.
“Laughter, “ I said, “is foolish.
And what does pleasure accomplish?”
I tried cheering myself with wine,
and embracing folly—
my mind still guiding me with wisdom.
I wanted to see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven
during the few days of their lives.
I undertook great projects:
I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.
I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.
I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees.
I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house.
I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.
I amassed silver and gold for myself,
and the treasure of kings and provinces.
I acquired men and women singers,
and a harem as well—
the delights of the heart of man.
I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me.
In all this my wisdom stayed with me.
I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my work,
and this was the reward for all my labor.
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless,
a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun
Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
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