November 25,2024 – An unexpected hospital stay of Rochelle interrupted my writing this month.
She is home now and we ask your prayers for our aging in the grace and love of Jesus Christ our Lord. – RH
UPDATED AUGUST 9, 2024 C.E.
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Personal Challenges – a brief update
You'll have to excuse my brief editorial from personal life here that I generally reserve for other social media and personal encounters.
TODAY is our nineth wedding anniversary!
It would have been a big deal back when we were ALL younger and healthier. But we are not.
Let’s admit it, when we were in our 20’s, like I was when I married Becky back in 1976, we bought into the life indestructible and lived life with great zeal.
BUT sometime (for me it was in 1999) we all will face losing loved ones and our failing flesh admits that the end of those years approach (almost 25 years for that love).
I live with confidence that Becky is with the Lord God and Jesus Christ for eternity and each day I come closer to eternal life of my soul and our inevitable resurrection of the body to worship the Lord and enjoy Him forever, an eternity with so many others we love and those we love who we have never met. Becky was AGE 50.
My mom met Jesus briefly from an O.R. room in Warren Ohio when she was about 40; but the Lord told her, as she witnessed many times, the HE was not ready for her yet and had more work for her to do and witness to Him.
Many will attest to this persistent witness of my mom who had been run over by a car in the parking lot as everyone rushed home from their shift at Packard Electric (a GM plant). Mom lived and witnessed Christ crucified and risen until her death from cancer a quarter century later when in her 80’s.
My younger brother Eddie died early. My youngest brother also challenges God to take him sooner rather than later. (I haven’t heard from him in a while so I can’t really say how my remaining living brother is doing.) Do you have loved ones who do the same?
Who knows that I have survived cancer some time back?
My only sister (also in her 70’s like Rochelle and I) has also survived and lived past apparent mortal life-threatening events. WE have MANY cousins, friends, neighbors and dear loved ones who struggle through all of mortal life’s troubles hardly giving pause to consider the more enduring person that is you — our soul (heart, if you will).
Others (including me at times) cannot consider or can barely find time to THINK and pray about our personal psychological well-being, let alone giving consideration and prayer for the mental health of our closest loved ones.
I ask you to keep Rochelle in your prayers – her pain is very great – but more importantly that her faith in the Messiah Jesus strengthens her and becomes a witness to those lost in the hopelessness of life without our loving and eternal God and Father, who sacrifices his only Son Christ Jesus for our sins.
I am Body, Brain, and Spirit
MORTALITY of our FLESH and BLOOD can hardly be grasped.
HOW can our finite failing BRAIN grasp the IMMORTALITY of our spirit by which ALL know our tender heart?
a matter of LIFE & DEATH
My wife Rochelle is also suffer for a time until death, as she suffers now yet lives for a time (like my Mom) for some unseen purpose of the Lord Christ Jesus. Many other souls you meet face to face this and every day also suffer in MIND and SPIRIT. Pray for them and also for me.
We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians.
The one who does not love remains in death.
First Letter of the Apostle John 3:14 – New English Translation
I love you.
Won't you talk of our Lord Jesus and turn from death?
Roger
INTRODUCTION to Roger Harned & Talk of JESUS .com
- HERE is a brief biography about Roger,
- who writes most of our posts
- AND responds to ALL of YOUR questions and comments
- AND a brief description & links to important TalkofJESUS.com posts.
A personal note from Roger about Talk of JESUS.com
The Photo below is of my dad one post about my experience growing up Cortland, Ohio, US.
FEB 29, 2024 C.E. RE-POST from archived Roger Writings post about my family and Lakeview H.S. & Cortland Ohio (I can send it to you if you request in a comment or by email to Roger@TalkofJesus.com ) More Personal Biographical posts planned for 2024 C.E.- RH
Talk of Jesus .com – 10 YEARS
As we enter 2024 of the Common Era I look forward to a continuing witness of Jesus Christ with readers and anticipate your continued comments & sharing of your personal stories and insights.
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about Roger Harned
Prior to launching his website in 2013 Roger posted regular scriptural exposition (now archived) on a facebook page. He also published a commentary and exposition of The Pilgrim’s Progress on CCEL.org (no longer available).
Roger began TalkofJESUS.com in the year of our Lord 2013 as
- Christian Social Witness for authors who desired to SHARE blog posts about Jesus Christ and Scripture in social media.
- We continue to share media & posts of other Christian authors from time to time.
Talk of JESUS .com
+ 1200 posts since 2013
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Other Social Witness – A.D. 2013 – 2023
Typically, faithful Christians like you, new believers in Jesus Christ and our neighbors browse the internet for hours seeking Good News, yet we rarely read any measure of BIBLICAL truth.
- At various times in the past Roger has authored posts & shared unrelated media via Pinterest, Instagram, Pixels, YouTube, Zoom & other online social media
- Prior to his retirement Roger posted to professional community groups on LinkedIn
- You may FOLLOW @RogerHarned on Brand X (formerly Twitter) where Roger’s feed includes TalkofJESUS.com posts (along with varied brief personal opinions)
WHAT GOSPEL NEWS DO YOU SHARE WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB?
Talk of JESUS .com invites your COMMENTARY on current HOT TOPICS fed into ‘the A to X world of social media sites’ we browse for hours seeking Good News without measure of BIBLICAL truth.
DYK:
- Google is Alphabet
- (so is YouTube)
- Twitter is now brand ‘X’? and
- Facebook has morphed into Meta
- (so is Instagram) from the middle of our social media alphabet?
- NO SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNEL of this worldly environment wants YOU or me to Talk of JESUS CHRIST.
- These companies oppose any discussion of Almighty GOD! (Go ahead, search their SEO for an appropriate category.)
TalkofJESUS is NOT a BLOG
Again, this is not a personal blog about ME.
[weB-LOG] - informal diary-style text entries of an individual, organization or business,
Roger addresses the DIFFICULT cultural challenges of 21st century Christians from a BIBLICAL perspective often not voiced even from pulpits of liberal churches who claim to talk of Jesus in some way, but FAIL to preach the Christ of ALL Scripture.
Talk of JESUS .com does not fit into any usual BLOG blasts of businesses, churches or your endless circles of Social Media ‘friends’ YOU engage in the palm of your hand AND the big-screen imagery of our obsessions ..
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the flighty birds of Brand X
and of course Brand a {Google it!}
The FIRST thing I want to know about ANY author is WHAT THEY BELIEVE. You’ll likely wonder:
- WHAT DO I TEACH?
- AND does it AGREE with the teaching from the pulpit and practice of YOUR church?
IF YOU also believe in the HOLY BIBLE, my fellow follower of JESUS, please consider:
- DOES my teaching of Scripture agree with what YOU know and have been taught?
ANSWER:
Roger regularly addresses DOCTRINE (the beliefs and teaching of the Church) citing and linking theological sources you may rely on to build your knowledge of the BIBLE.
Roger Harned
TalkofJESUS.com site administrator & Comment Moderator
Roger teaches the historic doctrines of the CHURCH from which MOST 21st century pulpits have strayed in favor of attracting more of the worldly into larger gatherings in their Sunday audience.
Like other authors I sometimes reflect personal opinions in my posts. I also share some of my personal story of Christian Social Witness and expertise as a lay theologian immersed in Scripture and experienced in teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Roger Harned’s Statement of Faith
As a lay theologian I write and teach what the Lord puts on my heart by the Holy Spirit from the Bible as written.
I hold firm to time-tested firm foundations of scriptural faith in the Trinity and an inerrant word of God.
All men and women sin
(INCLUDING ME; but I cannot judge yours.) My saving grace is that I am born again in the Holy Spirit. The Lord brought me into a relationship of His great love.
Jesus Christ is Lord
NOT ONLY a King — NOT culturally a Prophet — and NOT simply a Priest.
JESUS IS LORD – King, Prophet, Priest AND much more!
I agree with the long-standing orthodox creeds of the Christian church, including the Nicene and Apostles Creeds, as well as the main tenets of the faith taught by Scripture-centric churches and believers within most Christian denominations.
Read about these in more detail in my series on DOCTRINE.
Do YOU have a COMMENT or Question about a Doctrine of the Church?
Let’s Talk. Tell Roger what YOU believe.
TalkofJESUS.com STUDY my 2021 series on DOCTRINE.
I invite you to READ and COMMENT OR Ask a QUESTION about one of these IMPORTANT posts about the teaching of the CHURCH. - RH
- Start: GOD IS HOLY
- Learn more: The BIBLE is HOLY – FIRST DOCTRINE of the BIBLE
- Need answers? Click this: Did God really say..? – DOCTRINE of the BIBLE 2
- The LORD God speaks – Doctrine of the Bible – 3
- (Sola) this: ONLY Scripture (the Bible)
- Right here: Inerrant TRUTH: Our reasoned Biblical Faith
- About Sola Protestants: 5 Differences
Roger’s Writing
In addition to my Christian Social Witness here, I have written short stories, fiction, poetry and music.
- More than 1100 posts since 2013 (most authored by me) reach an international audience & local brothers/sisters in Christ via email or texts.
- Most posts point to a specific scripture from a book of the Bible and connect the Word of God by links to other secure sources for further Bible study.
- 2021 Posts include a series on the Gospel of John
- CURRENT 2021-2024 –
- Scriptural Series on ACTS of the Apostles continues in ACTS 19 with apostles sent on
- Paul’s THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY.
- SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2023 additional posts from the Epistles (Letters) will continue chronologically from our CURRENT timeframe of ACTS — A.D. 52-57.
Family & Personal
My mom and dad raised us in a Christian home where we attended church weekly [Cortland OH Methodist Church] and participated in social activities with other Christians.
I have generally tried to live as Jesus teaches us in scripture. I’m a sinner and have often failed in my faith.
MORE about Wm. E. Harned linked above and Marie (Roger’s parents) & other family in various posts. – Roger
Thankfully, I was born again in the Holy Spirit about thirty years ago. This personal relationship with the Lord matters most in my everyday life.
I currently live in the U.S., married since 2015 to my beloved wife Rochelle, a messianic Jew (born Jewish & now a Christ-follower from many years) locally here in Cincinnati OH US. We are, of course, local church members (as I have been in every community I have lived).
Charlie, with Rochelle
- I am previously both widowed [m. 1976-1999] & divorced
- My wife Rochelle is a mature Christian
- Our three grown children live throughout the states
- Charlie, our cavalier King Charles spaniel resides with us at home
- Buddy, also a King Charles was our newest addition in 2019,
- Buddy & Charlie – 15 second celebrity video (silent)
- NEW pics of our Cavalier King Charles assistants coming soon.
No, you can’t come up on my lap with my laptop. 🙂
Roger
RECENT Life Events:
APRIL A.D. 2023
ROGER, as FATHER of the BRIDE
Rachel’s mother Becky and I raised our daughter for seven years as faithful members of the Episcopal Church where she also sang and participated in children’s ministries. (She is wearing here mother’s wedding dress from when we were married in A.D. 1976.) After her mom went to the Lord in early A.D. 1999 Rachel continued in her faith in the Southern Baptist Church, Christ Church at Wheaton College and the Presbyterian Church (current one pictured below).
Along with my wife Rochelle and many witnesses, we thanked God and celebrated the vows of my only biological daughter to an equally yoked man of God and Jesus Christ and continue to hold them both in our prayers.
Writing online in WITNESS to JESUS Christ and addressing some very PERSONAL and social issues (hopefully from a Biblically authentic perspective) is NOT EASY.
Again, this ‘BLOG‘ is NOT about ME, but to find more about Roger simply search my name on this site to discover MANY posts from my writing of the past 10 YEARS.
DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT ANY POST (of even about the PERSONAL life of ROGER)?
(I hope so.) :{)+
Comment or Email?
TELL ME ‘ABOUT YOU’ and make it personal because of our love for our fellow family of Christ followers.
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Grace and peace through our Lord, Christ Jesus.
Roger
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