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Do you really believe that? ONLY Scripture Sola Scriptura
ONLY Scripture – Sola Scriptura

The HOLY BIBLE IS: The written word of God from scripture.

  • Got a minute? – 4

    Got a minute? – 4

    A minute for prayer… minutes for God’s word… minutes for fellowship…

    And now I get personal.  Who are your friends?

    The righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the way of the wicked leads them astray.

    Proverbs 12:26

    •  Do you number these as ones who would stand in your stead defending you before all in the Lord?
    • Are they an army of love in Christ Jesus?
    • Or are they few, perhaps even one?
    • Do you even stand alone, one silent witness in the sea of a large congregation?
    • Who are your friends in Christ?

    I must confess that I would go alone to the prophet’s mountain, rather than pour forth Christ’s love upon another.  I fear the closeness of other men and other women, who have so often wounded my insecure confidence and challenged my faith in the Lord.

    A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity.  A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; he rages against all wise judgment. – Proverbs 17:17;18:1

    Do we give a minute to a friend?

    And then another to another?

    What counsel will we accept in the Lord from our brother (or sister) in Christ?

    Are we a friend to many in Christ?

    Or are we selfish with the minutes God has graciously given to us?

  • Got a minute? – 3

    Got a minute? – 3

    Got a minute for prayer? Good.

    Got a minute or two for the Bible? Good.

    Got an hour? – 60 minutes out of your 1080 minute week?

    Now it becomes more time consuming.

    Got an extra hour for fellowship?

    When we were growing up, no thought was given on Sunday to taking an extra hour for Sunday school.  We just went.

    Our parents had close relationships with the other adults in our church.  We held close to our church friends even at school.  Now we call it, ‘small groups,’ a more concise meaning of God’s purpose for us.  Sure we studied the Bible.  Of course we pray.  Often there is food and fun.

    ‘Fellowship Hall,’ we used to call the big room with all the food and people on special church occasions; but fellowship happens in small groups, Sunday school, Wednesday nights, community service, mission trips.

    Are you an insignificant lone worshiper at the large weekly church service?

    You are missing out on a great blessing God has set before you: fellowship.

     Love one another as I have loved you.  [John 15:12]

    If we love the Lord, will we not follow His commandment?  J

    Jesus said that the ‘church’ is your family. 

    Got an extra hour for fellowship with your brothers and sisters in Christ?

  • In God We Trusted – 3

    In God We Trusted – 3

    Disclaimer & claim:

    WE the PEOPLE of the LORD trust God. 
    Nations rise and nations will fall.  The Prophet Jeremiah had warned Judah of their impending fall.

    By now you must see the present application of Lamentations 3.

    The warnings of the Prophets also speak to our nations.

    Noah_Webster_The_Schoolmaster_of_the_Republic

    We the people of the US have forgotten:

    In God we trusted.  Our heritage of faith is buried deeply in disbelief and rebellion.

    Lamentations is indictment of rulers who do not hear the cries of their people or acknowledge the leadership of God. 

    Lamentations 3

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Great Is Your Faithfulness

    3 I am the man who has seen affliction
    under the rod of his wrath;
    2 he has driven and brought me
    into darkness without any light;
    3 surely against me he turns his hand
    again and again the whole day long.

    4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
    he has broken my bones;
    5 he has besieged and enveloped me
    with bitterness and tribulation;
    6 he has made me dwell in darkness
    like the dead of long ago.

    7 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
    he has made my chains heavy;
    8 though I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;
    9 he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
    he has made my paths crooked.

    Noah Webster, author of the first American Speller and the first Dictionary said,  

    “The Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.” 

    Think about this from a man whose mission was to educate our forefathers.

    Civil government, to exist and be durable MUST have the principles of religion as a controlling influence: the MORALITY OF GOD – Good, and not evil.

    19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings,  Noah-Webster-source-of-freedom
    the wormwood and the gall!
    20 My soul continually remembers it
    and is bowed down within me.
    21 But this I call to mind,
    and therefore I have hope:

    22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
    his mercies never come to an end;
    23 they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.
    24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
    “therefore I will hope in him.”

    25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
    to the soul who seeks him.

    Even responsible leaders of men will look to our future.

    Thomas Jefferson, A Nation of Sheep will have a Government of Wolves

     If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you & I, & Congress & Assemblies, judges & governors shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions; and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. – Thomas Jefferson, To Edward Carrington Paris, Jan. 16, 1787

    Yet the Prophet both warns and comforts the people who ask, ‘How?’

    31 For the Lord will not
    cast off forever,
    32 but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
    33 for he does not afflict from his heart
    or grieve the children of men.

    34 To crush underfoot
    all the prisoners of the earth,
    35 to deny a man justice
    in the presence of the Most High,
    36 to subvert a man in his lawsuit,
    the Lord does not approve.

    40 Let us test and examine our ways,
    and return to the Lord!
    41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands
    to God in heaven:
    42 “We have transgressed and rebelled,
    and you have not forgiven.

    PH-GiveMeLibertyOrDeathHas our history revealed the truth of the complete plea to God of Patrick Henry…

    or just a simple, secular sound-byte?

    Jeremiah had warned those who once spoke of ‘life so dear or peace so sweet.’ Patrick Henry plead: Forbid it, Almighty God!

    58 “You have taken up my cause, O Lord;
    you have redeemed my life.
    59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;
    judge my cause.
    60 You have seen all their vengeance,
    all their plots against me.

    64 “You will repay them, O Lord,
    according to the work of their hands.
    65 You will give them dullness of heart;
    your curse will be on them.
    66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them
    from under your heavens, O Lord.”