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  • Trish Jenkins – Christian Author

    Trish Jenkins – Christian Author

    We are very excited about several Christian Authors joining our Christian Social Witness as a place to share their stories, books, reviews of other authors and insight on scripture.

    Trish Jenkins has a compelling story.  Her book, “Treasures of Darkness” encourages us to maintain our relationship with God in every environment.

    Trish did.  Her faith had to overcome prison.

    Trish Jenkins, Leadership Lessons from the Big House

    Treasures of Darkness, A Prison Journey

    Have a listen: 

    Welcome, Trish.

    Roger Harned,

    Christian Social Witness

     

  • Were you once a ‘friend’ of Jesus?

    Were you once a ‘friend’ of Jesus?

    What would Jesus say about you?

    Do you witness HIS NAME?

    A long time ago the lyrics of a couple of wonderful songs by Paul Simon seemed nonsensical to me, yet the soothing sounds settled my thoughts into a place of silence – a tranquility of inaction in a chaotic world.

    Suppose Jesus Christ, Lord and King, wanted someone to witness for HIM online.  Would it be you?

    And if so, do you suppose that Jesus Christ would want you to remain SILENT? (Shouldn’t you at least have a comment about Jesus?)

    Take in just a little of the Paul Simon lyric from so many years past:

    Hello darkness, my old friend
    I’ve come to talk with you again …

    There is NO darkness in Christ Jesus. HE calls us to the Light.

    Yet hear the warning of Simon’s lyric:

    People talking without speaking
    People hearing without listening
    People writing songs that voices never share
    And no one dared
    Disturb the sound of silence

    “Fools”, said I, “You do not know
    Silence like a cancer grows

    *The Sound of Silence – Paul Simon 1964

    SILENCE about sin…

    Silence about the Savior of your soul…

    A cancer… a cancer of silence about Christ Jesus, in these last days.

    So where is your voice?  What is your Christian Social Witness?

    Are you yet silent?

    Where are your comments?  Can we have a conversation… can we talk of Jesus if you remain silent?

    And if you dare share any scripture in our community of Christians, why not also share your Christian Social Witness with others.

    I know it seems out of place to think of Jesus, a King awaiting His Day of triumphal return to give any thought of you; but JESUS LOVES YOU.

    Our Lord, who suffered for you on the cross so that you might live is waiting for you to say something — anything – a thank you, or I know Him — JESUS wants your witness to Him.

    Dear sister in the Lord, must Jesus plea once more for you:

    Remember me to one who lives there
    She once was a true love of mine.

    {Scarborough Fair Lyrics – by Paul Simon}

    Dear brother or sister in the Lord,

    Just because Jesus loves your friends and your family does not mean that you should keep silent about Him.

    Praise His Holy Name!

    As much as great lyricists like Paul Simon may speak to us, no music in Christ’s ears is more joyous than your song of witness that HE IS and He loves you.  Jesus is our friend. SHARE HIM with the world – the ones who dwell in our old friend, darkness.

    Our silence for Jesus breaks His heart.  What is your witness? Jesus is a friend of sinners.

  • Will the Judge of the Universe Not Do What Is Right?

    Will the Judge of the Universe Not Do What Is Right?

    This is not a Biblical quote, as near as I can tell; yet it is from the Lord.

    Do you trust the Lord God to do what is right?

    Jesus Christ IS and will judge what is right and what it wrong.

    John 5: ESV

    24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

    25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.

    27 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

    Witnesses to Jesus

    30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. 31 If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.

     Will the Judge of the Universe Not Do What Is Right?

    Trust in our Lord Christ Jesus with all of your heart.