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  • YOU are a VIP in our community of Christian Readers

    YOU are a VIP in our community of Christian Readers

    Readers SHARE a brief comment about your favorite Christian book.

    • Do you read Christian fiction?
    • Do you read Christian non-fiction?
    • Do you spend online time browsing Goodreads or writing brief reviews?

    If so, YOU are a VIP in our community for Christian Social Witness of READERS.  Therefore, we want to hear from you.

    Simply comment here in the short time you would discuss a BOOK over coffee (perhaps tea and a cookie) while your wireless wanders though your social circles where you hardly mention Jesus.

    Take a moment to SHARE your reader review of a Christian book as a relaxing treat of the day for your mind, spirit, & taste buds:

    • PLEASE contribute to one of our conversations. (Keep it short.)
    • TELL someone what you think about their thought. (The truth spoken in love.)
    • COME BACK and READ what others say to you.

    SOME of us have answers.  LET’S SHARE our thoughts with others.

    Do you have a favorite Christian book you want to tell your friends all about as witness to Jesus?

    •  BRING your FRIENDS into our community relationship of READERS who LOVE BOOKS & want to ASK about GOD.
    • Or SHARE something about your witness to the BIBLE.
    • SHARE your http://talkofJesus.com comments on your favorite Christian books as Christian Social Witness to your ‘friends, followers and circles.’

    ALL of us have questions.  LET’S ASK our questions here about Jesus.

    “ASK and it shall be given to you. SEEK and you shall find.

    – Luke 11:9-10

    MOST of us spend TOO LITTLE TIME with those of like mind (other Christians — especially online).

    Let’s stay connected to one another through real conversation with our brothers, sisters, and neighbors we love most.

    SHARE your Christian Social Witness + http://talkofJesus.com

     

    Make yourself at HOME.  Please BOOKMARK our Christian READER COMMUNITY.

    Thank you for asking.  Come back soon. Just knock.

    PS – A Picture of Heaven begins NEXT Monday 2 September, 2013 as a daily serial post FREE, only on http://talkofJesus.com + Christian Social Witness.

    “The door of Christ’s love is always open for you at talkofJesus.com – Christian Social Witness for all Christian faiths.

  • Look For The Good In People! – by Darrell “Coach D” Andrews

    Look For The Good In People! – by Darrell “Coach D” Andrews

    Unlike any time in modern history, people seem to focus on and highlight—the bad in people. Politicians now run their entire campaigns not on what they can do to fix things, but the faults of their competition. Many of the reality shows are rated and considered a success, based upon the vitriol people can spew about each other. I recently watched a cooking reality show and the chefs were bashing one another! I certainly will not eat at their restaurants! Lastly, I remember being in a Church years ago where the Pastor used to make jokes about a certain denomination for their still way of worshiping God. They were not overly emotional in their workshop so he called it, “The Church of the Chosen Frozen.” Yes, this even happens in ministry.

    My message to you today is not long, but please, try to look for the good in people. It is so easy to fall into the world’s system of negative thinking and fault finding, but work to do what the scripture says in Mark 12:31, “Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” Notice the scripture did not say you have an option to do this. It tells is that we “shall.”

    Fault finding most happens in families. In particular marriages. Some marriages grow cold and stale because someone is holding on to something to hate the other for. Something they said or did. The spouse can be doing 99 things right, but the other looks at the one wrong—and holds the other spouse hostage in their web of discontent. This is a tragedy when God tells us the opposite in Mark 12:31. This is why so many relationships end in divorce. Some parents do this to their kids, and kids to their parents. Some family members have not spoken in years due to faults they find in one another. A lifetime of disconnect, due to something they disagree with.

    Today, choose to go against the grain. Practice loving they neighbor as thy self, especially in our families. The world has given us enough hate to view on TV, lets not carry this into our personal life.

    Remember, the scripture tells us “Love never fails.”   Is it possible we are where we are today as a nation and world due to a lack of it?

     

    Darrell Andrews Enterprises’ mission is to transform individual and organizational perceptions with the goal of improving individual and organizational outcomes.

    Darrell Andrews Enterprises is a strategic motivational speaking, training and coaching firm.

    Please pray for his work with families and communities and share your Christian Social Witness with your friends. – Roger

  • Perseverance – Share your Christian social witness for Jesus Christ

    Perseverance – Share your Christian social witness for Jesus Christ

    Galatians 5:7 You were running the race so well. Who has held you back from following the truth?

    Philippians 2:16 Hold firmly to the word of life; then, on the day of Christ’s return, I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and that my work was not useless.

    Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

    1 Corinthians 9:24 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!

    Philippians 3:14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

     2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful.

    PERSEVERANCE! Endurance… in fact, the list is so long I will share the powerful synonyms:

    backbone*, constancy, continuance, cool, dedication, determination, doggedness, drive, endurance, grit, guts*, immovability, indefatigability, moxie*, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, prolonging, purposefulness, pursuance, resolution, sedulity, spunk, stamina, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, tenacity

    AND the antonyms, likely to convict me and you for our sometime LACK of will to spend time in the BIBLE & lack of PERSEVERANCE for our Lord Jesus Christ, who endured the Cross for us:

    apathy, idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy

    A single picture of one racing to the finish line… or a single example of the faith of an Apostle like Paul… or a singular person of perseverance like Job will invigorate our race to the finish-line of our faith to meet the Author of our salvation.

    Kent Hughes, in his book 10 Disciplines of a Godly Man, points to Hebrews 12 as a guide for our perseverance.  “Divest, Run, Focus, & Consider,” is his advice for us.  When I think of any of the examples of our faith, I’m ready to get back in the race and run to the finish.

    Perseverance in prayer, Bible study, thankfulness, ministering to the needs of others, regular worship and willingness to talk of Jesus to anyone — just a part of this race in which our Lord has enrolled us.

    Won’t you SHARE your Social Witness for Jesus Christ?

    Add a thoughtful comment about your own race and encourage another today?

    Thanks. May our Lord bless you today to finish the race. – Roger – http://talkofJesus.com — Better than a sports drink for the race of Eternal Life