11/19/2024 – “God creates out of nothing. Therefore until man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.” Martin Luther
Soli Deo Gloria!
Read More11/19/2024 – Let’s pray together on the awesomeness and majesty of the LORD – Psalm 145. And there are so many other Prayers of Praise in Psalms for other starts to our day.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
A missionary cleverly trying to teach natives in Africa about the locomotive train by using planks of wood to represent the tracks, lined up carts …
Read More11/18/2024 – Christian Post: “Can the brain change? Experience Transformation through God-designed Neuroplasticity.” / “… It also speaks of those who are as clay in the Potter’s hands (Isaiah 64:8). When clay absorbs water, living water, it becomes moldable, transformable, neuroplastic, brain-changed…”
https://www.christianpost.com/sponsored/brain-changed.html
Insert comment – For logged on users, this article brings to mind a recent posted article on a documentary that made a strong case that: 1). The pharmaceutical …
Read More11/18/2024 – “Dr Ben Carson Explains the Brain. Wow.” / (comment – in one minute)// Also: “Live by Godly principles” – link attached
Comment: Dr. Ben is clearly a humble man, as hard as that is to comprehend. He is a Christian. We can’t measure hearts and it is …
Read More12/02/2024 – “Christian Perfection” / “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfect …” (Philippians 3:12). / fyi – December 2nd devotion
“It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do — God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. …
Read More11/17/2024 – Day 147 – 2 Corinthians – Chapters 11 – 13 / 1) Examine yourself – 13:5 / (2) Mormonism’s “angel of light” – 11:14
We have a previous cycle post on 10/11/2020 covering “The Vision of Paradise” that Paul proclaims: “I knew a man…” – 12: 1-6.
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First, for today, let’s take a look …
Read More11/17/2024 – Day 146 – Jeremiah – Chapters 42 – 46 / commentary: “The Jewish Remnant: Doomed Idolaters (44: 1 – 30)”
For yesterday’s Jeremiah reading, our ninth of ten consecutive Saturdays, again, I will share an excerpt from William Wiersbe’s wonderful commentary on Jeremiah, “Be Decisive”:
“This is Jeremiah’s last recorded …
Read More11/17/2024 – “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘you are mad, you are not like us.’” St Anthony the Abbot (251 – 356 a.d.) – link to biography attached
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/anthony-the-abbot-473
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11/19/2024 – Day 149 – Exodus – Chapters 33 – 36 / Chapter 34 – The New Stone Tablets – the connection to the Covenant of Grace and our LORD Jesus Christ.
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. Moses was there …
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