Above is a pic of my youngest daughter and me.
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Without the gospel, the womanly roles that are painted in Ephesians 5 and Titus 2 are not beautiful, but constrained and subservient. --Susan
Yes, Here I am again... rehashing the exhausting topic of submission. I just can't get enough... I love the bashing e-mails I get whenever I post on this stuff.
Continue reading "Wednesday Womanhood: Without the Gospel" »
The only tip I can offer today is to GO READ THIS. It is excellent.
She's nice. She's giving. She's dynamic. But why does she do these things?
In her own words after building a school in Africa to keep a promise to former South African President Nelson Mandela, she says, "I want this school to be a reflection of me."
Continue reading "Weekend Whatever: Oprah... How could anyone NOT like her." »
Okay, so I want to go back and focus on bond-servant. According to Galatians 1:10, a bond-servant of Christ is one that is not focused on trying to seek the favor of men or to please men. I Thessalonians 2:4 includes, "not in pleasing men, but God who examines the heart." But then, “How many souls have been led to vain confidence by a man-made, evangelistic formula? How many are sent home from evangelistic services with calm, who should have gone away grieved and disturbed as the ruler? How many unsaved children have been given assurance by the teachers of Bible classes, so that they have ceased to seek God for salvation?”– Chantry Today’s Gospel: Authentic or Synthetic?, 76.
I have written and re-written this post, but have come to a definite conclusion.
Continue reading "Thursday Theology: What to Avoid and Why (Loss of salvation)" »
As a result of my last post on Biblical womanhood, a woman accused me of being a chauvenist. She wrote, "God is not a chauvenist, you should not be either."
Consider reading A Spectacle Unto God: The Life and Death of Christopher Love by Don Kistler.
Continue reading "Tuesday Tips: Keep in mind the right perspective" »
...If you don't learn to laugh at yourself, you will miss out on alot of laughter and opportunities to enjoy this blink of an eye life. Just don't laugh at sin. It isn't funny. Neither is mocking God.
"Not by might, nor by power, but by MY SPIRIT says the Lord."...truly the greatest display of God's power is when God does not coerce the will of man in the today's man-centered, twisted gospel pomp, but renews the will of man in the quiet of his heart.
Brethren, we shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible... If any of you wish to preach a gospel that will be pleasing to the times, preach it in the power of the devil, and I have no doubt that he will willingly do his best for you. It is not to such servants of men that I desire to speak just now. I trust that, if ever any of you should err from the faith, and take up with the new theology, you will be too honest to pray for power from God with which to preach that mischievous delusion if you should do so, you will be guilty of constructive blasphemy. No, brethren, it is not our object to please men, but our design is far nobler.---SpurgeonChallies asks the question HERE, "Does anyone choose hell?"
My neurologist discussed the radiologist's comparison of my MRI from 1999 to the one done a couple of months ago. I do have more lesions.
