Oct 8

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    O347 added a text contribution Do Not Begin To Be Anxious
    the p.b.v renders the verse this way, "do not begin to be anxious." i find it quite fitting, for once we've begun in our minds to be anxious, we will typically feel anxious, and a good amount of the next few moments, minutes, or months are spent in anxiousness. in fear. in worry. and yet, we have with us the only god who deserves to be trusted. yes, he can be trusted. Read more »

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Jul 26

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    O347 added a text contribution no more sword talk!
    1) for starters and in reference to, "whoever has no sword...buy one," i believe this is more figurative rather than literal. the spirit of the kingdom is clearly against 'force by violence' and 'retaliation by the sword'. indeed, just minutes after this scene unfolds, peter uses one of the subsequent swords to attack malchus and is reprimanded by yeshua. he is comparing two separate time periods:... Read more »

Jul 25

Jul 24

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    O347 added a text contribution Not Of This World
    "The world says "seeing is believing," but God wants us to believe in order to see. The Psalmist said, "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living." (KJV)" - Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams In The Desert Even Saint Augustine recognized that the reward of faith is, in fact, to see what we believe; alas, we truly are 'not of this world'. Mark Batterson,... Read more »

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