3Jn 1:5-10 Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, (6) who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey...
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The Wicked Accuse and Assume the Worst
1Co 13:4-5 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant (5) or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; Are there or have there been...
Continue ReadingThe Wicked Accuse and Assume the WorstIn Defense of Fellowship by Distance
Col 2:1-5 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, (2) that their hearts may be encouraged, being...
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1Jn 4:16-18 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. (17) By this is love perfected...
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Pro 6:12-15 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, (13) winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, (14) with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; (15) therefore calamity will come...
Continue ReadingThe Wicked Man’s “Smirk”Becket Cook on the Balenciaga Perverse Toy Advertisement
Here is a link (below) to an excellent video by Becket Cook which I urge you to watch. Becket spent years in advertising for well-known companies and in Hollywood (before being blacklisted when he became a Christian). He is able...
Continue ReadingBecket Cook on the Balenciaga Perverse Toy AdvertisementWhy do the Nations Rage?
But when I perceived that the fury of certain bad men had risen to such a height in your realm, that there was no place in it for sound doctrine, I thought it might be of service if I were...
Continue ReadingWhy do the Nations Rage?Innocent of Evil does not Mean Ignorance of Evil
Mat 10:16 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. How many of you were taught in your family or in your church, as you grew...
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Est 1:16-18 Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces...
Continue ReadingLet’s Say it Again – You Don’t Need Your Church’s Permission to Divorce an AbuserCreeps Creep in Among us – We must be more Watchful
Jud 1:4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. I was reading from Thomas...
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