Archive for March, 2009

Mar 25 2009

Question — how does this strike you — Tulsa — Zoning for (49 ft. tall) Buddhist statue OK’d

Question — how does this strike you — Tulsa — Zoning for (49 ft. tall) Buddhist statue OK’d — Tulsa World story below these comments of mine…

 

 

If we ‘truly believe the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God’… and is ‘infallible’… (God’s word is true…though often the ‘exceptions’ are for our interpretation of it)… so personally…I feel every bit of the Bible has meaning for us…and reveals the heart of God to us…
 
2 Tim 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
17 that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
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But in it too … we read so much of Israel’s Old Testament history…of their ‘turning their back on God’… and always in that…was ‘their embracing of idols’…and ‘idol worship’…
 
and ‘spiritually’… as in this first Scripture reference…Egypt is always ‘associated with darkness’ and an ‘enemy of Israel…and of God’… and God calls their ‘abomination’ their idols… Continue Reading »

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Mar 23 2009

The Secret of Happiness…

The Secret of Happiness  pasted below my initial comments here… ***(also the Spurgeon sermon of this is in the attachment above should you wish to print it out)…
 
With all that is happening around us… or with life’s challenges… in marriage…in family…in health…in war… in economics…
 
so often we can ‘get so inwardly focused on ourselves and our circumstances’…that we may ‘forget in some manner’ just how ‘truly blessed’ and ‘favored by God’ we are by the provision of His merciful grace towards us in Jesus Christ…and that His free gift to us in Him of eternal reconciliation and salvation… that we ‘are forgiven!’
 
and then… when we ‘revisit our precious Lord’… and what He suffered to ‘redeem us’… by becoming ‘our sin’ on Calvary’s cross…and dying the most horrible death in order to pay the just and righteous penalty of a holy and righteous God in relation to our sins against Him… to demonstrate in that the greatest act of love this universe has ever witnessed… and all for each of us…for you…and for me… that should over ride any and all circumstances… so as Psalm 118:20 to 24 says… Continue Reading »

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