Bought some used bike tools
Bought a bike mechanic stand
guy from church gave my son an old trek
We Took it apart
Cleaned it
Disassembled things reassembled’em
Now he’s riding it!
‘The gospel holds out to us the promise of a totally trustworthy God. Can we verify that promise? Augustine’s answer, surprisingly, is yes. Over time we learn that God’s promise is worthy of our trust. God’s trustworthiness is verified by experience. But we don’t start with verification. We start with trust: this leads to experience: and experience leads to knowledge of God’s trustworthiness. Augustine says, “If you can’t understand, believe, and then you’ll understand.”’ —Ben Myers
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” (Revelation 19:9)
that's my hope. one of many. inheritance. everlasting life. see God face to face. be rid of sin. no tears. righteousness forever. but no blind leap into the dark. -- faith based on historical fact of resurrection.
nah, friend. Jesus actually rose from the dead. no cult. just following the evidence.
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him. (John 18:38)
John 5:21–22 (ESV): For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
22 For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
James 4:12: There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy.
John 5:23: Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
If your fear doesn’t result in worship of Jesus…then it’s value-less
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7)
It may resonate more with your heart….but your heart is deceitful! And rebellious.
And broken.
And perverse.
And corrupt
And so is mine
Film producer Marty Kaplan:
“The God I have found is common to Moses and Muhammad, to Buddha and Jesus. It is known to every mystic tradition. In mine, it is the Tetragrammaton, the Name so holy that those who know it dare not say it. It is what the Cabala calls Ayin, Nothingness, No-Thingness. It is Spirit, Being, the All. I used to think of psychic phenomena as New Age flim-flam. I used to think of reincarnation as a myth. I used to think the soul was a metaphor. Now I know there is a God—my God, in here, demanding not faith but experience, an inexhaustible wonder at the richness of this very moment.”
Blah blah blah — babble.
Me?
I’m going with the apostles creed.
I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth
And in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, our Lord
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary
Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead and buried; He descended into hell
The third day he rose again from the dead
He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead
I believe in the Holy Ghost
I believe a holy catholic church; the communion of saints
The forgiveness of sins
The resurrection of the body
And the life everlasting. Amen.
“human beings desire optimum joy and unending pleasure … and it is good that they do! We must come to grips with the fact that the Bible unashamedly appeals to our desire for pleasure and happiness. And it does so because God built into us an undeniable, unrelenting, inescapable hunger for joy and satisfaction and delight. God built us to be fascinated, to be intrigued, to be exhilarated, to be stunned.”
Sam storms
Fascinated
Intrigued
Exhilarated
Stunned
“Outward things can no more cure the agony of conscience than a silken stocking can cure a gouty leg. When Saul was sore distressed (1 Sam. 28:15), could all the jewels of his crown comfort him? If God be angry, whose ‘fury is poured out like a fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him’ (Nahum 1:6), can a wedge of gold be a screen to keep off this fire? ‘They shall cast their silver in the streets; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord,’ (Ezek. 7:19).… The things of the world will no more keep out trouble of spirit, than a paper screen will keep out a bullet” —Thomas Watson
blessed, approved, welcomed by God...is everyone who is poor in spirit.
their's is the kingdom of God.
nobody who is NOT impovershed in their spirit gets in the kingdom.
you must understand yourself to be spiritually bankrupt if you want heaven.
"Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling"
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. (Psalm 34:18)
“Happiness is the great question confronting mankind. The whole world is longing for happiness and it is tragic to observe the ways in which people are seeking it. The vast majority, alas, are doing so in a way that is bound to produce misery.” Martin Lloyd jones
Keep in mind that the reason we think the election will stink to high heaven in November is because it stinks to high heaven now. We believe there will be attempts to rig the election then because they are rigging the election now. Think of it—bogus impeachment attempts, ginned up indictments, stupid raids, a disease-riddled conviction, possible imprisonment before the election, an assassination attempt that our church security team could have handled better than the Secret Service did, topped off with some truly lame bureaucratic stonewalling to cover up what the Secret Service did or did not do. If Trump is reelected, he really needs to make his own arrangements for security with Blackwater, dispatching the Secret Service to guard some kindergartners’ birthday parties.
https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/books/interposition.html
do you know what wombs are for?