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Share Your World- Jan. 30,2017
I am just coming back to the blogoshere after vacationing with my son Joe. My first blog this week is going to be Cee’s Share Your World Challenge..
If you have never played it is so simple. Cee asks five questions and in answering them the world is shared…at least a little bit . And folks every little bit of sharing in a positive light these days helps.
Here are Cee’s five questions and my answers:
What is the most incredible natural venue that you’ve ever seen in person?
Oh gosh this is a hard one. I have been privileged to see so many amazing sights.
I think the grandest sight in nature I have seen has to be the Grand Canyon.
I have been twice and both times the sight just took my breath away
A close second was Angel’s Peak in Zion
Third was the Cliffs of Moher
The Cliffs of Moher
And The Lower Lake in Killarney was also pretty impressive
How many siblings do you have? What’s your birth order?
I have one sister, Brenda. I am two years her senior. We are very close. She is a missionary in the Netherlands.
If you were a shoe, what kind would you be and why?
I am a slipper, not very impressive on the surface and certainly not a very exciting shoe but I am comfortable and warm.
What is the strangest/weirdest thing you have ever eaten?
Ostrich jerky.
Optional Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am so grateful to have had a week with my son. We went to Boston and Keene NH. We played board games and ate out a lot. We also got a chance to catch up. Joe is quite a conversationalist.
This week I am looking forward to getting back into the swing of things at Cornerstone Church. I sense this going to be a year of change and my word for the year coming out my time of fasting is LEAD.
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Share Your World 2016- Week 51 Holiday Traditions!
Woo Hoo! I get to share my world this week! This year has been so busy I have missed a bunch of weeks but I have some extra time this week it being the holidays and all and so I have time to share little bits of my world with you through Cee’s challenge.
Here are the questions and my answers!
What types of food is associated with your holiday?
I love to cook at the holidays. Our traditional Christmas feast is lasagna, garlic bread and cole slaw. For dessert we usually have either pumpkin roll or Christmas Shtollen
Do you travel for your holiday?
I don’t usually travel for the holiday. This year Mom and I went to my daughter Melanie’s house for Thanksgiving. It was her first Thanksgiving at her home. I imagine as the years move on I will be doing a lot more of making the rounds at Christmas. It’s that time of life.
Is it a religious or spiritual holiday?
Oh this is one of my high holy days. I love! love! LOVE! Christmas eve service and this year is especially special because Christmas is on a Sunday so we have both Christmas Eve and Christmas Sunday service. Christmas Sunday is my ALL TIME FAVORITE SERVICE AT CHURCH!
Is there a gift exchange?
We do have a gift exchange, but as all the kids are grown, and I don’t have grandchildren yet gift exchange is much smaller just now. Mom usually gives money as she doesn’t go to the stores much any more and as my son, one of my daughters and sister live away even I find gift cards and mailed gifts easier to deal with.
My favorite thing to open is the stockings. After all Christmas is the season where we all sit around a dead tree eating candy out of our socks!
How long does the celebration last?
Christmas season starts directly after Thanksgiving. and goes until The 26th. The season is complete with special services, outreach, concerts and parties. Usually I also go carolling but this year do to the craziness of the rest of my schedule I opted out of that.
Optional Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am to have finished my final two outreach concerts last week. This week I am looking forward to Christmas Eve service Christmas Sunday service and on Christmas night my daughter, my nephew and I will go to see our Christmas movie which this year is PASSENGERS.
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Shoutin Saturdays 10-1-16
It is time to overflow with thankfullness to God! Join us with a song of your own in the comments section!
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Morning Direction From Scripture 10-1-16
My problems go from bad to worse.
Oh, save me from them all!
18 Feel my pain and see my trouble.
Forgive all my sins. Psalm 25:17,18
Can you recall a time when you felt like the author of these verses? What helped?
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Mid AfternoonMeditation 4-2-16
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So we make it our goal to please him,whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 2 Cor. 5:7-11
How are living by faith, not by sight and fearing the Lord related?
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Daily Quote 2-18-16
The same faith that receives salvation is the same faith we believe with for healing.-Barry Risto
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Faith-Filled Fridays 2-12-16
Faith-Filled Fridays is a post dedicated to bringing testimonies and songs that build faith in the power of God to do absolutely anything. It is my hope that Faith-Filled Fridays will strengthen the culture of worship around you.
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The Road Through Romans: It Ends At The Beginning
We are still moving through the book of Romans bit by bit. Once again, we are looking at Romans 1:16, 17. Yesterday we mentioned that the gospel reveals the only acceptable path to God. Today we are going to discuss what that pathway is.
If you have missed any of the previous posts in this series they can all be found on THE ROAD THROUGH ROMANS PAGE.
Here are the verses we are looking at today,
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
We are looking specifically at the bold-faced words.
I don’t think it can be said enough that true righteousness comes only through faith in Jesus Christ. Everything in our world is geared towards getting that wrong. Humanism has taught us…ingrained in us…that righteousness comes through men trying really hard and beyond that salvation is earned when trying really hard meets with a bit of good fortune and man’s natural goodness. That is just sooooooooo wrong.
The truth is men are not by nature righteous. We are by nature evil (sorry folks that’s proven true by Scripture and if you’ve actually lived in the world by experience as well). We are not basically good people who sometimes make mistakes. We are basically evil people who sometimes do things properly. Most times when we end up doing the right thing it is because we overcome the temptation to do the wrong thing which first comes to our minds. Much of our current situation comedy entertainment extends from the battle to make the right choice in the midst of the temptation to do the wrong thing, while much of our dramatic entertainment involves stories of what happens when that battle is not won.
Righteousness will never come because of man’s solo triumph over evil. True righteousness can only be obtained AND maintained by placing faith in the power of Jesus Christ to help us overcome ourselves.
“just as it is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith’.”
We have much more to say on this subject but we have sixteen more chapters of study to say it in so for now I am…signing off!
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The Road Through Romans: The Way To the Approved State
So we are delving into Romans 1:16,17 yet again. If you missed our previous devotional thoughts they can be found on THE ROAD THROUGH ROMANS PAGE.
Today I really want to begin looking at the bold faced words in these two verses.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
These words are the launching pad for what is perhaps the major theme for Paul’s letter to the Romans. I guess you could say the theme can be summed up thusly, The way to eternal salvation AND a lifestyle of actual holiness is by faith… OR…the way to the God-approved state is through faith.
Paul develop this theme greatly throughout the book. Honestly, it was pretty radical thinking for his readers back when it was written. Even for us this thought is pretty radical.
When most people think of Heaven they usually think of it as a place of reward for good people, something to be worked towards. When asked why a person should go to Heaven most reply that a person gets to Heaven by doing good or by having his good deeds outweigh his bad deeds. But Paul’s message throughout Romans is that salvation (Heaven) is not obtained by what we do but by who we put our faith in. In fact here in verse 17 Paul even mentions that the ability to be righteous or do good works is based on who we put our trust in. The intimation is that if we do not put our faith in the right person not only will we not attain Heaven we will not even be able to do the things that are truly good.
This is a pretty serious allegation for a world that by and large does not put its faith in Jesus.
I would love to hear your thoughts about Paul’s words here.
Lillie-Put 