Luke 11:1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."
What an interesting question, "Teach us to pray". We should ask this question of our Lord today as well.
We Pray because God wants us to, it is our way of communicating with our Lord. It is our way of sharing our joys and sorrows with Him, to express our frustration and our understanding, to sit and listen for his reply and to answer softly when he calls us.
Why Pray? Because our Lord and God instilled in us the desire to communicate with him and prayer is the way he gave us to fulfill this desire.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Creation, Sin, and Death
Genesis 1 (NKJV)
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
The beginning and end of creation, six days and everything was made that had been made and god saw it and said it was VERY GOOD. No death had entered the world at this point and God had created everything.
Death entered the world after Sin (or with sin) but not before sin.
Romans 5:12 (NKJV)
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
This was a physical death as well as a spiritual death.
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
The beginning and end of creation, six days and everything was made that had been made and god saw it and said it was VERY GOOD. No death had entered the world at this point and God had created everything.
Death entered the world after Sin (or with sin) but not before sin.
Romans 5:12 (NKJV)
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
This was a physical death as well as a spiritual death.
Monday, July 07, 2008
God’s Word
Martin Luther once said:
God’s people need to realize that the Word of God is something very special. It is not just the words of men. As Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 2:13, ‘You received it not as the word of men, but as it is, truly the word of God.’
Proverbs 30:5–6 states that ‘every word of God is pure … . Do not add to His words, lest He reprove you and you be found a liar.’
The Bible cannot be treated as just some great literary work. We need to ‘tremble at his word’ (Isaiah 6:5) and not forget: All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfected, thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16–17).
In the original autographs, every word and letter in the Bible is there because God put it there. Let us listen to God speaking to us through His Word, and not arrogantly think we can tell God what He really means!
- I have often said that whoever would study Holy Scripture should be sure to see to it that he stays with the simple words as long as he can and by no means departs from them unless an article of faith compels him to understand them differently. For of this we must be certain: no clearer speech has been heard on Earth than what God has spoken.
God’s people need to realize that the Word of God is something very special. It is not just the words of men. As Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 2:13, ‘You received it not as the word of men, but as it is, truly the word of God.’
Proverbs 30:5–6 states that ‘every word of God is pure … . Do not add to His words, lest He reprove you and you be found a liar.’
The Bible cannot be treated as just some great literary work. We need to ‘tremble at his word’ (Isaiah 6:5) and not forget: All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfected, thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16–17).
In the original autographs, every word and letter in the Bible is there because God put it there. Let us listen to God speaking to us through His Word, and not arrogantly think we can tell God what He really means!
Thursday, July 03, 2008
7 C's of Histroy
7 C's of History
Creation
Corruption
Catastrophe
Confusion
Christ
Cross
Consummation
Seven C's of History
Creation
1st 'C' of history is found in Genesis 1-2
Corruption
2nd 'C' of history is found in Genesis 3
Catastrophe
3rd 'C' of history is found in Genesis 6-9
Confusion
4th 'C' of history is found in Genesis 10–11
Christ
5th 'C', Matthew 1:21–23 and throughout the New Testament
Cross
6th 'C', Philippians 2:5–8 and throughout the New Testament
Consummation
6th 'C', Revelation 21–22 and throughout the New Testament
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Day 89 Cancer
Day 89 of Cancer for Mom. Coming up on three Months. She got to go to St Croix and watch her Granddaughter Dive and sit in the sun, with tons of sunscreen on, just a few weeks ago. So she is hanging in there, even is she sounds like she is going down hill on the phone.
My sister says she has good days and bad days and the bad days are getting more frequent. She realized a while back that the mom she has known for the past many years is no longer the mom she knows now. It has been hard on her.
Exodus 15:2 (NKJV)
2 The LORD is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation;
He is my God, and I will praise Him;
My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
My sister says she has good days and bad days and the bad days are getting more frequent. She realized a while back that the mom she has known for the past many years is no longer the mom she knows now. It has been hard on her.
Exodus 15:2 (NKJV)
2 The LORD is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation;
He is my God, and I will praise Him;
My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Independence Day
Independence Day is this week. From what did we gain independence?
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I wrote the following to our paper in response to an atheist who said we were not a Christian nation and did not have any Christian influence in our founding fathers:
I would like to address the letter by Mr X [name removed here] with American Atheist Inc. Mr X would appear to argue that our county was not founded on Christian or Religious values of any kind.
Now a simple look at what could be considered our countries first document will help clear this right up. So with that in mind lets look at the document used to declare our separation from England, the Declaration of Independence and in particular near the beginning of the document:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
To say that the founding fathers did not believe we were created by a Creator would be to ignore the Declaration of Independence.
And did the founding fathers feel that Creator was God, well I will leave you with this quote and you can decide:
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?” From Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1794.