Stay sharp! How can we be more thankful? By our actions not our words. By our love not hatred. By our compassion not intolerance. By our thankfulness not regret. Take care that your hearts aren’t dulled by human weakness so that we may stay prepared. Maybe you read my words in an earlier message about questioning just who am I? As noted, we are all entitled to our own opinions and beliefs but when we are intolerant to another opinion, we are no longer sharp but dulled by our abrasive behavior. We may only have one chance in our relationship to another so stay sharp and get it right the first time.
Check up from the neck up? Perhaps we all need a check up on our values. What do they value? Who are they? Those that would destroy anyone who does not believe according to them? If we go back centuries, it seems one could argue that Christian values were imposed on them. I thought we had progressed as a modern society past that point of total intolerance for the belief of others. Now, it seems the pendulum is swinging back to isolation of beliefs, ideology and enforcement of values at all cost.
As we watch in horror the tragic events in Paris, may we unite with them to fight for our values and freedom. This is indeed a fight for our values to gather as we are encouraged to do so in Hebrews 10: 24-25 to love and do good deeds. But now we are threatened by those who want to change our beliefs violently. May we persevere to hold true to our values and beliefs.
Do not stop meeting together with other believers and let us keep our values our values. Enjoy my brief message on the current events and let us do a value check up from the neck up.
Have you ever wondered how people can be transformed? Take Halloween for example. Look at every social media and you see all shapes and sizes of transformed folks into witches, goblins, ghosts, politicians, current movie characters, etc. It is amazing to me how mature grown ups get into the action just as much as their children or grand children. Just how many costumes are there? The mind boggles!
By the way we celebrate Halloween I thought October 31st but now if the weather is bad municipalities have wised up to change the day to a more convenient time. I wonder if that is a market strategy? By the way, what happened on October 31st, 1517?
Now, the day after our traditional fun / crazy time of Halloween, on November 1st is “All Saints Day”. What’s that all about?
This brings me to ask the question how many commandments are there and does anyone know them? The answer can be found in Exodus 20 but with all the falseness of Moses times (sort of like how we are today with Halloween) even God’s commandments had to be repeated in Deuteronomy 5. But then just how many are they? 10 or 12? Look at Mark 12 starting at verse 28. Did Jesus add 2 more commandments or was his the glue that binds the original 10 together.
Listen to my excerpt if you have time. It is about 2 minutes of audio.
My message is who would you rather…..? I was advised that some readers are turned off from a boring title so thought I would try another approach. Why? Not sure why or where this blog world will take me but feel compelled to put it out there for all to read or listen if you dare….
I recently posted excerpts of sermons and will continue in the future in the hopes that His word gets out. I missed October 18th as was traveling but if you want to do some self study, read Hebrews 5:1-10 about who was appointed as high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. (Google it to find out its meaning if you want.) You may also want to check on what happened in the year 1517 about this time. Anyone care to comment?
My message for October 25th was “Who would you rather worship and praise?” Read Hebrews 7:23-28 and Mark 10:46-52 then listen to my excerpt of my message. It is just over 3 minutes of your time.
As I continue to share my thoughts according to T, you may have noticed a few different categories. I just posted one on opening our eyes to the world around us. I put those thoughts into a teaching category as I was writing regarding two dear friends lost to this world this year that impacted so many people mostly in their teaching professions. God bless all teachers who share their life’s passion.
Now back on subject above regarding a sermon given on October 11th. I do hope you take the time to listen to my audio sermon excerpts. They are less than 4 minutes as I know we all have time constraints. My prayer is that my words are read and heard as God intended them to be and you receive his message.
The message on October 11th was that God’s word is living, active and sharper than anything humans could possibly imagine to use to attack one another. As we celebrate life to the fullest, may we also recognize we are exposed totally to the truth. That is God’s word. Why do we not see His truth? Is it not because we are so influenced by the alternative which leads us astray and will end in destruction? May we keep focused and not separate ourselves from the Truth. Read more in Hebrews 4:12-16. Also, read Mark 10:17-31 about the dangers of holding onto what really does not get us to the everlasting.
Enjoy life to the fullest but know the truth and be set free.