Devotional Treasures @DevotionalTreasures@dingdash.com

#Apologetics https://bcooper.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/is-the-bible-a-love-letter-from-god-to-us/

A Chinese Christian leader recently told his congregation:

“Of course the government is watching you, and even listening to you in your own home! So make sure that what they are seeing is a true disciple of Christ!”

This is the attitude to take. We are not backing down. We are fully trusting in God’s sovereignty over what they do or don’t do to us. We are in the hands of the risen Jesus and He will never leave us nor forsake us.

Be bold.

I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.
Theodore L. Cuyler

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
J. C. Ryle

Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Genuine evidence of the Holy Spirit’s influence in a believer's life is not excitement, experience, or emotionalism.

Instead, it’s sanctification producing a Christlike character. - Dustin Benge

#Apologetics https://bcooper.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/the-maze-of-off-ramps/

Counting down the days til my wife's 50th...in just two days!!

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The two photos with her in shades were taken 10 years apart (the most recent was yesterday)...same beautiful friend...growing ever more beautiful and godly :-)

The one without the shades - she was 24...

Wondering how she doesn't age...when I do...she married a youth...maybe that's why ;-)

She looks the same at 49 as she she did when I first met her at 23 (the one where she's wearing a red dress on)

And I love that she wants to go for a nighttime mountain bike ride so she can see in her birthday...what a woman God blessed me with those many years ago!!

Wife, friend, mother, daughter of the King

Andy B

#birthday #50th 6thdecade #bestfriend #mountainbikebuddy

Psalm 96:9
9)Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness;
Tremble [in submissive wonder] before Him, all the earth.

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@farmerjohn because the church is not comfort or buildings. Those things can be idols. If Christians are not willing to meet in a park or in a home then the people who they meet with in a church building are not their brethren. Ether they or those they meet with are not Born Again. Born Again Christians want desperately to be with their family as much as possible whether it is illegal or not.