On this Lord's Day our guest post is by my good friend and brother in the Lord Andy Brown.
https://devotionaltreasure.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/i-can-only-imagine/?preview=true
#Apologetics Sermon Illustration 61: Water Connect Puzzle and Harmonization of Doctrines and #Bible Contradictions
#Jesus #Bible #Christianity https://bit.ly/3wePGYF
Worthy, O Worthy Are You Lord
Slavery is alive and well.
Christians are not helpless - there is a way to help stop it.
https://backtojerusalem.com/here-are-the-nations-where-slavery-is-still-practiced-and-how-christians-can-end-it/
Slavery. Something most people believe to have died a long time ago, but the sad truth is that it is still alive and well today.
As believers we carry the only hope - the Gospel is the only way to bring true freedom.
This is a rewrite of a post from a year ago called "Pass It On."
https://devotionaltreasure.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/pass-it-on/?preview=true
“Praise him with the sound of the trumpet, praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance. Praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Praise him upon the loud cymbals. Praise him upon the high-sounding cymbals.
Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord, praise ye the Lord.”
Psalm 150: 3-6
“Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ. For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ, and you have been filled by him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.”
Colossians 2:8-10
@sinbach Whitney Houston. Even her beautiful funeral made me cry (it was happier than a regular Finnish worship service). I watched on YouTube a friend of hers telling about a meeting with her shortly before her death, how she was longing to live for the Lord and how she was touched by the Holy Spirit. I have watched two documentaries about her. I think it can help us not to judge her... ok she made bad and sinful choices, but at the same time she had always a relationship with the Lord. She was a victim of child abuse, and one of her female relatives, who used to babysit her and her brothers, sexually abused her. Then she was seduced by her best friend and had a lesbian relationship with her for a while. Her brother introduced her to drugs in her teens. Bobby Brown was not the best husband, and they were doing drugs together. At the same time she was put on a pedestal, and there were high expectations on her. She felt that she was never good enough - even if she was adored. Etc.
#Fun #Nonfiction #Book #Reading Review (Because Pastors also need a break from heavy theological reading): Who Ate the First Oyster? https://bit.ly/3eMlhLi
A school chaplain ends up being labelled as a terrorist due to LGBT opposition to a sermon
https://youtu.be/mvhZAnTkzkw