KDs are designed/developed/inspired/mused/auto-suggested/indigested to make folks think; an especially uncommon experience among Democrats, Republicans, and jingoistic mainline denominationalists who continue to discourage dissent with their ever-threatening thought police.
(A
Brief and Incomplete Guide to Restoring Relationships)
Some people like fights more than friendships.
A woman came to me and asked about the agenda
for a meeting.
I said, “It looks like we’ve got at least one
tough topic coming up.”
“Oh, goodie,” she said, “I just love a good
fight!”
It was one of the most un-non-Christian things
that I’ve ever heard in a church.
Sadly, there are people who like to fight, hit,
hurt, beat, batter, bruise, bite, and butcher; betraying the darkness in their
souls.
There are people who like to distance, divorce,
and destroy.
Pride, control needs, lusts, idolatries,
hatreds, and other deeply dark pathologies
masquerading as arrogant and condescending self-righteousness often
cause segregations, separations, and schisms.
It’s natural.
Fortunately, Jesus has provided a path to
restoring relationships in Matthew 18:15-17:
1.Try to work it out face to face.
2.If that doesn’t work, bring along a few
fair and objective
folks who will tell
the truth to both of you while insuring
neither of you is
tempted to lie about the conversation
to others at a later
date.
3.If that doesn’t work, try a committee,
board, or bunch of
good folks to sort it
all out.
4.If that doesn’t work, isolate and avoid
them.
Unfortunately, while our Lord commands us to
love and seek reconciliation with even the unlovable people in our lives, some
folks are determined to remain irrational, irregular, irascible, and
irreconcilable.
God has another plan for them: “Keep up your
guard against anyone who is causing conflicts and enticing others with
teachings contrary to what you have already learned. If there are people like that in your
churches, stay away from them. These
kinds of people are not truly serving our Lord Jesus…They have devoted their
lives to satisfying their own appetites.
With smooth talking and a well-rehearsed blessing, they lead a lot of
unsuspecting people down the wrong path” (Romans 16:17-18).
In other words, some people playing out deeply
dark pathologies with no desire for reconciliation must be identified, ignored,
and isolated lest they infect the rest of the body of believers with their
disease.
There’s no place for a rotten apple in a barrel
of freshly picked ones.
While our Lord set the example for always
inviting, welcoming, including, and loving, He also said there are evil ones
who slip into churches like wolves in sheep’s clothing with no desire to be
reconciled to Him which is exposed by their irrational, irregular, irascible, and
irreconcilable behavior with the rest of His family; causing Him to conclude,
“If someone is inhospitable to you or refuses to listen to your testimony,
leave that house or town and shake the dust from your feet” (Matthew 10:14).
Allowing the irrational, irregular, irascible,
and irreconcilable to infect a church with darkness brings a stern warning from
our Lord: “If anyone is a cause of stumbling to one of these little ones who
have faith in Me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his
neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matthew 18:6).
Jesus declares the sternest of warnings for
people who are irretrievably irreconcilable: “If you forgive…, your heavenly
Father will forgive you…But if you do not forgive…, neither will your Father
forgive you” (Matthew 6:14-15).
Restored relationships reflect a restored
relationship: “As you do it for them, you do if for Me” (see Matthew 25:31ff.).
When we are reconciled to Him, we are
reconcilable with others.
A passion for reconciliation shows intimacy
with Jesus.
It’s belief confirmed by behavior.
Remembering we must be reconcilable with
everyone to prove reconciliation with our Lord, we will remain reconcilable
with even the irrational, irregular, irascible, and irreconcilable; knowing,
sometimes with some people, it’s better to talk to God about them than to talk
to them about God.
@#$%
Blessings and Love!
@#$%
Shatter the sound of silence!
Wake up! Look up! Stand up! Speak
up! Act up for Jesus!
I'm not immune; but, these days, only
when it illustrates something/Someone more important.
It turned out to be a great meeting and
I felt hopeful for my particular part of the franchise for the first time in a
long time.
Because I was the last batter up, I had
a lot of time to think about it; expecting to start from the cloud of unknowing
with a quote from one of my favorite songs: "My life is changing in so many
ways. I don't know who to trust anymore. There's a shadow running
through my days like a beggar going from door to door" (Neil Young, 1971).
Well, the two guys preceding me took a
long time and I decided to say after looking around at the faces betraying
increasing impatience, "After being around for such a long time, I know
I'm called to what I do and have no resentments or doubts; though I have some
regrets...like never spending Mother's Day or Father's Day with my parents for
over four decades."
They paid attention.
That's what empathy does.
If folks weren't so antsy, I would have
started, "October 2011 changed my life."
Then I would have started
with Eugene saying sometime during those days alongside Flathead Lake in
Montana, "It's not what you are doing but who you are in doing it."
I would have gone on, "While Jesus
saved me - providing confident living in the assurance of paradise immediately
after the last breath - long before October 2011, I discovered vocational
clarity and a strong calm sanity that had eluded me. I became more
intimate with Jesus than ever before and anger disappeared. My gut as
well as head and heart wanted reconciliation."
I would have talked about reading
Matthew 15 where Jesus talks about people who elevate traditions to the
commandments of God in violation of the big ten and Matthew 24 where He
ripped new ones for clergy; and confessed I don't know how I missed those
courses on pastoral ministry as I have enabled what evoked so much of His
disdain.
Psalm 23, Matthew 10, and John 10 would
have been referenced as guiding principles for undershepherding to the Good Shepherd;
talking about the difficult yet necessary balance of being tough-minded
and tender-hearted while guiding and protecting sheep from wolves.
Psalm 62 would have been the closing
exclamation: "It's easy to remember. 6+2=8. We're often behind
the eight ball in life and ministry; and the only One who can really be counted
on whenever, wherever, whatever, whyever, and with whomever is Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit. God alone saves!"
I think that's more important than
talking about...
@#$%
Blessings and Love!
@#$%
Shatter the sound of silence!
Wake up! Look up! Stand up! Speak
up! Act up for Jesus!
"There are sins of omission as well as commission.
Both insult God's holiness and injure others.
Yet, the former may be worse than the
latter because they rarely invoke
conscience, confession,
and the repentance
insuring..."
@#$%
"They renovated the chancel area and put a seat
fit for a king right behind the table for me.
I never sat on it...
They put my name in big bold brass letters in
front of the church. I protested and said
I would leave the church unless mine
was replaced with...
After arriving, I was told about a Lenten
drama in which my predecessor
played Jesus...I said I have
never felt comfortable
playing...
I like reserved parking spots for the handicapped and
elderly.
They need them; and nobody else deserves them.
I have always refused them because of
something He said about being a...
Lamentably, just a few specks of fidelity on a
beachfront of personal and enabled..."
@#$%
Because lots of
folks don't believe in charismata in
a Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12 kinda way, I don't like to talk about one of
'em; but I've gotten into more trouble for what I haven't said and done
after seeing...ifyou know what I mean.
Change that.
His holiness has
been insulted and people have been injured when I haven't been an undershepherd to the Good
Shepherd in a Psalm 23, Matthew 10, and John 10 kinda way after He has
provided apocalyptic moments to prevent insults and injuries.
When I haven't
spoken or acted upon revelation, others not
me have paid the price of my omissions.
I guess I've been
like most other...
I'm too often too
concerned about being liked when called to love; for it's easier to be pathetic
than prophetic when you've got car payments, college bills, mortgages, and...
It's that thumb
that the Rolling Stones sang about.
When you've got
so many masters, it's hard to be faithful.
@#$%
I knew he was a
problem within days of arrival.
He ignored me
when I asked him to stop parking in a spot reserved for the handicapped.
He defied me when
I told him to stop parking in a spot reserved for the handicapped.
When I told
staff,officers,
and members about it,...crickets.
Solution?
We took down a
sign reserving a parking spot for the handicapped and replaced it with a sign
with his name on it.
He wiped out my
beloved truck not long after that; driving into the church lot like a bat
out of hell, ramming it, and bringing a Caliber into my life.
He showed no
shame or responsibility; though he thought it was kinda funny with a strange
smile and demonic wink that would be repeated over and over and over and...
I didn't tell
anybody about it because the church had been through a rough interim period and
I didn't want...to be hassled.
Besides, I was
new...and knew staff, officers, and members would turn against me because he
was just a lovable old goof, bungler, fool, and...
That was over a
decade ago.
I knew then.
So many, many,
many other confirmations since then.
Now, a family has
been devastated, lives ruined, and...
I've always said
it's more important to love than seek cheap, superficial, and temporal favor or
be liked.
I didn't trust or
execute my charisma.
I joined the long
list of those who enabled him to...death.
I did not protect
the sheep and beat away the wolf.
@#$%
I forgot two
lessons that I have given to so many others.
No, that's not
right.
I wasn't
obedient.
1. You're damned if you do and damned if
you don't. How liberating! That means we should feel compelled to
do the right thing according to Jesus, the Bible, and common sense.
2. Shepherds don't follow sheep because
shepherds know sheep are too dumb to take care of themselves. Shepherds
guide, protect, and beat
away and even beat down predators.
Omissions are
more easily rationalized than commissions.
That's why they
are much, much, much more problematic and painful to God and others.
@#$%
With that in
mind, it's time to repeat a decades-old discernment about and challenge to Islam.
It's been said
before but must be said again.
More than ever
before, I understand the cost of omissions.
@#$%
An Open Letter to Muslims
Dear Followers of
Mohammed,
I am writing to you as a
follower of Jesus; meaning I believe He is Lord and Savior and try to behave
accordingly.
Christians regard Jesus as
the perfect personification of God and the Bible as providing the perfect
prescriptions for following Him.
Assuming you are trying to
follow your leader Mohammed according to your sacred literature, I have
increasing concerns about how you participate in civilization.
Surely, “Muslims” are like
“Christians” in diversity of beliefs and behaviors; acknowledging any
connection between some beliefs and behaviors and their founders by their books
are often just coincidental.
I differentiate between
posers and authentics.
Posers follow their
leaders by their books when it’s convenient to their egocentric wants,
feelings, needs, and opinions; as in, “I know that’s what Jesus/Mohammed says, but
I think…”
Authentics follow their
leaders by their books; surrendering the egocentric to the theocentric; as in,
“God said it. I believe it. That settles it.”
While my guess is some of
what I am writing may appeal to posers who are moderately committed to their
leaders – “Yeah, that’s right! I am a
moderate! I’m moderately committed to
Jesus/Mohammed as long as it doesn’t, you know, conflict with my wants,
feelings, needs, and opinions!” – I am hoping this will attract attention from
Muslims who are trying to follow Mohammed by the book.
I have two concerns about
how authentic Muslims participate in civilization.
First, from everything
that I’ve read about Mohammed and observed in Muslims who follow him by the
book, it’s noticeably barbaric from most civilized points of view.
I mean, let’s face
it. Cutting off heads for apostasy,
cutting off other body parts for lesser infidelities, and degrading women in so
many ways just doesn’t seem very, uh, civilized from most, uh, civilized points
of view.
When someone makes fun of
Mohammed in a silly cartoon or sophomoric video, you go apoplectic. You make our snake-handling Pentecostals look
like Emily Post devotees. Are you that
emotionally fragile that you can’t handle people who don’t esteem Mohammed like
you do? Yeah, I know you’ve got this convert-to-us-or-be-killed-by-us
thing going. But think about us! We are a constant source of comic material
for Saturday Night Live, Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin, and so many others who
don’t have to worry about Christians declaring death warrants against them.
And what’s up with the
masks when you do your beheading thing?
You look like America’s old KKK on steroids! It comes off rather cowardly. If you have the courage of your convictions,
man up, name it, and claim it!
Your leaders of your
leader are quick to convince their followers that there are dozens of virgins
awaiting those who get knocked off for your cause. While that sounds like something very
appealing to Cub Scouts in heat, it comes off as rather juvenile to the rest of
us. Really, is that what your heaven is
mostly about? Sex with virgins? Whoa.
Second, if what I just
wrote is really, really, really wrong about Muslims who follow Mohammed by the
book, why don’t you condemn their barbarity and tell everyone that they’re not
following Mohammed by the book?
There’s no such thing as a
silent majority. Everybody knows silence
about bad behaviors emanating from bad beliefs accommodates and enables
them. If they’re wrong about Mohammed by
the book, then you owe it to, uh, Mohammed to tell them about it and convince
us that we’re wrong about thinking Islam is barbaric from civilized points of
view.
Christians who believe in
Jesus by the book have always been quick to criticize the bad behaviors of
people posing as Christians.
Don’t even bring up the
Crusades!
Jesus and people who
really are authentically believing in Jesus by the book would never have
approved of the barbaric behaviors emanating from the bad beliefs of the
Crusaders. They were about as
authentically devoted to Jesus by the book as we are hoping you will tell us
are those barbarians masquerading as Muslims who go around chopping off body
parts, degrading women, and declaring death warrants against anyone who
disagrees with their version of Islam.
You can’t blame Jesus for
“Christians” who need more than just “some” Jesus in their lives as we are
hoping you will tell us about those barbarians who claim to be following
Mohammed so closely.
I guess it does come down
to our leaders.
Would Mohammed do the
things that those murderously marauding “Muslims” are doing in the name of
Allah?
If not, you have to speak
up!
If so, admit it and let
the chips fall where they will!
Would Jesus do the things
that those murderously marauding Crusaders did in the name of God?
Absolutely not!
That means anybody who is
truly following Jesus by the book will not!
Though what I’ve read and
seen from the barbaric “Muslims” and what I haven’t heard or seen from the
other ones doesn’t add up to anything positive or redemptive for the place of
Islam in a civilized world, I confess not being an expert; which is why I’m
waiting for the rest of the Muslims to provide a verdict on the obviously
barbaric ones.
I’m just somebody who
loves Jesus who is trying to follow Him by the book; and the Jesus of the book
is compassionate, merciful, forgiving, and, in short, urging His followers to
love everybody like He loves everybody which includes praying and laboring for
the best for everybody without regard to who, what, where, when, or why with no
need or expectation for response, regard, or reward.
That means Christians who
follow Jesus by the book are willing to co-exist with people who don’t want to
follow Jesus by the book.
That seems so different
from Islam.
Islamists, the loud
barbaric adherents and the silent accommodating and enabling ones, don’t seem
to share such a commitment to co-existence.
Christianity, following
Jesus by the book, can co-exist with everybody else.
Islam, from what I have
read and seen, following Mohammed by the book, cannot co-exist with anybody
else unless everybody else converts to it.
That doesn’t seem to leave
many options for the rest of the civilized world.
I guess, when all is said
and considered, either everybody else will have to go if they don’t convert to
Islam or everybody else will have to team up and you’ll have to…
I hope and pray I’m wrong.
Please speak up and
encourage us that we’re wrong about you.
For unlike what we’ve increasingly
read about and increasingly seen from you, we would like to co-exist.
We’re not asking you to
become like us.
We’re just asking you to be
more conciliatory and recognize the planet has enough space for all of us.
Before everything but
heaven breaks out, please show the world that Mohammed by the book isn’t as
barbaric as we’re reluctantly concluding by the behaviors of so many of those
who claim to follow him.
If you cannot get your
house in order, we will not let you invade ours much longer.
Sincerely,
A Follower of Jesus
@#$%
I know some will
say that's rude or intolerant.
I don't beg to
differ.
Anyone who
defends what just-left-of-center-to-right-to-extremist Islam does to women and
our LGBT friends is intellectually dishonest, spiritually deceiving, and
emotionally manipulative.
I don't get
anyone from left, right, up, or down who defends...
I understand
enabling.
Just confessed
it.
It happens when
we're ignorant, apathetic, deceived, double-minded, duped, selfish,
fainthearted, or...part of the dark conspiracy to...
@#$%
Blessings and Love!
@#$%
Shatter the sound of silence!
Wake up! Look up! Stand up! Speak up! Act up for Jesus!
While I've been
around long enough that I don't get bugged by it anymore, I used to have
panic attacks whenever somebody would say, "Pastor, I'm not going to talk
about it right now, but I'm going to bring up something at our next session
meeting."
I've never liked
ambushes since a close friend died in one not long after I graduated from high
school.
That's why I've
almost always alerted folks to interrogatives or exclamations that I'm gonna
bring to meetings.
I don't like surprises...unless,
you know, it's a favorite Cuban or the keys to a Ford 150 or something.
It's a Matthew
7:12 thing for me.
@#$%
Recently, it came
to my attention that lots of pastors in our denomination are more than
allowing, applauding, and advocating same-sex nuptials.
Laced with an in-yo-face stench directed
at evangelicals like me who used to be in the majority, they're boasting about
it.
Indisputably,
it's their right to preside at those rites in the PCUSA.
They've won.
Evangelicals in
the PCUSA are an increasingly decreasing and marginalized minority.
Anxiety is
growing.
Hence, an
emerging question for PCUSA evangelicals: "While pastors remaining in the
franchise have acquiesced to the majority even if they think same-sex
nuptials are an affront to over 2K years of Biblical, confessional,
constitutional, historical, traditional, and common sense Christianity, how
long will it be before those who say they won't can't keep
ordinations/credentials in the franchise anymore?"
@#$%
Blackhawk
Presbytery, a regional part of the franchise, has a stated meeting next week.
Rather than
ambush anybody, I'm going to ask two questions right now that I think must
be answered sooner than later or more churches aren't going to wait anymore and
exit:
1. Knowing the majority allows,
applauds, and advocates same-sex nuptials, how does Blackhawk Presbytery regard
candidates for ordination and pastors who feel called to our presbytery who
don't?
2. If the highest
court of our denomination mandates all pastors to allow, applaud, and advocate
same-sex nuptials, how will Blackhawk Presbytery regard currently installed
pastors who won't?
It's a clarifying
moment for Blackhawk Presbytery.
@#$%
Four churches
have left Blackhawk Presbytery over the past few years: First Aurora,
Kishwaukee, Westminster Aurora, and Bethany.
Essentially, they
left because they're convinced the PCUSA has abandoned over 2K years of
Biblical, confessional, constitutional, historical, traditional, and common
sense Christianity.
For varieties of
reasons - fainthearted to bravehearted - some, like me, have remained.
But there's a
growing anxiety and...
A few assurances
and answered questions may help.
@#$%
Of course,
privately, I've asked these questions.
Crickets.
Enough not said.
@#$%
Blessings and Love!
@#$%
Shatter the sound of silence!
Wake up! Look up! Stand up! Speak
up! Act up for Jesus!
While there are many beloved hymns
about prayer, the most popular may be Help! by the Beatles.
BTW, let’s clear up something right
now.
When John Lennon said the Beatles were
more popular than Jesus, he wasn’t boasting.
He was telling the truth! Here’s
the proof! More people still listen
to their music than sing prayer hymns in worship and any connection between most
organized religions about Jesus are usually only coincidental to a relationship
with Jesus by the book.
For example, take a look at America
when it comes to…
Verstehen?
Back to prayer, which we better put back
into our classrooms, courtrooms, living rooms, and, yes, churches before
it’s too late, Help! was written by Lennon on April 11, 1965 and lasted
nearly a month as the #1 song on the charts.
Lennon said
the song was personal, emotional, and desperate; which explains the exclamation
point: “I was aware of myself back then…No acid…No nothing… Well, pot…I mean
it…. It’s real!…It’s just me singing, ‘Help!’…I meant it…I was crying out for
help…It was my fat Elvis period…I am singing about when I was so much younger
and all the rest, looking back at how easy it was…I was fat and I was crying
out for help.”
Sounds like prayer to me:
Help! I need somebody.
Help! Not just anybody.
Help! You know I need someone.
Help!…
When I was younger, so much younger
than today,
I never needed anybody’s help in any
way.
But now these days are gone.
I’m not so self-assured.
Now I find I’ve changed my mind.
I’ve opened up the door.
Help!
And now my life has changed in, oh, so
many ways.
My independence seems to vanish in the
haze.
But every now and then I feel so
insecure.
I know that I just need you like I’ve
never done before.
Help! I need somebody.
Help! Not just anybody.
Help! You know I need someone.
Help!
Yeah, sounds like prayer to me.
It sounds like something in David’s
psalms.
You remember him.
Popular like…
Anyway, he also had his “fat Elvis
period.”
While he remains the greatest king in
Israel’s history, showed it’s about the size of the fight in the dog not the
size of the dog in the fight when he knocked out Goliath for the heavyweight
championship of the world, and proved the prophet’s point that a heart for God
is more effective in the long run than a diploma from…[You pick your favorite
educational idolatry!], he’s also a perfect example of how God forgives and restores
people who admit not hide their infidelities and try to live better lives out
of respect for Him that also helps others.
Say what you want about Lennon,
Hillary, Trump, O’Reilly, Maddow, Matthews, and whoever’s on the latest
popularity poop list; but David could be a real scumbag at times.
While he was writing those prayer
songs for worship, he was also into his day’s porn as a peeping Tom who got off
watching women bathe; and got so hot and bothered about one that he used his
political power position to knock her up while he conspired to knock off her
husband.
Oh, Pastor Bob, that’s too graphic for
our tender religious ears!
Really?
Let’s go to your computer’s browsing
history and cable hook-up.
C’mon, as we’ve quoted Him over and
over and over again, it’s all about admitting before absolution.
David knew the deal.
We sin.
God saves.
What a great deal…with a big part of
the deal being our gratitude for His salvation by grace through faith in Jesus.
Truly, if we get it/Him, we’re so happy
about being saved forever by being forgiven for the “fat Elvis period” things
that we’ve done in time to insult Him and injure others that we try a little
harder to get better about talking and walking like we’re respectfully
grateful.
If we get
it/Him, we lament any missed opportunity to worship Him with lavish and
exuberant and overcoming praise and thanks.
Of course, no matter how good we
become, we’re never good enough not to need Him to fill in the gap between our
humanity and Him.
In other words, we’ll always need
Jesus as Savior even as we’re praying and trying to get better about Him being
Lord of our lives.
It’s those old-fashioned words
justification and sanctification.
We are justified – just as if we’d
never sinned – by grace through faith in Jesus.
We never stop sanctifying ourselves or
praying and trying to get better about Him being Lord of lives in praise and
thanks for Him being Savior of our lives by grace through faith in Jesus.
Sanctification proves gratitude for
justification.
That’s why every day includes
admittance/confession, penitence or trying to get better about Him by the book,
and adoration and thanksgiving because He forgives the gaps even as He says He
will help fill them in if we ask His favor, seek intimacy with Him, and keep
knocking or asking and seeking.
Look at Psalm 51.
Essentially, it’s David admitting He
did bad things – insulted God’s holiness and hurt others – and begging God’s
help to get better with a loud supplication: “Help!”
David knows He’s forgiven – and you
can read more about how we know that feels in Psalm 32 because we’ve been a
part of deal since conversion to Him – but wants to get better and better and
better because he’s so happy about it.
So, in effect, Psalm 51 is David’s big
cry for Help!
19 verses including these synonyms for Help!
that bring Lennon’s confessed struggles to mind:
Have mercy!
Blot out!
Wash me!
Cleanse me!
Purge me!
Make me!
Restore me!
Deliver me!
Create in me a clean heart!
Simply, in short, Help!
BUT NOT JUST ANYBODY!!!
I hope Lennon figured that out.
David did.
Anybody who worships God gets it/Him.
I think of a favorite story from John
Maxwell.
A man fell into a pit and couldn’t get
out.
A subjective person came along and
said, “I feel for you down there.”
An objective person came along and
said, “It’s logical that someone would fall down into that pit.”
A Pharisee said, “Only bad people fall
into a pit.”
Confucius said, “If you would have
listened to me, you wouldn’t be in that pit.”
Buddha said, “Your pit is only a state
of mind.”
I’ll add one. Mohammed said, “You deserve to be in that pit
but if you convert to me, I’ll help you.
If not, die, infidel!”
A realist said, “Now that’s a pit!”
A scientist calculated the pressure
necessary, pound and square inches, to get him out of the pit.
A geologist told him to appreciate and
study the rock strata in the pit.
An evolutionist said, “You will die in
the pit so you can’t produce any more pit-falling offspring.”
The county inspector said, “Did you
have a permit to dig that pit?”
A professor gave him a lecture on the
elementary principles of the pit.
A self-pitying person said, “You
haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen my pit!”
An optimist said, “Things could get
worse.”
A pessimist said, “Things are going to
get worse.”
But Jesus saw the man in the pit, took
him by the hand, and lifted the man out of the pit.
Whether it’s John Lennon or King David
or anyone before or after them like you or me, everybody spends time with Elvis
in the pits of life; and everybody yells collectively, “Help!”
Unlike the crazy Australian who tried
to throw away his boomerang, we look up not around or within for deliverance.
We know we need help but not just
anybody’s will do.
We know there is only one Lord who
lived, died, rose, reigns, and lives forever to help.
Jesus.
Knowing that/Him, we’ll give the last
word to Him because He has it and we’ll repeat it for all of those desperate
people crying out for help in life’s pits: “Keep on asking, and you will
be given what you ask for. Keep on
looking, and you will find. Keep on
knocking, and the door will be opened.
For everyone who asks, receives.
Everyone who seeks, finds. And
the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
You parents – if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them
a stone instead? Or if they ask for a
fish, do you give them a snake? Of
course not! If you sinful people know
how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly
Father give good gifts to those who ask Him.”
@#$%
Blessings and Love!
@#$%
Shatter the sound of silence!
Wake up! Look up! Stand up! Speak
up! Act up for Jesus!
