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A Mark, The Mark, That Mark

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I believe that for a nation and for an
individual it is possible to continue in
sin until you cross over a mark. I do not
know where the mark is – I don’t pretend nations-world_map_with_countries-6
to be able to say when this takes place – but there is such a place. When you pass over that mark, it is not that the grace of God cannot reach you but that you cannot reach God for the simple reason that you have come to the place where you are hardened and in a state of unbelief which cannot be changed. This can be true of a nation, and it can be true of an individual.
J.Vernon McGee (1904-1988)

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Logos

November 19, 2016 jakin7

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greek-philosophers-atheenseschool The Greek for ‘word’ is Logos, a term that was used by stoic philosophers for the rational principle behind the universe and subsequently invested with additional meaning by Christians, who used it to describe the second person of the Trinity. The term ‘word’ itself conveys to us notions of command, meaning, code, communication – thus information; as well as the creative power needed to realize what was specified by that information. The Word, therefore, is more fundamental than mass-energy. Mass-energy belongs to the category of the created. The Word does not.

John C. Lennox

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Einstein of Birds

November 18, 2016 jakin7

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After forty days Noah opened the window
he had made in the ark and he sent out
a raven, and it kept flying back and forth
until the water had dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8: 6,7

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Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Leave
here, turn eastward and hide in the ravine of Kerith,
east of the Jordan.You will drink from the
brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed
you there. So he did what the LORD had told
him. He went to the ravine of Kerith, east
of the Jordan, and stayed there.The ravens
brought him bread and meat in the morning
and bread and meat in the evening, and he
drank from the brook. 1 Kings 17:2

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Life is more than food, and the body more
than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do
not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or
barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more
valuable you are than the birds!
Luke 12:23,24

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Esse quam videri

November 8, 2016 jakin7

mirror-taking-off-the-the-mask “To be, rather than to seem”

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Almost Gone

November 7, 2016 jakin7

joseph-th52s56r77 No man can be prepared for any deep and vital work in the world who has not gone through the school of the devil. You cannot be taught to preach by reading books, however good and eloquent.

You overshoot my life; I must hear something in your tone and accents that tell me that
you too have been in the pit, have been dragged through the lake of fire, and have understood what it is to be almost – gone.

Joseph Parker (1830-1902)

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Who among the gods

November 5, 2016 jakin7

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“Who among the gods is like you, O Lord?
Who is like you — majestic in holiness,
awesome in glory, working wonders?”
Exodus 15:11

O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive
my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out
and my lying down; you are familiar with all my
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know it completely, O  Lord…. Where can I go from your
Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if
I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I
settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your
right will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely
the darkness will hide me and the light become
night around me,”  even the darkness will
not be dark to you; the night will shine like
the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Psalm 139: 1-4,7-12

Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and
forgives the transgression of the remnant of
his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy. Micah 7:18

We have heard how the Lord dried up the water red-sea-parted
of the Red Sea for you when you came out of
Egypt, … for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.
Joshua 2:10…11

…“O Lord, God of Israel, There is no God like
you in heaven above or on earth below—you who
keep your covenant of love with your servants
who continue wholeheartedly in your way.”
1 Kings: 8: 23

Who is like the Lord our God, the One who
sits enthroned on high, who stoops down to
look on the heavens and the earth?
Psalm 113:5-6

“To whom will you compare me or count me equal?
To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?

Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver golden-idol-2-328x328
on the scales; they hire a goldsmith to make it into a
god, and they bow down and worship it.
They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set
it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot
it cannot move. Though one cries out to it, it does
not answer; it cannot save him from his troubles.”
Isaiah 46:5-7

Before the mountains were born or you brought
forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to
everlasting you are God.
Psalm 90: 2

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Your Life

November 4, 2016 jakin7

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There are two ways
to live your Life…
One is as though
nothing is a miracle,
The other is as though
everything is a miracle.

– Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

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Fixed and Immutable

November 1, 2016 jakin7

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In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.”