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~ Heaven? Not Interested! It's an alien world with which I am totally unfamiliar; and when I leave here, I will be leaving behind everything near and dear to me, e.g. photos, mementos, souvenirs, collections, sights and sounds, mountains, creeks, rivers and forests, clothing and equipment...

~ In ancient Israel, a man's eldest son was automatically his principal heir for perpetuating their father's estate. Daughters were typically not included among a man's heirs because their destiny was with a husband and his family away from their father and their family. However, a special case...

~ For many of us working stiffs, the first day on a new job is stressful and quite an adjustment. The night before that first day can cause enough anxiety to keep us awake worrying about what we might expect. I'd imagine that, whether we end up in the right place or the wrong place in the...

~ 122) 1Cor 16:1-3 . . Now about the collection for God's people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made. Then...

When people survive long enough, two situations eventually befall them all, to wit: they get old, and their parents die. Young and beautiful, But someday your looks will be gone. ( Love Will keep Us Together, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield ) Though my father and mother forsake me, The Lord...

~ 121) 1Cor 15:56-58 . .The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is The Commandments; but thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing discourage you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of The Lord...

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There's a 1945 photo in circulation of a serviceman standing atop a car amidst a large crowd in San Francisco celebrating the end of war in Europe. There's a guy sort of like that in the Bible. ● Luke 19:1-6 . . Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of...

~ 120) 1Cor 15:34 . . Come to your senses and stop sinning. For to your shame I say that some of you don't have the knowledge of God. That directive is in connection with some of the Corinthians' insistence that dead people stay dead and never recover. ● 1Cor 15:12 . . Now if Christ is...

~ 119) 1Cor 14:39 . .Therefore, brethren, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. That rule applies only to people who actually have the gifts of tongues and/or prophesy because according to Rom 12:4-6, 1Cor 12:10, 1Cor 12:29-30, and 1Cor 14:5 not everyone does. So then...

~ ● Matt 15:21-28 . . Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out: Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon possession. Jesus did not answer a word. . . . So his disciples came to him and...

~ In the 25th chapter of 1Samuel, the story is told of David's disappointment with a very wealthy man whose employees he good-neighborly protected free of charge or obligation. David humbly requested a favor in return. However, unknown to David; the man for whom he did the favor was an ill bred...

~ 118) 1Cor 14:38 . . But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. In other words: if a spiritual influence refuses to accept the apostle Paul as a duly authorized agent speaking for Christ; then do not try to fix them. Instead, accept the influence as severely compromised; and avoid...

~ When I was young, Hell was academic. But not anymore because now I'm 80 and most of my family has passed on. It's very, very probable that my mom and two of my brothers are down there. Somebody else's kin suffering in Hell is one thing, but quite different feelings about it when it's your own. _

~ ● Matt 7:1-2 . . Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. I don't think that passage is saying God judges folks based upon their own personal standards, rather; it's saying what...

~ 117) 1Cor 14:37-38 . . If anybody thinks he's a prophet or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord's command. If your Sunday school, or your catechism class, is being chaired by somebody who disagrees with the Lord's commands regulating women's...

~ Seeing as how God owns everything in existence, and answers to no one how He goes about managing it all; then what He says goes because nobody can stop Him from making and/or enforcing whatever rules He wishes because God's free will trumps everybody else's free will. Whether God's ways and...

~ ● Jer 13:23 . . Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil. When I was a young guy coming of age, it occurred to me that it would be the cat's meow if I were as naturally pleasing to God as His son Jesus always is...

~ There is what's known as the letter of a law written in black and white. And there's the spirit of a law, viz: the principle underlying a law. For example: on occasion Jesus' opponents accused him of breaking the sabbath because they were unable to discern the principle upon which the sabbath...

~ 116) 1Cor 14:35 . . If women have questions, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. What's an inquiring wife to do if her husband is spiritually inept? I'd suggest that women married to spiritually inept Christian men, and/or...