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For us to do good in the eyes of God, we must follow the lead of the Spirit. This is why Paul admonished us not to quench the Spirit! [I Thess 5:19] Alone we are blind walking into a ditch and leading anyone who follows us into that same ditch: "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in...

But... what is common should only make sense when and if a person is being led by the Holy Spirit!

To the "end" [purpose] of becoming "good"! Who is good? "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments" Matt 19:17 To enter into Life, must a man not be "good"? Jesus said there was only One...

But where is heaven for us if not within us? Consider Jesus words here: "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." John 3:13 Was not Jesus in heaven even after he came down from heaven?

Is Jesus within us our Head... or are we our own head?

Did Jesus not simply open the door/gate to the Tree of Life which had been closed as a result of the disobedience in Eden?

Indeed, for Jesus, his personal work as a man among men was finished, but what do these verses mean? "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race...

God has provided the means to that end, but how many are striving in that direction, using all that was made available through His Son?

"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." Gen 1:31 What happened to all of the "very good"? Did any remain after Adam and Eve but before Jesus? Which men today did not descend from the flawed Adam and Eve in...

"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth...

"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." John 9:4 "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto...

Thanks! So am I! I was in Viet Nam from August of 1964 to August of 1965. My duty station was at a microwave radio station located on a small U.S. Army compound within the Danang Air Force Base. There were 16,000 Americans troops there when I arrived... almost none of them combat soldiers...

This is my experience as well!

When I was still working full-time, I never had the problem. I worked hard and crashed quickly when I took the time to lie down to sleep. I took an early retirement from the Social Security Administration in November of 2000. Upon finishing my last workday, I went home and slept 3 days and...

Praying for you! I have the opposite problem in never being able to sleep as much as my old body requires. I never had such trouble when I was young. Give God the glory!

Even so... I have long appreciated the words and teachings of Oswald Chambers, a man who died 100 years ago. I wish I had such a teacher in church or school...

Is misunderstanding always equal to denial?

is 2022 a Jubilee Year? A few days ago, I was married for 50 years. Does that count? "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Rom 8:31

Is baptism located on the path which God has set before us?