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. ● Phil 4:6-7 . . Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. I was diagnosed with esophageal...

. When I was a little boy, my mom taught me how to say the "lay me down to sleep" prayer. Later, in catechism, I was taught advanced versions of rote prayer like the Hail Mary, the Our father, the Act of Contrition, and Grace Before Meals. After converting to Protestantism, I discovered rote...

. 158) Gal 6:2 . . Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ. It's human nature to shun people with problems as if they were lepers so they don't drag us into a world of inconvenience and/or negativity. But that is not what I call fulfilling the law of Christ; which reads...

. When I was a little boy, my mom taught me how to say the "lay me down to sleep" prayer. Later, in catechism, I was taught advanced versions of rote prayer like the Hail Mary, the Our father, the Act of Contrition, and Grace Before Meals. After converting to Protestantism, I discovered rote...

. Some of my very favorite science fiction movies came out during last century's closing decades, for example: 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) Star Wars (1977) Close Encounters Of A Third Kind (1977) E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982) and Contact (1997). The best science fiction I'd seen in a...

. 157) Gal 6:1a . . Brethren, even if someone is caught in the very act of any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; The Greek word for "trespass" is interesting. It can refer to willful conduct unbecoming and/or unintentional conduct. For example the...

That shouldn't be because I flunked English during senior year in high school and had to make it up during summer vacation. After high school, I was arrested for joy riding in a stolen car and in possession of a couple of bottles of Seagram's 7 whisky. The cops gave me an ultimatum-- they said...

. Prior to my wife's conversion, she was a feminist. But you'd never guess because Christianity has been remarkably thorough in breaking that movement's hold on her thinking and on the way she associated with men. I myself was a hard-core misogynist prior to my conversion and was convinced I...

. 156) Gal 5:25-26 . . Since we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. The sentient consciousness we have as our normal selves is dried up, i.e. it's decrepit and infertile. (John 6:53 & Eph 2:1) whereas...

. You had your time, you had the power, You've yet to have your finest hour. Radio Ga-Ga, QUEEN, 1984 Along about 1972 I was reading the Bible often enough but not really getting all that much out of it till I remembered that my Protestant friend had made me aware that there were Bible studies...

. 155) Gal 5:16 . . I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the base nature. Some years ago, in a boatyard where I was employed on Shelter Island in San Diego, I was listening to a young Christian boast of his dedication to Christ. So I asked him: What about the...

. I was sort of a juvenile delinquent as a teen-ager with things like arson, petty theft, fighting, vandalism, possession of alcohol, and shop lifting-- and after high school did three years in the Army before taking up the welding trade. So at first my language was less than acceptable for a...

. Hikers on the long distance trails not only have to be wary of natural hazards, rodents, reptiles, beasts, and the elements; but also thieves. For example; Jesus spoke of thieves in the 10th chapter of John. Out west thieves that steal livestock are usually called rustlers. Well; my first...

. I was living solo up in Oregon when my conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism took place in 1968. Right about that same time, my dad became disabled back in my home town of San Diego so I started packing to go down there and be with him. Before leaving, the man instrumental in initiated...

. Hello; There's hundreds of hikers out there this time of year walking across America on long distance trail systems like the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), and the Appalachian Trail (AT) et al. The PCT crosses the Columbia river at the community of Cascade...

. 154) Gal 5:13a . . You, my brethren, were called to be free. But do not use your liberty to indulge the base nature; Christ's followers are sometimes accused of practicing a religion that gives people a license to steal, so to speak. Well; that's true to a certain extent because his followers...

. When the dead stand to face justice per Rev 20:11-15, they won't be disembodied, rather, they'll be physical due to the process of restoring their remains to life, i.e. resurrected. ● Dan 12:2 . . And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and...

. 153) Gal 5:2-3 . . Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. The Greek word for "man" in the above passage is anthropos...

. The Word's flesh (John 1:14) is basically a theophany. His wasn't the first; the Old Testament records a few others here and there. However, the Word's flesh is unique in that Jesus is a theophany who comes with a bloodline certifying that he's one of David's paternal grandsons; and if...

. ● John 3:5 . . . Most truly I say to you: Unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. One day I asked an experienced Jehovah's Witness if he was born of the spirit. He said no, and added that he did not expect to undergo a spirit birth in either this...