For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Romans 12:4-5 ESV I wonder at the Oneness of God… Three-In-One… His Body… His Church… One with many members… I wonder…… Continue reading the wonder of one…
I completed something today… something more than a decade in the making… A t-shirt idea for youth… turned Bible study… by words of encouragement… The study on faith grew in two parts… Part One… Loving God… Part Two… Loving Others… Ten faith actions… ten reasons to put hope in Him… because… Faith is the assurance of…… Continue reading our only Hope..
Spent the Fourth reconnecting with more family… others not seen daily… Babies… toddlers… olders… and youngers… a joy of a day… Of course… on the Fourth… talk inevitably turns to politics… Talk of fear for the future… and I notice no fear in me… No worries… no concerns… For the time being… we still have…… Continue reading one nation… under God…
Beauty… passion…I saw… both… at the symphony on Sunday…The beauty of many…coming together as one…Every member…under the direction of one…each with a different instrument…a different role…Beautiful…It gave me just a glimpse… an idea…of what the church could be…if we all came under One…and followed the same score…For in one Spirit we were all baptized into…… Continue reading beauty and passion…
It came to mind today… another incongruence in His Kingdom…The singular one… in the context of community…I see it in the indebted widow about to lose her two sons… her story found in 2 Kings 4:1-7… take a moment to read it now…She went to God for help… through the single prophet Elisha…Elisha told her…… Continue reading it’s personal… it’s communal…
Waking thoughts…There should be no division in the Church…no dividing wall…And the Scripture… that affirms…As you come to him, the living Stone — rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him — you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through…… Continue reading no division…
