expletive<\/em>] in the ark for 300 days?<\/p>\ncallmeguilty: fred fred fred….. so many questions<\/p>\n
fred_flinstonensis: callmeguilty not questions: problems<\/p>\n
callmeguilty: fred: shall we PM each other? (PM means Private Message)<\/p>\n
fred_flinstonensis: no PMs<\/p>\n
callmeguilty: fred:\u00a0\u00a0 why not?<\/p>\n
fred_flinstonensis: except hot girl;s<\/p>\n
callmeguilty: fred: ha ha<\/p>\n
fred_flinstonensis: can you imagine all of those blind cave crickets and all of the dinosaurs and all of the kiwi bird stumbling down the side of Mt\/ Ararat and finding their way to different parts of the world without leaving a trace of [sic<\/em>] there having been there?<\/p>\nfred_flinstonensis: if the flood actually happened how come 170 species of cichlid fishes settled out of the biblical brine into Lake Victoria – but not into any other lake in the world, including lakes only several miles from Lake Victoria?<\/p>\n
callmeguilty: fred: natural selection<\/p>\n
And so it went\u2026 Anyhow, I wonder how people like fred_flinstonesis (as in Genesis) would take the news. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Now, lemme get to this week\u2019s message on love. Our verse for the next month starts out like this\u2026<\/p>\n
1st<\/sup> Corinthians 13:7a
\nLove\u2026 bears all things\u2026<\/em><\/p>\nYou know something? Understanding this can be easy\u2026<\/p>\n
Just think of God. Then think of your years of rejecting God while indulging in sin. Then came the day you realized just how wicked you are, and yet God loved you all the while. And if you repented and yielded your everything to Him as your Lord in faith, He forgave you all of it and lovingly covered your sins with the blood of His own Son.<\/p>\n
Oh what magnificent mercy and grace with lovingkindness!<\/p>\n
Looking at your salvation this way, can you see how Love\u2026 bears all things<\/em>?<\/p>\nGod was bearing all those transgressions you committed against Him, and yet He still loved you and forgave you, if indeed you\u2019re a child of His.<\/p>\n
With our transformation from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light, we have the capacity to love as Christ loved us.<\/p>\n
Likewise, we should be able to bear much more than we have in past times, right! Consider your trials and temptations? Have you been bearing the sins of those around you? If not, then begin to see those offenses as opportunities to demonstrate love in forgiveness.\u00a0 Has your faith been exercised by resisting\/ fleeing temptations? The love shed abroad in you makes you able!<\/p>\n
Take the Apostle John\u2019s words for it\u2026<\/p>\n
1st<\/sup> John 4:11
\nBeloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.<\/em><\/p>\nNothing has to\u00a0be unbearable<\/em> to a Christ-follower\u2026<\/p>\n**Comments\/ questions\/ testimonies\/ objections most encouraged!<\/p>\n
Dear Lord, thank you for this time to consider Your word and Your ways. May our thoughts, words, and deeds bring You glory\u2026 and glory to You alone. \u2013Amen<\/em><\/p>\nPeace,
\nJim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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