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I have been thinking about this for quite some time. Just what did Jesus mean when He told Peter to forgive his brother not just seven times, but seventy times seven, or four hundred ninety times, and this is just in one day. Wrap you head around that thought for starters. Do the math andContinue reading “Seventy Times Seven”

Your name is Ingrid Bachmann and I’m in love with you, you are the fairest little fraulein that ever I knew. Your brown eyes they just sparkle and your chin is dimpled too, maybe this is why I fell in love with you. You make my day complete just by being you, I will neverContinue reading “Love Song To Ingrid”

“Now faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the title deed, of things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality, faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses.” Amplified Bible. Is it our lack of faith or is it the unbeliefContinue reading “A Look At Hebrews 11:1”

In a land of the forgotten past there once was a land of the free, where you could say what was on your mind, your beliefs, your fears, your peeves, and it mattered not that anyone would agree, it was your sacred right as a citizen of that land to say and be free. ThisContinue reading “Once We Were Free”

“And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages, to all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed. And no one is able to snatch them out of my hand”. Amplified Bible John 10:28 This is a statement Jesus made as he talked with theContinue reading “Can Your Salvation Be Lost?”

“An ideology born of sense knowledge is dominating our nation, and unless the Word of God gains the ascendancy again, all the ideals of our Republic will go, and a new type of despotism that will be destructive to Christianity will take its place”. This interesting quote was written in 1948 by E.W. Kenyon beforeContinue reading “Are You A Captive?”

What is love or this thing we call love? Sex? Companionship? Emotions? Love is all these things and more. The saddest thing for us humans is most of us only experience love at its basest point-sex! Love is so much more complicated than that. I believe this is the cause of most divorces in ourContinue reading “What Is Love?”

“With a steady diet of the Old Covenant I absorbed something like the attitude of an Orthodox Jew. The Old Testament underscores the vast gulf between God and humanity. God is supreme, omnipotent, transcendent, and any limited contact with Him puts human beings at risk. The worship instructions in a book like Leviticus reminds meContinue reading “Judgement And Grace”

Worship is an act of extravagant respect, full of adoration which produces a desire to fall or bow before God to show Him how much you are in awe of Him as your God and how much you are in love with Him and want to be in His presence. Does anyone act this inContinue reading “What Is Worship?”

What in the world is a Ramble? What does it mean? Mr. Webster explains it as to talk or write in a desultory fashion. I am 75 years old and I still read words that I know not the meaning of. Desultory? Again Mr. Webster explains it as marked by lack of definite plan, regularityContinue reading “Rambles By A Priest”