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Hello! I hope you had a great weekend. On Friday and Saturday, my wife and I served at the Steeling the Mind Bible Conference in San Juan Capistrano, California. It was another awesome event from the folks at Compass! Click here if you'd like to read my notes from people like Chuck Missler, Kent Hovind, Mike Riddle, and many others. This Thursday, Kevin Max and Luna Halo are performing at Hollywood's Viper Room. It should be an interesting show because Max has released two, excellent albums after his career with DC Talk and Luna Halo has a strong, Christian foundation as they've leapt into the mainstream. My interview with KFAX 1100AM went well. You can click here to see my "Top 8 Christian Sites" on the internet. It was the focus of our discussion. Welcome to the new readers of this message! Here is your Devotion, A Moment of Introspection, JCSM's Challenge, the Word of the Week, a faith-builder from "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained," and the Quotes of the Week. Have a fantastic week and God bless you! Love in Christ, Jason Gastrich Contact Us: http://jcsm.org/contact.php
JCSM's Weekly Devotions (click here to listen!) Deuteronomy 23:5b ". . . the LORD your God loves you." John 4:7, 8 "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." John 15:12, 13 "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends." 1 John 3:1a "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!" 2 Corinthians 13:11 "Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you." Insight: God is a God of love. He loves us more than we can understand. Thank and praise God for His awesome love and emulate Christ's love to others. Prayer: "Dear Lord, thank you for loving us so much. Thank you for being a God of love. Forgive our sins. Purify us. Help us to love You and others more. Thank you for loving people that are difficult to love. Thank you for loving us when we are difficult to love as well. Thank you for giving us such an awesome story of love (the Bible). In Jesus' name, Amen."
Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), was the Governor of New York, 1853-55, and the War Governor of New York during the Civil War, 1863-65. Horatio Seymour, who was instrumental in gaining government sanction for the building of Erie Canal, was also the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1868. On July
4, 1876, Horatio Seymour gave an oration entitled The Future of the
Human Race, delivered at Rome, New York. In it, he declared: "Men cross the ocean and encounter the fatigues, dangers of a journey to the other side of the earth, that they may walk through the streets of Jerusalem where our Saviour trod, or look out from the hill of Zion, or wander amid sacred places. These scenes bring to their minds the story of the past in a way that thrills their nerves .... "You will find that all history, all jurisprudence, all just reasonings, force us to the conclusion that not only does a Divine command, but that reason and justice call upon us all to honor our ancestors, and that there is a great practical truth which concerns the welfare and the power of all communities in the words of the inspired penman: 'Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.'" ¹ ¹ July 4, 1876, in an oration at Rome, NY., entitled The Future of the Human Race. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, OR: American Heritage Ministries, 1987), pp. 402-403. If you'd like to see more quotes from those that framed and founded America, please click here: http://jcsm.org/AmericasFounders/.
What would you say if someone asked you about your faith in Jesus? Prepare now to share your faith. Get prayed up. Visualize what you will say and how you will say it. Plan to pray with whoever asks you about your faith and do your best to lead them to Christ. God bless you as you meet this week's challenge!
awhab (Hebrew, see Deuteronomy 23:5): to have affection for (sexually or otherwise), love, like, friend
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible" claims: Genesis 48:21 - Contrary to the prophecy, Joseph died in Egypt, not Israel. (Gen.50:24) "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained" responds: Israel's prophecy wasn't about Joseph's death. It was about Joseph's descendants and how they would return to their land. (This explanation came from "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained", by Jason Gastrich. This book is on CD and gives over 4,000 answers to alleged Bible errors, regarding the entire Bible at http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.org. There is also a 300 question workbook that accompanies the CD-ROM.)
Enjoy the silence. We've been on a roll for 2,000 years or so, we've got momentum! Take this space between us and fill it up! If you'd like to read more quotes, we have thousands in our archive! Visit http://quotes.jcsm.org. Plus, if you'd like to read a new quote every day, please go to http://jcsm.org/Wisdom.htm and bookmark it!
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