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Hello! I hope you had a great week and weekend. JCSM's Bible drive was so successful that we gave away all of our full Bibles! Now, we only have some New Testaments. Do you have an extra Bible or would you be interested in buying one for someone in need? If so, please reply to this email. Today, I'm flying to Shreveport, Louisiana for my graduation. I'm graduating from Louisiana Baptist University with a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies. Please pray that my flights go well and that the entire week is a blessing. During LBU's graduation week, I'll be hearing lectures from Chuck Missler, Bob Cornuke, Bill Sheffield, Jerry Falwell, and several others. Next week, I'll be sure to put my notes online and provide a link to them. 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!) Hebrews 9:22 "And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission." Mark 10:45 "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” 1 Corinthians 6:18 "For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s." Colossians 1:13, 14 "He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins." Ephesians 1:14 (TLB) "His presence within us is God’s guarantee that he really will give us all that he promised; and the Spirit’s seal upon us means that God has already purchased us and that he guarantees to bring us to himself. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God." Insight: We have been bought by God with a price. Jesus paid the price for our sins on the cross and if we repent and trust in Him, we will be saved; and once we do, we do not have enough of what it takes to buy ourselves back from God. Prayer: "Dear Lord, thank you for loving us so much. Thank you for wanting to buy us by paying the price for our sins! There is no other like You. Help us to understand your awesome sacrifice. Let us lift You up and love You more than anything else. Increase our faith in You. Help us to do your will and to follow the Holy Spirit's lead. We love You, Lord. In Jesus' name, Amen."
Theodore Parker (1810-1860), was an American abolitionist and clergyman, having graduated from Harvard, who spoke strongly against slavery. He declared: "The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life." ¹ On May 29, 1850, Theodore Parker wrote The American Idea, in which he stated: "A democracy - that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom." ² ¹ Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New Dictionary of Thoughts - A Cyclopedia of Quotations (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1852, The Standard Book Company, 1963), p. 46.
² May 29, 1850
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The American Idea.
John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 300.
If you'd like to see more quotes from those that framed and founded America, please click here: http://jcsm.org/AmericasFounders/.
What do you think it means to love the Lord with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength?
Email our gospel message to a friend. You can either copy and paste it into an email or you can send them the link. Here is the link to our gospel message: http://gospel.jcsm.org For some, this will be difficult to do. Some will be afraid and won't want to do it. However, consider how your friends and loved ones need salvation through Jesus Christ. Some people will even spend eternity in Hell. Let the reality of redemption and life in Heaven vs. the reality of Hell motivate you to email someone the gospel message. God will reward your boldness and obedience to Him, as you spread the good news. May God richly bless you as you meet this week's challenge!
agoradzo (Greek, see 1 Corinthians 7:23): properly to go to market, to purchase, specifically to redeem: buy, redeem
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible" claims: Exodus 2:25 - "God had respect unto them [the Israelites], contrary to the many Bible verses that say that God has respect for no one. "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained" responds: God respects people, but He doesn't respect earthly titles and names. (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.)
Don't forget to continually thank God for those who are a blessing to you. Be able to talk in love to a sinful brother in Christ. The dog who barks and screams is the one who got hit. 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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