1 Corinthians 7:15 … Called to Peace (12/17/16)
“It is to Peace that God has called us.” ~ Paul (1 Corinthians 7:15) In this verse Paul (as was so often the case) is actually speaking of bringing the “peace” of comfort and the “peace” of convenience to his audience (in this case first telling his listeners they should avoid divorcing their marriage […]
1 Peter 2:15 … the Will of God (12/17/13)
“For such is the Will of God that by doing right you may calm the ignorance of the unwise.” ~ unknown (1 Peter 2:15) Quite simply, our Work in this lifetime is to actualize the Will of God … a perfect LOVE that will not come into being unless WE choose to make it so. […]
Matthew 5:3-7:27 … the Sermon on the Mount (12/16/13)
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace; more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and yet have rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”~ General Omar N. Bradley 65 million copies of the Bible […]
1 Corinthians 1:25 … The foolishness of God (12/16/16)
“God’s foolishness is wiser than human knowledge, and God’s weakness is stronger than human might.” ~ Paul (1 Corinthians 1:25) While Paul is quite obviously making a standard case for the over-arching superiority (indeed, the authoritarian omnipotence) of his external, “judge and jury from on high” god, there is a far deeper (and far […]
Seven years in Heaven … (12/15/2018)
P.S. Let it be duly noted that I mean no disrespect to Hitchens with this post’s celestial celebration of the 7 year anniversary of his death. Iam simply confident that IF there is a Heaven postmortem — at least one worth going to after we die, then Hitchens is undoubtedly there waiting for us … […]
1 Corinthians 13 … LOVE is (12/15/13)
“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have Love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have Love, I […]
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