Gentle readers, I am still on Sabbatical However I will be changing the format for a while. There are so many areas to address that we are going to point out our thinking about the sheep being led to the market. I have no ax to grind but I am fed up with those who try to take advantage of you. So you may not like what we are going to present but I guarantee you that it will raise your awareness and you blood pressure as we expose these vultures for who they are.- see below
I will be finishing the Book of Genesis soon, have you read my work yet? Teaching through the entire Bible on our wee study site http://scripturestudies.spruz.com ("Where scholarship and study meet". A study and social network an outreach of Scripture Institute) on the Christianity 101 Group I would like to invite you to join with us for this perhaps last of my teaching through the Bible Under the heading "Doc's notes."
For the continuing study of "What your father didn't know and your mother wouldn't tell you" please see our study site called Scriptural studies (see below) where you can enjoy many other studies as well as mine. I will continue to write on both but here you deserve the benefit of Irish insights on a variety topics “May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.”
Today's offering:
Sex, lies and video tapes [Sept 1)
The Great Paradox (Aug 29)
Turn off the Cartoon Network (Fox News)[ Aug 25]
Stupid Politicians and others (Aug 24)
When SNL meets stupid they get on board (Aug 20)
"You can't fix stupid" Ron White
Don't call yourself a Christian if . . . (Aug 16)
a change of plans:
xenophobia the wave in your future
(Psychology, hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture)
Recommended Reading for your mind
The Kite Runner (August 13)
The Canon of Scripture by F. F. Bruce (August 10th)
AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country (August 8)
Adam, Eve and the serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Dr. Elaine Pagels (August 1)
The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament July 31st
How good do we have to be? A new understanding of Guilt and forgivness (July 30th)
The Unvarnished New Testament (July 29th )
Early Christianity Orthordoxy and Heresy (July 28th)
“Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.”
Broke, USA - July 27
"I don't want to remember 2010 as a year that the GOP heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible".
Discovering the original gospel of John - July 25 By Dr Jerry W. Bernard
Crazy for God by Frank Schaeffer
Not for the weak of mind or heart-the portrait he paints amounts to a death-dealing charge of hypocrisy and insincerity at the very heart of what passes now for Christianity!
The Birth of Christianity July 22
A Old Testament word for the day July 21
The Lost apostle July 20
Reading with Heart and Mind - July 15
How God changes your brain - July 16
Papal Sin The structures of deceit By Garry Wills Pulitzer Prize winning author July 19
We have are moving to (http://scripturestudies.spruz.com)
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Coffee Cup Bible studies
Cappuccino With Colossians
The name Cappuccino comes from the Capuchin friars, possibly referring to the colour of their habits or to the aspect of their tonsured (white) heads, surrounded by a ring of brown hair.
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Col 1:27)
Gentle Reader,
How wonderful is this truth, that our Lord actually indwells the hearts of His people. In the Messianic prophesies of the Old Testament many and varied aspects of the coming of Christ are pre-envisaged, but nowhere are we told that He would indwell His people. As Paul tells us in the verse preceding our text, Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints ( Col 1:26) . That was part of The Divine "Mystery or Secret hid from ages and generations". BUT NOW the secret is divulged and as verse 27 says To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory .
These words " Christ in you" remind us that if our Christian experience is to be rich in quality and alive with communicativeness, we need to know Christ in three (3) ways. Putting it in the first person singular, I need to know Christ for me; Christ in me; Christ through me.
Christ "for" me is Christ dying on the Cross. Christ "in" me is Christ living in my heart. Christ "through" me is Christ speaking by my life.
Christ "for" me is my substitution and sacrifice. Christ "in" me is my sanctification and satisfaction. Christ "through" me is my service and sufficiency.
Christ "for" me is my only acceptable standing before God. Christ "in" me is my only true victory over sin. Christ "through" me is my only real power for spiritual ministry.
As a corollary to this prepositionary trio- this "for"and "in" and through", I am to sustain a threefold relation to Christ, represented by three words, purchased, possessed, permeated.
His dying for me means that I am Christ-purchased. His living in me means that I am Christ-possessed. His working through me means my being Christ-permeated.
He died for me: I am to take Him. He lives in me: I am to prove Him. He moves through me: I am to transmit Him.
Oh, that all of us who call Him Saviour might be fully possessed and permeated by His life and love and grace and peace and power. Dr. F. B. Meyer used to say "In all His people Christ is present. In some He is prominent. In a few He is pre-eminent".
Gentle reader, to which of these classifications do you and I belong?
Those who are indwelt and controlled by Christ, find in Him their all-in-all. He is Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, for spirit, soul and body. May we say with A. B. Simpson
I take salvation full and free,
Through Him who gave His life for me,
He undertakes my all to be:
I take - He undertakes.
I take Him for this mortal frame,
I take His healing through His name;
And all His risen life I claim:
I take - He undertakes.
So Gentle Reader, drink up and think about your relationship with The One who we call Lord of all.
Remember, you are accepted, you are valued, and you are loved.
Denis
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