Winds of desert Hot they blow Sand doth sting Eyes can’t see, Lo a gentle Hand you bring Friends to aide Our week estate Wash our feet Make our rest Lord by others Your hands outstretch More than friends They do become Family now All are one Your Spirit together Bind our ties Rejoice in… [Read more…]
April 6, 2012
The study of the call of Abram, has led to many questions. In Genesis 12, we have God commanding Abram to go from country, family, land, culture, religion, social ties. No more, Marduk, Mithra, Semiramis, Nimrod, Ziggurat’s. Separate yourself from and be in service to God, be sanctified, set apart. God wanted to make from… [Read more…]
October 8, 2011
I’m sick and tired of the rhetoric especially political. Let me preface this blog with there is no such thing as social equality, never has been and never will be, period. Utopia is a pipe dream and won’t come true as long as there is the potential to sin, or commit any kind of trespass… [Read more…]
September 7, 2011
Our small group will soon begin at the beginning, The questions that will be asked are as follows: Question 1: What is the passage about? List facts/content, of the passage: who, what, where, etc. Question 2: What do I learn from this passage? Think about why the passage is in the Bible, whether there is… [Read more…]
July 10, 2011
So, I way raised Missouri Synod Lutheran, I can remember getting up every Sunday morning and putting on my Sunday clothes, Dad always wore a suit and tie, early on Mom wore dresses then somewhere in time it became okay to wear slacks. I went to Lutheran school for the better part of my elementary… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
There have been times in the past that I’d watch those middle-age movies, and romanticize about being a knight or warrior in some great epic, and at times would voice that I was born in the wrong century. Truth be told life was really hard compared to our creature comforts of today, of course they… [Read more…]
May 8, 2011
The year is 1999, somewhere in late winter, February, March, I was with some Promise Keepers friends at breakfast, we had finished our study and our meal and was into our small talk before leaving to go home. My wife and I had been through two consecutive church splits that also involved pastoral authoritarian abuses.… [Read more…]
December 25, 2010
This is Christmas day and I wanted some information to read at our gathering tonight, I found some articles copied and pasted from the web and was ready to print and thought this might make a good blog. Everything below is just that, footnotes at the end. The Holiday, President Ulysses S. Grant declared Christmas… [Read more…]
December 18, 2010
This is an update from the post: http://jatimlex.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/all-boxed-up-and-no-where-to-go/ The following day was Sunday 12/12/10 the local Zion United Reform Church has a shuttle service from the three truck stops in Ripon CA. The shuttle vehicle was a Chevy Tahoe. There were 3 of us picked up at the Flying J and one from the Loves… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
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