Consider the lilies of the field… Matt 6:28
Hosanna in the Highest (Matthew 21:9)
Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:“ Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
1)What does the word Hosanna mean is this scripture?
2)Why Hosanna to the Son of David?
3)Why do we use this scripture in the Christian church to celebrate Palm Sunday? Why do we call it Palm Sunday?
Meaning of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leo Tolstoy
“The meaning of life lies in two major areas: your personal perfection and service to other people. You can serve while you are moving toward perfection, and you can move toward perfection by serving people.”
Passage John 1:5 KJV
St. John said, “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
How could it be possible that darkness DID NOT COMPREHEND LIGHT?
Is this still possible today?
Would this light be a point of reference for our work?
Can or should light be COMPREHENDED?
How does this statement make you feel? Does it have an affect on you?
Our soul waits for the Lord: he is our help and our shield. Psalm 35:20 NASN
Dear Father, our souls do truly wait for you. Our souls do truly magnify you. We acknowledge that You have thoughts and plans for each us today and we accept them as ours.
We now trolley into Your thoughts and plans for our lives this day. Plans that make our day zing with joy. We find our stride and pace our steps for happiness and success. When this is our reality others around us may find their way.
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image…. “-Joan Didion
St Patrick was quite successful at winning converts to Christianity in Ireland, as we have come to believe.
The St. Patrick’s Day custom came to America in 1737. That was the first year St. Patrick’s Day was publicly celebrated in this country, in Boston.
Today, people celebrate the day with parades, wearing of the green, and drinking beer. One reason St. Patrick’s Day might have become so popular is that it takes place just a few days before the first day of spring. One might say it has become the first green of spring.
Could this be the beginning of spring with ‘snow covered ground’ in many of the places we live! WOW, let us celebrate the beginning of spring with the green. Maybe a little green tea will do for some of us!
Daniel chapter 3 clearly shows faith and obedience to our Lord. King Nebuchadnezzar was a very powerful king of Babylon. He was so powerful he built a golden statue ninety feet tall and ninety feet wide and commanded everyone to bow down to this enormous statue when they heard the musical instruments. King Nebuchadnezzar commanded his people to serve his gods. If anyone refused to obey his commands they would be thrown in the blazing furnace. Everyone obeyed King Nebuchadnezzar. With fearful hearts his people bowed downed before the statue and worshiped a false god. Three Jewish men refused to bow down to the statue. When King Nebuchadnezzar heard of this disobedience he was furious. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were bought before the King. King Nebuchadnezzar gave them one last chance to bow down.
Continue reading “Faith and Obedience when Facing Death”
Discovering our gift(s) and using them effectively in the Body of Christ illustrates the beauty of the hands of Jesus, ‘Helping Hands.’ This brings evangelism to the world and builds The Church. Our helping hands express Hope and Faith in God.
When one carries hope in their heart, ‘Hoping Heart’ they fulfill a portion of I Corinthians 13:13 “And now abide, faith, hope, charity (love), these three but the greatest of these is love”. Hope is as important to the heart as heart is to life. Always have a ‘Hoping Heart.’
Continue reading “HELPING HANDS, HOPING HEARTS AND HOLY HEALINGS”
“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.” – Sir Winston Churchill
WHAT THEY HAVE DONE I DO
IT’S RECORDED IN THE BOOK
IT HAS DONE ME WELL TO READ AND HEED
THEIR HISTORY AND LOOK
THE SINS OF OTHERS’ BLESSED BY GOD
WHO TRIP AND FALL IN TESTS AND TRIALS
I READ ASTOUNDED BY GOLDEN CALVES
AND SHRINK AT APOSTLES’ DENIALS
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