St. David’s Episcopal Church in Creswell, NC

Recently, Sara took me to visit a historic church site, St. David’s Episcopal Church in Creswell, NC. I love to visit meaningful historical places and view the landscape and architecture as well as try to find out something about the history. There’s just something special about taking a walk into the past and then connect it to the now. Walking over the grounds and reading some of the tombstones, I thought of how many life stories lie beneath the grave markers of the oldest Episcopal church in the area.
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Rejoice ‘O Nations!

“And Peter opened his mouth and said: Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons,

But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed [by Him].” Acts 10:34,35, AMP

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Do not answer a fool according to his folly;

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself. Proverb 26:4

Hey, I don’t like what I am becoming! Do you remember the songs: Tell me no more lies! And, I played the fool? That’s what I feel like talking to people these days. And, it’s not just a feeling it is the truth….

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Third commandment:

” Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” Exodus 20:7

From the time I was a small child in Sunday School, I had heard this commandment, not to use God’s name in vain. I could pick up on someone across the room using His name in vain and wondered why they would do such a thing. My mind was finger pointing as you can see. Where they not taught? Did they dare to speak of a Mighty God in such a way?
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