Category Archives: Divorce

Love

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ROBERT THORTON RELATED the following incident from his childhood…
“In the middle of one of my parents’ more memorable disagreements, my father jumped up from the table, grabbed two sheets of paper, and said to my mother, ‘Let’s make a list of everything we don’t like about each other.’ Mom started writing. Dad glowered at her for a few minutes, and then wrote on his paper. She wrote again. He watched her, and every time she stopped, he would start writing again. They finally finished. ‘Lets exchange complaints,’ dad said. They gave each other their lists. ‘Give mine back,’ mom pleaded when she glanced at his sheet. All down the page dad had written: ‘I love you, I love you, I love you.’”
In the the long ago, Peter prayed,
7 “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. 8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”] 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. 10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:7-11
Please pay special attention to what Peter said about love. We are to have love above all things. It is to be first. Furthermore, please not that it is to be fervent. It is not to be lukewarm. Finally, please not that it is to be flourishing. It must cover a multitude of sins. Perhaps, it must cover them on many occasions.
How easy it would be to make a list of things that we do not like about one another. However, what we really need is to give love its proper place in our relationships one with another. Wade Webster, “I Love You, I Love You, I Love You,” The Searcher, August 15, 2010, 1
KneEmail: 4 “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Bible reading for 09.27.10: Galatians 6; Isaiah 3, 4
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Miraculin

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amiracle.jpg “Miraculin…”
If you haven’t heard of it before, you’ll no doubt hear of it in the future. In fact, you will probably be invited to a “miraculin” party someday.
“Miraculin” or “miracle fruit” is a small berry that grows on a plant in West Africa that looks like a rhododendron. The technical name is the “Synsephalum dulcificum” plant. It looks somewhat like a cranberry, or when unripe a coffee bean, and has a slightly citrusy taste.
But the “miracle” about this “miracle fruit” is not what it tastes like. The miracle is what it makes everything else taste like. Hold the berry in your mouth for thirty seconds, chew it up but keep it on your tongue, and feel a kind of tingle. After swallowing the berry take a big bite of a lemon or lime or grapefruit. Instead of sour, those fruits taste incredibly sweet. For about an hour, which is about how long miraculin lasts, you can turn raw lemons into lemonade with no sugar. Your salami sandwich can taste like Sara Lee.
Or: Eat a miracle berry then toss down a big shot of vinegar. To your confused taste buds the vinegar tastes as sweet as Mountain Dew.
Oh, I forgot something. When the vinegar hits your throat it burns all the way down. The glycoprotein molecule called “miraculin” only binds to the tongue’s taste buds, fooling the receptors into identifying acids as “sweet.” Your throat still knows an acid when it feels one.
Now do you know why these berries, now in capsule form, are the new thing in parties?
If you bite into a big lemon wedge and instead of puckering you up it floods your mouth with super sweetness, it is not just your tongue that is confused. Your brain doesn’t get it either.
Thought: Many try to change the various “realities” of life, but there are some facts that all must come to grips with sooner or later. We are born, we life for a brief time, and then we die (Heb. 9:27). All will one day be judged for their lives by the everlasting God. We may not like reality, but the facts are the facts. Whether you ever try a miraculin berry or not, do not let the true realities of life escape you.
KneEmail: “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.” Proverbs 30:5-6
Bible reading for 09.14.10: 2 Corinthians 7; Proverbs 19-21
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Still

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cancer3.jpg WHEN THE X-RAY comes back and it doesn’t look good, remember…God is still faithful…
When you read that heart-breaking note from your mate, remember…God is still faithful.
When you hear the worst kind of news about one of your children, remember…God is still faithful.
He has not abandoned you, though you’re tempted to think He has. Charles Swindoll
KneEmail: “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9
Bible reading for 03.18.10: Mark 15:26-47; Deuteronomy 32-34
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Divorce

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4ddbb8c17ca1eb6d_Picture_34.xlarge.jpg SINCE GOD INSTITUTED marriage as an exclusive and permanent union, a union which he makes and man must not break, Jesus draws the inevitable deduction that to divorce one’s partner and marry another, or to marry a divorced person, is to enter a forbidden, adulterous relationship…
For the person who may have secured a divorce in the eyes of human law is still in the eyes of God married to his or her first partner. (John Stott)
KneEmail: “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” Matthew 19:9
Bible reading for 01.21.10: Matthew 14:1-21; Exodus 1-3
Recommended reading: http://www.forthright.net/reality_check/dont_commit_it.html by Stan Mitchell
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