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BETRAYED BY BEAUTY

March 9, 2023
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There is a spoken line in the Paramount Plus streaming series “1883” where Elsa says, “No matter how much we love it, the land will never love us back.”  I felt that . . . to the core.  In fact, it stirred up emotions that I’ve experienced most of my life.  C.S. Lewis expressed it in his essay, “The Weight of Glory”.  He said it this way: For a few minutes we have had the illusion of belonging to that world. Now we wake to find that it is no such thing. We have been mere spectators. Beauty has smiled, but not to welcome us; her face was turned in our direction, but not to. . . .

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Matthew 28:19 & Parallelism

February 25, 2023
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And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Mat. 28:18,19) The method and/or formula for water baptism is a centuries old debate.  I do not expect to end that debate.  What I do have to offer is an angle that I have NEVER heard taught nor found in my internet searches. Once you see it, you’ll wonder why such a simple concept has not been brought to light. (And it won’t even be necessary to use the argument that perhaps. . . .

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WHAT IS SWEETER THAN HONEY?

February 16, 2023
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Well, here it is over a year since I started my blog. My intent was to use this format to share my occasional insights into the Bible that result from my personal study. While I have a handful of essays in rough draft, it is a very difficult task to get them into a finished, easy-to-follow, format. However, this is the first time in many years that I’ve had clarity of mind (having gone through about 10 years of difficult life circumstances, including a mild form of an autoimmune malady). So, I trust that my writing skills will break forth shortly. In the meantime, in hopes that it will. . . .

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Bible Study—FOR WHAT REASON

July 15, 2022
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So often I hear Christians say that they don’t get anything out of bible study unless it has a practical application to their life. That strikes me as self-centered, or at the very least, shallow. For me, it is just the opposite. Bible study has to reveal the character, the nature, the beauty of Jesus and what He stands for. What HE has done. How He has redeemed mankind. Bible study for me should show how the scriptures are harmonious throughout, building my faith that they are the inspired Word of God. After having seen the image of God and His goodness. . . THEN the correct attitude. . . .

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Contemporary Christian “Music”

January 20, 2022
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It has finally become personal—my aversion to and strong dislike of contemporary Christian music.  The pastor of the church I attend proclaimed from the pulpit that if you come to church late enough to miss the “worship time” and come only to hear the speaker, then you are a hypocrite.  Well, I am no hypocrite.  And I’m sure that he did not have ME personally in mind as he was speaking, but I DO purposely arrive to church AFTER the song service.  So how do I square what the pastor said about being a hypocrite with me simply detesting the choice of music they sing and play. . . .

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The Last Stronghold

January 1, 2022
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I originally wrote this on January 1, 2019. It holds even more true today. Youth was an enemy in disguise. In times of distress I would cry out to God but I trusted in Youth. Youth would say, “I will fix this; I am strong, pretty, smart, quick-witted and resourceful.” And so I would win the battle, acknowledging God, but glorifying Youth. With each new battle I’d cry out to God to pull down every stronghold. Now I find myself faced with the greatest trial yet. “God,” I cried, “please let me see the enemy clearly so that that I may fight.” So I arose to fight. But to my dismay my physical. . . .

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Ready for Harvest

December 31, 2021
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There is talk of desiring a revival in my church.  It’s ironic, that I have just been thinking about revival in my own life. It seems I’ve come full circle to when I was in my early years of being a Christian. After having gone through many of life’s stages, now, as was the case in the early years, I have an insatiable desire to know more about God and his Christ.  I am, again, more aware of my actions and whether they measure up to Biblical teaching.  My inner being is more awakened, more joyful, more in tune to spiritual things. It occurred to me that this experience in my. . . .

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Those Golf Balls!

December 12, 2021
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When my oldest daughter was around 5 years old she would take her little wagon and gather stray golf balls on the outskirts of the country club near our home.  She would then sell them for .50 each to the golfers.  One day she had a wagon-full of golf balls that had a colored band around them.  I told her those belonged to the country club’s driving range and that she would have to return them.  Of course she was disheartened as she was already seeing dollar signs. She tried to justify keeping them to sell. That Sunday at church she was lying in the pew beside me. . . .

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Quantum Physics

November 19, 2021
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One time my sister asked, “How can every eye see him (Jesus) when he comes”? (Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. Rev. 1:7) Off the cuff, my answer was that maybe we would all suddenly see into the quantum dimension; that the veil that separates us from the other dimensions would be dissolved and we would see what has been there all along—Jesus in all his glory.  Well, of course I know NOTHING about quantum physics, but it was an intriguing thought. . . .

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Music & Why my Tastes have Changed

November 19, 2021
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Lately I’ve wondered why I no longer relate to or even desire to listen to certain music that I actually happen to appreciate (I’m referring especially to the music of my generation)?  The instrumentals are well done, the voices are gravelly or soulful and the lyrics reflect raw human emotions, questions, longing, angst.  Yes, I have felt all those feelings.  But I can no longer relate to the music. Mainly due to the fact that the songwriters and/or musicians are STILL searching for something.  I cannot relate because I have found hope and I lay hold on that. . . .

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Jill Jordan

It was at the last hour, so to speak, while building the website to feature my father’s writing, that I decided to add my own blog. Yes, occasionally I get an insight into the scriptures that is worthy to mention. From Dad I learned a style of bible study that uses the entire bible, linking like phrases together, even if they don’t immediately appear to go together. (Thus the importance of a good chain reference feature). The results are quite rewarding. As St. Augustine is credited as saying: The new [Testament] is in the old concealed; the old [Testament] is in the new revealed.
To further expand on that thought, Dad was a firm believer that the bible does not ask a question that it does not answer somewhere else in the scriptures and that symbols and definitions hold true throughout the entire Bible. These ideas have greatly enhanced my understanding of the bible and theology.

Having said all that, I’ll say this: I hope I can do C. Leo Jordan proud.

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