Traditions, practiced customs & flashy uniforms –
Appeals shared by military
and ritualistic religions.
– eab, 8/18/09
Archive for August 18th, 2009
Too Similar
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Creation
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There once was no water, nor sod,
No blue jay, Guernsey, nor cod.
God decided He wanted it all;
It took just six days “to install.”
Creation received His glad nod.
– eab, 4/2/05
John Bunyan – preached last sermon, Aug. 18, 1688
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He…that hath his portion first must needs have a time to spend it; he that hath his portion last must have it lastingly. Ch.2
– John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (Marshalltown, DE: National Foundation for Christian Education, 1968), 22.
To back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond it; I will yet go forward. Ch.3
– John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (Marshalltown, DE: National Foundation for Christian Education, 1968), 26.
The end of the world is compared to our harvest; and you know men at harvest regard nothing but fruit. Ch.5
– John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (Marshalltown, DE: National Foundation for Christian Education, 1968), 42.
…According to the strength or weakness of his faith in his Saviour so is his joy and peace so is his love to holiness so are his desires to know Him more and also to serve Him in this world. Ch.5
– John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (Marshalltown, DE: National Foundation for Christian Education, 1968), 43.
John Bunyan on this date 8/18/1688, preached his last sermon in London. Bunyan gave the world one of its greatest books (perhaps 2nd only to the Bible). John was born in November 1628 at Elstow, near Bedford, England.
Separate-Holy 