The Word

Proverbs 1. 3 – 4

“To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

“To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

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Ken Rice quote

“Affluence has never created great faith.”

 

– Ken Rice, message, 12/30/91

 

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Divorce and Remarriage is a sin

A strong stand FOR divorce and remarriage is often based on Earthly Emotion

(even, sadly, family or church expediency).

A strong stand AGAINST divorce and remarriage is often based on an Everlasting Eternity

(better to be lonely for two or more decades and later unspeakable joyful forever).

– eab, 8/13/13.

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TOMBSTONE

 

Pillars and spires and slabs of stone,

Each inscribed with a name of its own,

And date for death and date for birth.

They show how long they lived on earth. 

– eab, May ’95

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Choose the worst first

When you can choose

(often we can) do the worst first: worst studies, worst chore, worst anything, FIRST. After that it gets better. God allows us to make Earth our worst, then Heaven will be all good. Or, if we’re unthinking, we can make Earth our “best” then will come Hell – unspeakable, indescribably bad. Saints, Earth is not our place to have excessive “fun” (be pleasant but not silly). This is our place to weep over sinners. By His great grace, we’ll rejoice later and Later, and LATER, world without end. Amen.

– eab, 5/3/16

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