Escaped the corruption

2Pe 1. 4

“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:

that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,

having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

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L D Wilcox quote

“He [man] is free to choose how he will act

but he is not free to choose the results of this action.”

– L D Wilcox, from his PROFILES IN WESLEYAN THEOLOGY

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Want to be clean?

Can’t tell if your eye glasses are clean?  Hold them up to the light.  Can’t tell if your life is clean?

Hold it up to the light of the Gospels and His wonderful Books which follow.

– eab, 12/27/15

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MAN IS A SPIRIT

MAN IS A SPIRIT ^[1] Nov.

I’ve noticed one thing as I traverse the earth,

With its tears, and smiles, sorrows, and mirth,

That the steps we leave in snow and sand,

When reviewed at a stop, help us understand

The wanderings and achievements of man.

That man’s acts, though small and erased by time,

For a moment and mile appear sublime;

But wind and wave leave the print no more,

For man is a spirit, on eternity’s shore.      

– eab, 11/27/70

^[1] Written after being somewhat surprised at seeing my own footsteps in the snow in the West Rushville cemetery. Had gone to my brother’s grave. Consider it one of my better short poems.

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Life MATH problems

The toughest math problems

in all of life are ADDITION problems.

Faith + Virtue. Virtue + Knowledge. Knowledge + Temperance. Temperance + Patience.

Patience + Godliness. Godliness + Brotherly kindness. Brotherly kindness + Charity. (2Pe 1.5-7)

These are possible only by His grace, and by our perseverance. Help us, Lord, with our “homework.”

– eab, 12/19/15

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