Pro 16.7
“When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh
even his enemies to be at peace with him.”
“Carnal anger springs from an unholy principle…
Righteous indignation does not & may be & often is the result of holiness itself.”
– H A Baldwin
What’s worse than not being invited back to some pulpits? If it’s a “fringe” pulpit (used to be a holiness ch./sch. & is still pretending to be) it is better to not be invited back – they heard the message from God & didn’t want to hear more. Worse than not having a second invitation to a “fringe” pulpit is to GET another invite – they’ve figured you as “one of them” or close enough to take a chance on you. – 12/9/21
“…Carnal worry involves my integrity as a holy man;
it disconnects me from God by my doubtfulness & complaints.”
– H A Baldwin
Love God more than you love anything He made. I’ve enjoyed His mountains in car & on hiking trails. I’ve thrilled at His shore line both from a distance & walking the wet sands. I’ve joyed in His prairies rolling hills, His forested “knobs,” His waves of ripe wheat fields, His prickly planted deserts, His smell & sound of creeks rushing to the sea. But, nothing of the above compares to sensing His Personal Sweet presence in a sanctuary or in the sanctuary of your home. O, Bro., O Sis., Love God most of all. -12/26/21
WHO – SO – EVER
Every dweller in yonder valley
And mountaineer above
Has propitiation provisionally
Because of God’s great, lofty love.
Every desert sheik is deemed
And all the mariners out to sea
Are conditionally redeemed
As are you and me.
– eab, 12/26/18
The wife who loves God more than she loves her husband is the Best Wife. The husband who loves the Almighty more than he loves his wife is the Best Husband. It is a “Holy Triangle:” God, man, wife. (Sinful triangles are sad, sick, & too often end in suicide or murder-suicide) By wonderful contrast the Holy Triangle becomes better & better – there’s no sin or selfishness involved. What’s beyond death? I don’t pretend to know but we can trust God to make our Eternity blissful. – 12/26/21
Mat 1.25
“And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son
& he called his name JESUS.”
“Entertainment opens the floodgates
& literally submerges the church in worldliness.”
– Beverly Carradine
If you home-school you *owe* it to your child to acquaint him with the Holy Bible. The Authorized Bible (A.K.A. King James Version) is the CLASSIC of all classics! If you lead him to the details of Western Civ., introduce him to the coast line of every island of more than a 1000 souls, if you drill him in grammar, require the reading of the best-known World Lit., push science (& its twin, math) till he’s sick of both, but fail to teach the Holy Scriptures you’ve failed him no you’ve *miserably* failed him. – 12/26/21
“God wants the church
to be a perfect contrast to the world.”
– Beverly Carradine