The Good Old Days

-PLUGGERS

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Train up your children in the LORD

 -Kinsman

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"Religion in a Family is at once its brightest   Ornament and its best Security."

-Samuel Adams (1780)

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Proverbs 22:6, 17-21

..."Train up a child in the way he should go,

Even when he is old he will not depart from it...

...Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise,

And apply your mind to my knowledge;

For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,

That they may be ready on your lips.

So that your trust may be in the Lord,

I have taught you today, even you.

Have I not written to you excellent things

Of counsels and knowledge,

To make you know the certainty of the words of truth

That you may correctly answer him who sent you?"...

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Fruitful in Sufferings

-2025 summer storm

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Perhaps you are undergoing some trial as God’s child, and you are saying to Him, 

“O God, it is raining very hard on me tonight, and this test seems beyond my power to endure. Disappointments are pouring in, washing away and utterly defeating my chosen plans. My trembling heart is grieved and is cowering at the intensity of my suffering.  Surely the rains of affliction are beating down my soul.”

Dear friend, you are completely mistaken. God is not raining rain on you——He is raining blessings.  

If you will only believe your Father’s Word, you will realize that springing up beneath the pounding rain are spiritual flowers.  And they are more beautiful and fragrant than those that ever grew before in your storm-less and suffering-free life.

You can see the rain, but can you also see the flowers? 

You are suffering through these tests, but know that God sees sweet flowers of faith springing up in your life beneath these very trials. 

You try to escape the pain, yet God sees tender compassion for other sufferers finding birth in your soul. 

Your heart winces at the pain of heavy grief, but God sees the sorrow deepening and enriching your life.

No, my friend, it is not raining afflictions on you. 

It is raining tenderness, love, compassion, patience, and a thousand other flowers and fruits of the blessed Holy Spirit. And they are bringing to your life spiritual enrichment that all the prosperity and ease of this world could never produce in your innermost being.    -J.M.M.--6/15 Streams in the Desert

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 Genesis 41:52

“God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

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Just something silly --because life is too serious

-internet: found on a tee shirt

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Reality vs Blatantly Living in Your Sins

-Kinsman

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Question Christian:

If you believe that Jesus died for your sins, was raised from the dead so that you may have life and life more abundantly all because of what He did for you- 

--then walk in His truth not your sins!

Get your act together, 

humbly ask for forgiveness, 

make things right with people and God, then

begin to walk as Jesus would have you to live!

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

..."do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, 

whom you have from God, 

and that you are not your own? 

For you have been bought with a price: 

therefore glorify God in your body!

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Mark 1:15

...“The time is fulfilled, 

and the kingdom of God is at hand;

 repent and believe in the gospel.”...

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*follow what the gospel says!*

The Last of the Spring Flowers

 Johnny Jump ups or Violas have been blooming at my front porch until this week.

Usually, I only have these beauties in the early Spring as any heat wears them out.

We have had hot weather, but mainly coolish and much rain.  Even though they were in my front porch with sun they were also tucked underneath, enough, a volunteer sunflower I let grow there.

They covered a big area and looked lovely and now the last ones sit on my counter. 

God's Creation is Awesome!  Someday soon enough we who are His will be made new again!  Praises to Him who loves us so!

Praises to our God and King!

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