Well, I’ll be posting from sea soon! Hope to keep blogging via e-mail using the postie add-on widget. I’ll keep everyone posted! (pun intended)

Grace is defined as the unmerited favor of God.  Chesed (חסד) is the Hebrew word most commonly translated as grace or loving-kindness in the Old Testament.  Loving-kindness was first coined by Coverdale for use in his translation.  The Greek word used is charis (χάρις).

God’’s use of this grace is not the same as man’’s.  God’’s idea of grace is enduring and a part of His Word.  His love for His people continued even when men were truce breakers, covenant breakers and liars.  He protected His people, even while suffering a form of adultery that man committed with idols.  When men worshiped false gods, we cheated on God.   Imagine the pain of adultery, and the devestating effects it has on a mairrage.  Now look at what man has repeatedly done to God!  Yet, for all our unfaithfulness, He has loved us.

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Saint Augustine, in his work “Against Lies” breaks lies into 8 separate categories. The categories are as follows:

• Lies in religious teaching.
• Lies that harm others and help no one.
• Lies that harm others and help someone.
• Lies told for the pleasure of lying.
• Lies told to “please others in smooth discourse.”
• Lies that harm no one and that help someone.
• Lies that harm no one and that save someone’s life.
• Lies that harm no one and that save someone’s “purity.”

The Merriam-Webster definition for lie is “to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive”.

Proverbs 19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

As can be inferred from the verse above, God will punish lies just as he punishes all sin. Lies and telling untruths can be just as simple as a little white lie. Our jobs as Christians are to be witnesses and tellers of truth. We proclaim the gospel and preach truth and righteousness to a dead and decaying world. Those who can control their tongue can control every other facet of their lives.

Preach truth and be at peace within your soul!

Recognizing that pornography is affecting our families and friends…

is the key to changing lives.

Who are the Victims Of Pornography?

• Boys and girls that have lost their innocence by viewing pornography at an early age.
• Wives of men preoccupied with pornography and the sex industry.
• Women who are being treated with disrespect and sexually abused.
• Young women trapped in an industry that exploits them and uses them as mere sex objects.
• Children used for the sexual satisfaction of fathers, stepfathers, and men they trusted.
• Young men exposed to a false image of sexuality.
• Men who just can”t stop using pornography or stimulating themselves while recalling those images.
• A society that has become desensitized and dependent upon sex-charged images.
• Neighbors that have increased crime and decreased property values because of the proliferation of pornography in their communities. Read the rest of this entry »

I am really excited about what will be happening in 2010. This is a new year, and a chance to begin again! With that in mind, I plan on being more mindful to my blogging, especially at pentecostalblogger.com as well as my home site.

I am looking forward to doing a theme based blog this year, with each week based on a different aspect of theology and ministry. I’ll start the new year off this week by blogging about the taboo subject of pornography, and how it affects the family, as well as the individual caught in it’s nefarious trap.

Stay tuned for more blogging this week! God bless!!!

Ryan

I receive an e-mail every Monday with marketing and advertising advice.  This most recent edition of the Monday Morning Memo had something I’d like to share with you.

Who doesn’t exist in your private world? How many billions of people live beyond the edges of your peripheral vision? You might like to believe you care about all living things and value all human life equally but your mind isn’t big enough for that.  You can’t wrap your consciousness around everyone and everything on earth. So there will always be People Invisible in your world whether you like it or not.

You can’t wrap your consciousness around everyone and everything on earth.  How true.  As much as we’d like to believe we can love everyone, we can’t.  Our sphere of influence and our limited vision prevents it.  How awesome to think, however, that God’s vision is not that narrow.  He knows the number of hairs on every one of the 6+ billion people who live on the earth today.  In God’s private world, everyone is a “People I know”.

He loves all of us, and wishes all of us to know Him and have a relationship with Him.  How beautiful of a concept, and how real an exsistence that God provides.

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