1 Corinthians 15:12-19 ~ Resurrection of the dead

How did Halloween become today's decorations and not an overly Religious Holiday?

All Hallows' Eve, is a holiday observed on October 31, the evening before All Saints' (or All Hallows') Day. The celebration marks the day before the Western Christian feast of All Saints and initiates the season of Allhallowtide, which lasts three days and concludes with All Souls' Day.

Even in very pagan times, people believed on All Hallows Eve, the souls of the dead returned to their homes, so people dressed in costumes and lit bonfires to ward off spirits. Hiding from the dead.

How did it become fun and more or less fake spooky?

God is in a very serious line of work. And I fully believe and know, I am entirely grateful God is God Himself.

1 Corinthians 15:12-19

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 

14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 

15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 

17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile

 and you are still in your sins. 

18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 

19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

Parenting

Celts had a festival called Samhain.  

New Christians be brave, don't hide from the dead, the dead are at peace. So, the costumes changed. It's cute, and our children don't have to be named at age five and swaddled on the wall for a couple of years. We can celebrate the long lives, the forever lives of our children.  No more spooky with making fun of spooky.

We can laugh at death. We will live.

When we are young, we see the death of Jesus as a young man with Promise.

As we go forward in life, we see Good Friday as the death of a Son. God's Son. Our Savior.

Going through Life, we will see Good Friday from many aspects at the Table of God. This is my thoughts on my relationship with Father God.

God is a Father. God explains Scripture with positive approaches to Good Care of our emotions. We can look at Scripture constantly to find God is Fathering us. God explains His own Nature in Jesus Christ and on Good Friday.

God explains how He felt about Jesus dying.

View of the Temple from Golgotha.

Ready the man  - Who had healed the blind, lame, deaf, lepers and brought sons and daughters back to life - for death.

Reality.

God Himself is going to have a reaction to this.

The Light of the World. Is Jesus Christ.

Evidence today of the earthquake:

The Temple experienced the Earthquake and the Veil to the Holy of Holies was torn.

For two millenniums, Christian Historians site non-Christian Historical references to earthquakes and darkness on Good Friday. Historians argue over text and verbs and placements of words. We would have to say 3 secular Historians of this era point out earthquake and darkness history, resulting in 2 millenniums of arguments over this history.

To analyze earthquake activity in the region, geologist Jefferson Williams of Supersonic Geophysical and colleagues Markus Schwab and Achim Brauer of the German Research Center for Geosciences studied three cores from the beach of the Ein Gedi Spa adjacent to the Dead Sea.

Varves, which are annual layers of deposition in the sediments, reveal that at least two major earthquakes affected the core: a widespread earthquake in 31 B.C. and an early first-century seismic event that happened sometime between 26 A.D. and 36 A.D.

The latter period occurred during “the years when Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea and when the earthquake of the Gospel of Matthew is historically constrained,” Williams said.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Living His Story. History. Earthquake Science has been reliable.

Israel today sits on a major earthquake fault and their government discusses and dreads a 7 point earthquake seismic event. All architecture built since 1980 is coded to be saved from earthquakes on a 4 point seismic scale.

Creating art for millenniums:

 INRI  JESUS of Nazareth KING Of The JEWS

Daylight returned.  

Brave men went to Pontius Pilate - who had murdered men and women on High Jewish Holidays before and requested the Body of Jesus Christ. Pilate was merciful to release the Body of Jesus to them.

And the Tomb of Jesus Christ was sealed and protected by soldiers.

John 3:16-17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, 

whoever believes in Jesus Christ should not perish 

but have eternal life. 

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, 

but in order that the world might be saved 

through Jesus Christ.

Abba, Holy Father,

We rely on Your Willing Blessings each day.

In Jesus, on Good Friday, any time of the day, any year, any season 

- this is our Rock and our Deliverer. Wonderful of God.

In Your Son, Jesus, we will Rejoice. Every Day.

Blessed be our Father, The Lord God Almighty, maker of Heaven and earth. Creator of All Things and His Son, Jesus Christ. Wonderful.

Amen and Amen and Amen in 

Jesus Christ the Lord.

Autumn can be both beautiful and gloomy as the earth prepares to sleep

Halloween kicks out the idea sleep is forever

1 Corinthians 12 

17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? 

If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 

18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, 

every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 

19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 

20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus

Psalms 36:7 ~ How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!

 

Psalm 119:105-112     

The Message

By your words I can see where I’m going;

they throw a beam of light on my dark path.

I’ve committed myself 

and 

I’ll never turn back

from living by your righteous order.

Everything’s falling apart on me, God;

put me together again with your Word.

Festoon me with your finest sayings, God;

teach me your holy rules.

My life is as close as my own hands,

but I don’t forget what You have revealed.

The wicked do their best to throw me off track,

but I don’t swerve an inch from your course.

I inherited your book on living; it’s mine forever—

what a gift! And how happy it makes me!

I concentrate on doing exactly what you say—

I always have and always will.

Psalm 63

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;

my soul thirsts for you;

my flesh faints for you,

as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,

beholding Your power and glory.

3 Because your steadfast love is better than life,

my lips will praise you.

4 So I will bless you as long as I live;

in your name I will lift up my hands.

Before we arrive in our Father's Heavenly Kingdom,

we have decisions to make

I rarely doubt and, yet, I have to say I worry.
Worry is fear. Fear and doubt go hand in hand.
That's threading cross-hairs.
I don't doubt the promises of God,
I wonder how they apply. 

I wonder about circumstances.


God, I firmly believe, is Vast as the Universe and is Love. 

I believe the Universe is the size of the Lord God Almighty and He gently holds us.

I wonder about the learning the path. 

God sends us out to learn what kind of people we will become. Like His very own Prodigal Son.

When we return to the Lord, 

How we present to Him what we did with our talents. Like the prodigal son and Father. I believe God puts us in this life like we send our children to college. Father God anticipating running to us, when we arrive, finished with this life, to the open gates of Heaven.

Radical Love

Fear - this word appears in the Old Testament 437 times and in the New Testament 96 times. 

Courage appears 38 times. This is extremely radical. And teaches us, God runs to us. Our Father does not tell us to buck up and leave. In real circumstance, God Himself, The Almighty, our very own Father - does not Leave, nor forsake us.

Jesus arrived to help us understand God the Father is in all circumstances of life. All Things. All things are in His Hands. Nothing exists He has not seen before. We do not out maneuver God. 

Our Father doesn't say, COURAGE. And move on, instead He tells us He knows about the world and will help us daily. In real life.

We have to walk the path Home to the Lord.

Eye-yi- I 
Like the song I yi yi yi
Doubts usually are about the word "I".

I've been well off. And I've been poor. I've been befriended. I've been forsaken. I've been hurt. I've been apologized to. I've suffered the death of my dad twice. I've suffered the death of a baby. I've had a miscarriage. I've seen family suffer horribly with addiction. I've suffered seeing my family rail at God. I've seen weird comedians devalue all I love about God in insidious ways. I've been made fun of for things people think about God. I've had confidences betrayed. I've seen a family not really recover from my parent's divorce. I've see polite. I've seen really rude. I've seen avoidance, I've seen users. I've seen my friends suffer. I've seen friends recover when I haven't. I'm in the fifties of life.

I really don't like it when people refuse to do their very best 

and, then, are mad at God for His humor.

I've seen hurt with doubters who spread their poison and then blithely leave their worldly wisdom parked at my door and depart from the loved one they polluted. They left...why are we believing their values still. But before you think I'm really, really sour. I'm only sometimes sour.

I'm not happy with people who have all the answers and no love.

I'm annoyed with the current devaluation of Christianity as wicked.
When the knowledge is so sparse.
Where is the Seek? 

Lava Lamps

We are the generation that believed once Halloween candy is usually scary. And now, with the Borders Open, we will have legitimate reasons to think upon our environment and decide if the children will Trick or Treat.

Things can be tricky. 

I was the child who cut off the white tops of Corn Candy. And told my mother she should call the Tooth Fairy. She asked if I meant on the phone. I said, SsssURE.  That night, the Tooth Fairy discovered I had 48 very small,  teeth under my pillow. Exactly the same size, each tooth. My mother let me discover the teeth were gone and no gift or money was left. 

As I reported the Tooth Fairy jipped me, my mother said the Tooth Fairy never liked to be fooled. I said, you could call her and explain I left her edible teeth. Lots of them. What? Yep, edible teeth. My mother said maybe the Tooth Fairy would re-negotiate. Within a week, I had a quarter under my pillow.

The quarter was definitely better than Fentanyl.  The choices we have to make, today. And how we are honest with our children, yet protect them.

Psalms 36:7

How priceless is your unfailing love, 

O God! 

People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Matthew 10:16

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. 

Therefore be as shrewd as snakes 

and 

as innocent as doves.

John 14:19

Because I live, you also will live.

Heavenly Harvest!

 Stand 

2nd Baptist, Houston, Dr. Ed Young's Church is taking a Stand.

90,000 members

Divided all the Houston area, all Churches into a grid

and for a year

we all fed Katrina Refugees in this grid plan.

This is: Stand | Dr. Ben Young | Woodway Campus

Psalm 73

Truly God is good to Israel,

 to those who are pure in heart.

Abba, Father,

We Bless You for Jesus.

 He enables us to have a Hope and Future. 

Covering us in His Righteousness. 

When we believe Jesus, 

He gives us this immeasurable Gift.

Father, we will Trust in the Lord with all our heart, and do not lean on our own understanding. 

In all our ways acknowledge God, 

and He will make straight your paths.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus, Himself, likewise partook of the same things, that through death Jesus might destroy the one who has the power of death, 

that is, the devil.

Knowing we were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from our forefathers, 

not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 

but with the precious blood of Christ,

 like that of a Lamb 

without blemish or spot.

We give You thanks for the Lavish Love of Jesus, especially on the Sabbath. 

Realizing the Magnitude of Jesus. 

And giving thanks knowing our sincerity 

in Thanking Him, 

is our Joy and is pleasing to Him. 

God who bends so far, we will Live forever 

with God in His Kingdom.

Abba, Thank You. 

And for the ones I love, the People You have given me and we pray for. 

Thank You for helping me with my ears. 

For Helping Edward. For P and for D. For their complete recoveries. Thank God, Truly, my experience in life testifies when you rejoice with the chances of others and ask with joy the storehouses of God do not grow small - Abba loves and provides.

So thrilled to see 150 amazing Relics

at St. Anthony of Padua.

This was a marvelous and Living path of Jesus.

His Holy Spirit moving.

Thrilled to see

how diligent 1,000 people could be

in quiet

and in joy 

and faith.
Love in Jesus Christ.

A work of Jesus Himself,

This exhibit faithfully travels the world

from the Vatican

explained perfectly

is one of the most marvelous

exhibits I've seen in my life.

So Grateful, Jesus, to participate.

Thank You, Jesus Christ.

Thank You, Father.

Blessings of the Holy Spirit.

This day, I'm grateful

I held relics of Padre Pio,

In my heart and hand, St. Rita, my favorite.

Popes and so many Teachers.

So many Saints from 400 AD

and 1902.

St. Anthony of Padua.

Greatful for the Heart

and Memory of 

The Holy Catholic Church

we all pray for and with.

In Jesus Christ!

Saint Rita b 1381, always wanted to be

part of the nuns. To be in a nunnery.

As a widow, she still couldn't afford to pledge

a sum, as an older widow.

The Lord Provided in His Paths.

He provided all.

And this exhibit was free

as a Work of the Holy Spirit.

How Priceless is Your Unfailing Love, O God

The dead stick harshly given to the novice nun to water, is today St. Rita's 600 year old grapes covering the nunnery and sending wine to the Vatican for 500 + years. A miracle of Jesus and His Abba. This is really quite rare.

How many 600-year-old roses

have we heard of O Lord?

St. Rita's Roses are alive.

Blessed Be Jesus Christ.

Father, Your Word is Life.

God dwell in us, please, Father.

Dwell in those I love and the people You have given me.

Help us to seek You first.

And in Jesus Christ, we will finish well!

(And on just a small, home note,

I love Opossums. We have one again today, years later.

They live 2.5 years, love peanut butter sandwiches

when they can't find mice and large bugs to eat.

Love Opossums with me, please!)

Thank You, Jesus, for Your Creation

and All Your Creatures!

Thank God for His Goodness, covering us with the Grace we need. Amen.

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, 

and they shall never perish; 

no one will snatch them out of my hand.

My hands were so blessed today,

and filled with Your Heart and Love.

Thank You, Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus we will do this