Fri, Jan 11th - 1:53PM

1Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness; Thou hast set me at large when I was in distress: Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

 2 O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? How long will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah

 3 But know that Jehovah hath set apart for himself him that is godly: Jehovah will hear when I call unto him.

 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah

 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in Jehovah.

 6 Many there are that say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than they have when their grain and their new wine are increased.

What are the characteristics of the ungodly?

In verse 3 we see two things-

1.They love vanity

2. They seek out go looking for lies.

3.They dishonor God

What are the characteristics of the godly-

In verse 3 we see

1 They are set apart by God for God

2. They are heard by God

What do you get when God hears you ernest prayer

 1Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

 2 Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile.

 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah

 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.

What a great blessing to have the God of all creation listen and hear your plea for your sins to be forgiven

 Heberews 1:9 You have loved righteousness [You have delighted in integrity, virtue, and uprightness in purpose, thought, and action] and You have hated lawlessness (injustice and iniquity). Therefore God, [even] Your God (^[e]Godhead), has anointed You with the oil of exultant joy and gladness above and beyond Your companions.^(B)

^{If  you Choose to be Holy then you will be happy.}

^{If you want to be happy then be holy}

^{That does not mean a life with God is a bed of roses Jesus said himself you would have troubles but he promised to be with and help you through.}

^{You have to admit living a disaplined life you have less road bunps. Even my 9 year old daughter know if she does the right thing and study for a spelling test you will not stress about being unprepared you still might miss a few a word or two but you did what ws right.}

^{Just a few things to think about hope to hear a few comments about these lines of thought.}

^{Alive and well in Christ}

^{Tim Ray}

Tue, Jul 31st - 10:20PM

^{Yes I am still alive and well. I have come to the site many times to post and well nothing to post about I guess. I have trouble putting my thoughts into a posting in the amount of time I have to set and type. I will try to get back soon and give a word from my walk with Christ.}

Sat, Apr 28th - 11:31AM

On the authours website I found a few questions for this chapter of the book. I hope Don Miller does not mind if I share them

¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."

God is looking for a relationship with us (all) we lost it in the garden and he made a plan for us to get it back. We are a big part of that plan. Jesus payed  the price for the plan now he wants us to work the plan.

Jesus said: All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in^[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Don Miller asked this question how many NON-CHRISTIANS do you love?

He means (I think) not the Sunday morning kind of love we have for everyone but the kind that would take us to our cross.

Would you feed the hungry not just send money but let them see the love of Christ on Your face.

I am thinking more and more I (yes me) needs to get off my butt and love in action not words.

God could have sent money to earth to save us but he sent his flesh and blood to do the work The gospel needed to be incarnate. Immanuel"^[d]—which means, "God with us." Matt. 1:22 niv

Do we realy love our neighbor,co-worker,the smelly person in line at the store,the one who cuts you off in traffic?

The thoughts in this posting are questions that the book has raised in me. I want to give Don Miller all credit for all his thoughts in his book. Along with the Holy Spirit who has flamed up in me to look at how I play Christian.

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Fri, Apr 27th - 12:30PM

Well if you are fundementilast conservitive Chrstian like me it will make you think.

The book is Blue Like Jazz a nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality by donald Miller

One of the first things in the book that I connected with was he though that every Christian he came in contact with was trying to sell God. I found this thought troubling because i felt like that, I will not share my faith because i need to sell God if I share and you do not believe i failed God. In the book he says the people (Christians) that are effective are the ones who talk to you like they know Jesus and sound like they saw him and talked to him this morning.

A few weeks ago I would have said sure I agree but I was not living like I believed this. I did not seem to others i knew jesus i just talked about him. so I followed what the author suggested I started to read the Gospels to find out who Jesus was as a person not as just a Savior(which he is) but as a man who I could be a freind with. How he felt about people and Goverment and most impotant how he felt about God.

I know this posting is not complete I could have expanded the thoughts in it but this is just to get the conversation going please respond. when this topic is ran its corse I will post a new one.

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Thu, Jan 25th - 5:11PM