Never make the mistake of thinking people will not act like people

OFFENSIVE BIBLE WORDS

An Indiana mega church pastor is annoyed by the word “saved.”
In a recent blog post he asked, “Does the Word ‘Saved’ Bother Anyone Else?” He also has a problem with the phrase “born again.” He refers to such terms as “insider terms.” (Christian Post, 9.01)
Friend, this is nonsense.
After all, “saved” and “born again” are terms used in the Bible. Jesus Himself said, “Ye must be born again.” (John 3:7). And Romans 10:13 says, “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Saved is a very common word to describe what happens when a person is rescued from sin by the Lord Jesus Christ. Where will all this nonsense end? In the great apostasy?

One test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

We build our lives each day with the bricks of habits we have

Jealousy is poison envy.

Don’t grumble because you don’t have what you want – be thankful you don’t get what you deserve.

If people did not carry gossip, it would not go so far

Never make the mistake of thinking people will not act like people.

Rumor is one thing that gets thicker as you spread it

Doing the will of God will leave you no time for disputing about His plans.

Abraham did not know for sure where he was going, but he knew for sure with Whom he was going.

God sometimes conceals His purposes so that we will live on His promises.

All who are born of God should develop a likeness to their Father.

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, and acts with a hand that never fails.

We may not always agree with God, but He is still the boss.

Every sunrise is God’s greeting – the sunset His signature.

Fear God and you’ll have nothing else to fear.

Science helps man to know what God already knows.

Don’t forget that God is between you and your enemy.

God isn’t dead; I belong to His family; I talked to Him this morning.

When you spend time with God, you invest in eternity.

Loneliness is being unaware of the One who is with us everywhere.

This year at Levy Baptist we have been studying the Life of Christ. We began in January with his pre-existence and have moved through his life, a Harmony of the Gospels study. One of the advantages of studying Jesus’ life this way, is that you get all of Him in the Scriptures. You don’t allow yourself to only focus on one aspect of his life. You discover the passages where Jesus was offensive. He was straight forward. Jesus calls us to holiness and He does so in no uncertain terms! Christ calls us to follow Him even when we don’t understand.

This article, by Mike Goeke, I believe you’ll find interesting. I wanted to share it with you today because it is a testimony to the offensiveness of Christ’s call to holiness.

http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=36014

To mistreat one of God’s creatures is to offend God.

Man shows he is more than an animal when he longs to be with God.