jennifer_bloom

This is an old painting of a man touching God and His angels The love God has for us is different from a Care Bears or Tele tubby cartoon. It is a love built on blood and sweat and tears and days or nights of anxiety and pain and fear. But it is also a love built on insurmountable good well and...

1 - You teach each other respect Your respect for yourself and for God and for them and for your family and for society and for religion and for all humans is enhanced through your relationship with them and their respect for all these groups is enhanced through their relationship with you. 2 -...

1st Rule = You serve Gods principles and Gods children and not your own ego or appetite 2nd Rule = You serve Gods virtue and Gods compassion and not your favourable beauty or power 3rd Rule = You serve God’s forgiveness and tolerance and not your own reputation or social status 4th Rule = You...

1 - Serve God’s glory and not your own ego 2 - Serve harmony and not vanity 3 - Serve compassion and not reputation 4 - Serve health and not possessions 5 - Serve patience and not freedom 6 - Serve goodness and not power 7 - Serve respect and not indulgence 8 - Serve generosity and not anger 9 -...

Yesterday I was trying to crush garlic in the garlic presser but due to some bizarre genetic mutation, the cloves were 4-7 times their regular size because they didn’t separate into their distinct compartments like ordinary garlic bulbs, meaning they were harder to crush because they fit evenly...

This is an image of the sanitarian woman who was met by Jesus at the well while going about her daily chores I can relate to this story because the well is a symbol for hope and personal investment and Jesus said faith in God is like water welling up to eternal life When I first entered...

One thing my pastor prayed during bible study is that we would during the study hear the truth and not what we want to hear I find this prayer to be offensive Why would a true God follower not want to hear the truth but would rather want to hear the lie instead The pastor also said we should do...

I’ve had 10 different types of experiments with writing before deciding on my current method of literary communication and book development. Here I will discuss what I learned from 10 failings of mine: 1. The Inspiration Route My original plan was to come with an underlying theory or solution to...

I included this delightful image of a lamp to reflect what Jesus said about not letting the light in you be darkness Let me give two hypothetical stories here Claire is a Christian. She expresses her faith by giving people rides home in the winter time, helping with stage design at church so the...

If you believe good is more powerful than evil you will be bound and controlled by good If you believe evil is more powerful than good you will be bound and controlled by what is evil And if you, while being evil try to bind and control and destroy what is good - you will become the evil that...

I believe that you can fail Gods standard and still be a beautiful and lovable person and that God gave every new born baby inner beauty that grows or diminishes with time - this is because a parent forgives their two year old for spilling chocolate milk on the floor but might get angry if the...

In Christianity Jesus talks about the pharisees who decorate the tombs of the righteous and then say they are not like their fathers who killed them - so they testify against themselves that they are the sons of those who killed the righteous and should therefore fill up the measure of their sin...

To me the mark of the beast is the sinners judgment against sin It is the evil doers hatred for evil To worship the image of the beast is to worship the zeal of sinners who hate sin To set up an image for the beast is to set up a false consciousness of egotistic false belief in one’s moral...

The first rule: Trust the spiritual universe and not the material or social or sexual or physical universe to provide you with all your needs and take care of your emotions and protect your interests and give you mean The second rule: See the value in everybody by looking at the socially...

One reason I don’t usually chase guys is because I notice once the high status guy becomes interested in me I lose 90-99% of my interest in him A guy online taught me something. He said a marriage based purely on physical attraction is doomed to failure. Another friend of mine said a marriage...

In the bible Jesus said many would eat in the feast of God with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob But the sons of the kingdom would be cast outside with weeping and gnashing of teeth The question you should ask every religious person is whether they are children of God or children of religion A child...

Before I became a mature Christian I used to manipulate people into liking me with humour and elegance and vulnerability and expressions of innocence or creative social judgment I manipulated a doctor and a PhD student among others And God dealt with me harshly for it When I was 19 I told a guy...

The bible says those who love pleasure become poor it says those who love wine and oil never become rich I believe pleasure is any form of unnecessary physical sensation you get from the material world such as the happiness of eating chocolate or of bathing in a swimming pool while the wine is...

To me the first part is about language God is asking you to avoid allowing the language of the greedy, the critical, the disorderly, the hateful, and the violent to impact your behaviour or mould your dreams The second part of the verse is about your physical and geographic location - avoid...

I got this idea from Jordan Peterson - I used to think he was a cultural social conforming quack but now I actually believe he is intelligent he described the kingdom of God as the ultimate good That is not how I would describe it But I WOULD describe the righteousness of God as the ultimate...