New memes from Isaiah 42, KJV

 

one spurgeon and one tozer meme.

 

Memes: Psalm 118 and Ephesians 4

"....walk worthy of the calling you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace."  -Ephesians 4

 

meme about Kindness in Outreach.

 

Meme: Proverbs 21:2 "...the Lord weighs the heart..."

 

We know God has great wrath and sits in judgement, but how many know that God's love and mercy is as great as his wrath?

Psalm 127:1

 

Two verse memes and a quotation from the Book of Sirach

 Sirach 1:1-10

All wisdom comes from the Lord and is with him for ever.

The sand of the sea, the drops of rain, and the days of eternity--who can count them?

The height of heaven, the breadth of the earth, the abyss and wisdom--who can search them out?

Wisdom was created before all things, and prudent understanding from eternity.

The root of wisdom--to whom has it been revealed?  Her clever devices--who knows them?

There is One who is wise, greatly to be feared, sitting upon his throne.

The Lord himself created wisdom, he saw her and apportioned her, he poured her out upon all his works.

She dwells with all flesh according to his gift, and he supplied her to those who love him.

Meme: Proverbs 18:1

 

meme: Rejoicing in Christ

 

Meme: 1 Kings 2:2

 

on loving.

 

meme: easter is coming and hope springs eternal.

 

some new memes, March 10, 2023

 

a few editorial notes about the ministry

 What we see here above is a spirited remake of yesterday's meme, which had the site name written in huge letters on it.  This is more tasteful, we think, in retrospect.  The idea isn't specifically to advertise the site, so it need not be a huge bulletin board with our URL on it, but rather tastefully toned-down.  This way, its more clear that the idea is to share the Gospel, and not necessarily to promote the site.

On that note, we've already discussed here the budgeting for the site.  We get volunteer hours here, a lot of volunteer hours, and our budget is very low.  That said, some of our ministry partners are in a different situation.  They are not as comfortable as we are, and some of them are facing having to budget their food, particularly one of our orphanage partners.

This leads us to a notion of making a specific fund for those partners, and not just splitting a piece of our take to them, still doing that, giving a total percentage, but making links to accounts that go 100% to the orphanage in Uganda, or the operation in Pakistan.  We haven't set this up yet, and will be sure to post the moment its done.

So far, these partners get a sort of "tithe" from our ministry here, but clearly, that's a disingenuous plan that puts this organization in the center of the universe, which is clearly not fair to our partner's interests.

We still do the donation account though, we can be tithed into here, by clicking here.

All that said, the remember that the ministry cost is next to nothing under the current model, and our volunteer hours are basically our overhead.  We don't really NEED money, but the same can't be said of our partners, and funds specifically for them will be set up, with a web portal and a front end explaining their ministry efforts.  Note, there will be volunteer hours used to set up all that, but such is why we're here, frankly, for the household of faith and the furtherance of the Gospel.

To God be the glory, and don't let us get greedy enough to demand the glory for ourselves.

Thank you, audience.

Meme: Psalm 139

 

Oswald Chambers on ministry, plus the Center for Christogenesis

 

 

Unless we have the right purpose intellectually in our minds and lovingly in our hearts, we will very quickly be diverted from being useful to God. We are not workers for God by choice. Many people deliberately choose to be workers, but they have no purpose of God’s almighty grace or His mighty Word in them. Paul’s whole heart, mind, and soul were consumed with the great purpose of what Jesus Christ came to do, and he never lost sight of that one thing. -Oswald Chambers

 let us not be too ready to condemn Jonah, for we may be more guilty than he. Surely the world today is passing through a fearful storm and souls all about us are in peril of their lives. -anonymous

Good deeds that happen from a good heart.

Just as the Pentacostals look for a move of the spirit, or other denominations might look for a code of conduct, or prayerfulness, or an appearance of meekness, contemplatives look for that prayerful meditative state, and in that, God is revealed in things all around the believer, in the everyday minutia, and Christ in all details, from the most important to the smallest of things.

In the opening Psalm, David says that those that meditate on God's law are blessed, but how many of us are simply given a few lifestyle edicts to act on, and that at most?

Could we not only ever do more, but be mindful of our own fallen sin state, and the continual need for God's grace and mercy.

We could do more still in the practice of love, and I say that, everyone, not pointing to anyone other than myself, but meditating on that too, the overgrowing practice of love, contemplation of God, good deeds that happen not out of necessity, but grow from a Christian heart.

three images/quotes added to KJV memes.

 

romans 15 meme added to scripture/verse memes page.

 

a word on a little forgiveness and a lot of sin, in regards to the woman at the well.

Her sins were numerous, but luckily for her, the Lord's forgiveness was great, and the Lord held her not to account for her sins, but accept His forgiveness.

Just as a touch of evil ruins a bunch, like the proverbial "bad apple", so too does a touch of forgiveness avail much!