TruePatriot49 Loc: The Democratic People's Republic Rhode Island

BR, heaven is utopia but most liberals are not ready to repent of their sins and accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Many of them refuse to truly believe in God and to worship him. Some, who do sorta believe in God, think that God is a female.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

We are finally getting some cooler weather here in Texas. I have to admit that I’m missing that milder weather on the Alabama coast, but you just can’t take the Texas out of a bred,born and raised Texan………and then there are our beautiful babies that are so much fun. We are blessed with 8 great grandchildren now between the ages of 7 years to 6 months old! We didn’t have to cull a one of them! 🤗

You and I were blessed with growing up in a Christian home with loving parents full of joy and love………and the Bible! Our lives centered around our faith and devotion to God and family. I really didn’t know that much about the Bible other than the usual lessons from Church Service and Sunday School, until I started attending an outside in-depth Bible Study. I went to this same Bible Study for over 10 years. The only reason I stopped was because we moved.

The small Church that we went to for many years was truly a country Church. It was app. 6 miles from the closest very small town! Walking into our church was like turning back time. It was a little white frame church with a chain length fence around it to keep the cattle out! Once a month on Sunday afternoon after lunch we had an old fashioned Church sing-a-long open to all churches. And of course, we sang from the old red and blue Baptist Hymnals unless someone brought some different printed song music. We had the church piano and someone always showed up with a guitar or two. Most folks that attended had a little gray in their hair….or used Mrs. Clairol! LOL! We always had a good time worshiping the Lord in song, whether a person could sing on key or not! 😂

I have no doubt that the Lord will join us in some of our down home country singing that so many of us grew up with……Whatever denomination we are or which book we used!

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Going to heaven is like being pregnant! You are either saved by repenting and accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior…believing that he is Devine, the Son of God……born of the Virgin Mary…..died on the cross for our sins, was buried and arose 3 days later and after 40 days and nights arose to heaven and sits on the right side of God the Father……………..or you are not saved and will not spend eternity in heaven! This is not my opinion……..It is a promise by Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, that is found in the Bible!………The instruction Book that He wrote through men that He chose and left for each of us!

MARANATHA!……..Come soon, Dear Lord, come soon……🙏🏻

microphor Loc: Home is TN

No way! who's world? There will always be someone who will think "my way or no way".

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Good morning, Padremike,

This may not be be the recommended version for your service, but it touches me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96gOjU54YOs

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Thank you dear friend, and yes, it touched both Jeanette & myself. She said she woke up this morning humming that song. Another, of many others, that choked me up standing at the Altar with my back turned to my congregation so they couldn't see tears on my cheeks was "What a friend we have in Jesus." Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion singing "The Prayer" opens the floodgates. Good music softens this crusty old man into a tub of jello. What will heaven's choir be like?

Bevvy

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Have you ever visited The Times Square Church in midManhattan, Padremike?

It is an international congregation located in the beautiful old former Mark Hellinger Theatre Building on West 51st Street in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City, designed with a modern facade and a Baroque interior. It has 1,605 seats across two levels.

I visited their nondenominational worship services several times during the 1990s-early 2000s when visiting my daughter in NYC. It was always filled to capacity with street people, and emigrants and tourists visiting New York City from all over the world, and people coming in from the five boroughs and visiting from the fifty states, of many ethnicities, many languages, every race.

There are many languages spoken and many ethnic accents among the English speakers... when they sang and prayed together, - I used to think it was as close as we on earth can experience (a small-scale preview) of what heaven will be like, for we can read in Revelation of the scene in heaven of a great multitude that no one could number, drawn from every tribe and tongue and people and nation as God is drawing out a people for His name.

The Bible describes our relationship with Lord as a walk. It started right at the beginning – right in Eden. Adam and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the evening.

Enoch walked with God. Noah walked with God. Abraham walked with God.

We read to walk in faith [Romans 4: 12], to walk in newness of life [Romans 6:4], to walk in the Spirit [Galatians 5: 16]. We sang about the Lord Jesus Christ – "He walks with me and He talks with me, along life’s narrow way."

The Times Square Church was founded by Evangelist David Wilkerson (author of the best-selling book, "The Cross & The Switchblade") in 1987. At the time, Times Square was known as a center of X-rated films, strip clubs, prostitution, and drug addiction. Wilkerson opened the church in response to what he described as "the physically destitute and spiritually dead people" he saw among the pimps, runaways and crack dealers who populated the area. He miraculously was gifted with the $15,000,000 to $18,000,000 to purchase the grand old theatre building, originally built by Warner Brothers in 1930 as a movie palace.

The congregation has three full time pastors as well as visiting ministers and missionaries who come to preach from all over the world. The church places an emphasis on prayer and has a "prayer during preaching ministry." They have high school and young adults programs teaching the gospel's truth and love from the Word of God.

James says –"look, right here in Amos, the Lord who knows all things from eternity, said that His purpose was that the rest of mankind would seek Him, no exceptions, and that all peoples could find Him, and that the Lord would take out of the world a people who are called by His name."

"The Lord who forms nations is doing a new thing. Rather than have one nation, separate from the world, defined by their ancestry or by their heritage, instead the Lord is drawing out of all nations something brand new – a people not created by blood, not created by heritage, not created by geography – but a people created by an allegiance to a common name – His Name – the name of Jesus Christ."

As to what heaven's choir will be like, Padremike?

It will be heavenly!

Times Square Church

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Bad Bob, [God said] "I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; choose life." (Deuteronomy 30:15,19)

keepuphope Loc: Idaho

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

When did She say that?

keepuphope Loc: Idaho

She gave you the book/ chapter/ verse. Read for yourself. And God is not female. Thus when Jesus instructed us in prayer He said Our FATHER who is in heaven. God made a man and a woman. Men are fathers women are mothers, couldn't be any plainer. Literally.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

TexaCan,

I remember the Sunday afternoon Gospel Sings in the '50s, held three or four times annually in the closest church to our home, a Missionary Baptist church. I loved their God-given talent and their enthusiasm, the pianist would hit the piano so hard it seemed as if the church floor shook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDL3IGIwIk&list=PLJnLi1aO2X3rCX3xZSxBzh11PxjeWpIcj

It was the type of gospel songs for which the Gaither family is famous - now called Southern Gospel, which was a bit pretentious for southern Indiana at the time, but who knew! I have no doubt that our Lord has always been there in our midst in every gathering, just as He promised.

You should be very proud of such a beautiful family, all who treasure the blessing of life!

I've lived in other states, but am content to be back home again in Indiana. My sisters scattered to the coastlines; one sister, her grown children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are visiting from north of Seattle later this month. They've been practically locked down on the west coast by their state's reaction to Covid-19 - 1st visit in three years. Another sister residing in Jacksonville, FL - just dodged Hurricane Ion.

There is a frost advisory (32F) for this area tonight - too soon! - and already patches of orange in the tree foliage. The leaves' fall colors will peak by the 3rd week of the month, and will have all dropped to the ground by the end of
October. The four seasons are a beautiful display of God's handiwork, but winter is no longer something for which I long, nor is its arrival something to celebrate, IMHO.

I don't think you've ever stopped studying, TexaCan. Your Biblical online research is study that bears fruit - enriching others in your daily conversations.

Big Kahuna

God is neither he nor she but is referred to in the Bible in the masculine not feminine. Try not to confuse yourself nor any of your other gender confused leftists.