B-2 Bomber Deploying a MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator)
May 20, 2019 – USAF Photo
So Pilate said to Him, “You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over Me at all, unless it had been given to you from above………..” (John 19:11)
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Hi Men:
How has your week been?
With the massive amount of news coming at us from all directions—it’s easy to let our focus drift. But I want to call us back to something greater. That’s why I began with this moment from John 19, where Jesus stands before Pilate:
“You would have no authority over Me at all, unless it had been given to you from above…”
Pilate had Rome behind him. Soldiers at his command. Power to crucify. And yet Jesus calmly reminds him: You only have what my Father has allowed.
This truth hasn’t changed.
No ruler, president or king—past, present, or future—holds power apart from the will of God. Whether it’s President Trump, or the Supreme Court, not one ounce of authority is exercised outside of His permission. Even the IDF, as fierce and skilled as they are, is helpless without the Lord of Hosts – the Lion of Judah.
“The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He pleases.”— Proverbs 21:1
Brothers, let’s lift our eyes from all the media and fix them again on an eternity with Jesus. The One who reigns over nations also reigns over our hearts and minds. The world is not spiraling out of control. It is being guided by the One who holds all things together.
Don’t lose heart. Take courage. The King is still on His throne.
DIVINE APPOINTMENT ON THE JOB SITE
Men, make sure you read this wonderful testimony from our brother, Michael King
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I arrived to work early Tuesday and began making my first rounds of the morning. As I was walking between two homes that were being framed, I made eye contact with a man I had never seen before as he was rolling out his tools for the days work. I made it a point to say “Good morning” and he replied with “Good morning, how are you?” I stopped for a quick moment and said “Aqui” (Here – in Spanish). We both shared a quick smile and laugh as I continued on my way. As I walked away, I heard that small voice tell me, “You are doing better the just ‘here’!” Convicted, I immediately turned around and made my way back to the man I had just briefly greeted. Standing on the sidewalk in front of the building I hollered to the man, “Hey Bro!” He came to the front window and in my best broken Spanish I decided to tell him how I really was that morning.
Me: Mi es no just aqui! Jesus Christo is todo mi vida, mi vida is el bien. No just Aqui! (Tapping my chest) I continued, “Yo have breath in mi lungs” (Tapping my legs) “Yo legs el bien! Todo mi vida is el bien, gracias Jesus Christo!”
The man motioned to me as if to say, one minute, and exited the building, and came face-to-face with me standing on the sidewalk. In very broken English he told me…
Man: “One woman in my life crushed me” (His hands pushing towards the ground as if he was compressing a load of laundry in a basket). He continued, “I no like my life! I no like my job! I no like anything!
He proceeded to pull up the long sleeves of his shirt to reveal the physical scars that were the bi-product of his emotional scars. This man had approximately 20 significant scars the width of his forearm from the bend of his arm down to the wrist.
Man: “Es, no bueno! No bueno!”
Me: (Poking him in the chest) I said, “Jesus Christo will heal your heart, He will heal your mind and He will heal those scars!”
Man: (Raises both hands toward the sky) “Mi Father ask, ‘Why?’ and I told mi Father, I so sorry Father, I so sorry!”
Me: “These scars are the testimony, tu comprende testimony, of the Jesus Christo that heals!”
I told him I would be right back and went to retrieve a Spanish tract that I keep a supply of in my truck. I returned to give the man the tract, who was now inside the building as he continued to roll out his tools for the day to come. Handing him the tract, he brandished his phone to show me the pictures he took immediately following this self-inflicted mutilation of his arms. There are no words for what I saw! Blood dripping off his arms from the many slashes he had inflicted upon himself. My heart hurt. I felt sad. I felt angry. I felt compassionate beyond what I had before. With tears flowing from my eyes, I again told him “Jesus Christo will heal your heart, He will heal your mind and He will heal those scars!”
Man: “Thank you so much” (As he embraced me with a tight and warming hug)
I asked him what his name was and if I could have his phone number to follow-up with him in the future. He graciously gave me his name and number. He came in for another hug and thanked me. “No!” I said, “Thank you. You have blessed me today, thank you.”
I would like to introduce you to Thomas…
Grateful slave to King Jesus,
Dan
(Galatians 2:20)
Men:
“Do you see an emphasis on keeping the commandments and salvation by grace as mutually exclusive concepts?”
The Path to Eternal Life – Red Book Day 171
The purpose of these devotionals is to help you think Biblically
Solomon said, “As a man thinks, so is he”
1 – Eph 2:8-9 2 – John 3:36
Here is a PDF Copy
A LETTER FROM JANNA HENRICHSEN
Continue Reading Janna’s Letter
WILL YOU LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE?
by Oswald Chambers
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends….I have called you friends… —John 15:13, 15
Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said to the Lord, “I will lay down my life for Your sake,” and he meant it (John 13:37). He had a magnificent sense of the heroic. For us to be incapable of making this same statement Peter made would be a bad thing— our sense of duty is only fully realized through our sense of heroism. Has the Lord ever asked you, “Will you lay down your life for My sake?” (John 13:38). It is much easier to die than to lay down your life day in and day out with the sense of the high calling of God. We are not made for the bright-shining moments of life, but we have to walk in the light of them in our everyday ways. There was only one bright-shining moment in the life of Jesus, and that was on the Mount of Transfiguration. It was there that He emptied Himself of His glory for the second time, and then came down into the demon-possessed valley (see Mark 9:1-29). For thirty-three years Jesus laid down His life to do the will of His Father. “By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren” (1 John 3:16). Yet it is contrary to our human nature to do so.
If I am a friend of Jesus, I must deliberately and carefully lay down my life for Him. It is a difficult thing to do, and thank God that it is. Salvation is easy for us, because it cost God so much. But the exhibiting of salvation in my life is difficult. God saves a person, fills him with the Holy Spirit, and then says, in effect, “Now you work it out in your life, and be faithful to Me, even though the nature of everything around you is to cause you to be unfaithful.” And Jesus says to us, “…I have called you friends….” Remain faithful to your Friend, and remember that His honor is at stake in your bodily life.
A Jewish Rabbi Changed My Life
I thought this was so good. Ramin Parsa was born in Iran in 1986, raised under strict Sharia law as a Shiite Muslim. He even experienced arrests and torture by regime authorities.
In the midst of the current war in Israel, and now a follower of Christ, Ramin felt compelled to help. Though once taught to hate Jews, he said to Israeli soldiers:
“I was told to hate you, but now I’ve come to love you… to bring you food.”
They asked why. He replied:
“A Jewish Rabbi changed my life.”
Curious, they asked, “What is his name?”
He answered:
“Yeshua.”
Question: What is the Immaculate Conception of Mary?
If you thought it was her Virgin Birth……… you are
⚡ WRONG ⚡
The Immaculate Conception is a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that teaches:
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was conceived “without” original sin.
Let’s see what Dr. Leonardo De Chirico, a pastor of the Church Breccia di Roma has to say. He is also a lecturer in historical theology at the Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione in Padova, Italy has to say:
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Tough questions demand complex answers. “Was Mary born without sin?” is not a tough question, and the answer is pretty straightforward: No. Period. The Bible is adamant:
“None is righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10).
Mary is no exception. Later, Paul argues that “sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned” (Rom. 5:12).
If it were for the Bible alone, this article would be finished. However, since the Roman Catholic Church is not committed to Scripture as the ultimate authority, the answer it gives is radically different.
Since I am on a roll……. here you go!
The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic fraternal organization founded in 1882 with over 2 million members.
Check out this article in the May issue of the K of C magazine
Mary’s Heart and Ours
We have not been preserved from sin as Mary was, but we can ask her to pray for us that the Father’s creative and redeeming mercy finds a home in our own hearts.
Through Mary’s intercession, we can lead lives of selfless charity. May she be our guide as we seek to grow in the image and likeness of God.
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I guess the following verse doesn’t apply:
“For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.”
— 1 Timothy 2:5, NASB
Can you go to heaven if you pray to Mary?
IDOLATRY
