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I cannot wait to get reading. Think I need to start a journal for all of my notes. I am already learning a lot.

Triss...since this is a "new" kind of trial & error thread....let's consider some options so that we aren't just flitting around...or we can flit...that is fun as well. But I was thinking that we might want to consider either starting a study...A) of Old/ New Testement Books...maybe go through the Bible in a year type thing.

Or C) Pick a topic...marriage, family, raising teens ( ) establishing study/devotional times...

Then, those of us who want to journal would be able to organize it for future reference. What do you think?

Hhhmm...what did I do with B)......?...I need a nap!

HaHa... I am up for anything. This is all new to me as I have never led a study.

What does everyone else think?

What ever everyone is up for, I have tons of reference material that I'd be happy to share.

That is what I do not have. I am quite willing to follow as long as I am learning and reading every day.

So, it's your call...pick your passion!

I love flipping open a page and reading it..
Kinda neat sometimes when it's something
similar to what I'm going thru...

I like the idea of topical. Kinda like faith was. Maybe on a specific event or person of the Bible.

Ok I have retyped this whoel thing 3 times now. I jsut cannot make a clear decision.

One thing I have found is that it is always pertains to something.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE
Joyce Meyer's!!!!!
She tells you like it is..
and really is really, really funnyyyyyyyy!!!

Joyce Meyer\'s Ministries

Here's some fun Bible Search too
if you know the ex: John 13...
Type it in and it takes you right there..


Bible Search

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Bible Verse Lookup

Thanks for those links. The second one I have been using since we started this thread, it is a great site!

Going to have to check out Joyce Meyers.

Okay Triss, so do you want to take this week and disect FAITH and then next week move to HOPE...and then following move to LOVE...etc...is that what you are thinking?

Well now that is a verse I know. I do not know the reference however. I also need to find a way to teach myself to memorize. Never has been my strong suit, even in school.

Don't know that we have to go to love next. But something you said along the way made me think that perhaps despair would be a good one.

*Triss,
Watch her on tv, she's very good..

Not sure when she's on in your area..
Mine, here, she's on at 7:30am and 12:30pm..
Cindys' was an hour and a half difference from
me..
She's on the TCT Channel....

Sounds good to me! How about you pick a new topic every week and we can all jump in? Faith this week, despair next week (yeah..I can get a jump start on that one!!) Is a week enough time for you?

Faith is perfect for this week...well any week...but this is a tough week for all!

FAITH~ Faith means being sure of the things we hope for and knowing that something is REAL even if we do not see it. Hebrews 11:1

It is a spiritual awareness of devine truth beyond the reach of empirical experience or logical proof.


Faith is a gift of God and is essential to salvation (Ephesians 2:8)

I think 1 Corinthians (13:12~13) said it pretty understanable to me.
For now we see through a glass darkly..But then face to face (by faith)

I found a little note that I had jotted in my Bible...it said...

If we loss our faith..we will do it gradually.
That was very scary to me...almost like it was a caution to Guard my faith daily.

"almost like it was a caution to Guard my faith daily."

I think that is why as leaky vessels we are to pray for the filling of the Holy Spirit daily.

A week ago Chuck Colson wrote in his Breakpoint Commentary that he found he could intellectually "prove" the existence of God because it makes sense but if he didn't accept HIM on faith then it was an unsatisfying exercise.
The article was called "The Enormous Obstacle"

BreakPoint Commentaries

Faith, hope and love - sounds like a study of the fruit of the Spirit to me and sounds like a great idea.

Hinda - the world is watching and mourning with you. The UK ceased to be a world power when they signed the white papers in 1948 and I fear that our collusion in the giving away of the Gaza may signal something equally devastating for us. I only hope that God doesn't judge us too harshly for not acknowledging that His gift to His people was meant forever and not for political whim or gain.

Bev,
Just shortened your URL.....
Just so you know!

Bev, I really enjoyed that article. A couple of things struck me and I will quote them from the article.

"This bothered me for a few weeks until I realized the problem. Pride, which was my original obstacle to becoming a Christian, was in the way again. I knew so much, but faith, you see, is beyond the intellect. You have to have doubts; otherwise, it couldn’t be faith."

"And remember that our greatest weapon against sophisticated pride is not more intellectual arguments. Instead it’s the practice of gratitude and simple faith that comes from it."

Pride and reason are indeed the greatest obstacles to faith. I think we need to be more like children because they accept so easily. I have explained to more than one of my kids that they can think of God like the wind, You may not be able to see the wind, but if you step outside you can feel it all around you. If we but open ourselves up to Him, we can feel Him all around us.

You must be "humble" in front of GOD
and all that he values, especially people....


Like when you maybe don't like someone..
but maybe your husband or a friend of yours does..
you must treat them with respect, because your friend/relative holds them to a value...
And so does GOD...
and that's the hard part sometimes when they
really have features you can not tolerate..

But you must step back from your feelings
and take your friends feelings.. (and GOD's)
and be "Humble" to that person..

We don't have to "like" anyone...BUT...we are COMANDED to love...everyone. God pretty much covered all the bases on that one....

Love your God
Love your neighbor...
Love your enemy....

I have to constantly remember that
when I visit with a friend of my husband's wife..
CONSTANTLY!!!
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And trust me, it does help the situation
alot...I can do it!!!!