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"‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

JESUS the CHRIST

"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news."

Nuggets in a Nutshell

They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!'

(the secret? consider this: an intimate relationship, not a gong show)

A NUTCRACKER

My Dear,

A Sparkling Gem

to present a "proverb" as a "promise", a parable as a prophecy, a prophecy as a precept, or any other mismatched combination may be a fine work of art. but it is NEVER a representation of scriptural truth or biblical beauty; to label any as such is to LIE and possibly DESTROY LIVES. Misrepresentation occurs frequently. Innocent or haphazard, the carnage is littered everywhere and gloated over with ease by the clever and the crooked. And everywhere around there are others running toward the wounded, listening for the calls, being in the flow of healing, grateful, growing under flowering grace and overflowing love.

Nicolette Sowder

"Give me the wild children with their bare feet and sparkling eyes. The restless, churning climbers. The wild ones using their outside voices, singing all the way home. Give me the wonder-filled, glorious mess makers dreaming of mountains and mud, aching to run through a field of stars."

Isaiah, the Prophet

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners."

Bishop Gene Robinson

"It's funny isn't it? That you can preach a judgmental and vengeful and angry God and nobody will mind. But you start preaching a God that is too accepting, too loving, too forgiving, too merciful, too kind . . . and you are in trouble."

Desmond Tutu

"You may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.."

- A Sprinkling of Salt -

Dear God, grant me victory today over all that assails. Help me square up to even the greatest challenges and claim authority over them, unafraid. Amen.

_ Joshua Dubois

"It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something."

- John Lewis