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Let's Major In The Minors - Rev. Teddy A. Jones Published Nov. 30, 2018 by TLZ Publishers. 110 Pages Available in Paperback and Kindle on Amazon . Major In The Minor s! You saw that right, "Let's Major In The Minors". The popular advice, and contextually good advice, is "Stop Majoring In The Minors!" This book reverses the script by challenging us to debunk the notion that the brevity of the 5 books of the Bible that have only chapter relegates them to a lesser place of importance. These books though 'minor' contain major messages. In fact this is an invitation to ponder the idea that given their brevity there is a clue to be pursued. The pearl inside this oyster is the fact the weighty theological themes and Biblical core matters they highlight indicate clearly to us their importance to God who inspired the writers. In other words, it is as though God said, "I have one chapter to send a clear message about my nature a...
Beware of Human Effort By Napoleon Black TEXT (Gal. 3:3) After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? NIV Only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it? Message After starting your Christian lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? NLT COMMENTARY Sometimes, we look at the Galatian saints and are surprised that they could have fallen the way they did. The crux of the fall is found in this very verse. They fell into the old trap of self-actualization. They fell back into the trap of feeling that what was required was some real, good, old time, human effort to become what God required. There is that constant danger which challenges us, that we want to slip back into bad habits of trying to please God by our efforts, rath...
It is still much in order to express celebratory tones of congratulations to Jamaica, the place that I have made my home since 1998 and had always admired from my primary school days on her Jubilee independence anniversary. When the noise of the proposed celebrations began to increase in decibels earlier this year two things jumped out at me like a compressed spring suddenly released. One was the question of the extent to which the church in Jamaica would find in this year's celebration an occasion to connect the dots of history for her youth members and adherents in a context where everything about the way their world is ordered elevates the here and now. The other was the palpable silence of the church on the usage of the term jubilee and the attendant mass ignorance of her constituents to the depth and superlative implications for life in community that this Hebrew concept and practice implied. It was therefore with intense joy that I learned of the plans and subsequen...
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