“it is a great happiness for a people to flourish with numerous offspring” Peter Martyr Vermigli ~1550

"It is a terrible thing when a man reaches that point when he knows that he must die, and the gospel which he has argued about and reasoned about and even ‘defended’ does not seem to help him because it has never gripped him. It was just an intellectual hobby." MLJ

Jeremiah 25:32 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!”

“The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble” (Prov. 4:19)

Life is basically nothing but ritual. . . Add these to yours: “Go for daily walks, an hour long, and let your mind wander without the help of music. Get involved in a small church that acts out biblical forms of justice. Read big chunks of Scripture, a book at a time. Follow a regular schedule, sleep well, and wake early. Exercise. Get rid of your smartphone, or at least severely restrict your usage. Don’t text people, but talk only face to face or over the phone” (Dru Johnson)

“The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: ‘Why art thou cast down’—what business have you to be disquieted? You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself: ‘Hope thou in God’—instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way.” MLJ

Isaiah 44: 6“Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God. 7And who can proclaim as I do? Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me, Since I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming and shall come, Let them show these to them. 8Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared it? You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one.’ ”

“the Bible has a focal point, a center. It’s a record of human history, centered on the history of Israel. That history comes to a climax in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus is the principal character of Scripture. The Bible is His story, and His life is the hinge of the ages, the turning point of world history.” Peter Leithart

2 Chronicles 36

If you are guilty of any of these, then you are a sinner in the sight of God, and you need a a Savior. The Savior you need is Jesus Christ, and he is willing!

Solomon in Ecclesiastes: “Everything is vapor.” Trying to control your life is like “shepherding the wind.” “What is twisted cannot be made straight.” “No man has power over the day of death.”

We live in a land of fools. “folly is any violation of or veering from this order which God designed to promote life. It is the stubborn refusal to bring one’s life into conformity to the pattern of creation.”

#Proverbs

for Christians, this life is lived in the wilderness. Except Sunday.

“Scholars in the last century have ceased to use the old Christian BC and AD system of dividing history and have adopted BCE and CE in their place. Commonness, toleration, detente, and democracy replace the reign of the Lord Christ as the fundamental defining characteristics of our age. The date remains the same, but the cross is tossed down a memory hole.” Leithart

Was there really a global flood? Yes. Jesus said so. Luke 17