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As Christianity has devolved further and further from the purity of the organic design of the first century Church it has become more and more mechanized. Mechanization is a process wherein intricate actions are studied and broken down to their simplest components so that they can be done mindlessly….by machines. As this happened in the textile industry, for example, the beauty of individually inspired rugs was all but lost and has been replaced by mass produced ones. They ju

As I was driving to my office today and saw this on the side of the road I was prompted by the Lord to go back and take a picture of it. The Lord shares many spiritual insights with me using everyday things. When alcohol was first sold in our county people who opposed that did so for many reasons. One was that we would begin seeing beer cans and bottles littering our streets. Sure enough, there isn’t a week that goes by during which I don’t spend some time gathering beer bott

“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone CHEAT you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all prin

I was led to this verse today and quote it with absolutely no one in mind. I've just experienced this in the past and it was nice to see that when we are hated because we stand for something true...we are in good company. In Galatians 4:16, the Apostle Paul writes, "Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?" We can do things on purpose to make ourselves the enemy of another. Or we can become another's enemy because that person makes us his enemy in his