The House Part 3
In our families we have many different examples of our heavenly family. These families that have maintained a complete structure (ie. father, mother and children who are living in the same home.) normally have the strongest families with the strongest level of cohesion. This month we will end this section on the House with a call to the children. We are the Children of the “Most High”. And we are the ones that are “Called” to His table. As we come together for the feasts of our Abba this month I implore you to take time to take introspection into your heart and into your ways. Just as in your own house you desire your children to love one another and care for one another. We also are asked by our heavenly Abba to care and protect and seek out our brother’s well being.
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Was Simon of Cyrene ‘a fit man’?
I grew up in the Catholic faith where we used to ‘do’ the Stations of the Cross. There was a man named Simon of Cyrene who allegedly helped Jesus carry His cross, because Jesus allegedly fell 3 times. As some of you know the catholic faith didn’t really emphasize studying the Word of God. So when God gave me a hunger and thirst to want to read His Word which was around the early ‘90’s. As we all can attest, reading is one thing, understanding what we read is something else.
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All ‘slavery’ is not equal!
Most of us who have been around the “Hebrew Roots movement” for very long , or who may refer to ourselves as some variant of “Torah-observant believers”, have heard a sordid collection of arguments all too often trotted out to demonstrate our folly. Those who long to show us that all such “Old” stuff in the Bible has been “done away with” – or “nailed to the cross” – have several favorite examples of Scriptures to “wrest” out of context in order to claim that such a “God” was not only wrong, but Politically Incorrect. Among the clear favorites of the scoffers is what they call His approval of “SLAVERY”.
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