BEAUTY FIX (part 2 of 3)

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Roy Lanier Jr. was teaching a class at Bear Valley School of Preaching one day when the topic of women’s beauty fixes came up—things like tummy tucks, liposuction, face lifts and teeth whitening were being debated. His response was, “Old barns sometimes need a coat of paint.”

And it is not just the ladies who are having face-lifts these days; men are increasingly more concerned with their physical appearance. Unlike the old barn that needs paint for preservation and usefulness, men, and women paint and tuck to seek praise and honor from others.

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BEAUTY FIX (part 1 of 3)

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Question from a Reader:

“I had never really thought of myself as vain.  As I get older my outward appearance is starting to bug me, but when it does, I have doubts about vanity.  When you do things to improve your appearance for yourself is it a sin?

Gyms take a lot of effort on our part to Lypo without surgery. Teeth Whiting and Life Style Lift has been front and center on TV lately.  Both have caught my interest. I decided to do both and now it crossed my mind that it might not be OK with our Heavenly Father.”

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WHAT THE PROPHETS SPOKE — Jon Macon

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There are numerous Old Testament prophecies about Jesus Christ that are quoted in the New Testament as they were fulfilled. Most of those prophecies are easy to find written in the 39 books that are in the Old Testament. However, there are some prophecies that are not included in the writings of the prophets that we have in the Bible. Let us consider some examples of these exceptions.

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DIRECTED, PURPOSEFUL BIBLE STUDY

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“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 7:17).

studyThis scripture should be the criterion for anyone studying the Bible. A person who wills to do the will of God has that capacity of the mind. In Romans 7 Paul tells the capacity of his mind—the ability of the mind—thelo and thelema. The mind can and will to do either good or evil. In repentance there is the new mind that wills to do the will of God and serve God as described in Romans 7:25.

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GONE HOME FOREVER

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When I was a young girl at home, many told me that my mother had written poetry when she was younger, but I never saw much of it.  After her marriage to my father, her life was filled with four children and a farm.  Farm life was never easy for any of us.

Move from that thought to the present, where our son-in-law constantly researches his family tree and our daughter’s too. Recently he unearthed a poem my mother had written as an obituary for her mother’s sister’s husband, who died in a train accident in Lubbock, TX.  Finding this poem online was truly amazing.

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