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Happy Colouring: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

- October 17, 2024

Not Woke, but Awake

- October 17, 2024

Not Woke*, but Awake Woke is used as an insult Woke is used for easily offended But, people need to awaken. (Awaken to better grammar!) Awaken to not being insulting as a moral choice Awaken to not being easily offended as a life choice If you are awake, you will see things are not right in the world and stand for what is right either way. Are you woke, awakening, or awake? * Woke is mainly used as a US slang word. Oxford Learners Dictionary: aware of social and political issues and concerned that some groups in society are treated less fairly than others. This word is often used in a disapproving way by people who oppose new ideas and political change and think that some other people are too easily upset about these issues.

Family Forever

- October 16, 2024

Pray for Peace

- October 16, 2024

17 Injunctions For Embodied Faith

“True evangelical faith is of such a nature it cannot lie dormant, but spreads itself out in all kinds of righteousness and fruits of love; it dies to flesh and blood (1); it destroys all lusts and forbidden desires (2); it seeks, serves and fears God in its inmost soul (3); it clothes the naked (4); it feeds the hungry (5); it comforts the sorrowful (6); it shelters the destitute (7); it aids and consoles the sad (8); it does good to those who do it harm (9); it serves those that harm it (10); it prays for those who persecute it (11); it teaches, admonishes and judges us with the Word of the Lord (12); it seeks those who are lost (13); it binds up what is wounded (14); it heals the sick (15); it saves what is strong (sound) (16); it becomes all things to all people (17). The persecution, suffering and anguish that come to it for the sake of the Lord’s truth have become a glorious joy and comfort to it.” (Menno Simons)

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