Posted on 10/13/2006 7:21:38 AM PDT by Billie
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...and to you! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! :D
Wearing Red in Support of our Troops.
Miss Kitty
Beautiful rose,Conor!
I have been out in the backyard..It is such a lovely cool,sunny day here. The birds are grateful I am back in the house so they can feed..and of coursse the squirrels are,too.
I brought in the hummingbird feeder as I haven't seen one in two weeks and the only thing feeding there are bees and wasps..I almost brought a "hive" in the house but luckiy decided to empty it outside!
Happy TGIF, Luv.
You look great in your red.
LOL! re Your # 14!
Lovely pink rose post @ your # 20 CMac!
Hi Eleanor/Snugs great to *see* You!
Cute!!
Happy friday the 13th everyone ;)
Jumping for Joy with you!
Did so, dear Bille, and now enjoying a very fine Saturday! Be blessed and continually blessing In Jesus! I love you very much!
October 14, 2006
READ: Matthew 23:1-12
Do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. —Matthew 23:3
Some opponents of Christianity may not be so much against Christ as they are against the hypocrisy of His followers. Ironically, it hasn't occurred to them that no one was more opposed to hypocrisy than Jesus Himself.
We've all met scoffers who thoughtlessly parrot the phrase, "The church is full of hypocrites!" But let's not be thoughtless in our response and dismiss such pronouncements without taking heed lest they be true.
We tend to think that it's not true of us. But let's think again. Have we ever been like the Christian who glanced through her window, only to see a nosy, noisy neighbor approaching her door? Her young, impressionable children heard her as she growled, "Oh, no—not her again!" Whereupon she opened the door and gushed insincerely, "How very nice to see you!"
Our lips and our lives often preach a mixed message. In Matthew 23:1-12, Jesus described the hypocritical teachers of the law and warned His disciples, "Do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do" (v.3).
God forbid that some opponent of Christ would be influenced by careless hypocrisy in our lives.
Lord, help us to be "careful preachers."
You can fool the hapless public,
You can be a subtle fraud,
You can hide your little meanness,
But you can't fool God. —Kleiser
A hypocrite will often pray on his knees on Sunday and prey on his neighbors on Monday.
Bible in One Year: Bible in One Year; Isaiah 43-44; 1 Thessalonians 2
Thank you brother! How is snow shoveling going
(bad joke)
My uncle in Dunkirk got none..
What a mess like I have never seen before.
We just got power back, most of the snow is gone here it has been in the 40's. I have been cutting trees and yesterday afternoon opened a road in Buffalo that was covered with downed trees. I am going back out to do some more now.
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