I’ve been called worse on here and so have you and Dr. E. Stand up for your faith and get knocked down by their insults. Well, we don’t stay down, do we?
God lifts us up.
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Psalm 84:
1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD Almighty!
2 My soul yearns, even faints,
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God.
3 Even the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may have her young—
a place near your altar,
O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
they are ever praising you.
Selah
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they make it a place of springs;
the autumn rains also cover it with pools. [b]
7 They go from strength to strength,
till each appears before God in Zion.
8 Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;
listen to me, O God of Jacob.
Selah
9 Look upon our shield, [c] O God;
look with favor on your anointed one.
10 Better is one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
from those whose walk is blameless.
12 O LORD Almighty,
blessed is the man who trusts in you.
***Stand up for your faith and get knocked down by their insults.***
The Faith of the Church is well documented. The faith of individual individuals scattered across the flotsam and jetsam of the Reformation is varied, variable and, holding it up to the light of Scripture and the church, in error.
Faith is easy; a man can have faith in Oral Roberts or Joel Osteen. Or Obama. The Faith of the Church, now, that took centuries to develop by the Doctors of the Church. The faiths of these individuals or little cults take hours to develop. Or whisky.