Comments for The Other Bible Study http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com There really are more ways than one to read it.. Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on 40 Days of Lent: Day 5 by K .V . David http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/40-days-of-lent-day-5/#comment-71 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:44:42 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/40-days-of-lent-day-5/#comment-71 Kindly send 40days messagers in our life application. Thanks.

]]> Comment on March 14..John 20:15-18 by Betty Foley http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/march-14-john-2015-18/#comment-59 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:21:04 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/march-14-john-2015-18/#comment-59 David,

I have been faithful in this study with the scriptures that God led you to select. Sometimes my journal pages are filled with the words from my heart and at other times, the pages are only half-filled. This reminds me of the Companions in Christ study that several of us did together.

I have so enjoyed reading what you have written and have longed to see each day’s thoughts. Your thoughts take me beyond my horizons, and I thank you for giving me more to ponder. I will keep my journal for future reading and will continue to question the scriptures with regards to the boundaries they break and their messages for me. I am blessed to have had you in my spiritual life. I have learned so much from your heart’s view of God.

Just two more weeks, and I can get back on Facebook again. Giving it up for Lent has been difficult because I have connected with so many of my friends who I no longer see on a daily basis. However, with each day that I miss it, it brings to mind why I no longer have access to it, and again, I am blessed. I go to the scriptures you have given us and read my thoughts that I have written in my journal. All in all I have benefited beyond measure from this study and from observing Lent.

Blessings
Betty :)

]]> Comment on Feb 26..Isaiah 43:1-2,4 by Judy Craft http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/feb-26-isaiah-431-24/#comment-54 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:18:45 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/feb-26-isaiah-431-24/#comment-54 I read also. Judy

]]> Comment on Feb 26..Isaiah 43:1-2,4 by robbie http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/feb-26-isaiah-431-24/#comment-53 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:35:18 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/feb-26-isaiah-431-24/#comment-53 i read.

]]> Comment on Feb.23..Micah 6:8 by Jeanne Richardson http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/feb-23-micah-68/#comment-52 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:42:16 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/feb-23-micah-68/#comment-52 i.e. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

]]> Comment on Feb.21..Ecclesiastes 3:9-14 by Jeanne Richardson http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/feb-21-ecclesiastes-39-14/#comment-51 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:58:04 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/feb-21-ecclesiastes-39-14/#comment-51 Wow, that’s a whole day of meat servings on one plate. So much to digest. I like meat. Thanks for feeding my mind and soul with enlightenment and food to ponder. Guess you served dessert with that one David.

]]> Comment on Feb.20..Ruth 1: 16,17 by barryweber http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/feb-20-ruth-1-1617/#comment-50 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:20:25 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/feb-20-ruth-1-1617/#comment-50 Joshua (our son) used to get invited with frequency to a church by a friend who would get a dollar from the pastor during church for every visitor he brought.

In college, I (and others) were invited in an assembly to stay and witness a real seance. Well, heck yeah! It turned out to be a pitch for their brand of Jesus.

Constantine, in 312, marched his army through the Tigris River and proclaimed, “You’re baptised!”

Those are the kinds of coercive, superficial tricks people use to make numbers bigger, to ‘trick’ others into following their version of Jesus. Tricks usually work for a little while, then the trickster goes away and it is hard to see the Jesus they were being aimed toward in the first place. Then people dig in- “I’m not listening to any more of THEM again!”

]]> Comment on Feb.20..Ruth 1: 16,17 by Jeanne Richardson http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/feb-20-ruth-1-1617/#comment-49 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:20:08 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/feb-20-ruth-1-1617/#comment-49 Naomi (nor does anyone else in the entire Bible- Hebrew or New Testament- ever tries to trick anyone into becoming a disciple. Such a move is always based on the desire to follow someone- someone like Naomi, or Moses, or Phillip, or Jesus.)

David, I am somewhat confused by this above section of your comments. Please try again for me. I just didn’t get it.

I loved your comment that “Naomi did nothing special except be Naomi.”

Here is my thought after your comments, if we will just BE CHRISTIANS as Jesus laid out the plan for, I’m thinking we will attract more followers for Christ than if we try to lead, as in chain and drag, others. It is late, and I may not be saying this as I would earlier in the day, but hopefully, you will get my drift. I think I got yours. Thanks again for your notes for today.

Jeanne

]]> Comment on Feb.19..Exodus 20: 1-6 by Jeanne Richardson http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/feb-19-exodus-20-1-6/#comment-47 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:42:22 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/feb-19-exodus-20-1-6/#comment-47 He really is “I AM”! So cool. So simple. And, sometimes so hard to site in on. Thanks for sharing David.

]]> Comment on Feb.18..Exodus 3:11-14 by Jeanne Richardson http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/feb-18-exodus-311-14/#comment-46 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:05:38 +0000 http://theotherbiblestudy.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/feb-18-exodus-311-14/#comment-46 We have been in that pit of fire, but the amazing part is that there was no point of despair. God wrapped his loving blanket around us, and that blanket is still there. I feel it daily when I wake up and my husband still has no work. God continues to provide for us. The most amazing part is that my husband also believes this and embraces that fact that we live in God’s time, not our conception of time. Pretty hard sometimes to take a deep breath and know that HE is. And then, the doubts of tomorrow disappear and the comfort of now embraces me, and I do know “I AM”.

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