On this date in history, 12/04/1777: The Battle of White Marsh, Pennsylvania, begins and lasts through December 8th. #otd #tdih #americanrevolution https://www.historycarper.com/....1777/12/24/skirmish-

When I was a teenager, the teen group at church that I went to would often have us go out "witnessing" on weekend nights on one of the main roads in the city, Valley Mills. Valley Mills was where all the older teens and young adults in the area would hang out. Cars cruising up and down the road. Cars with hoods up and people gathered around in parking lots. People just standing around. It was a bigger city and I haven't seen anything close since except a car show here and there, but none of those are even to the scale of what this was.

We would walk up and down the road and stop at every group. Ask them: how their night was; have they heard of Jesus; did they know God has a plan for them. I don't ever remember any of the conversations lasting more than a couple of minutes. I don't remember any of the people we talked to ever showing up at church. I don't remember anything from those times being productive for the Kingdom at all, in my opinion.

Sure, you might say: You're telling people about Jesus, that's productive. In a country that started out with people of faith (the pilgrims) then moved on to being established by people of faith (the founding fathers), that has a section literally called "The Bible Belt", we see TV Shows and movies either mimic or mock Bible stories, how do we think that people haven't heard of Jesus?

The problem isn't that people haven't heard of Jesus. It's they haven't seen Jesus. In the next comics, that is what I want to focus on in this commentary.

There is a dcTalk song that has a quote at the start of it:

"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, and walk out the door, and deny him with their life style.

That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable."

https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/714

#bible #bibleverse #bibleverseimages #biblestudy #biblestudynotes #church #christian #webcomic #webcomicseries #cartoon

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Lily Portion for Today: Monday December 04

Peace is not agreed upon family reunions or by means of household agreements; women, teach your children (and husbands), that peace comes from a person’s heart. (Prayer: Adonai Yeshua, You are the Prince of Peace, please bring my family beside quiet waters amidst the rush and tensions in our lives, amen)

Shabbat Service 12.2.23
Wrestling with God!
https://fb.watch/oJ79sNxNP7/

THIS WEEK

Vayeshev וַיֵּשֶׁב
And He Dwelt

TORAH Genesis 37:1-40:23
PROPHETS Zechariah 2:14-4:7
GOSPEL John 10:22-28

"Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire."

Mt 7

Heshod blew on his hands to warm them. He stood before the grey-brown warped door. Above the earthen wall roared the sky, a thousand more wheels than he could count, every point and line shaking dust and striking dim sparks.
Beneath his feet was another door. Another wall stretched out behind his heels, a wall of hard, earth-coloured brick, sticky and stained. Above the top of this wall also another sky rattled and rolled.

#dailycreatedoom #writtenoom 2023/12/03

Thought For Today

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to Adonai Elohiym as well as to those whom YHVH has given you to love.