Author: © Christian National Church of Christ

If anyone wants to praise me, they should say “thank you” to me as their offering. If anyone obeys my commands, I will show them my power to save people.’

Psalm 50:23 EASY

Forgiveness, salvation, atonement, perception, all are one. They are the one beginning, with the end to lead to Oneness far beyond themselves. True perception is the means by which the world is saved from sin, for sin does not exist. And it is this that true perception sees. The world stands like a block before Christ’s face. But true perception looks on it as nothing more than a fragile veil, so easily dispelled that it can last no longer than an instant. Where destruction was perceived the face of Christ appears, the worlds forgotten in a instant. Forgiveness looks past all bodies. This is its holiness. From sin comes guilt as surely as forgiveness takes all guilt away. Only the body makes the world seem real. For being separate the body is just a shell. Forgiveness proves it is impossible because it sees it not. What you then will overlook will not be understandable to you, just as its presence once had been your certainty, God’s knowledge, changeless, certain, pure and wholly understandable, enters its kingdom. Here God leans down to lift you up to him, out of illusions into holiness; out of the world and to eternity; out of all fear and given back to love.

Now my friends, I want to say this to you. Fill your minds with thoughts about good things. Think about things that are true, clean, right and lovely. Always think about things which people know are very good.
Philippians 4:8 EASY

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Proverbs 11:3

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-16

There is no death because Jesus Christ is the Lord. Nothing you can do can change Eternal Love. Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come with me instead to share the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And bring with you all those whom He has sent to you as his gifts of eternal Love to care for as I care for you.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Hebrews 6:12

“What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline, not guilt.”

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1 Corinthians 9:25-27

He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Psalm 62:6-8

And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
1 Chronicles 17:8

God demonstrated His love for you by sending Jesus (The gift of His Son) “ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
—John 3:16 NKJV

The results of archeological discovery, the teachings of the ancient rabbis, and the testimony of (Joseph, we often focus on the fact that Mary, a virgin, was chosen by God to be Jesus’ mother, but often overlook Joseph, who was also was chosen by God to be Jesus’ earthly father. The Bible tells us in the Gospel of Matthew, that Joseph was a righteous man. His actions towards his fiancée, Mary, revealed that he was a kind and sensitive man. When Mary told Joseph she was pregnant, he had every right to feel not only confused, but also disgraced. He knew the child was not his own, and Mary’s apparent unfaithfulness carried a grave social stigma. He not only had the right to divorce Mary, under Jewish law she could be put to death by stoning. While Joseph’s initial reaction was to break off the engagement, the appropriate thing for a righteous man to do, he treated Mary with extreme kindness and respect. He didn’t want to cause her further shame, so he decided to act quietly. But God sent an angel to Joseph to verify Mary’s story and reassure him that his marriage to her was God’s will. Joseph willingly obeyed God, in spite of the public humiliation he would face. This move speaks volumes about his character and his faith.) We all point to the same conclusion: Jesus understood the commandment to honor father and mother to refer primarily to an individual’s responsibility to provide practical support and care for elderly parents. While He would surely have supported verbal expressions of respect toward parents, the focus of His teachings pointed to a much more costly, and lifelong, support of parents. This is His attitude toward all aspects of the discipleship He calls us to (Luke 14:27-33, NIV: And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.).