Mar 12
Matthew 5: 25 -26 Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. Truly I say to you, you will not come out of …
Feb 10
Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. Matthew 5:23 and 24 This is very interesting to me in that this …
Feb 04
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, You good-for-nothing, shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, “you fool,” shall be guilty to go into the fiery hell. Matthew 5:22 All of the first consequences …
Feb 01
We’ve all heard the childhood reply to bullies, “Sticks and Stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” But we know that words can hurt much worse than sticks or stones, and I guess Jesus thought so too. Listen to this. “whoever says to his brother, You good-for-nothing, shall be guilty before …
Jan 25
A friend of mine posted a thought on “Facebook” that the Kingdom of God is more like the old Monarchy systems than American Democracy. He said we should think about the Kingdom of God in terms of it being a hierarchy that demands absolute obedience and submission versus an American style democracy where the citizens …
Jan 21
Matthew 5:21 – 26 This portion is going to come out in several blogs as it is too big a bite to try to chew all at once. Stay tuned for the entire series “Attitudes on Anger” Today I’ll talk about verse 21 and the first half of verse 22. “You have heard that the …
Jan 16
Part 2 of my goal to find out what the Words of Jesus are, what they mean and how I can apply them to my life. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket but …
Jan 11
I’m thinking that my new year’s resolution this year is to work harder on following the ways of Jesus. I know this is what we are always supposed to do as Christians but sometimes I wonder if we don’t have these ideas in our heads about what that is supposed to be and maybe those …
Jan 11
Ok here goes, I’ve been thinking about blogging for awhile now and finally decided to give it a try. For now the name of my blog is “Skeeter Says” but that may evolve depending on the direction and development of this blog. My goal, like a lot of other blogs, is to have my say …
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