Joie de Vivre A Wretched Man’s Quest To Follow Jesus Christ

My dear sister-in-Christ ChannelofHealing gave this to me today and I am so touched by her kind gesture. I am not quite sure if it’s only meant for ladies since many blogs I’ve seen it on are written by women, but I am not sexist, ha ha!

Maybe it’s just because women are nicer in general compared to us men, eh?

The award is given out to “…those bloggers who are nice people; good blog friends and those who inspire good feelings and inspiration. Also for those who are a positive influence on our blogging world.”

Wow, that’s saying a lot in one award.

Thank you, ChannelofHealing, you’ve been an inspiration to me too.

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I read an article some time ago (and therefore cannot remember where it was so please let me know if you’re the author), that speaks about how even though many don’t see a difference between observance of the Shabbat on Saturday or Sunday, there is indeed a difference.

And I am writing about it tonight because it really got me thinking and seeing how true it is!

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How should a Christian behave? How does one who is Christian seek to achieve living a life that is holy just as God our Father is holy?

There are so many guides and books out there that purport to teach Christians to live Christian lives. Some go as far as to read and follow a non-Biblical book written by a man who obviously has no fear of nor respect for God in his heart called “The Purpose-Driven Life”.

Not surprisingly, many new “modern” churches that seek to please the feeler-seeker crowd adopt it wholesale into their curriculum. To them, Christian living is no longer about God first others second, me last, but me first with God as just a facilitator and dispenser of favors. They talk about giving to God so that they can receive many-fold returns on ‘investment’ (ROI). Then there’s all these new-fangled New Age teachings that are creeping into the churches like breathing exercises and so on.

What in the world?!

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Though I have been too tired to blog in the latter part of last week, I have been spending time reading my favorite blogs and checking out new sites. It is something I haven’t done for some time now, just letting the mouse clicks take me to both duds and gems.

I have here three gems that I’d love to share with you; and I hope that you will find them enjoyable as much as I did.

Hebrew4Christians.com

I love, love, love Hebrew4Christians.com because I have always wanted to learn Hebrew. So far I have been able to catch a few words and trying hard to memorize the Hebrew alphabet, but I have also been blown away by how beautiful Hebrew is (to me at least).

And the best thing about the site is that it has Hebrew audio files of Biblical blessings and prayers like the Aaronic blessing, the Lord’s Prayer, and even Psalm 23!

There are also great articles on the Shabbat, the relationship between the Church and Israel, whether Christians should be circumcised, and interesting topics on whether tattoos are kosher.

I am now really tempted to get the book to learn Biblical Hebrew as a Christmas present to myself, not only to achieve my aim of learning Hebrew but also to support the site.

Sounds of Shalom

Still on Hebrew and Israel — if you love Messianic praise music as much as I do, you’ll love this online radio station! Since discovering it, I’ve left it on whenever I’m at the computer.

The station plays music from popular artistes that most of us know of, like Paul Wilbur, Ted Pearce and Barry & Bayta Segal. In addition, you’ll soon discover many more great artistes like I have.

To play the station, you’ll need the RealPlayer (get the FREE version which is sufficient).

A Little Leaven

This is a gem of a site offering a glimpse into the weird and totally non-Biblical things people and churches are doing today in this age of the great falling away.

Be stumped by what apostates are doing in the name of God, e.g. the gay and lesbian Bible, a “Jesus is my homeboy” thong for ladies, and *gasp!* Christian erotica!

Who needs the devil when you have apostates like them, eh?

I hope you enjoy the sites as much as I have.

This is a really interesting meme to do, and I have to thank Rachel much for it.

It is interesting because it got me thinking about a lot of issues in my life that I know the Lord will definitely want to sit me down and talk to me about. But perhaps the biggest thing that popped into my mind was this: will I even recognize the Lord if He came up to me today?

Perhaps not.

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Since I started blogging, I’ve been blessed with fellowship with some of the greatest people that shout out our Lord’s name in their blogs. And I am humbled by their generosity and constant encouragement in recognizing my little blog with two accolades that I know I don’t personally deserve, but belong to God alone.

As I wrote in a comment thanking Casey for giving me the Prudent Power Award, it is because that God is the author of truth in His Word that I am able to shout out the Truth. For we ourselves are without light till His light shines in us.

In return, I am going to pass it on to these Christian blogs that have touched my walk with God in so many positive ways:

• Carol at The Bible Thumper’s Soapbox
• ChannelofHealing
• FreeIndeed
• King’s Kid at Just the WORD Please!
• Daniel at Reformata et Semper Reformanda
• Sidharth at TWJ Ministries
• Mike at Simply A Night Owl

There’s another award I’ll love to pass on, with much thanks to Michelle at In the Life of A Child for first awarding the “You Lift Me Up!” award to me.

God is the author of those uplifting words I write and He is the one who uplifts; I am but a clanging cymbal doing my best to spread His message of salvation unto all mankind.

There are so many blogs I’d love for this to go to as well, so without further ado, I now present this award to:

• Michael Moore at Living Water For Those Who Thirst
• Mike at This I Do
• Shalene at Proverbs31WomanWannabe (yes, I know she probably is getting this for the third time but she deserves it!)
• Hummie at Look to the Lord
• Lance Gargus at Lance’s Soul Searching
• Michelle at In the Life Of A Child (I know she gave it to me but I just have to give the award to her as well because of how much I love her blog)
• Casey for all the encouragement he has always given me, and that have lifted me up!

My love to all of you.

The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Shabbat Shalom.

I am sure that’s just about the number one question from some of my friends and readers of my blog this past week.

Honestly, I have been spending a good part of Friday afternoon and a great part today sleeping because I had only 4 hours of sleep in total from early Monday morning to Wednesday night.

And though I am one who always believes in keeping the mind young despite what my physical age is, my body is always the wet blanket at the party reminding me of just how much age has caught up with my ability to recover from strenuous activity like a once-a-year military exercise.

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