Breathingbook

Archive for December, 2009

Merry Christmas to all. What a day to reflect upon the very first occasion of giving gifts to celebrate the birth of our Savior! I know that many people choose not to participate in celebrating Christmas, but if it was good enough for the three wise men on the very day of Christ’s birth, then surely it is also good enough for me. Long live Christmas!

The expression of giving gifts, in my very humble opinion, should be an act or expression of “love” – not an obligation as if it were works.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. 1Jn 4:7,8

Far too many have decided to be unloving in this world – as God’s Word says – in the last days, the love of many will wax cold. Whether our love is expressed in forgiveness, a gift, a loving smile or hug, all of those things are dearly needed in what has become a very selfish and cold world.

It is not the price of a gift that distinguishes it’s true value. An encouraging word, a homemade object, a smile, or perhaps consider the sacrifice of one’s life for another upon a cross? All these are precious gifts to those who can receive them. Read the rest of this entry »

For years I struggled with what to say when someone asked me, “Why Jesus? Why do you believe in Him?” Most of the time I just said, “He died for you and me. He’s the greatest influence in my life. He’s SAVED me. He’s the Son of God. He’s AWESOME!” and then I’d continue on for a while. It was years before I realized that the four Gospels are actually witnessing accounts. Gee, why hadn’t I thought of that earlier? How simple? Just tell the story about Jesus’s life, death and resurrection.

When Matthew, Mark, Luke and John penned their accounts of Jesus’ Life and ministry, they were simply telling the story – witnessing – about what happened when Jesus came, was crucified, and  resurrected. Each gospel tells that story from a unique perspective, but that’s the command we all received to spread all over the earth (Mk 16:15). Just tell the story. Simply, because without the power of the “Gospel” there is something sorely missing, called “the foundation”. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi there! Welcome to Breathing Book. Please forgive the changes you might see in the site itself as I figure things out and move things around. With God’s help, I will keep this site up and in current form (one way or another). I just moved from my old hosting plan to a new provider, and I apologize for the delay that has caused.

You may have noticed the title and slogan, Breathing Book: It breathes and it’s all about Jesus. Allow me to give a bit of background on why I chose that. The book – the only book – that breathes is God’s Bible; God’s Holy Word. I say that because through prayer, life’s experiences, as I’ve made my way to where I am now in my understanding, every time I turn to God’s Word, I gain something new from God. That might be faith, hope, peace, revelation in the form of insight, whatever. The process by which God breathes on me is wholly mysterious. Bottom line is I know it doesn’t come from my own knowledge.

God breathed it. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi y’all. Greetings from my infamous blog. This is a post I previously made on my first few attempts at blogging on Dec. 14, 2009, so I wanted to put it back up. I’m going to change the date to reflect that. I mentioned in another post how I changed Hosting providers so my new blog site went down for a while. Btw, on these references I’m using the ESV version.

I’ve been studying in the book of Luke and yesterday I came across Lk 22:3 where  the Bible says “satan entered into Judas”.  Well, since Christians are  not able to be possessed by the devil or demons (because we’re indwelt by the Holy Spirit), I thought I’d address the question: if Christian’s can’t be possessed by demons or satan, then what happened to Judas? Read the rest of this entry »