Leave food for the poor to gather

This is the second reference I’ve read in the Bible commanding the people to intentionally leave food for the poor to harvest or gather themselves. I wonder what a modern day analogy for us in our non-agrarian lifestyles would be?

Leviticus 23:22

““When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the Lord your God.””

See it at YouVersion.com:

http://bible.us/Lev23.22.NLT

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Maintain Focus

These words are powerful in reminding us to choose our focus each day with thoughtful intentions.

Philippians 4:8 (The Message)

“Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.”

See it at YouVersion.com:

http://bible.us/Phil4.8.MSG

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Understanding Jewish Perceptions About Jesus

This verse sheds considerable light on why many Jews were shocked when Jesus healed and hung out with unclean folks. Christ was a revolutionary.

Leviticus 7:21

“If you touch anything that is unclean (whether it is human defilement or an unclean animal or any other unclean, detestable thing) and then eat meat from a peace offering presented to the Lord, you will be cut off from the community.””

See it at YouVersion.com:

http://bible.us/Lev7.21.NLT

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Stories of Faith: digital witnesses for Christ

At long last, a new podcast channel for “Stories of Faith: digital witnesses for Christ” is available online at faithstories.speedofcreativity.org. I first wrote about this idea in September of 2008, but the idea of “Christian Digital Storytelling” is something that’s been on my heart since the summer of 2004 when I attended the Digital Media Academy at Stanford. I wrote about this in October of 2004, and still have some resources about “Christian Digital Storytelling” online at www.wesfryer.com/cds. I started the “3 Minutes About Jesus” project (3minutesaboutjesus.org) in the fall of 2010 and hope that project will grow in the months ahead.

Stories of Faith Podcast: digital witnesses for Christ

I’m THRILLED to at last have the seven audio podcast interviews from 2008/2009 online in a “Stories of Faith” podcast channel. One of the big reasons this is “doable” at this point (besides finding the flash drive recently which contained three of the original, finished interviews) is my learning about Podcast Generator last semester teaching at UNT. See my September 2010 post, “Creating a course audio lecturecast (podcast) with Podcast Generator,” for more background. Podcast Generator is open source (free) and the easiest way I’ve found yet to publish a “real” podcast channel which includes a subscribable RSS/web feed on your own site. Sites like iPadio are great too, but there is no guarantee third-party commercial sites like this will be around in a month or five years. If you use an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, consider using the $2 app Podcaster to manage your podcast channels from your device WITHOUT needing to sync to iTunes. More info about that process is also available.

A simple keyword search on Google today for “stories of faith” (without quotation marks) yields over 48 million results. These include sharingfaith.org, greatfaithstories.com, ChristianFaith.com (a site filled with ads) and Inspiring Stories from Georgia Girl. Our landscape of voices is only going to grow more diverse in the years ahead. I think it’s important we share our Christian witness and testimony with others on the digital, global stage– and we invite others to share their stories too.

I submitted the “Stories of Faith” podcast channel to iTunes this evening so it will be listed there soon. I pray the sharing of these audio interviews and testimonies will bring more people to know Jesus Christ and join a local, loving community of Christian brothers and sisters.

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Jesus is The Bridge

These are verses and the diagram we are using in 5th grade Sunday School to understand how and why Jesus is the bridge we can take to reach God.

James 4:17
“Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.”
http://bible.us/Jas4.17.NLT

Isaiah 59:2
“It’s your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.”
http://bible.us/Isa59.2.NLT

Proverbs 10:16
“The earnings of the godly enhance their lives, but evil people squander their money on sin.”
http://bible.us/Prov10.16.NLT

Hebrews 9:27-28
“And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, so also Christ died once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.”
http://bible.us/Heb9.27.NLT

Romans 3:23
“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.”
http://bible.us/Rom3.23.NLT

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4 Applications for John 6:-15

By Mateen Elass on 23 January 2011

1. Every one of us looks for deliverance. Who are you looking to?

2. What image of God inhabits your heart and mind?

3. Do you worry you may have used up all of God’s grace in your life?

4. Since we are all created in God’s image and adopted into his family, how are we demonstrating God’s generosity?

5. Do you long for God more for who He is rather than what He can do for you? (Are you a cat or a dog when it comes to God?)

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