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RandyC wrote a new post, I Don’t Want Gold 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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The world has nothing to offer
that compares to what You’ve already given
Forgiveness, peace and joy fill my life
Worry has fled
and fear doesn’t control me anymore
Out of all the beautiful p […]

Leilani Cummings wrote a new post, The Shepherd of the Hills 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Have you ever wondered, ‘why is Branson Missouri famous’? Why does anyone want to go there? Well according to the Google search assistant —
Missouri, is renowned for its vibrant entertainment scene and stunning […]

RandyC wrote a new post, A New Religion 1 year, 1 month ago

No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If […]

Leilani Cummings wrote a new post, Happy Pentecost 2025 1 year, 4 months ago

So, every year since 2012 we have been counting 50 from Passover to Pentecost. And so I thought I would share some of what we had discovered those many years ago. The following excerpt from Judaism 101 is a simple […]

RandyC wrote a new post, A God Fearer and Centurion of the Italian Cohort 1 year, 4 months ago

There was a man at Caesarea, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the people and prayed to God continually. – Acts […]

RandyC wrote a new post, Early Christianity: The Nazoraeans 1 year, 8 months ago

I have been stuck in an “Early Christianity” rabbit hole lately and I keep running into mentions of these “Nazoraeans”. But finally I have stumbled upon a couple of good contemporary writings from […]

RandyC wrote a new post, Deciphering Paul 1 year, 11 months ago

I have always struggled trying to understand Paul, it may be that I think in black & white, but Paul has always confused me. I groan when it is time to read one of Paul’s epistles.

But recently, when I was […]

RandyC wrote a new post, Making Disciples 2 years, 4 months ago

And, whosoever shall stumble one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were suspended to his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea. – Jesus

RandyC wrote a new post, Quartodeciman Timeline 2 years, 6 months ago

The great Quartodeciman controversy, whether to remember Jesus on the 14th of the first month* or on a Sunday after the equinox. (*The 25th of March was the first day of the year in England, Wales, Ireland and […]

RandyC wrote a new post, Saint Patrick: Fourteenther 2 years, 7 months ago

Saint Patrick was a Fourteenther
It seems that all of the well known lore about Patrick of the British Isles was made up many centuries after he was gone. The Christianity that he spread had no resemblance or […]

RandyC wrote a new post, Be not wise in your own eyes, for wisdom comes from the Lord 2 years, 9 months ago

And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore. – Kings 1

These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel, for gaining […]

Leilani Cummings wrote a new post, Noah’s Family Tree (Descendancy) 2 years, 10 months ago

–Names are so often not given their due, especially today in the atmosphere of the catchy “sound bite”. Today there is a wide variety of rhetoric that is being bandied about regarding the war that Israel has been […]

RandyC wrote a new post, And Your God Shall be My God 4 years, 4 months ago

Now it came about in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons. The name of […]

RandyC replied 4 years, 4 months ago

I have heard that the Rabbis say that Ruth is the first convert, but I may be misunderstanding what they are saying.

I believe that there were “multitudes” of gentiles that followed the sons of Jacob out of Egypt. One, Caleb the Kenezite, was a gentile that was “grafted” into the tribe of Judah and ended up being Judah’s chief when they arrived in the promised land.

He and Joshua were the only two survivors of the adults who were delivered from slavery in Egypt. One a son of Jacob and the other a gentile.

Am I not reading this rightly?

Leilani Cummings wrote a new post, Forgiveness by Corrie ten Boom 4 years, 5 months ago

In this story from November 1972, Corrie ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place recalls forgiving a guard at the concentration camp where her sister died.

by Corrie ten Boom
From Guideposts Classics / reprinted […]