Kaleidoscope
This page is for the thoughts of readers of good and bad books, books that have changed your mind and focus. The beauty of reading is the personal travel that takes place without limits and without danger and yet has all the adventure of a Safari in Africa. Movies tend to clutter your mind with sight and sound that is not of your own mind. I have found that the adventure into the inner castles of the mind are without parallel in all of the techology of this age. I recall the movie "84 Charing Crossing" an Ann Bancroft oldie, which intrigued me but the reason escaped me 'till I grew up to own a bookstore then I instantly knew the reason for the intrigue. I will bring you on this adventure through books on my website, some you have read some you need to read. www.cornerstone-unlimited.com Now before I share my book of the month I want to impress upon you that The Bible is the Best collection of books ever written; much maligned, much degraded and most intriguing. It is the only book that will protect your mind in this mind controlling world. Read Ephesians 6 ... about the whole armour of God. Just read The Bible daily - never mind if you understand this passage or that passage... just read it. The Word will be a Lamp unto your feet as It promises. Try to remember, The Word is an answer book. If you don't have a question the answer will be meaningless. It is like one of those quiz books that has the answers in the back. If you just read the answer to Question # 2 you would scratch your head and say that makes no sense. Just wait, the day will come when the unspoken question is answered in Luke 18 or Galatians 3, etc. The "WOW" will be heard in the corridors of heaven and the angelic host will say, "She/He got it!"
Book: "The GREATEST THING in the WORLD" by Henry Drummond.
This Classic has been reprinted with a wonderful mini-biography of Henry Drummond. You will learn a bit about this unusual man who was a scientist, a minister, a complicatedly simple, forthright man with the strength of his convictions somewhat like the apostle Paul who wrote the 13th chapter of Corinthians, that famous "Love" chapter quoted so often and yet he is perceived to be the tough old unloving man of faith. This is considered the oldest sermon on that chapter and I consider it the best, then the book gives you the sermon and 12 translations of 1 Corinthians 13 and as you will see Love in any language is the same. Lastly, the book includes other writings that have not been easy to find (at least not to my knowlege) which are stirring and comforting and most of all beneficial to the growth of your/my spirit. Thats it! I do hope this, our little journey, was not a waste of your time. I hope to see you back again, for another journey of the Mind through the Words. In "The Abuse of the Adjective," Drummond warned that the English language was losing its grandeur and becoming flippant due to the "piling on" of adjectives. I pray I have not dimmed the grandeur. In His Service.
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Judge More's Lament for a Loss of Faith:
By Judge Roy Moore Circa 1950
America the beautiful Or so you used to be.
Land of the pilgrim's pride I"m glad they're not here to see
Babies piled in dumpsters abortion on demand
Oh sweet land of liberty your house is on the sand.
Your children wander aimlessly Or pause and buy cocaine
Choosing to indulge their lust When God has said 'Abstain!'...
So many worldly pastors Telling lies about our rock
Saying God is going broke. So they can fleece the flock.
We've voted in governments That are rotten to the core,
Choosing godless judges That throw reason out the door.
They're too soft to put a killer in a well-deserved tomb
But brave enough to kill that child Before it leaves the womb...
How can we face our God From whom we cannot hide?
What is left for us to do But stem this evil tide?
If we who are His children Will but humbly turn and pray.
If we will seek His Holy face and mend our evil way,
He will forgive us of our sin, He'll heal this sickly land
and all of us who live within.
But America, you who don't will see
A Sad but Holy God withdraw His hallowed hand from thee.
Pro 27:17
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. KJV
Iron 1270 sharpeneth 2300 iron 1270; so a man 376 sharpeneth 2300 the countenance 6440 of his friend 7453. KJV Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens his friend's face. LITV
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. RSV
Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.1898 YTL
Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.AVS
Just as iron sharpens iron, friends sharpen the minds of each other CEV
People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron. GNB
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens the wits of another. GW
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance. HNV COMMENTARY a man sharpeneth . . . friend--that is, conversation promotes intelligence, which the face exhibits.JFB
We are cautioned to take heed whom we converse with.
And directed to have in view, in conversation, to make one another wiser and better.MHCC
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The validity of the word rests on
the veracity of the one who spoke it.
We must learn;
Not to possess the truth...
but... to be possessed by the truth.
The evidence of Sonship is; When a child of God instinctively
winces whenever his father's character is challenged.
God does not forgive sin, He forgives the Sinner.
A drop of water is evidence that this
life is not hell.
There could be no flowers
if there were no God. If you think not You think not.
The Bible is YOUR laver (Mirror) not a weapon to use against others.
Some people use God's Word to press flowers.
Christ is every man's contemporary.
Is God's Word over our head
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