Read how NOT EVER to be offended again!

Southerners have one way to avoid being offensive. 

I have a way never to be offended ever again! 

The Southern way will make you smile (I'll put it at the end).

The way I discovered will free you from ever being offended: knock off identity politics. If you identify by gender, lifestyle, party, hero, celebrity or philosophy, you will be offended.

There's a better, wonderful, fulfilling, freeing, life-changing way.

This is HUGE!!!!

Don't take it from me. Read it directly from God:

"There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus."*

That's stunningly profound!

Think about it. Wouldn't you like to be free from offense forever? Discard the rest and take on only one identity: identity in Christ!

“Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.”**

Not sure you are a child of God bound for Heaven with Jesus? You can settle it today, be adopted into God's family and rest assured of your eternal destiny. Just hit the road - the Roman road to salvation:

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* Galatians 3:28

** 1 Peter 2:10

Eternity - Where & how & who decides?

YOU DECIDE WHERE & HOW YOU SPEND ETERNITY: Do you get to Heaven by believing all the right doctrines, important as they are? No. Even Satan knows all the right doctrines. ANSWER: You get to Heaven (the "where") by trusting Jesus to live your life as He empowers you to live your life as He would if He were you, because in trusting Him, He lives in you. "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20 Salvation is a free gift; you can't earn it.*

HOW DO WORKS FIT IN, THEN? "How" you spend eternity is determined by selfless works devoid of wrong motives. The Judgment Seat of Christ will have no unbelievers there. Unbelievers go to the Great White Throne Judgment** (where no believers will be). Your works will be set afire, and the resulting remainder will be as gold, silver or wood, hay and stubble. The enduring works will gain you rewards.*** You may be a judge over a territory the size of Gorst or Australia, rewards and responsibilities commensurate with your selfless works partnering with God while you're still on Earth. Let's get busy!

* "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

**"Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15

*** "If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is,because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames." 1 Corinthians 3:112-15

One of Mom's best stories - we can learn from little ones

Mom taught Junior Church and Kids' Club for years, one time taking time to walk with a boy afraid to step inside the church. She won him over, first in a classroom one-on-one.

But Mom's most memorable story was about a little girl lost in the woods after a Sunday School picnic. 

Several hours later a search party found the girl kneeling by a tree saying, "A...B...C...D...E...F...G...H...I...J...K...L...M...N...O...P..."

The rescuers picked her up, hugged her and then asked her, "Why were you saying the alphabet over and over?"

"I didn't know what to pray," she explained, "and so I just gave all the letters to God and asked Him to string them together into the right words."

She fell silent for a moment and then lit up with a smile.

"He answered me!"

Answering a Nigerian skeptical about Jesus

I was invited to be an online missionary for Global Missions Outreach, answering questions about Jesus from all over the world. A gentleman from Nigeria wrote this week, saying he hadn't invited Jesus into his life yet, but he wanted to investigate more. His question: "What are the evidences that Jesus is Savior?" Following is my answer:

Hello Zakage (name changed),

My name is David.

You asked what are evidences that show Jesus is Savior. I can tell you how I know for sure!

1. He changed all my interests and desires by transforming my life!
2. He took my heart of stone (mockery) and changed it to a heart of flesh (compassion, giving, tears).
3. The empty tomb: His Resurrection from the dead! How do I know this?
a. Timid disciples (students of Jesus) were transformed into bold preachers!
b. Those who witnessed Jesus alive again changed worship to Sunday in a culture who worshiped on Saturday!
c. Witnesses who walked and talked with Jesus after He rose again went to tortuous deaths standing by what they saw to the very end. No one voluntarily goes to such suffering for something they know to be untrue!
d. Jesus rose from the dead in a place where doubters could go and see for themselves and talk to hundreds who saw Jesus alive again!
e. Formerly timid students turned the world upside down and spread the word until followers of Christ are the largest group on the planet!
f. Jesus continues to influence and communicate with me and many others!
g. More than 300 predictions by Jesus and earlier prophets have COME TRUE!
h. Jesus' method of crucifixion was predicted in Psalm 22, 400 years before crucifixion existed!
i. Disciples were in despair when they saw that Jesus had died, but they became joyful when they saw Jesus live again!
j. Paul, an enemy of Christians, met Jesus on the road to Damascus and Jesus radically changed his life!
k. Jesus' own brother James, before a skeptic, saw Jesus alive again and became an enthusiastic believer and leader in the church!

There are so many evidences that one would have to work harder than ever to find any reason NOT to believe in Jesus the Savior! I cannot find even one reason NOT to believe! Can you?

I have barely started. But I am sure you have other questions, and I am here to help. Please write back. Tell me how I can best pray for your particular circumstances. I prayed for you today!

David

Temptation - all, half or nothing?

Satan tempts us at the point of our physical needs, not that we might gratify them to excess, but that we may think of nothing else, and gratify them at the expense of our usefulness in this world.

Satan tempts us at the point of our ambitions, not that we might engage in positive evil, but simply accept the fact of evil, learn to live with it, come to terms with it and maintain a discreet silence in the presence of it.

Satan tempts us at the point of our religion, not that we might disbelieve in God, but that we demand certainty of God, that kind of certainty which leaves nothing to faith, nothing to God Himself.

These are the moral struggles that have reality for people such as we are.

The subtle temptation to renounce our duty in favor of that which is attractive – that insidious allurement to a kind of half-goodness, which is the essence of everything bad, and which is more productive of suffering and hatred and war and misery in the world than all the designs of wicked and greedy men combined.
--Arthur Leonard Griffith, cited by Ravi Zacharias

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