JULY
20
Keyword:
LOVE by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
John 15:12 NKJV:
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
The Allied breakout from the Normandy landings inspired an assassination attempt today in 1944 when Count Von Stauffenberg placed a briefcase with a bomb inside Hitler's command post for the Eastern Front in a href="http://www.whisperingword.com/">Rastenburg, otherwise known as his 'Wolf's Lair'. The bomb was one of many British bombs confiscated by German intelligence. Stauffenberg placed the primed bomb under the ...
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JULY
17
Keyword:
LOVE by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
1 John 4:10:
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
While the answer to cynicism stood in front of him, Pilate still spat the back of the hand slap question into the face of Jesus in his statement question of, “What is truth?” In hungry hope and pleading desperateness, another important question has also been asked by men and women throughout the ages, not in cynicism this time but in mostly desperation! Here it is, “What is love?” The answer to both questions of ...
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JULY
05
Keyword:
LOVE by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
1 Corinthians 13:4-7:
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
So we need to acknowledge ourselves, and to know ourselves and correctly love ourselves. I believe this is good and Biblically correct. The challenge we have to this appears to be the great paradox which is that 'the purpose of self, is others!' We shall know when we have loved ourselves wrongly, selfishly and dishonourably when 'me' 'my' and 'I,' lie heavily on our lips. Listen to how you speak about yourself ...
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NOVEMBER
11
Keyword:
LOVE by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
1 Corinthians 13:3:
…..though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing
In England, under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, several Roman Catholics suffered death for reasons of treason. Previously, under the reign of ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ however, no fewer than 288 people were burned at the stake for reasons regarding their faith.
When the apostle Paul wrote these lines, it is unlikely that as yet any Christians had suffered this burning fate; though the Emperor Nero would soon light ...
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OCTOBER
26
Keyword:
LOVE by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Revelation 2:4-6:
Nonetheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lamp stand from its place — unless you repent.
The opening chapters to the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ contains seven letters for seven churches. Seven little notes from Jesus to those He loves and who love Him. Though frankly they do not appear to look like love letters! In one sense, these letters are to literal historical churches; in another they are to the church militant as it marches through space and time finding itself in these seven ...
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