MAY
06
Keyword:
HARD by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Matthew 13:15:
For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.' NKJV.
In the U.S.A., the old native Americans describe the appearance of the Thunder Spirits, who when consumed with their anger with one another, threw rocks the size of baseballs at each other's faces. These hollowed out, rough, spherical rocks, are called ‘Thundereggs’ and have all their real treasure, all their real beauty, all their real and colourful shining propensity, sealed up inside them, even seemingly ...
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MAY
06
Keyword:
PERSEVERE by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Daniel 1:5:
And the king appointed for them a daily provision of the king's delicacies and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end of that time they might serve before the king.
One night I channel hopped between two performances of ‘Alison Crouch and Union Station’ and the ‘Russian Ballet’ and well, with all that singing and dancing, a lovely sunset evening, a hot cup of tea and a box of chocolate caramels in my hand, I thought I had finally arrived!
Having had years of practice, I have found that I have become pretty adept at combining eating and drinking, I mean, I can do it with no ...
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MAY
05
Keyword:
HONOR by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
1 Peter 3:5,6:
For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord,
So she says “Hey! We should have taken a left back there!” He doesn’t reply but inside he’s thinking “Christopher Columbus didn’t need directions and neither do I!” Such are the thoughts of everyman in the driving seat when any woman, wife or otherwise, attempts to give him some dimensional direction. Call it chauvinism, call it childishness, call it instability, call it even God’s design; yes, call it lack of ...
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MAY
05
Keyword:
BREAK by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Psalms 2:7-9:
"I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, 'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.'" NKJV
When open fires were all the rage, standard issue on the hearth was a poker, quite literally, a rod of iron. These were heavy and dangerous pieces of equipment for a small child with chicken wing limbs trying to handle them in the face of ceramic tiled hearths, for together with the ornaments gently settled upon the dusty mantle piece above, both were always want to be accidentally cracked, knocked and broken. ...
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MAY
04
Keyword:
TEST by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
1 John 4:1-2:
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. NKJV.
The father of (James) Joseph Jacques Tissot, was not happy this his son wanted to be a painter. However James, the anglicised name of this French painter, ensured that he made his father eat both his words and worries, by becoming a very famous, painter-preneur.
Tissot was born on the French coast in Nantes and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe. Already a ...
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