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I was recently asked if I'd be interested in reviewing Beauty Box 5. As I'm always game to try out a subscription service in the hopes of finding 'the One' I'll love, I said sure.
As I've tried a few Beauty Box subscription services, I now know that what I want out of a service is items of color. I don't want all samples to be the same (I'm looking at you GlossyBox and your multiple creams in one box).
I received:
Everyday Minerals blush in Girl Friday (retails for $10.99, .17 oz, I believe I received a mini size jar, worth 6.99)
The All Natural Face eyeshadow in Orange Ice Storm (retails for $3.50, .07 oz, I believe I received a full size eyeshadow)
Blinc black eyeliner (full size retails for $26, .21 oz, I received a sample)
Comodynes Easy Peeling 8 pack (retails for $12.99, I received 1 towelette)
Blum Naturals Oil Absorbing Facial Tissues (retails for $2.99, 50 sheets, I received a full size.)
I like this product card, which contains relevant information about each product.
I don't normally use blotting papers, but I'm going to stick the Blum Naturals Oil Absorbing Facial Tissues in my purse and see if I can remember to use it and if it works.
It's funny because last week on Twitter we were talking about peels and masks. I mentioned I don't do them often enough. I'm really looking forward to giving the Comodynes Easy Peeling facial a try. It's a towelette.
The ingredients are a bit vague. I guess I massage the towelette onto my skin, avoiding my eyes, and don't rinse it off.
Here's the ingredients listing, in case anyone is curious.
I was very excited by the blinc eyeliner sample! I've liked some of the blinc products I've tried, such as the Re.Surface.Stick. However, I hated the tubing mascara. Didn't work for me at all. I swatched it on my hand and it's like a liquid. Once it dried on my hand, it didn't budge off from rubbing. I had to use water, soap and rub to get it off.
Now, I don't like the brand Everyday Minerals. However, I'm happy for the opportunity to try out their Girl Friday blush. I also like the name Girl Friday. The phrase 'Girl Friday' basically means 'faithful friend' or 'right hand woman,' so it's sort of clever to name a blush this if it's a universally flattering shade.
I've had mixed feelings on The All Natural Face, but I was happy to see a full size eyeshadow included from them. This is Orange Ice Storm. I like the Ice Storm shades and I think this shade in particular can work as an all over color wash or as a highlighter, depending on your coloring.
Ingredients for Orange Ice Storm:
Mica, Magnesium Myristate Boron Nitride Oxides.
I swatched the colors for you.
Now, Girl Friday is described on the Everyday Minerals website as "A soft plum berry shade that is perfectly feminine and matte." I see absolutely NOTHING of a soft plum berry. I see an apricot-coral shade. To be fair, I applied this with a sponge and blended it down and it resulted in this shade. If you apply it without blending it, it looks like a nude rose. The color change is pretty different.
I took another picture of Girl Friday for you. When the blush is just sitting on my skin, not blended, I do see a berry pink. When I blend it just a tiny bit, I see a peachy-pink. When I fully blend it out, I see an apricot. Also, it's not matte. It's got a sheen. I don't know if this is a bad batch, if it's not been properly blended, or what. It almost seems like the ingredients were put into a container and it was shaken, rather than blended, but I don't really know. I just know that if you want to BLEND your blush when you apply it to your face, and I do, you don't want to have crazy changes.
Ingredients for Girl Friday:
Mica (CI 77019), Lauroyl Lysine. May Contain: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Manganese Violet (CI 77742)
When you add a value to what I received:
$6.99 EDM Mini-blush
$3.50 ANF full size eyeshadow
$2.99 Blum Blotting Tissues full size
$13.48 for those 3 items, so it's more than the $12 cost of the sample box. If you add in a dollar for each sample size, you're getting about $15.50 worth of products.
Beauty Box 5 costs $12 monthly, $30 if you sign up for 3 months at a time, and $100 if you sign up for a year.
Products I liked receiving:
The All Natural Face Orange Ice Storm eyeshadow
Blinc Smudgeproof eyeliner sample
Comodynes facial towelette
Everyday Minerals mini blush Girl Friday
Products I'm neutral about receiving:
Blum Blotting tissue
Products I didn't like receiving:
Now, I don't think the quality is good on the Everyday Minerals Blush I received. I don't feel it should change color like it did. But that's my only disappointment from this box.
This is what I want out of a subscription box. I want it to have color. Blush, eyeshadow, eyeliner, a facial treatment, etc. This is cool.
So I now know what I'm looking for in a beauty box!
1. Less than $15
2. COLOR (eyeshadows, blushes, lipsticks, eyeliners, lipgloss, etc)
3. cruelty-free
4. not a box of all the same types of products (i.e. no receiving 3 creams in one box, or all facial treatments)
What do you think of Beauty Box 5? Have you tried their service? What did you like in this box?
To the best of my knowledge:
The All Natural Face is cruelty-free.
Blinc is cruelty-free.
Everyday Minerals is cruelty-free.
Blum Naturals is cruelty-free.
Comodynes is cruelty-free.
Products sent for consideration. All opinions are my own.
For a lot of people, Everyday Minerals blushes oxidize orange on the skin. I think they use a more orange base for all of their blushes, even the cool toned ones. I didn't think this happened to me until after I tried mineral blushes form other companies.
@Emily S To me that sounds like bad blending or bad products. The rest of the mineral blushes that I have do NOT turn orange on me or oxidize on my skin.
hi phyrra,
just curious as to why you don't like everyday minerals, other than their crazy color-changing blush. i've been using their products for a few years now and quite enjoy them.
@joyfulvegan When I first tried EDM, I thought their products were really terrible and I couldn't understand how they were so popular. Then EDM did some shady things with ingredients listing and changed formulas without properly updating the label, causing a lot of women problems. I believe there was also customer service issues.
I had that experience with another EDM blush. Can't remember which one it was because it was several years ago. I don't buy from them after they started deleting any critical comments from their forums and effectively banning people.
Hi Phyrra!
Thanks for the great review, which was spot-on as far as what makes a good beauty box. I'm currently awaiting my box for review and I'm looking forward to seeing what they send. I like that BB5 sent both color and skin care and that the products were a decent size, not just one-use samples or packets.
I totally agree with you about the Blinc tubing mascara. I hated it, too. Of course, I hate pretty much all tubing mascaras, so I can't hold it against Blinc. I hope the liner works better for you. And I'm loving that eyeshadow, and hoping I get one as well!
Thanks again for showing us what you got!
OK, so here's a box I've not heard of (of course, new ones are sprouting up all the time, so I guess that's not surprising). I pretty much agree with your criteria, though I like a good mix of color, hair care and skin care. I know I'm probably in the minority, but I personally would be irritated with two mineral makeup products in my box, only because I have so many and frankly, mineral makeup companies are kind of a dime a dozen nowadays (not that there aren't some I love!!!) And unfortunately, that "peel" wipe is kind of misleading, if you ask me. Judging by the ingredient list, it's basically a toner :(
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The distance to drive from De Pere to Fond du Lac is about 65 miles. Imagine walking that with an extra 20 pounds on your back, in the snow and the cold. That's what dozens of endurance athletes will try to do this weekend in Kettle Moraine State Forest when they complete the Frozen Otter Ultra Trek.
Lt. Rick Faris is responding to calls today with the Fond du Lac Fire Department as a fire fighter/paramedic. Tomorrow he'll be tackling a 64-mile trek, called the Frozen Otter, through Kettle Moraine State Forest as an endurance athlete.
"It actually started with a Goruck Challenge," says Rick Faris. "And then the Tough Mudder. And then I came into work after both those events a couple of years ago and a guy at the table said, you know what Faris, you should try the Frozen Otter. I looked it up and I'm like I've got to try that."
The event is nothing to joke about. In fact, athletes like Faris will have only 24-hours to complete the journey, on their own with nothing more than the pack on their back and the shoes on their feet.
Says Faris, "It's going to grind on you. It definitely wears on your body."
This will be Faris' third attempt at the event. He completed the half, 32-miles, last year. And this year he says he's ready to tackle the full 64. He along with the other competitors will battle the un groomed, hilly state forest hiking trails along with the weather conditions and their own mental toughness, something that drew Faris to the event.
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hi first post here. I was watching the ABS 14 broadcast (can be found here:lt11.com/tv/ ) and noticed that there were quite a few mad rock shoes being repped. Not sure what model they where though-perhaps the conflict? Also could be the shark or demon. Seems like mad rock has closed the gap on high performance shoes. Or it could be that they just sponsor a lot of people. Other things i noticed: Obviously a lot of LaSportiva Solutions and Team 5.10s-probably the most popular shoes. Also saw some Blackwings and Dragons Interestingly didn't see any Evolv or Scarpa- though i could have missed it-the Evolv Shaman is touted as being an elite shoe and the Scarpa Booster/Boostic and Vapor V seem like they could be high performers. Also didn't see any Pythons which seem like a popular shoe on the cool kids around my gym. Just interested in what the pros are using these days. Anyone see any other shoe being used?
probably the new shark 2.0s who cares who is sponsored by who..... shamans > everything
Haha...looks like you were the target for their advertising, and it worked! Mad Rock has and always will be way inferior to any other shoe company, no matter who wears them. Who cares what those kids are wearing, its an indoor comp for gods sake!
Well these guys are still climbing pretty hard with mad rock shoes, so they can't be that bad right? Also there were quite a few climbers there-they can't all be sponsored can they? Someone there has to be wearing shoes because they like them.
It also seems like they would switch up shoes for different problems. Probably for the more slabby vs. overhung routes. What makes a shoe better for a specific type of climbing? It seems to me that the only "quantifiable" characteristics of a shoe are the stiffness and downturn Am I wrong?
so would you say that a stiff shoe is better for certain things than a soft shoe? or is it just a preference? because it seems that for every type of climbing there are shoes of varying stiffness that all claim to be good.
depends on the individual 100%. i'll take stiffness over sensitivity personally...the teams are great shoes and probably the most sensitive pair on the market, but are painfully thin to use... unless you have the BMI of an anorexic teenage girl there is no 'easy' way to figure out what works for you, without trying different brands/models. you should try a bunch on in the shop, and see what fits best on your foot with no dead space.


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The Prodigal Son from Erick Sorensen on Vimeo.
"Let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found."
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The Prodigal Son from Erick Sorensen on Vimeo.
"Let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found."
- The Father
Preachers do not create new gospels; the promises of Christ are given in Scripture where God intended to make them available for public consumption, but what the preacher does is apply the pronoun "for you" to the promise of Christ, thus making the word a living word of direct address in the present. Faith not only knows and trusts the story of Abraham; it not only knows the history of Christ which Melanchthon called "historical faith" (that even the devil believes). Instead, justifying faith is a different animal. It not only knows Christ made some general promise, but it knows for certain that the promise is made "for you."
So that those of you who were not in church today may worship our Lord God and not turn into totally irrational animals, let us listen to the Holy Gospel.
Family Values (Part IX)
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged
(Colossians 3:20-21, ESV)
Yesterday we talked about the need for parents to discipline their children. What we pointed out was that to discipline basically means "to tear down" bad habits, thoughts, and actions. Godly parents don't ignore problems in their child, but confront them seeking to lessen the tendency toward rebellious behaviors. As Proverbs 22:15 says, "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him."
That said, the Scriptures don't merely tell us to "tear down", but also to "build up". The way the Scriptures tell us to do this is by "instruction". As Ephesians 6:4 says, "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."
As a Father I can testify to the fact that although neither of these injunctions is necessarily "easy", discipline alone is the most natural default. We tend to think as long as we confront our child when they're out of line that we're basically doing our job. But in reality (according to our definitions of these words) we can't just take away the bad behaviors, but must replace them with the right words, thoughts and behaviors.
Actually we must go further. The issue isn't merely "behavior modification", the issue is "belief modification". That is, children, like adults have wrong beliefs and then act on those beliefs. They are naturally idolaters, just like us. Therefore, we must not merely instruct them in what to do, but we must instruct them in what to believe. They must know God for who He actually is- the God who created them and everything in this world, the God who hates sin, but the God who redeemed sinners through His Son Jesus Christ. The God who calls them to live lives of obedience to His word not because they have to, but because they get to.
This presupposes of course that we know what to tell them about God. Which in turn presupposes that we are at least somewhat familiar with our Bibles.
In my opinion the area of instruction is the one most sorely lacking in our homes. The rule in Scripture is that the Father was the One responsible in the home for training and instructing their children (not the Pastor, not the school teacher, but the parents) - first and foremost in the things of the Word of God, but then in other areas of life as well: how to change a tire, how to mow a lawn, how to wash a car, etc.
Deuteronomy 6:7-9, speaking of God's commands says, " [7] You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. [8] You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. [9] You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."
The point is, in everything we do, the word of God is to be spoken, explained and applied to our kids.
Family Values (Part VIII)
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
(Colossians 3:20-21, ESV)
This week a mediocre parent (me) has been trying to explain what a Great Parent (God) says we should do in raising the kids He's entrusted us with. To be honest, it has been a more difficult challenge to be clear on this subject than I initially assumed, which just goes to show that parenting is pretty complicated and unformulaic. As much as I believe Scripture tells us to raise kids with a Law/Gospel focus, I can think of a hundred different incidents where things didn't work out so neatly. Are they "sorry" merely because of the threat of punishment, or are they truly sorrowful for their disobedience out of love for God and their parents? Do they seek to obey merely out of respect for God and parent, or are they just hoping to merit reward?
The human heart is a difficult thing to navigate, and I for one am not always very good at running the ship.
Confessions of my own inadequacies aside, I think today's Biblical injunction for parents is meant to help us with these complications. What is this biblical injunction?
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4
Parents are to "discipline" and "instruct". Now before I go any further, I want to remind us to go back to the Center. Remember I said all parenting needs to be done "in light of the Gospel". So when we talk about disciplining our children, we "discipline in light of the gospel". What does that look like? Well it looks like God disciplining us:
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
(Hebrews 12:7-11, ESV)
Some very important things to point out here: Because we are already God's children, he disciplines us (not because we "don't measure up"; so your kids are disciplined not to "make them acceptable" to you, but because you already do accept them). The purpose of the discipline is "for our good", that we might become more holy (like Him). Discipline is a gift from God (though painful at the time) that yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
Apply this view of discipline to your child.
The word for discipline essentially means to confront the foolish things, the wrong things your child does. To tear down bad habits, you must seek to attain the fine balance laid out for you in Scripture which says on the one hand to discipline your children (Proverbs 13:24- 24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him." Proverbs 22:15 says, "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him."), and yet on the other hand not embitter them as Colossians 3 and Ephesians 6 warn Father's against doing. The danger: You can be too strict (unbending, inflexible and not displaying love in your discipline) or you can be too lax (letting the child "make up his own mind", not confronting evil habits, making excuses for your child, etc.). God is your model for how you discipline.
He does not ignore problems that exist in His children, but confronts them. Yet in His confrontation of us, He is always doing it in love. As Hebrews 13 tells us God disciplines us for our good. Godly discipline is always done for the benefit of the child, and with the hope that they'll one day learn to be an independent adult "yielding the peaceful fruit of righteousness".
Tomorrow, I'll seek to explain a bit more of how I apply this word in my own life as a mediocre parent….
Family Values (Part VII)
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
(Colossians 3:20-21, ESV)
My guess is ALL parents want obedient children (I know, I know, a brilliant insight…). We parents want kids that joyfully follow our rules, treat their siblings well, share with their friends and eat what we want them to eat when we want them to eat it.
My other guess is that we parents don't always have obedient children (another brilliant insight). If they follow the rules, it may be done begrudgingly. They fight with their siblings, don't share their toys and gladly eat fruity pebbles straight out of the box.
So then,how do we motivate our kids to be obedient? Or maybe the better question first and foremost is how does God motivate all his kids to be obedient to Him? In response to this basic question, I've been suggesting that it's rightly applying the Law and Gospel of God's word. The Lutheran Study Bible lays out a helpful scenario for us to think through:
Law and Gospel help parents discern what to do in a discipline situation. One of the principles of Law and Gospel is that the Law is used with unrepentant sinners and the Gospel is used with repentant sinners. Let's take spilling milk as an example. Most of the time, spilling milk is siimply an accident. No violation of rules is involved. There is no need for the accusation of the Law: "Look what you have done!" What may be needed is some loving reassurance: "It's okay. Accidents happen." On the other hand, if Joey spills the milk while attempting to throw a dinner roll at Suzie, an infraction has been committed! Then the Law is needed! Joey must be called to account for his actions. However, when Joey confesses his guilt and expressses genuine sorrow, there is no need for further accusation. There may be consequences to his actions, like apologizing to his sister and helping clean up, but the Gospel of Christ's forgiveness can now be appied.
Godly discipline comes about when Law and Gospel are rightly and faithfully applied. Encourage your children to say "I'm sorry" and "I forgive you" to one another. (Do not settle for expressions like "That's okay," "No big deal," or "Whatever.")
Do you see the distinction there? When I speak of motivating obedience with the Gospel, I am not saying that Law shouldn't be used. No, the Law should be used to produce "Godly sorrow" for their sin (sometimes that means a lot of Law especially if you have one of those "strong willed children" I hear so much about). But in the final analysis, what ultimately will make a child want to obey (and this is the key- we don't want to make Pharisees that merely obey to "look good", or "stay out of trouble", but who actually want to obey out of love) is the knowledge that even in the midst of the punishment and discipline that the Law brings, they are still deeply loved and accepted apart from their works (like God accepts us in Christ). What I am saying is that threats and punishment are not enough to make Godly kids. As St. Paul writes in Romans of the Law:
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
Romans 7:7-9
I know this flies in the face of what we naturally think, but it is the Law that enflames our flesh to want to sin.The counterintuitiveness of the Bible is stunning sometimes because the Word also goes on to say this in Titus 2:11-14:
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our greatGod and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
What trains us to renounce ungodliness and worlly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age? What makes us "zealous for good works?" Go back to the beginning: The grace of God.
Tullian Tchividjian spells it out nicely for us (though he is specifically speaking in his role as a Pastor, it still applies):
As a pastor, one of my responsibilities is to disciple people into a deeper understanding of obedience—teaching them to say "no" to the things God hates and "yes" to the things God loves. But all too often I have wrongly concluded that the only way to keep licentious people in line is to give them more rules–lay down the law. The fact is, however, that the only way licentious people start to obey is when they get a taste of God's radical, unconditional acceptance of sinners. As Mike Horton points out here, in Romans 6:1-4 the Apostle Paul answers antinomianism (lawlessness) not with more law but with more gospel! In other words, licentious people aren't those who believe the gospel of God's free grace too much, but too little. "The ultimate antidote to antinomianism", writes Horton, "is not more imperatives, but the realization that the gospel swallows the tyranny as well as the guilt of sin." The irony, in other words, of gospel-based sanctification is that those who end up obeying more are those who increasingly realize that their standing with God is not based on their obedience, but Christ's.
May our kids be drenched in such good news so that they would indeed be deeply motivated to obey….
"Family Values (Part VI)"
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
(Colossians 3:20-21, ESV)
Leading our kids to grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
I don't know about you, but my views on how I should parent are most of the time much different than how I actually parent. You know what I mean? You do, you know what I mean. From the pulpit of my church I stand up and thunder away about how it is grace alone that motivates a person to be obedient to God. In my counseling sessions I seek to apply this thoroughly, not wanting anyone to feel weighed down, crushed or burdened, but rather freed up by Jesus. With my friends and extended family, I seek to "err on the side of grace."
But sadly, oftentimes when it comes to how I parent my kids, my first resort is Law, Law, Law. Now in it of itself, that's not necessarily a bad thing. The law is good as long as it is "used lawfully" Paul says. The problem is, I'm not using it "lawfully". Let me explain a bit: The Law's primary function is to kill, crush and destroy our confidence in ourselves for salvation. It is meant primarily to show us our sin, and therefore our deep, deep need for a Savior. It is not primarily meant to be used as a "guidebook for living" or "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" (although these things may be fundamentally true), it is ultimately meant to reveal a Holy God who cannot be pacified by any of our works, but only the works of His Son.
Instead of using the Law this way, when it comes to my parenting I use the Law as a means to make my boys at least behave for a little bit. I don't want the outside world seeing how uncivilised my little monkeys are after all, so I make threats of punishment if they don't do this or do do that. I promise rewards as long as they "act appropriately". Temporarily this may work on the outside: they can comb their hair, put on nice clothing, and speak respectfully (all things that may even garner me a compliment from someone for my "well behaved boys"), and yet within they are only doing it to escape punishment or obtain reward. Anyone can change their behavior long enough for the right reward or to avoid the punishment. But God wants our kids to behave from their hearts (like us!). He does not want mere behavior modification. He wants a transformed little sinner, who truly wants to obey Him. And the Scripture is clear that this transformation can ONLY come from the Gospel of Jesus.
Our set of verses this week give us a little insight into all this. Children are told to obey their parents why? "Because this pleases the Lord." Now, wrapped up in this statement is an assumption that the child will actually want to please the Lord, that they'll actually care about doing works that delight Him. That in turn assumes that these kids have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit of God. These are Christian kids Paul speaks to.
So the first thing I suppose you need to think through Parent is whether your kid is a Christian (Now here's where I'm gonna get all, ya know, like Biblically Sound/Lutheran on y'all): Or in other words, has your child been baptized into the Christian faith? If he/she has then great (If they haven't, come talk to me so we can deliver this precious gift of God's salvation and renewal to your child as soon as possible)! God is faithful to His word! He said He'd place His name on them there and He has! Awesome.
Now that you've determined your child is a Christian (not because you somehow "looked into their heart" or "sensed something" or "didn't find enough fruit", but because you placed your faith in God's promise in baptism), how should you raise them up? When they make mistakes (just like every baptized Christian does every single day), don't hold back exactly what God's word says about their sin. This does not mean you should do it in a thunderous, angry way. As our text says (not accidentally, specifically to Dads):
"Don't provoke them, lest they become disouraged."
No, as a matter of fact, you want to try and deliver the truth firmly but gently (I fail at this all the time….). But then always, always, ALWAYS you want to remind them of how Jesus has covered their sin by His life, death and resurrection for them (I fail at this all the time too. "Who will save me from this wretched body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ my Lord, there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.").
You want to give them grace because it is grace that will actually change them, shape them, and make them into great adults one day.
"Most of us are painfully aware that we're not perfect parents. We're also deeply grieved that we don't have perfect kids. But the remedy to our mutual imperfections isn't more law, even if it seems to produce tidy or polite children. Christian children (and their parents) don't need to learn to be "nice." They need death and resurrection and a Savior who has gone before them as a faithful high priest, who was a child himself, and who lived and died perfectly in their place. They need a Savior who extends the offer of complete forgiveness, total righteousness, and indissoluble adoption to all who will believe. This is the message we all need. We need the gospel of grace and the grace of the gospel. Children can't use the law any more than we can, because they will respond to it the same way we do. They'll ignore it or bend it or obey it outwardly for selfish purposes, but this one thing is certain: they won't obey it from the heart, because they can't. That's why Jesus had to die."
― Elyse Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
Indeed, may we raise our kids up in such a way that they learn to look to Jesus and from Him, become the kind of people He wants them to be…..
Family Values (Part V)
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
(Colossians 3:20-21, ESV)
Before I had children, I was the perfect parent. I was. In my mind I really thought I had it all worked out. And so when I'd see friends or family with their kids, it seemed so easy to figure out what they were doing wrong, to critique their performance. "Ah, see they spoil him, that's why he has that attitude." "Ah, see they're too tough on her, that's why she has that attitude." Everything was static and predictable.
And then of course we had kids (insert laughtrack here). Now I can't think of two words that could be more inaccurate than static and predictable when it comes to parenting. What I thought was so clear cut, was so often situationally based. Kids are not static, each one of them is different, has different things that make them tick. They are the most unpredictable little things ever. And as much joy as they bring, (and they do bring more joy than one can imagine), they also bring frustration, dirty diapers, sleepless nights, and temper tantrums. They don't eat what you want them to. They don't always come when you call them. They say inappropriate things (most of the time unknowingly) in public places.
I can relate to one man I read about. He was walking through a store with his kids in the shopping cart. One of those kids, was of course, a screaming baby. As the man proceeded along the aisles, he kept repeating softly, "Keep calm, George. Don't get excited, George. Don't get excited, George. Don't yell, George."
A lady watching with admiration said to the man, "You are certainly to be commended for your patience in trying to quiet little George."
"Lady," he said, "I'm George."
Any parent has been where poor George was.
If we were to take today's text at face value, it sounds so simple: "Kids obey your parents." Done and done. Just do what I say and everything will work out fine, right?
But there's more to this text than meets the eye. For starters, the Bible never presents an unrealistic picture of humanity (including kids!). God knows that even from conception (Psalm 51), kids start out with a sin nature that can't help but rebel. As Proverbs 22:15 says, "Folly is bound up in the heart of the child…." If your a brand new parent, it may be hard to believe, but your little angel is already tainted and stained with sin (if you've been a parent for even a little while, you need no persuading on this point. As a matter of fact, for some of you, it may have been having kids that finally convinced you of the truth of this doctrine!). The truth is, even from birth they've needed a Savior just as much as anyone else (and it ain't us Parents that can save them, thank the Lord)!
So how does the Bible instruct us toward raising obedient children? Here's my short list:
1. Lead them to grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone
2. Motivate obedience by speaking of grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone
3. Instruct them in what they should do IN LIGHT OF grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone.
4. Discipline them for disobedience IN LIGHT OF grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
For the rest of the week, I'll seek to flesh out what each of these elements looks like, but today I'll leave you with a short quote from Elyse Fitzpatrick, (for my money, the best writer out there today on Christian parenting):
Everything that isn't gospel is law. Let us say it again: Everything that isn't gospel is law. Every way we try to make our kids good that isn't rooted in the good news of the life, death, ressurection, and assension of Jesus Christ is damnable, crushing, despair-breeding, Pharisee-producing law. We won't get the results we want from the law. We'll get either shallow self-righteousness or blazing rebellion or both (frequently from the same kid on the same day!). We'll get moralistic kids who are cold and hypocritical and who look down on others (and could easily become Mormons), or you'll get teens who are rebellious and self-indulgent and who can't wait to get out of the house. We have to remember that in the life of our unregenerate children, the law is given for one reason only: to crush their self-confidence and drive them to Christ."
Amen and Amen.
Family Values (Part IV)
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:19
Yesterday we talked about the sacrificial love a husband is called to display to his wife. Today we dive a little further into how that looks: Our text today tells husbands to "not be harsh with them." It sounds simple, but in practice we all understand it's easier said than done. Peter said it this way:
"Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered."
Ephesians 5:28 says
"In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast (cleave, be glued) to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
What a beautiful picture marriage is of Christ and His church: Christ gives Himself completely for her, unites her to Himself in baptism, and now she is His body. They are one flesh. So He nourishes and cherishes her. He gives His bride the bread of life through the preaching and teaching of the word. He nourishes her faith through His Body and Blood given for us in the sacrament. Through this continual care and provision, Christ shows that His love for us was not just at one time (say while on the cross), but for all time. He continues to intercede on your behalf Church. As you take the body and blood, your faith is strengthened, the assurance that your sins are forgiven is once again renewed.
Husbands, you get to work to provide for your wife. You get to nourish and cherish her. What does it mean to cherish her? Tell her how much you appreciate her, how much she means to you. Some guys will say, "My wife's not like that; she doesn't like that mushy kind of stuff."
Wrong. False. Dumb.
Because you love your wife as your own body, you seek to give her peace about her home-life, that no matter what happens, her kids will be taken care of.
You get to be a provider in your home for your bride, just as Christ is the provider for His bride. Look guys, you get to be Superman for her. You get to rescue the damsel in distress. You get to be her hero, even when you mess up.
E.V. Hill at his wife's funeral, tells the story that soon after him and his wife were married, he came home to a house all lit up with candles. He said, "What's going on in here?" She said, "I thought it would be nice to have dinner by candlelight tonight." He said, "Sounds groovy to me." So they began to eat dinner , when he had to get up to use the restroom. She forgot to put a candle in the restroom, and when he went to turn on the lights, there were no lights. So he went into the bedroom, flipped the switch, and there was no light. He came out, and asked if they'd turned off the electricity, and she began to cry. She said, "I ran out of money while paying the bills, and I know you work so hard to provide for us that, I didn't want to tell you. So I thought we'd have dinner by candlelight."
You see, because Hill worked so hard to "nourish and cherish" his wife, she in turn wanted to submit to him even when times got tough.
Here's the conclusion of the matter: Each of you in a Christian marriage are to strive at what sin has made you naturally bad at: Husbands show love to your wives. Men tend not to show love very well; yet Paul says, do it, like Christ did for His church.
Wives don't seek to rule over your husband, but as the Church trusts Christ for its leadership, you trust your husband, submitting to him to lead your family. Show Him the respect as the head of the household. Husband love your wives, and wives respect your husbands. That's the lifestyle of a successful Christian marriage.
And yet, ultimately we are both, husbands and wives, all of us, by our sin, truly damsels in distress. Naturally, we are dead in our trespasses and sins; selfish, unloving, unsubmissive, ungodly. The standard to follow in marriage, in all of life is Christ. He indeed is our example, but how far short we naturally fall. We all need grace from the perfect husband. Today, no matter what kind of spouse you have been, I need you to know that Christ offers you a new marriage today. He, the perfect husband gave himself for our sins, to forgive us of all unrighteousness. He, the perfect Husband has cleansed us in baptism, giving His Holy Spirit that we would be empowered to be the kinds of spouses He desires us to be. He, the perfect Husband still today nourishes and cherishes us, giving us all we need to have assurance of His love for us.
He ultimately asks all of you for your hand in marriage.
Family Values (Part III)
Alright, so the last couple days we've been going over Scripture's exhortation for wives to submit to their husbands. Now it's the husband's turn:
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
(Colossians 3:19, ESV)
It seems to me husbands in general tend to get a bad wrap in the culture (Not that many don't deserve it; many of them do!). Nonetheless, the typical picture of a husband, or Dad in our world is of someone who is either doormat or dictator. He is generally incompetent or he's the only one in his household that is competent; he doesn't lead his family but is most of the time led around by his naggy and controlling wife, or on the other hand, he leads his family by making them keep their mouths shut when there is disagreement. If he's a doormat he watches sports all day, communicates like a child and grunts for food. If he's a dictator, he expects to be served the whole time he's watching his sports. If he's a doormat the wife sort of bares with him and thinks he's cute in that "He's unable to change his own diaper" sort of way. If he's a dictator, the wife bares with him for fear of what will happen if she leaves him. In both cases, the husband is not someone worthy of submission, or respect.
The Bible, knowing this tendency with men tells us today of a new way, a way that avoids the pitfalls of doormat and dictator partnership- the way of leading with love. Or in other words, servant leadership. Just as for the wives, the one overarching word they needed to hear in their relationship to their husbands was submission, so too men, you have one overarching word: Love. Our passage today and it's parallel passage in Ephesians 5, both say the same thing to men: Love your wives. What does that look like?
Granted, this message isn't specifically spelled out in our text. But it is in the paralell passage found in Ephesians 5:
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
In order to bring God and man together as in a marriage, to save the Church (which throughout the Bible is referred to as His Bride) Jesus gave up His life for her. As a matter of fact, the book of Revelation goes in great detail describing the day when Christ comes to take His bride home to be with Him forever. Because of His sacrificial, unending, giving love, she is His to have forever. As a result of all our heavenly husband does for us, we His bride know beyond the shadow of a doubt how much we are loved. She knows she is protected from all threats. Nothing can separate her from the love that is in Christ Jesus, neither famine, or nakedness, or sword, or death, not anything. This love is not conditional.
Christ the ultimate Husband does this for His bride to be, even when she still runs from Him. It is after all, the members of this Bride that are guilty of putting Him to death. He proposed in marriage to His people, but they rejected Him by their love of sin. Rather than marry Him, they stuck Him to a cross. The true Husband does not give because the wife is so lovely in it of herself; indeed, throughout Scripture, His people are seen as unfaithful spouses, running away from Him, to other non-god gods. Ezekiel 16 majestically pictures this reality, as God chooses His bride to be when she is helpless, merely an infant, He says, one day I will marry you. He takes care of her, provides for her, does everything for her, and marries her. And yet, the tragic response is spelled out for us this way:
"But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his. You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore."
And yet amazingly, He still gives Himself up for her.
Husbands welcome to your calling. Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the Church. Like Jesus, you are called to protect her at all costs, standing in the gap for her, as Christ does for us. You are called to take full responsibility for her and your family. You are called to take the fall for her.
When I ask most men if they'd run into traffic to save their wife, most of them would say yes (How can you claim to be a man if you won't?). The reality is though most of us never have to worry about that scenario actually coming to pass. It becomes an easy way of interpreting this verse then. "I would give up my life for you if it ever came down to it baby." Saying this, we can then feel like the hero we want to be, without actually having to test it in reality. So is that all this sacrifice language is for? Well, no I don't think so. I think what the Bible is saying is that this gets to be a constant pattern in everyday life for you men. This sacrifice happens in the seemingly smallest, tiniest ways on a daily basis. You sacrifice for your wife like Christ, when you do the dishes or fold the laundry, meanwhile letting her lay in bed and read a book. You sacrifice for your wife by turning off the T.V. and just talking to her. You sacrifice for her by faithfully going to work everyday, you sacrifice for her when you forego making love because she's too tired or whatever it is. It means you take responsibility for what happens in your family (you are the head; therefore you get to make decisions and set the path for the family. When the wife fails, the kids fail or whatever, you take responsibility). Like Christ, it is not conditional, based on how good your wife is; it is based on obedience ultimately to the Lord.
A while back someone in a troubled marriage, a husband, asked me, "How long do I have to stay on the cross Pastor?" The proper response might be, "How long did Christ stay on the cross?" Answer: Until it was finished.
So just as Christ our husband shows his love for us by sacrificing Himself, a husband leads his wife in love by sacrificing for her.
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one week last month, I twice had
the privilege of freely sharing
some of the specific details of
my personal salvation testimony
to two pairs of listeners.
Thankfully, both were genuinely
curious about my description of
what had transpired as I was
being born again in 1978. In
recalling the specific
circumstances that led to my
born again experience, I was
reminded of two distinct
activities that I believe were
used by the Almighty to prepare
my heart in order to receive the
gospel of truth.
First, there was a community
outreach that occurred in my
neighborhood by some men from a
nearby Methodist church. Two
witnesses simply stopped by my
house one Saturday afternoon,
had a brief conversation about
whether I was a Christian, asked
me to come to their church for a
visit, and left some written
materials for me to read. While
I never went to that particular
church, I was not at all
offended by their sincere offer.
Instead, I simply read the
pamphlets, which boldly
presented the claims of Jesus,
as the Christ. About that same
time, there was an older woman
at the place where I worked, who
was a devout Christian lady,
with a heart for lost souls. She
knew I was not saved and told me
a few times that she was praying
for me, which at the moment, I
just brushed off with a
respectful thank you.
But the Lord knew better.
His time to bring me to faith
was on the horizon, and these
faithful souls handed me the
Word and prayed me into the
Kingdom of
I mention these two providential
spiritual actions, because I
believe the loving Lord used
both of these events to bring me
to faith in the Messiah of
Israel over the next several
months. In many regards, I was
the beneficiary of some men
replanting the Word of God with
written materials, and a godly
woman's prayers for a lost soul.
Ultimately, the Scriptures
indicate that it is God who
causes the increase or draws the
soul into His Kingdom, but He
uses individuals to plant and
water the seeds of truth sown
into the souls of those intended
to be a part of God's family.
The Apostle Paul stated these
truths in this manner:
"I planted, Apollos watered, but
God was causing the growth. So
then neither the one who plants
nor the one who waters is
anything, but God who causes the
growth. Now he who plants and he
who waters are one; but each
will receive his own reward
according to his own labor"
(1 Corinthians 3:6-8).
I mention all of this because
after considerable introspective
reflection on my personal
salvation experience, coupled
with a recent congregational
emphasis on sharing the gospel
to the Jew first, I was prompted
to write this month's article
entitled, "Witness
of the Word." It describes the power of
the Word to save, and our
personal responsibility to share
it with those when led by the
Holy Spirit. Hopefully, you will
be encouraged to not only keep
the Word of God in your heart
and mind—but be ready "in and
out of season," to share it with
others as Divine appointment
opportunities arise, and
continue to pray for those who
have had the seed sown into
their hearts.
Additionally, we continue to
need your support and prayers
for the
Theological Defense Trust, as well as the
Ministry Free Book Fund. The work of the Kingdom
continues unabated!
Finally, we are praying for the
trials and tribulation which are
besetting the people living in Israel, who are contending with the rocket
attacks and unwarranted
condemnation from those around
the world, who are at odds with
what the Holy One is doing to
restore His people to the Land of Israel. Through it all, it is our fervent
prayer that in all of these
difficult circumstances, there
will be many in
and around the world who will
call upon the Lord to be saved,
just like I did years ago:
"As for me, I shall call upon
God, and the
Lord will save me"
(Psalm 55:16).
Praying for
the peace of Jerusalem, and that prophesied day when all Israel will be
saved, and we enter into the
Messiah's Kingdom!
Blessings in Him,
Mark Huey
posted 21 August, 2014 to
Is it at all possible to offer
Bible readers and interpreters,
a feasible, non-supersessionist
alternative, meaning a
non-replacement theology
alternative, to either
dispensationalism or bilateral
ecclesiology? It is possible to
present an alternative to many
individual people in the current
Messianic community. Because of
the complicated religious
politics of today's Messianic
movement, it is likely not too
possible among various leaders
and persons of note, in the
current generation.
Any non-supersessionist
alternative of
ecclesiology, the study
of God's elect, which is to be
presented, has to recognize
three valid points:
1. The establishment of the
State of Israel in 1948 was
according to Bible prophecy
(Isaiah 66:8), as is the return
of scores of Jewish people to
the Land of Israel. Non-Jewish
Believers have a Biblical
responsibility and duty to
support the State of Israel, and
stand up against anti-Semitism
and anti-Judaism in our world.
2. Ethnic Jewish people or
ethnic Israelites
alone, have a
Biblical right to permanent
residence within the Holy Land
(cf. Joshua chs. 15-21; Ezekiel
47:13-48:35), with a few small
exceptions likely only
determined following the return
of Yeshua (cf. Ezekiel
3. Non-Jewish Believers in
Israel's Messiah are to be
regarded as incorporated into an
expanded or enlarged Kingdom
realm of Israel (Amos 9:11-12;
Acts 15:15-18), rightly
considered to be the
Commonwealth of Israel
(Ephesians 2:11-13) or the
Israel of God (Galatians 6:16),
specifically likened unto the
wild branches of Israel's olive
tree (Romans 11:16-24).
posted 19 August, 2014 to
The inclusion of those from the
nations in the Body of Messiah,
as noted by James the Just, was
predicated on the basis of "the
words of the Prophets agree"
(Acts 15:15). While including
the oracle of Amos 9:11-12
quoted thereafter (Acts
15:16-18), many more Tanach
prophecies involving the nations
turning to Israel's God and
people, had to have been in his
mind. We see no forced Torah
observance of the nations, as
was sought by some (Acts 15:1,
5), because the course of
prophecy instead needed to be
fulfilled. This would have
involved oracles like Micah
4:1-3 and Isaiah 2:2-4, about
the nations coming to Zion to be
taught God's Law. It surely
involved Joel 2:28 and
kol-basar... or "all flesh"
(RSV) receiving God's Spirit
(Acts 2:17-21). Consequently, a
major work of God's Spirit is to
supernaturally write His
Instruction on the hearts and
minds of His people, as part of
the New Covenant (Jeremiah
31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:25-27;
Hebrews 8:8-12; 10:16-17). No
one, even Jewish Believers,
needed to be forced to obey
God's Law—when the
supernatural compulsion of His
own Spirit can work absolute
wonders. For, only the
Spirit imbuing a heart and mind,
can enable transformed men and
women to truly have love for God
and neighbor.
While there is every indication
in the Messianic Scriptures,
that the Apostles believed that
the righteous from the nations
were participants in Israel's
restoration along with
them—there is no indication that
the nations could
participate in every single
aspect of such restoration. They
were part of an enlarged Kingdom
realm of Israel, with a restored
Twelve Tribes at its center, and
with the borders of Israel
expanding themselves, as
envisioned by the Tabernacle of
David oracle appealed to by
James the Just (Amos 9:11-12).
Those of the nations would
doubtlessly be welcome to visit
the Land of Israel and express
honor and respect to different
sites of importance—but the
territory of Israel's twelve
tribes for permanent residence,
was largely to be reserved for
ethnic Israelites alone. While
the new, non-Jewish Believers in
the First Century would have to
be purged of their paganism,
there would still remain ethnic
distinctions between Jewish,
Greek, and Roman Believers.
There would also still remain
various cultural distinctions,
simply by virtue of Greek and
Roman Believers being
conditioned by the geography and
climate of diverse areas outside
of the Land of Israel. While
certainly needing to be reformed
and influenced by a Biblical
ethos, various types of
clothing, cuisine, music,
artwork, entertainment,
architecture, and even
literature, would certainly not
all be synthesized to look and
feel like First Century Israel
or Second Temple Judaism.
excerpted from Are
Non-Jewish Believers Really a
Part of Israel?, pp 218-219
posted 18
August, 2014 to
While Torah readers should not
think that the native Israelite
and ger/sojourner were
exactly the same—the native
Israelite and sojourner had far
more in common than not. R.J.D.
Knauth astutely observes how
"The resident alien in
pentateuchal law would seem
generally to be envisioned to be
subject to Israelite law, just
as a native Israelite would
be....[O]ne gains the distinct
general impression that resident
aliens were envisioned as being
accorded equal treatment [by]
the law (Lev 19:33-34; cf. Deut
24:14-15, 17-18), with only a
few exceptions.".... ( "Alien,
Foreign Resident," in
Dictionary of the Old Testament
Pentateuch, pp 30, 31).
There is not an exactness
between the ger/sojourner
and ezrach/native, but
there is an approximate
equivalence for these groups
within Ancient Israel. The
ger/sojourner ≠ ezrach/native
Israelite, but the ger/sojourner
≈ ezrach/native
Israelite. The ger/sojourner,
who entered into Ancient Israel,
was to take steady instruction
from the Torah, to the point
where he could be circumcised,
keep the Passover, and be
regarded as a native. Yet, the
ger/sojourner entering
into the community, even going
through circumcision, could
never totally be the same as the
ezrach/native. Only a
native born into Israel could
legitimately claim the story of
the Exodus and wilderness
journey not just as a part of
his spiritual heritage, but also
his ethnic and cultural
heritage. And, even though it is
most obvious, the native, who
was raised in a culture and
environment of Torah adherence
his entire life, had definite
advantages over a sojourner who
entered into the community of
Israel in later life.
excerpted from One Law for
All: From the Mosaic Texts to
the Work of the Holy Spirit,
pp 45, 46-47
posted 05 August, 2014 to
There are legitimate questions
to be raised from Holy Scripture
about the Divided Kingdom era in
Ancient Israel, and the
dispersions of both the Northern
and Southern Kingdoms. There are
a series of yet-to-be-fulfilled
prophecies, involving the
Northern and Southern Kingdoms
of Israel as participants, still
to be realized in future history
(Isaiah 11:12-16; Jeremiah
31:6-10; Ezekiel 37:15-28; and
Zechariah 10:6-10).
A few would consider those who
think that a prophecy like the
two-stick oracle of
Ezekiel 37:15-28 is unfulfilled
to be "Two-House." Others would
consider it to just be
eschatology, considering
"Two-House" to instead be those who
advocate that just about every
non-Jewish Messianic is a
descendant of the Ten Lost
Tribes, and who generally has a
negative disposition toward both
Judaism and Christianity.
This is an issue on which the
bulk of today's Messianic
community, has not been able to
avoid extremes. Resolution is
going to be needed, which is
fair to the text, and can avoid
unnecessary and unprofitable
Be sure to get a copy of the TNN
Press publication
Israel in
Future Prophecy, for a
candid and open discussion about
this issue:
posted 04 August, 2014 to
There are a variety of Torah
passages that use terms like
"one law" or "one statute"
applying (i.e.,
Exodus 12:48-49; Leviticus 7:7;
24:22; Numbers 9:14; 15:15-16,
in certain circumstances, for
the native and sojourner in
Ancient Israel. These are
supportive of an ideology,
whereby all of God's people
today should be submissive to
His Instruction.
A majority in the One Law/One
Torah sub-movement would say
that God's Torah is a Covenant
Obligation for all of His
people. A ministry like Outreach
Israel and TNN Online would say
that as a part of the Holy
Spirit being poured out upon
"all flesh" (Joel 2:28), that
the Spirit will supernaturally
transcribe the commandments onto
the hearts and minds of the
redeemed, as a part of the
promised New Covenant (Jeremiah
31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:25-27).
This would be a model considered
to be Supernatural Compulsion.
What this can mean, however, is
that the pace of the Holy Spirit
imbuing a Torah ethic upon
redeemed men and women, will be
faster for some, and slower for
others. Far from any of us
trying to "be" the Holy Spirit,
we instead have the
responsibility to facilitate
Messianic fellowships where
people can grow in the Lord, and
where all are loved and honored.
Some might say that this is a
modification of the One Law
ideology popularized in the
2000s. Some might say that this
is a "One Law lite" way of
looking at things. And, some
might say that a Supernatural
Compulsion ideology--while
friendly to some One Law
principles--should stand out as
Many of these, and related
issues, are addressed in the
Torah Helper
(550 pages) by TNN Press:
2014 Book
and Resource
Torah Helper
James for the
Practical Messianic
The Appointed Times
for Messianic Believers
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GORGEOUS TINY baby cream sable girl. Considered a teacup Pom. You can see the age, "Shrimp" is 17 weeks of age and weighs in at only 1# 8 ounces! She will only be a 3# adult! This size, and color, are hard to come by. She has the run of the house, loves attention, follows you everywhere, best of all for a Pom quiet, she is not a barker. It is extremely hard to tell her size or show her actual cuteness in a picture, you must see her in person. TINY TINY. She is all ready getting in her adult coat. She ...
Aug 17 -
4 absolutely gorgeous and SMALL Pomeranian Japanese Chin hybrids registered as Chineranians. Only 6# adults, silky coated, non-barkers, easily trained and are children lovers. 3 males and 1 female, all tri-colors of black red and white. Current on shots, health guarantee, dew claws removed, de-worming program. Come get your new baby today! Feel free to call me at 843-563-6501, or leave message. Ridgeville area.
Very small, hypo-allergenic hybrids, low shedders, silky coated, non-barkers, these babies are super friendly, loyal and easily trained, love children and cats. A fantastic breed. Chineranians are recognized for registration in 2 organizations. Japanese Chin Pomeranian originated from Japan. Dew claws removed, first shots, deworming program, on heartworm preventative, ICA registered out of AKC parents. I also have 3 males to choose from in the other ad. Have been breeding toy breeds for over 15 years ...
Very small, hypo-allergenic hybrids, low shedders, non-barkers, silky coated, these babies are super friendly, loyal and easily trained. These are wonderful children pets, they love cats and kids! A fantastic breed. Chineranians are recognized for registration in 2 organizations. Japanese Chin Pomeranian originated from Japan. Dew claws removed, first shots, deworming program, on heartworm preventative, ICA registered out of AKC parents. 3 Males to choose from. They are around only 6# as an adult. ...
CKC Beautiful Malshi - Shih Tzu Maltese cross. Mom is CKC Shih Tzu 10 lb and Dad is 8 lb AKC/CKC Maltese. Excellent pets, non-shedding,hypoallergenic. Should mature to less than 10 lbs. Wormed every two weeks, will go to the vet at 6 weeks for health check, worming and shots. Puppies will be well socialized. Will be ready 10/3/14 to go to their new homes. This breed goes fast! Only two females available. Will hold for $150.00 deposit. The last picture is from her last litter. Call 843-899-5940, ...
Aug 17 -
Moncks Corner
Super Cute Maltipoo pups
We have 3 beautiful maltipoo pups , there are 2 males and 1 female . Taking deposits now to hold the puppy of your choice . Charting to be around 5-5 1/2 lb full grown .Please let me know if you have any questions.
Aug 16 -
Black double-coated Male 8 month old Pomeranian
- 8 month old
- Black double-coat
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Aug 16 -
Goose Creek
Cairn Terrier (Little Wizard of Oz ToTo) Puppies
Wizard of Oz ToTo Puppies, Cairn Terriers, a wonderful loving non-shedding breed, one male and one female. CKC, 910-640-4763.
Cute German Sheppard Puppies for sale - 8 weeks old
German Sheppard puppies. Full blooded puppies. Born June 21st. No papers. 3 males and 3 females available.
Aug 15 -
I have 6 great dane puppies left . im asking 550 with akc papers obo They are 2 1/2 months old have had first shots and deworming .Mother and father are on site.The mother is fawn 130 lbs and father is merle 140. The puppies are good with kids and other dogs. Serious inquiries only please. I have reduced there price to sell them quickly. I will not hold any puppies they will be on a first come first serve basis and please don't low ball me either ,also please speak to your significant other if ...
Aug 15 -
AKC Working Line German Shepherd Pups Ready Around Oct 10
Announcing our litter of working line import German Shepherd pups. Pups will be ready for their new homes at 8 weeks of age , the week of Oct 10th. There are 4 males, 3 females ranging in color from sable like mom to bi-color & solid black.
Sire is 110 lbs. Bi-color working Czech lines, OFA -GOOD. Super family friendly, & protective of home. He has Congo Vikar on his AKC papers! His sire was 120 lbs. bi color, dam was 95 lbs sable. He has been handled by a child in Schutzchund tracking & ...
Aug 14 -
Yorkshire Terriers
Yorkshire Terriers...Registered, AKC>>>CKC have been vet checked, shots and deworming , In Summerville SC , for more information please call 843-324-3772
Aug 12 -
Morkie CKC Registered, 1 male, 1 female, asking $ 450.00, have been vet checked, shots and dewormed. Come with puppy packs. In Summerville Sc . For more information please call 843-324-3772.
CKC Male Yorkie
I am needing to rehome my male yorkie due. He was born in March 2014 and is 5 pounds. He loves other animals and kids. Crate and house trained and will go on puppy pads if needed. He is a great dog and loves attention. Will come with crate, food, and all supplies. No Scammers.
Aug 11 -


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