But it made for an interesting few moments when we first read it. Both the United States government and the German government have stated it did not happen. It was said that President Trump gave Germany’s Angela Merkel a multi-billion dollar invoice for past NATO expenses. It seems the more outrageous the story the faster people pass it on. There truly is a lot of fake news and most of it circulates on Facebook. Being faithful to one’s children is completing the great Gospel Commission found at the close of Matthew. If you promise to read three stories if Michael or Alicia goes to bed right away, be ever so faithful to read those three stories without skipping pages so you can hurry and go watch TV. The greatest form of evangelism is always keeping your word when you make a promise to your children. Therefore, it was easy for me to go to the cradle roll division at church and accept that my heavenly Father also cared for me the very same way. One of my greatest blessings was to never doubt my human father’s love. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Therefore Proverbs 3:5-6 is one of the more important texts in Scripture. So often we are not ideal parents and we sometimes betray our children’s trust unknowingly making it more difficult for our children to grow up trusting God. When Jesus told us to call God “Our Father” He was hoping we had ideal fathers and we could use that relationship as an avenue to love His Father. Trust is also the building block for faith and for the development of a relationship with God. Can they trust their caregivers to be nurturing and to respond to their needs? Can they trust older siblings? Trust is the basis of every relationship that will follow in their entire lives. Please refresh yourself by rereading the close of I Corinthians 15.Ĭurrent research in the field of child development posits that the most important foundational thing a baby learns is trust. A fleeting moment of nothingness and then the trump of God blares across the universe. If you are a friend of Jesus, death is temporary. Surely Satan cringed with contempt when he heard Jesus say in front of a tomb of a man who had been dead four days, “Lazarus, come forth.” It was a hallmark moment in the history of mankind. But then we would be missing one of the world’s greatest soliloquies, which should give all of us pause to reflect on the wonder of the promises we have received from Jesus, the Resurrection and the Life. If only Hamlet really had known Jesus his fear would been stilled. To die, to sleep to sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.” ’tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d. And I wanted to add from Act 5, “To be or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die. I wanted to turn around and say, “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. While lecturing he was looking over my shoulder. I need to bone up a bit to get all of them. I haven’t done that since high school biology class. While waiting for all my students to arrive I tried to remember the names of all the bones. My class this morning was moved to a classroom containing a real human skeleton.
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