Correspondent
My name is Duane. I am currently the author of two published books, and several more books that have not been released for publication, as of this time. By viewing the associated sites, Life Learning Series, you will be able to get a view of the other publications that are in the pipeline. As an adjunct to the publications that are listed in the Life Learning Series, there are helpful pointers to other sites at our place of Achieving the Abundant Life. These other sites will assist you in moving either toward, or in, the abundant life.
This blog is the place where the freeform pontification is done. We do not make excuses for our statements about life, or about the Bible. Nor do we make excuses, here, for our statements about the various ways of life that are being promoted as alternatives to the Christian walk. By stating this, I have given you the only clue that you need to know that I attempt to walk in the way of Christ. This I do also without apology.
If you are offended by strong, sometimes dogmatic, statements of the way of the LORD God, then, by all means, read from these three areas.
Of course, if you are enthralled by the way of the LORD, and of His Christ; please feel free to both read what is here, and to comment on what you see written. Or, to be more precise, at the current time: send me a message about your views of things that you see, if you think that there is some need for consideration of your view of life. However, be warned; the author does not waiver in what I believe just because someone tells me that there is a mass opinion that requires me to do so. The only options that the author recognizes in life, are those that come from the LORD.
With all that having been said, I give you the following Scripture to carry with you through life.
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.~And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.~Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.~Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.~ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.(1 Corinthians 2)
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