Saturday, November 15, 2025
Friday, November 14, 2025
first Xmas music
Some on YT, but first, in public
McD's Beach Boys? Frosty
Boys to Men? Merry Little
Belafonte 12 Days
June Christy Seven Shades of Snow
Never remember hearing this song in my life
Andy Williams O Come All Ye Faithful
Nice, especially ending
Ella's Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Darlene L8ve Baby Please ComecHome (Christmas?) Dumb name
Diana with Supremes not Diana yet
Happy Holidays
50s style Choir, Another 12 Days
Roy Orbison Pretty Paper
Hippo for Christmas
Fabulous Ella's again so soon, It Came Upon
Oh my the mist beautiful melody and voice I have ever heard even though the album is tedious because all is the same. I think this is random songs, not really a Playlist
Modern Choir, trying to sound old, Hark the Herald then jazzy, then gospel. Actually just a few people? Pentatonix
Bing Merry Little Christmas
B Helms Jingle Bell Rock
Dean I've got my live to keep me warm
So easy of course
Perry Como No place like home for the holidays a little slow, then a little fast when the Choir comes in, then too slow again
C looney? Google didn't know C is for the Christchild
Frank Mistletoe and Holly
My favorite version, male voice at least, Bing Do you hear whatbi hear
Della Reese Merry Christmas Baby.sho did treat me nice Nope Etta James
Bing again? Random? Christmas in Hawsii nicevtrumpet,
Lee Greenwood? Merry Little Christmas , another R and B version
Beach Boys? starting over? Frosty
Barely Manilow A Gift of Love with someone as good as Diana, ONJ? What? When? She got better? She is alivevsomewhere?
First Karen Carpenter, No Place Like Home For the Holidays
First King Cole, God Rest Ye Merry
Speaking of repetitive, Cole Chestnuts
Cain and Abel - Envy in the Church
Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee
1 John 3:10-17
The Bible Bus - 66 Books in Five Years - TTB.org
Our speaker provides some background on the epistle of 1 John. John the apostle, who lived with Jesus, and knows the subject well, expounds here upon the two natures of people, which live side by side, wrestling inside the believer. To make the difference obvious, the contrast is made between the first man born on earth and the second. Note that the murderer was born first. It's natural. There's nothing unnatural about murder.
In the gospel of John, Jesus made it clear that there are two natures; flesh and spirit. Building upon the idea already expressed by the Greeks, John writes, in Greek, words that will influence the West and the world for the next two millenia.
We don't like this idea today as the age of Hellenization comes to an end. But the dichotomy is a powerful one and I think we misunderstand it.
The church I know doesn't do enough wrestling. We know there are two natures, but we don't want to talk about it. We find the good in the world and use the word spiritual to mean any belief. But what is John saying when he contrasts the flesh and the spirit? He's not saying the body is bad and thoughts are good. The spirit isn't something everyone has, it's God within and either God is within someone or not.
The problem is that the people God is in, just act like everybody else; knowing full well that we're not. This is uncomfortable, unprofitable and wrong. It's also confusing. If you mix two things together, what do you have? Jars of clay, with what inside?
"You can do a lot with the flesh. You can train it. You can discipline it. You can send it to school. You can educate it." Like a pig, we can dress it up and take it out of the pigpen, but it's still a pig.
But the spirit nature is something else. And by spirit nature, he means the good stuff and not just anything that's invisible. (1 Corinthians 2:9) Eye has not seen and ear has not heard these things. Those organs are made of flesh, and they can't see the good; not really, but God reveals the truth by spirit. Your regular old eyes can't see it. The Spirit is our teacher. You are of your father, and that could be the devil, or God. Spirit doesn't mean thought. It means the right spirit; the right thought or God. Here Mr. McGee make one of his beliefs clear that people don't like. I don't like it. I like the idea of universal brotherhood, but it's not in the Bible. A universal hope is. A universal opportunity is there. But not everybody accepts it. Sure, we're all capable of being God's children
Children take after their father.
Jealousy includes suspicion. You can love and be jealous. It implies that there is concern for the other person. and
Envy - which characterizes Cain; the first murderer. "Discontent or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied wiht some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages."
Envy and jealousy hurt the Church more than anything else. Of course the world won't accept the teachings of Christ. But the Church hasn't either! Jesus said "John 15:18 You know the world hated Jesus, so of course the World hates the truth. The world loves its own. If we're too loved, we're not different enough. Matt 5:21 Whoever is angry without a cause Danger of hatred - murderer.
1 John 3:10-17
The Bible Bus - 66 Books in Five Years - TTB.org
Our speaker provides some background on the epistle of 1 John. John the apostle, who lived with Jesus, and knows the subject well, expounds here upon the two natures of people, which live side by side, wrestling inside the believer. To make the difference obvious, the contrast is made between the first man born on earth and the second. Note that the murderer was born first. It's natural. There's nothing unnatural about murder.
In the gospel of John, Jesus made it clear that there are two natures; flesh and spirit. Building upon the idea already expressed by the Greeks, John writes, in Greek, words that will influence the West and the world for the next two millenia.
We don't like this idea today as the age of Hellenization comes to an end. But the dichotomy is a powerful one and I think we misunderstand it.
The church I know doesn't do enough wrestling. We know there are two natures, but we don't want to talk about it. We find the good in the world and use the word spiritual to mean any belief. But what is John saying when he contrasts the flesh and the spirit? He's not saying the body is bad and thoughts are good. The spirit isn't something everyone has, it's God within and either God is within someone or not.
The problem is that the people God is in, just act like everybody else; knowing full well that we're not. This is uncomfortable, unprofitable and wrong. It's also confusing. If you mix two things together, what do you have? Jars of clay, with what inside?
"You can do a lot with the flesh. You can train it. You can discipline it. You can send it to school. You can educate it." Like a pig, we can dress it up and take it out of the pigpen, but it's still a pig.
But the spirit nature is something else. And by spirit nature, he means the good stuff and not just anything that's invisible. (1 Corinthians 2:9) Eye has not seen and ear has not heard these things. Those organs are made of flesh, and they can't see the good; not really, but God reveals the truth by spirit. Your regular old eyes can't see it. The Spirit is our teacher. You are of your father, and that could be the devil, or God. Spirit doesn't mean thought. It means the right spirit; the right thought or God. Here Mr. McGee make one of his beliefs clear that people don't like. I don't like it. I like the idea of universal brotherhood, but it's not in the Bible. A universal hope is. A universal opportunity is there. But not everybody accepts it. Sure, we're all capable of being God's children
Children take after their father.
Jealousy includes suspicion. You can love and be jealous. It implies that there is concern for the other person. and
Envy - which characterizes Cain; the first murderer. "Discontent or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied wiht some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages."
Envy and jealousy hurt the Church more than anything else. Of course the world won't accept the teachings of Christ. But the Church hasn't either! Jesus said "John 15:18 You know the world hated Jesus, so of course the World hates the truth. The world loves its own. If we're too loved, we're not different enough. Matt 5:21 Whoever is angry without a cause Danger of hatred - murderer.
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