Husband.Christian. Forgiven & forgiver. Victorious survivor. Love as God loves me. Hiker trying to experience the great outdoors exactly how God created us
This is me stepping back into a church building for the first time in 2 years.
I’ve never stopped believing, but I am on guard because of a lifetime of hurt & manipulation.
My beliefs are my own and I’m working them out through studying God’s Word & His guidance.
You know what wrecked me when I was newly Christian?
Genesis 22. For years as a Muslim, I was told the story was about Ishmael.
Then I actually read it and honestly, I think the bigger question isn't Isaac or Ishmael.
It's this: Why would God ask Abraham to sacrifice his son in the first place? What kind of God does that?
The answer hit me like a freight train.
God wasn't being cruel. He was painting a picture.
Because Abraham never goes through with it. God stops him.
And then God provides a ram in his place. That's not just a test.
That's prophecy. That's a blueprint.
A father.
A son.
A sacrifice.
A substitute.
Genesis 22 is the heartbeat of the Gospel. God was foreshadowing the day when He Himself would provide the sacrifice. Not for one man. Not for one family.
But for the whole world. Salvation wasn't earned by Abraham's performance.
It came through God's provision. Not your deeds.
Not your striving or your religious record.
A substitute. A gift.
And here's what made me stop and think: The Quran retells the story but removes the name of the son. Why?
Because once you start following the thread through Genesis, the prophets, and the covenant promises, you eventually have to wrestle with the Lamb that comes later.
You have to wrestle with Jesus. The perfect sacrifice that every previous sacrifice pointed toward.
And that's when I realized: The story was never ultimately about Abraham. It was always about what God was going to do for us.
And there's nothing we can do to earn His approval. We can only receive the sacrifice He already provided.
After I wrote an article last year about Nudism and Spirituality, a few people reached out and asked if I would follow it up with another one, so here it is.
The Greatest Work of Art
by: Rick Dorociak
If people believe that humanity was created in the image of God, then perhaps we should begin by asking a simple question:
Why would God's greatest creation be something to hide?
The Bible never says that the human body is evil. It says God created mankind in His image. Before shame entered the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were naked. Their nakedness was not described as sinful.
Jesus spoke often about love, mercy, forgiveness, justice, and the condition of the heart. He warned against lust, but He never recorded a teaching that the unclothed human body itself was sinful.
Paul even called the human body "a temple of the Holy Spirit." He encouraged believers to honor God with their bodies, not because the body was shameful, but because it was sacred.
For centuries, churches commissioned magnificent paintings and sculptures celebrating God's creation of humanity. Artists painted Adam and Eve, Biblical heroes, angels, and even Christ with remarkable attention to the beauty and dignity of the human form and they created them... naked.
Perhaps somewhere along history's path, many people began confusing the human body with other peoples misconceptions of the body. Those are NOT the same thing.
A painting hanging in a cathedral is not sinful because it depicts the human form, neither is a marble statue and
neither is the body God created.
The question is not whether a body exists, the question is how we choose to see it.
If God is the greatest artist, then the human body may be His greatest masterpiece, not because it is perfect by the "world's" standards, but because it bears the image of its Creator.
Perhaps we've spent too much time teaching people to be ashamed of God's artwork, when instead we should be teaching them to respect it.
Rick
President Trump is right:
It shouldn’t be this hard to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship and voter ID.
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@SenateGOP Then why are you not passing the SAVE AMERICA ACT like American citizens want??????
The GOP stopped listing to their constituents.
@SenTomCotton@LeaderJohnThune
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“Get the hell outta here.”
This is the attitude that our elected officials have for Republican voters — contempt.
“I’m the assh@le saying you can’t come in.”
If you know anyone in South Dakota, please show them this video.
I never ask you to make things viral.