I think some folks are getting upset over this but you guys must understand my husband takes photos of me no matter what
Here is a thread of his “I love my beautiful wife” series
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
Yes. That is exactly why we exist.
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I pray for you my friends ,this week you receive more insights in God’s word for everyday living . Your efforts and your investments won’t waste ,your relationships are strengthened and overcome all challenges.
You win! I love you my friends
Bible doctrine is not a trivial thing .
Every doctrinal position has consequences.
Every hermeneutical slant or methodology has implications.
Where Christian orthodoxy is concerned , there are no innovations , edits or revisions allowed .
We follow what has been believed , taught and practiced from the early church , through church fathers , attested to by at least the first 6 ecumenical councils about essential matters .
The moment any interpretation of scripture departs from what has been clearly discussed and settled , that interpretation must be investigated, interrogated and questioned with sincerity , love , respect .
Christian doctrine and its purity is no small thing . It is the very basis of worship , lifestyle and aspiration.
The believer and minister must understand this . Doctrinal issues are not a joke .
healthcare, low awareness, financial limitations, and lack of organized screening programs, especially in developing countries.
So many lives could be saved with earlier detection.
God help us truly.
I had my Oncology rotation.
It made me hate death even more.
Cancer is so terrible.
Late diagnosis is still one of the biggest challenges because most cancers are discovered when they are already advanced.
Screening is a game changer, but the problem is poor access to
PCOS is being renamed to PMOS. (Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome)
The change comes from experts that say the old name was misleading, stating that it inaccurately suggested ovarian cysts as a defining feature.
I have been slowly unraveling and marveling at the trinity alongside a brother in Christ. Today he shared this verse and it hit me differently.
“By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.” Psalm 33:6
David, in a single verse of doxology, quietly crystallizes the Trinity. The heavens made by the Logos. The starry host animated by the Ruach. The Father as the initiating source of both.
This means something staggering about who God was before the universe existed. God was not waiting, God was not empty and God was certainly not bored. No one who possesses such a Word and such a Spirit is any of those things.
The capacity for creation was not something God acquired. It was internal to him. Which means the relationships between Father, Word, and Spirit were not created for the universe, but the universe was created out of them.
Theologians say God is self-sufficient and I think this verse shows you what that actually looks like.
It looks like a Father whose Word executes his intentions with perfect fidelity and whose Spirit gives life to everything that Word calls into form. Those are not transactions, those are the movements of love.
A universe without the Word is chaos. A universe without the Spirit is a corpse. What God made is neither. And the reason is not that God found good materials. It is that God brought good relationships.
The universe did not give God something to love. God’s love is what gave the universe something to be.
Matthew 1:6 is quietly staggering, because it does something many people miss.
Matthew is describing the Messiah’s lineage. Usually, ancient royal records erased any hint of shame to preserve the family’s dignity. But Matthew takes a different path. He gives David his highest title; “the king” and then immediately reminds us of his greatest sin.
He doesn’t just list Solomon as David’s son. Instead, he identifies Solomon’s mother as “Uriah’s wife.”
Matthew didn't have to include that detail. By doing so, he forces a murdered soldier back into the story at the very start of the New Testament. It’s a clear signal that Heaven never validated David’s theft of another man’s wife. Even generations later, the text still links her to the man the king had killed.
And David isn't the only "messy" entry. Matthew intentionally includes three other women who didn't need to be there, Tamar, a woman who posed as a prostitute. Rahab, an actual prostitute and a Canaanite. And Ruth a Moabite from a background technically excluded by law.
Every single one of them arrived trailing a question mark. Matthew includes them almost needlessly, which means he includes them on purpose. By the time you reach Mary who was publicly suspected of exactly what Tamar was accused of, you understand what he’s been building.
This is a line that has always looked compromised from the outside and carried God’s purposes on the inside. The Messiah does not descend from a spotless aristocracy of saints. He enters a line soaked in failure, scandal, murder, exile, and mercy.
But I sat with the paradox. If the Messiah enters through a contaminated line by design, why does the biological engine suddenly stop? Why, after all that history, the virgin birth?
Because Matthew is holding two truths simultaneously and he signals it in the grammar itself.
The genealogy runs on a single engine: “Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob” human father, human son, over and over, the same rhythm for 41 verses.
Then it stops. It does not say “Joseph begat Jesus.” Instead: “Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus.”. The pattern breaks. Matthew is waving a flag.
The genealogy says He is one of us. The virgin birth says He is not merely one of us.
Christ enters human history through the contaminated line; legally Davidic, historically rooted, standing inside the ruined house of Adam rather than pretending humanity is cleaner than it is.
But if He were only the end product of that line, He would be another fallen son of history. The virgin birth is not God abandoning the genealogy. It is God ensuring that the One who enters the mess is not finally defined by it. Fully human, historically real. Yet originating ultimately from outside the corruption He came to fix.
Two truths collide in chapter 1 of Matthew. First God fully joins the contaminated stream, and second God simultaneously introduces a new beginning within it.
The Messiah is born of a virgin. But the blood in His veins traces back through a murderer, a prostitute, a dead soldier whose name God never let the record forget.
He came into the real human condition. Which means He came into yours.