tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11840313.post8340828935890766807..comments2024-03-10T10:54:59.776-07:00Comments on Ben Witherington: Not to Worry-- A Guest SermonBen Witheringtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017701050859255865noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11840313.post-4583740412833444162007-06-12T19:19:00.000-07:002007-06-12T19:19:00.000-07:00OK the prescription info spam is really hysterical...OK the prescription info spam is really hysterically funny. Read the sermon. Don't worry! Trust in...Aciphex! [Jesus smiles and holds up the product for the camera]<BR/><BR/>Read the Sermon on the Mount as a whole and you'll make more connections. Our hoarding behavior makes us worry. We are terrified to be poor, and it's the cause and result of our hoarding. If we live simply and don't get sucked into the escalating hyperconsumerist acquisitive culture, we have more resources to share with the poor, thereby living our likeness. God provides for us; those who are well provisioned, provision others. Spread the blessing. Couple that with direct face-to-face service of poor people--and you will lose your fear and worry.<BR/><BR/>Not making the mortgage payment? Stressed out about finances? How self-indulgent have you been? To the point of being in hock up to the hilt? (Like most Americans?) Your appetites are infinite--even secular economics says so. Your hoarding is your faith in stuff.<BR/><BR/>Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and thieves break in and steal.<BR/><BR/>Moths never attacked anyone's clothes while they wore them. Rust doesn't catch up to stuff in use (except cars in the salty North)! Thieves steal things that elicit envy.<BR/><BR/>If you have stuff you don't use, it belongs to someone else. Clear your house, clear your mind, clear your heart. Bless someone else from your excess stuff. Decide to be rust and moth free! No storage units!<BR/><BR/>If you live ostentation, do not be surprised at the thieves; they are responding to your message. Rethink your ostentation. How does it imitate the humility of the Lord?<BR/><BR/>Mt 25 deserves a good reading and praying over in this light, too.<BR/><BR/>So, yeah, it's much bigger than trust in the Lord...God will provide. We think of this idea as, what's in it for me? rather than, God will provide...through me, to others.<BR/><BR/>(I'm preaching primarily at myself.)kentuckylizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08110491371985845560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11840313.post-63379829586655460132007-05-25T14:55:00.000-07:002007-05-25T14:55:00.000-07:00I especially loved the beginning of this.I especially loved the beginning of this.seethroughfaithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15041055467020894063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11840313.post-11572448369156049852007-05-21T12:32:00.000-07:002007-05-21T12:32:00.000-07:00Aciphex decreases the amount of acid produced in y...Aciphex decreases the amount of acid produced in your stomach. Aciphex is used to treat ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD or heartburn), and other conditions involving excessive stomach acid production. <A HREF="http://www.buytramadolonline.ws/blog/index.html" REL="nofollow">Prescription info</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11840313.post-58582225186799828792007-05-21T12:28:00.000-07:002007-05-21T12:28:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11840313.post-24782287137824438172007-05-19T18:19:00.000-07:002007-05-19T18:19:00.000-07:00I left in 1995 to come to Asbury.I left in 1995 to come to Asbury.Ben Witheringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06017701050859255865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11840313.post-34379802763365955162007-05-19T11:11:00.000-07:002007-05-19T11:11:00.000-07:00Good stuff.How long ago were you at ATS? My wife ...Good stuff.<BR/><BR/>How long ago were you at ATS? My wife works there, and I know some of the professors.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16542363125498349029noreply@blogger.com