I still have hope! Thing is, I don't need another bible for me, but I would like to be able to win one to give away! Then it would be a Bible Giveaway-Giveaway! Click the links below to learn more!

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More blogging to do

I am really meaning to blog more.

Email Stephen.Koehn@gmail.com if you just read this... Who am I updating REALLY?

Trying something new

So I am giving this new thing a try... Less Facebook, simple Twitter, and if I really have something to say... Blogger.

Now I can blog from my iPod!

Logos Bible Software is celebrating the launch of their new online Bible by giving away 72 ultra-premium print Bibles at a rate of 12 per month for six months. The Bible giveaway is being held at Bible.Logos.com and you can get up to five different entries each month! After you enter, be sure to check out Logos and see how it can revolutionize your Bible study.

I have entered to win a Bible and you can, too!

This is a great way to "get the Word out."

Long time no post! Sorry it has been a while... Life has been pretty busy! Got rid of the ol' PC and have embraced the Mac. Pleased.

Eh, who knows how much I will keep up with this... we'll see.

So, so tired…

I had come home from a long day at work and enjoyed a lovely meal.  We had decided after the food that we would enjoy catching up on some of our shows online.  We were about halfway through and episode of NCIS and we realized Levi had walked away.  I looked over my shoulder and I saw my little man…  Poor guy was so tired, he just climbed onto the couch and zonked out!  He doesn’t normally do that.  All I could do was laugh and take a picture.  What you do not see is after he almost woke up…  He was fussing, and was sitting up but ASLEEP.  I looked like a tower about to topple. 

I love that kid!

I am trying out mobile blogger, where I can send a text message to my blogspot account after already having added my phone number. We'll see how this goes!

To trust or not to trust? Our righteousness is in question…

I was reading Ezekiel 33:13 today, which says:

“When I say to the righteous that he shall live, and he has trusted in his righteousness, and shall do unrighteousness, none of his righteousness shall be remembered, but because of his unrighteousness that he has done, he shall die.”

We must now consider this passage in light of Messiah in our lives.

Righteousness is good right?  Of course it is, after all Abraham believed and it was imputed to him as righteousness (Rom 4:3, Gal 3:6, Jam 2:23). I believe the key phrase in this verse is “and he has trusted in his righteousness…” It is not wrong to be righteous.  In fact, righteousness and holiness are quite encouraged.  But where does our trust lie?  According to this passage, it should not lie in our own righteousness (though we are righteous).  It is not an issue of being righteous (YHWH is saying to the righteous, ‘you shall live.’”).  The issue is that the righteous one trusted in his righteousness and when he did unrighteousness, all of his righteousness has been forgotten.

If we believe as Abraham has believed, it is imputed to us as righteousness.  Okay.  We are righteous.  YHWH says to us that we will live.  But where is our trust? If we trust in our righteousness and we sin, we are condemned.  If we trust in our righteousness and say we have no sin, we are a liar and we make Him a liar (1 Joh 1:8-10). But if we do sin (and are not trusting in our own righteousness) then we have an Advocate with the Father, Y’shua the Messiah, the Righteous (1 Joh 2:1).

 

We must remember that we are saved by grace through faith and that not of ourselves, it is a free gift from our Father (Eph 2:8).

 

“Indeed, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in Elohim who raises the dead, who rescued us from so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we trust that He shall still rescue us.”

2 Cor 1:9-10

 

Where is your trust? Is it in your own righteousness?  Or is it in Y’shua the Messiah? I put my trust in Him and call on His name.  There is no other name by which men can be saved (Acts 4:12).

Wow.  Well, it sure has been a long while since I have posted!  In a noble attempt to begin a discussion on taboo religious topics, I have not kept up with it.  Of a truth, I long to learn the mysteries of the Word and enjoy stepping on toes and having mine stepped on for the sake of edification in the truth in love.  Sure things discussed may be uncomfortable to talk about, but this is about coming into truth, is it not?

Though I would love to have a monologue or dialogue on blogspot--I look forward to having any discussion on any topic in any venue--that we may come into the truth, being guided by His Spirit in the Word--in the pursuit of love, our highest call.

...but, to keep the posts coming, I will also keep brief updates on the family, too!

---Will be back with more---

'Tis been a long while since last I spoke on this stage called "blog." I am still alive, I do declare, kicking, screaming inside, I dare not hide behind this mask I have created in my own despair. I dare rise, once again, to blog about all ends and odds. Please forgive the man behind the screen for delaying that which is most required--to share his heart, in part, and the wisdom or lack thereof over the years he has acquired. It is his desire to share with you those things which he has learned, in hopes to provoke the thoughful bloke around each and every turn.