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Jesus offers new beginning to all
Published Tuesday, September 23, 2008
I encourage you today to ask the Lord Jesus Christ to do a new thing in your life.
I know it’s the end of the month of September. But God’s word says in the book of Ecclesiastes Chapter 7, Verse 8: “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning.”
So as I write this article at the end of the month of September, I pray that someone may take heed to these words of encouragement.
Sometimes things don’t always go the way we plan them. Someone reading this article may be saying to themselves, “Lord Jesus I’m tired of the old lifestyle I’m living. I haven’t been baptized. I haven’t been born again. I don’t go to church. I don’t read and study my Bible and it seems like nothing is going right for me.”
Well, if that’s you, read Romans Chapter 10, Verses 9, 10 and 11. You can become a new creature in Christ Jesus and have a new beginning in your life. It’s not too late.
The word of God says according to Second Corinthians Chapter 5, Verse 17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things pass away, behold all things are become new.”
Let me paraphrase that for you. It means if you’ve been born again and you are a new creature in Christ Jesus, that old lifestyle you used to live, you don’t want to do it anymore.
That’s because you are starting anew in your life.
Lamentations Chapter 3, Verse 23 says, “They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. His mercy is new every morning. And every day we have a new beginning with Christ.”
So make today a new beginning in your life. Ask God to help you in your new life. See when you have that new life in Christ Jesus. No one has to beg you or make you come to church, or Bible study.
It’s in your heart and you got a new spirit in Christ Jesus and you want to do it.
I hope I have said something in this article to help somebody to start a new beginning in their life.
Evangelist Sister Anne Holiday Ross
Natchez resident
Comments
Posted by Bobaloo (anonymous) on September 23, 2008 at 12:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
i wonder why they won't print my pagan ritual rights letter i keep sending in? Where is free speech and equal rights? Pagans are mentioned in the Bible too....
Posted by Yeahuhuh (anonymous) on September 23, 2008 at 1:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I do respect the Democrat for putting Sister Anne's piece in the paper.
I think that a healthy dialog by all faiths is good for our souls.
Some people think God is absent from this world and lets man do what he will with it. Though not all do, many Christians feel this way.
Some people think God is the fiber and substance of everything that works on this planet and is truth itself. Many more esoteric religions hold this view, but also many Christians.
I don't know for sure but I do think that "the lie" is the building block of evil in our world. The more lies per sentence one uses, the more likely they are not what they claim to be and are up to no good even for themselves.
Free speech and equal rights helps us to a world that is better in the sense that the truth has a better chance of prevailing. We should all speak our minds and let the truth prevail!!
Posted by natchezsouthside (anonymous) on September 23, 2008 at 3:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh christ.
Posted by sammohon (anonymous) on September 23, 2008 at 10:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Yeahuhuh...believe it or not, we're in agreement on this one...problem is you haven't learned to honestly respect someone else's honest divergence from your own opinion...that's, yeah, uh, uh, HYPOCRISY.
Posted by Yeahuhuh (anonymous) on September 24, 2008 at 4:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well Sam, I respect Sister Anne's appeal to the souls of those who would hear her message and need it.
I write a lot about ethic. In my cosmology, to take the time to agree or disagree with anyone in a qualified way is a gesture of respect. I need not swallow their concoction to be respectful, and if they are not polite I am certainly not obliged to capitulate to them, or offer them silence as a reply.
Take here, for instance. You claim I am being hypocritical, yet it is just an opinion without qualification. No evidence cited, and no apparent examples at hand -- we know our history, but this is another chance for civility into which you have already pitched.
In a near-anonymous forum of ideas, a poorly qualified branding of hypocrisy is what I would call something between imperial and inflammatory. Perhaps you differ on that, or that is the type of discourse you encourage in your family and your world.
Civilized discourse would seem to demand an explanation or a qualification as I am sure I am not so able as to be universally hypocritical and I already know you are not so careful in what you say as to be universally correct.
The fact that I do not step back from the keyboard, and will continue to meet aggression with insight and accusation is only as bad as anyone cares to make it. I damn no one to hell and my accusations are not nearly as broad as yours.
I do challenge conservatism's assumptions about itself in a way that you do not encounter on the streets of a small southern town.
I, having been in both camps know the ire that causes in those who rest on the supposition of conservative grandeur they feel is totally beyond question. That is our special conflict Sam, I postulate, especially pertinent both at election time and when what passes as conservatism has just dumped so in all our britches.
I do think you are much too generous in the allowances you make for that supposed grandeur. But what moves me in our interaction is the eagerness with which you lump all who oppose you into the same cauldron and demonize them without qualification. Simple hypocrisy would be far more palatable. And more careful qualification would render your thoughts more valid.
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