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Q. When was the first meat mentioned in the Bible? A. When Noah took Ham into the ark.

John 1:29-34 29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’ 31 I myself did…

[29] The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. [30] This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. [31] And I knew him not: but…

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Perhaps a human being does not die until he no longer sees anything but the past and the present moment. Leo Baeck, “The Pharisees” Reprinted from ‘A Treasury of Jewish Quotations,’ edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc.

You can be committed to church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church. –Joel Osteen

Don’t give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight– for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. -Dhammapada, 2, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

The Lord spoke further to Moses, saying, “Consecrate to Me every first-born; man and beast, the first issue of every womb among the Israelites is Mine.” And Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, on which you went free from Egypt, the house of bondage, how the Lord freed you from it with a…

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. –German Proverb

John 15:1-16 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. 3 You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide…

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