In the Shadows
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Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Now on this February 2nd, Punxsutawney Phil
the seer of seers, the prognosticator of all prognosticators was
awakened from his wintry nap at dawn on Gobbler's Knob
Phil looked to the skies and then, speaking in Groundhogese,
directed the President to the proper scroll, which reads...
What a way to start a Sunday fun day. You always said you'd make it here one day.
To this place, barely big enough to contain ya. To this sweet Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
We're all here with the elements combined
Where Mother Nature meets Father Time
To hear the truth - Are those gray skies?
Only I know (you can't trust A.l.)
It's Groundhog Day and maybe life is on a loop
But I miss my burrow, I miss my coop
So I'm headed back down! There's a shadow up here!
Get ready for 6 more weeks of winter this year!
Its a strange thing how folk loor and superstion become a part of our everyday life and we dont understnad the signifacts or the impact it may have on the way we view God. The prophetch uterancy of a well dressed man at the crack of dawn that have been diermained by the shadow of a plump rodnet that happens to share my name Phil have origniated from germans tradtions witch they would orignaly use a the shadow of a hedge hedgehog to PA.
But the superstions and aloor tided to shadows can be trace much furthe back in time.
There were many beliefs about Shadows in the
Come as you are and be added to the Lord!(14-16)
Come as you are and be added to the Lord!(14-16)
God makes His unbreakable Church with broken People. (13,15-16)
God makes His unbreakable Church with broken People. (13,15-16)
Through the preaching of the Good News God gifts believers faith and adds them to His Church.
Signs and wonders
Seeing signs and wonders, and being amazed at them, and giving the miracle-worker credit for them that he is from God, saves nobody. This is one of the great dangers of signs and wonders: You don’t need a new heart to be amazed at them. The old, fallen human nature is all that’s needed to be amazed at signs and wonders.
John Piper
Second, they were able to perform the signs of an apostle, being authenticated by miraculous “signs and wonders and mighty works”
John F. MacArthur; Richard Mayhue
Broken people have trust issues
Broken people have trust issues
Signs and wonders were used to validate the message that was preached.
God bears witness to the divine authority of the Scriptures by signs and wonders, and divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost.
Charles Hodge (American Presbyterian Theologian)
Exodus Moses the 10 plagues
Broken People are made
All who were made whole came to hear the Good News
Your past life, understanding, and or belief does not determine your future in the Kingdom of God. (15-16)
Your past life, understanding, and or belief does not determine your future in the Kingdom of God. (15-16)
The faith
The touching the hem of Jesus garment
All who have been added to the Lord should be of one accord and inviting more. (12;16b)
All who have been added to the Lord should be of one accord and inviting more. (12;16b)
Unity
In misssion
In mindset
The one who lives under the protection of the Most High
dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.
