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What is the source of virtue? When you see small children who are well-behaved do you assume that their parents are diligent and consistent in training them? In like manner do you make assumptions about the parents of ill-behaved children? Yet I declared a proverb to be invalid concerning the parents eating sour grapes and the effect it would have on the children, and went on to say that each person was responsible for their own virtue. Positive early influences are desirable, but I created a world in which each individual is accountable. My promise of redemption is the same for all, no matter how favorable or unfavorable their start in life.

Last weekend I met Dr. M. Stephanie Zeller who has created an amazing website which offers free resources for setting up corporations and churches and gaining 501C3 status with the IRS. Her website is Love Your Law, and we have added it as a permanent link to our "Links Page," which you will find under the "Free Resources" tab. Click on "Outstanding Links" and then under "Government" you will find this amazing and extremely helpful website listed. Check it out. It's free.

Click Here for the link to a great blog post that everyone should read before the election, full of scipture!

Today is Let's Pray Tuesday!  To add your prayer for our nation and to read about Let's Pray Tuesday click here.

Do you admire ministries of great power and effectiveness? Do you imagine yourself doing the same thing? You know better than to engage in covetousness with regard to your neighbor’s house and car. Are you tempted to relax this commandment when it comes to Christian ministry? After all, this is not for materialistic self-indulgence, for they are doing the work of the Kingdom of God. This is a spiritual activity to be admired and affirmed. Yet the same rules apply. Spiritual covetousness leads to strife and division within my body. I give every believer has his own calling for service. Strive to be faithful in your own calling. 

I believe the upcoming election in November is crucial for America. Please get informed, get registered, inform your friends and vote in November.

Juli Iles has posted three new blogs which are extremely informative about the upcoming elections. Please go to them now and forward this blog to all your friends. Make a difference!!! And pray with Juli and the rest of us on Tuesdays especially, as that day is being set aside to pray for the elections.

Do you think the world would be a better place if everyone who was called by my name followed my teachings and kept my commandments? What about those who make no profession of faith or belief in anything? Do they live without restraint as if there were no moral law? You can be glad they do not. For I wrote my laws in the conscience of every man whether he confesses and affirms me or not. Don’t you see some level of restraint and moral judgment even in those who deny me? Blessed are those who know me, who consciously affirm the truth of my word, and do and teach my commandments. 

“I quiet myself before you, Lord. I ask for vision. What do You want to speak to me about and show me today? I trust the bubbling, spontaneous thoughts I have are the Holy Spirit. I will write down what You speak to me and what You show me. I wait for you, Lord.”

When I created the world I said that it was good. It still is. The fall did not change this. When you see lighting and hear thunder, does it remind you of me? What about a rainbow? What about mountains and rivers and forests? My creation points to my goodness and testifies of me. To a greater degree this includes the animal kingdom, and to an even greater degree your fellow men, for I created them in my image. Do you think that the fall of humanity precludes this? You see much in others that is not Christlike. Even so, the creature points to the creator, even as the inanimate mountain points to me. He who has eyes to see, let him see.