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The Bride and the Revelation 2:17 New Name Reward Janet Weaver Smith ©gardenministries.org March 8, 2014 Jesus—the Express Image of the Father Hebrews 1:3: The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being. John 14:19: He who has seen Me has seen the Father. John 12:45: The one who looks at Me [Jesus] is seeing the one who sent me. Colossians 1:15: The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Genesis 1:27: So God created mankind ... continue reading...

Janet Weaver Smith - copyright 2013 gardenminstries.org [Authors note: This article may sound a little strong at points but the strength of language is intended to counter underlying accusations from those who process and conclude that disasters prove that the character of God is ultimately not good and cannot be trusted. The author of this article honors and accepts that there are people who are honestly struggling to believe that God is good and are still in the process of discovering this ... continue reading...

Janet Weaver Smith - copyright 2013 gardenministries.org Conscience is an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. Humans have a conscience that holds them accountable to their belief system. Whatever or whomever you believe as "right," "wrong," or "unsure" is exactly where your conscience regarding that matter throws down its anchor. It is upon the foundational anchors of who and what we believe (and for some, are told to ... continue reading...

Here is what we are encouraging ourselves with today: Sinful humanity and a deeply compromised Church must own their wrongs as the reason the glory lifted from our land long ago and has not yet returned. We share in Jesus sufferings when we “own” our country’s irresponsibility as if it were our own and bear the grief of iniquity before the Lord, asking for forgiveness for our land. Let us wake up and realize that God does not owe us a single thing more. In Christ, He has given us ... continue reading...

Sexual preference can only exist as long as humans exist. Therefore, preserving a healthy, reproductive humanity takes precedence over protecting their sexual preferences. As long as it exists and remains sexually functional, the human race will always have freedom to choose its sexual preference and thus, their sexual preference never needs protection from extinction of this right. However, the human right to exist does need protection. Thus the need to protect human's ability to reproduce ... continue reading...