PerryDox – BeJustAChristian

Biblical truth standing on its spiritual head to get our eternal attention.

Poem – One Another

| January 24, 2012

If somewhere away I went, would you be relieved? Consider One Another. Or in love, would empty voids begin as you grieved? Bear with One Another. Such must not be answered by how one is perceived; Encourage One Another. But by our life, upon what and Who is believed.

John 3:16 – The Commercial

| January 23, 2012

You’re caught up in the fun, stuffing down snacks, and then out of nowhere, with no warning or preview, you get slapped upside the head with an personalized version of John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, the whole world, everyone, anyone, that’s a lot of people, that He gave his one and […]

Perryism – Obedience to God cannot be overemphasized, but it can be wrongly emphasized by man.

| January 23, 2012

1 Kings 14:1-18 – A Selfish Mother

| January 21, 2012

The words no mother wants to hear are stammered and whispered by the doctor. The word “mother” is synonymous with selflessness. Most women would immediately and easily choose to give their life to spare their child if the doctor said, “I can only save one.” Many mothers sacrifice not their lives, but a relationship with […]

Poem – I Pray A Prayer that Makes Me Ill

| January 20, 2012

I pray a prayer that makes me ill; It hurts to pray for those loved most. Not praise, nor thanks, but needed still; For hurt from Heaven’s Holy Host. Strangely, grief leads to Christ’s glories; God’s lifted high when we are low. Breaking stubborn backs, bending  knees; Accepting, nowhere else to go. This is the […]

Matthew 4:5; Luke 4:9 – Was the Second Temptation Just A Vision?

| January 20, 2012

How did they go from the wilderness to the top of the temple, and then later to a very high mountain? My answer is that Satan actually takes Jesus to Jerusalem which is what the text says, minus the word “actually.” Matthew 4.5 (HCSB) Then the Devil took Him to the holy city, had Him […]

Matthew 4:1-12; Luke 4:1-13 – Order of Christ’s Temptations

| January 18, 2012

Each both Luke and Matthew, the temptation involving bread and stones is listed first. However, the second temptation in Matthew is the third in Luke. In Luke’s record, Satan’s temptation to throw Himself down to prove trust in God is listed third. Matthew is better known for grouping biographical points topically, while Luke’s record is […]

Exodus 15 – Religious Movements and Music

| January 18, 2012

Let’s begin with two questions. First, do you believe that the need and desire to believe and worship is innate? Anthropological studies reveal that the vast majority of cultures have religions. In arguing for the existence of God, this is called the Anthropological Argument , implying that God Himself put it within our created self […]

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 – Choking

| January 15, 2012

Sport’s pundits love to ask, “Did they lose the game, or did the other team win?” If the favorite lost to the underdog, then either the latter “rose to the occasion” or else the projected winner “choked.” No one loves a loser (well, there are some franchises); choking means you just can’t cut it, you […]

Matthew 5-7 – Living the Sermon on the Mount

| January 13, 2012

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand” (Chinese Proverb) – Christianity is not just hearing sermons and seeing the good examples of others. It is practicing it ourselves. Only then does the humanly insane, counter-culture, Sermon on the Mount enlighten us with true, divine understanding.