ME & MYERS BRIGGS - YEP THAT’S ME

The test is familiar. I took the test, popping up on  Facebook. Answered questions as well as I could. It identified me accurately enough.

Results: ISFJ - Nurturer

ISFJ (INTROVERTED SENSING FEELING JUDGING)

As an ISFJ, your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you takes things in via your five senses. Your secondary mode is external, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit into your personal value system.

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Yes, a new website on which my three new books are displayed and offered in both eBook and paperback versions.

THE ELEVEN

AN EXHILARATING READ and a spiritual stimulus for your walk as a disciple of Jesus Christ. The book uses two resources, imagination and biblical data. Each chapter contains both a narrative and a nurturing component. It's a delight to take steps with this author into conversations with each of the eleven disciples who remained true to Jesus. When you hear these ancient men speak about Jesus you will esteem him who turned ordinary common folk into disciples. As you engage with the lessons that scripture speaks from the disciples' lives, you will gain appreciation for what the LORD can do with people like yourself. So download or purchase 'The Eleven' now and have fun learning about the disciples using an embellished imagination and a reliable examination of relevant scripture. You are going to better understand what God is currently doing in your life and you will want to yield to his gentle work.

THE ELEVEN - My latest book

And this is the third and the most recent published book.

"An exhilarating read and a spiritual stimulus for your walk as a disciple of Jesus Christ. The book uses two resources, imagination and biblical data. Each chapter contains both a narrative and a nurturing component. It's a delight to take steps with this author into conversations with each of the eleven disciples who remained true to Jesus. When you hear these ancient men speak about Jesus you will esteem him who turned ordinary common folk into disciples. As you engage with the lessons that scripture speaks from the disciples' lives, you will gain appreciation for what the LORD can do with people like yourself. So download or purchase the paperback version of 'The Eleven' now and have fun learning about the disciples using an embellished imagination and a reliable examination of relevant scripture. You are going to better understand what God is currently doing in your life and you will want to yield to his gentle work."

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GOD IN THE OPEN

Colossians and Philemon

by Ron Unruh

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SYNOPSIS

With a narrative style Ron has written a devotional commentary on Collossians and Philemon to be useful to students and teachers of the Bible. In "God in the Open' provides you will vitalize your personal growth as a follower of Christ and receive exegetical data to assist you when fashioning a lesson or a sermon. Paul's letter to Colossians was foundational to early Christian theology. The letter proclaims Christ's supremacy over the entire created universe. It also insists that believers lead godly lives. That's why Paul's brief letter to Philemon is the concluding chapter of this volume with its account of how two men, master and slave, resolved antagonism and dysfunction as brothers in Christ.

THE THIEF

THE THIEF

Past flight and worry, he's been caught.

His ankles chained, unable to walk.

Waiting, condemned, his time soon comes.

He'll die today when come the drums.

Escorted swiftly to his cross,

Impaled in agony, all is lost.

He can't get down, he can't atone.

Never can he go back home.

Endures for hours and then hears Jesus

Speak the words with power to free us.

"Remember me," to Christ he cries,

Love's alive in Messiah's eyes.

True faith the Lord can recognize

"You will be with me in paradise."

A promise from the one beside,

About whom he'll say, "for me he died."

Death is no master, no need to fear it,

"Into your hands I commit my spirit."

© Ron Unruh, March 2015

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? WHAT AM I DOING HERE?

The Teacher doesn’t want people to become so attached to life here on planet earth, that they become convinced this is all that there is. The Teacher as he calls himself in the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, paints a dreary picture of life as a drudgery. Perhaps it is overkill. There is an accuracy about his observations however. He views everything as meaningless, and that is partly because he views all of life as cyclical and recurrent rather than unique and progressive.

The world experiences the turnover of generations, the repetitive cycle of the sun, the endless incessant pattern of wind currents, the perpetual round of rivers to the sea becoming vapour and rain and then seas again. The writer's own familiar words in Ecclesiastes 1:4-7 are these:
"Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever."
"The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises."
"The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north; round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course."
"All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again."

Always there are questions. What is it all for? What’s it all about? What is it good for? Why am I here? What am I doing? It’s a bit of a set up really because the Author is going to give an answer. The author's intent is not to cast a pessimistic pall over the reader's life, but rather to improve our understanding of priorities. In the previous post I recited verse 3 which asks, "What do people gain from all their labours 
at which they toil under the sun?" Under the sun is a key idea and it means in this present world. God has not intended for us the live life with an exclusive 'under the sun' perspective. Then redundancy becomes obvious. We are more than mere creatures of earth, breakfast, lunch dinner and bed; breakfast, lunch, dinner and dead. The Father's House is the compelling goal and being here is preparatory. Enjoy life but don't let it be everything, all that you care about. Don't commit merely to the cycle that repeats, but by faith become transformed so you can be with Christ where he is.

A FIRST HINT ABOUT THE NATURE OF GOD

Michelangelo's 'Creation of Man', Sistine Chapel

One of the very first hints about the nature of God is the Genesis creation account in which we are told how God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing. He didn’t use existing material. He spoke material into existence. This summary account describes the creation of planet earth amid the heavens and the Spirit of God suspended over earth’s waters (Gen 1:1-2).

Sun, moon, stars, nights and days, seas, land masses, plants and trees, seas, rivers and lakes teeming with aquatic life, skies filled with avian creatures, and land inhabited by rodents and mammals of all sizes God created in successive periods of time. Days are named, six of them, always with much discussion among Christians today as to their actual duration. However, my point today, is to underscore the uniqueness of the creation of the human creature which is stated in God’s own words. Please note the plural pronoun that God uses and note God’s artistic intention. “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” (Gen 1:26). That’s a significant piece of creative writing don’t you think, except the difference between Genesis One and C.S.Lewis’ and William Young’s allegorical materials, referenced in two previous blog posts, is truth over metaphor.

BORED AT CHURCH? THINKING OF CHANGING?

Mr. Bean 

I will dish out two credits as I start. One goes to Micah Lang who wrote the article ‘When Good Pastors Preach Boring Sermons,’ that I reference today from the Relevant magazine and the second kudo goes to Drew Unruh, an entrepreneurial nephew who asked me what my thoughts were on the article.

The content struck a chord with me because I have found myself doing the very thing for which I want to indict others.