Friday, January 31, 2025

2025 WORD OF THE YEAR - FELLOWSHIP

Initial inspiration for selecting this word came from reading Charles Spurgeon's sermon entitled "Fellowship with God" 15 Sept 1861

Fellowship (1John1:3) (Acts 2:42) (Phil 3:10) 


F = Faith (the activity of believing) Faith hears the promise, hears the command, believes both, and acts in obedience. (Alistair Begg Truth For Life: 365 Daily Devotions)

E = Endurance/Encouragement (Rom 15:4-5)
L = Love (1Cor 13) ValleyofVision prayer Christian Love
L = Light (Psalm 119:30) (1 John 1:5) (Matt 5:16)
O = Obedience (John 14:15&15:10 (1Pet1:22)
W = Worship  (1Tim 3:14-16) (psalms)  We are made to worship.
S = Sincerity (1Cor 5:8)
H = Humility (Prov 15:33) Read and re-read the book of Job.
I =  Insight/instruction/wisdom (Prov xx)   
P = Prayer (2 Cor 1:11)





Read: Duties of Christian Fellowship by John Owen




Journal:  Experiencing the Heart of Jesus by Max Lucado


Listen:  Music Album Fortress God by Praise and Harmony


Additional Inspiration from listening to sermons by: 


Ian Hamilton
 "What to do when you dont know what to do"
2 Chronicles 20:1-12  delivered 12 Jan 2025

Gary Elliott
"Greatest Mystery ever Told" 1 Tim 3:14-16  19 Jan 2025
"Liturgy of Living Sacrifice" Rom 12:1-9   26 Jan 2025
"Learning of the Conscience" Job 42  18 May 2025



Monday, January 27, 2025

Genealogy Trivia

 Meet the youngest child of a youngest child of a youngest child:


 My brother, Will, St Simons Island, GA 1968







 






who is the youngest child of 

my father  Wm.   Dan   1934 - 2021






 







who was the youngest child of his mother


my grandmother   Gustie      1896 - 1959













who was the youngest child of  her mother


my great grandmother   Amanda Missouri Noel      1853 - 1918
















who died on 27 January 1918 

one week before her daughter married

 on her in-laws' 37th anniversary

 3 February 1918 - a Sunday afternoon

in the living room of the family home in

Albertville, Alabama ~


John Cabell Breckinridge Jordan & Mary Elizabeth Morris