tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post1508254655057321658..comments2008-05-12T22:21:13.493-07:00Dellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02907219260991391702noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-15030294539751159712008-05-12T22:21:00.000-07:002008-05-12T22:21:00.000-07:00congratulations daddy-to-be!!!<BR/>love,<BR/>hopehopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14292399787354230060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-56180379479747590592008-04-16T16:02:00.000-07:002008-04-16T16:02:00.000-07:00I would say you just answered your own question. Leave things in <BR/>better condition than when you found, bought or were given them.<BR/><BR/> there's also a saying that comes to mind, "If you can't have the best of everyhting, make the best of everyhting you have."<BR/><BR/>'til next time.....love,<BR/>hopeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-67746076681396480602008-04-16T12:25:00.000-07:002008-04-16T12:25:00.000-07:00Hey Hope, <BR/><BR/>Sorry to take so long in responding to your question. I mean to highlight the truth that Christianity has more than moral obligations. We are the stewards of God's land. For example, if I gave you ten acres of land and said, "I'll be back in several years. Look after my land." I would expect you to creatively improve the land however you think that I might have. Would you mend my fences? See to it that my cattle were healthy and properly harvested? Of course. You might also do soem other projects like digging a pond or replanting some forest, etc. etc. This is precisely the gist of parable of the master who leaves three servants with different levels of wealth behind. The lesson of this parable is not that we are to spiritualize the story and take this to mean make the most of your personality or interests, but that we are to use whatever God has given us to steward, not for fear of loss, but with his agenda in mind. No matter how small the stewardship, the material world is still God's and he expects us to do his will with it. <BR/>In light of all that, my question was how exactly do we do this?<BR/><BR/>Peace,<BR/>KrammyKrammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08225669010570462797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-9037124095229845482008-04-12T08:51:00.000-07:002008-04-12T08:51:00.000-07:00Question: what do you mean by your question;<BR/><BR/>How do I make an increase Christ will appreciate on my stuff- or to my stuff- or with my stuff?<BR/><BR/>hopehopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14292399787354230060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-89274199586703346162008-02-28T10:29:00.000-08:002008-02-28T10:29:00.000-08:00Question: what do you mean by your question;<BR/><BR/>How do I make an increase Christ will appreciate on my stuff- or to my stuff- or with my stuff?<BR/><BR/>hopeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-48546658254996509592008-02-27T14:12:00.000-08:002008-02-27T14:12:00.000-08:00so my last comment....did that make any since???<BR/>I'm a little slow too...at communicating my thoughts across to people.<BR/><BR/>give your wife a big hug & hello for me!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-86479924807801138682008-02-27T08:30:00.000-08:002008-02-27T08:30:00.000-08:00Hey Hope,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for letting me know who that was. I was a little confused. I'm new to this blogging thing myself and I hoped you weren't posting anonymously for fear of what I might think or something. <BR/>I don't mind just quoting the Bible alone, which I do believe to be the ultimate authority, but I am sometimes a little slow and some explanation of what you mean to point out would be helpful. <BR/>Nice commenting with you, too.Krammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08225669010570462797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-41574814511779185162008-02-26T14:19:00.000-08:002008-02-26T14:19:00.000-08:00back to your original post:<BR/>so we agree this earth will be<BR/>renewed, then, but not before, is when Christ will return & then we can start caring for it, the renewed earth all over again, without all the erosion.<BR/>How does that sound???<BR/>that must be what I was getting at all along.....this is hope, by the way....I don't have a blog so I didn't know how else to comment...<BR/>sorry. I don't read anything other than the Bible so it's all I can quote. nice commenting with ya!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-87359106211114770092008-02-25T19:04:00.000-08:002008-02-25T19:04:00.000-08:00I'm not sure why you're publishing anonymously, but I assure that conversation is welcome. In any case, the fires of 2 Peter do not imply the deletion of earth, but its purification, hence the comment on the flood ( which is like the washing of the earth). <BR/>Water and fire come together in the life of the Christian, too- baptism with water and baptism with the holy spirit (the initial instance of which is portrayed in Acts as tongues of fire). <BR/>Let us build as with gold. <BR/><BR/>Please, thoughts, too, not just random verses.Krammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08225669010570462797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-55698017638995314202008-02-25T16:50:00.000-08:002008-02-25T16:50:00.000-08:002 Peter 3:7, 10-13.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-67424048838722551382008-02-25T08:09:00.000-08:002008-02-25T08:09:00.000-08:00Notice though that the earth is transformed, not done away with completely. The "garden" is restored as represented by the trees, and God does not declare, "now man can dwell with God, but, "now God dwells with man." <BR/>This earth made new.Krammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08225669010570462797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-72157682241886403432008-02-24T19:34:00.000-08:002008-02-24T19:34:00.000-08:00CORRECTION:<BR/>chapter 21, not 1.<BR/>same verses.<BR/><BR/>sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546821631487301034.post-84515303951769512842008-02-24T19:31:00.000-08:002008-02-24T19:31:00.000-08:00Rev. 1:1,<BR/>new earth, new Heaven.<BR/>vs. 5<BR/>see I am making ALL things NEW.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com