--- In BTcollegeandcareer@yahoogroups.com, "geoffrey.dillard"
<gdillard@...> wrote:
>
> Welcome! I'm glad you're part of the "group" now. Your comments
are
> excellent. I particularly like the insight on the persecuted
> church. It's wonderful how some promise in the Bible can "come
> alive" at just the right moment to bring hope or help.
>
> You're right . . . the pledge to the Bible is taken straight from
the
> text.
>
> Geoffrey
>
> --- In BTcollegeandcareer@yahoogroups.com, "pendrey16"
> <pendrey16@> wrote:
> >
> > Well I now know where The Pledge To The Holy Bible, comes. :)
> Which
> > is exactly what this Chapter is saying to me.
> >
> > I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God's holy word.
> > I will make it a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path, and
> > hide it's words in my heart that I might not sin against God.
> >
> > We need to take the word of God (lamp) and live our everyday
lives
> > through it and let it guide us through the right paths in life.
> Let
> > it teach us that all we need to do when the path gets dark is
call
> on
> > God and read his word and take it in, and he'll show us (light)
the
> > paths we need to take, and to keep us away from the sin.
> >
> > This chapter also made me think a lot of the persecuted
churches.
> It
> > talks a lot about being persecuted and it made me think of in
some
> > countries people can't worship the way we can. They're persecuted
> for
> > following and worshipping God. Yet through all the torture and
> pain
> > they keep on following and worshipping God, because they know
that
> > now the path may seem hard and there lives might be at stake, but
> > they know what God's word says and that there's "light" ahead.
> >
> > Okay so these are some of the things I picked up from this
chapter,
> > not sure if they're exactly what you're looking for! :) And I'm
> not
> > so good at putting what's in my head down "on paper". So some of
it
> > may jump around! Also Thanks Bro. Jonathan and Geoffrey for
putting
> > this together, I think it's a very neat thing! See ya'll on
> > Sunday! :)
> >
>Nice comments