4   “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5   Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. 6   Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. 7   But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare Jeremiah 29:4-7 Please leave a comment below  For many blacks in America, Independence Day is seen from a different perspective. When the Revolutionary war was over the negro in America remained in bondage and had no hope of Freedom.  When George Washington, Nathanael Greene, Benedict Arnold and Horatio Gates went to fight for their freedom, Caleb Quotom,   a slave, better known as Prince Whipple proclaimed ...

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— Romans 5:12 This past Friday I celebrated the lost (home going) of a dear friend; Yet she was much more than just a friend for me. The very church that I am now a board member she brought me into. I enjoyed her innocence of the scripture and the wisdom of her words that come only after years of loving and fearing the Lord. Earlier this year my mother died and I thought I would look to her for the wisdom forged with time that I would now be without.   Because by nature I sit at the feet of those that have decades in Christ, even as the Apostle sat at the foot of Gamaliel. So, when I finally recovered from dealing with my mother’s death, she was already in the battle for her own life. Death, the result of the sin of Adam sought to capture her. Therefore, rather than look to her to comfort me, I found myself once again looking to Jesus t...