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Lover of My Soul:
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http://www.art4god.com/html/?go=product&id=lovDescription: In those rare moments, when we truly release our daily burdens and surrender our lives to our Heavenly Father, we will experience joy and peace. Our Heavenly Father loves each of us with an infinite love. His love was shown and demonstrated in perfection through the life and teachings of Jesus. Although we are taught that we are not worthy to receive this mercy and love Jesus made it clear that we were worthy to be called friends. We call Him Master but He doesn't call us slaves. God considers us worthy enough to literally live within us allowing us to be temples and vessels of His Holiness. The doctrine of unworthiness is only part of the truth. If we fail to dance with the "Lover of our Soul" because we deem ourselves unworthy we starve in false piety and humility in the midst of a feast prepared for us by a loving God. We have been called to become perfect even as our Father in Heaven is perfect. As we sing "There is none like you" to Jesus... he holds us and sings the very same words back to us.
No Appointment Necessary:
http://www.art4god.com/html/?go=product&id=nanThe tattoo is as old as Cain. In Jesus' time, condemned criminals were tattooed. Tattoos have marked those set apart or condemned as recently as World War II when our Jewish brethren perished.
In the last few centuries tattoos have become more of an art form dedicated to some person or ideal.
"Mom" was the most famous tattoo in history. It seems obvious that if Jesus were to shock the status quo in the 21st Century with a tattoo that it would say "Father".
We should be quick to love and slow to judge, Anxious to forgive and repulsed by self-pity, Curious to understand and cautious to resent. There is no box in which we can place Jesus merely by his appearance. As we do good to others, let us not reserve our kindness only for those who look "safe" or "beautiful". However alarmed we might be at another person's appearance that is our problem. Tragically we too often make it the other person's problem as well.
"No Appointment Necessary" is dedicated and conceived in honor of those children of God who do not appear to "fit in". Shall we remember the tragedies that befall those whose outer shell does not conform to the rules of the various clubs created by men and women?
Undefeated:
http://www.art4god.com/html/?go=product&id=unWe should realize that Jesus willingly fights and intercedes on our behalf. We should remember as our efforts to help others go largely overlooked and unappreciated, so also do the manifold works of God. To see our Savior as Undefeated is no simple task. As we are battered and knocked down so often in this short but intense life, we may secretly wonder about the power of God. Why would a loving Father let us suffer so? Why should we be put in the ring with forces greater than us? If we count the earthly cost of Jesus' divine qualities, we see He bears the scars of many previous battles, most of which are unknown to us. Perhaps then our scars can be put in perspective. Would Jesus have the compassion needed to forgive and have mercy on us had he not suffered as we too must suffer? Did living the life of a mortal add to His infinite abilities to understand the frailties of His children? Indeed it is so. Not only did Jesus willingly allow those things to happen to Himself but He also allows them to happen to us. In the presence of man's arrogance, to destroy that which is spiritually superior to him, Jesus suffered more than we will ever know. Let us choose to be in the ring, to fight the good fight of faith, and be grateful that we are in the same corner with the Undefeated one. Regardless of how humility is scorned as weakness by the ungodly, one scar, in the true unselfish and humble service of Christ, is greater than all the crowns made for all the kings of the world.
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