January 2025 archive

Hyssop

Hyssop (a plant/herb) is associated with purification and cleansing from sin in the Bible. A few examples: More details of this can be found here or here.

Brother Lawrence

About as down to earth–and the pure truth–as you can get. The Practice of the Presence of God is a short book (of 4 conversations and 15 letters) by Brother Lawrence, born Nicolas Herman), a 17th-century Carmelite friar, compiled by Father Joseph de Beaufort. More details here. Available online (PDF, Kindle, etc.) here. Available as …

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The Faith and Service of Jimmy Carter

This is a collection of stories and videos on the life of Jimmy Carter. He was an amazing man of faith and we can learn much from him. Video: Values learned in Plains defined Jimmy Carter’s life Through Decades Of Marriage, Rosalynn & Jimmy Carter Read The Bible Together Every Night Jimmy Carter: How Prayer …

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Bible Gateway Reference Tagging Tool

Check out this video. In this video I show how to transform all plain-text Scripture references on a webpage into hyperlinks to the appropriate Bible passage from BibleGateway.com. That is, when the user hovers on the Bible reference, a tooltip pops up, showing the Bible passage. Here is the information page at BibleGateway.com. For a …

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Site has been updated

This website faith.drjimo.net has been recently updated. It should be stable again. I have a few new pages and posts. If something doesn’t work on this site, please let me know so I can fix it.

Fruit of the Spirit – two mnemonics

Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Here are two mnemonics for the nine Fruits of the Spirit using the ESV version (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control).

God’s Glory in Us – huh?

The Puritan prayer, titled “Year’s End,” ends with the words, “Only glorify thyself in me whether in comfort or trial, as a chosen vessel meet always for thy use.” (“Meet” means prepared and appropriate for.) Before addressing the meaning of God being glorified in us, let us first look at. God’s Foremost Goal According to …

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