Do you have 10 minutes? Michael Billings; 1988-2007, A Son of Hope, An Unparalleled Defender of the Faith, and a Bright Shining Star in the Kingdom of God

Always (In memory of Michael Billings)

Michael is my generation, a young man my own age who was dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen to the words in his only sermon and the song written in memory of him. Michael has a recorded voice of God’s truth to pass on. If you are inspired by his words, if you are intrigued by this young man who lived his life for Jesus and was taken at 19 years old, please pass it on. “Satan does not care how holy your intentions are, as long as they are put off until tomorrow.”…

My home land calls me,
through the wind and the dust I can hear her crying.
Devotion is strong, Honor is sweet.
My Country leads me on to war and defeat.

I can’t look back, nothing will follow,
onward foward is a soldiers motto,
I keep my gun loaded, but hope I don’t need it.
Fear stares me right in the face,

Death laughs behind me…

I cringe but keep moving and listen
to my beloved sing her sorrows to me.
“Come home” she says, but it’s to late.
I’ve been bitten with war and hate.

I will not leave ’til love lays at her feet.
When dying and suffering
have made their end, I will
come home to my sweet land.

Written in 2004 I believe? I was inspired by something I watched about South Africa. Cry the beloved country was the name of a book.

I am looking for a list of qualifications that I wrote out for my future husband, and also for myself. I looked through several paper piles in the living room, didn’t find it but found some treasures including that poem. I’m going to look in the library I guess.

I am going twigging this morning, which is a form of tree hunting. The Eichers are going way out somewhere to find a tree, and I am going with them. Likely to find a tree that is less full then what you find in the domesticated tree industry, but it will be ony $5 for the permit and Matthew will haul it back for us.

As for head covering, i have been challenged by the words if a friend. Do I really understand the issue? Do you really understand the issue? The Bible says that a woman’s hair is given to her for a covering, and that it is a shame for her to cut it short. I read it last night before going to bed, but felt like I should look it up in the Geneva Bible, because of the way it is worded, some of it could go either way.

1 Corinthians 11:15 “But if a woman have long hair, it is a praise unto her: for her hair is given her for a (1)covering”

In the Geneva notations, from 1, it says “To be a covering for her, and such as should procure another.” Dictionary.com indicates that Procure means: To get by special effort, To bring about,To obtain.

Verse 10 “(1)Therefore ought the woman to have (2)power on her head, because of the (3)Angels.”

The notations here are “(1)The conclusion: women must be covered, to show by this external sign their subjection. (2)A covering which is a token of subjection. (3)What meaneth, I do not yet understand.”

The Geneva notations may or may not be correct, but it is obvious that the 16th Century Bible Translators believed head-covering to be a sign of subjection. Whether by hair or by cloth, can you tell? Not to take lightly the fact that it says her hair is a covering that “should procure another” and “women must be covered“.

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