“What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice.”
Philippians 1:18 CSB
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
James 1:17-18 CSB
Volunteers Good seed In good soil Can bear good fruit Despite bad intentions. Seedlings volunteer In the merest bit of soil in sidewalk cracks And the fecundity of compost heaps; Dandelions and oak seedlings will sprout In the most carefully tended beds, Despite diligent efforts At inhospitality. The life inside the tiny caskets Cannot be contained When ready to burst its bonds. God’s living and active Word-seed Will find a way to press down Into hearts of God’s choosing, And upward in eternal life And abundant fruit.
“Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly, , because you have been born again — not of perishable seed but of imperishable — through the living and enduring word of God. For ‘All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord endures forever.’ And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.”
1 Peter 1:22-25 CSB
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