Jonathan Parfrey's

Lust for Peace

Today is

Treasure in Cracked Pots

Hi Jonathan!

I've revamped my "Page for JP." I don't want you to lose sight of the bigger picture by thinking that I believe the only issue is lust. I think it is definitely an issue, but I'm really glad you are willing and able to tell me that you don't. I really enjoy having people disagree with me, as long as their goal is to make me see the truth. Even if I disagree with them, I grow through the discussion.

At that time Jesus answered and said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the sophisticated and those who have it all together, and have revealed them to the inexperienced and inarticulate.
Matthew 11:25

You'll never know how much I respect you, Jonathan. You are an extraordinarily talented and compassionate person. I'm sure that because I'm a nerdy guy who's never been married and has led such a sheltered life, my attempts to heal your marriage seem quite presumptuous. I'm sure you're tempted to dismiss them all, and I'm quite surprised that you're even reading this page.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; {28} and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, {29} that no flesh should glory in His presence.
1 Corinthians 1:27-29

I'm not offering you my own wisdom. I'm pointing you to something greater.

But we have this Treasure in frail, clay pots, that the excellence of the Power may be of God and not of us.
2 Corinthians 4:7

It's not MY arguments that you have to deal with. This isn't "Kevin versus Jonathan." On your trek through life, you have now come upon a broken, decaying, long-ignored signpost, which points toward an oasis. This web site is the signpost, not that oasis.

The LORD will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. {12}
Those from among you
Shall build the old waste places;
You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
Isaiah 58:11-12

God's Word is the water which brings healing and life. The Empires of the world try to simulate life by substituting political power and tinsel and glitter for real civilization. They mock the Bible.

But Hollywood is no substitute for the City of God.

Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God.... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.

JOHN ADAMS
(L.H. Butterfield, ed., Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard Press, 1961), Vol. III, p. 9.

When you are unafraid to publicly admit that you are a fanatic follower of the God of Moses, Isaiah, Jesus and Paul, and willing to proclaim that the secular city of Man is no substitute for the City of God, you will find that Rio has become convinced that philandering is no substitute for marriage and family.

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