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    Write On:: My Spiritual Reflections and Personal Feelings
    Write On:: My Spiritual Reflections and Personal Feelings
    Write On:: My Spiritual Reflections and Personal Feelings
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    Write On:: My Spiritual Reflections and Personal Feelings

    By David Bender

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    David has a sanctified imagination, likes to think outside the box, and help others see things in a new light. Who else but David would write about God’s Addiction, God’s Divorce, the Family of Judas Iscariot Sues Christians, God’s Tattoo, Forgiving God, Anti-Devil, The Pagan Evangelist, Imagine Gethsemane With A Dysfunctional God, When God Dreams About This World and more? David also writes about Bible experiences placed in modern settings, Bible incidents reported through the eyes of the media, and his saddest writing.

    David Bender is a misplaced Cornhusker living near Corinth, in northeast Mississippi. He has two grown, married daughters and four grandchildren. He is presently the benevolence director at Church of the Crossroads, Corinth, MS, assisting people in need of food or utility assistance. David has a B.A. in theology, and an M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has years of experience supervising in manufacturing environments, and helping employees develop into the workers they are capable of being. He has succeeded in spite of a troubled childhood and setbacks in life. David started his readneck writing a couple of decades ago and hasn’t tired of it yet.
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    Release dateAug 6, 2013
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    Write On:: My Spiritual Reflections and Personal Feelings
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    David Bender

    David Bender is an author and lifelong political activist who has worked on multiple presidential campaigns since 1968. He has edited and cowritten books with actor Kirk Douglas, musician David Crosby, and broadcaster-businessman Merv Griffin, and was the West Coast contributing editor at George, the political magazine founded by John F. Kennedy Jr. He lives on airplanes.

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      Write On: - David Bender

      © 2013 by David Bender. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Unless otherwise noted, all scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version (NKJV) of the Bible.

      Published by AuthorHouse 08/05/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7274-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7273-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7272-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013911763

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      C ontents

      Section One

      God’s Addiction

      Emmanuel… God With Us

      Forgiving God

      Think With Me

      God Almightiest

      God’s Tattoo

      Persecution Parties

      Anti-Devil

      Elijah And Yahweh

      How Much Faith Does God Have?

      How Jesus Handled Gossip

      Friend Of Sinners, Indeed!

      The Pagan Evangelist

      Our Memorial Stones

      They Call It Normal

      God’s Divorce

      The Christians And Goliath

      Nothing Could Stop God

      Why You/Y.U?

      Being A Christian To Yourself

      What Kind Of Bible Story Would

      Your Life Be?

      My Flesh

      Try To Remember

      What You Give Your Descendants

      Going To Hell?

      Have You Ever Really Seen God?

      God, The Equalizer

      Related

      God’s Declaration Of Independence

      Is Seeing Believing?

      He Above

      Section Two

      International Enquirer

      The Real Story Of The Wise Men

      Purest Water

      Imagine Gethsemane With A Dysfunctional God

      Have You Seen Him Yet?

      Family Of Judas Iscariot Sues Christians!

      The First Advent In Our Day

      You Cannot Bear Them

      You Give Them Something To Eat

      When God Dreams About This World

      Cleansing The Temple

      2000 Years Later

      My Saddest Writing:

      A House On The Rock

      Are The 12 Steps Secular?

      The New Testament Tower Of Babel

      They Wanted A King,

      Not A Creator

      What Did We Do At Calvary?

      I Don’t Have Enough Faith

      To Be An Atheist!

      Who Knew What Calvary Meant?

      Section Three

      A Grandson: The Heart Of His Universe!

      Tomorrow

      My Dad

      P.T.L. Club: A Passion To Live

      E. P.

      I Love You

      Hanging By A Thread

      Do You Need Me, Lord?

      My Point Of View

      There Is A Stranger In My Mirror

      My Brain On Life

      Terror

      Twelve Steps To Insanity

      Why Is Evil Never Satisfied?

      I Don’t Need You!

      The Jerk

      How Healthy Can We Be Together?

      A Priceless Gift

      Endnotes

      SECTION ONE

      GOD’S ADDICTION

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      The word on the street, out on the streets of gold and

      Near the North gates of the New Jerusalem, is that

      God’s off the wagon again—God has a problem.

      Does that shock you? Well, think again. Everyone has

      Their weaknesses, and God is no exception—even God

      Has a little secret.

      You see, God likes to spend; He doesn’t know when to

      Quit. He’s into futures again. Jehovah has this thing

      For those bewildering humans—God has a habit.

      The Almighty has bet almost all He has on some

      Scheme to help those confused humans. He thinks He

      Can rehabilitate planet earth—God has a wild dream.

      Yahweh is gambling again. He just keeps giving out

      Grace like He was made of mercy or something. It has

      Cost Him a bundle already—God has a weakness.

      It’s cost the Father His Son and nearly broke His

      Heart; when will He ever learn? You can’t talk any

      Sense into Him—God has an addiction.

      The great I AM. He’s nuts over those humans, sees

      Some good in them, believes someday they’ll be

      Worth something. He just keeps betting on them—God has an Obsession.

      Yes, God’s gambling on the futures, playing the

      Odds, hoping that someday His huge investment in

      Humanity will pay off handsomely—God is a

      Saviorholic!

      August 11, 2005

      EMMANUEL… GOD with US

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      Is there any way to describe it? The All-Powerful,

      Omnipotent, Omniscient Creator of the Universe, is

      Willing to clothe Himself in human flesh—

      God near us.

      To become a Babe and go through the learning

      Process on a rebellious planet; the Pure surrounded

      By selfish human beings—

      God with us.

      The Eternal One, who hung the stars in the sky by the

      Word of His mouth now a Learner, taught by finite

      People, with limited understanding—

      God like us.

      If a brilliant scientist was willing to be incarnated as

      An ant and grow up in an ant colony, the debasement

      Would be less than Christ’s—

      God love us.

      And if the ant/ scientist was divorced by the wife he

      Adored and felt the human pain as an ant, maybe we

      Can fathom slightly what Jesus endured—

      God bless us.

      Oh yes, the ant was rejected by the colony, was

      Ridiculed and often had to flee for his life, finally being

      Tortured to death by the ants—

      God forgive us.

      On earth, sometimes we see examples of love, the

      Mightiest power in the Universe. It causes people to

      Accept great sacrifice, endure overwhelming hardship

      And forgive grievous sin—

      God help us.

      Only a heart of love could cause King Jesus to leave

      The splendor and adoration of heaven for a bleak and

      Rude experience among those who needed Him so—

      God fill us.

      What humbleness, to give up the capabilities and

      Talents of a human to become an ant, especially an

      Ant that was unappreciated and rarely welcomed

      Among the others—

      God save us.

      And to think that we humans can share in the

      Greatest power there is, the greatest power God has.

      We can exhibit divine love as we unselfishly bless

      Those around us—God with us—and we with God.

      December 2005

      FORGIVING GOD

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      Most rational people admit there are things in their

      Lives that impel them to seek forgiveness from the

      Almighty; reasonable people recognize that a Higher

      Power needs to be gracious with them.

      But is it a one way street? Is it only God who forgives

      Us, or do we ever need to be forgiving with a perfect

      God? Can a rigid, judgmental, wounded spirit keep us

      At arm’s length from a loving Jehovah?

      Does God ever do things, or fail to do things, so we

      Are angry and ticked off at Him? Do we think He is

      Unfair and owes us an explanation or an apology

      When the universe seems to abuse or neglect us?

      Just as we desire God to be understanding and

      Reasonable with our human frailties, maybe we need

      To treasure an understanding spirit with the Eternal

      One’s Omniscience since we can’t possibly know all

      That He does.

      Maybe we need to forgive God and seek to be tolerant

      Of His almighty ways. He hasn’t yet shown us all the

      Reasons for the events of the universe, so maybe we

      Shouldn’t burn

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