In the latest episode of the Solomon’s Porch Teaching podcast we tell you all about our new book "Your Body Is God’s Temple,” and Ruth and I have a wonderful discussion with our good friend and mentor Stan Fryer.

You can read more about Stan’s story in the book. Stan exemplifies what this new book is all about.

Thanks to all for your support, Ruth and Barry

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“Who will save you now that the monster COVID-19 has broken free? For societies founded on Biblical tradition, pandemics need not make for the end. Rather they can create opportunity.” – The Wall Street Journal

This is the most fascinating subject I have ever

studied. Quite frankly, I cannot imagine living

without this information today as this gives me

great hope.

“Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth. Shall you not

know it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the

desert.” – Isaiah 43:19

Only God can make a road in the wilderness and a river in the desert.

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In this episode, we discuss how trials are a part of life and what the Bible has to say about overcoming them.

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God did not promise days without pain. God did not promise laughter without sorrow. God did not promise sun without rain. Here is the Good News. God DID promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

(If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.)

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In this episode, Ruth Borthistle and Sharon Janz discuss the ways they are coping and finding joy in the midst of COVID 19.

Quotes and sayings from this episode

Out of this, we have come to realize how we want to live. I want to have more joy - Sharon

It’s going to take some new disciplines to navigate - Ruth

I look at a different word every day and joy is one of the word projects that I have gone through. I have found that joy is a habit of choice. - Sharon

A big part of joy is being grateful. What am I joyful for today? - Sharon

I have to talk to myself some days - Ruth

For me, it’s important to exercise every day rain or shine - Ruth

I find the time flies when I listen to a podcast and biking. - Ruth

Exercise is also a time for me to think, pray, and meditate - Sharon

I noticed in our local parks newsletter mentions walks and hobbies - Ruth

I love the library - Ruth

I’m thinking about getting an accordion to learn something new - Ruth

Covid has given me more of an appreciation for friends and thinking of people and how I should connect with them. - Sharon

We soak up every morsel of connection don’t we? - Ruth

Living alone is so challenging for some of our friends and my heart goes out to them. - Ruth

Laughter is an important ingredient of joy. - Ruth

I created a daily chart for myself outlining the daily activities. Otherwise, I was going to be a drifter. I needed that accountability to myself and to others. It worked! - Ruth

Accountability is vulnerability and honesty. - Sharon

I think it’s so important these days to be walking with God. - Ruth

God’s word has become a staple. - Sharon

Our children and our friends are watching to see how we are coping. This is a time for some discipling. - Ruth

I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ~ George Bernard Shaw

James 1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Everything that is happening in our lives is developing perseverance. - Sharon

Go and have a great day. - Ruth

Hope for believers is not an illusion. It is the assurance that good things are going to happen based upon the promises in God’s Word. IF YOUR MARRIAGE IS FAILING, IF YOUR BUSINESS OR FINANCES ARE SINKING, IF YOUR CHILDREN ARE IN TROUBLE, IF YOUR HEALTH IS AT RISK, THERE IS HOPE IN THE LIVING GOD.

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James 1:2-8 – This is a life-changing provision experience. Trust me, I know.

2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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As God's Temple, His biggest desire for us is to trust Him. I really encourage you to read Psalm 3.

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. – Jeremiah 29:11-12

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AMAZING TRUTH! YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD (1ST Corinthians 3:17-18, 1st Corinthians 6:17-20).

THE HISTORY OF THE TEMPLE

When King Solomon finished the first Temple, which took him seven years to build at a cost of about 3 hundred million dollars, the Temple was eleven floors high, 1 million square feet, could house up to ten thousand people, and was divided into three parts:

1. The Great or Outer Court. This is where the general public could gather for worship. 2. The Holy Place. This is where the priest would offer sacrifices for sin on a daily basis. 3. The Holies of Holies. This is the place where the Ark of the Covenant was kept. The Ark of the Covenant contained:

1) Aaron (the first High Priest). His rod that budded.

2) The Golden Pot of Manna.

3) The 10 Commandments (Hebrews 9:4).

The High Priest would enter the Holies of Holies for the atonement for sin once per year. This was known as the day of atonement or Yom Kippur (the word atonement is mentioned about 130 times in the Old Testament, and it means (substitute/forgiveness/to appease/to condone/to reconcile).

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We have reached the final week in this series of podcasts and I want to thank everyone for the encouragement and feedback. When I started this project I had no idea how it would go because I had never done a podcast before and your kind words let me know that I was on track and that you appreciated teaching especially with everything that is going on in the world.

In week seven of Solomon’s Porch you will learn the following things about prayer:

The importance of preparation and prayer

The 14 principles that I have learned about prayer

The vital importance of faith

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