I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley to read and review. Vitale Night, the man Isaiah assaults I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley to read and review. Will Isaiah be able to locate and save Reba, and in doing so will he put his own life in further danger?
I really liked this book, and Isaiah as a person due to his heritage and unusual background which makes him a different leading character that works well in the story written by the author. May 29, Monnie rated it really liked it. Whatever else I think about this book - the first in the crime-thriller category by this author - I cannot deny his way with words. Even when the going takes gruesome turns, the main character, Isaiah Coleridge, has the chutzpah of a Raymond Chandler private eye combined with the philosophical musings of the late Robert B.
And that's a good thing; otherwise, Coleridge - once a mob enforcer - wouldn't be a particularly appealing guy. Big, brawny and half Maori, he manages to get Whatever else I think about this book - the first in the crime-thriller category by this author - I cannot deny his way with words. Big, brawny and half Maori, he manages to get on the wrong side of his father and his Chicago mob bosses, who send him north to Alaska. There, his cantankerous genes kick in once again, and he is "retired" to remote Hawk Mountain Farm in upstate New York, where he performs mundane tasks like mucking horse stalls.
Needless to say, the work isn't very challenging, and he misses the hard action of his former life even he isn't sure whether he prefers getting punched or punching someone else's lights out. Still, he vows not to return to his old ways; but then the Michael Corleone effect kicks in: He runs amok of some nasty characters - basically turning their body parts to mincemeat - and saves a wayward young girl from the clutches of some particularly dastardly dudes. Then, in the midst of his having to deal with enemies old and new, the girl he saved goes missing. That hits Isaiah right in the heart it's stashed right behind his shoulder holster , and nothing - not broken bones, not bloody knife slashes and certainly not threats of a slow and painful death - will stop him from saving her once again.
This is, I believe, the first of a new series - and yes, it's enjoyable enough that I look forward to the next. Thanks to the publisher, via NetGalley, for allowing me to read and review an advance copy. Apr 01, M Griffin rated it it was amazing. Laird Barron is one of my favorite writers, and I always snap up every new thing he publishes. Some Barron fans might be nervous, seeing him shift genre focus a bit though crime lords and gangs and rough dudes and the seedy underbelly have always comprised the greater part of his world , but I say there's nothing to worry about on that count.
This still feels like Laird Barron, just a streamlined and slightly more wry or sarcastic version. Blood Standard is completely engaging and satisfying al Laird Barron is one of my favorite writers, and I always snap up every new thing he publishes. Blood Standard is completely engaging and satisfying all the way through, and Isaiah Coleridge and the rest of the characters are people I want to keep on following.
In short, I loved this. More like this, please! May 16, Hollis rated it liked it Shelves: The concept of this mob-enforcer turned fixer pseudo detective novel is fascinating. But I felt pretty removed from the story, perhaps due to the style of writing, or perhaps because for all the seriousness of the plot, no The concept of this mob-enforcer turned fixer pseudo detective novel is fascinating. But I felt pretty removed from the story, perhaps due to the style of writing, or perhaps because for all the seriousness of the plot, nothing actually ever felt too serious?
There are so many additional elements to Barron's series opener that make it feel fresh and fun. There's an Alaskan setting for the first part of the story. A no-holds-barred critique on race and society's propensity to place less importance on crimes against people of colour.
A romance arc that is surprisingly left mostly in the background. And a love of myths and gods and strangely prophetic dreams. And yet I still can't rate this higher than middle ground. I'm definitely interested enough to read on if we're to get more Isaiah Coleridge and I would like to think that a familiarity for these characters would help me enjoy future installments more.
May 21, Michael Hicks rated it it was amazing Shelves: Blood Standard might be one of the best crime thrillers I've read in recent years, and while I'd put Isaiah Coleridge in the vein of a Jack Reacher-like protagonist, Laird Barron produces a work of violent noir that wins on its own merits and kept me hooked the whole way through. In the book's opening moments, Coler Blood Standard might be one of the best crime thrillers I've read in recent years, and while I'd put Isaiah Coleridge in the vein of a Jack Reacher-like protagonist, Laird Barron produces a work of violent noir that wins on its own merits and kept me hooked the whole way through.
In the book's opening moments, Coleridge ends up making trouble of his own when he's brought into the fold for a sadistic seal hunt that ends with him attacking a made man. After one of The Outfit's higher-ups cashes in a favor, Coleridge finds himself exiled to the Adirondacks in upper New York.
Needless to say, trouble once again finds Coleridge when a local girl goes missing, and Isaiah quickly finds himself caught in the crosshairs of the law, mobsters, and warring street gangs. Given the amount of scarring that covers Coleridge's body like a roadmap, this is just another day in the life of Isaiah. Coleridge is a great big mountain of a man, and violence runs in his blood. Lee Child fans will feel right at home here, although Coleridge is more introspective and philosophical than Child's wandering former MP. College educated, Coleridge is as book smart as he is street wise, fascinated by ancient Greek myth, and the histories of Odysseus and Hercules lend plenty of thematic weight to Blood Standard.
Barron's protagonist is one clearly cut from classical cloth, but his wiseguy mouth keeps him firmly rooted in the modern day. Isaiah is an incredibly well-drawn tragic hero, and one with plenty of tough guy wit, as well as a few moments of self-depreciation. Barron weaves in moments of introspection between a good number of brief action scenes and plenty of tension, surrounding Coleridge with a number of clearly untrustworthy figures with questionable reputations.
Coleridge is also given a few well-rounded foils in the love-interest, Meg, and partner-in-crime-cum-heroics, Lionel, a hard-drinking ex-military sort. Isaiah's scenes with these characters help to inform his growth as a man seeking to turn over a new leaf and set his life right. His history, his brushes with death, his exile from The Outfit, and his own firmly established moral code have left Coleridge grasping for a new life, and we get plenty of glimpses of what that life could be, the promises it could hold for him if he does right, how quickly it could fall apart if he steps wrong, and how badly anybody who crosses him will get hurt.
Laird Barron has crafted a terrific new character here, and half-way through Blood Standard I found myself already jonesing for the next book. I'm excited by the prospect of Coleridge's new life and focus, and I'm dying to see what future odysseys ensnare and disrupt him. This is a character that has plenty of legs for a series, and lots of layers left to mine in subsequent entries. And since I've gone and compared Coleridge to Reacher already, let me just say here for the record that I like Reacher a lot. But I like Coleridge a whole lot more. I received an advanced copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley.
Jun 27, Jordi rated it really liked it. Darker it gets, the better. Memorable el personaje de Isaiah Coleridge menudo nombre! La humanidad que respira es brutal. No soy muy de series, pero la siguiente cae seguro. Sep 02, Ed rated it it was amazing. Former Alaskan wiseguy enforcer Isaiah Coleridge is keeping a low profile in upstate NY when he takes the risky road of searching for a missing young woman. The plot is secondary to the development of Isaiah's character in what I sincerely hope will be a long running series. His fearless tenacity and rapier wit kept me rapidly turning the pages of this outstanding debut crime fiction.
Jul 07, Natalie Mullan rated it liked it. A Maori mobster is a first but it worked in this Mafia style crime novel. A bit of everything you would expect from brutality, to extortion, and missing people. Jul 30, Aaron rated it really liked it. I came to this book somewhat familiar with Laird Barron's otherwordly horror work, having read the Imago Sequence and some other short stories several years back But Barron is surprisingly strong in this milieu, easily settling into character-driven crime fiction without diminishing his capacity to render dreamlike scenes or poetic descriptions of the wilderness, which is quite the trick to behold.
While there isn't any real "hor I came to this book somewhat familiar with Laird Barron's otherwordly horror work, having read the Imago Sequence and some other short stories several years back While there isn't any real "horror" or fantasy per se, this is in many ways a crime novel for fans of fabulous, formless darkness in the David Hartwell sense: Violence hits like a short sharp shock of red, and then it's done, and the pace slows back to a charmingly measured trudge.
The central mystery feels slightly shoehorned to fit the backdrop of this particular character relegated to this particular place, but once it gets going, it all comes together rather well. All in all, I'm glad to see Barron branching out--from what I've seen, he might be even better at hardboiled crime than horror no small feat!
Helel Ben Shaḥar (Isaiah 14:12-15) in Bible and Tradition
Barron is a pretty big name in weird fiction the best subset of horror. I guess he did everything he wanted there, so he tried his hand at crime fiction, noir fiction to be precise! He clearly did his homework as many of the noir tropes are there. Knight In Sour Armor? This, by the way, is the only part where Barron really falls back into a weird fiction description, the rest of the book is clearly delineated from weird fiction - so completely that it feels like Barron could've adopted a different author name, like Ian Banks a.
Banks used to do. The only problem is that not much is being developed past these tropes, it's mostly! It feels like Barron is more testing the water, trying to develop away from weird fiction, seeing whether he can pull off writing an entire novel in a genre he has not much experience with. It clearly works for the reader looking for a crime novel even though sometimes the language used is too much 'american tough guy' cliche for me , but don't come expecting a weird fiction, or noir mixed with weird fiction or b a truly original noir novel.
Maybe the next one in the series will allow for more experimentation now that Barron has become more comfortable with the genre? It is the task of the artist to develop, and the task of the audience to follow along. Laird Barron's writing is my new latest obsession. Needless to say, I was highly entertained by his protagonist, Isaiah Coleridge, although I could not shake the vision of Jason Momoa, which was a pleasant thought. When I told Laird on Facebook that Momoa could not be "unseen" while I read Blood Standard, he "hearted" my post, and admitted that he also saw the charming and sometimes alarming actor as the former hit man.
As far as the story, I will leave that to future readers to unravel. I am Laird Barron's writing is my new latest obsession. I am happy to hear that the second book in the adventures of Isaiah Coleridge is in the works. I look forward to further glimpses into the dangerous and complex world of an assassin turned fixer. Oct 07, Joe rated it really liked it. Parker school of "tarnished knights. Definitely on the the first great genre novels of Jun 05, Michelle rated it liked it Shelves: A destroyer of small things.
Not worlds, nothing so grand, but individual bodies, individual lives. In little more than a week I'd crossed purposes with mercenaries, gangsters, white supremacists, hillbilly moonshiners, gangbangers, and Feds. As ever, blood was the currency of my existence. Blood was the standard. When he witnesses a mafia boss kill a walrus his natural instinct is to react with force. Instead of being killed he is exiled to rural New York. Shortly after his arrival his caretakers' granddaughter disappears pulling him back into the underworld he just narrowly escaped.
Blood standard is a hard boiled mystery with many different characters crossing paths. At times I found it difficult to keep track. Yet it managed to be a slow burn. Apr 30, Paula rated it liked it. He has been put into exile and is doing chores on a farm for an old couple. In their own way, they welcome and accept him, and when their granddaughter goes missing Isaiah intends to find her.
Apr 17, Paula rated it it was amazing. A witty and hard-hitting crime thriller!
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You can read my full review here This novel was a major change in style and tone for Laird Barron, but it was great nonetheless. When you know how to write, you can just write, you know? Isaiah is also notable for its discourse about disability, which serves a variety of rhetorical functions in the book. The impact of Isaiah was felt immediately, as evidenced by the number of copies of the book among the Dead Sea scrolls and citations of it in the New Testament. It greatly impacted the development of important religious ideas, including apocalypticism and belief in resurrection.
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Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, the rings, and nose jewels, the changeable suits of apparel, and all of the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses, the fine linen, the hoods, the veils.
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be a stink; and instead of a girdle a tear; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground Isa 3: And here God is describing the judgment that is to come upon Judah and Jerusalem for their iniquity.
Speaking of the proudness and of the material aspects of their lifestyles. How things are going to be changed because they didn't take God into consideration in their lives. How Judah and Jerusalem were destroyed and ravaged by Babylon. And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and we will wear our own clothes; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach Isa 4: It was a reproach to a woman in those days, of course, not to bear a child.
But there will be a shortage of men, so seven women will take hold of one man and say, "Hey, we'll take care of ourselves. We'll provide our own food and everything else, but we want you to take away our reproach and give your name really to our child. The branch of the Lord, of course, is one of the terms by which Christ is described, the branch of Jehovah. He is called, actually, the branch of David, and Jehovah's servant, the Branch, in Zechariah and the term branch is used many times in reference to Jesus Christ. In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from the storm and from the rain Isa 4: So going ahead again from the darkness of the impending judgment and the long period of time in which the Gentiles shall rule to the day of the Lord when He shall once again rule, and Israel and Jerusalem shall be blessed in the center of God's righteous reign upon the earth.
Now in the fifth chapter the Lord takes up the parable of a vineyard in which He likens Judah or Israel, His people, unto a vineyard. Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof Isa 5: And you that have been over know what a job it is to gather the stones out of the vineyard and you see how that they gathered the stones and make walls with the stones and terraces with the stones.
And you that have been there get a good mental picture of that. Some of these watching towers you'll still discover over there as you go through the land. They have these towers where during the summer season the people move out of the cities and onto the plots of ground that they own in the country. And on these plots of ground they have these towers, and in these towers are the living quarters for the family. And while they are taking care of the crops and harvesting during the summer and autumn period, they live in these towers out in the midst of the fields.
And the towers, of course, also serve as watchtowers where they can watch over their land from people who come and try to steal the fruit of the land. So, "He built a tower in the midst of it. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? In other words, God said, "What more could I have done for the people? I brought them into the land. I established them there. They built and established their cities. And I did everything for them. What more could I have done for them that I haven't already done?
Wherefore [or why is it], that when I looked and it should have brought forth grapes, that it brought forth wild grapes?
And now go; I'm going to tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I'm going to break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: And I will lay it waste: Now, Jesus said, "I am the true vine, My Father is the husbandman, and every branch in Me that bringeth forth fruit He purges or cleanses it that it bringeth forth more fruit" John Again, over there in the land you will notice that as you go through the area of Eshcol, where they grow some of the most delicious grapes in the world You go over there in October.
But you'll notice these grapevines in Eshcol grow on the ground. Big old main branches that are on the ground, and they prop them up with rocks. They do have some of the grapevines on trellises, but through the valley of Eshcol, most of these big luscious grapes actually grow right on the ground. And you'll see these big old vines just growing on the ground propped up with rocks.
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And when the grapes come out on the vines they actually lay right on the ground. So as the grapes are developing they will go through the vineyard and they will take these grapes that are there on the ground and they will pick them up and they will wash them, get the dirt and all off of them, as they are developing, and then will usually prop them on a rock or something in order that it might bring forth better fruit. If they just lie on the ground, then the little bugs and all start eating them, so they prop up the grapes after they've washed them in order that they might bring forth better fruit, more fruit.
So Jesus is making reference to this. Now, "My Father is the husbandman and I am the true vine and you're the branches and every branch in me that is bringing forth fruit, He cleanses it, washes it that it might bring forth more fruit. The washing of the Word in my life, the cleansing. Now what is the purpose of the Word? In order that I might bring forth more fruit for God. What is God interested in my life? What was He interested in for the nation of Israel?
That they would bring forth fruit. Why did He do so much for them? So they would bring forth fruit. Why is God doing so much for us? That we would bring forth fruit unto Him. That's what God desires of your life, that you bring forth much fruit. So the Lord comes to His garden and He's looking for fruit. Now it is interesting in the same context in which Jesus takes the vine and makes now the application to the church, He then speaks of the new commandment that I give you that you love one another, and He relates this loving with the fruit that God was looking for.
So it's significant that Paul tells us in Galatians, "Now the fruit of the spirit is love" Galatians 5: Now this is really what God is looking for, because out of love proceeds true judgment, fairness. If you really love, you are not gonna be oppressing someone. So where in the Old Testament it was, "Let's have righteousness, judgment. Let's not oppress the poor," and these kind of things, in the New Testament, it is put in a positive sense, "Hey, let's love one another as we love ourselves.
For if we love each other as we love ourselves, we're not gonna be taking advantage of each other. We're not gonna be oppressing each other, but we're gonna be helping one another. We're gonna be lifting up the one that has fallen. We're gonna be giving aid to those that are down. We're going to be concerned with the needs of others. We all step in to help the one that is hurting, that is down. That beautiful love within the body where we begin to bear one another's burdens, and thus, we fulfill the law of Jesus Christ. And that's the kind of fruit that God wants from our lives.
Now the opposite to this is selfishness. And that is one of the biggest problems that we have to deal with is our own self-centeredness and our own selfishness, where we're wanting everything for ourselves. We will give as long as it doesn't take away from me, and as long as it doesn't hurt me. But God wants the fruit of love to come forth from His vineyard, and so God comes to His garden to collect His fruit.
And if He finds nothing but wild grapes, He'll forsake the garden. He'll say, "This is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna break down the hedge. I'm just gonna let go. If it's going to bear wild grapes, it doesn't need Me. I'm just gonna forsake the garden. Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Sounds like Orange County--all of our subdivisions and condominiums and townhouses; joining house to house; lay field to field so there is no room left. In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair houses will be without inhabitants Isa 5: Ten acres of a vineyard will only yield eight gallons of fruit, and eighty-six gallons, a homer, of the seed will only yield about a bushel Isa 5: Woe unto them [second woe] that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night Isa 5: When you really get to the That is a sign of real alcoholism.
When you get to that point, you are a full-fledged alcoholic when you need to get your day started with a drink. Woe unto them until the wine inflames them! And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and the wine, are in their feasts: People are just looking for entertainment and pleasures, but they don't give God a consideration in their life. Because of this, because people have become pleasure mad, because people have not regarded God in their lives, God has given them over to captivity. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat Isa 5: Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of emptiness, and sin as it were with a cart rope Isa 5: That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: They begin to challenge God and challenge the judgment of God, "If it's so, let God do something that we might see it, you know. If He's really there. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil Isa 5: Now, of course, we are living, I feel, in an age in which we are really calling evil good and good evil.
Men who try to stand up for something that is decent and moral are made to look like fools in the paper. If people who are interested in decency and morality get together and decide to do something about child prostitution, child pornography, and some of these other things, then the papers begin to say, "Oh, a threat of Nazism or something, and here they're wanting to rule. All we're saying is we'd like to have a decent place to live. We don't want our children to be exposed to the Playboy cover girls when they have to go to the store to buy a quart of milk. We don't want them to have to deal with the wicked, vile imaginations of perverted men when we send them out to the playgrounds.
We want some laws that will really deal with these perverted men who want to display themselves and shock these precious little daughters of ours who are eight and nine years old. We feel that the sickos ought to be put away and should not be a threat to our children. And so we're made to look like a bunch of fools and prudes and idiots. Yet, the gay community gets together and they have a large banquet in Los Angeles to raise funds in order to lobby for certain legislation that will bring a liberalization for their activities and Governor Brown comes to speak, and the papers herald it as a glorious event, a step of progress for these people.
And you don't find a lot of overtones and threats in the papers of all the evil that will take place because the gays have had this big fund-raising dinner and they're going to have money to lobby against legislation that would restrict and restrain their activities to their own kind.
But this is heralded in the paper as a marvelous thing. Woe unto those that call good evil and evil good, the editors of our liberal press today. Boy, it's right there. I could go on, but I won't. It's easy to climb on your little box and really wail. Woe unto those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Men who do not look at themselves in the light of God, men who do not judge themselves by God's standards, but by their own standards.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! God is talking here about the legislators and the judges, and it is interesting that the highest alcoholic consumption in the United States is in Washington, DC. The highest consumption per capita is in Washington D.
I think that's tragic. All of the lobbying, "which justify the wicked for reward and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him," a lot of these edicts that are coming from these boozed legislators and judges and all, and it's tragic. You don't have to go to Washington to find it, you can find it right here in your own local community.
It might be a good idea that you examine some of the judges that are sitting on the bench.
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Now, I don't blame them for becoming alcoholics. I wouldn't want to be a judge. I wouldn't want to have on my conscience the things that they must have on theirs. And you've got to do something to live with yourself and sleep at night, so I don't blame them for becoming alcoholics. If I weren't a Christian, I'd probably be an alcoholic too. How else are you gonna cope with this stupid world? But woe unto them. Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still Isa 5: For he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: Whose arrows are sharp, and whose bows are bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and the wheels like a whirlwind: Their roaring shall be like a lion, and they shall roar like a young lion; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall be able to deliver it Isa 5: And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: So, the opening of Isaiah, the opening judgments of God that are proclaimed, plus always, the glorious light at the end of the tunnel when God has finished with His judgment the glorious kingdom that is coming.
And so we will continue next week with some fabulous prophecies as we get into chapters We begin to see the glorious light of the coming Messiah as he begins to make the predictions of that One that God is going to send who will establish a righteous kingdom and bring forth righteous judgment upon the earth. The Bible study tonight can have one of two effects upon you, and it all depends on what you are.
Blessings unto the righteous; you'll eat of the fruit of the land. Woe unto the wicked; you think it's bad now, it's gonna get worse. What a hope we have, a blessed hope, of the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who, when He comes, He is gonna change our vile bodies that they might be fashioned just like His own glorious image. As we get to the twenty-sixth chapter, we find the glorious promise of the Lord taking away His people and hiding them while the time of His indignation and wrath is poured out upon the earth. For a little season, until the judgments are through, then the unfolding of the glory of His new kingdom of which you may all have a part - it's up to you.
What's it gonna take to turn you around? What's it gonna take to awaken you to God's love and that which God wants to do for you if you just give Him the chance? Though your sins be as scarlet, they may be as white as snow. God is willing tonight to wash you and cleanse you from every sin, from all iniquity.
He's willing to make you over a new person. He's willing, but that's not enough. You must be willing too. If you are, I'd encourage you just go back to the prayer room.
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