Roxanne Dubarry Poet Prose Poetry

In His Service From My Special Devotions

text, "Let your light so shine before men
that they may see your good works and
glorify your Father which is heaven."
Matthew 5:16 KJV

According to the text, as Christians, we are to be
a window to the world. Through our good deeds, the
unsalted word gets a brief reflection of our Heavenly
Father's goodness and mercy.  The unsaved world
passes  judgment on our Heavenly Father, because
of our actions. It also judges our Christian faith as
well. Nonbelievers make a decision--reject Him, or
accept Him as their personal Savior largely because
of us.  It is imperative, therefore, we set a commend
able exampled for them to follow.

Where do we learn to set a commendable example for
Christians for Christians? Our local church is a good
building block to start with.  Our local church is not
only an excellent place for worship, education and
Christian fellowship, but also to learn acceptable
social behavioral skills as well.  We learn by the
exemplary example "more mature Christians"
establish for us.

Another building block for our foundation to build
on is the foundation of our Christian faith--the Bible.
Our Heavenly Father utilizes such descriptive words
as: peace maker, meek, compassionate, charity and
understanding to describe admirable Christian 
attributes.   A third building block--community 
volunteer service--is a very attractive alternative to
benefit believers.  In short, we learn how to do good
deeds only by doing them. 

Our Heavenly Father is glorified by our good deeds 
provided we do them cheerfully!

[Make certain your local church is a fundamental, 
Bible believing church and not a Woke one because
some many so-called Christians churches are
Woke today and/or are AI Generation. With many
services going "AI vertical" and evening using AI' 
ministers of the gospel instead of live human's 

There are vast number of born again fundamental
believers in Christ Jesus today.  Who are walking
in and following in the footsteps of the church
during the time of the Apostle Paul..

in Acts 17:10-11.  And the brethren  immediately 
sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berra, who
coming thither (there) went unto the synagogue of
the Jews,  These were more noble than in
Thessalonia, in that they received the word of God
with all readiness of mind, and searched the scrip-
tures daily whether they were so. (If the words
spoken to them by both Paul and Silas were
true or not true.)

These contemporary Berrians are daily serching,
studying and praying over the good news of the
gospel of Jesus Christ contained in the Holy
Scriptures. Some more modern versions of the
Bible leave out certain verses in the Bible.  The
KJV and the NKJV are the better ones.

 Another option is the house church that believers
utilized before establishing using other established
meeting places within the Roman Empire and the
Byzantine Empire, and the Middle Ages etc. 

The church became first divided between the
western and the eastern branches:  Into the 
Western Roman Catholic Church and the
Eastern Orthodox Church.

What church was established first?

It was the Roman Catholic Church. 

There are televised church services, on-line
church services and telephone church services also.
There are social media channels such as You Tube,
where you can receive excellent instruction. 

Yes, many social media sites are very Woke also.

Matthew 10:16 KJV Behold, I send ye (believers)
forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore
wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

The churches one foundation is Jesus Christ our
Lord. Go in peace and serve our Lord Jesus,
And always remember to faithfully: Study the
scriptures, pray, make intercession for the saints
and daily give thanks to God by praising Him
and worshiping Him.

The church's one foundation
is Jesus Christ her Lord
She is his new creation
By water and the word
From Heav'n he came and sought her
to be his holy bride
with his own blood he brought her
and for her he died. ]

by Roxanne Dubarry
July 12, 1987

Expanded and Revised edition:
February 20, 2026

All of my love and my dedication
In Christ Jesus!

Roxanne Lea Dubarry
Roxy Lea 1954/October Country
February 26, 2026

This submission contains both prose and poetry.

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