“Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well (3 John 1:2).” “The cowards never started The weak died on the way Only the strong arrived They were pioneers.” In the movie “About Schmidt”, Warren Schmidt is reflecting [...]
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My God done wrote me a letter
Posted in God's blessing, Health, Hope, Purpose, suffering, Uncategorized, tagged About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson, Peyton Manning on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hot potato
Posted in God's blessing, holiness, Obedience, tagged Ark of the Covenant, The Wire, Time after Time on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever [...]
God looks out for number 2
Posted in Christian life, Christian love, God's blessing, Humility, relationships, tagged Bee Gees, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, I Started a Joke, Robin Gibb on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
”Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor (Proverbs 18:12).” I have very bad memories of the 7th grade. That year I moved shortly after the beginning of the school year. My family and I left a small city in the mountains of southwest Virginia for the the urban sprawl of [...]
When God stays at your staycation
Posted in God's blessing, God's care, God's goodness, God's grace, tagged pleasure, staycation, surprises on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“I said to the LORD,’You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.’… LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance …You have made known to me the path of [...]
The cure for underachieving
Posted in God's blessing, tagged Abraham and Isaac, Chicago Bears, Mike Martz, obedience to God, serving others on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us, that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations…May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us. God will [...]
