Wyrick's Writings/Life Is Not What It Is But What You Make It

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH IT? (Continuation)

2012-01-26T06:31:00.000-08:00

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Determination. If you can wed discipline with determination then you will be a winner in this great opportunity called life. Let discipline walk with determination and dreams become deeds.

And so it is as we grow closer and closer to a very basic truth. A belief is what you hold; a conviction is what holds you.

People with convictions don’t waste much time. Who they want to be and how they want to spend their time getting there is often an obsession with them.

They are not ruled by mushy thinking - they get things done. They move the world rather than let the world move them.

A young man wanted, with all his heart, to follow in his father’s footsteps and have a military career, so he applied to West Point Military Academy. But his first application came back, Denied. He tried again. He was rejected again.

The secret to success is learning how to fail, so, filled with determination, he tried a third time. Finally, he was accepted.

And what was that determined young man’s name? Douglas McArthur.

And young Douglas, actually ended up outranking his father, Lt. General Arthur MacArthur by becoming a five star general.

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ARE YOU AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU WANT TO BE (Continuation)

2012-01-24T07:11:00.000-08:00

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When we ignore the feeding of our souls we ignore the truth “God…Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.” (Augustine)

Let me put it this way - God has put eternity in our hearts and nothing will satisfy us until we recognize and acknowledge that this is true. Though the idea of forever may stymie us, our total being is really more comfortable with eternity than with finite time.

This is why Jesus resurrected and by so doing left the message that we should accept our living after we die with as much readiness as we accept our living before we die.

Hear the words of King David for whom an earthly kingdom was not enough, “…O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water.” (Psalm 63:1)

If you are honest with yourself, would you say, “I truly want to grow spiritually” or, would you add an addendum. “…but just not right now.”

In short, it can be said that you are, at this moment, about as spiritual as you want to be. And for some of you that may mean - you believe in God but you don’t want to overdo it.

Maybe you who are still relatively young, and have too often thought to yourself, Some day in my old age I will automatically become more spiritual. When I will find myself more often counting the years and making “Nearer my God to thee” my theme song. Then I will become more spiritual.

But why wait? If it is important in the closing years of life, why is it less than important in the early and middle stages of life?

And if you are already in those closing years, hopefully you have arrived at this conclusion…and are practicing and seeking and finding that great gift - a blessed overwhelming confidence in Almighty God.

And if that is true, some scriptures have become a constant echo.

Psalm 118:6, The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

FOR YES...

Every person has a relationship with God –

either as a spiritual anarchist in rebellion

or a halfhearted follower in lukewarm acceptance

or a believer in all out dedication.

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FORGIVENESS IS GOOD FOR THE BOTH OF YOU (New Series)

2012-01-22T06:14:00.000-08:00

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Matthew 6:14-15

For if you forgive men their trespasses,

your father who is in heaven will forgive you.

But if you do not forgive men their trespasses,

neither will your father forgive you your trespasses.

I think I’m safe in saying that at some point just about everyone has had an up close and personal encounter with a grudge. Unfortunately some seem to collect and hold on to hurts as if their life depended on it.

So let’s stop and look at these sour grapes everyone has picked off the complaining vine and more than once. Look at the harvest of hurts we all have stored away and consider the results when we have not been able to get them out of our system.

The couple had been married for 15 years and lately their disagreements were beginning to multiply. But they wanted to find in their marriage what once they had had, so they both agreed to work at it.

And as a way of doing this they made a rule that at the end of each day they would write down something that was irritating them, driving them up the wall, however you want to put it, and drop the piece of paper into a fault box.

The wife was diligent in her efforts. The first day she dropped in a note that read, “Left the top off the jar of jelly.” The next day her note complained, “Left dirty socks on the floor - again.” On the third day she wrote down two more complaints. She continued in this vein for the next four days.

At the end of the week, they emptied their boxes and examined the contents.

The husband looked troubled as he read her notes, but nodded his head in agreement that these were indeed faults he needed to work on.

When the wife read his notes she found that he hadn’t played by the rules. On each of the seven sheets of paper were just three words, “I love you.”

As you might expect, this only made her madder. And so she turned and shouted at her husband. “You’re not playing by the rules. Don’t you understand that when you are upset you are supposed to say mean and spiteful things? And say them more than once as a way of proving you are right. And then you’re supposed to stay mad long enough to make sure the other person knows he’s wrong. If you don’t play by the rules, husband dear, how are we ever going to get along better?”

Does this sort of logic leave you shaking your head? Maybe leave you thinking perhaps you’ve wandered into the story of Alice in Wonderland? Yet, in spite of its lack of logic that is really how many people act. They would love to have more peace and harmony in their relationships, yet continue to follow the wrong paths to achieve that goal.

They have heard and maybe even read the Sermon on the Mount but fail to apply Christ’s message about forgiveness to themselves.

A motorcycle policeman was in a bad wreck. He broke his left leg and his right arm.

When he awoke after surgery he found the two casts in their proper places.

Then he looked down and saw a large bandage on his hairy chest. The kind that would be oh so painful to remove. Attached to the bandage was a note from his nurse, “A gift from the nurse you gave a ticket to last week.”

Some people don’t just carry a grudge around, they keep giving it as a gift over and over again.

Letting go of a perceived wrong, or of a real one, can be hard. For some, it is nigh unto impossible. They have a constant burn on and they don’t look very hard for a hose of forgiveness to put the fire out.

Some people never have seen an apology they were willing to give or to accept.

They nurse their hurts as if they were a babe in arms. If you ask them when they will forgive the person who has hurt them, and if they are honest, they will tell you NEVER. If asked, “Does that mean you are going to hold that grudge forever?” Their answer might well be, “Well, when I get to the pearly gates…I guess I’ll have to forgive them…but it won’t be easy.”

I know, they (and some places in THESE THOUGHTS, they is you and me)…they would deny this, but I think they worship a selective Christ.

They love the gentle, loving Christ.

They love that He who is a healer of bodies and souls.

They love the promise of eternal life beyond the door of death.

But when they come face to face with His commandment to forgive – and not just once, but seven times seventy, some Bible translations even spell it out - 490 times - it sticks in their throat and they just can’t or won’t do it.

That teaching, that example Jesus gave us during His life here on earth… to forgive, they erase that right out of the mix, right out of the picture. It just doesn’t fit what they are willing to do…so they ignore it…and they don’t do it.

And have you ever noticed that people who don’t forgive quite often become like the people they refuse to forgive? It’s a strange phenomenon, but sometimes spending so much time and energy engrossed in the faults of another, those faults have become part of their own personality.

So think on these things and if you see yourself anywhere in them...admit that they are your faults and that they need to be prayed about rather than make excuses for.

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TIME IS WONDERFUL! (Continuation of Series)

2012-01-19T08:39:00.000-08:00

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When Polish pianist Ignace Jan Paderewsky played before Queen Victoria, he won her enthusiastic approval. “Mr. Paderewsky,” she exclaimed, “you are a genius.” Paderewsky shook his head. “Perhaps, Your Majesty, but before that I was a drudge.” Alluding to the years he had spent practicing and the number of hours he continued to spend practicing every day.

The writer Coleridge is the supreme example of a genius who wasted his writing talent by having a mind filled with all kind of books he never transcribed.

He was one of my favorite writers in college and as I read what little he did actually put to paper I would almost weep at his wasted life.

Discipline without some sacrifice is not discipline. It’s a student studying when he had rather be enjoying the companionship of his fellow classmates. It’s parents attending a PTA meeting when they’d rather be watching a movie. It’s walking a mile or two when you’d rather sleep an extra hour.

When I was first beginning to learn how to play the piano, I practiced scales, which basically is fingers running up and down the keys to promote dexterity. And though I never liked them, I kept on practicing scales all the years I seriously played piano. It wasn’t as much fun as playing boogie woogie or some of my favorite classical pieces of music, but the discipline made me a far better player.

Just remember that “the pain of discipline will cost you pennies, whereas the pain of regret will cost you millions.”

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ARE YOU AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU WANT TO BE?

2012-01-17T07:07:00.000-08:00

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He is a minister today, but once, when he was a little boy of five, he had an experience he would never forget. In his own words, I relate his story:

“I had my first experience with the presence of God when I was 5 years old. Arriving home from my half day of kindergarten, I usually ate lunch with my mom and then hurried off to play. When I would run out of things to do, I would resort to another favorite game, spying on my mom. And so, on this particular afternoon, I stood outside her bedroom and pressed my ear to the closed door.

“I heard a familiar sound, the voice of my mother, talking to God in prayer. Suddenly I felt as if something had reached underneath that door and wrapped itself around me while she prayed.

“I felt the hair on my arms stand up, and my spine begin to tingle.

“I had an acute awareness that something good was happening all around me as my mother worshipped God with tender words of prayer and adoration.

“What happened? There was something going on in that room that was not of this world. Something that was impossible to express with words. There was a conversation being conducted between heaven and earth.”

Have you had that sort of experience yourself? And if your child or grandchild overheard you pray, would it cause them to have this sensation?

What I’m talking about is the difference between singing songs about God and singing songs to God. The difference between talking about God and talking to God. Becoming emotional about God rather than working hard not to become emotional about God.

Realizing that true worship isn’t tied to Sunday or the calendar.

What was it Jesus said… “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they will be satisfied.”

Oh, people can go for a long while with far apart times of feasting at the table of the Lord. Just as people in the concentration camps went without much food for weeks and months and even years, and some even survived, but when the allies arrived, they were mere shadows of their former selves.

So it is if we do not, on a regular basis, feed our souls; we are shadowy skeletons of what we might otherwise have been..

What I am saying is to take to heart the ongoing message of any nutritionist, “You are what you eat.” So too, if our spiritual diet is the equivalent of spiritual fast foods, we will suffer from spiritual starvation, if not a spiritual death.

So how to change one’s spiritual diet? Indeed, how to want to change one’s spiritual diet?

Part of an answer is found in the following Greek legend:

The young man came to the old theologian and asked, “How can I find - really find - God? Really experience Him?”

The old theologian answered by commanding, “Follow me.” And he led him down a rocky path toward the sea.

He continued to walk right into the sea itself, and said to the young man, “Come, continue to follow me.”

And when they stood side-by-side, up to their waists in the undulating waves, the old man, with a surprisingly strong grip, grabbed the young man by his neck and thrust him beneath the surface.

The more the young man struggled, the harder he felt himself being pushed down.

Finally when he was sure he would drown, he felt the grip lessen and he rose gasping for breath.

“When you want God as badly as you just wanted air, then you will find him in the way you were asking.”

Most of you probably know the story of the Prodigal son which tells of another young man…but he was not looking for God, rather he was looking only for earthly happiness and earthly satisfaction.

What he found was a poverty of mind, body and soul And why? Because he was looking in the wrong places.

CONSCIENCE (A Series)

2012-01-15T08:20:00.000-08:00

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Wasting a life is not difficult.

It comes easily to all of us at one time or the other. Judas had been a faithful follower of Christ – but he had his price, thirty pieces of silver.

And a modern day Judas sells his or her soul for a new, important title at work or a raise in pay.

Or, turning a blind eye to improprieties, immoral or illegal, or both, ONE does not rock the boat because simply muting one’s conscience is safer.

And the first time THIS HAPPENS, this playing it safe rather than playing it right - the first time the coward who lurks within everyone rises to the fore, there is a great sound of inner pain that issues forth.

And perhaps after a second time, but if every time a conscience tries to communicate what is right or what is wrong it is ignored, forgotten, broken on the rack of unconcern, told to shut up, eventually it will take the command to heart and, do just that, shut up permanently.

It may be carrying things a bit far, but perhaps it should be a custom to have a funeral service when someone has let their conscience die.

All the family and friends of the man or woman should attend; and by so doing admit that since the conscience is now dead, no one will be hearing from it anymore.

And, oh yes, the former owner of this conscience should certainly also be in attendance.

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TIME IS WONDERFUL! WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH IT? (Continuation of Series)

2012-01-12T07:48:00.000-08:00

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Proverbs 10:17 says, “Whoever practices discipline is on the way to life.”

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin.

Do you consider yourself disciplined?

Do you have a quiet time with God on a regular basis? Filling your head and heart with the reality of an eternal God?

Is this kind of discipline for your soul a part of your time management?

Do you exercise consistently to build your muscles, and eat less to maintain a good body weight?

Is this kind of discipline for your body a part of your time management?

Have you disciplined your habits?

Are you a habitual liar or a habitual truth teller?

Do you have the habit of saying “no” to all the opportunities to sin that come your way or do you often give in and give up when it comes to disciplining your daily actions?

A key difference between successful-in-life people and those who struggle to get by is self-discipline.

Disciplined folk don’t waste time. Undisciplined folk squander far too much time accomplishing very little. Successful-in-life people have formed the habits of doing those things that most people don’t want to do.

As Confucius wrote, “The nature of people is always the same; it is their habits that separate them.”

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"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'

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"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation of Lincoln, while revealing the divine source of his strength"

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WHAT DID GOD HAVE IN MIND WHEN HE CREATED US?

2012-01-10T06:53:00.000-08:00

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– God has left the choices of what we do and in the process become up to each of us. So consider where you put God in your daily life and the results of that assignment.

If you seldom think of God in your busy days, your confidence in Him will be at low ebb because the best way to weaken a relationship is to fail to relate.

All that power and peace available, and passed by. Sad…truly sad.

It’s not what God had in mind when he made us

“The Lord said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Gen. 1:26,27)

Our God gave us a mind (spirit), so that we could know Him.

Our God gave us a heart (emotions), so that we could love Him.

Our God gave us a will (freedom of choice), so that we could decide to obey Him.

God put in us a desire to relate to Him and worship Him on a regular basis. In a sense, to seek the light of Christ and keep that light on all the time.

Not just at an occasional Sunday morning service, or when a fox hole experience drives us to our knees - but always on. To make God something more than a spiritual Web Site to occasionally visit.

In short, to increase your confidence in God go for an all-out swim in the great ocean of God’s love, rather than a brief wade in some psychological substitute pond.

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"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'

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"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation of Lincoln, while revealing the divine source of his strength"

Lt. Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.), Asbury College (Professor retired)

"Wyrick has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of America's history most devoutly relious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of information."

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FORGIVENESS - A WARMING

2012-01-08T07:58:00.000-08:00

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Psalms 133:1

How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!

Let me begin this morning by telling you a true, but very sad story.

Homer and Langley Collyer were born in the late 1800’s to an affluent Manhattan couple. The family lived in a luxurious three-story mansion at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 128^th Street.

All seemed good in the Collyer family. Homer earned an engineering degree; Langley became a lawyer.

Then mom and dad divorced in 1909. The boy’s, now in their 20’s, continued living with their mother.

The neighborhood deteriorated. Their mother died.

And Homer and Langley gradually retreated from society, finally locking the doors to their inherited mansion.

For the next almost 40 years they were nearly unheard from.

Then in 1947, someone reported a strong odor emanating from their address. It took seven policemen to break down the door and finally force it open.

You see, beyond the door all the space was overwhelmed with ceiling-high piles of rubbish.

The brothers had spent most of their adult lives collecting, and finally, hoarding junk. Old newspapers,

fading letters,
moldy clothing,
rusting folding beds,
half a sewing machine,
broken old chairs,
fragments of a winepress,
old, old gas chandeliers,
a sawhorse,
the chassis of an old car,
a long out-of-tune Steinway piano,
a horse’s jawbone and…and that’s just a beginning of a long, long list of worthless items.

Once inside, the police found the two Langley brothers…dead… and

surrounded by 103 TONS of debris.

One brother was found laying just inside the front door and the other brother was later found, actually buried beneath a pile of junk that had fallen over and crushed him.

And your first thought, well maybe your second, since your first thought may well be, What does this have to do with forgiveness? is probably …Who would chose to live a lifetime overwhelmed by trash?

Well, actually there are millions of people who do this all the time – have their own private collections of

junk… admittedly of a different sort.

Someone’s jawbone has moved up and down and insulted them…and they have stored the hurt and the memory of that jawbone for years…

Someone else has left a tattered insult… another has deposited a broken promise… until the piles of accumulated anger, annoyance, indignation, bitterness and all such kind of emotions have left little room for anything else.

And as they collect this emotional garbage down through the years… its weight slowly crushes the grudge holder to death.

And, unfortunately, this can be any of us if we allow ourselves to become pack rats who collect painful moments of junk thoughts.

And it is junk… debris… refuse… that stinks up our lives if we will not forgive them.

TIME IS WONDERFUL WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH IT

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Charles Francis Adams, the 19th century political figure and diplomat, and son of John Quincy Adams and grandson of John
Adams, kept a diary. He had a superb family lineage but perhaps not always the best concept of what was worthy of his time for one day he penned: “Went fishing with my son today. A day wasted.”

However, his son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is also still in existence, and on that same day he made this entry, “Went fishing with my father. The most wonderful day of my life!”

And therein lies part of the problem. Are we capable of judging what is worthless or worthwhile when it comes to the use of that precious commodity called time? Do we too often misjudge what is important or not important at all?

Do we need, on a regular basis, to prayerfully run our daily schedule by the throne of grace? A kind of godly filtering to keep our thinking straight. A prayer something like , “Lord, help me not to waste my life and help me to know the difference” rather than foolishly frittering away precious life portions with little or no concern.

I’ve had an 83^rd birthday come up and like everyone else, I asked,

“Where did the time go?” But I also ask, “And what did I do with it while it was going?”

How much more earthly time do I have left? I have no idea, but I do know that when one is young they feel they have forever to straighten their life out.

How did scripture begin… “Be careful how you live…”

So consider, how do you live? Carefully with thoughtfulness - or carelessly because you couldn’t care less?

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TIME IS WONDERFUL! What Are You Doing With It?

2012-01-05T08:31:00.000-08:00

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Ephesians 5:15-17.
Be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise.

Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days.

Don’t act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lords wants you to do.

Charles Francis Adams, the 19th century political figure and diplomat, and son of John Quincy Adams and grandson of John
Adams, kept a diary. He had a superb family lineage but perhaps not always the best concept of what was worthy of his time for one day he penned: “Went fishing with my son today. A day wasted.”

However, his son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is also still in existence, and on that same day he made this entry, “Went fishing with my father. The most wonderful day of my life!”

And therein lies part of the problem. Are we capable of judging what is worthless or worthwhile when it comes to the use of that precious commodity called time? Do we too often misjudge what is important or not important at all?

Do we need, on a regular basis, to prayerfully run our daily schedule by the throne of grace? A kind of godly filtering to keep our thinking straight. A prayer something like , “Lord, help me not to waste my life and help me to know the difference” rather than foolishly frittering away precious life portions with little or no concern.

I’ve had an 83^rd birthday come up and like everyone else, I asked,

“Where did the time go?” But I also ask, “And what did I do with it while it was going?”

How much more earthly time do I have left? I have no idea, but I do know that when one is young they feel they have forever to straighten their life out.

How did scripture begin… “Be careful how you live…”

So consider, how do you live? Carefully with thoughtfulness - or carelessly because you couldn’t care less?

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"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation of Lincoln, while revealing the divine source of his strength"

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"When it comes to invoking religion in support ofany of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian: Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle ofhumility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes: Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful studyofLincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics:'

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ARE YOU AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU WANT TO BE?

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My first pastorate was a rural community in Virginia. When I arrived there in 1954, I learned that the area had actually only had electricity for six years. Because I was a city boy, it seemed incredible that they had only enjoyed this modern convenience since 1948.

However, I was told a story that seemed even more incredible, but the teller of the story assured me it was true.

A woman had had electricity installed in her house at great expense but the power company noticed that her meter showed she was using almost no electricity at all. Fearing that there was a problem she had not reported, they sent a meter reader to check on the matter.

He saw that the power was indeed working properly and so asked the woman, “Do you use the electricity?”

She replied, “Of course we do. We turn it on every night so we can more easily see to light our gas lights and then we turn it off.”

Ridiculous? Yes. Having all that power and not using it.

But some do that with God, don’t they? Saving real prayer power for only really big problems. Someone is sick and dying, a major decision needs to be made and prayer time is then ratcheted up to full force.

Understandable? Unfortunately, yes.

But why not place this confidence in God for minor moments and decisions, as well? For there is a real danger here, this lack of confidence in and prayer toward the living God. If one is not careful, one day those ever-so-occasional prayers will become so seldom a truck could be driven through the space left since last a real deep confidence-in-God prayer was lifted up.

AETHEISM/AGNOSTICISM AND NO RELIGION AND WHAT YOUU SHOULD CONSIDER DOING ABOUT THEM

2012-01-01T04:46:00.000-08:00

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Psalm 14, 1

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”

They are corrupt, they have done abominable works,

there is none that doeth good.

If someone says they have no religion, it is not necessarily a stepping stone toward saying, “I have no God.” But it certainly puts God on the back burner.

And then there is that middle ground between having no religion and complete denial, the giant question mark called agnosticism which neither affirms or denies God. Eugene Brussell describes an agnostic this way, “One who doesn’t know whether God exists, but is afraid to say so loudly in case God might hear him.”

A little boy had been taught that God had no place in his household. So one day having heard his atheistic father recount once again that everything in life was just mindless chance, the little boy looked up and asked, “Does God know we don’t believe in him?”

Believers do outnumber unbelievers; agnostics are still in the minority; and those who say they have no religion are certainly not in the majority. But this sermon is not directed at statistics. It is directed toward those human beings who in the darkness of the darkest night have said, “There is no light. There is no God. And because I have said it, it is true.”

There is no loneliness worse than that which comes from believing, “I am nothing more than flesh and bone and blood and I renounce any affirmation that claims I have a soul.”

Indeed, I remember the first time I spoke with a man who said that; and looking into his eyes I saw no joy, no triumph, only resignation.

It is not that a denial of God destroys Him or that an acceptance of God replenishes Him. God is and always shall be, despite what we affirm or do not affirm. He is after all omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent and not subject to the whims of any man or woman.

So what is the advantage of believing in and worshiping and seeking a relationship with this Father God? It is the same as when we have a good relationship with our earthly fathers, or have a lack thereof. We humans were created for fellowship and we are diminished whenever we fail to establish such relationships.

I know this; I am a far, far happier man than I would be if I did not have a relationship with my heavenly Father. And I steadfastly believe the same could be said for those nonbelievers, even though they fervently disagree with me.

And because the Devil is very busy fighting for as many souls as he can get, I do try to fight him in word and deed in everyone of the days God has given me. And just in case you doubt the need to speak of our faith, and exhibit our faith every chance we get, may I share with you the following…

Back in 1945, when the United Nations was just being organized, its leaders decided to omit any mention of God in their charter. The reason? To appease atheistic Communists. The atheists gained a giant foothold and they have not backed off.

Indeed, in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, near the Russian-Iranian border, there actually is a University of Atheism. It offers a six-month course to further the spread of scientific-atheistic knowledge. And graduates are expected to continue “the struggle against religion.”

There is an aggressive mind set to atheism these days that no longer just tolerates believers. It believes that religion should be attacked, challenged and refuted at every opportunity. Many atheists are no longer content just to speak against God, they are organized to remove all reference to Him anywhere and anyway they can.

The following example is but one of many that I could spend the rest of the morning sharing.

Remember the prayer kindergarten kids once prayed in our public schools -

We thank you for the flowers so sweet;

We thank you for the food we eat;

We thank you for the birds that sing;

We thank you, God, for everything.

Well, now it hasn’t been prayed since 1963 and I doubt if will ever be prayed in a school again. They, the atheist, are very committed, and they continue to win, time and time again.

Not all atheists are aggressive. There are closet atheists just as there are closet Christians. However, there are enough who are articulate and denigrate God on a regular basis.

It wasn’t always like this…this new found pride in denying God. Indeed, back in the early 1960’s, when the American Atheists Organization held its first convention in Austin, Texas, only a dozen people attended—and two of them ducked under the table when the press was admitted, and stayed there until the reporters left.

By the 1975 annual convention, 960 registered and none of them hid. And the convention’s “Atheist of the Year” award went to Lloyd Thoren of Peterburg, Indiana, who operated a Dial-an-Atheist” service. Mrs. Madelyn Murray O’Hare, its organizer, said her organization at that time had a mailing list of 60,000.

And then there is the University of North Carolina that broke a 130-year old tradition on graduation day in 1972 by not handing out Bibles to graduating seniors along with their diplomas. Bibles had been handed out with the diplomas at Chapel Hill since 1842, but that year the institution’s Trustees Executive Committee voted to abolish the practice.

And again the unbelievers won.

You may have noticed I am calling attention to atheist victories years ago.

But unless you have been hiding in a hole you know that atheists continue to assault the fact that faith in God is part and parcel of how America was founded.

Our Founding Fathers unashamedly spoke of God in glowing terms and incorporated that belief in the Almighty on coin and manuscript and everywhere else it seemed appropriate. But as a nation today, we have gone to such extremes to appease this small minority that some things really don’t make sense.

It is illegal to read the Bible in the public schools of Illinois, but a law requires the state to provide a Bible for every convict! In other words, don’t worry, kids, if you can’t read the Bible in school, you’ll be able to when you get to prison!

A few pertinent questions:

What causes a person to turn away from God? Is it a fear of faith? Is it a demand to understand every fact, facet and thought of God? And if not able to understand, then declare a victory by saying, “I can’t prove God for myself therefore he doesn’t exist.”

Of the atheists I would ask: How got you to this point? Was it the loss of a loved one?

If the death of a loved one shouts there is not a loving God, what did the life of that loved one who did live shout?

How does that old cliché go? It is better to have loved and lost (however the loss took place) than never to have loved at all. If hate denies God’s goodness, what does love affirm?

If what you have lost has made you sad and bitter, what about what you had before the loss? Did that make you joyous and filled with thanksgiving?

I will never understand the mind of God or decisions He makes. Sometimes it’s a miracle. Sometimes it’s allowing an individual to make a mess of his or her life.

Or sometimes, a mess of a tragedy comes to call without being invited. But if I could understand God’s mind, then my mind would be equal to His and that would be like a little child trying to completely understand his earthly father.

I like the observation Abraham Lincoln once made, “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

Or put it this way… for every garden there is a gardener.

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MEMORIES..WHAT KIND ARE CREATING FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS?

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THE MEMORY FACTORY

Luke 22:19-22

And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you, do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table. The son of Man will go as it has been decreed, but woe to that man who betrays him.”

“Do this in remembrance of me…” But how could the Disciples do otherwise. We remember high moments. We remember low moments. And you cannot get much higher than the Son of God and his willingness to sacrifice Himself, and you cannot get much lower than Judas Iscariot and his betrayal of this Son of God.

Remember me… It is the core of our faith, every evangelistic endeavor, this remembering who Christ was and what he said and did and how it affects us.

Remember? We do this kind of thing over and over again. Indeed, just by my talking about memory, most if not all of you, are already dredging up golden moments or muddy miserable moments.

And, while we cannot change the memories left with us by others we can affect what memories we leave with others.

Every person who has ever come in contact with us for any length of time, when they hear our name or think about who we are, feel good to have known us or wish they never had. They remember what we have said and how we said it, what we have done and how we did it, what we should have done but never did. So, when they think of us is it a contentment to them or is it a pain? Right now, think of a person, any person, think of what you did for them or to them. Has your relationship with that person you just brought to mind been a learning lesson for both of you and what kind of lesson?

There is a statement I have made and continue to make to myself on a rather regular basis. It is, “Neil, you just made another mistake. Don’t waste it. Learn from it. If making it was bad, not letting it teach you something is infinitely worse.”

It was Christmas time and the father was out of work. Actually, he had been out of work for quite some time. The cupboard was close to be being bare. They were down to having meat once a week. But it was Christmas time and there it was, a very large box sitting in the middle of a living room sparsely decorated but filled with love.

After Dad read the Christmas story from the book of Luke, he asked each of his three children to stand beside the box because, as he explained, the gift was for everyone and they had to share it. Then, with a smile on his face, he said, “Open it up, little ones.”

Wrapping paper began to fly in all directions, the large red bow ended up on top of a lamp. Finally, they were all looking at a stupendously large refrigerator box. Inside they found other appliance boxes, and medium-sized boxes that could have held a basketball or football, and shoe boxes, skinny boxes that could have held new shirts, even a couple of flat boxes that could have held board games. But all the boxes held were other increasingly tinier boxes. Finally they arrived at the smallest box of all. When they opened that box, there it was, a book entitled “Things to Make with Boxes.”

Excitedly they began to read and it was amazing what they found could be made with boxes and a little imagination. Soon they were constructing forts and castles, cars and airplanes, boats and trains, sets and scenery for make believe plays.

And today, when you ask them which Christmas was the best Christmas they ever had, well, you know what their answer is. The father and mother had lovingly created a wonderful memory for their children. Just as easily, those parents could have complained that times were very bad and created a miserable memory.

Which would you have done?

I have mentioned this story (even these few days after Christmas) because it is exactly what I am talking about. The man who shared it with me knew his mother loved him, but he could not forget the multitude of mean and thoughtless memories she had given him down through the years. I remember him saying, “She was a Dr. Jekyl and Mrs. Hyde. She could be kind and cruel all in the same day.”

What he was sharing was a Christmas day memory and it was not a pretty picture. He was a young lad, still wearing knickers, and accidentally he tore his new Christmas pants during his Christmas morning wanderings. When he returned home his mother punished such behavior by making him spend the rest of Christmas day working in the backyard; raking up leaves and twigs and cutting the hedge.

His mother was a Christian woman, taught Sunday school, and I’m sure her own memory factory had to contain copious memories of the Prince of Peace. But on that day she did not create a Merry Christmas! and a Ho! Ho! Ho memory! Not a peace on earth, good will toward men memory.

Today, if you were to ask him what is the worst Christmas memory he has, that might well top the list. Were there other miserable memories? “Over and over again” were his words, and as he continued to relate other such times he bowed his head and wept.

Are you a creator of weeping memories for folk in your family or joyful memories?

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ARE YOU AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU WANT TO BE?

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Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

This morning I want to introduce you to two people…and both of them are you – but the choice of which you are, God has left up to you.

To begin this introduction, I want you to imagine that it is tomorrow morning and YOU #1 has been away from home no more than five minutes when another one of those road hogs with piggish precision almost takes off your front bumper.

Of course, you lay on your horn. And you honk again, but longer and louder this second time. At the next traffic light you pull up beside his car and let him know, by all the unacceptable ways you know that you are angry with him. That at that moment, a hanging or guillotine would be too good for him.

At work, still carrying this hot-under-the-collar mood, you are rude to customers or other office staff, or anyone who comes in contact with you. The me-first, brutish behavior of the man in that car has ruined your day and you just can’t, or won’t, let go of it.

At the end of the day you slam the front door as you walk into your home and wearing a scowl fit for a King who has been crossed by another kingdom, you take out your lingering anger on your poor unsuspecting spouse.

That was the first you of the two of you.

Now, let me introduce YOU #2.

Again imagine that it is tomorrow morning and you have been away from home no more than five minutes when another one of those road hogs with piggish precision almost takes off your front bumper.

Momentarily you start to lay on your horn but instead, you lay down a prayer, “Lord, save me from meeting brutish behavior with more of the same.”

You’ve held your anger in check and you feel good about it. This is who you are and who you have become.

So you continue to pray for that individual in the other car:

“Dear Lord, perhaps he’s just had an argument with his spouse. Or maybe he’s always like this; rude and thoughtless and wearing a “me-first attitude” as if it were a crown and he were King of the Road. Whatever is his problem, Lord, I pray for the both of us for life is too short for two angry individuals to act like fools.

And as a strange, wonderful kind of peace descends, you continue: “Thank you, Lord, for the privilege of my Christianity and my ability to sometimes act like that is what and who I am.”

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OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES

2011-12-25T05:06:00.000-08:00

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It was time for the annual Christmas pageant and a little boy was having a terrible time with his lines as the Innkeeper. He knew he was supposed to say, “There is no room in the inn,” but he just couldn’t. Over and over, each time he reached that place in the script, he would blurt out, “Sure, come on in.”

Just before they were about to give him a lesser role, he finally came through in rehearsal and said what he was supposed to say.

However, when the night of the actual performance came, he had a moment of inspiration. Oh, he said what he had been told to say, “There is no room in the inn…” but then he paused and continued, “but come on in for a drink before you have to go.”

“Come into our hearts, Lord Jesus, and stay. Make this Christmas special because there is room in the inn of our souls. There is always room for You because we always have a need for You.”

Merry Christmas to you, one and all. A happy, holy Christmas. And may the Lord, of whom it is all about, fill you with His particular and overwhelming joy.

God is love and Christ is the package that proves it. And what is love? Well, out of the mouths of babes, and particularly if they are only four years old, come some interesting insights.

“Love is that first feeling you have before all the bad stuff gets in the way.”

“Love is my grandpa painting my grandma’s toenails because she has arthritis and can’t bend over to do it herself.”

“Love is when you go out to eat and somebody gives you most of their French Fries without making you give them any of yours.”

“Love is what makes you smile even when you are tired and don’t feel like smiling.”

“Love is when a puppy licks your face even though you have gone all day without paying any attention to him.”

“Love is when you know your name is safe in some-bodies mouth.”

“Love is when somebody learns something bad about you and loves you anyway.”

“Love is what is in the room Christmas morning, if you stop opening your presents for just a moment or two and just listen.” (anonymous, some rewrite and edited)

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WISDOM IS

2011-12-22T04:55:00.000-08:00

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M.D., PhD, DD - we see these titles after a name and we think wisdom…I see these titles and I think knowledge…there is a difference.

Knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, but it is no guarantee. I have known some knowledgeable fools and so have you.

Tell me what a man’s intelligence has produced and I will tell whether I think he is wise or not.

Knowledge can, and does, produce arrogance, misused power, pride and selfishness.

Public offices, at all levels, are filled with politicians who made promises to the voters to get there, and once in office act only out of allegiance to the promises they made to themselves.

Knowledge can be very self-centered and quite successful, but not necessarily wise.

The politicians in Jesus’ time were not too wise and got themselves in trouble: Pilate and Herod and the high Priest Caiaphas unwisely choose jealousy to motivate their deeds, and the desire for power, and all the other little children of these less than noble thoughts.

God’s wisdom. That is what I believe in, and preach about, and daily seek. And I think that is what you believe in and daily seek. But we must not just accept these truths…we must seek after them with prayerful might and sacred main.

God’s wisdom that aims us toward humility where we can find harmony.

God’s wisdom that creates in us a desire to think more about helping others than helping ourselves.

God’s wisdom that makes us a more forgiving person.

God’s wisdom that makes us concerned with other people’s preservation before our own self-preservation.

God’s wisdom makes us fight for unity and understanding and kindness

toward our fellowman.

God’s wisdom shouts at us “Don’t continue to be a fool.”

And again, what is wisdom? It is sharpening our souls to the point we make right decisions in coordination with Man’s laws and God’s laws. It is knowing what is right and wrong, and acting like we know what is right and wrong.

Job says, “The fear of God is wisdom.”

Solomon says, “Only the Lord gives wisdom.”

Let me tell you a story.

Albert Einstein developed the theory of relativity, but brilliant as he was did not know how to drive a car, so he hired a chauffeur. One day, he was scheduled to lecture at Princeton and as they were on their way, the chauffeur said, “Dr. Einstein, I’ve heard your lecture so many times, I could give it myself.”

Einstein promptly surprised him by saying, “Alright, I’ve never lectured here before. They don’t know me…so let’s do it. You put on my clothes and I’ll put on your uniform and cap. When we get there I will introduce you as Dr. Einstein.”

Everything went perfectly. The chauffeur delivered the speech on relativity flawlessly. And Dr. Einstein, seated at the back of the lecture hall enjoyed it immensely.

But then something happened they had not planned on.

The moderator of the lecture said, “We have fifteen more minutes, just enough time for some of you to ask Dr. Einstein a question.”

A professor in the audience promptly asked a very complicated, technical question involving higher mathematical formulas and language that the chauffeur of course did not understand.

But the chauffeur, though not a scholar, was obviously, a very wise man.

“Sir, the solution to that problem is so simple that I am really surprised you would even ask it. Anyone can answer a question that simple. To prove it, I’m going to have my chauffeur come up and answer it.”

My own head is filled with knowledge. I read and study and have been busy at it for a lifetime, but the times when I am faced with problems to which I cannot come up with a answer are more than many, and so I pray, ”Lord, it’s me again. Give me wisdom. At least aim me in the right direction and cool my emotions if they are getting in the way.”

Billy Graham once said, “Knowledge is horizontal. Wisdom is vertical.”

Yes, true wisdom comes down from above. And when we act with too little wisdom, here comes our heavenly Father again, forgiving us and forgiving us and forgiving us.

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CONFLICT MISMANAGEMENT! WHY CAN'T WE GET ALONG? (Continuation)

2011-12-20T06:09:00.000-08:00

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Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started sinking, but the friend pulled him out and saved him.

After he had recovered, he wrote on a stone: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.

The friend who had slapped and then saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”

The other friend replied, “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can blow it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.

Now, I’m going to put before you a few personal questions and I hope you are able and willing to honestly, and of course, silently answer them to yourself.

Are you a peacemaker or are you a warrior?

Do you turn proverbial swords into plows or plows into swords?

Are you a master at making cutting remarks?

Just remember, “A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in pitchers of silver.” (Proverbs. 25:11)

Do you harbor grudges as if they were long lost friends?

Do you accuse everyone else of having a bad temper when in reality it is you whose temper is constantly flaring out of control?

Are you a smoldering coal…always on the edge of burning anyone who comes in contact with you?

Yes, it is true that, “Coping with difficult people is always a problem. Especially if the difficult person happens to be yourself.” (John Maxwell)

What is the biggest problem with conflict? It’s like a magnet. For many people, once it gets hold of them they can’t let it go.

Such as the husband who said that after 50 years of marriage, he and his wife have had only one fight. When asked the secret to their success he replied, “Our first and only fight started on our honeymoon and I’m still waiting for it to end!”

“Life is relationships, the rest is in the details.” (Gary Smalley)

And when we keep driving nails into a relationship, we are trying to build a good life on a ragged wound… and it just isn’t going to happen.

Want to know how to make any conflict worse? Use the words “never” and “always.”

You “never” and name the fault. Or…you “always” and name the fault.

Abraham Lincoln knew the power of words, his and the other individuals. “When I’m getting ready to reason with a man,” he said, “I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I’m going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say."

Too many never consider the other persons point of view… in which case guess whose point of view most people hold on to.

You’ve got a conflict in your life and you really do want to sweep it away? Well, just remember, “If the strands in the broom do not reconcile, you cannot very well sweep with it.”

Right now we have an excellent example of what can happen when conflict gets out of hand and no one is willing to listen to anyone. All we have to do is look north to Washington.

Good, intelligent men and women on both sides who speak from their mouths straight to their own ears without pausing to let any other ideas come filtering through. Drawing a line in the sand as if they were God himself who was making the decisions.

And as I watch them, not as a Republican or a Democrat or an Independent, I am reminded that conflict is not wrong…just how we handle it.

Without conflict there would be no New Testament…

No revelation…

But conflict arises from our unmet desires colliding with each other. And when we feel we cannot be satisfied until we get what we want, our desires turn into demands, and when that happens - there is no chance for reconciliation.

People stop talking to each other and rather talk at each other. And like a chest cold, the longer a problem exists, the worse it gets.

I am reminded of some more wise words in Proverbs, He who answers before listening--that is his folly and his shame.” (NIV) Pro. 18:13

Turning a disagreement into open conflict and finally into a feud that might outlast the Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s requires an angry dedication to hardheadedness that makes no room for forgiveness, but all the room in the world for arrogance.

And the devil loves these kind of folk, those with loud voices and clinched fists…those who are not happy unless they are mad at someone. He hates hands extended in prayers for peace and reconciliation and those who plant flowers instead of bombs.

And then there was the ultimate conflict with the ultimate end…the cross on a Golgotha hill.

“Pardon him” was the cry from some.

“Crucify him” was the cry from others.

And Pilate became a symbol of all the times men and women have washed their hands of some hateful conflicting affair. Took the easy way out…except as history has come to show…it was not the easy nor best way at all.

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IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR (Continuation of Series)

2011-12-18T05:18:00.000-08:00

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On a midnight clear…with a message of love so very dear…Even though we weren’t on that hillside so long ago, and didn’t see the star or hear the angels, like the shepherds, we should still be excited. The message is still the same. “Behold, I bring you good news of great joy, for unto you is born a Savior” …

It was Rome and the legions of Augustus were doing what they did on a fairly regular basis. They would line up and march by their Ruler crying out as they passed, “Hail, Caesar.”

The trumpets would blare, the banners flutter in the wind, the stones tremble beneath their feet.

It was all beautifully synchronized and wondrous to behold but Augustus, exalted god/ruler, was bored.

Terribly, overwhelming bored.

He could not count the number of such parades he had to endure. Ah, the drudgery of being an emperor.

At the same time, in a rented stable, in an out-of-the-way little town at the far corner of the Roman Empire, a baby was beginning to cry.

He was wrapped in swaddling clothes. His bed was scattered straw and the only heat was that of farm animals moving about in the cold of the night.

It was not a time when medical care such as we know today was available.

It was a time when few babies survived more than a year.

But this babe did.

Lived and grew up in a place called Nazareth and, for a time, carpentry was His trade.

When he had reached only the twelfth year of his being, He gave His parents a hint of what He would one day become, “Know ye not that I must be about my fathers business?”

With three decades behind him, He began His ministry. “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” It was a snide remark often made by those who lived in big cities.

And in those days of long ago, Jesus did not directly answer the question; He did not have to. His life did a quite good job of that all by itself.

And His death upon a cross did and His resurrection. And now it is Christmas and once again all over the world we remember just how important the birth of this Savior really was.

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Treat our faith like a game

2011-12-15T04:19:00.000-08:00

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May I refer to a true story where once missionaries came upon children in an isolated village daily playing their game of marbles with little round pebbles that were actually diamonds.

But they had an excuse, they didn’t know their worth.

When we play the game of life surrounded by the diamond-ideas and the diamond-teachings and the diamond-power of Almighty God, we know better, but with a lack of wisdom we keep on playing games as if there were not much worth there at all.

Treat our faith like a game. And earning our spiritual dunce cap. And missing so much peace and power we otherwise might have.

That’s not very much wisdom, is it?

Ephesians 5:15-17 aims at the problem. “So be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days.”

Matthew 5:6 reads, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”

Now there are wisdom pieces that can rearrange a way of life, “be careful, not careless, how you live.” “Make the most of every opportunity…” hunger and thirst after righteousness.”

Good advice. Good call. But too often too many of God’s children use. poor follow-through.

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH IT? (Continuation)

Determination. If you can wed discipline with determination then you will be a winner in this great opportunity called life. Let discipline walk with determination and dreams become deeds.

ARE YOU AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU WANT TO BE (Continuation)

FORGIVENESS IS GOOD FOR THE BOTH OF YOU (New Series)

TIME IS WONDERFUL! (Continuation of Series)

ARE YOU AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU WANT TO BE?

CONSCIENCE (A Series)

TIME IS WONDERFUL! WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH IT? (Continuation of Series)

Do you consider yourself disciplined?

Do you have a quiet time with God on a regular basis? Filling your head and heart with the reality of an eternal God?

Is this kind of discipline for your soul a part of your time management?

Do you exercise consistently to build your muscles, and eat less to maintain a good body weight?

Is this kind of discipline for your body a part of your time management?

Have you disciplined your habits?

Are you a habitual liar or a habitual truth teller?

Do you have the habit of saying “no” to all the opportunities to sin that come your way or do you often give in and give up when it comes to disciplining your daily actions?

A key difference between successful-in-life people and those who struggle to get by is self-discipline.

Disciplined folk don’t waste time. Undisciplined folk squander far too much time accomplishing very little. Successful-in-life people have formed the habits of doing those things that most people don’t want to do.

As Confucius wrote, “The nature of people is always the same; it is their habits that separate them.”

WHAT DID GOD HAVE IN MIND WHEN HE CREATED US?

FORGIVENESS - A WARMING

TIME IS WONDERFUL WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH IT

However, his son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is also still in existence, and on that same day he made this entry, “Went fishing with my father. The most wonderful day of my life!”

And therein lies part of the problem. Are we capable of judging what is worthless or worthwhile when it comes to the use of that precious commodity called time? Do we too often misjudge what is important or not important at all?

“Where did the time go?” But I also ask, “And what did I do with it while it was going?”

How much more earthly time do I have left? I have no idea, but I do know that when one is young they feel they have forever to straighten their life out.

How did scripture begin… “Be careful how you live…”

So consider, how do you live? Carefully with thoughtfulness - or carelessly because you couldn’t care less?

TIME IS WONDERFUL! What Are You Doing With It?

However, his son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is also still in existence, and on that same day he made this entry, “Went fishing with my father. The most wonderful day of my life!”

And therein lies part of the problem. Are we capable of judging what is worthless or worthwhile when it comes to the use of that precious commodity called time? Do we too often misjudge what is important or not important at all?

I’ve had an 83rd birthday come up and like everyone else, I asked,

“Where did the time go?” But I also ask, “And what did I do with it while it was going?”

How much more earthly time do I have left? I have no idea, but I do know that when one is young they feel they have forever to straighten their life out.

How did scripture begin… “Be careful how you live…”

So consider, how do you live? Carefully with thoughtfulness - or carelessly because you couldn’t care less?

ARE YOU AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU WANT TO BE?

AETHEISM/AGNOSTICISM AND NO RELIGION AND WHAT YOUU SHOULD CONSIDER DOING ABOUT THEM

MEMORIES..WHAT KIND ARE CREATING FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS?

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES

WISDOM IS

CONFLICT MISMANAGEMENT! WHY CAN'T WE GET ALONG? (Continuation)

IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR (Continuation of Series)

Treat our faith like a game

I’ve had an 83^rd birthday come up and like everyone else, I asked,