To try to live life completely independent of God is like trying to drive a beautiful boat down
a superhighway. That boat is a wonderful creation, loaded with amazing design details , but it
was not designed to run on a hard surface. Paul Tripp
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are. Fred Rogers
I am not afraid of the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks, I am afraid of the man who has
practiced one kick ten thousand times. Bruce Lee
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold or silver.
Gandhi
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind ,and has given up worrying once and for all.
Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you. Ovid
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It isn't the mountains that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers,
intensifies, but never destroys it. Eliza Tabor
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne
In every battle you will need faith as your shield to stop the fiery arrows aimed at you by Satan.
Ephesians 6:16
I would give you no comfort about absenting yourself from the house of God.
Billy Graham
We praise thee Thee for thy radiance
That from hallowed page
A latern to our footsteps
Shines on from age to age
William How
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
I come against you ole dreary day in Jesus's name that you may not smother or quinch
the Holy Spirit's inner flame. GKG
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu
The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it. He gives it away to all of us.
David Ewing
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Joseph Fort Newton
Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of the canyons.
Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Glasses and Bibles should both be worn.
GKG
We cannot hold a torch to light anothers path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile,give them yours.
Zig Ziglar
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling
sunshine and light-you'll go broke. Chuck Jones
We are just walking each other home.
Ram Doss
God's grace is not always pleasant. It often comes in the form of something we would have never chosen
to go through if we were controlling the joystick. Paul Tripp
Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their goods points.
Texas Bix Bender
If opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon , or combing your hair is the
daunting Mount Everst you climb today, that is OK. Carmen Ambrosio
Bible study is like eating peanuts.The more you eat ,the more you want to eat.
Paul Little
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy,for what we are leaving behind is
a part of ourselves.
Amelia E. Barr
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I let them be...When I look at a sunset , I don't find myself saying ,' Soften
the orange a bit on the right-hand corner.' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it as it unfolds.
Carl Rogers
I kiss the wave that threw me up against the rock of ages.
Charles Spurgeon
Where are you the weakest? Be forewarned , this is the spot that Satan seeketh.
GKG
A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.
Rev. Christian Johnson
Days are like rivers or so it seems, they bring good things and bad things and everything in between.
GKG
We are half-hearted creatures...like an ignorant child who wants to go one making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are too easily pleased.
C.S. Lewis
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When I was a young boy, I learned in school that in the morning the sun did not actually rise. It just seems that way but in truth the earth bows each morning before the sun and that had never dawned on me so imagine my surprise! Now I am not suggesting sun worship as other have done. It shows the earth knows and remembers there is another who gives it life and honor should be given to that one. What a fine example it sets for us to do the same. We should bow and thank God each and every every morning for giving us life through his Son ,Jesus, and praise his mighty name. GKG
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shawdows to blind those who don't
Blaise Pascal
In relationships,trust isn't a promise never to hurt each other. It's the risk we will hurt each other and the confidence that, if we do, we will come together to heal. Esther Perel
You can't get up in the morning without bumping into God.
Paul Tripp
I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.
Maya Angelou
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential and enemies to push us beyond it.
Jim Vorsas
From where the sun rises to where it sets, you inspire shouts of joy.
Psalms 65:8
A blank page is God's way of showing you how hard it is too be God.
Author Unknown
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water.... be still and allow the mud to settle.
Lao Tzu
The Bible teaches us that life does not end at the cemetery.
Billy Graham
The world does not read the Bible-it reads you and me. The Godly man is the ungodly man's Bible.
Corrie Ten Boom
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
Jessica Jackley
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose , if there was no winter in our year.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Being a great father is like shaving , you have to do it again tomorrow.
Reed Markham
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads
nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson
It is our nature to worship something ,and sometimes we worship things God has
made instead of Him and often it is nature.
GKG
Many people plan financially for retirement but not spiritually or emotionally.
Billy Graham
Two things are infinite :the universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
The ordinary think inside the box,the extraordinary think outside the box, but genius
thinks inside,outside, below, and above the box. Matshona Dhliwayo
As sunlight is to the earth, so is Jesus to the human heart.
Billy Graham
Christmas is a very special time of year. Our hearts and thoughts always head to those we hold most dear.
GKG
The small manger where Jesus laid his head
Was the world's first King sized bed
Hope was born into this world in a most unusual way
The wise men found Him asleep in the hay.
GKG
Whoever is kind to the needy honors God. Proverbs 14:31
All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
Chris Hart
Let me be a little kinder, let me me a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
Edgar A. Guest
I've learned the bee fertilizes the flower it robs. Charles Beard
People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets. Charles Swindoll
I'm just maverick to say that I think fewer Christians ought to be going into the ministry and more should be going into business and into occupations that have nothing to do with the vocational service. I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God. My hope is to see ...a group of Christians who will infiltrate our society- in fact, our entire world-with a pure ,beautiful message of grace an honesty in the marketplace. Charles Swindoll
Collapse in the Christian life is seldom a blowout ; it is usually a slow leak. Paul Little
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. Dale Carnegie
If one has a cataract , he cannot see others clearly because he sees a part of himself first. Viktor Frankl
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper. Dagobert D. Runes
In this universe, there are things that are known , and things that are unknown, and in between them , there are doors. William Blake
Even though we will never measure up, we will someday live with our Ruler. Gregory Gordon
THAT PRECIOUS RED BLOOD OF JESUS
Read a wonderful devional this morning. Sent it to a few friends. short version is a white flower showed her how dirty her place and even her face was and made her clean up her act.
The Bible does the same for us. It reminds us that we are all unclean and think I read somewhere the only thing that can do that for us is also red!
All of us have become like someone who is unclean, and our righteous are like filthy rags. Isaiah 64:6
I feel like a little child playing by the seashore while the great ocean of truth lies undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler- Ross
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. Abrecht Durer
A boy is the only thing God can use to make a man. Cal Farley
ANY QUESTIONS?
Hans F. Hanson
People inspire you or they drain you-pick them wisely.
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding evil and the good. Proverbs15:3
By the time I was fourteen, the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. Stephen King
No one is on the sidelines: by our actions or inactions , by our caring or our indifference, we are either part of the problem or part of the solution. A. Breeze Harper
Being mortal is like living in a hotel. We know we must check out someday and thus should not get too attached to the facilities . Of course the difference is that in life we are never sure when we will check out. Donald Burt
The poorest man is not the one without a nickel, it's the one without a dream. Virginia Madsen
A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, it's trust is not on the branch , but on it's own wings. Always believe in yourself. Charlie Wardle
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and there are as few as there are any great artist. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck
Almost anything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn
Getting older is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath but the view is much better. Ingrid Bergman
We all have a thorn. We all have something that God has allowed in our lives that Satan meant for our destruction but that God has turned around to help us grow and change. James Macdonald
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams
I am not afraid of the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks. I am afraid of the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times. Bruce Lee
WE BETTER HOLD ON
Last Sunday I spoke in a large church on a snowy Sunday morning. I had been awhile since I had done this.
They had sent me a copy of the worship format in advance. They did not say who was to the children's moment
prior to the sermon. A few days before we touched base and the lady asked me if i would like to do that as well. She warned me there was not a lot of youth that attend there these days. We decided then and there we would do it anyway and if only the big kids were there. I jumped at the chance and it seemed I knew exactly what I was to do.
My wife was able to get a red baloon filled with helium and has a small white weight to keep it from drifting away.
Sure enough, there was not a single child in the crowd of 80 or souls gathered that morning. I sat on the steps in the front of the church as I would have if kids were in the house. Since there were no little kids present, I could hit upon a few points their presence would have not allowed.
I shared the quote at the end of this blog. It says that baloons teach kids not to let go. I shared that I feel that is indeed the case with our faith especially these dark days and applies to us adults as well. I told them I had read and studied for many years and l have learned that I really do not know much. I have also learned many things I was taught and thought to be true were wrong! How can we have a renewal of our minds without questioning the traditions sometimes handed down to us.
I have reached a stage in my life where my goal is to simply trust in the Lord with all my heart with the simple childlike faith I had years ago. I do not know but I do know someone who does know. His name is Jesus and he said much about the children and reminded us their angels are always in the presence of God himself.
I reminded the adults as we aspire to tweak our faith there are plenty of things we indeed should let go of. Things such as bad habits , bad thoughts, etc. Weight , there 's more! Nope, that is not an error. The weight that held the ballon and from flying away represents all of us who need to help keep them grounded in faith through Bible upbringing. We all are to play a part. Our very presence to come out and worship on a cold winter day sets an example to others and for them regardless if they are here or not. Our beloved country is in trouble and I feel is is because we have let go of what is expected and required of all of us who profess to know Christ. it is not too late. We can still turn this horse around. We better hold on and get a grip because the rodeo is well under way.
There are times in life when people must know when to let go. Baloons are desined to teach
small children this. Terry Pratchett
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