February 17
I’m at a sports bar watching a basketball game on a channel I don’t get at home. The sound is off, a Pursuit Challenge game is in progress. The announcer asks, "What is the name of the last book in the Bible?”
A man asks me, "I know some of the books but I don't know the order, what’s the last one called?”
"Its called Revelation,"
He writes it down and circles six, the most points he can bet.
I should have said, read the Bible it is worth a lot more than six trivia points. Opportunity missed. Sorry Lord!
“Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” (Mark 4:40)
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Vision Day
February 16
Shivering in bed with a fever it hits me. I’m under attack. Of course! The enemy doesn’t want this meeting tomorrow to happen. I’m to facilitate Vision Day for a Christian organization serving the poor.
Joy and I pray for a recovery and strength.
God is faithful. The next morning I feel better. People applaud as I walk into the room. The happiest to see me is the director and his wife who also had prayed.
“I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.”(Matthew 18:19)
Shivering in bed with a fever it hits me. I’m under attack. Of course! The enemy doesn’t want this meeting tomorrow to happen. I’m to facilitate Vision Day for a Christian organization serving the poor.
Joy and I pray for a recovery and strength.
God is faithful. The next morning I feel better. People applaud as I walk into the room. The happiest to see me is the director and his wife who also had prayed.
“I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.”(Matthew 18:19)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Don't be short changed
February 15
Bobby Bowden, the former football coach at Florida State University, was the speaker on the fifth anniversary of South Shore Community Church.
"I believe in the Word," he says, holding up a Bible.” He tells about one game day he realizes it is his mother's birthday. He orders flowers and writes “ I hope you live to be 100."
His mother writes and she adds a PS. "You short changed me, I have been saved since age 13, so I'm planning on living forever."
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life."
(John 6:47)
Bobby Bowden, the former football coach at Florida State University, was the speaker on the fifth anniversary of South Shore Community Church.
"I believe in the Word," he says, holding up a Bible.” He tells about one game day he realizes it is his mother's birthday. He orders flowers and writes “ I hope you live to be 100."
His mother writes and she adds a PS. "You short changed me, I have been saved since age 13, so I'm planning on living forever."
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life."
(John 6:47)
Happy Valentine's Day
February 14
A ministry which feeds the homeless announces this Valentine’s afternoon two homeless will be getting married in the park. A pink cardboard sign shaped like a heart proclaims Lee & Lynda. You don't use last names with the homeless. They repent individually before taking their vows. The reception is the normal food line plus a donated wedding cake. All are fed, homeless, volunteers, seekers and believers, alcoholics and non drinkers.
"Don't just think about your own affairs, but be interested in others too, and in what they are doing." (Philippians 2:4)
A ministry which feeds the homeless announces this Valentine’s afternoon two homeless will be getting married in the park. A pink cardboard sign shaped like a heart proclaims Lee & Lynda. You don't use last names with the homeless. They repent individually before taking their vows. The reception is the normal food line plus a donated wedding cake. All are fed, homeless, volunteers, seekers and believers, alcoholics and non drinkers.
"Don't just think about your own affairs, but be interested in others too, and in what they are doing." (Philippians 2:4)
Monday, February 13, 2012
Wooden Porpoise
February 13
A handsome hand-carved wooden Porpoise sits on my desk at home. I purchased this beauty on a beach on Antigua. The young man selling it asked $15.We haggled. I bought it for $6. I won! I thought. Now I know differently.
What was a game to me was his livelihood. That Dolphin reminds me of my arrogance that day. I am so blessed. I continue to seek ways to pay for that Dolphin and I am happy to be making the payments. I need to give more.
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“He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.” (Proverbs 28:27)
A handsome hand-carved wooden Porpoise sits on my desk at home. I purchased this beauty on a beach on Antigua. The young man selling it asked $15.We haggled. I bought it for $6. I won! I thought. Now I know differently.
What was a game to me was his livelihood. That Dolphin reminds me of my arrogance that day. I am so blessed. I continue to seek ways to pay for that Dolphin and I am happy to be making the payments. I need to give more.
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“He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.” (Proverbs 28:27)
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Mouser
February 12
Mouser,a cat, is fifteen and has been around longer than my oldest granddaughter.
My grandchildren pickup that cat and he will just hang limply in their arms. They dress him with a mask or a bonnet and he takes it all in stride. He loves those kids.
I need to exhibit the qualities of unconditional love that Mouser does. Is my love unconditional? Do any of us love each other unconditionally?
"Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy; love does not parade itself,
is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil." (1 Corinthians 13: 4-5)
Mouser,a cat, is fifteen and has been around longer than my oldest granddaughter.
My grandchildren pickup that cat and he will just hang limply in their arms. They dress him with a mask or a bonnet and he takes it all in stride. He loves those kids.
I need to exhibit the qualities of unconditional love that Mouser does. Is my love unconditional? Do any of us love each other unconditionally?
"Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy; love does not parade itself,
is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil." (1 Corinthians 13: 4-5)
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Doing the Work
ebruary 11
He was 24, handsome, healthy and defending his country as a Seabee on Guadacanal in 1943.Now, 79 he sits staring at the floor. He is fighting a different war now and he is fighting it alone.
“He didn't do the work," as Joy puts it, giving up control to God. If we stay in denial we end up alone." He could still "do the work," but a Bible near his bed remains unread.
"All flesh is as grass. And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flowers fall away, But the word of the Lord endures forever.
(1Peter 1:24)
He was 24, handsome, healthy and defending his country as a Seabee on Guadacanal in 1943.Now, 79 he sits staring at the floor. He is fighting a different war now and he is fighting it alone.
“He didn't do the work," as Joy puts it, giving up control to God. If we stay in denial we end up alone." He could still "do the work," but a Bible near his bed remains unread.
"All flesh is as grass. And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flowers fall away, But the word of the Lord endures forever.
(1Peter 1:24)
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