Love is patient - "Charity suffereth long..." 1 Cor. 13:4
Lust is always in a hurry - "Flee also youthful lusts..."
2 Tim. 2:22
See you have to run to get away from lust!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Measuring Stick
The words that you speak are the measuring stick by which people are going to measure your life!
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sunday, February 1, 2009
LAVISHLY LOVING
Definition:
to give unsparingly (v.); extremely generous or extravagant (adj.)
Synonyms:
shower, bestow
www.dictionary.com
It should be that we would lavish our love on Jesus.
When we enter into his presence we should show him extravagant praise.
He must be exalted to the highest level of our regard.
I shall abundantly shower Jesus with words of adoration.
After all, who would leave the generously abundant heaven,
to save a miserable wretch like me? A Master who knows how
to lavish his love on me!
to give unsparingly (v.); extremely generous or extravagant (adj.)
Synonyms:
shower, bestow
www.dictionary.com
It should be that we would lavish our love on Jesus.
When we enter into his presence we should show him extravagant praise.
He must be exalted to the highest level of our regard.
I shall abundantly shower Jesus with words of adoration.
After all, who would leave the generously abundant heaven,
to save a miserable wretch like me? A Master who knows how
to lavish his love on me!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Coach or Player?
Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach, once said, "The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players." Do you need to be the coach or are you interested in being a winning player?
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Are You Successful?
There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.
- Unknown
I heard a minister once say, "If you want to know if you are being talked about, ask the children."
I hope that I am succesful, especially in the eyes of God and my children.
- Unknown
I heard a minister once say, "If you want to know if you are being talked about, ask the children."
I hope that I am succesful, especially in the eyes of God and my children.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Love's Greatest Enemy
Love's Greatest Natural Enemy
I heard the most fabulous message tonight by Nathan Hurst. This was his title. He preached that it isn't flesh, or the world, or even Satan. Everyone has to deal with this enemy. If we are not careful it affects our marriages, our relationships, even our spiritual lives.
Love's Greatest Natural Enemy--"TIME"!
I heard the most fabulous message tonight by Nathan Hurst. This was his title. He preached that it isn't flesh, or the world, or even Satan. Everyone has to deal with this enemy. If we are not careful it affects our marriages, our relationships, even our spiritual lives.
Love's Greatest Natural Enemy--"TIME"!
The Human Spirit
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources.
- Vauvenargues
- Vauvenargues
Monday, May 19, 2008
Two Simple Principles
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
- John D. Rockefeller III
This type of ambition comes when you quit doing something in your head and start loving it with your heart. Many people go to work and continue working a job because they know how to do it (in their mind), but do not love what they are doing (with their heart). When you find what you love doing, then it is easy to complete it. It is not simply a task but a passion.
May I make a recommendation--quit simply living for God, that is a task! Start loving him with your heart--that will be your passion, therefore it will have energy, ambition, and be born out of a natural ability. After all, we are made in HIS image! Put your whole soul into it!!!
- John D. Rockefeller III
This type of ambition comes when you quit doing something in your head and start loving it with your heart. Many people go to work and continue working a job because they know how to do it (in their mind), but do not love what they are doing (with their heart). When you find what you love doing, then it is easy to complete it. It is not simply a task but a passion.
May I make a recommendation--quit simply living for God, that is a task! Start loving him with your heart--that will be your passion, therefore it will have energy, ambition, and be born out of a natural ability. After all, we are made in HIS image! Put your whole soul into it!!!
Monday, May 12, 2008
Happy People Produce
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
- - William Ralph Inge
How true! We need to make something happen! Be productive! It is not because of boredom that people are not productive, but rather they are bored because they do not produce. Keep striving! You will eventually succeed.
- - William Ralph Inge
How true! We need to make something happen! Be productive! It is not because of boredom that people are not productive, but rather they are bored because they do not produce. Keep striving! You will eventually succeed.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Just Keep Smiling
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
- Mother Teresa
Don't worry about what people think or say about you, just do your work honestly and forthrightly. Work so well that you don't mind signing your name to it!
- Mother Teresa
Don't worry about what people think or say about you, just do your work honestly and forthrightly. Work so well that you don't mind signing your name to it!
Thursday, May 1, 2008
I Defend Your Right
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
I certainly do not agree with men like Jeremiah Wright and others who spew their hatred and anti-American "centrisms." I must however defend their right to speak. To deny people a right to voice their opinions is to deny them the very foundation on which this country was founded. I enjoy freedom of speech and employ it often. People may not like what I have to say but my constitutional right to say it remains free. You don't have to like the message but you must allow people their voice!
Freedom of speech stops, however, when the speaker crosses over into malicious rhetoric about killing and destroying people, or it includes defamation of character. This type of behavior should be eradicated. Whether it is preached from a pulpit, spoken in a political state house, or shouted from a street corner, hatred is NEVER acceptable!
I may not agree with what you say, but I WILL defend your right to say it as long it does not enter the area of willful and malicious intent!
Voltaire
I certainly do not agree with men like Jeremiah Wright and others who spew their hatred and anti-American "centrisms." I must however defend their right to speak. To deny people a right to voice their opinions is to deny them the very foundation on which this country was founded. I enjoy freedom of speech and employ it often. People may not like what I have to say but my constitutional right to say it remains free. You don't have to like the message but you must allow people their voice!
Freedom of speech stops, however, when the speaker crosses over into malicious rhetoric about killing and destroying people, or it includes defamation of character. This type of behavior should be eradicated. Whether it is preached from a pulpit, spoken in a political state house, or shouted from a street corner, hatred is NEVER acceptable!
I may not agree with what you say, but I WILL defend your right to say it as long it does not enter the area of willful and malicious intent!
Monday, April 21, 2008
Life's Lessons
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not to be measured by what one has but rather by what one leaves behind. If you do not leave behind wealth, but you have left children with a well-balanced life: children who love God and their fellow man, and entreat both with honor and respect: then you have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not to be measured by what one has but rather by what one leaves behind. If you do not leave behind wealth, but you have left children with a well-balanced life: children who love God and their fellow man, and entreat both with honor and respect: then you have succeeded.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Keep Pushing
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
No matter how small and insignificant you feel, simply remember, you are doing more than you feel that you are doing. If everyone quit pushing, no matter how small the push, nothing would ever be accomplished. Few heroes ever changed the world, it is the small touch: a mother brushing the tears away from her child, the hug from a friend, a kiss from your lover. These small seemingly insignificant pushes or touches are what keeps people going.
YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR WORLD WITH JUST ONE SMALL PUSH AT A TIME! KEEP PUSHING!!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Goodness and Strength
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- William Hazlitt
When we love, or at least have a strong friendship with someone, we are willing to forgive and continue our love with them. We can strongly disagree and not strain our love for one another because our love is not based on whether we agree or not. True love is based on our heart and mind. It is no wonder that the Bible states, "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment." (Mark 12:30) Jana and I have had a lasting love simply because of our profound love for one another and our strength of mind to keep it that way--you can too!
Just a subscript: You can learn a lot more from listening than you can from talking. If you want to learn something about someone, take a seat, shut your mouth and don't argue back. You might be surprised how much alike that you really are! It is physically impossible to listen and speak at the same time!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Chance Of A Lifetime
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
- Maltbie Babcock
Sometimes life gives us only one chance at something, and we will never get that chance again. In a single moment we can seize the chance of a lifetime and our lives are forever changed, or we can miss the opportunity and forever regret the missed chance. Every moment of every day, be aware of the chance that life affords you and apprehend that moment. It might be the one chance that you get to make a difference!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
One Of Life's Important Lessons
The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.
- Margot Fonteyn
While I think that everyone should have a God measured amount of self-esteem, self-pride, and self-worth we must be careful not to take ourselves too seriously and think more of ourselves than we ought to think. The Apostle Paul writing to the Romans said it best, "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." (Romans 12:3) The Apostle James writes in chapter 1 verse 14 of his book, "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
While you may disagree that this quote and these verses of scripture do not intertwine, I respectfully ask you to reconsider them again. Most people who take themselves too serious think more highly of themselves than they ought.
Work hard so that when your name goes on what you completed people can see that you have done a good job, but don't brag too much about your work. Let others do that for you!
- Margot Fonteyn
While I think that everyone should have a God measured amount of self-esteem, self-pride, and self-worth we must be careful not to take ourselves too seriously and think more of ourselves than we ought to think. The Apostle Paul writing to the Romans said it best, "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." (Romans 12:3) The Apostle James writes in chapter 1 verse 14 of his book, "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
While you may disagree that this quote and these verses of scripture do not intertwine, I respectfully ask you to reconsider them again. Most people who take themselves too serious think more highly of themselves than they ought.
Work hard so that when your name goes on what you completed people can see that you have done a good job, but don't brag too much about your work. Let others do that for you!
Monday, February 11, 2008
Trials Build Character
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
- James Buckham
Temptations are brought about because of Satan or ones-self. The Bible says that, "God tempteth no man but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lusts and enticed." If you can overcome temptation then you will be stronger.
- James Buckham
Temptations are brought about because of Satan or ones-self. The Bible says that, "God tempteth no man but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lusts and enticed." If you can overcome temptation then you will be stronger.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Facing Deficiencies
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- Helen Keller
EVERYONE you will ever meet has a deficiency or a weakness. Some hide them better than others. When someone points out that deficiency in your life, acknowledge it, and face that giant. A wise man once pointed out to me that God allows our deficiencies to surface not to embarrass us or to cause us to give up, but more appropriately to allow us to fix them, so we can be more like Him. You don't have to be weak to have weaknesses, but do not let them have control.
Helen Keller knew about weaknesses and deficiencies, but overcame them and became a great orator, author, and developed several foundations. The order of the Southern Cross was conferred upon her because of her charitable work. It wasn't always this way. Up until the age of 2 years old, Helen was a perfectly normal child. Then at the age of two years old, she contracted a very high fever that left her both blind and dumb (speechless). She began to throw tantrums because of the frustration that she faced because that she was now unable to communicate. It wasn't until Anne Sullivan came and made her realize that these disabilities did not make her worthless. These deficiencies caused her to learn patience, allowing a new insight about the value of not letting weaknesses to overcome her.
Even if life starts out normal, and takes a terrible turn, we can make it! We need to be aware that trials come to make us strong. The Bible says, "Greater is He that is in us, than He that is in the world."
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