Ripples
Throwing a stone into a still pond creates ripples, not just in one direction, but in all directions. Our preacher talked about “Responsibility Ripples” this past Sunday, in the adjective, noun sense of what we do affects others around us. Taking the analogy further though, we see that what we do does not just affect a few people in one part of our life, but it affects people all around us, and goes further than we will ever know. Just as ripples in a pond radiate outward, it grows and grows in influence touching areas of the pond far away from the event that created the ripples. When we do something wrong, we set into motion a series of events that creates ripples that have an effect not just locally, as some would tend to believe, and do not just...
Overwhelming Provisions
If your reading this, your in the same boat I am. Your sitting in front of a computer somewhere, staring at the screen, reading a Christian blog. So you have computer and internet access, the freedom to read Christian blogs, and the time to site down and read it. I often forget how well off I am. I focus on what I don’t have instead of what I have. It’s a futile and exhausting effort. So today my challenge is, when we get that overwhelming desire for that new gadget, gizmo, or piece of status, look at all the things we have and read Mark 8:36. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Better Late Than Never?
It has been a crazy week, and it is only Tuesday. The rest of the week doesn’t look good either as the sky seems to be falling on my secular job. Good thing it cannot start any sooner than 8:AM and cannot last any later than 5:PM because I simply won’t allow it! However, it does exhaust me, and quite simply, I forgot to post yesterday at all. However, whatever I was going to write about probably would not have been as meaningful (to me anyway) as the post I am going to write now. Last Sunday night, I preached on prayer for the end of the AWANA year service. It is something God has really been working on me about. For so long, I have had issues I have been dealing with on a personal level, and never felt like I could really talk with God until...
To Busy for God
My life can be a little busy most of the time and really busy some of the time. I’m not sure if this is good for me or right, but I have noticed that it makes my priorities much more apparent. If I don’t put aside time for something then it isn’t going to make the schedule and it just won’t happen. As I look back over the last couple weeks, I notice what I make time for and the sad truth is that it’s rarely God. I take time to spend with my family. I take time to spend with my friends and even with my church (although I would like to do better with all three), but God seems to get booted from the radar. I don’t think its because I don’t love him. I think its more along the lines of our relationship is still in the...
Just A Question
Not going to be long in my posting today. Just wanted to pose this question and let you think on it: If you were the Devil, would you have to do anything different to keep others from hearing about the Gospel from you?
Remember Not or I Forgot
I was reminded by a friend over the weekend about the forgetfulness of us as humans. Let’s face it, we all forget to do things. For some of us, it is a greater problem than for others. For others, forgetting is specific to an issue, such as names. For the public at large, it could be a gender thing, which explains why a guy can remember the player names, jersey numbers, and box scores from both teams from the 1985 World Series, but has trouble remembering his own kids names. To forget is a human failing. Good thing God never forgets. In fact, “forgive and forget” is not really a Bible principle at all, for God tells us in the Bible that He will remember our sins no more. Heb 10:17 “And their sins and iniquities will I remember...