Prayer

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us. - Walter Martin

A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more. - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all – pray. - R. A. Torrey

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. - Josh McDowell

The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God’s standing challenge, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not!” - Hudson Taylor

We don't always know how we should pray. As we size up a situation, we may judge it one way and start praying that way, but it may be just the opposite of what God wants to do. - Chuck Smith

My hobby

I restore antique license plates (for cars). I love doing it. I get to take a rusted, bent piece of metal, weld up the holes, straighten it out with a hammer, dip it in an acidic fluid overnight, sandblast it, prime and sand it - all that before painting it to look so beautiful.

Come to think of it, it sounds like what the Lord desires to do with me. But to tell you the truth, I want to look beautiful (in His eyes) without all that comes before. But you see, without all that the beauty would never come forth. So I wonder what the Master will do with me today? Meantime, I'm gonna work on license plates.

Food for thought...

An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine:


"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers."

"The firearm death rate in Washington, D.C. Is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period."

"That means you are about 25 percent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US, than you are in Iraq."

Conclusion: The US should pull out of Washington

Giving Thanks

1 Thessalonians 5:18: "in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."

Continuing in Sin

Surely that man must be in an unhealthy state of soul who can think of all that Jesus suffered, and yet cling to those sins for which that suffering was undergone. It was sin that wove the crown of thorns; it was sin that pierced our Lord’s hands, and feet, and side; it was sin that brought Him to Gethsemane and Calvary, to the cross, and to the grave. Cold must our hearts be if we do not hate sin and labor to get rid of it, though we may have to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye in doing it.

J. C. Ryle

Great Quote

Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 years learning he was nobody; and 40 years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

D. L. Moody

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Luke 24:1-8

Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

2 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

3 Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.

5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

6 He is not here, but is risen ! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,

7 saying, 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.'"

8 And they remembered His words.

What would Jesus do?

Now I have been a Christian for a few years and I have read the Bible through a few times, and have been through the New Testament a few more times and have taught through the Gospel of John and have pastored Bible believing churches a couple of times.

Could someone please tell me when Jesus was on earth, where He held up a sign saying, "God hates Fags?"

Or where He celebrated the death of Jewish (and Roman for that matter) solders?

Or where He picketed the funeral of a solder who gave his life for his country?

I believe that homosexuality is sinful behavior, for sure, because the Bible tells me so (Old and New Testament).

However, I submit to you that those hold up those signs, and picket those funerals are not Christian.

And I would like to apologize to the homosexual community as well as to the families of those who have been so mistreated by those who call themselves "Christian."

I respect the right of those who disagree with me as well as the rights of those who do such despicable things. It is their right, but it doesn't make it right.

If you want to reach the homosexual community, why don't you reach out in love to them?

Oh, and another word about holding up signs. Were are your signs condemning adultery? Or pornography? Or divorce? Or hatred? Perhaps it is because you don't want to condemn yourselves in the process?