CONSIDER
"To succeed in life, you need three things: A wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone."
~Author Unknown
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Saturday, March 28, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/28/2015
VERSE TO PONDER
"I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my whole being shall exult in my God ... For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations."
~Isaiah 61:10-11
"I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my whole being shall exult in my God ... For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations."
~Isaiah 61:10-11
Friday, March 27, 2015
thought for today - 3/27/2015
WORTHWHILE WORK
"It is essential to our life as Christians, that we should recognize cheerfully and realistically that no worth-while work is accomplished without patience and sacrifice; and more important still, that we should realize with a sudden quickening of the pulses that the cost we bear is, not a kind of occupational nuisance, but the honour of sharing God's cost in bringing men to Himself and changing them from being wayward human beings into sons of Himself."
~J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Making Men Whole, London: Highway Press, 1952, p. 45
"It is essential to our life as Christians, that we should recognize cheerfully and realistically that no worth-while work is accomplished without patience and sacrifice; and more important still, that we should realize with a sudden quickening of the pulses that the cost we bear is, not a kind of occupational nuisance, but the honour of sharing God's cost in bringing men to Himself and changing them from being wayward human beings into sons of Himself."
~J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Making Men Whole, London: Highway Press, 1952, p. 45
Thursday, March 26, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/26/2015
CONSIDER
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. It does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. It is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes."
~Corrie ten Boom
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. It does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. It is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes."
~Corrie ten Boom
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/25/2015
"Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another."
~Zechariah 7:9-10
~Zechariah 7:9-10
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/24/2015
ON PRAYER
"Have I rejoiced with and for my neighbor in virtue or pleasure? grieved with [her] in pain, for him in sin? ... Have I revealed any evil of anyone, unless it was necessary to some particular good I had in view? Have I then done it with all the tenderness of phrase and manner consistent with that end? ... Has goodwill been, and appeared to be, the spring of all my actions toward others?"
~John Wesley, quoted in A Guide to Prayer for All God's People
"Have I rejoiced with and for my neighbor in virtue or pleasure? grieved with [her] in pain, for him in sin? ... Have I revealed any evil of anyone, unless it was necessary to some particular good I had in view? Have I then done it with all the tenderness of phrase and manner consistent with that end? ... Has goodwill been, and appeared to be, the spring of all my actions toward others?"
~John Wesley, quoted in A Guide to Prayer for All God's People
Monday, March 23, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/23/2015
VERSE TO PONDER
"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
~Isaiah 53:5-6
"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
~Isaiah 53:5-6
Sunday, March 22, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/22/2015
CONSIDER
"Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit."
~Author Unknown
"Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit."
~Author Unknown
Saturday, March 21, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/21/2015
CONSIDER
"Progress towards maturity is not to be measured by victory over the sins we are aware of, but by hatred of the sins which we had overlooked and which we now see all too clearly."
~Arthur C. Custance
"Progress towards maturity is not to be measured by victory over the sins we are aware of, but by hatred of the sins which we had overlooked and which we now see all too clearly."
~Arthur C. Custance
Friday, March 20, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/20/2015
VERSE TO PONDER
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'"
~Psalms 14:1
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'"
~Psalms 14:1
Thursday, March 19, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/19/2015
IMITATE JESUS
"Our imitation of God in this life ... must be an imitation of God incarnate: our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this, so strangely unlike anything we can attribute to the Divine life in itself, is apparently not only like, but is, the Divine life operating under human conditions."
~C.S. Lewis, from his book The Four Loves
"Our imitation of God in this life ... must be an imitation of God incarnate: our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this, so strangely unlike anything we can attribute to the Divine life in itself, is apparently not only like, but is, the Divine life operating under human conditions."
~C.S. Lewis, from his book The Four Loves
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/18/2015
CONSIDER
"Life is a voyage in which we choose neither vessel nor weather, but much can be done in the management of the sails and the guidance of the helm."
~Author Unknown
"Life is a voyage in which we choose neither vessel nor weather, but much can be done in the management of the sails and the guidance of the helm."
~Author Unknown
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/17/2015
"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
~Hebrews 12:2
~Hebrews 12:2
Monday, March 16, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/15/2015
ON PRAYER
"No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack."
~E.M. Bounds
"No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack."
~E.M. Bounds
Saturday, March 14, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/14/2015
VERSE TO PONDER
"In [Christ] we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace."
~Ephesians 1:7
"In [Christ] we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace."
~Ephesians 1:7
Friday, March 13, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/13/2015
CONSIDER
"To see God in everything makes life the greatest adventure there is."
~Unknown
"To see God in everything makes life the greatest adventure there is."
~Unknown
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/10/2015
MURPHY'S LAWS OF PARENTING
- The later you stay up, the earlier your child will wake up the next morning.
- The gooier the food, the more likely it is to end up on the carpet.
- The longer it takes you to make a meal, the less your child will like it.
- A sure way to get something done is to tell a child not to do it.
- For a child to become clean, something else must become dirty.
- Toys multiply to fill any space available.
- Yours is always the only child who doesn't behave.
- If the shoe fits ... it's expensive.
- Backing the car out of the driveway causes your child to have to go to the bathroom.
~ http://www.mikeysFunnies.com
- The later you stay up, the earlier your child will wake up the next morning.
- The gooier the food, the more likely it is to end up on the carpet.
- The longer it takes you to make a meal, the less your child will like it.
- A sure way to get something done is to tell a child not to do it.
- For a child to become clean, something else must become dirty.
- Toys multiply to fill any space available.
- Yours is always the only child who doesn't behave.
- If the shoe fits ... it's expensive.
- Backing the car out of the driveway causes your child to have to go to the bathroom.
~ http://www.mikeysFunnies.com
Monday, March 09, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/9/2015
CONSIDER
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
~Winston Churchill
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
~Winston Churchill
Sunday, March 08, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/8/2015
VERSE TO PONDER
"Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again."
~2 Corinthians 5:14-15
"Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again."
~2 Corinthians 5:14-15
Saturday, March 07, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/7/2015
RENEWAL AND LIFE
"Perhaps our artist could make a triptych, three panels hinged together with three different paintings on them -- one of the Jordan before Jesus enters the water, looking like a normal river; one of the Jordan with Jesus being baptized in it, the river dark to signify his death and burial; the final a painting of the Jordan as Jesus emerges from the water, the dove on his shoulder, the sky opened up with the Father's voice -- this time the river is gold to symbolize Christ's victory over death and therefore the believer's victory also. For on the eve of the Feast of Theophany the priest prays, 'Thou hast descended into the waters and hast given light to all things, that they may glorify Thee, O Savior, the Enlightenment of our souls.'
"The Jordan is a God symbol and a Christ symbol, as potent in its own way as the cross or the manger or the empty tomb. The Jordan is also a symbol of new life from baptism, of healing, and also of crossing over to a new land and a new commitment to God. In baptism, the idea is one of passing from death to life through the death and resurrection of Jesus. A healing or cleansing is like coming back to life, and the life you have come back to live in God is much different from the one you left. A crossing over is moving from what was to what will be, from the past to the future, with that future securely in the hands of God.
"So the Jordan is really a river of renewal and a river of life -- and God life at that."
~Murray Andrew Pura, Streams
"Perhaps our artist could make a triptych, three panels hinged together with three different paintings on them -- one of the Jordan before Jesus enters the water, looking like a normal river; one of the Jordan with Jesus being baptized in it, the river dark to signify his death and burial; the final a painting of the Jordan as Jesus emerges from the water, the dove on his shoulder, the sky opened up with the Father's voice -- this time the river is gold to symbolize Christ's victory over death and therefore the believer's victory also. For on the eve of the Feast of Theophany the priest prays, 'Thou hast descended into the waters and hast given light to all things, that they may glorify Thee, O Savior, the Enlightenment of our souls.'
"The Jordan is a God symbol and a Christ symbol, as potent in its own way as the cross or the manger or the empty tomb. The Jordan is also a symbol of new life from baptism, of healing, and also of crossing over to a new land and a new commitment to God. In baptism, the idea is one of passing from death to life through the death and resurrection of Jesus. A healing or cleansing is like coming back to life, and the life you have come back to live in God is much different from the one you left. A crossing over is moving from what was to what will be, from the past to the future, with that future securely in the hands of God.
"So the Jordan is really a river of renewal and a river of life -- and God life at that."
~Murray Andrew Pura, Streams
Friday, March 06, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/6/2015
VANTAGE POINTS
"I went on a run in a mountainous area in Arizona recently and took pictures with my phone camera at different intervals. At a thousand feet up the mountain I had a reasonably good view. The terrain was beautiful, and I could see a few of the homes surrounding the area where I had begun my run. As I went another five hundred feet, then another thousand, then another five hundred, my perspective changed. At each turn of the mountain, I could see more and more of the land I had traversed. I had a much more spacious, higher altitude view as well. I could now see the entire development of homes from where I had started, as well as an expansive valley beyond the housing development on one side and a whole new range of mountains that had just come into view on the other side.
"I was covering two thousand feet of altitude change, and with those shifts in altitude and the multiple turns and switchbacks, I could see more and more landscape. The higher I got, the more I could see of the shadow side and previously hidden aspects of the mountain range. At the summit, I saw where I had come from, but I could also see entirely different mountains and new housing developments I hadn't even known existed. A higher altitude doesn't make a place superior, but it does provide the setting for a broader view. There is more available landscape to view, a greater amount of complexity to behold -- more variety, more beauty, more options.
"As we proceed through stages of faith, this is precisely what happens to us. Stages of faith are like high-altitude vantage points."
~Ron Martoia, The Bible as Improv
"I went on a run in a mountainous area in Arizona recently and took pictures with my phone camera at different intervals. At a thousand feet up the mountain I had a reasonably good view. The terrain was beautiful, and I could see a few of the homes surrounding the area where I had begun my run. As I went another five hundred feet, then another thousand, then another five hundred, my perspective changed. At each turn of the mountain, I could see more and more of the land I had traversed. I had a much more spacious, higher altitude view as well. I could now see the entire development of homes from where I had started, as well as an expansive valley beyond the housing development on one side and a whole new range of mountains that had just come into view on the other side.
"I was covering two thousand feet of altitude change, and with those shifts in altitude and the multiple turns and switchbacks, I could see more and more landscape. The higher I got, the more I could see of the shadow side and previously hidden aspects of the mountain range. At the summit, I saw where I had come from, but I could also see entirely different mountains and new housing developments I hadn't even known existed. A higher altitude doesn't make a place superior, but it does provide the setting for a broader view. There is more available landscape to view, a greater amount of complexity to behold -- more variety, more beauty, more options.
"As we proceed through stages of faith, this is precisely what happens to us. Stages of faith are like high-altitude vantage points."
~Ron Martoia, The Bible as Improv
Thursday, March 05, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/5/2015
CONSIDER
"We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us."
~Billy Graham
"We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us."
~Billy Graham
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/4/2015
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
~Galatians 2:20
~Galatians 2:20
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Monday, March 02, 2015
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 3/2/2015
ON PRAYER
"Fix my thoughts, my hopes, and my desires, upon heaven and heavenly things; teach me to despise the world, to repent me deeply for my sins; give me holy purposes of amendment, and [spiritual] strength and assistances to perform faithfully whatsoever I shall intend piously. Enrich my understanding with an eternal treasure of Divine Truths, that I may know thy will: and thou, who workest in us to will and to do of Thy good pleasure, teach me to obey all Thy commandments, to believe all Thy revelations, and make me partaker of all Thy gracious promises."
~Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), Holy Living [1650], in The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., v. III, London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1847, p. 34
"Fix my thoughts, my hopes, and my desires, upon heaven and heavenly things; teach me to despise the world, to repent me deeply for my sins; give me holy purposes of amendment, and [spiritual] strength and assistances to perform faithfully whatsoever I shall intend piously. Enrich my understanding with an eternal treasure of Divine Truths, that I may know thy will: and thou, who workest in us to will and to do of Thy good pleasure, teach me to obey all Thy commandments, to believe all Thy revelations, and make me partaker of all Thy gracious promises."
~Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), Holy Living [1650], in The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., v. III, London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1847, p. 34
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