tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23926275661953577282024-02-19T12:09:02.063-05:00Think on This...I enjoy collecting quotations that inspire thought and provide motivation for eternal change.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4918125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-20787326261334069622022-01-22T08:00:00.001-05:002022-01-22T08:00:00.260-05:00Good Habits...<p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the New Year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">~ Mattie Davenport Babcock</span></b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-81717581415256815132022-01-15T00:00:00.005-05:002022-01-15T00:00:00.256-05:00Rely on the Grace of God<p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">The New Year is a time to learn to rely more heavily on the grace of God. Now I've met a few self-made men and women and so have you, but so often these people seem proud, self-centered and driven. There is another way: beginning to trust in God's help. One secret from the Apostle Paul: "I can do everything through Him who gives me strength," he said. (Phil 4:13) And God's strength saw him through pain, joy, and accomplishment. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">~ Anonymous</span></b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-57634816740998422232022-01-09T00:00:00.001-05:002022-01-09T00:00:00.281-05:00Fresh Start... Each Day...<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">We should take advantage of His faithfulness and make every day a fresh start. Resolve to make each day the beginning of a new year, a new morning, a new adventure. He wipes the slate clean and goes back to zero so we can be filled up again with His spirit and give it out all day long. Enjoy the blessings of a new year, in Christ, one day at a time! </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">~ Debbie Carroccio</span></span></h1>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-41392779080994472192022-01-08T00:00:00.001-05:002022-01-08T00:00:00.300-05:00New Year... <p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>If we will let God get as close to us as God wants to, we will see the world more like God does, and we will live by God's power a life we could not live by a lifetime of New Year's resolutions. ~ George G. Hunter III</b></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-90674150147669831942022-01-03T00:00:00.003-05:002022-01-03T00:00:00.349-05:00New Year...<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">~ Matthew Simpson</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-43263859824313829312022-01-03T00:00:00.001-05:002022-01-03T00:00:00.348-05:00New Year...<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A New Year's Prayer</span></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">May God make your year a happy one!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">But by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">Not by making your path easy,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">But by making you sturdy to travel any path;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">Not by taking hardships from you,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">But by taking fear from your heart;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">Not by granting you unbroken sunshine,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">But by keeping your face bright, even in the shadows;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">Not by making your life always pleasant,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">But by showing you when people and their causes need you most,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">and by making you anxious to be there to help.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">God's love, peace, hope and joy to you for the year ahead.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">~ Anonymous</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-23470977397595856502022-01-02T00:00:00.001-05:002022-01-02T00:00:00.256-05:00Resolutions...<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As You Start This New Year</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.38;">... is one of your resolutions to start reading your Bible every day? Is this an area where you’ve been on-again, off-again, and you’d like to become consistent and regular in reading God’s Word every day this year? If you’ll allow the Holy Spirit to help you this year, you can win this victory in your life. And if you lapse and unintentionally skip a few days, don’t let the devil condemn you. Ask for forgiveness and get back on schedule. ~ Rick Renner</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-20202266405971323112022-01-01T19:00:00.001-05:002022-01-01T19:00:00.261-05:00Prayer for the New Year - 2022<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b>Dear Lord, please give me… A few friends who understand me and remain my friends; A work to do which has real value, without which the world would be the poorer; A mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed; An understanding heart; A sense of humor; Time for quiet, silent meditation; A feeling of the presence of God; The patience to wait for the coming of these things, With the wisdom to recognize them when they come. Amen. ~ Anonymous</b></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-78496086803407142492022-01-01T00:00:00.001-05:002022-01-01T00:00:00.247-05:00New Year - Book of Blank Pages... 2022<p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A new year – a book of blank pages waiting to be filled. It is easy to fall prey to doubts and questions about unknown days before me. But maybe God’s will for my life is far greater than knowing what path my life will take, what career choice I will make or what job change will occur. Maybe God’s will is simply for me to serve Him and love Him and share His love with others. So simple, yet so complete. There is no need for lofty resolutions, no need for fear – I will begin my days with prayer; I will listen, and God and I will walk together. He will help me through the rest, one day at a time. </span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">~ Author Unknown</span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-34955029602090589302021-12-31T23:47:00.001-05:002021-12-31T23:47:00.274-05:00Be at War...<p><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;">~Benjamin Franklin</span></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-59158445100867019552021-12-30T19:09:00.001-05:002021-12-31T19:14:18.917-05:00Commitment... <p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Success does not come without commitment. If you are going to do better this next year than you did this year, then you must make a decision to give it your very best shot! A haphazard, “take-it-easy-and-don’t-be-too-hard-on-yourself” approach will not cause any significant changes to take place in your life. If you are really committed to reaching new objectives, then you must ask the Holy Spirit for His help, and then start reaching forth toward these goals with every ounce of your mind, soul, and strength. ~ Rick Renner</span></b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-70847913141539258332021-12-28T00:00:00.012-05:002021-12-31T18:54:56.959-05:00End the Year...<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>I do not advise that we end the year on a somber note. The march, not the dirge, has ever been the music of Christianity. If we are good students in the school of life, there is much that the years have to teach us. But the Christian is more than a student, more than a philosopher. He is a believer, and the object of his faith makes the difference, the mighty difference. Of all persons the Christian should be best prepared for whatever the New Year brings. He has dealt with life at its source. In Christ he has disposed of a thousand enemies that other men must face alone and unprepared. He can face his tomorrow cheerful and unafraid because yesterday he turned his feet into the ways of peace and today he lives in God. The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation. ~ A.W. Tozer, The Warfare of the Spirit</b></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-66258797078650867132021-12-27T19:00:00.003-05:002021-12-31T18:52:29.261-05:00Time for Reflection & Celebration...<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">This is a time for reflection as well as celebration. As you look back on the past year and all that has taken place in your life, Remember each experience for the good that has come of it and for the knowledge you have gained. Remember the efforts you have made and the goals you have reached. Remember the love you have shared and the happiness you have brought. Remember the laughter, the joy, the hard work, and the tears. And as you reflect on the past year, also be thinking of the new one to come. Because most importantly, this is a time of new beginnings and the celebration of life. ~ Taylor Addison, Blue Mountain Arts, 1989</span></b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-35552620559777185002021-12-26T18:57:00.004-05:002021-12-31T18:59:05.048-05:00Post Christmas Prayer<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Long after the angels disappear into the heavens, the shepherds return to their flocks, the magi journey home and the great star sets, Jesus remains.</span></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Child in whom we rediscover God’s great love for humanity becomes the adult Redeemer who challenges us to imitate his selflessness and compassion in order that we might transform our world in love…</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">May we allow the miracle of Christmas to continue long after the holiday trappings have been packed away;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">May we welcome the adult Messiah and his challenging Gospel to recreate our lives, making the peace, justice and hope of this holy season a reality in every season of the new year.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">~ Post-Christmas Prayer: CONNECTIONS, Jan.1, ‘95</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-2927685214524201302021-12-26T18:30:00.001-05:002021-12-31T18:31:21.455-05:00New Year Approaches...<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"As we grow older in life, years somehow seem to shorten and New Year's Day approaches with an ever increasing tempo. The more mature we get, the more we realize that time is only relative; how we live means more than how long we live. Haply also we do not live by years, but by days. In His wisdom God does not show us all that lies ahead. So we enter a new year to live it day by day. What is past is past. Today we start anew, and what we do today will make our life for tomorrow. Chin up, shoulders straight, eyes agleam, let us salute the New Year, and each day let us follow more faithfully, more courageously, more daringly the lead of our great Captain who bids us follow Him."</span></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">~ William Thomson Hanzsche</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-85118366794551544382021-12-24T20:00:00.001-05:002021-12-31T18:56:42.853-05:00Merry Christmas!<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We Wish You a Merry♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸</span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tac/1/16/2665.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">♥</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Christmas♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸</span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tac/1/16/2665.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">♥</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪We Wish You a Merry ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸</span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tac/1/16/2665.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">♥</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪Christmas </span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tac/1/16/2665.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">♥</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tac/1/16/2665.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">♥</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tac/1/16/2665.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">♥</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We Wish You A Merry ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸</span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tac/1/16/2665.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">♥</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪Christmas ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸</span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tac/1/16/2665.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">♥</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪...<br /><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;">And A Happy New Year!♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸<span class="_5mfr" style="margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tac/1/16/2665.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">♥</span></span> ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪...·</div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-21138777067264305042021-05-09T07:00:00.001-04:002021-05-09T07:00:00.252-04:00Our Prayers...<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 12px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ Max Lucado</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-56471735618013420702021-04-21T06:44:00.002-04:002021-04-21T06:46:49.624-04:00Peace...<p> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "system-ui",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">We are not at peace with others because we are not at
peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not
at peace with God. ~ Thomas Merton<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-22118676749267515862021-04-18T00:00:00.000-04:002021-04-18T00:00:00.269-04:00Truth-Twisting World...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are to live in a corrupt, truth-twisting world without getting caught up in it's deceptions. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">~ Chris Tiegreen</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-35233861860407110332021-03-10T00:00:00.000-05:002021-03-10T00:00:00.153-05:00Counter-Culture or Subculture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Is the church a subculture of the world a counter-culture to it? ~ John Bevere</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-21489909962117854152021-03-08T02:11:00.000-05:002021-03-08T02:11:03.967-05:00Prayer & Fasting<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">~ John Wesley</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-44269361015045530492021-03-01T00:00:00.007-05:002021-03-01T00:00:05.398-05:00See the Need...<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">~ </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Shannon L. Alder</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-71759093389915734582021-02-19T00:00:00.001-05:002021-02-20T23:29:52.328-05:00Give to Another...<p> </p><p style="background: white; line-height: 21.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: arial;"><span style="background: white;">What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most
precious he has, he gives of his life. This does not necessarily mean that he
sacrifices his life for the other—but that he gives him of that which is alive
in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of his understanding, of his
knowledge, of his humor, of his sadness—of all expressions and manifestations
of that which is alive in him. In thus giving of his life, he enriches the
other person, he enhances the other's sense of aliveness by enhancing his own
sense of aliveness. He does not give in order to receive; giving is in itself
exquisite joy. But in giving he cannot help bringing something to life in the
other person, and this which is brought to life reflects back to him. ~</span><span style="background: white;"> </span><span class="authorortitle"><span style="background: white;">Erich Fromm</span></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-91290538584754790212021-02-18T00:29:00.002-05:002021-02-18T00:29:39.901-05:00Ash Wednesday...<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: proxima-nova-n4, proxima-nova, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Without the breath of God, we are but dust. On the brink of Lent, Ash Wednesday helps us remember the life and death stakes in our own stories.~ Carolyn Arends</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2392627566195357728.post-22762151537426919412021-01-18T13:43:00.001-05:002021-02-18T13:45:35.828-05:00Service Is...<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Service </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">is</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It's these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">~</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Richelle E. Goodrich</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0