“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” There was a church in Africa and everyone was excited to welcome a very well know guest speaker who [...]
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I will, i will, i will
Posted: December 21, 2011 in A Place Called "There", Am i There Yet?, External meltdowns take place..., Prayer and Duct Tape, To be or not to be?, Wandering Thoughts0
Relationship and Obedience – Contradictions! ARG….
Posted: March 31, 2011 in Relationship and ObedienceJonah’s Lesson (4:5-8) So Jonah goes out of the city to pout and see if maybe God will destroy them. Pouting? Okay so i have pouted a time or two. It is hot so God causes a plant to grow and give Jonah shade. The text says Jonah was “extremely happy about the plant.” Then, when [...]
God is gracious and He does answer Jonah’s prayer and the fish delivers Jonah to the beach outside of Ninevah. i’m back to Jonah. God’s Command (3:1-2) 1AND THE word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach and cry out to it the preaching [...]
“God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.” Other lessons from the book of Jonah for me are: National sin demands national repentance! Just as this principle applied to Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, it also applies to Brandon and Florida. This book is a strong rebuke of a narrow exclusiveness [...]
“The ability or inability to accept a miracle depends on whether or not one spells his God with a capital ‘G’” — Homer Hailey The fact that there are obvious miracles recorded in the book of Jonah has caused some — who doubt or deny the miraculous power of God — to label this work as [...]
Relationship and Obedience – Look Who Get’s It Right
Posted: March 15, 2011 in Relationship and Obedience“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” It’s a nice quote but where is God in it? Creating relationship with the Father gives me all the purpose and meaning [...]
Okay there is much discussion regarding whether it’s a whale or something else. i really don’t care, so i am going to refer to the story as Jonah and the sea monster which by the way is how Jesus refered to it. Also if translated in the Greek. ketos— is sea-monster. Much of my research regarding this [...]
Relationship and Obedience – Interest or Committment
Posted: March 3, 2011 in Relationship and Obedience“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permits. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses.” If you do it you get it, if you don’t you won’t! i know i used this a few days ago, but it won’t go away. It has [...]
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn i have to go back to Sampson for a moment. i don’t know why but the word entitlement has invaded every thought i have had since very early(long before the sun rose) this morning. For that reason i am just thinking back on Sampson as i [...]
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” Jonah is one of the most ridiculed books by scholars. The story of a fish swallowing a man and the man living sounds impossible, [...]
