Thursday, August 18, 2011

Friday, August 12, 2011

I'm Going To Jail In 5 Days...Can You Help?


Jerry's Kids (Muscular Dystrophy Association) have arrested me & will put me behind bars in just a few days if I don't raise 2400 dollars for Jerry's Kids.

Can you help me stay out of Jail by donating even 5 bucks here?

Thank you so much. It's Tax Deductible. And you're helping little kids. God Bless.



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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Philipians 2:3 - Consider Others Better Than You

Some days I act like an Un-Christlike idiot.

I don't act very much like Jesus sometimes.

I read this today:

3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!


Recently I had a time when I felt someone was criticizing me. And I felt their motive was impure for it. So I responded with my own criticism of them.


Turns out that I was wrong. Their motives WERE pure. But I did two things wrong.

1. I judged their heart without really knowing their heart. (Judge not, lest ye be judged)

2. I broke the golden rule (Do unto others as you would have done unto you) by responding with a retaliation. Would Christ have responded like this? Nah.


I made myself look like a petty fool in front of this person.


So the verse: "Rather, in humility value others above yourselves..." Is designed not only to protect the people around you from YOUR wrath; but it's designed to protect YOU from looking like an Un-Christlike idiot.

You'll never come off looking bad when you treat others as better than yourself...even in those instances when you're pretty sure that you're the one who's right.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Being Lazy





























God's been dealing with me on laziness recently.

Proverbs 26 says:
A sluggard says, “There’s a lion in the road,
a fierce lion roaming the streets!”

I can't tell you how many times I've known I had something I needed to do. But I came up with an excuse NOT to get up & do it by crafting a "legitimate sounding" excuse based on a "supposed fear."

For instance: I know I need to mow the lawn. But it's so hot out, I might get heat stroke. REALLY? Seriously? Let's be honest and say that I just don't want to mow the lawn.

Or...

I know I need to change that light bulb. But climbing that ladder is dangerous. I might fall, and THEN where would I be? I couldn't support my family if I broke my back.

Sheesh. Time to man up!