Month: June 2005


  • Eze 16:36-43 You uncovered your body in your sexual sins with them as your lovers and with all your hateful idols.  You killed your children and offered their blood to your idols.   
    Sexual sins are not reality.  I tend to believe each and every person wants some kind of “truth” or reality in their lives.  When we look at what God has set up for marriage we see a loving God.  He says, “Don’t have intimacy with anyone until you have a commitment.”  That commitment is marriage.  It protects human beings.  When a human being goes into sin, his/her world is distorted – unreality.  Did you know David became an animal activitist when he went into sin?  Animals became more important than a human life.  (Nathan the Prophet told David a story in order to reveal David’s sin.)  When a nation is in sin sacrifice of children will be more important then truth.  ”Rights” will be exalted above righteousness.   

  • Eze 16:30-34 Truly your will is weak, says the Lord God. My will is weak. My flesh is weak. My spirit is willing. As I called out to the Lord I began to put on Christ, Jesus. I can’t live this Christian walk – it’s impossible. I must put on, live in, soak in, walk in, move in and enter into the Spirit of God. I took some time to look at God this morning. As I did I became weaker. I became putty in his hands. I came to him with absolutely nothing to offer to him except my willing heart. He used that to work through me and build me up. The people in these verses didn’t do that. They built other places of intimacy. They fell in love with giving their bodies over to others that they even paid their customers. I am tempted when I’m weak to give up and call myself “worthless”. I’m tempted to get my “needs” met by other means. But I’ve learned like David to go into the arms of a gracious God, to enter into God’s intimacy. When I am weak he is strong. It’s not about me, it’s about what he does through me.

  • Back from Jr. Teen Camp.  It was a great.  We had camp in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Many kids were saved, filled with the Holy Spirit and baptised.  We had an over abudant amount of crazy people.  I think the speaker brought that out in everyone. 


     

  • My son austin (pictured in the middle.) won his baseball game 19 – 4 last night. 

  • As I read the posts of people from different walks of life, I see a reoccurring theme.  The theme doesn’t differ between Christian and non Christian.  That theme is “problems”.  What makes a good novel?  A problem revealed and then solved.
    Although I have never watched the show “Desperate Housewives” and have no plans to do so, I see relational problems.  The truth is that “Desperate Housewives” is popular because America identifies with the story line.  Again – “problems”.  A nation started to heal when Archie Bunker brought our race problems to light and we laughed.  Problems are OK if it leads us to Jesus.  Problems are not OK if it leads us to ourselves.  I picked the above picture because it portrays how easy we can be directed.  I need my Jesus because the winds (problems) of this life can turn my clothes pin existence upside down and point me in the wrong direction. 

  • I was watching Dr. Phil last night.  His show was called “Desperate Housewives”.  I was happy to see that he showed the destruction when a life is not lived correctly.  “You will remember your sins and cover your mouth in silence and shame, when I forgive you of all that you have done, says the Sovereign Lord.” Eze 16:63      

    Dr. Phil simply pointed out the wrong in each ladies life.  I remember one particular lady putting the blame on her husband for the wrong she committed.  How many times have we pulled the “he/she made me do it?  It’s happened to me.  Dr. Phil’s success in seeing lives changed is because he shows each person a photo of their own life.  He then states you and only you can change it.  After a person comes face to face with him/herself, then can change occur.  I think of a story of a husband that struggled to not cheat on his wife.  He stayed strong until he had an arguement with her.  Then he allowed his life to be destroyed by opening up a very wrong door.  If we’re living our lives for another person we will fall, but if we’re living our lives to please the only perfect one then we’ll never fall. 

  • As I study Ezekiel I see the results of doing wrong.  We need to continually see the destruction of sin.  I spoke to a girl yesterday that was exiting drug rehab.  She was young, yet looked very aged.  She poured out her heart of all the pain and hurt her life style had caused her.   
    We live in a world that says wrong is OK and if you have enough money you can get away with anything.  The fact of the matter is you can’t get away with anything.  Someone has to pay the penalty.  I’m grateful that Jesus paid for my sins.  

  • Camp was great.  (Trying to recover before I’m off to camp again next week.)  Next week will be in the Black Hills of South Dakota.  Many kids were touched this past week.  We did have a tornado watch one night and had to take shelter.       

    I’ve been thinking about open doors.  I try to convince young people to not open certain doors in their lives.  Those doors may not be able to be shut, even with God’s help.  You may say, what, God is not strong enough to shut our doors?  God is strong enough to protect our will.  If we open an impurity door, we may become addicted to the wrong.  It would draw us in and then we’ll live in the secret place of sin.  That place is darkness.  Then when God calls, as he called to Adam, we’ll not answer because we’ll choose sin over God.  When we don’t answer there is no hope for us.  I was so blessed yesterday as two of our young people got married.  At the reception Natalie, the bride, thanked those around her that helped them stay pure.  What a victory!      

  • Off to camp this next week. 

  • More Kid’s Krusade pictures.


    Clowns, Clowns


     


    Noah – demonstrating the Armour of God that protects us.


     


     


     


     


    One more night of Kid’s Krusade and then on Monday I’ll be at camp for a week.