Gun shots were heard everywhere, with widespread chaos. Planes had crashed into busy roadways. Emergency vehicles were all but nonexsistent because of lack of personnel. Very few cities were without marshal law. All TV signals were taken over by the government announcing a “be calm” message.
The day after the rapture. What would you add to the above senario?
One of the things I liked in the Navy is the humanitarian deeds we did. We picked up refugees. The children were so excited over getting balloons. It looked like it was the first time they had ever seen the colorful round items.
A distant thought comes careening back from outer space, crash-landing in my conscience like an asteroid. Awwww, man. I meant to be a really good and patient teacher today. Sarah Cunningham
My mind is a vast acrerage of swap meet booths. My enviroment dictates what’s being projected in each of those booths. Do I have a choice as to how my enviroment affects me? If one of those booths was selling dilly bars, could I stay unaffected even though dilly bars affect me? Maybe if I paint the ice cream booth a different color? Orange? (My least favorite color) Maybe if every time I walk into the ice cream booth I poke myself with a pin? Human efforts to a spiritual dillemia. What if I put on a helmit? What if I ask the Holy Spirit to “Color me with Red”? Could I then resist chocolate in the Hersey’s booth? I think I can because the booth is now seen through a different vision. I can wear the new glasses into every booth and see life in full color.
I’m putting this in the P & D (local paper). Please give me your comments (including grammer comments.)
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Little Bo Beep
By Pastor Randy Tramp
Children’s Pastor at Assembly of God
Little Bo Beep has lost her sheep
and doesn’t know where to find them
leave them alone and they’ll come home
wagging their tails behind them.
I don’t mean to rain on your fairy tale parade but I hear rumbling on the horizon. Ever been close to a Mother Goose? Me either. In fact I tell the kids constantly, “When she raises her neck and her eyes widen, it means get ready to run, for she’s coming after you.” Do the kids listen? No, they want to see the goose’s eggs.
Well back to Bo. When I was a young boy I loved to go to my grandparent’s or cousin’s farm. One thing I noticed on the farm is that lost sheep don’t come home. The cows did but not sheep. So leaving sheep alone was not a good idea.
The Bible considers us like sheep if we’ve decided to follow the Good Shepard-Jesus. Jesus tells a story about 100 sheep. One got lost and the Shepard went to find that one sheep. That’s a comforting thought because I was once lost.
One of the disciples told Jesus that he didn’t know the way. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” Sheep do follow. I remember a story about a guy going to Israel. He had been told this fact about sheep and was confused to see a group of sheep being driven like cattle instead of a Shepard in front leading the sheep. He asked his tour guide about this. The tour guide told the interested sheep enthusiast this: “The sheep are going to the slaughter house.” So if you’re being driven you may want to check on your destination point.
Now Miss Beep since she was little probably didn’t know much about sheep. I’m glad Jesus does, after all he created the fuzzy, tail wagging creatures. I have to wonder if during that 6th day creation moment if He created the sheep just before Adam. Well that will be one of my questions when I get to heaven.
Why Follow the Great Shepard Jesus? I asked several people this question. (I told them that I was going to put their answer in this article.)
“Because I believe he’s the Son of God and died for my sins.”
“Because I want to. I guess the next question is why do I want to follow Jesus? Too many reasons and most of them personal.”
“Because we have faith in Him and because he said, “Come and follow me.”
“His teaching provides an excellent model for life. In Him you will have peace, provision, family, forgiveness, a new life, purpose, an eternal home, you will never be alone.”
“We want to spend eternity with God”
My answer: “It’s the only direction I can go. I’ve lived without Jesus in the early part of my life and tried many different things to fill and satisfy myself. Jesus is the only direction I’ve found for total inner peace and contentment. He hasn’t taken away all the pain of life but he’s walked next to me as I traveled through it. He’s become my best friend and I couldn’t imagine life without Him. I know I’ve hurt Him and at times and disappointed Him but He stays in love with me. That’s why I follow Him and will die following Him.
Follow the Great Shepard.
Christians are the Salt of the Earth. Salt preserves and also makes us thirsty. How can we make others thisty for Jesus?
Seems like whatever I’m doing I’m trying to see how I can write about it or take a picture of it. I grew up very isolated and alone and didn’t have this thought process at all. So thinking like this is very refreshing. We weren’t created to be self-centered.
What is your thought process?
Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other,” Fred, how was the memory clinic you went to last month?” “Outstanding,” Fred replied. “They taught us all the latest psychological techniques: visualization, association, etc. It was great.” “That’s great! And what was the name of the clinic?” Fred went blank. He thought and thought, but couldn’t remember. Then a smile broke across his face and he asked, “What do you call that flower with the long stem and thorns?”
“You mean a rose?”
“Yes, that’s it!” He turned to his wife, “Rose, what was the name of that memory clinic?”
I woke up this morning with this thought: Do you get enough of God to make yourself feel good or do you get enough of God to do His will?
Thoughts?
Woke up with this song going through my mind: Though I stumple, though I fall, You still make me glorious. I love music. Right now I’m listening a lot to Stephen Curtis Chapman. His latest CD is deeply emotional. Sometime I listen because I like the tune, sometimes I listen because of the message.
What is your favorite music. Why?
Headed to the zoo today.
What is your favorite animal in the zoo?
