Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
Just google it—for answers to your every question—right ?
Not so sure.
Whose answers on the almighty internet ?
Not sure.
Who’s in control of unlimited information ?
Who’s in control of me, with the information ?
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OR
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Safe answers.
True information.
Trusted Source.
Dependable.
Forever.
JUST BIBLE IT !
There is over a decade of writing on AWordforThought.com—here are a few key words to type in the search bar (feel free to enter your own topics as well).
Some searches will bring up older articles for you to compare with more recent ones.
Please pay attention to the dates when they were posted.
— volume
— # (prepare to stay awhile, even surprised/inspired me, goes way back)
— stress
— blessings
— life—balanced
— baseball
— senior year
— slavery
— game of life (several articles from a decade ago)
— be there
— forgiveness
— document the disaster
— freedom
— half slave
— oppressed
— senior
— goodness
— abortion
— xi xi ping pong
— all things trans
— humble
— hurry up and wait
— my part
— God what are You waiting for
— sacrifice [lots of articles include this word]
— trinity [if you dare]
— comfortable
— the problem with theologians
— call to prayer
— prisons
— if I was God
— end of the world – or the end of the free
— perfect weather
— America
— if this world is not
— likewise
— evolution of God
— the one God loves
CROSSROADS FOR AMERICANS
Every American must recognize and come to grips with what is coming, with what is here now.
Life as we know it, and enjoy it, will not continue if we just wait and see what happens as long as we can go to work another day.
Every American must personally return to what made America great—God, Freedom, The Constitution—and publicly defend and vote for those things.
CROSSROADS FOR CHRISTIANS
Every Christian must understand that compatibility with American culture is canceled.
Now it is time to be different for following Jesus, with a cost.
Every Christian must humbly pray for personal revival—soul-searching for change in my life—then demonstrate what Jesus means, in all my relationships and actions.
I watched and listened to Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week.
He gave extended tribute to the United States military, and gave hope in the most convincing words.
I live close to Ft. Hood in Central Texas.
Army helicopters fly over every day—I stop to thank God and pray for them.
The Temple airport is about ten miles away, and the helicopters use it all the time.
I had a dramatic, emotional moment 34 years ago, at the end of a memorable ten-day canoe trip, 110 miles on the Wilderness Waterway through Everglades National Park, with my eleven-year-old son and two friends.
After no human contact the whole time, within hours of the end of our trip, we expected to find a road with our vehicle parked to take us home.
We were paddling silently along a ‘river’, a wide waterway with no current, when helicopters suddenly appeared overhead, seemingly out of nowhere.
I felt what it must have been like for our honorable armed forces to experience that in the jungle waterways of Vietnam.
And appreciation grew even more.
THANK YOU, MILITARY ! ! !
Some thoughts from and inspired by
Peter Rosenberger – “Hope For The Family Caregiver” on afr.net
He knows whereof he speaks—caregiver for his wife for decades.
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“Confusing the American dream with the Christian life.”
Peter says when his wife Gracie enters a room, she immediately creates a theological conversation, without even saying a word.
She doesn’t have to offer a profound explanation for the will of God.
“Something beautiful, something good;
All my confusion He understood.
All I had to offer Him
Was loneliness and strife,
But He made something beautiful
Of my life.”
How to trust Him.
Can I trust Him.
How do I know I can trust Him . . .
“His scars make it possible to trust Him with my scars.”
Observing Christian financial advice for many decades, some things become clear to me, as they were clear to Daddy over half a century ago, for the rest of his life.
I see a pattern of sharing solid, Biblical principles and verses first, like a tithe of time to God’s Word.
Then it seems business as usual, advising to make more money – – – according to . . . ?
. . . mostly according to the principles of the American economy, not so much the blanket warnings of Jesus about our money telling where our heart is.
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The counsel seems to say that His words, “Where your treasure is, your heart will be also”, do not apply if we keep our heart in the right place, no matter how much money we have stashed “for many years”, and seeking more.
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Does ‘sacrifice’ enter the conversations/advice about money, with those who have considerable amounts of it ?*
Is it not true that those who have much money can be most readily advised how to make more ?
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How much do we need ?
The people who have a lot, talk and live like they need a lot for ‘someday’.
“Do you need this saved money to live on, or just want to see it grow?” (Many times the answer is no—don’t need it to live on.)
What about giving it away ?
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Back to the word ‘sacrifice’.*
What about giving it away—WHETHER YOU HAVE A LOT OR A LITTLE ?
“If you are not generous in giving when you have little, it is doubtful that you will be generous when you have much.”—–Larry Burkett
“He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”—–Jesus
*Read the article on AWordforThought.com
SACRIFICED LATELY ?
“Is any area of my life not directed by Jesus?”
—–Frank Turek
Do I say that some parts of my life I have to be in charge of myself ?
“. . . Not as the world gives . . .”
Jesus leaves us with His peace.
The world leaves us with peace—that leaves us.
“. . . Do not let your heart be troubled, and do not be afraid.”
American Family Radio
afr.net
American Family News
afn.net
What if . . .
What if a preacher/teacher dropped the universal pattern of making a statement of doctrine/belief/teaching, followed by Bible verses to back it up ?
We’ve become so accustomed to this practice that we accept it and have come to expect it as the norm, the only way, because everybody does it that way.
This method, by it’s sequence, puts man’s word ahead of God’s Word ! ! !
Right ?
True ?
Good idea ?
It’s not that hard to recognize.
It’s not that hard to change.
It’s not that hard to just switch the sequence.
With everything you want to teach, IF it’s based on the Word of God (hmmm, maybe reread and underline that), IF it’s based on the Word of God, declare the Bible FIRST, then say what you have to say that the Bible tells us.
Try it.
Take the risk.
Test God.
Is there any way He could not honor that ?
Why not do it that way ?
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