Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
That is my movie review in one word (or three words).
From the creators of Facing the Giants, Fireproof, War Room, etc.—the movies keep getting better.
You will get caught up in the story, you will get a number of surprises, you will get involved, you will get touched, you will get to see people challenged and lives changed.
You will be glad you went.
Go see Overcomer—came in third during opening weekend.
Global Warming means Global Control—means to an end.
Government Gives means Government Takes.
Universal Care means Universal Rationing.
Capitalism Grows more freedom—Government Grows less freedom.
Capitalism Generates Resources—Government Confiscates Resources.
The best playgrounds provide children the opportunity to be responsible for their own safety. Insurance seldom makes playgrounds safer—it usually just makes lawsuits possible.
Paying for your own health costs makes you work toward staying healthy. That motivation drops when someone else is paying, and then you end up thinking it’s your right to have ‘free’ health care .
It seems like one after another of my friends have been complaining of being tired lately.
Then I understood that it’s a coordinated spiritual oppression—a prelude to persecution.
The enemy of our souls tries to make us feel alone, weak, to divide and then to conquer.
The antidote, our response is to share and declare opposition.
Take a stand in advance against the unseen evil forces working on us—in advance of visible spiritual warfare.
Rock bottom failure is a better place to build a foundation than successful sand.
I would love to write such a moving piece from my heart about the wonder of America, that millions would read it and rally around American exceptionalism and drown out the naysayers.
I’ve had enough of those trying to trash America and take us backward to bad times, or plunge us headlong into certain disaster with reckless abandonment of everything that made us great.
Like the writers in the American Revolution, I want to inspire everyone who loves this country to rise up and be heard, loudly, now.
We have so very much to be thankful for in this country right now, that criticisms of America itself have to be manufactured, with lies repeated over and over to get people to believe them.
Enough, already!
Tell everybody you know that America is great again—let’s celebrate America.
We can work on any problems that remain, but don’t throw away America—the very best thing that ever happened to any people in all of human history.
If this resonates with anyone reading or hearing it, don’t be silent anymore, don’t be apologetic, don’t be afraid of intimidation or criticism, don’t let another day go by without influencing someone to keep America what it was meant to be.
Don’t Mess With America!
America—243 years unparalleled.
America’s foundation cannot be improved upon.
America gave us freedom.
America gave us opportunity.
America gave the world relief from disaster and oppression, unselfishly.
America is on target today, right where we need to be—proven by the intensified attacks on the very things that are right with America.
Stand up and defeat those attacks anywhere you see or hear them.
Let’s keep America.
Let’s defend America.
Let’s thank God for America.
! ! ! L E T ‘ S C E L E B R A T E A M E R I C A ! ! !
Be the kind of Christian that others can confide in—sharing the good, bad, and ugly in their lives.
Be willing to do the same with them.
Then you can have an open door to share Jesus with those who don’t know Him.
Then you can practice giving and receiving encouragement with those who do know Jesus.
We all need reminders to practice what we already know about the promises in the Bible.
And, observing the rapid increase of hostility toward Christians around the world and in America, we will need the support of each other more than ever.
It is going to be harder to be a Christian, but it will be clearer to tell who is a Christian.
Let us each decide now to draw the line clearly for authentic Christianity, personally.
Intentionally build close relationships with other Christians, to not live in fear about the future, to not despair when it comes.
Do you depend on God before you have trouble?
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Do you declare trust in God as soon as trouble comes?
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Or:
Do you worry until you can see how things are going to work out?
Desperate prayers are legitimate.
But fast faith does not put God in a rush.
God often takes His time—and then He does things quickly.
And other times He chooses, “Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”
Many times when I need wisdom for writing, I will pray for wisdom after He obviously gave the right words to write.
Isn’t it great to have a God not bound by time, or worry, or us!
Are there any possible virtues to worry? Hardly
Are there any possible virtues to procrastination? Possibly
What do you get when you combine procrastination and worry?
You get a Bible verse: “Worry, tomorrow.”
“Take no thought (don’t worry) about tomorrow—tomorrow has enough worries of its own.”
So, don’t worry about tomorrow—worry tomorrow—and that would be a virtue of procrastination.
The secrets of a blessed marriage make IQ irrelevant to success in the marriage.
For married happiness, the ground is level across all IQ lines.
People with successful marriages and families throughout history, and today, do not necessarily have more brains, or more education, or more expertise or techniques.
We have become so accustomed to more and more “new ideas” on how to do marriage, that we might think we’ll get it right if we’re smart enough and read enough and do everything the smart marriage advisors tell us.
Those who make it—really make it for the long haul—usually do not attribute their track record to the new stuff or the smart stuff.
For one thing, if you have a good, lasting marriage, you started with something that works, long before the onset of all the new, abundant advice.
There’s a saying, “Before we knew it all, how did we do it all, and get it right at all?”
Or, “Does every generation really know more?”
And, before we had all the labor-saving appliances, etc., how did we do all the work—and still have time for good marriage and family?
Maybe—just maybe—we can learn from older generations, and those gone by, that simple, ordinary folks who really care, and take the time to show they care, in person, face to face, anywhere it’s needed—that they have the secrets (timeless secrets) for all relationships including marriage.
And we don’t need to add anything new to that!
And, further food for thought on a parallel, you could insert “money” along with IQ and find that a couple’s economic level has little to do directly with success in their relationship.
We mistakenly think that more money makes everything better, including marriage.
Couples with higher IQ, and those who make more money, also have to rely on something other than IQ and money for meaning and satisfaction in life and in marriage.
How smart do you have to be to show you care?
How rich do you have to be to show you care?
“Godliness with contentment is real success [across the board].”—–His Book
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