SIMPLE COUNTRY BOY
Two things that would shorten my life:
-Retirement
-Moving to the city
SIMPLE FAITH
Jesus Loves Me, This I Know
For the Bible Tells Me So.
I love Jesus, and I love His Book.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE HERE
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Something fun.
Something favorable.
Something offensive.
Something eternal.
MY “NEAR” DEATH EXPERIENCE
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It is Biblical that we do not come back from death, until Jesus comes back.
I never heard or read about people coming back, and the in-between time of hesitation, until recent stories made it popular.
I don’t know—it could be.
But it’s not my experience—a one-way trip—a one-time trip—a one-way-up trip.
When my time came, there was no turning back, just like there was no turning back from following Jesus when I was alive.
I was fully conscious all the way through, even as my brain, my heart, my body faded beyond unconsciousness to lifeless and irreversibly cold.
Is it more sad if you don’t “come back?”
Is your story more exciting if you do, and you live to tell about it?
Can you more effectively tell people about heaven and hell if you “come back?”
Do more people believe someone who comes back—do more people have a genuine Biblical conversion with Jesus?
Answer—keep reading.
Leaving my body did not take a long time.
Actually, there was an exact moment in time when time ended for me, and I was beyond time.
Bottom line—my experience is over since I’m gone—no turning back.
Bottom line—my experience that determined my destiny at death was final when I gave my life to Jesus—no turning back since then.
And, the most important bottom line for you—my experience of telling you about Jesus while I was alive is also final—no turning around if I came back—that means you wouldn’t listen then if you didn’t listen before.
So, please get your eternal destiny settled now—or never!
Heaven or hell—Jesus or not.
The rich man in the Bible pleaded for someone to go back and warn his brothers—answer, they have the clear Bible message—if they reject it, “neither will they believe if one comes back from death.”
This casts doubt on some stories that people got saved by stories of near death experiences.
There are clear dangers, warnings, judgments on adding to His Book (Revelation).
Just a few more comments:
Death brings “No, No, No” from some of the living.
For me death brought “Yes, Yes, Yes!”
No regrets.
No pull back to earth.
I knew I was going.
My body reacted as I was leaving.
I could see the gates opening.
I lifted my arms—or the angel lifted them.
My voice said “Jesus.”
And I wasn’t the first to experience all that—folks in the Bible did too.
Like the blind Christian lady ended her testimony, all I can say is, “See you there.”
B E T H E R E !
BELIEVE IT – – – OR JUST DO IT ?
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(Variation on a repeated theme on this site)
(Where I say “Catholic,” you could insert Lutheran or a host of other name-brand churches.)
Do Catholics really believe in Catholicism, or just do what the Catholic church tells them to do?
Do most of them really know what they are subscribing to, and submitting to, and giving to?
In the end, you don’t need to be “born again” as required by Jesus—you just have church and do what it says—get stamped “APPROVED” by man-made formality.
If this wasn’t so, Christians would be united with the Bible, not divided by human additions to it.
And, far more vital and eternally sobering, there wouldn’t be so many unsaved church members going to hell, with the church’s blessing.
Furthermore, each church’s “distinctives” condition the members to think they are better than others because only their church “got it right.”
AMERICAN CHRISTIANS – – – SNOWFLAKES OR SOLDIERS ?
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One pointed illustration:
American Christians are more worried about disclaiming Trump’s tough words, than thankful for Trump’s tough actions for life and religious liberty.
There are more prayer groups in the White House now than ever before.
American Christians, pray like you’ve never prayed before—the time for soldiers is here—no safety for snowflakes.
NO FEAR – – – FOR REAL ?
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No fear necessary—if Jesus is in your boat.
Just exactly how does Jesus get in your boat?
Actually, it’s His boat, and we have to get in it.
Remember the Ark.
Remember the Alamo.
Sometimes God saves our skin.
Sometimes not.
Always God saves our souls.
Always God has a plan, if we’re in.
WHO CREATED WHO ?
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“Let there be god.” . . . You decide?
Designer Jeans
Designer Genes
Designer gods
Really?
“In the beginning, God created . . . EVERYTHING!”
GETTING ALONG
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“There is something wrong with a person who gets along with everybody.”—–Adrian Rogers
IF IT WORKS, DO IT ?
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If it’s working, it must be right—right?
Try these combinations of what’s right—AND—what looks like it’s working.
Americans—AND—money?
American Christians—AND—money?
Finances for Christians around the world—AND—“Financial Planning” for Christians in America?
The Bible—AND—retirement?
Jesus—AND—portfolios?
Serving God—AND—serving mammon? (“Have your cake—AND—eat it too?”)
Repentance—AND—thriving economy of Noah’s day?
“Straight and Narrow”—AND—“successful” churches?
Capitalism—AND—socialism?
Christian compassion—AND—government “welfare?”
Lot—AND—Sodom?
Lot—“TOWARD—Sodom”?
Lot—IN—Sodom?
Sodom—IN—Lot?
Leaving Sodom—AND—looking back?
“Do we really trust in God, or just say we do?”—–Larry Burkett
SAFE ONLY ON YOUR . . .
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David Jeremiah told a story of a Bible scholar climbing a famous mountain in Switzerland.
The weather was good on their side of the mountain—with a severe storm on the other side, unknown to the two climbers.
When they got close to the summit, the man ran ahead the last few yards with the exhilaration of reaching the mountaintop.
The surprise blast from the storm on the other side nearly blew him off the edge.
His guide grabbed him, saved his life, and yelled, “On your knees, on your knees, you are safe only on your knees here on top of the mountain.”
Don’t need to explain the lesson for life learned by the Bible scholar.
I can say I’ve applied that many times since I heard it, when I’ve been on a mountaintop and when I thought I was on a mountaintop.