…your life has new meaning!
Ask fifty people to finish the statement "Live As If" and you are likely to get fifty different answers. For Christians it will mean something different than for non-Christians. Incorporated into the top graphic are the answers given by friends of mine. It is our desire that your answer will be different each time you visit.
Praying With Dirty Hands
The Way' from Kevin Pauley
The LORD said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to break camp. - Exodus 14:15 HCSB Sometimes it is not prayer, but action that is needed. Prayer is an effective tool, but sweat and elbow grease must always accompany it. You’ve heard the expression that talk is cheap?… [read more]
Profiles of the Prophets; The Series (62 of TBD)
Today's Little Lift' from Jim Bullington
Simon Peter – Prominent Prophet of the Apostles (2 of 10) Focus Text: Acts 4.10-13 Of all the attributes that might be assigned to Peter, it is doubtful that anyone acquainted with him ever accused him of being timid! When questions were asked, he seemed to always have an answer. When… [read more]
Seeing Another's Light
Inspiration For You' from Randy Mitchell
No matter who you work with, marry, be-friend, date, parent, or live beside, sooner or later there’ll be personality traits which you don’t agree with, or find uncomfortable to be around. We’re all created differently, are an original masterpiece created by God, and like any living thing, there… [read more]
Solitude
God's Words For US' from Cecelia Lester
Originally posted May 18, 2012
“Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.” Matthew 4:1-2,11 (KJV) {The following… [read more]
Bible and Quote May 7-11, 2012
Bible verse and quote' from Jan Couns
Originally posted May 18, 2012
And in the days of famine the (righteous and blameless) will have abundance. Ps 37:19b In God's providence, we need not worry about the price of wheat. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-92 The wicked borrows and never repays, but the righteous is gracious and giving. Ps 37:21 Virtually everything we see… [read more]
“Thinking God’s thoughts after Him” Johann Kepler (1571-1630)
Point of Reference' from Fred Price
Originally posted May 18, 2012
It’s physically impossible to read everything dealing with Christian thought but I do like to check out those things which claims to explain or challenge the Christian view of the world. Over the past several years TIME magazine has posed some pretty profound questions for the… [read more]
Put It Behind You
Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life' from Tom Kelly
Originally posted May 17, 2012
"Sometimes you're the bug and sometimes you're the windshield." A golfing buddy of mine said that the other day as he watched his ball take an unpredictable bounce and roll into a water hazard. Basically put, he was saying that sometimes the bounces go good and sometimes they don't. What happens from there… [read more]
Paradigm Shift
Winging It' from Stan Smith
Originally posted May 16, 2012
A paradigm is, in light terms, a pattern of thinking, but in broader terms it is a worldview. A worldview is the underlying theory and methodology that explains ... well, everything. It can, of course, be a limited worldview. That is, "in the world of biology, the paradigm is ..." wouldn't require that the… [read more]
Praise for Papa
Surrendered to Love' from Jeannie Pallett
Originally posted May 15, 2012
Papa, how sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter even than honey to my mouth. (Psalm 119:103) Papa, I praise You for You are a God with ears that hear the cries and petitions of my heart. You hear the melody of praise and worship that my heart sings. I am glad and rejoice in You and I love to… [read more]
Are You Looking Around For An Unused Basin?
Word from Scotland' from Sandy Shaw
Originally posted May 14, 2012
In John Chapter 13, where Jesus has stooped so low to wash the disciple’s feet we have that profound conversation between Jesus and Peter, where Jesus explains to Peter that what he wants is not necessary. Peter does not need to be washed from head to toe, but that desire and longing too has its significance.… [read more]
Just Think Of The Price
'Christ in You...'' from Dale Krebbs
Originally posted May 13, 2012
When you feel down, low, discouraged, and lonely, forgotten, or perhaps just utterly worthless and unworthy - just think about the price. Think of the price that has been paid for you by Jesus Christ! Price determines value of that which is purchased. How valuable then you must be! Jesus, by the kind of price He paid,… [read more]
The heart of a mother
Refreshment in Refuge' from Gina Burgess
Originally posted May 13, 2012
The sun is warm on my face and it feels good to these old bones of mine. I listen, but the house is still. It is only me and Hara now. The children have homes and children of their own and my sweet husband has gone to rest in Abraham’s bosom. That… [read more]
Be Thoroughly Patient
Next Level Thinking' from Andy Castro
Originally posted May 13, 2012
James 1:4 AMP But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing. The best long distance runners not only need to be physically tough but also mentally tough. They must… [read more]
When God Heals!
Relationships of The Heart' from Nancy Watta
Originally posted May 13, 2012
This morning I read Acts 3. A man who could not walk was sitting near the temple gate. According to this account he was doing what he did in his daily life. He was simply sitting and begging. Along comes Peter and John and the man assumes he is going to receive money. But instead Peter looks at him and says, "Look… [read more]
Morning / Evening Devotional — May 19
Daily Light on the Daily Path
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity.
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols,… — (click here to read more)
We May Speak for God
Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook"
"Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before Me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth." Jeremiah 15:19
Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the choicest servants of God and honored by Him above many. He was hated for… — (click here to read more)
Morning / Evening Devotional — May 19
Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening"
Upstarts frequently usurp the highest places, while the truly great pine in obscurity. This is a riddle in providence whose solution will one day gladden the hearts of the upright; but it is so common a fact, that none of us should murmur if it should fall to our own lot. When our Lord was upon earth, although He is the Prince of the kings of the earth,… — (click here to read more)
"Out Of The Wreck I Rise"
Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for His Highest"
God does not keep a man immune from trouble; He says - "I will be with him in trouble." It does not matter what actual troubles in the most extreme form get hold of a man's life, not one of them can separate him from his relationship to God. We are "more than conquerors in all these things." Paul is not talking of imaginary things, but of things that are… — (click here to read more)
Devotional for 'Iyyar 27'
Voice of the Lord
The Talmud (Baba Batra 23b) describes a discussion in a yeshivah (rabbinical school) that concerned property law. If a bird falls within fifty cubits (about seventy meters) of a person's property, it belongs to the property owner; if outside that range, it belongs to whoever finds it. At this point, Rabbi Jeremiah chimes in, "If one foot is within fifty… — (click here to read more)
My First
Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life
My very first car was one that I had taken a number of rides in during my teen years. It was a 1956 Chevrolet BelAir two door hardtop with a 265 cc. V-8 and black rolled and tucked interior. I bought it from my grandfather for the princely sum of in the summer of 1970. I put a lot of miles on that car in a short period of time. It was the car I took with me… — (click here to read more)
Enter Mordecai
'Every Day Light' with Selwyn Hughes
Having taken steps to remove Vashti from the throne, plans are set in motion for the selection of a new queen. Thus the first "Miss World" contest gets under way. The king appoints officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, presumably to arrange knock-out competitions so that by process of elimination only the best candidates would appear before him. At… — (click here to read more)
Back to Basics
"Today's Word" with Skip Moen
Proof — "That was a great sermon, preacher. It moved me." Yes, that's what we want when we go to church. We want moving oratory. We want inspired eloquence in the pulpit. We want to be mentally entertained. It's unlikely that we would stick around to hear Paul speak because Paul tells us straight out that he didn't use moving words or demonstrate… — (click here to read more)
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