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09/15/2024

Here is my 8-yr old Grandson Ian carefully surveying the opposing team before the snap of the ball!

“Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.”
- 1 Corinthians 16:13 NIV

09/10/2024

RIP …
James Earl Jones

09/09/2024

Here is a photo of my 8-yr old grandson Ian taking on the world!!! It’s from his football game this past Sunday. As you can see, he has stepped up to try to stop the forward progress of the opposing team. At this point he is literally the only one out front. The thing you can’t see from the photo is that he is one of the smallest players on the field. But what he may lack in size, he more than makes up in spirit & determination.

It reminds me of how we should view all the evil in our fallen world …

“Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil."
~ Ephesians 6:11

08/15/2024

“If You Get Distracted By the Wind & Waves like Peter … You Are Going to Sink!”
Pastor Lester Jones
Countryside Nazarene

08/15/2024

Countryside Church of the Nazarene
“Life is Not Like a Movie” Sermon Series
8/4/2024 - Pastor Lester Jones

SPIRITUAL WARFARE & CONFLICT CONT’D …
Do you remember the question I asked at the end of my last post? It was “How do we navigate the spiritual attacks against our faith & stay true to God’s Word?

JACOB’s STORY
We’ve been using the story of Jacob’s life in this sermon series & there was certainly a lot of conflict that existed in his life. Nevertheless, Jacob was used by God. This was in spite of Jacob being far from perfect. And God continued to use him to work among the people. Jacob’s own parents didn’t get along. They contributed to the conflict by each having a different favorite child. As you might guess, this caused problems between Jacob & his brother Esau from the start. They fought all of the time. Jacob even tricked Esau into parting with his birth rite & that angered Esau so much he threatened to kill his brother.

Esau, in an effort to strike out against his parents, married some foreign women. This caused additional strife among the family. Then there were territorial issues, causing their neighbors to not like them. They were constantly fighting over the wells pastureland. Remember, Jacob fled in fear & went to live with his Uncle Laban. He ended up marrying Laban’s two daughters (Leah & Rachel). These sisters were constantly competing for Jacob’s affection. Leah had a bunch of kids, while Rachel couldn’t have any. At one point, Rachel (who was Jacob’s favorite wife), said this …

“I have had a great struggle with my sister,
and I have won.”
~ Genesis 30:8

So, things were challenging for Jacob & to make matters worse, he had territorial issues with his father-in-law Laban. Jacob eventually ended up with 12 sons & (of course) they fought with each other as well. My guess is that most of can see similarities some between our life & Jacob’s.

“We need to Remember this …
the Christian Life is a Fight!”

OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE IS A FIGHT OF FAITH
Our Christian life is not a party … it’s a battle! In fact, the Bible uses several different motifs to describe what a Christian’s life is like. One that’s widely used is that of a journey, a walk, or a race to be run. Another motif that’s used is the farm picture … we plant the seeds, the crops grow & produce fruit & we harvest them. Still another motif is the family picture. In this picture, God represents Our Heavenly Father & we are all brothers & sisters in Christ … loving each other most of the time. Yet another motif is the food picture. with Jesus representing the bread & when we take communion, we are reminded that He is our subsistence … providing the nutrition we need to grow & flourish. These are all great representations of our Christian life but there is still one other that is used most often. It’s that of a war, a battle.

From the very beginning, the Bible describes our journey as a battle against an enemy who wants to destroy, rob & devour us. Along with the Holy Spirit, we need to put on the full armor of God & take a stand against him. It’s that picture that is constantly presented in all of the Scripture, even to the very end. In fact, it’s in Revelations that it says the culmination of all of this is going to be one huge battle, where our conquering king is going to come & finally put our enemy to rest.

We’re also told that as we approach the end of our journey, it’s going to get tougher & tougher. This is because the enemy knows his time is short. I don’t know about you but, it feels to me like we are experiencing some of that today! Satan knows his time is limited so he’s pulling out all of the stops & doing everything he can to destroy us. Our Christian life is a fight of faith. We are called to be soldiers … to put on the armor of God, to stand firm & to deal with the conflict in a way that Christ wants us to deal with it.

In my next post, we will look at 4 stories from the Bible that illustrate this Spiritual Warfare that we are facing today!

12/27/2023

R.I.P. - Tommy Smothers
“Mom always liked him the best!” 😊

12/25/2023

I read the message below that appeared on a friend & ex coworker of mine & just had to share it. (Than you Bob!) It describes what I’ve experienced in my life far better that I ever have. I’ve experienced tremendous pain & suffering in my life twice. It was when both of my marriages failed. What made it so devastating was the amount of effort I put into each of them.

In both case, I made so many scrifices & was so laser-focused on my wives & making them happy. What I didn’t realize was that I took it too far. I didn’t just love my wives, I literally worshipped them. Well, what learned was that we are to love people but never, never worship them. There is only one person who deserves our worship and that is Jesus Christ. You see, no matter how much you love someone, they are only human & will eventually show you why you can’t worship them. It was a very hard lesson for me to learn & I had to learn it twice. Please, please learn from my errors & adjust accordingly. 😊

BROKEN
I was in Dollar Tree last night & there was a lady & with 2 kids behind me in the LONG line. One was a big kid, one was a toddler. The bigger one had a pack of glow sticks & the baby was screaming for them, so the Mom opened the pack & gave him one; which stopped his tears. He walked around with it smiling, but then the bigger boy took it & the baby started screaming again. Just as the Mom was about to fuss at the older child, he bent the glow sticks & handed it back to the baby. As we walked outside at the same time, the baby noticed the stick was now glowing & his brother said "I had to break it so you could get the full effect from it." I almost ran because l could hear God saying to me, "I had to break you to show you why I created you. You had to go through it so you could fulfill your purpose."

That little baby was happy just swinging that "unbroken" glow stick around in the air because he didn't understand what it was created to do which was "glow". There are some people who will be content just "being" but some of us have been chosen by God to be "broken". We have to get sick. We have to lose a job. We go through divorce. We have to suffer with the disease of addiction. We have to bury our spouse, parents, best friend, or our child because, in those moments of desperation, God is breaking us, but when the breaking is done, then we will be able to see the reason for which we were created. So, when you see us glowing just know that we have been broken but healed by His Grace & Mercy!!!

01/01/2020

09/20/2019

Good word!

01/31/2019

Good To Know ...

If you accidentally dial 911 and see your phone say "Calling 911" or "Calling Emergency", DON'T HANG UP!!! Trust me when I say that 911 STILL GETS THE CALL. Then they have to call you back multiple times to see if you are in fact OK. Then some departments send someone out to your address to check on you.

If you dial 911, just stay on the line and advise them it was an accidental dial and that will be the end of it.

Also ALL PHONES with power can call 911. DO NOT let children play with cell phones unless you TAKE OUT the battery.

Please do not waste critical resources that people depend on by making someone call you back multiple times.

11/18/2018

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