When I was a teenager, I went to Japan as a Boy Scout to the World Jamboree. To a kid who had only experienced life in the U.S. and limited at that, it was an eye-opening experience. I learned there were at least 2 ways to do lots of things: floors, walls, shoes, eating utensils. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘elder’s corner’
God’s Way
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elder's corner on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No Consolation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elder's corner on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is your favorite team going to make the playoffs? Did you get that promotion over your co-workers? Did you win the board game you played with family last night? Well, you know, they say only one can win, so losing puts us in the majority! That doesn’t seem to be much consolation, however. Our focus [...]
How Much Can You Lift?(Part 4)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elder's corner, How Much Can You Lift, read on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our faith muscles need conditioning. God has great things planned for
us. Unlike our physical age, where our “weight lifting abilities” will
decrease as we age, our ability to do God’s will by faith can be brought to ever higher levels. Here’s our faith exercise regime:
We pray.
We ask without doubting
We read.
We trust.
We believe.
We [...]
How Much Can You Lift? Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elder's corner, Prayer on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to get stronger, you constantly have to be lifting something heavier than you’ve lifted before. This applies to our faith, also. So, what’s our faith exercise regime?
We pray
We ask without doubting
We read
We trust
We believe
We expect
We praise
We Pray:
Nineteenth-century preacher and author A.B. Simpson gives a wonderful example of the power of accumulative prayer. [...]
How Much Can You Lift – Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elder's corner, Hebrews on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coaches know that serious athletes serve their time in the weight room, concentrating on becoming stronger. One measure of your growing strength is what the lifters call your bench press, how much you can lift over your head as you lie on a weight bench. I’ve seldom met a football player or weight lifter who’s [...]
Spiritual Resources
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elder's corner, Timothy on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1 Timothy 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hand. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
Part of my job is to fight wildfires [...]
Dig a Little Deeper
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elder's corner, Romans on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Romans 11:33-36
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
35 “Who has ever given to God, [...]
How Much Do I Need God?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1 John, elder's corner on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, yesterday, last week – all are over. I got some things done that I should have, but didn’t do everything I wanted to or should have done. I did some good things, I did some not so good things. I made some right choices, and some wrong choices. But for [...]
All The Facts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Acts, elder's corner on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I walked in to the bedroom and my wife noticed my finger was bleeding quite heavily. I told her I just cut it on the window. Putting the little information she had together, logically, she got a bit excited and said she hadn’t heard the sound of broken glass and asked if [...]
