A Life Worthy

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  • One-a-Day Tuesday 10/8/13

    number 1Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Ephesians 1:3).

    Think you aren’t strong enough?

    Think you aren’t smart enough?

    Think you aren’t rich enough?

    Think you aren’t…enough?

    You have been blessed with every spiritual blessing.  Not some…not even most.

    Every.

    All.

    I can’t even imagine what all that means, but I’ll bet it means this much: everything you need to live the life God has called you to, He has already given you.

    So what are you waiting for?

  • One-a-Day Monday 10/7/13

    number 1note: This is the first in a series of daily posts designed to encourage you to live the life to which you have been called.  For more information on this new direction, click here.

    Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:2).

    Have you ever considered the relationship between the words grace and peace? The second truly depends upon the first.  It is only through God’s grace that we can have peace.

    Think about it—apart from God’s grace, why should you have peace?  You are a hopeless, pathetic lump, destined for destruction—me too, for that matter. (Feeling encouraged yet?)

    Ahh, but you are not apart from God’s grace.  If you belong to Him, you have his grace, sufficient to all your needs.  Your pathetic lumpiness has been forgiven, atoned for.  You, my friend, are complete, you are whole, you are loved.  You are His.

    Embrace his grace, beloved of the Father.  Know his peace today.

  • Babylon

    crownI had dinner with some interesting people the other day.  There were, let’s see, three kings, an angel, and a prophet of God, all munching on Fresh Mex.

    OK, so they weren’t actually real-life Bible characters brought from the past to be my mealtime companions.  They were only actors in the show Daniel—the one I’ve milked three posts out of so far.  Still, they outranked me; I play four minor characters in the show, and each dies gruesomely.

    Anyway, I started thinking about these characters, especially the kings (I don’t think I could get inside the head of a prophet, and I’m not even going to try to understand an angel).  For some reason, Nebuchadnezzar in particular fascinates me.  After all, this was a living, breathing man, not a cartoon character.  Even if he never ate a sweet pork burrito, I’m thinking that he could not have been so very different from me. (more…)

  • WhyTube

    Search “Liver Fluke” on YouTube.movie camera

    Go ahead…I’ll wait.

    See what I mean?  It’s there.  Right on your screen, in the privacy of your home, you can learn how to acquire, detect, identify, treat, and remove a liver fluke in yourself or one of the barnyard animals that look to you for sustenance.

    How great is that?

    (more…)

  • Getting Ready

    JESUS BUSY

    My mom is coming to visit.

    I spent the better portion of yesterday in the yard, weeding, hoeing, sweeping, and sweating.  My goal was to let Mom see the place looking a little more like a garden and a little less like the Amazon rain forest.  I filled five trash cans.  Twice.  Now, if Mom ventures into my back yard, I don’t have to call Search and Rescue to bring her out.  (more…)

  • Competence vs Congeniality

    refrigeratorI bought something that was supposed to be a refrigerator but isn’t.

    It looks like a refrigerator.  Quite an attractive refrigerator, at that.  It’s gleaming white, oh so clean, and very spacious.  It came from a refrigerator company and was delivered by certified refrigerator delivery people.  It is in all ways a refrigerator, except for one annoying detail.

    It does not refrigerate.

    I plugged it into the appropriate wall receptacle, returned in the requisite four hours, and made an important discovery.

    Are you ready?  You might want to write this down. (more…)

  • The Call of Freedom

    Declaration of IndependenceThis morning I was thinking about an assignment I give my U.S. History students.    Now, I know that in the past I have shared with you some of the less-than-stellar examples of my students’ efforts.  This time, let me share something that worked out pretty well.  It’s not as funny, but it may be worth thinking about as we celebrate our Freedom. (more…)

  • Tradition

    traditionIt’s a powerful thing.

    And like any powerful thing, tradition is full of potential benefits, but also fraught with danger.

    Kinda like nuclear energy.

    Or drone surveillance.

    Maybe GMOs. (more…)

  • What I Can Do

    HomelessI’m still hoping that I wasn’t scammed.

    They looked like a family having hard times, but for all I know those “kids” may have been actors of very small stature.

    All right, so maybe that’s a little cynical.

    Maybe. (more…)

  • $14.21

    small changeOK, so some of you are going to call me an idiot, a patsy, a pansy-faced sucker.

    And maybe I am.

    I’m sitting in a fast food joint, slurping a soda that I’m not supposed to have because I have braces (don’t tell my orthodontist).  I came here to write a post just for you, because you’re one of my favorite people.  The plan was to write about a cool tradition my family has for my wife’s birthday, but then I got distracted by the news that the AMA has officially designated obesity a disease.  I decided that I needed to vent about the inanity of that concept, and, having an hour or so to kill, I plopped down on a stool to ingest sugar and fat while ranting and raving.

    You’re going to have to wait for both of those posts (and I hope you do), because when I did the afore-mentioned plopping, I saw something. (more…)