Monthly Archives: November 2012

Right Now You Can Have Proof By Doing This

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GIVE ME PROOF 

Who doesn’t want proof that something works?

I want proof.

Proof gives me something solid I can

  • See,
  • Manage and
  • Analyze.

TRY THIS

If you’re someone who has to have the facts and proof that the Bible is relevant start with this:

Matthew 7:12.

If you are unable to get to your Bible at this moment here is what Jesus said:

“Treat others the way you want to be treated.”

PROVE IT TO YOURSELF


Right now (certainly within the day) you’ll have an opportunity to prove to your own satisfaction the relevance of Matthew 7: 12.

  • Try it.
  • You’ll have fun.
  • This works!

Prove it to yourself.

 

SONG: Brandon Heath “Give Me Yours Eyes” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGr8as7pPBE&feature=related)

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A Cause for Thanksgiving

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How do you have it figured out?

What’s life about?

It’s about the Good Samaritan isn’t it?

 

I mean we’re traveling the road of life and a gang of thieves’ ambush us.

We’re striped, robbed, beaten and left half dead on the side of the road.

Here we are.

 

Those we expect to help

  • Can’t,
  • Don’t or
  • Won’t.

 

Hoped for help comes from someone despised.

  • The Good Samaritan enters our pain.
  • The Good Samaritan soothes our wounds.
  • The Good Samaritan whispers reassurance.
  • The Good Samaritan carries us to a place of healing.

 

What’s life about?

It’s about the Good Samaritan rescuing us, isn’t it?

This is cause for a Happy Thanksgiving.

 

Wouldn’t you agree?

 

One Sure Way to Quit Doing What I Hate

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It was little things at first.

A cuss here

A cuss there

(But never too loud)

Then I reasoned, “What the …”

I got loud because

I (pretended) I really didn’t care.

 

PRACTICE

I thought I was cute—even funny.

I didn’t notice when people ran away from me.

I didn’t realize no one wanted to be near me.

I didn’t see that I wasn’t a social magnet—the life of the party.

 

When she told me I wasn’t wanted I was distressed.

  • Could I change?
  • Should I change?
  • Would I change?

 

PRACTICE

Yes, I wanted to change.

  • I wanted to stop being lonely.
  • I wanted friends.
  • I wanted to belong

 

Every cuss became an opportunity to behave differently.

Suddenly I cringed when I cussed out loud.

Gradually cussing became a whisper

Deliberately I made the effort to quit doing what I hated.

 

PRACTICE

Change is possible if you want to.

Otherwise you will continue to be a thief

  • Robbing yourself,
  • Robbing others and
  • Robbing the Lord God you say you love.

 

Right?

 

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