What is a Professor of Practicality?
Lord, please help me to never even attempt to justify my actions, but always look for rebuke when I am wrong and truth above life itself.
- JW 7.20.10
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Public Perception will inevitably become accepted reality
- JW 7.26.10
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The Better you know your enemy, the better enabled you will be able to defeat him.
The better you know your product, the better salesman you will be
The better you know your fellow man, the better equipped you will be to help him be saved
-JW 8.19.10
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Guardrails in life are there to keep you from peril.
Guard rails in the spiritual realm are designed by God to keep you from Hell.
- JW 8.19.10
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Salvation is a process,
NOT a place for contentment!
-JW 10.5.10
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Don't confuse humility and meekness with weakness and femininity
-JW 10.8.10
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Justification is in the mind of the speaker
We can justify anything we desire, anything WE feel is ok.
We can condemn anything we don't like and we can find scripture for it EITHER WAY!
-JW 10.8.10
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Your worst day WITH God
is still better than
Your best day WITHOUT God
- JW 10.28.10
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Beauty-
What is it?
How do you measure it?
Who is the Judge?
- jw 10.28.10
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Why is it that the beginning of wisdom is the beginning of sorrow?
The more you know, the more you see, the more that you realize how important it is to live a holy and righteous life. The burden of sorrow grows when you know truth and what it takes to be saved. The burden of sorrow grows when you watch your family and friends around you that are dying lost and going to a devils hell.
- JW 10.25.10
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"Presentation"
How you present something, determines how someone will recieve it!
- JW 10.31.10
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Friday, August 12, 2011
MY THOUGHTS [April 2011]
Thoughts In My Head:
4.14.11
Mark chapter 6: 17-27 King Herod was favorable toward John but yet when he was finagled out of a promise, he felt obligated to pay it. As I was reading this, I thought of the old saying. “Loyalty Above All Else Except Dishonor”…This would have applied, but due to his promise and his feeling it was more obligatory to pay it than what he KNEW was right, he gave into his desire for peoples outlook on him instead of his own feelings of honor.
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4.15.11
An immigrant man walked into a car dealership and wished to buy a car but his English was not so good. He struggled in his conversation with the salesman. When the salesman asked some buying questions, the elderly man simply said “neo.” The salesman just thought he could keep working on him and he would say yes. After 45 minutes the elderly man had said neo 8 different times. Finally, out of frustration, he reached for a pen and paper and wrote K~N~O~W. The elderly immigrant man wasn’t saying he didn’t want the vehicle, he was saying he wanted more information to make a buying decision.
Many times when we are talking to someone, we think they are saying NO to our point of view, when what they are trying to tell us is KNOW, please explain in a little better detail why I should believe your way of thinking.
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“When Good Just Aint GOOD Enough”
I have heard the word good used in many different ways in my life. Many people have tried to match me up with women who were good (then they said with hesitation) but, well, they were a little different. They were “cute” but the tone of their voice told a different story. This one is good. She goes to church on occasion but maybe you can change that. This one is good, she doesn’t believe “quite” like we do but maybe you can talk to her. She is a good one but she just needs a little help.
Then people are always talking of other people who are their friends who they don’t want to confront with doctrinal differences so they just say they are good people. Others have family that don’t live what is expected or maybe closely resembling holiness. They shun the thought of their family not making it to Heaven so they speak of them being Good and they “feel like they are ok. With all these different scenarios, they ALL lack the conviction when telling their stories to be believed, why? Because they truthfully don’t believe it themselves but yet they feel obligated to say kind words.
Speaking kind words is one thing but believing these people are more than that is simply a lie! God help us not to believe the lies we try to tell ourselves. If we are not careful, we will be caught up WITH them in their “not-so-holy” living and become one of those GOOD people. Acquaintance is one thing but fellowship is a totally different ball game.
“Knife is edged by stone, steel is tempered by fire, and man is sharpened by man… If you want to be strong you have to keep strong company”
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Many are called, FEW are chosen -
What is it that makes a man chosen? Why some, and not others? Many of the ones you look at in the bible were sinners who did many bad things but God CHOSE them and then they went about doing many good things. Look at some of the others who didn’t do such bad things and yet they were left alone… why? Was it their desire deep down to truly strive for greatness for others and not self? Was it their desire deeply seeded to live out their lives (although temporarily sinful) for their soon coming king? What makes a man “chosen”
Oh Lord, help us not to be just another Christian. Or just another witness. Help us to wish not for earthly fame, fortune, or recognition. Our name in lights we shall never glee. But a strong hand of God is the life to see.
We all leave behind a legacy for the next to follow and study. When people look back on our life, pray that a people, without number, will know who we are. Let it not be for recognition of the man. Oh LORD, let it never be for the recognition of the container,… but always, always for the contents in which we share!
- JW 7.26.11
MY THOUGHTS:
A Real Mother [July 2011]
1Ki 3:16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear. And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living. And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
A real mother will put aside HER feelings so that that which she loves may live. A real mother will do all possible so that her child will survive, and thrive.
A “serrogate” woman will only PLAY mother, for when it comes to what SHE wants she will put aside everything for her own self indulgences and what she wants!
What this church is REQUIRED to have is a real mother. We, the ones who call ourselves Holy Ghost filled, children of God and members of the Church. If we expect to thrive and grow, we have to put the church FIRST, not second. Which means HOLINESS, not selfishness. Unity, not Division.
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