Why I Haven't Posted Lately

I've been scanning in old photographs off and on for the last several weeks and have just about completed the project.  Now I have to organize the pictures on my PC and will then begin a series of family blogs.  I'm not quite sure how I will organize them but stay tuned.

Hope you had a great Independence day celebration.  We had hot dogs, hamburgers, and Corvettes (the OKC Corvette club members had six sleek 'vettes on display) at Jefferson's Garden, the new assisted living residence for Joyce's mother.  She has been there for just over one month and seems to be adjusting nicely.  Since it is only one-half mile from our house, both Joyce and I drop in more often and that seems to be helping.  She has really bounced back from the bad shape that she was in back in April and May.  We are both convinced that it was a medication problem.

Over the years, I have collected quotes and pithy sayings that are meaningful to me.  I will share them in hopes that they become meaningful to you.

Meaningful Quotes 

Sin in the life of the believer is always forgivable but it is never acceptable.  (Russ McKnight, 2-84)

To sin without feeling the sting of God’s disciplinary hand is the sign of illegitimacy.  (Sam Storms, 5-07)

When you care for someone enough, you make the time.

‘Tis one life, will soon be past.  Only what is done for Christ will last.

You cannot fill a spiritual need with a material substance.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.  Winston Churchill

The spiritual man is a generous man.

Everything God requires, He provides.  R McKnight

All of salvation is all of God.  R McKnight

Mercy is medicine for the discouraged soul. The recommended dosage is daily.

S Storms 10-07

Judging another believer regarding a secondary issue, is not a secondary issue.

Russ McKnight 5-86

The first victim of self-righteous arrogance is tolerance.  RM 8-86

Punishment for consistent unbelief is hardening.  D Cotten 9-07

I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all.  But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.  Martin Luther

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.  C. S. Lewis

We must trust in God’s heart even when we cannot see the trace of his hand.  Spurgeon

Aim at Heaven and you’ll get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you’ll get neither.  C S Lewis

Contemplate the patience of God, think of how he has borne with you.  J I Packer

H. Richard Niebuhr famously once distilled liberal theology into this sentence: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.”

From Volume 1 of George Whitfield’s biography by Arnold Dallimore.

Whatever men’s reasoning may suggest, if the children of God fairly examine their own experiences – if they do God justice, they must acknowledge that they did not choose God, but that God chose them.  And if He chose them at all, it must be from eternity, and that too without anything foreseen in them.  Unless they acknowledge this, man’s salvation must be in part owing to the free-will of man; and if so, . . . Christ Jesus might have died, and never have seen the travail of His soul in the salvation of one of His creatures.  But I would be tender on this point, and leave persons to be taught it of God.  I am of the martyr Bradford’s mind.  Let a man go to the grammar school of faith and repentance, before he goes to the university of election and predestination.

High levels of assurance cannot exist alongside low levels of disobedience.

What is a True Christian?
One who desires not only to be right before God (not trusting for his acceptance upon what he does but upon what Christ has done), but also desires to do right before God by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.  Marty Brown, July, 2011.

In closing, I wouold like to share one of my favorite passages (There are so many!)

2 Cor 4:16-18
16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our inner strength in the Lord is growing every day. 17 These troubles and sufferings of ours are, after all, quite small and won't last very long. Yet this short time of distress will result in God's richest blessing upon us forever and ever! 18 So we do not look at what we can see right now, the troubles all around us, but we look forward to the joys in heaven which we have not yet seen. The troubles will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever.
TLB