November 1, 2013:  Trying to find a job has been weighing very heavy on myself and my family.  It seems to be very hard for me and those that are close to me to understand exactly why I haven't found a job yet.  I wonder if there is more I should be doing, what else I could do, or where to go and who to see.  After 51 years of building relationship, networking and getting connected with the latest social media and age old handshakes, I am struggling to understand the storm I am going through.  I can see clearly most of the mistakes I have made over the years and I believe I have truly learned volumes from those choices.  However, I also see the value of them and wouldn't trade my years of experience nor would I go back.  I would love to know the end result; do I get a job?, will it be a decent job?, will be successful at it?, will it provide my family a living?  so many questions that are left unanswered to me and my family, BUT God has the answers, He knows each and every step He has planned for me,  (Ps, 139)  To God be the Glory!  I have needs, a job is one of them, He has promised to supply our needs.  I know whom I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day! (2 Tim. 1:12) I have concerns, I have worries, and I am very fearful, and all around me seems silent, not a peep from friends, business acquaintances, the Church, etc.... but I guess the most horrifying silence I hear is                      from my God and Savior.

O God, Almighty God everlasting! how dreadful is the world! behold how its mouth opens to swallow me up, and how small is my faith in Thee! . . . Oh! the weakness of the flesh, and the power of Satan! If I am to depend upon any strength of this world - all is over . . . The knell is struck . . . Sentence is gone forth . . . O God! O God! O thou, my God! help me against the wisdom of this world. Do this, I beseech thee; thou shoulds't do this . . . by thy own mighty power . . . The work is not mine, but Thine. I have no business here . . . I have nothing to contend for with these great men of the world! I would gladly pass my days in happiness and peace. But the cause is Thine . . . And it is righteous and everlasting! O Lord! help me! O faithful and unchangeable God! I lean not upon man. It were vain! Whatever is of man is totering, whatever proceeds from him must fail. My God! my God! dost thou not hear? My God! art thou no longer living? Nay, thou canst not die. Thou dost but hide Thyself. Thou hast chosen me for this work. I know it! . . . Therefore, O God, accomplish thine own will! Forsake me not, for the sake of thy well-beloved Son, Jesus Christ, my defence, my buckler, and my stronghold.
Lord - where art thou? . . . My God, where art thou? . . . Come! I pray thee, I am ready . . . Behold me prepared to lay down my life for thy truth . . . suffering like a lamb. For the cause is holy. It is thine own! . . . I will not let thee go! no, nor yet for all eternity! And though the world should be thronged with devils - and this body, which is the work of thine hands, should be cast forth, trodden under foot, cut in pieces, . . . consumed to ashes, my soul is thine. Yes, I have thine own word to assure me of it. My soul belongs to thee, and will abide with thee forever! Amen! O God send help! . . . Amen!
- Martin Luther

I didn't invent the controversy

Are we really at a point in our country when we can no longer have semi-public opinions?  

I am sure Dan Cathy (?) is very appreciative of the intolerance of the Ultra Liberal Left and how vocal they are.  Is Chick-fil-a really at the center of this controversy or is ignorance?  I believe it is ignorance.  You know pigs are one of the few animals that if left unattended for a single year will revert to their wild state.  Cows, horses, etc... take several years of being left alone before they will turn back to the wild.  I guess I equate this new breed of liberal to pigs, they have forgotten everything civilized their parents and grandparents lived and died for.  Can there really be such arrogance as to throw everything know to man away and think we can create a "new reality"?   I guess I shouldn't be surprised, Romans 1 tells us that this will happen and the the God who created all things will give these people over to their delusions and perversions.  The aggravating issue is all I want to do is love and honor my wife, raise my children in a safety, serve my employer with integrity, and my Creator in fullness and hope; yet these crazies continually throw this in my face.  The irony is the majority of the "gay" population would like to avoid these topics as well.  We are a country of freedoms, however these freedoms aren't guaranteed by ourselves, but only in our Creator.  Paul, who was the "Einstein" of his day, hammered this into the lives of everyone who would listen, Christ equals freedom!  Even this truth scares the church, but never the less Christ equals freedom.  We can add nothing else, no works, no good deeds, no abstinence, nothing, He has done it all.  What man failed to do Christ did; in full, completely. 

Christians in Context: from orthodoxy to orthopraxy.: Jennifer Knapp, a Pastor, Ted Haggard, and Larry King

Christians in Context: from orthodoxy to orthopraxy.: Jennifer Knapp, a Pastor, Ted Haggard, and Larry King

Justin Taylor

Justin Taylor

Never Tell Me the Odds: The Strange Example of Pulaski Academy (Amended) - Mile High Report

Never Tell Me the Odds: The Strange Example of Pulaski Academy (Amended) - Mile High Report

Second chances

Well I know you have all heard the phrase God is a God of second chances, however I don't believe he actually gives us a second chance. I am beginning to think he gives us a "re-direct". Think about it, when you have messed up and done something against His will, He doesn't give you another chance to make that same mess up. He, through his Holy Spirit, re-directs you focus back to him. If you don't re-direct your focus, you are determined to commit the same error. Take the alcoholic, By following the 12 steps, he can be a recovering alcoholic the rest of his natural life, and if he ever gets too close to the alcohol he will fail, because his recovery depends on man made steps. Now when he recognizes his problem and falls before the Lord and repents, has remorse, accepts responsibility and makes restitution, God, through the Holy Spirit will redirect his life wholly and take the man down an brand new path that allows him to never fear of having to go through a second chance, third chance and so on. Now, I think as men(women) we want to believe in a second chance because we see this as another opportunity to do it right, however we are human, and because of sin in the world and in our hearts, those chances are just as likely to follow the exact same path. Look at all the pounds you have lost and regained, it isn't until you change the way you think, re-direct your lifestyle do you actually keep those pounds off. With a re-direction of your life, which includes a daily renewing of your mind, constant focusing on Christ, following his examples, and loving our neighbor we are able to not just have a second chance, but we become a new creation, holy and beautiful to God, victorious in all we do, and realizing this life is but a breath, then eternity comes. I certainly don't have knowledge of all this, it is an opinion of mine from learning many of life's hard lessons. I don't want a second chance, I want to know how to do it right the first time and to quit making mistakes, especially the same ones over and over. I believe the only way is through Christ. Please let me know your opinion, I love to learn. Frank