A Rare Message

This just came to me. I have never sent anything that is not a
Biblical admonition but felt this good enough to send today. Hope you
enjoy it.

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
kids in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's or even the early 80's,
probably shouldn't have survived.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in
it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
playing.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no
one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode
down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running
into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we
were back ! when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach
us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at
all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound,
personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends! We went outside and found them.

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there
were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was
to blame but us. Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and
learned to get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were
told it would happen, we did not put out any eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or
rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who
didn't make the team had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and
were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors!

Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.

The idea of parents bailing us out if we got in trouble in school or
broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the school or the
law. Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
solvers, and inventors, ever.

We had freedom, failure, success, and responsibility --- and we
learned how to deal with it.

And you're one of them!

God is good to protect us as children, then to save us and use us to
His glory. Remember Jesus, suffered and died for your sins, paid your
debt in full and rose again so you can receive Him as your savior too.
BE THANKFUL you did not die before being saved. Receive Him if you
haven't already done so.

Love you, all because of Calvary, sumner

Rejoice in the Lord

Get Excited About God

1. Read His Word. God wrote you a letter, you ought to read your mail 2. Remember His Word, (memorize it). Be like Jesus, He memorized the Bible 3. Rehearse His Word (meditate therein day and night) 4. Respond to His Word (obey God. do what He said) 5. Relate His Word: preach it.

6. Rejoice in His Word Ps 1:1, 2.
"Blessed is the man...that delights in the law of the Lord" Ps. 1:1,2.

Delight in the Bible
All of our five children and their children play golf. It is fun. You should see us when one of us makes a birdie. We have a duck fit. In one of our family tournaments one of our sons made a hole in one. WOW. You have never seen such carrying on. But do you know what. It did not last forever. When you and I delight in the Word of God and find an eternal nugget it lasts forever and we are eternally blessed.

Set your affections on things above.  There is nothing wrong with having fun and delighting in things down here. The wise man will set his affections on things above Col. 3:1 and "delight in the law of the Lord" Ps. 1:2. He will get great pleasure out of the Bible. Doesn't that make sense?

I am amazed
You have heard it. Someone sees a movie or a TV program that delights them and they relate the story or program in detail. When have you heard someone get so delighted in the Word of God, and it is FULL of the most exciting stories and truths in the world, and they tell about what they read the day before? With all the bad things in the news and terrible TV programs, we need to "exhort (encourage) one another daily" with something from God Heb. 3:13.

O dear people, we have such a fabulous opportunity to be a blessing and encourage one another and exalt the Lord Jesus by "delighting the law of the Lord."

Prayer:  Father, You wrote us the most exciting letter in the world. Help us to delight in Your Letter and share it with others. In Jesus name

Scripture:  "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart" Ps 37:4

What is the most important thing that has happened to you!

Relate His Word: preach it.

The first thing Jesus said to his disciples was, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men," not great students of the Bible or prayer warriors, though we all ought to be that as well, but FISHERS OF MEN! Are you a fisher of men? Matt. 4:19. The last thing Jesus said was, "Preach the gospel to EVERY creature (person) Mark 16:15.

What a privilege

What is the most important thing to ever happen to you? Why, getting saved, of course. Then, what is the most important thing you can do for someone else? Why, get them saved, of course. Think of it, "We are ambassadors of Christ" and have the privilege of helping people go to heaven instead of hell.

Someone told you.

Who "preached the gospel" to you and you got saved? Someone cared enough to obey God and get the gospel to you, then why don't we do the same for our family, friends and even foes? Gene Gaskins planted the seed, got me to church to hear the gospel and I got saved. I am eternally grateful to him for it and have told him so scorers of times.

Jesus did it

Jesus told a most unlikely woman who had been married 5 times, living with a man that she was not married to (pretty modern, huh) and she got saved and brought a whole city to Christ John 4. You could do the same today.

Philip preached to one person

Philip preached to that Ethiopian Eunuch and he got saved and was the first one to get the gospel into Africa. Jesus preached to that one "woman at the well," she got saved and brought the whole city to Jesus.

We can change the world

They say there are 50 million "born again" Christians in America. If each one, won one, in one year, we would have 100 million believers next year. Then if each one of them won one in one year, we would have 200 million born again believers in American. That is most of the population and that would change our country dramatically. "The harvest is plenteous" Do you believe it? The problem is "the laborers are few." Matt. 9:37. Let's be one of the laborers and get in on the harvest. Surely, you can win one person to Christ in a whole year. Will you?

O dear people, we must be like Joshua, "as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord" Joshua 24:15 and like Peter, "because you say so, I will" Luke 5:5. All because of Calvary, sumner

Prayer:  Father, make us worship You and witness for You like You told us to do. In Jesus name

"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men" Matt. 4:19