Ecclesiastes 12:10

   I happen to like the clever touchdown dance. Since the National Football league relaxed its rules the last season there have been some pretty entertaining ones. However, there does seem to be too much over celebrating in football in general. The guy that jumps up and struts when he has made a routine tackle. The player that bows up on a hit when his team is down by twenty. The receiver that acts like making a normal first down is the greatest play in the history of football. It seems a bit juvenile.   Of course, the rebuke you always hear to these antics is “act like you have been there before”.  Only a rookie behaves that way. A true experience professional knows how to behave. Instead of making a fool of yourself, behave like you what you want to be not what you are.   Paul uses a similar phrase in Philippians 3:16. “ However, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained ”. In a section where he is encouraging us to tak...

Nothing Runs Like A Deer What Psalm starts ' As the deer pants for the water, So my soul pants for You, O God .'? 23 42 119 11 What does Proverbs say we are to escape ' like a gazelle from the hunter's hand '? A sinful women A king in his anger A pledge of debt  Wicked men's schemes Of which of his sons did Jacob bless saying he is ' is a doe let loose, He gives beautiful words '? Reuben Asher Gad Naphtali What soldiers were described 'a s swift as the gazelles on the mountains '? David's Might Men The Roman Legion The army of Egypt The band of raiders that attacked Gilgath Finish the quote for Songs of Solomon "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles or by the hinds of the field,..." Do not come again until I have paid the price Never seek another's arms Stay no longer from me that the Lord demands That you do not arouse or awaken love until she pleases. What minor prop...

   When Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, people were fearful that he would just sail right off the Earth. But Chris proved them all wrong by discovering the new world and convincing everyone that the world was indeed round. At least that is the story.   But that is all it is a story.   More specifically it is a story written by Washington Irving. Irving’s most famous stories might be Rip Van Winkle or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow but his most enduring one might have been his 1828 history book about  Columbus. In the first chapter, Irving described a dramatic confrontation in which Columbus sought to win over a gathering of disbelieving Spanish scholars who argued that the world was flat.    Only that isn’t what happened. The truth is that Aristotle proved the earth was round two thousand years earlier by pointing out the curved shadow it casts on the moon. By Columbus's time, virtually all learned people took that ...

Like A Rock What term does Peter use to describe Christians in his first book? Living Stones Faces Like Flint Smoothed Stones Heavy Boulders What leader used stones from a river and later a large stone by oak as a memorials? Moses Joshua Ehud David Who was killed by a millstone dropped from a tower? Uriah Gideon Jezebel Abimelech How many stone water pots did Jesus use when turning water to wine? 3 6 10 12 At what place was Moses commanded to strike the rock to get water for the people? Horeb Meribah Mount Hor Kaddish At what place was Moses commanded to speak to the rock to get water but struck it instead? Horeb Meribah Mount Hor Kaddish What apostles nick name was translated Rock? Simon John James Judas What did Paul say was the rock Israel drank from? An Angel The river of God Christ Tear of the Prophets Who rolled the stone in front of Jesus tomb? Roman soldiers The Apostles Joseph High Priest Who took three thousand men ...

  It’s a popular new credo in the world today, ‘ I’m spiritual but not religious’ . Whereas religion is seen as old fashion and conformist, spirituality is seen as individualistic and hip. A person defines their beliefs by themselves and not by what some group lays down. The motto comes from the idea that people don’t want to view themselves as vapid in terms of moral thinking and merely physically minded yet don’t want to be hindered by adopting a preset set of convictions.     Yet it doesn't seem to be working out well for people. A study in The Journal of Nervous Disease by Jeffrey Vittengl found that those that define themselves this way may not be happy about it. The risk of depression was over a third greater than for those saw themselves as spiritual but not religious [i] . While religion has been shown over the years to have significant positive effects on people’s mental well-being, this study showed that just being spiritual didn’t have the same results. ...

  In 1939, a film called “Code of the Secret Service” hit the theaters. It was one of a series of movies about a tough-guy Secret Service agent named Brass Bancroft.  It wasn’t much of a hit. Even its star considered it one of the worst films he ever made. But for a ten-year-old boy from Miami Florida named Jerry Parr it was inspirational. After making his father take him several times to see the flick, he made up his mind that one day he was going to become a Secret Service agent. And that is exactly what he did.   Forty-two years later, Jerry Parr found himself living out his childhood dream as part of the security forces guarding the President of the United States. It was a seemly ordinary March day until a gunman named John Hinckley appeared and began firing.  Parr dove to protect the President and pushed him into the waiting car that immediately sped off. When Parr noticed the President coughing up blood, a result of a pierced lung from a ricocheting ...

Quotes See if you know who said it "I do not know the man!" Moses Peter Samson David "Let me die with the Philistines!" David Saul Samson Jesus "Let no man's heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." David Moses Abraham Daniel "She is my sister." Daniel Lazarus Peter Abraham "Let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink" John Daniel Joseph Barnabas "Please listen to this dream which I have had;" Joseph Daniel John Paul "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall!" Peter Judas Paul Pilate "Surely it is not I, Rabbi?" Peter Judas John Lazarus "What is Truth?" Pilate Jesus Paul The Devil "Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown." Jeremiah Jesus John Jacob

  We live in a world today that has better medical care than at any point in human history. Dieses that were fatal just a few short years ago are now completely curable. The major life taking conditions- heart disease, cancer, stroke- are more treatable than ever before.   However, that doesn’t mean that we have it all figured out. We still can’t cure the common cold. Yet medicine is evolving and growing to meet these challenges. New technologies and drugs are just now being implemented.  But one study found an effective treatment that has been there all along.     Kindness.   Research at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that kind medical care can lead to faster wound healing, reduced pain anxiety and blood pressure, and shorter hospital stays. It also improved the relationship between caregivers and patients resulting in more accurate diagnosis, increased the effectiveness of treatment planning, and boosts the likelihood t...