Ecclesiastes 12:10

    That summer was going to be pack with big-name movies, so the theaters were being picky. 20 th Century Fox had a movie they thought might make some money but only 40 theaters wanted it. What the rest of them wanted was “The Other Side of Midnight”, a steamy adult-themed adaptation of a bestselling book by the same name. The other movie was just a hero adventure of good vs evil that theaters felt was too sappy for modern audiences.     So 20 th Century Fox played dirty. They told the theaters that the only way they could get “ The Other Side of Midnight ” is if they would also show the other movie they were promoting. This was illegal and would get them fined 25,000 dollars, but they didn’t seem to mind.     It not because “ The Other Side of Midnight ” did so well, but because the other movie did. While “ The Other Side of Midnight ” made a modest 24 million, the other movie “ Star Wars ” made 775 Million!     It‘s not just...

  Some people speak because they have something to say. Others speak because they have to say something.   We live in a world that has to comment. When we see folks do or say what we think they ought not, we feel the need to rebuke, redress, and return volley.   We see how that is working out for us.     It was tough for Ezekiel as well. He lived in a day when it seemed everyone had lost their mind. As a man of God, he wanted to set them straight but God did something to him. He shut his mouth for him: "Moreover, I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and cannot be a man who rebukes them, for they are a rebellious house. "But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house . Ezekiel 3:26-27     God knew Ezekiel would want to throw in his two cents but...

  Its been a rough couple of months.     Or maybe a rough year.    Rumors of war, civil unrest, riots, turmoil in the government, pandemic, quarantine, economic depression, the list goes on and on. A recent survey shows an overwhelming majority of Americans think things are out of control.  Difficult times can be overwhelming but they can also help us to focus. we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body .  2nd Corinthians 4:8-10   It’s easy to say and think we rely on God when we got the world beat. But when the world strikes back hard and bloodies our nose, we might not be so sure. However, it’s during those times that the knowledge that the God we serve is over all can lift us up when everything else has us down. ...