Head-dibs

and not a thing to read?

What are they? You don’t know? Should I know? You should know. Must I say? Three little words. What are they? I am waiting. Well, say them. How could you? Why don’t you? Don’t you know? Find your voice! Three little words. Three little pigs. Three little birds. Care for more? I have more. So many more. Three little words Make it simple-- “Eight little letters” O You live! O Vile You! I Love You!

8.86 miles in 2:33:37 with 20# ruck-sack. Caption  this (below): Soaked in sweat, but it was worth every drop.

Let It Be

Got the top down, wind in the treads . . .

I confess: I have a guilty pleasure. I cook bacon. On my grill. At sunrise. On Sunday mornings.

"But believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is, rather, good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The message of the Christian faith is that because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak. The gospel of grace, in other words, frees us to let people see us at our worst so that they can see God at his most gracious best." (Tullian Tchividjian)

“For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." (2 Cor 4:5-7, ESV) The power of God is meant for display. Paul pictures our body as a jar of clay into which God has placed the treasure of the gospel. How does this happen? Why does this happen? Paul tells us in verse 6: the reason they preached Christ Jesus as Lord and not themselves was because they saw the glory of God in the face of Christ. Once God reveals the darkness of sin by bringing in the light, who can keep that to themselves? Part of the beauty of God’s glory is that He is consistent. The same God who shines this light is the same God who created light (Gen 1), the...

Ok, so the other night my wife and I visited our local Chinese Buffet and as customary, received our fortune cookies with our check. My wife's said: "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." My fortune cookie was empty.

“And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” (2 Cor. 4:3-4, ESV) One inherent characteristic of an adversary is his need to remain undetected. Even an enemy who hides in plain sight does so with the intent to remain unseen. When we acknowledge our enemy, we do not merely say he exists, but point him out with neon light. The apostle Paul in writing to the calls out the enemy of the church: Satan. Satan is a person, “the god of this world,” not a principle or force and certainly not a polar “opposite God” but a created being who rebelled against God. “Well,” someone asks, “if Satan is not a god, why is he called one here?” Go back to John 12:31 when Jesus calls Satan “the prince of this world.” Paul later echoes this in Ephesians. Notice carefully how Satan is not called “god”...