Cell phone VS Bible

I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?
What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we flipped through it several time a day?
What if we turned back to go get it if we  forgot it?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
What if we used it when we traveled?
What if we used it in case of emergency?

This is something to make you go *hmm* where is my Bible?
Oh, and one more thing. Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.
Makes you stop and think "where are my priorities"?
Oh, and no dropped calls!
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Thanks Bob!

dW 07.02.07

scripture

 

1 Corinthians 11:23-25

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me."

 

thought

 

Yesterday in church the pastor read these verses before we took of the Lord’s Supper. When he read these verses I heard them differently than I had ever before heard them.

When our bodies are broken and our blood spilt for His kingdom then that act is an act of remembrance of His own sacrifice.

Paul tells us, “Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.” Romans 8:17

 

quote

 

Out of one hundred men, one will read the Bible, the other ninety-nine will read the Christian.

D. L. Moody

dW 06.29.07

scripture

 

1 Peter 3:13-14

Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?  But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed.  "Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened."

 

quote

 

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes.  It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.

James Christensen

dW 06.28.07

scripture
 
1 Corinthians 1:25
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
 
quote
  
For the love of God is broader
Than the measure of man's mind.
Frederick Faber

dW 06.27.07

daily Word

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scripture

 

Matthew 6:25-26, (27-34)

Jesus speaking, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"

 

quote

 

What a world this would be if we could forget our troubles as easily as we forget our blessings.

Unknown

 

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What are we up to?

http://ktgjournal.blogspot.com/2007/06/weve-arrived.html

dW 06.20.07

daily Word

http://the-daily-word.blogspot.com/

http://firmlyheld.org/

 

scripture

 

Isaiah 66:2
Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" declares the LORD. "This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.”

 

quote

 

Do you tremble at His word? Or do you look for loopholes around it? Do you excuse your sin? Do you avoid the Word now because you know it is going to talk to you and talk about you? People come to me all the time and say “Brother Paul, I have a new relationship with God”. And then I go to 1 John chapter 1 verse 8 and say, “Do you have a new relationship with sin?” Because if you don’t have a new relationship with sin then you don’t have a new relationship with God. Are you sensitive to sin?

 

Paul Washer

Sermone titled “Examine Yourself”

A message that has angered many!

 

news

 

Today is my last day of work in Bakersfield. Saturday we are driving both our cars and a uhaul of all our stuff to our new apartment in Clovis. Things have been crazy. I am registered for classes at Fresno Pacific and ProU Fresno has a desk waiting for me. Sorry for skipping a few days these past two weeks. The daily Word will be back Wednesday, June 27.

dW 06.18.07

scripture
Deuteronomy 32:3-4
I will proclaim the name of the LORD.
Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
quote
Every battle we face in life is over the Word and whether or not we can build our lives on the faithfulness and integrity of God. – Francis Frangipane
update
Tyler has come home!
CLICK

dW 06.15.07

scripture
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?
1 John 1:6
If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.
quote
My dear friend, listen to me. John is saying that if you say you are a Christian and yet your style of life, the way you are, does not reflect His character and the things you do go against His will as a style of life then he is telling you that you are a liar when you say that you are a Christian.
Paul Washer
Sermon titled “Examine Yourself”
A message that has angered many!

dW 06.08.07

scripture
John 6:44
Jesus said, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Matthew 7:13-14
Jesus explains, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
thought
All religions are not the same. If they were then why did Christ himself say the things above? This country speaks of religious freedom. The freedom to believe as you wish but when it comes to Christianity, and a Christian says the very things that Christ taught then we become extremists, or bigots. This country does not emphasize freedom, nor tolerance but full fledge acceptance. If we can look at someone and say that it does not matter who or what they worship or how they live then we do not follow Christ. We are just like Peter who denied he even knew Jesus. May God rise up bigots who do not fear man but fear God!
quote
Why in God’s name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? If the world could not get along with the holiest man alive (Jesus Christ) then how does it get along with you and I? Are we compromised? Do we have no spiritual stature? -taken from the “Revival Hymn”

dW 06.07.07

scripture

Luke 18:9-14

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

quote

Prayer is the language of the poor. The self sufficient does not need to pray. The self satisfied don’t want to pray. The self righteous can’t pray. The only ones of us that can pray are those that realize that we need a power outside of ourselves. – Leonard Ravenhill