It's been too long since my last post. We have been remodeling our home extensively over the past few weeks and that has consumed my energy and time. I also left for a week to speak at a prayer and Bible conference in Northern California.
I am very seriously contemplating moving this blog to a .mac account. I have one already set up and paid for I just need to utilize it! I will work on that this morning and this blog will be the first to know!
Oh well, just as I get started again, the painters have arrived and I have to supervise.
Ciao, for now.....
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Do we deal with Symptoms or the Problem?
I've been down with a bad case of the flu. It started early this past week and just would not let up. It allowed me to spend more time than I like in bed with a couple of books and all the hot tea I could drink.
Oh well, I'm feeling a lot better this morning and looking forward to worshiping the Lord in Spirit and in Truth!
Talking with someone about my illness this morning as I went to my customary Sunday morning cafe, they asked what I was doing about my flu.
I told them I was taking Day care, tylenol and claritin. The man responded, "oh, so you are just dealing with the symptoms, you aren't doing anything to get rid of the flu!"
I have been thinking about that. How many times in life, do we just deal with "symptoms". We wait and hope that father time will treat the problem and make it go away, while we just treat "symptoms".
How many are dealing with sin that way? They aren't desperate enough to address the issue, they are content to just deal with the symptoms.
Oh well, I'm feeling a lot better this morning and looking forward to worshiping the Lord in Spirit and in Truth!
Talking with someone about my illness this morning as I went to my customary Sunday morning cafe, they asked what I was doing about my flu.
I told them I was taking Day care, tylenol and claritin. The man responded, "oh, so you are just dealing with the symptoms, you aren't doing anything to get rid of the flu!"
I have been thinking about that. How many times in life, do we just deal with "symptoms". We wait and hope that father time will treat the problem and make it go away, while we just treat "symptoms".
How many are dealing with sin that way? They aren't desperate enough to address the issue, they are content to just deal with the symptoms.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
update
Good Morning!
It's been a few days since I've blogged. We have been busy repainting the inside of our home. Did I say "busy"? Oh well, it sure looks nice. My wife is happy as well. Just a few more day's and we'll be done.
I sent in a paper that deals with blogging and my experiences blogging here on this web site. I've yet to hear how my paper was received.
That's enough for today, I'll be back!
It's been a few days since I've blogged. We have been busy repainting the inside of our home. Did I say "busy"? Oh well, it sure looks nice. My wife is happy as well. Just a few more day's and we'll be done.
I sent in a paper that deals with blogging and my experiences blogging here on this web site. I've yet to hear how my paper was received.
That's enough for today, I'll be back!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Soul Talk
The biggest hindrance to our interaction with the spiritual realm is our own emotion.
We are so led by our emotions that we sometimes cannot be led by the spirit.
In short, if we don't feel it, it must not be real!
If we don't feel it, it must not be right!
Our best worship comes when our emotions are awakened.
But God is still just as much God, when I'm not feeling anything.
Our greatest miracles happen when we are feeling the buzz of anointing.
Yet I have learned to my surprise that as long as I am walking in righteousness, the anointing is upon me.
It's on me whether I feel it or not.
I have obligatorily prayed for people, not feeling anything, except maybe tired. I have been shocked when they started rejoicing over a healing, a miracle!
And why not? God is still God!
He is the healer. I am the tool.
Does the hammer have to feel, in order to work?
This entire chain of thought began as I sat in a service recently. Inwardly I was in complaint mode. The songs were NOT to my liking. The service leader was a dead as they get. I was feeling that this service was a waste of time.
About that time, God began moving through the audience in a special way.
I felt Him saying into my spirit, you let your emotions keep you from too many moves of my spirit.
The book of Hebrews comes to mind: Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The Word of God can separate the soul and spirit! The soul is the connecting port that I have to reach God. The spirit is the house my emotions live in. They are separate!
God, teach me thy ways!
We are so led by our emotions that we sometimes cannot be led by the spirit.
In short, if we don't feel it, it must not be real!
If we don't feel it, it must not be right!
Our best worship comes when our emotions are awakened.
But God is still just as much God, when I'm not feeling anything.
Our greatest miracles happen when we are feeling the buzz of anointing.
Yet I have learned to my surprise that as long as I am walking in righteousness, the anointing is upon me.
It's on me whether I feel it or not.
I have obligatorily prayed for people, not feeling anything, except maybe tired. I have been shocked when they started rejoicing over a healing, a miracle!
And why not? God is still God!
He is the healer. I am the tool.
Does the hammer have to feel, in order to work?
This entire chain of thought began as I sat in a service recently. Inwardly I was in complaint mode. The songs were NOT to my liking. The service leader was a dead as they get. I was feeling that this service was a waste of time.
About that time, God began moving through the audience in a special way.
I felt Him saying into my spirit, you let your emotions keep you from too many moves of my spirit.
The book of Hebrews comes to mind: Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The Word of God can separate the soul and spirit! The soul is the connecting port that I have to reach God. The spirit is the house my emotions live in. They are separate!
God, teach me thy ways!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Getting old?
I just realized that I blogged utilizing memories from 20+ years ago!
Does that mean I'm getting Old?
Please! Somebody! Help Me!
I guess I don't mind getting old, I just never want to be irrelevant!
Gotta go now, I need a glass of prune juice....
Does that mean I'm getting Old?
Please! Somebody! Help Me!
I guess I don't mind getting old, I just never want to be irrelevant!
Gotta go now, I need a glass of prune juice....
Goin' a lil' "retro"!
I am in the process of writing a term paper for a class. During the process, I am pulling up buried memories from over twenty years ago.
Who could have dreamed that the building of small personal computers, and the opening of masses of networks to the public would result in “A whole new world”!
I recall working in the Bay area for a micro filming company in the early 1980’s. We worked with many up and coming companies located in the Silicon Valley during that time, one of which was called Osborn computers. Up until that time, most of the general population had never seen a computer. The computers that existed were large monstrosities took someone with specialized skills to operate. The main purpose of these “monsters” was data collection. They were also good at crunching numbers and keeping track of things. However, there was little to no software that the general public could find useful in every day life. Osborn Computers were one of the first to bring many businesses into the computer age. They were one of the first to create a portable computer. I remember the first time I saw one of these "laptop" computers. Looking at that small brown suitcase with it’s little black and white screen, I had no idea how much our world would be revolutionized within a short twenty years. Tandy, came out with the little TRS-80. they were afraid that the public might not go for it, so they only ordered 3000. The leaders of the company reasoned that if they did not sell, they could use the computers to keep track of data in each of their 3000 stores. To the amazement of all, they sold 10,000 the first month and by years end had sold over 55,000. The revolution had begun.
My marriage to my wife in 1983 was challenged from time to time by my love affairs with computers. First a Tandy 8088 invaded the sanctity of our home, to be followed by each successive micro-processor to follow.
I had no idea that I was a willing participant in a cultural revolution that would shake our world as perhaps nothing else ever has.
Who could have dreamed that the building of small personal computers, and the opening of masses of networks to the public would result in “A whole new world”!
I recall working in the Bay area for a micro filming company in the early 1980’s. We worked with many up and coming companies located in the Silicon Valley during that time, one of which was called Osborn computers. Up until that time, most of the general population had never seen a computer. The computers that existed were large monstrosities took someone with specialized skills to operate. The main purpose of these “monsters” was data collection. They were also good at crunching numbers and keeping track of things. However, there was little to no software that the general public could find useful in every day life. Osborn Computers were one of the first to bring many businesses into the computer age. They were one of the first to create a portable computer. I remember the first time I saw one of these "laptop" computers. Looking at that small brown suitcase with it’s little black and white screen, I had no idea how much our world would be revolutionized within a short twenty years. Tandy, came out with the little TRS-80. they were afraid that the public might not go for it, so they only ordered 3000. The leaders of the company reasoned that if they did not sell, they could use the computers to keep track of data in each of their 3000 stores. To the amazement of all, they sold 10,000 the first month and by years end had sold over 55,000. The revolution had begun.
My marriage to my wife in 1983 was challenged from time to time by my love affairs with computers. First a Tandy 8088 invaded the sanctity of our home, to be followed by each successive micro-processor to follow.
I had no idea that I was a willing participant in a cultural revolution that would shake our world as perhaps nothing else ever has.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Live = Christ, Die = Gain
We sometimes have a hard time connecting the Word of God to us.
We are SO about living! From the time we get up, until the time we lay down, we try to cram as much living into every day as possible.
The reality is, this thing we call LIFE is just a trial run for ETERNAL life. For us to get there, we have to go through a temporary experience called death.
Living the christian life is the art of practicing "dying". Not in a literal sense, but a spiritual one. It's learning not to hold anything so close that I cannot let it go if I need to.
I was going through some notes this morning and came across a phrase from a class with Dr. Earl Creps. It turned my thinking machine on.
"What part of me needs to die today, so that I may live as Christ?"
So what is it? Huh?
We are SO about living! From the time we get up, until the time we lay down, we try to cram as much living into every day as possible.
The reality is, this thing we call LIFE is just a trial run for ETERNAL life. For us to get there, we have to go through a temporary experience called death.
Living the christian life is the art of practicing "dying". Not in a literal sense, but a spiritual one. It's learning not to hold anything so close that I cannot let it go if I need to.
I was going through some notes this morning and came across a phrase from a class with Dr. Earl Creps. It turned my thinking machine on.
"What part of me needs to die today, so that I may live as Christ?"
So what is it? Huh?
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