One Day to Live

If you had only one more day to live, what would be your wish and with whom would you want to spend it?

God's Existence

A friend just e-mailed me this and I thought it was worth posting:

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering
that I have seen. It's an explanation other people will understand.

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God Does Exists

A lady went to a beauty shop to have her hair cut and
her nails painted and trimmed. As the lady began to work, they
began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the beautician said : "I don't believe that God exists."
"Why do you say that?" asked Sheryl who has MS.
"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."
Then Sheryl thought for a moment, but didn't respond because
she didn't want to start an argument. The beautician just
finished her job and the customer left the shop. Just after she left the beauty shop, she saw a woman in the street with
long, stringy, dirty hair and not groomed at all. She looked dirty and unkempt.
Then Sheryl turned back and entered the beauty shop again and
she said to the beautician: "You know what? Beauticians do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised beautician. "I am here, and I am a beautician. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" Sheryl exclaimed. "Beauticians don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and be very unkempt, like that woman outside."
"Ah, but beauticians DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me."
"Exactly!"- affirmed Sheryl. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
If you think God exists, send this to other people--If you think God does
not exist, delete it!

Do you agree? Disagree? Questions and comments...

The Tongue

James 3:2

"For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body."

Okay, so I don't feel so bad now. The early church messed up in a bunch or areas too. Anyway, maybe if I cut my tongue off...

James 3:9-12

"With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similtude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh."

Why do we say dirty things to people/about people when we say we love God? They were created in His likeness too! They are just as special to Him as we are. So why do we say stuff about people behind their back? We shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff. What type of water are we? Fresh or bitter?

Questions? Comments?

Meditate on What?

"...whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things." (Philippians 4:8)

Saved

I sat in on a different Sunday school class this week. They were studying Romans. They were mulling over, "Are people "predestined" to go to Heaven and Hell?" Pharaoh was thrown into the picture. "God hardened Pharaoh's heart. He didn't have a choice."

What's your take on this stuff?

Personally, I believe that, "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved." If someone confesses with their mouth the Lord Jesus and believes in their heart that God has raised Him from the dead, then they will be saved.

I know where I'd find myself if I died right now. Do you?

A Blog

Well, I created my own blog! Now what? It seems that the ideas aren't flowing right now. I'll put down a few of my favorite websites:

www.chessmaniac.com

I actually just started playing on this. It's pretty great if you're into chess.

www.teddekker.com

If you like to read fiction, you just definitely check this guy out.

Well that's all for now!

Philippians 1:21

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.