Pro 19:22 What a man desires is unfailing love;
better to be poor than a liar.
Pro 17:4 A wicked man listens to evil lips;
a liar pays attention to a malicious tongue.
1Jo 2:4 The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Lies come from the father of lies...Satan!
Truth
Psa 40:11 Do not withhold your mercy from me, O Lord; may your love and your truth always protect me.
Psa 43:3 Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
Psa 119:30 I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on your laws.
Rom 2:8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
1Cr 13:6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Eph 6:14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,
1Jo 2:21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.
1Jo 3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
3Jo 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
It seems to be politically incorrect to stand for what is right! The Truth. As society seems to be in a moral decline, we wonder why. People don't understand why the younger generation is changing, yet we have given them no solid truth to stand on. We make everything gray. God did not.
This is an old poem that I read again, and you may have read it before, it kind of shows one thing that could happen when parents don't set clear boundaries.
WENT TO A PARTY, MoM
I went to a party,
And remembered what you said. You told me not to drink, Mom
So I had a sprite instead.
I felt proud of myself,
The way you said I would, That I didn't drink and drive,
Though some friends said I should.
I made a healthy choice,
And your advice to me was right, The party finally ended,
And the kids drove out of sight.
I got into my car,
Sure to get home in one piece, I never knew what was coming,
Mom something I expected least.
Now I'm lying on the pavement,
And I hear the policeman say, The kid that caused this wreck was drunk, Mom, his voice seems far away.
My own blood's all around me,
As I try hard not to cry. I can hear the paramedic say,
This girl is going to die.
I'm sure the guy had no idea,
While he was flying high, Because he chose to drink and
drive, Now I would have to die.
So why do people do it, Mom
Knowing that it ruins lives? And now the pain is cutting me,
Like a hundred stabbing knives.
Tell sister not to be afraid, Mom
Tell daddy to be brave, And when I go to heaven, Put
" Mommy's Girl" on my grave.
Someone should have taught him,
That it's wrong to drink and drive. Maybe if his parents had,
I'd still be alive.
My breath is getting shorter, Mom
I'm getting really scared. These are my final moments,
And I'm so unprepared.
I wish that you could hold me Mom,
As I lie here and die. I wish that I could say, "I love you,
Mom!" So I love you and good-bye.
Isn't it funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me.
Our interim pastor, Dr. Preston Nix, is wonderful. He preaches straight from The Word. If you are coming for a service to just tickle your ears you won't find it from him. He preaches like a teacher, which he is, and I love it! Right now at First Baptist we are also having a production called Last Chance every night at 6:30pm. It is a sequel to Heaven's Gates and Hell's Flames. It is a very compelling drama. This Halloween season seems to be a very appropriate time for it to be here also. Please continue to pray for our Pastor Search Committee as they now focus on finding a full time Pastor for our church.
Our Hope is growing and growing! She misses us. I can tell when I hear her in the background on the phone!
Our friend Hoppa is such a blessing! He is still undergoing chemotherapy for his brain tumor. He is so uplifting! Whenever you get a chance to talk to him, you, walk away feeling good. I would have to say he is my favorite Cajun!
Please continue to pray for my Mom as she is back on her way to MD Anderson today to meet with her chemotherapist. Pray for her and Dad at this point in their lives.
My nephew, Lou, is in Anaheim Hills California, working for an insurance adjustment company. Please pray for his safety as well as all of the people effected by the fires.
Please pray for my grandson's asthma, granddaughter's eczema, and for all of those that are ill. Also pray for Rose Roberts a missionary in Milan who is flying back to the states to attend her father's funeral.
My aunt sent this to me in an email and it really made me laugh. As you know Al and I have had 2 pregnant daughters, 1 is pregnant now, we have heard how it is done now, but we remember how it was.....
Those Born 1930-1979
TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention,
the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and
NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
After running into the bushes a few times,
we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell< /FONT>
phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.< /SPAN>
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that! !
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
! DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them . . CONGRATULATIONS!
Just a thought.....
Why are we so sleepy in church but Right when the sermon is over we suddenly wake up?
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