Month: March 2024

Jesus answered, “The first and most important [commandment] is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul (life), and with all your mind (thought, understanding), and with all your strength.’Mark 12:29-30 Amplified Bible ********** The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.Bernard…

********** Fun Facts about pi: Pi is a never-ending number: One of the most well-known (but still mind-blowing) facts about pi is that it’s an irrational number. It can’t be expressed as a fraction, it doesn’t end with a repeating pattern (like the decimal expression of 1/3, 0.33333 …, with the threes repeating forever), and…

A woman sees a father shopping with a fussy two-year-old in his grocery cart. “Be patient, Billy,” he whispers. “You can handle this, Billy. It’s okay, Billy.” The woman said to him, “I don’t mean to interrupt your shopping, but I just had to tell you how wonderfully loving and patient you are with little…

We plan the way we want to live,    but only God makes us able to live it.Proverbs 16:9 The Message ********** God’s plan will continue on God’s schedule. Aiden Wilson Tozer ********** For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Eternal, “plans for peace, not evil, to give you a future and hope—never forget that….

… into Daylight Savings time. I’ve heard that some people get up at 2 AM to change their clocks. But I’m not a fan of broken sleep. So, on Saturday, I fixed the clocks, went to bed and to sleep … …. until the smoke alarm in my room went off at about 10:30. It…

But let all who take refuge in you be glad;    let them ever sing for joy.Spread your protection over them,    that those who love your name may rejoice in you. Psalm 5:11 NIV ********* What could be more liberating, more thrilling, more amazing than that the God who made the universe would come to you, a hopeless sinner,…

Oh, the joy of drinking deeply from the Fountain of Salvation!” Isaiah 12:3 Living Bible ********** The fact that we were created to enjoy God and to worship him forever is etched upon our souls.  Jim Cymbala ********** For salvation comes from God. What joys he gives to all his people. Psalm 3:8 Living Bible…

“Will you not this day make it your prayer? “Lord, help me to glorify Thee;I am poor, help me to glorify Thee by contentment; I am sick, help me to give Thee honour by patience; I have talents, help me to extol Thee by spending them for Thee;I have time, Lord, help me to redeem…

“Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” The Westminster Shorter Catechism ********** To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church.  To glorify God is to reveal his character by being who we were created to be…

I am 75 years old, still trying to figure out who/what I want to be when I grow up. Time is running out on that. Fortunately, I found help in the book, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God’s Best Version of You, by John Ortberg. ********** The most important task of your life…