Posted by
Buck Jacobs on
Feb 15th, 2010 |
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I recently received an email with the following signiature:
“What one generation tolerates, the next embraces.”
“What we do in moderation our children will do in excess.”
“ Our tolerance and silence has given silent permission for morality and common sense to be abdicated!”
“Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority of elitist snobs, and rabidly promoted by a corrupted and unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t–d by the clean end.”
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”– Gerald R. Ford
“Calling an illegal alien an...
Posted by
Buck Jacobs on
Feb 7th, 2010 |
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Expectations are terribly important. So much of how we feel about our lives is based on how things are versus our expectations of how they should be. And our expectations are so shaped and influenced by the many different inputs and subliminal noises that we are constantly subjected to, and most often unaware of, that it is no wonder that, for many, life is lived with a feeling of frustration that can often lead to hopelessness or a frantic search for “something more” and finally to extreme busyness, more frustration, and sometimes addiction or worse.
There are several primary contributors to this common condition. Today we will focus on just two or three.
First, the force of the consumer culture we live in and the “more stuff is better” mentality of materialism. Because of the...
Posted by
Buck Jacobs on
Jan 31st, 2010 |
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When Moses asked God who he should tell the children of Israel sent him to them, God told Moses to say, “Tell them I AM has sent me to you.” When God refers to Himself He always uses the present tense. God is always present tense, in Himself He is never past or future, always present. God isn’t contained by time; time is contained in God. Time doesn’t limit God, God limits time.
We are in a unique condition as we read this material, a condition that is temporary but very significant, a condition that, in all of eternity, we shall only experience once. We are as we are because God has created us to be so. He has chosen to create us to be, at this moment, spirit beings that temporarily inhabit a human body. We will not be forever as we are now. A day will come when each of us will...
Posted by
Buck Jacobs on
Jan 23rd, 2010 |
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After making our daily first hour with God non-negotiable the next most helpful tool is to write and keep a daily journal focusing on that time, There is just something that so clears our thoughts and helps us to remember meaningful things when we take the time to write them down. Its really indisputable how retention and understanding increases when we invest the time to write things. Keeping a daily summary journal of our time focused on God and His will and way for us will pay huge effectiveness dividends. It has always worked thst way for me and is the consistent testimony of every exceptional believer that I have ever known or read about.
Many friends have agreed with the concept of journaling over the years but most have struggled to find a consistent format that helps to keep the...