Jimmy Carter was president from 1977 to 1981. I voted for him back then and the reason I did was because he professed to be a born-again Christian. He still does.
But I saw where the former president has come out in favor of same-sex marriage. Continue reading
Forgiveness
Do not bow – do not bend!
It didn’t take long. The ink is just barely dry on the majority decision when I saw this from a church just about 2 hours south of me. This appeared on my Facebook wall –
I got my first request to perform wedding for a gay couple this morning. I politely declined. Continue reading
Forgiveness – I’m not there yet!
Last week a young man walked into a church and fatally shot nine. That church held services Sunday.
Of course the news teams were there to cover the message and the record crowd inside and the overflow that stood outside. Continue reading
All have sinned!
I saw where Josh Duggar, of 19 Kids and Counting, has resigned from the Family Research Council. This comes after his confession of molesting some minor girls while he was a teenager. Continue reading
Everyday Peace!
No one wants a fair weather friend. You want someone that will stick by your side in good times and especially the bad; someone that will be there for you when you are at your lowest.
The Lord deserved no less. Continue reading
Let’s get stone (part 4)
Everyone has broken the Commandments and it is obvious that we’re all stoned, that is, deserving of God’s judgment and death sentence. Continue reading
I broke the law!
I would not have known sin except through the law. Rom 7:7
I broke the law yesterday! A federal law! Continue reading
Love Overlooks and Excuses.
Love has an amazing affect on people.
Love is able to transform sadness to happiness; it changes loneliness into hope.
The Bible has much to say about love – how it is so patient and kind.
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Hatred stirs up strife, Love covers all sins. Prov 10:12
“love will cover a multitude of sins.” 1 Peter 4:8
Love also overlooks sins.
There is a husband that’s an alcoholic but the wife loves him and makes excuses for him when he doesn’t show up with her at a party.
There’s the child doing drugs but the parents don’t want to believe that because they love her and just want to believe she’s going through a phase.
I can go on and on and this may be happening in your family. Your love is not covering their sins – it’s overlooking those sins.
You will overlook the sins of those you love!
You nor that person you love can ever, ever cover those sins.
But Jesus can because He covers those sins in forgiveness through His own blood.
Your sin isn’t overlooked or excused – it’s forgiven, washed away, removed, gone, and never to be remembered.
Abba, thank You for covering my sin. I would still be in a bad shape had you just overlooked it. In Jesus name, YES&AMEN
Misunderstandings
Gen 21:25-26 Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants had seized. And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor had I heard of it until today.”
Misunderstanding can ruin a relationship just as quickly as a slap to the face.
Abraham was holding a grudge against Abimelech, for something Abimelech knew nothing about.
They eventually did resolve this misunderstanding.
How many times do you get angry when someone misinterprets what you say or misdirects your intentions?
Better yet, how many times do you misunderstand someone else?
Give others the benefit of the doubt and let God do a work to clear things up. And remember that you shouldn’t spread rumors about what you do not fully understand.
It would have been easy for Abraham to tell all his friends about how Abimelech was such a thief and a scoundrel and Abraham would have been wrong.
Today you have a marvelous principle from Jesus on clearing up relationship problems.
Matt 18:15 If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
Of course, there is the old-fashioned “forgive and forget” and don’t bother bringing it up!
Abba, there are instructions for all relationships in Your word. YES&AMEN
Bad Decisions
Have you ever made a bad decision that you wish you could undo?
If only you could turn back the hands of time and do it all different.
But you can’t. You have to live with what was done and perhaps try to make it right, though there may never be a way to do that.
The Bible gives an example of someone that made a bad decision.
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. Heb 12:16
Esau thought he was going to starve. He wasn’t. You’d be surprised how long you can go without food, especially if you seek God. That’s called a fast.
The day came when Esau wanted everything to be alright. It did not happen.
For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. Heb 12:17
Some mistakes and decisions can’t be undone.
Even forgiveness cannot change it all. For instance, you may forgive a drunk driver that killed someone but it won’t bring that person back.
But it may just save and change the drunk driver.
In the end it all depends on trusting God, having faith, and loving others.
Abba, I have made mistakes and bad decisions. But one of them was not in accepting Jesus as my Savior. My life has been complete since that time. YES&AMEN
Morning Thought with Pastor Tim 