Question & Thought for October 22nd, 2016!!!

Question & Thought for October 22nd, 2016!!!
Good Saturday Morning! And Happy Birthday!!!
1. Question – “Is it easy to love God?”
2. Thought – A friend of C.S. Lewis’s was once asked. “Is it easy to love God?” and he replied, “It is easy to those who do it.” That is not as paradoxical as it sounds. When you fall deeply in love, you want to please the beloved. You don’t wait for the person to ask you to do something for her. You eagerly research and learn every little thing that brings her pleasure. Then you get it for her, even if it costs you money or great inconvenience. “Your wish is my command,” you feel – and it doesn’t feel oppressive at all. From the outside bemused friends think, “She’s leading him around by the nose,” but from the inside it feels like heaven. (The Reason for God by Timothy Keller)
“You must never doubt that I am traveling with gratitude and cheerfulness along the road where I’m being led.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question & Thought for October 21st, 2016!!!

Question & Thought for October 21st, 2016!!!
Good Friday Morning!
1. Question – Define the wise leader?
2. Thought – The wise leader is more concerned with what IS than the way he would like things to be.
He/She is more concerned with what WILL work than with getting his mere opinions accepted.
And he is more concerned with TRUTH than merely being thought right.
He is not afraid of submitting his ideas to the test of reality. (The Art of Leadership by J. Donald Walters)
Be careful out there. No texting and driving. Getting dark earlier. Dear are out.
Got extra money yesterday at Walmart. The woman, handed it to me and said, “Obama money.” I was speechless.
Oh deer!
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Questions And Thought for October 20th, 2016!

Questions And Thought for October 20th, 2016!
Good Post Debate Thursday Morning!
1. Questions – In a democratic society, as Christians—think about it, how did we lose the media? Not enough of us got involved. How did we lose academia? Not enough of us went to those schools. How did we lose Hollywood? Not enough of us make movies. We gave up that territory, and then we pretend to be shocked when they use their power to beat the heck out of us.”
2. Thought –

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“Come, let us argue it out.” (Isaiah 1:18)
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question & Thought for October 20th, 2016!!!

Question & Thought for October 20th, 2016!!!
Good Thursday Morning! (Thanks Coach!)
1. Question – Is pain useful?
2. Thought – Beware of the False Lover
TGIF Today God Is First 
October 15, 2016

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning (Ps 30:5).

 
When a measured assault enters our life we often respond in two different ways. The pain caused by the assault drives us to a place of either embracing the pain or we embrace anything that will make us feel better. That becomes the entry door to a false lover. Men and women each seek to avoid pain in different ways. Larry Crabb has summarized these two unique strategies often used to avoid deep pain:

All of us are trapped by addiction to a desire for something less than God. For many women, that something less is relational control. “I will not be hurt again and I will not let people I love be hurt. I’ll see to it that what I fear never happens again.” They therefore live in terror of vulnerably presenting themselves to anyone and instead become determined managers of people. Their true femininity remains safely tucked away behind the walls of relational control.


More common in men is an addiction to non-relational control. “I will experience deep and consuming satisfaction without ever having to relate meaningfully with anyone.” They keep things shallow and safe with family and friends and feel driven to experience a joy they never feel, a joy that only deep relating can provide. Their commitment is twofold: to never risk revealing inadequacy by drawing close to people and, without breaking that commitment, to feel powerful and alive. Power in business and illicit sex are favorite strategies for reaching that goal.1
Many times we seek to deal with our pain through various forms of addictions designed to resolve the inner pain we feel. All addictions represent a counterfeit desire for genuine love and intimacy. We conclude these lesser desires are legitimate needs instead of band-aids of our fleshly soul. These addiction lovers become isolation chambers created for ourselves designed to mask our pain.
 
Every human being has a desire to be loved. When we do not feel loved because of some event in our lives we seek to reconcile this emotional pain. So, if you are fighting any kind of addiction–over control of people, sex, drugs, alcohol, workaholism, shopping, overeating–you are seeking to fill a void only God can fill.
 
Pain has a useful purpose in our lives. Facing it, rather than medicating it, allows us to move to a place of discovering a capacity for a different kind of joy. That is the purpose of pain. We must let inner pain do its work by experiencing it fully. It feels like a contradiction to actually embrace the pain, but it is the only remedy for moving past it so it can yield its purpose in our lives. 
 
Otherwise we will remain unaware of our deeper desire for God and be driven toward a false lover.
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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