My Thoughts

You don't have to know everything to know that God is, you have to know God, but you do have to know everything to be able to say categorically there is no God.

Herbert Spencer said 'the infinite cannot be known by the finite.'
What he overlooked was the possibility that the infinite engaged in self revelation. And if the infinite took the initiative in self revelation than he could make it possible for the finite to begin to grapple that which the infinite reveals of himself.

OH, the folly of people to state, 'There is no God.'

-- Stuart Briscoe on Today in the Word 4/19/2017

My Thoughts

Satan is the one in a time crunch. He must operate in a frenetic pace to accomplish his plans because his failure is imminent and his time will soon expire.

God is the owner of time and his pace can be one of leisure in a steady, calculated pace. He chooses to cut the hardest of stone with water molecules over thousands of years to create what people call, the natural wonders of the world. (See Grand Canyon.) He does the same in the design of our lives, in body and spirit.

So when feeling like you are in a time crunch, realize that when you hide yourself in Christ, you are on the side of the God of time. Relax in His time and His plan.

Love,
Dad

This idea was developed with Joe Korpics on a summer afternoon, in 2012, relaxing in the comfort of reclining chairs on their deck in their backyard overlooking their park like yard that ends at the lake. My friend Joe died later that year of pancreatic cancer.

Great Quote from Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

Bible Verses

I can do everything through Him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:1

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galations 2:20

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him. 2 Corinthians 2:14

Happy Birthday John

We pray your next year will be filled with joy and happiness.
This is for John Wallen




MC took me to Cleveland to go jet skiing on the river and Lake Erie. It was fantastic and we had dinner at Hudson Springs Park, beef kabobs with mushrooms and green peppers, a green salad, pasta salad, mouse type dessert and zinfandel. Afterwards we took a walk around the lake and then went home to open gifts.

One of my favorite birthdays.