Even If Life Disappoints...

Proverbs 23:17-18 English Standard Version (ESV)

17 Let not your heart envy sinners,

    but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.

18 Surely there is a future,

    and your hope will not be cut off.

Numbers 23:19 English Standard Version (ESV)

19 God is not man, that he should lie,

    or a son of man, that he should change his mind.

Has he said, and will he not do it?

    Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Zechariah 9:12English Standard Version (ESV)

12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;

    today I declare that I will restore to you double.

...we can still hope.  God has not forgotten his prisoners of hope and will yet fulfill His plans for us.  So go ahead we Charlie Browns and keep knocking on doors, keep collecting rocks, because there is, if not a treat in your future, at least a pretty good party.  Also don't forget to keep kicking the football.

It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown Part 2 of 7

Ghost - MercyMe

Who's Your Father?

1 John 5:1 English Standard Version (ESV)

Overcoming the World

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

1 John 5:4New English Translation (NET Bible)

4 because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world.

Testimony About the Son

This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

1 John 5:19 New English Translation (NET Bible)

19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

This morning I awakened to a call from my son's campus security warning of a shooting near the school. Not the way I want to wake up, but I didn't fear for my son.  He belongs to God and lives as his good son. (I did Mom-text him later that day though just be sure all was well.)   There is evil in this world as well as good.  There is wrong and there is right.  There is sin and there is obedience.  We are either children of God or children of Satan.  The most recent mass shooting in Las Vegas has had me thinking about the existence of evil.  There's been such a search for the killer's motive because we want to understand what can't be understood.  Was he insane?  Was he a terrorist?  Did he have an agenda?  I believe he was just evil.   The world wants an diagnosis for sin but rejects the antidote, Jesus, God's only begotten Son given to this sin sick world.  

John 3:16 New King James Version (NKJV)

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Shots Were Fired - John Tibbs

It's Sunday!

Psalm 122:1 English Standard Version (ESV)

Let Us Go to the House of the Lord

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

122 I was glad when they said to me,

    “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

Nichole Nordeman - Dear Me (Lyric Video)

Since I'm About to Go to Work...

...this is really good to know.

Casting Crowns - Make Room (feat. Matt Maher) [Audio] ft. Matt Maher

Citizen Way - I Will (Official Lyric Video)

Tauren Wells - When We Pray (Official Music Video)

Because My Husband Loves Thanksgiving...

Psalm 118:1 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Saving Goodness.

118 Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

...and Glen Campbell, I uploaded a Thanksgiving song for him today.  He is right about how we go from Halloween straight into Christmas and too often overlook Thanksgiving.  Driving home from church tonight, I was amazed at how many homes were decorated with lights and Halloween decorations.  It's a bit spooky out there to say the least, it's terribly satanic out there to say the most.  I'll try not to be too judgmental because I've eaten more than my share of Halloween candy through the years, but I do find myself looking forward to Thanksgiving.  (Also the young man who now lives in a dorm but still doesn't want to be blogged about will be coming home for the holiday.)  Yes, I am thankful.

Come Harvest Time - Glen Campbell

It's Sunday!

Find your way to church!

Jeremy Camp - Storm

Crowder - All My Hope ft. Tauren Wells

I Wont Let You Go - Official Lyric Video

Passion - Glorious Day (Live) ft. Kristian Stanfill

for KING & COUNTRY & Rebecca St. James - Amazing Grace [Lyric Video]

Keepers of the Faith (Strawberry Pie)

It's Still Sunday!

for KING & COUNTRY & Rebecca St. James - Amazing Grace [Lyric Video]

We Are Messengers - Everything Comes Alive (Official Video)

A Good Word

When We All Get to Heaven

Matt Redman - One Day (When We All Get To Heaven) (Acoustic)

It's Sunday!

Death is defeated!

Because I'm Thinking About My Husband...

...who just took our granddog for his second walk in the last hour, even though it's late and he just worked an eight hour shift.  He's a good man, Charlie Brown.  

Pitter Patter Goes the Rain - Christy Nockels

Hosea 6:3 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

3 “So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.

His going forth is as certain as the dawn;

And He will come to us like the rain,

Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

He Promised

JJ Heller - You Keep Your Promises (Single) - (Official Audio Video)

Weep With Those Who Weep

'Til The Blue feat. Gary Levox-Steven Curtis Chapman

Alisa Turner - Not Even Now (Lyrics)

Heal Our Land

It's Sunday!

We have two houses to visit!