Potential bears no fruit.
Whatever you have withheld from God is lost.
Do harm to doubt but protect your faith.
Being wrong happens; sin is a choice.
Promises pay no bills.
A Smoky Mountain HI
Here is a journey I make each day. Time flows on this side of eternity. I have aged as gracefully as reasonable as can be be expected, and yet feel not a day older in my mind. As I begin a life in the Smoky Mountains I hope you will share my journey as well. www.kleincabin.com
About Me
- Name: A Smoky Mountain Hi
- Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States
Retired summer 2010. I am married (wife, Carol, 55 years) with two married children and four grandchildren...one Toy Poodle. Presently live in Tennessee or Florida but spending summers in our cabin in the East Tennessee Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg. Five + acres, three streams, and two ponds. Taught college 13 years Florida, Alaska and Tennessee, wife also a teacher. She teaches computer, ABE, GED etcetera. I was the evening supervisor of an adult education school of about 900 students. Minister of counseling at New Hope Fellowship Church of the Nazarene.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Your lack of Faith causes generational failure.
Love leaves treasure in the heart of the ones it loves.
Love is the unleashing of Faith funneled by Hope.
Worship is putting your arms around the One who has already put His arms around you.
Satan decorates sin with imagination.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Joy is mature happiness.
Salvation is not a contract but a gift that contains a contract.
Your potential is less important than your actions.
Learn to respect God more than what is demanding your attention today.
Delight occurs when love is returned, just ask the prodigal son!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Potential without faith leads to failure.
Success without faith is still failure.
He who is given much and does little has accomplished failure.
I chose Jesus over doubt!
Real life exists somewhere between trivia and necessity.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
You can never really run from a problem you have created and left in the lives of others.
Justice has a strange army.
Learn to tolerate differences but not evil.
Worship is giving your heart to the One whose heart was broken for you.
Look in to the lives of others with a tender eye.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Demons will never infect you as a Christian, but you can still believe a lie.
No one can take away your joy but you can abandon it while being distracted.
Never allow circumstances to move your anchor.
For the most part, you are what you have chosen to become.
Doing God’s will is much easier than not.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
No Christian is so good he cannot sin, but no good Christian will tolerate it.
If you are right no argument is needed, if you are wrong no argument can make you right.
Your failures do not reveal your faults but your reactions to it will.
If you cannot, will not or do not laugh, your life will sour.
God is doing what you are not.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Right makes might in a moral fight.
Beauty without virtue is like a check without funds.
A lie is the birth of failure.
The fabric of friendship is not spun in a moment but over years.
Hell is the fruit of sin.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Even though your life was changed by Grace, it can still be changed by sin.
It is not gold but God but makes you rich.
Better it be misunderstood and innocent than to be praise when guilty.
There are no Holy sinners.
If your happiness is transitory then you need more of God.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Your call to preach comes from God, not the seminary; from the Bible, not from your denomination.
The fruit of prayers are often delivered by the hand of a man.
Hope endures, that is why it is called Hope!
Hope is not limited to what I can see but extends to what He can do!
Hope is the engagement of the present to the future.
Friday, January 21, 2011
We tend to wear sorrow; when we could wear Grace.
The more you know what it right the easier it is to say no.
Let no trial take away your joy!
Better it is to face the conflict of character, than to bed down with complacency.
You likely need less self-confidence and more God-confidence.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
When your trials cannot spoil your smiles, you know you are getting Devine help.
To keep a cool head, you need a warm heart.
Too many sermons come from the head and too few from the heart.
People tend to select their friends by what they look like, instead of what they are like.
More Christian stumble over inconsistent Christians than fall for Satan’s traps.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
If you attend to the little things; the big things tend not to show up!
A moral dilemma only exists, when you want to do wrong.
Singing “Amazing Grace” has gotten me through many of the dark tunnels of life.
It is better to do the right thing for the wrong reason, than to do the wrong thing for the right reason.
Usually, a fair deal revolves around what I get out of it.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Enjoy your joy; sorrows will return soon enough.
Happiness is contagious, while sorrow is infectious.
Often, hope must ignore reality.
Learning undermines ignorance.
Knowledge is good; applied knowledge is better.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Knowledge without righteousness is harsh.
Never let the complexities of tomorrow ruin the peace of today.
Knowledge speaks fewer words, but they matter more.
The power of knowledge is in its application.
When knowledge wants to take its flight, ignorance does its best to slow it down.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Love brings victory to the heart that holds it.
Do not disregard the knowledge you have, in light of the volumes yet to be discovered.
Hard work accomplishes most goals.
Complaining robs the present of its potential joy.
Play is the joy of work.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Hospitality does not come from the house, but from the home.
Faith feeds hope wherever it hides.
Where I live has no walls!
The task is not to regain what you have lost, but to gain from what is coming your way.
The house is for pictures, the home provides the welcome.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Knowledge should bring you certainty not conceit.
Hope will not limit your Faith but the lack of Faith limits your hope.
Forever is a long time to be in the wrong place.
The anger of a parent grinds the teeth of their children.
A good man leaves honor in the hearts of others.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Learn to regard the blessing of another as one of your own.
Forfeit your right to regret.
Your actions interpret your Bible.
Living “large” is a Biblical possibility.
The taller you stand against Satan, the more of God is revealed, as He stands behind you.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
A step in the right direction is a step away from the wrong direction.
Your heart creates the world in which you live; circumstances create the weather in that world.
Forgiveness is the only currency of Heaven; don’t go there broke!
Living without loving is not living at all!
If you have not learned to love someone who hates you; you have yet to learn to love.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Teasing is one sided fun.
Irritation brings down happiness.
Aggravation lessens love
Revenge withers your soul.
Awareness reveals all and forgiveness eliminates all need for teasing, irritation, aggravation, which then eliminates the need for revenge.
Monday, January 10, 2011
A theology that asks for less than your best, is not best for you.
Give me less theological debate and more fellowship; are we not all His children in the Faith?
The more a staff does what they wouldn’t, the more the leaders can do what they couldn't.
God's notebook has your name in it. Is His in yours?
Has your life become an illustration of the moody, a sail for the windy, or a foundation for the Builder?
Sunday, January 09, 2011
The old year is a sunset on past decisions and the New Year is the sunrise of new ideas.
Grandchildren bring wonderful trouble with energy to burn.
Poverty never puts down roots in those who are rich in Faith.
The offense of love defeats the defense of bitterness.
Fellowship is a choice, as well as, a privilege.
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Too many people are settling for the appearance of love.
To find yourself, look upward not inward, forward not backward.
God never said. “Your saved; I’ll see you in Heaven.” What God said. “Your saved; I’ll lead you to Heaven!”
Some folks are just hard to love, try not to be one of them.
If you were worth forgiving, you would not need it.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Whatever amazes you, never surprises God.
Forgiveness, is a blessing, to be received, as a miracle.
It takes Grace to forgive and humility to receive.
Life is a school, having been now taught, you must learn.
Forever is the hope of many but the possession of a Christian.
Thursday, January 06, 2011
What we know, that might shake our Faith, should not.
Being hard headed is really a fear of loving.
Hope is not an aspiration, rather a promise!
Selfishness is a process of hyper boiling impertinence.
Imagination is the awareness of the conversations between the soul and the spirit.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Hope brings its own cures.
Does your heart have ears?
You do not have a soul; you are a soul.
Hope has it’s own way for dismissing fear.
The thought of hope, brings Hope.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
You cannot comprehend the power you have because of His love for you!
Grace is the resting place of peace.
Love , by far, is the very best gift you can give another human being,
Weather, should never effect your Faith.
If your heart has no scars, it is yet to be used!
Monday, January 03, 2011
Talk is the wind, doing is the fire.
Doing better is your backslidden best.
Are you really doing what you think you are doing?
Making you perfect is God’s job, doing right is yours.
God is more concerned with your direction than your accomplishments.
Sunday, January 02, 2011
The difference between right and wrong is you!
If you are a Christian, choosing to do right should not be a matter of choice, but a window into your character.
Choose now what you will do when you are under pressure.
Bad choices are, not necessarily the ones that go against the grain, but the ones that go against your conscious.
Every day is new; are you?