Just because someone understands why you did something
doesn’t make it right.
Just because I can explain why I did
something doesn’t make it right.
Whenever I have done what God says to do then I have
done right.
Being nice when wrong or mean, or when
right, often brings similar results.
Love is the only way to do right but there are a myried
ways of doing wrong.
A Smoky Mountain HI
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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.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Insight is a combination of willingness
and the perseverance to see truth.
Good is more than the lack of doing bad;
good is the direction your life will reveal!
The mountain of doubt is built on a lie.
So when you remove the lie, the mountain disappears.
May the streams of precious faith flow
through the desserts of your life today and every day!
Failure is often the foundation of
success.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Whatever part of your life uncommitted to Jesus is
spreading darkness among those you love.
Christian you need to realize that God is
closer to you than you are to Him.
God hurt for your heart.
A church too comfortable with itself is
usually too uncomfortable for sinners.
For the most part, discouragement, is a self-inflicted
wound.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Never allow your Christianity to be define
by a denominations only by your relationship with Jesus
Christ.
Jesus gave us salvation, the Church, and
unity; man gave us denominations, rules, and division.
The good thing about denominations is that
they can pool resources to spread the gospel.
The bad thing about denominations is that
they spend more time telling who they are instead of who Jesus
is.
Denominations tend to care more for their
people and provide better for their needs.
Denominations are only as good as they
reflect Jesus and as bad as they fail to fervently love every other born again
Christian as a brother, or sister in the Lord.
Monday, August 27, 2012
The reward for organized people is that they get more
done, so their bosses give them more to do.
The trouble with organized people is
that they are too lazy to look for things.
Management is the skill of getting people to want to do,
what they don’t want to do!
Leaders imagine the impossible, manages
figure out how to make it, and the worker build it.
Whatever you have done out of love never returns
void.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
This is the plan,
children are a gift to the world, to be molded by parents, who are molded by
God.
Friday, August 24, 2012
You can be good without being Godly, but you miss the
reason for being good!
Faith is more about who is leading than
where you are going.
Being a Christian requires a changed heart; no changed
heart no Christianity.
Jesus came to redeem the lost and to
make the redeemed into fisherman.
Leaders chart the course, managers build the boat, and
workers do the rowing.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
A hunger for lost souls is natural for a
Christian.
A local church without local sinners in
the congregation has failed.
A local church without new folks tends to
become more critical of those who are there.
Your Christian life is the bait God uses
when He is fishing for lost that you influence.
If your life does not reflect Christ, you
can call yourself a Christian, but you cannot be one!
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Love may be celebrated with flowers and
trinkets but it is measured by commitment.
Love gives more than it receives but
always has more than it gives.
Pursuing the Love of Jesus is the treasure
of the Gospel.
Love is pregnant with
happiness.
If you will not love, you cannot be happy,
sadness will prevail in all that you do.
Monday, August 20, 2012
To someone who thinks you are special, doing something special, is
not a requirement but it is a blessing given.
Never confuse popularity with
value.
Competition may allow you to do something better that someone else
but it never makes you better than them.
Remedies are unnecessary if you avoid the
malady.
The reason love is forgiving is that it is love.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Most of the time, to get the most for the
least, you have to give more than you want.
If you are not spreading the Gospel you
are missing the reason for your salvation.
What I have done I cannot undo but I do
the right thing the next time.
God’s will is better than your
ideas.
When you learn to focus on doing right you
will automatically do less wrong!
Friday, August 17, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Gifts and talents need discipline to
become useful and valuable to those about you.
Christians do not hope they are
forgiven…they know they are!
A Christian’s minimal ministry is to
reveal the rich Love of God in their lives, everyday, in every
way.
Open your mind to good but close it
tightly to evil!
Sinners die; Christians are protected in
their journey thorough the valley of death.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Perfection is not for humans but it is the right
direction.
Rejoicing is an act of faith as well as a
celebration.
It is more important to ”lift up Jesus” than to put down
Satan.
Sin cannot be explained in a new way, that
changes its source or the consequences.
You cannot be a faithful person without God because
faithfulness requires wisdom, correction and love.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Moral failure is a combination of
weakness, temptation and willingness.
Don’t fax your prayers, pray
them.
The minimal missionary testifies to his
family and neighbors.
Every blessing I receive exceeds my
understanding.
You
cannot be a faithful missionary Christian without
love.
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
It is a lot easier to tell the truth than it is to
explain a lie.
Love will comfort you or hate will trouble
you everyday of you life.
Discipline makes your talents
useful.
You owe more than you are worth, no matter
how much you have.
Only Jesus can change your worth into
value.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Being born is not a choice; being “born again” is.
Every sin adds a burden to your life.
The birth of Jesus was a gift of Grace, the death of Jesus was payment for
your sins, the resurrection of Jesus was for your salvation.
The purpose of a Christian is to be a missionary where
ever they are.
Sinners die; Christians are promoted!
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Whatever you own leads you; whatever you give frees you.
You are the only one who can enjoy the blessing
you have been given, and you are the only one who can choose to ignore
them.
All sin is a sign of your weakness; never your strength.
Joy is a mixture of faith, hope and
love.
Your nature is not to love truth, only a new nature in Christ Jesus
can bring that joy to your heart.
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
The Bible tells Christains to “pray
without ceasing” but most folks have just ceased praying.
Jesus hurt for your
heart!
God gave you His word in His Word...the
Bible check it out.
It is not God’s will to do your will but
it is God’s will for you to do His Will!
Sadly, to many Christians go to church just
for themselves and not to be salt and light for
others.
Monday, August 06, 2012
Doubt brings failure to new
level.
You can be successful and still be dead
wrong.
You can be successful without being
truthful but you cannot be truthful without being
successful.
Success is doing the Will of God in your
life…period.
A “comfortable church” is one that keeps
out the folks who most need to be there.
Sunday, August 05, 2012
A friend is someone who knows your worst but believes in
your best.
A friend is someone who cares enough to
confront your weaknesses, yet loves you enough to be there for you when you
fail.
Sin stains your soul in such a way the only Jesus can
wash it away.
Enemies are an opportunity for you to
introduce God’s power in your life to them.
Lying is an easy tragedy.
Friday, August 03, 2012
The Bible is His Word and should be your
word on every subject.
God is always closer to you than you are
to Him.
Don’t let your habits become your only
habitat.
Jesus paid a high price to give His
treasures to you.
Good sense is better than just being
conservative.
Thursday, August 02, 2012
The price of doing right far exceeds the cost of doing
wrong.
Caution...the world is about to be taken
over by the children who were sent to their room.
Forgiving others was not a choice; it was a
commandment.
If you are “genuinely concerned” you will
become involved in the solution.
A comfortable church is usually more self-centered than
Christ centered.
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Holiness is accepting God’s
choices every time you recognize them.
Sin always separates you from God in some
way and lessening your view of His will.
You will have less than you want unless
you give God all that you have.
Envy steals your opportunities to
succeed.
If you do good, you will, if you don’t,
you won’t.