The balance between faith and hope is called work.
What cannot be said or done in love; should never be said or done at all.
We tends to undervalue what they have, and overvalue what they want.
Preferences are what I feel comfortable with; standards are what God feels comfortable with.
God’s standards are in the Bible; man’s preferences are in the church doctrines, rules and regulations.
If the church has to tell me how to dress and how to live, likely they think, I cannot get it "right" from God.

Sin always finishes last in the long run…yes always!
Forgiveness always finishes first in the long run….yes always!
For whatever you cannot forgive you will cost you a price you never wanted to pay.
Love heals from the inside out over and over again.
Pain management is the process of organizing misery.
Being optimistic is as unrealistic and being pessimistic unless you are a Christian.
As a Christian, always remember, that you are thoroughly and purposefully loved, both now and forever.

You attract friends by the qualities you project. You keep friends the qualities you actually possess.
Faithfulness is a choice as well as a commitment.
Luck is for the “guessers” but faith is for the believer.
Knowing what I believe is one thing, staying faithful until it comes to pass, is quite another.
Love is faithful because that is the very nature of love.
Being a true friend means sometimes you have to shift through the sand to find the gold.
Only be loyal to those who have earned your loyalty.

Our Golden Anniversary 50 years of sharing the "Good Life"



Marriage is about committed love lived out moment by moment, day by day for a lifetime.

Love and marriage is when your hearts grows together so that you can feel the heartbeat of the other.

Love opens up the possibly you can have together that you could never have apart.

Our “Golden Anniversary” represents 50 years of belonging together, on our way to forever together.

Luck has nothing to do with a happy marriage; it only comes from hard work, sacrifice, a willingness to love no matter what, no mater when, and never allowing the bad in life to overrun the good.

Marriage is not something you understand but something you share and drawl strength from, while giving strength to one another.

Memorial Day is about the gift of others to the quality of your life.
One often diminishes the value of what they chose to forget.
Jesus is the ultimate Veteran of the Day but He can’t count because He rose from the dead!
Family is one of life’s comforting blessings.
Perhaps the ultimate sacrifice was given by those parents who raised the one who gave their all.
Pray not for rewards but for understanding.

A Christian never takes a step the has not already been walked in; as The Father is ever before you, behind you, and with you.
Justifying sin is like reasoning with a rock …no way Jose’.
Society cannot change the definition of sin; only God can, and the Bible says “He changes not”.
Repentance means you are sorry for your sin, not sorry for being caught.
Modern society may not give you jail-time for your sin but you are still in line for Hell-time.
Jesus loves the sinner, died for the sinner, is willing to forgive the sinner, now sinner, it is up to you.

If you are not who you are; no one else can be.
Wrong principles build wrong character.
You can make dollars anywhere but it takes experience to make sense.
Love enriches every corner of your life; hate spoils every corner of your life.
Whenever you ignore truth, failure builds a fort, for the consequences to come.
Hope causes. envy of a good kind.
Every true peacemaker, begins with God.

They were so busy being successful, that they failed at home.
Whatever I gather, will never be as much of a blessing, as what I give.
As I prayed this morning, I realized, that Jesus loves me not because I am so special; but because He is so special…Wow!
As a Christian, you can resist the draw, to seek a holy life, but there is cost that exceeds the worth of that choice.
The more you are saturated in God’s Love the more you become like Him, do like Him and love like Him….That is called “holiness”.
Always guard the back doors of your life, when the enemy is raging at your front door.

I experienced the wealth of God pouring over the poverty of my soul this morning it is very, very, good.

If you have to do right, instead of wanting to do right, you probably aren’t right in your heart.
If you fail, to love you, have failed indeed.
If those around you are not also enjoying your “holiness experience”; it is probably is not a holiness experiencing.
The consequences of your sin is only part of the price paid; the good you left undone is the rest of the cost.
An untold truth is the bud of a lie.
If it wasn’t for forgetting, my memory, would be perfect!
An untold truth is the beginning of deception.

Theology provides “man’s” salvation; Jesus, provides God’s salvation.
Sin bears no good consequences
Theology is man’s plan to find God: The Bible is God’s plan to find man.
Holiness is simple; it is choosing to do right when you don’t want to do right.
The longer you choose to do right the more it seems right.
It is more “holy” to love your enemy than to pray out loud.

Holiness is choosing to ask for strength rather than begging for forgiveness. Love is an artesian well of hope. Jesus said “Neither, do I condemn you go and sin no more.”…so it must be possible…right? The first step is wrong direction begins leading you farther and farther away for any hopes. Unless you repent and turn from your wicked ways there will be no change in your destination. It is considerable better to ask for the strength not to sin than to repent again. If you are on the “right track” you will never run out of track.

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Jesus’ ways, are not our ways, but they are the Way.
The agony of physical pain, creates its own misery.
Mercy carries with it, a rich blessing.
If you are always looking for the difficulties, you will miss the exhilaration of living.
Your love is your power; use it boldly with kindness.
When your six-pack becomes a two gallon jug you have just been attacked by a hyperactive fork.

Arrogance is hyperactive pride.
Pride will try to swindle the truth of its integrity.
When any Christian purposefully sins they bruise the whole body of believers.
You never sin without someone suffering, besides yourself.
The purpose of a Christian is to enlarge and enhance the reputation of other Christians.
Death is never the end for the believer or for the unbeliever.

Have you ever caught yourself chasing dollars instead of blessings? Stop and Don’t…
Even in the “Valley of Despair” one can see the “Mountains of Hope“.
Governments captures the lazy first; turning them into loyal spokesmen.
Never confuse luck and blessings; they not anything alike.
Love deeper than the pain has gone; reap more than the pain could have gained.
You can only do what God will allow you to do and not a breath more; so stop blaming yourself for God blessing you.
Being a better person than I was yesterday, today, is always my choice.

Love distils into compassion; hatred distils into bitterness.
If you understanding of Holiness as anything other than your journey to and with God, you have missed it.
Holiness is not about what others are doing, think you should be doing, or drawing attentive persecution by how you dress of live.
Holiness is a process of continually, hollowing out, and expanding your life; to contain more and more of the presence of God.
Holy is as holy does.
Without God your mind is a fortress of emptiness.
Standards, designed by churches and their leaders, have become an impenetrable wall, between themselves and God

Theology in a sentence:
An unforgiving spirit becomes self-inflicted, self-fed, misery.
Holiness comes with many ideas and standards; if your standards or ideas makes you feel you are better than someone else, then they have nothing to do with holiness.
May your giving exceed your taking today!
Blessed is he who a blessing be!
It is the sinner not the sin...it is the sinner not the sin… go to them…love them…serve them…win them.

Worship is and experience rather than a plan or a procedure.
You church is more empowered by the pre-worship that each member brings into its services…each and every service.More Glory is brought into church services than “falls down” on it without that foundation.
Pain assaults you before you wake; while Faith is there, waiting to be applied.
Loving the hurting without helping the hurting is “Christian Hypocrisy“.
Clean your neighbors lives with a broom but your own with a toothbrush.

Mothers are the moist sacrificial, priceless, creations, of God.
No one inters this earth without the suffering of another…and no one should leave without it
Mother’s Day begins in though the heart of every little girl who understands she could be…and wants to be one.
Mothers?… No one gets here without one.
All mother keep their children in their heats, regardless if they are here, there, or wherever they have gone.
Without mothers, there would have only been, Adam.

To be ignorant of Faith is to become stupid in life.
Separate truth from fiction before you say anything about another.
Gossip is the enemy of every relationship.
Forgiving others salvages your own failures.
Learn to soak up life rather than just splash through it.
Envy is the cancer of want, bred with the cancer of greed.

The streaming of light of each new morning, bring possibilities only Faith can see.
The most painful lessons to learn are when you are bruised, while charging against your own principles.
Difficulties are not to become obstacles but an opportunity for exercise.
Weeding your garden or weeding you life both must be consistent to be fruitful.
The best way to resist temptation is to turn you hand to something good.
Joy comes from an inner smile, content with what God has done and will yet do.

The diligent will always eat; the lazy should never eat.
God’s goodness is for all men; but Faith only for those who choose it.
The tighter you must hold something; the less it belongs to you.
Your strongest Faith is revealed in your weakest moment.
I fear my weakness more than I fear yours.
Every person is unique and every love special.

Exercise your Faith with diligence; feed it a diet of charity, compassion, and fervent service; all marinated in a sauce of the richest, overpowering, all inclusive love, you can find.
Physical pain causes mental pain.
Troubles are easier to resist than pain.
Love is the gift that each person is given that is least used, although it is provided in an endless supply.
If one is to rehabilitate his mind, one must first restart his heart.
Exercise your Faith with diligence; feed it a diet of charity, compassion, and fervent service; all marinated in a sauce of the richest, overpowering, all inclusive, permeating love, you can find.

Life is crowded with the expectations that will lead to different destinations; you may choose one but not the other.
Love spreads like Poison Ivy: once you have got the itche, you scratch for life.
Wisdom is understanding what I know, not pretending to understand, what I think I might know.
Forgiving someone comes with a price, but not forgiving always comes with an immeasurable cost.
Sometimes we need more than we receive, yet the only way to get more is to give more.
Most of the blessings God gives you, are not just yours to savor, but so that you can become a blessing to another.