I have an accessible second brain!

Evernote.com expanded my brain. Everything I see or read and want to keep I can easily send to Evernote - websites, emails, book passages, photos, audio, video. When I want to recall something I search by key word or any tag I assigned. Recall designated notebooks offline. Free for low volume, but I found Premium to be well worth it. Thanks to Tom Duchemin for this tip! 

My epitaph

A favorite etching on Christian gravestones: "The Lord hath need of him," words originally spoken about an ass." --Jesus: A Theography by Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola

No such thing as gift of discernment

You won't find the "gift of discernment" in the Bible - only the discerning of spirits. If you say you have the gift of discernment, discern whether it's actually criticism. --Robert Morris

Check out cowboy wisdom

Speak less and say more. --Cowboy proverb

Highest high

Ain't no higher high than the Most High.  --Beth Moore

Emotions can shipwreck your calling (click)

He knew that God didn’t call him to success but to faithfulness. 

"Beware of giving up too soon. Our emotions are not reliable guides."   John Piper   Courtesy ODB

I resist Him too often, too much (click)

Batter my heart, three person’d God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow mee, and bend Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
--John Donne

God snuck him in!

“Your mercies are new every morning,” the prophet proclaimed (Lamentations 3:22, 23). Like Moses, we think God surely must be exhausted, upset, angry with us and the rest of the sinners surrounding us. But He’s not. His mercy is new every morning, and where sin abounds grace abounds more (Romans 5:20). For the above reasons, Moses could not enter the Promised Land. But God is so merciful and gracious that 1,500 years later, who stands on the Mount of Transfiguration in the Promised Land? Moses himself (Matthew 17:3). God snuck him in! Oh, the grace and goodness of our God! --Courson

The Shadow - harmless? 2 points of view

God, I cannot love Thee the way I want to. You are the slim crescent of a moon that I see and my self is the earth’s shadow that keeps me from seeing all the moon . . . what I am afraid of, dear God, is that my self shadow will grow so large that it blocks the whole moon, and that I will judge myself by the shadow that is nothing. I do not know You God because I am in the way.
--O'Connor, cited by Tim Keller     (see below)

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...
Shadows can't hurt!  --Dr. James Merritt, cited by Pastor Tom Duchemin

Satisfied?

From a most-admired classmate-missionary-trainer-encourager, Ruth Knutson: “The heart of all sin is believing that something or someone will satisfy me in a way that Christ doesn’t.” 

     (Nancy DeMoss)

What do the polls say?

Both sides often are wrong about social issues. Truth: morality isn't determined by a vote or poll. "Sin fascinates, then assassinates."

Why can Hillary speak in church when others can't?

Churches can lose their tax-exempt status if they endorse candidates. So why can Hillary hold a rally in church? If my pastor invited an opponent to speak, wouldn't my church hear from the IRS?
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Be a hero

Be a hero

Save a whale

Save a baby

Go to jail

I wonder...

Can't?

They started to sing as they tackled the thing that couldn't be done, and they did it.

When will they do something?

If it is to be, it is up to me.

Heaven's password

Will believing all the correct doctrines get you to Heaven, as important as they are? No. [Even Satan knows all the correct doctrines.] It is to TRUST in Jesus to empower you to live your life as He would live it if He were you.  --Dallas Willard

Life Focus

"Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require."  –Jerry Bridges, Transforming Grace