A Christ Follower: The Journey

Bad News! Each one of us broke God's law:   We put others in our lives as greater priorities in our lives. Our modern day idols take His place. We fail to revere His Holy Name, we even use it disrespectfully. We don't take a Holy rest.  No weekly sabbatical We dishonor our parents Many parents dishonor our God by hurting their children. We hate, we murder our babies, and our streets are red with blood. We commit, with regularity, sexual immorality, especially in the heart. People steal, especially our government steals. Lying is pathological and or epidemic We are not happy with what we have so we covet what belongs to others. Some think and teach that people who have must give it to them because they don't have. BREAKING GOD's LAW GOD CALLS SIN. MORE BAD NEWS! T he pay day for sin is death: God Separation From God =Hell. GOOD NEWS G od Is Passing Out Gifts! The Gift of Forgiveness! The Gift of Sharing In Eternal Life ...

       Recently I published a book. You can click on it's innards in this blog today, if you want to.  And if you don't, that's okay. The book's title is  Rock Solid Living in a Quicksand World.   By the way, this is a very short book, and it is easy to read.  You do not have slog your way though some huge several hundred page boring narrative.  Why do such a thing?  Writing by itself is challenging.  Editing and re-editing, multiple times, working with those editors, especially one who clearly did and does not like my message, is also a struggle.  Most of them are really good, but that one clearly wants me to change what I was saying.  So I had to fire her. Doing such a thing is NOT in my nature, and it hurts me in my heart when I make those kind of difficult choices. My choice was and IS to honor Christ, or  I could simply let her influence my message in a negative way.  At any rate, this experience was and i...

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COMING SOON THROUGH AMAZON  In PAPER BACK And In E-Book Format  Rock-Solid Living in A Quicksand World is a critical twenty first century Jesus conversation asking you to look back so you may have a future!  Consider Jesus coaching of our culture as he tutors us on how how western civilization can benefit from following through, as we learn from his ancient historical gaze! Acquire Jesus' time tested wisdom regarding how to blossom, bloom, produce, grow and experience authentic abundant life! Allow Jesus to help you discover how to become Jesus' very own transformed APPRENTICE:  Learn how to  BE a God transformed Christ-Follower! Follow his lead as he shows you two doors: Door number one and Door number two.  Learn what is behind each door, and then make your choice.  One leads to authentic living.  The other leads to collapse and destruction.   I hope you choose life! Be on guard for the "Ulti...

          I was five years old, and I had what a small child -- or anyone else for that matter -- would call a bad dream.  I dreamed about talking with my mother, and I was telling her in the dream she was going to die.  The dream included me as a grown man speaking to my elderly mother. Now a little kid doesn't know what to make of such things.  So I did what any little boy would do.  I ran to my mother, and I jumped up into her lap, and I was crying.  She asked me, "What's wrong?"  I told her that I didn't want to grow up."  She asked me, "Why?"  I told her, "Because ... you will die." I remember her holding me close, and she said to me something like, "That's OK, I will probably be eighty."  This sounded to a five year old boy like eternity.  So I got over my sadness and troubled heart.      Fast forward to April 2001:  By this time, forty-six years later, I was fifty years old ....

I will never leave you nor forsake you. Jesus      Jesus knew what is was like to be left alone and totally, completely and utterly forsaken.  Though he had never sinned, given into temptation, or failed his heavenly father in anyway, he still experienced abandonment in the worst kind of way.  He was abandoned by God.  Yes, as he suffered, bled and died and took our sins on himself, sin did its worst.  Just as our sins separated us from God, he who brought us back into relationship with him, had to be separated and or isolated from the Heavenly Father to the point that the grief was just too much.       This horrific ripping away from his father was demonstrated as Jesus experienced the first stage of grief.  He set the appropriate example for grief as he did that which some preachers say we should never do.  He cried out in agony the "Why" question. "My God!  My God!  Why have you forsaken me!" Yes, he wh...

  JESUS SPEAKING TO OUR DAY! If anyone harms one of these little ones who believe in me, it is better that a millstone be placed around their neck, and that they be cast into the sea. Jesus -- Mark 9:42      All too often people misunderstand that, while in one context, the context of persecution, we are to turn the other cheek, as did Jesus when he was crucified and as when the disciples were martyred; yet there were other times (and these are those times when the misunderstanding occurs) he faced down injustice with a vengeance. His response was specific, quick and targeted toward unrepentant and unbelieving abusers ... people who would not repent and who would NOT believe.   The money changers were ripping off the poor and polluting the temple with their dishonesty, and so he plaided a whip, kicked over tables and ran the religious hypocrites out of the temple! Money went flying everywhere!  He also faced down the religious hypocrites...