Dear Children and Grandchildren,

I have enjoyed the Word of God more than I ever have since I am no longer preaching 3 or 4 times a week and am not pressed for time. Some times I find things I'd like to share with all of you, or some of you individually. With your mother's encouragement I'd like to start a "Bible Blog" and share some of my thoughts with you. Last night I told Joanna that I opened a can of "Pork and Beans" for supper, (your mother is in Arizona helping Becky while Adam recuperates from a serious operation) but I found no pork so I renamed it "Beans and Beans". With a hearty laugh she wondered if I had "looked under every bean?' I trust what I send you will have some "pork" but if you find it to be only "beans" just push the delete button.

Ps.119:168 "I have kept Thy precepts and Thy testimonies: for all my ways are before Thee," As you were growing up one of the things I was careful to emphasize in our daily devotions was that the time would come when you would no longer be under the eye of Mom and Dad but you would never be out of sight of God's eye. What an encouragement we find here to keep God's Word. "all my ways are before Thee,"

"Experience makes many a paradox plain, and this is one. Before God we may be clear of open fault and yet at the same time mourn over a thousand heart-wanderings which need his restoring hand."--C.H. Spurgeon

"I may hide Thee from my eye, but not myself from Thine eye."--Wm. Gurnall

Friday, October 10, 2008

Where are you now?

Dear Family,
The McCain campaign is going after the Obama campaign over the Bill Ayers connection. Ayers is a terrorist who tried to bomb the Pentagon about 35 years ago. Obaba has been, and still is, his friend and has served on boards with him in Chicago for years. He says it is dirty politics for McCain/Palin to attack him on this issue because he was only 8 years old at the time of the bombing. That argument is so disingenuous that I'd think the Obama camp would be ashamed to make it. It is not what Obama was 35 years ago but what he is now! They have worked and served on boards together in Chicago for years. To this day he remains a friend of Ayers. Although he repudiates the bombing I have yet to see him apologize for his past friendship and associations with the unrepentant terrorist. It looks like your choice on Nov. 4 will be to vote for godless socialism (Obama and Biden call it “redistribution of wealth'”) or John McCain, who admittedly is soft on some issues important to us, but at least his middle name is Sidney, not Hussein)!.

Now I want to switch gears and ask you about your relationship with Christ today? There are millions of professing Christians who think their "decision for Christ" will get them to heaven. There is little or no evidence that they are a Christian in fellowship with the Lord today. Who are your friends? Who do you like to fellowship with? Is their any fruit in your life? Is Christ your Lord today? What took place years ago won't do on that great judgment day if there has not been evidence of sanctifying grace since. The Bible asks where we are now?--not what we did in the past. You may not know when you passed from death unto life but you better know if you are in Christ today. Don't be satisfied that your child has "accepted Christ" if there is no evidence of change in their life. "Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature, old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" II Cor. 5:17. Many a mother is praying their child will come back to Christ when they ought to be praying for their salvation. That would make a big difference in how they pray!
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