This morning we watch the movie "To Save A Life". (Great movie and I highly recommend it.) But for me this movie hit home... Its was like God hitting me over the head again and I am finely GETTING IT..
I have been called to do so many thing and I am always excited at first, I get off to a great start and think to myself "I can SO do this"....But then the momentum slowly goes away and I find it easier to go with the current of things instead of going against the current.
In the movie the young man chooses to follow God and go away from the "in crowd", He stops going to party's and hanging out with his old friends..at one point he says "how can I be calling my self a christian and be in there playing beer pong and getting drunk with my friends" WOW what a way to hit HOME!!!! How can we be doing something the world loves and still call ourselves "Real" Christians??
Another point that really hit home was when the youth pastor Chris talk about judgment. OK I know we have all heard that we are in no place to judge people and that you can not judge a book by its cover. But for some reason this really hit home for me this morning... there are so many people out there that I judge EVERY day... why do I think I have the right to judge some one I do not TRULY know?? I do not know what their life is like and what is going on in their world....
The whole movie is about saving lives of those who do not think they are wanted or worth living for..... Have you ever thought that if we just smile or say hi to one extra person that maybe you could save their life?? What if we all took the time to ask how someone is REALLY doing?? What if we REALLY cared about others??
So I am going to challenge myself (Will you join me?) in what I am calling the "save a life challenge". Take time every day to show someone you REALLY TRULY care. Just simple things, like asking how they are REALLY doing... Talking to someone you usually don't talk to, Smile at a stranger.. be outrageously kind and TRULY care about others...
Sound simple right??? Well I know it is not going to be the easiest thing all the times...But just think what if your one smile save someones life...even if it only brought joy for a moment. They could be thinking "maybe there really is hope out there"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjVQ36NhbMk"
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Geting a grip on your lip....
Provers 18:21 says "Death and life are in the power of the tongue"
Are you speaking life or death? Are you lifting people up, or are you cutting them down?? God says in His word to lift others up and to watch what you say...... What you say is what you get.....
I know was a woman it can be extra hard to watch your tongue...But God is always there for you!!!
He was never had a day when He is not for you. So while there may be somethings you don't understand, you can rest in the fact that God has always been on your side.
I challenge you to watch what you say...Keep the words that come out of your month like life, don't cut others down! Try saying ONLY good things to people and see if you can lift them up..... Pay it forward with a kind word today!!
Monday, November 15, 2010
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees... I don't feel threatened.. I don't feel discriminated against.. That;s what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to cut me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don;t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities, and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are alot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God in-deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?' In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc., I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience,why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lead, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe,or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of you than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it...no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain at out what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees... I don't feel threatened.. I don't feel discriminated against.. That;s what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to cut me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don;t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities, and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are alot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God in-deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?' In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc., I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience,why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lead, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe,or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of you than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it...no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain at out what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
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