QUEST: Top-drawer life lessons

QUEST: Top-drawer life lessons

Have I aced these tests? Nope. I live on the mountaintop, but I'm not always home! But I know this without any doubt: The longer I live, unless God is a liar, the more assurance I have that I will be welcomed in my eternal home. The Apostle John tells me, "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:13

- Humility, Brokenness & Compassion CLICK HERE There's a song that captures my quest: I then shall live

- Works are the fruit (result) of the gift of salvation. Salvation can't be earned. Believe like a Calvinist if you wish, but conduct your life like an Arminian!  (My conclusion)  EXPLAINED HERE

- Two ways to get to Heaven FIND OUT HERE

- I found a way to comply with Jesus' mandate to make disciples: HE SAID IT Finding it difficult to "witness" to strangers, I discovered Global Media Outreach - I get to answer inquiries that people from all over the world send in. Plunge in today and be made complete!

- Transformation: The quiet power of a life transformed by the grace of God is so explosive that it can redirect the course of human events. ~Richard Foster

QUEST: Top-drawer life lessons

Have I aced these tests? Nope. I live on the mountaintop, but I'm not always home! But I know this without any doubt: The longer I live, unless God is a liar, the more assurance I have that I will be welcomed in my eternal home. The Apostle John tells me, "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:13

- Humility, Brokenness & Compassion CLICK HERE There's a song that captures my quest: I then shall live

- Works are the fruit (result) of the gift of salvation. Salvation can't be earned. Believe like a Calvinist if you wish, but conduct your life like an Arminian!  (My conclusion)  EXPLAINED HERE

- Two ways to get to Heaven FIND OUT HERE

- I found a way to comply with Jesus' mandate to make disciples: HE SAID IT Finding it difficult to "witness" to strangers, I discovered Global Media Outreach - I get to answer inquiries that people from all over the world send in. Plunge in today and be made complete!

- Transformation: The quiet power of a life transformed by the grace of God is so explosive that it can redirect the course of human events. ~Richard Foster

Or-tho-Dox took us to Greece-Turkey: why Thomas' book didn't make it into the Bible

                                                       Dr. James Merritt

I love this guy. He's down to earth. Why are some books excluded (or included) in the Bible?
The tale of two cities and or though dox, eh?
Signed, Sealed & Delivered - everything you will forever need to live.
1. ApostoliCITY
2. CatholiCITY
3. OrThoDoxY
Watch it all unfold HERE

Rough & tough Medical Lake healing

BREATHTAKING HEALING TRIBUTE to my good friend and neighbor, Master Chief Bob Evans, USN Seabee, Retired, who spends much of his year doing electrical work for church camps. He has been working at Medical Lake near Spokane. He told of two youth groups coming in for camp. The first was a clean-cut bunch. The second was a scruffty, unkempt group of kids. One girl, he noticed, clutched her hand to her midriff and dragged her foot. She had cerebral palsy. One night the kids were challenged to pray for one another. Several laid lands on the girl, along with a counselor. The counselor reported feeling new tissue swelling up in the girl's arm. She was completely healed, verified the next morning. Master Chief Bob, choking back tears, had observed that these were rough-looking kids whose prayer was effective. "It taught me never to be judgmental," he said.

Flying upside down?

Creed - Poem by Steve Turner

We believe in Marx, Freud and Darwin.
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don't hurt anyone,
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before during
and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy's OK
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything's getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated.
You can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there's something in horoscopes,
UFO's and bent spoons;
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha
Mohammed and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher although we think
his good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same,
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of
creation sin heaven hell God and salvation.

We believe that after death comes The Nothing
because when you ask the dead what happens
they say Nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied,
then it's compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan.

We believe in Masters and Johnson.
What's selected is average.
What's average is normal.
What's normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between
warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors
and the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.
It's only his behaviour that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth
that is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust. History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds. [See below - Dave]

"Chance"
(a post script)

If chance be the Father of all flesh,

disaster is his rainbow in the sky,

And when you hear:

"State of Emergency"

"Sniper kills 10"

"Troops on rampage"

"Anarchy & looting"

"Bomb blasts school"

It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker, Chance.

I'm in Heaven with my classmates & soulmate

I've just spent the last 4 days with the people I'm closest to, my high school reunion planning committee, other classmates and then with my wife and committee on an overnight fact-finding trip to Pacific Beach and Cannon Beach to scope out sites for our 55th, following '62's' 53rd reunion and all-school alumni BBQ. WOW! What a fun-loving bunch of brothers and sisters! I don't know how I could be any happier here, and I look forward to spending an eternity with these precious souls and my family. Will you join us forever?

Why the Iran Deal is the best thing that ever happened, more or less

1. Iran can be trusted. As devoted spiritual leaders they have NEVER cheated, thank goodness.
2. Iran leaders are truthful. What they say, we can rely on. They NEVER distort the truth.
3. President Obama, who is without question the most trustworthy president I have worked for, including LBJ on, has opened our nuclear facilities to anytime inspections by Russians. But in the interest of not offending anyone, we cannot expect the same from Iran.
4. War or cave-in. There is no other option. My vanpool driver says it's so.
5. I am the least of fed civilians and the least of presidential candidates, and I cannot for the life of me think of other economic options.
6. I cannot think of PsyOps in which I would send Ann Lotz to ask about (again) this.
7. I think Saudi Arabia and Egypt are powerless to solve the problem.
8. I think Israel is powerless to solve the problem.
9. I voted for moving the UN to Gitmo before I voted against it.
10. I believe in a one-world, open-border government.
11.  My vanpool drive was most comfortable when GHWB-James Baker-SecDef Cheney were in power and pulled off the 1991 100-hour war. I was born at night, but not last night. I was in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
12. I had several ingeniously clever more points.
13. But at my age, I forgot.
14. Oh yeah, no action unless I would be willing to go myself or send my son or daughter.
15. Who was the wise guy in 1991 that built up overwhelming force only to find thousands of the enemy surrendering?
16. When I participated in the installation of Pershing II missiles, my thought was, "Why aren't others paying for this?" Same in Korea and Japan.
17. Much is going on behind the scenes in SIOP-Top Secret operations as happened when the Soviet Union was convinced to stand down (not to mention the admirals assigning LT Bob Woodward to resign from the Navy and join the Washington Post and expose Watergate).
18. Why did the Ayatollah release hundreds of our hostages from Iran Jan. 20, 1981, during Reagan's inaugural address? Strength or weakness? Fireworks or tough talk?
19. Much, much, much more, but they'll return to me.