The Finger

 

 

Listen... I am as much of a bumbling-tourist as anyone when traveling but this takes things to a whole new level. Is it over zealousness or lack of respect? I don't know about you but when I go into a museum I'm afraid to even chew gum for fear it will fall out and cause damage to a piece. To actually touch a six-hundred year old sculpture (yet alone break it) take a special set. Maybe the museum can use them for glue. 

 

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Faith is ...

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

 

 

 

Hebrews 11:1



Well Life: Love I

 

 

 

Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 4:20

I Love National Geographic

 

 

National Geographic has come a long way since I flipped through its pages as a child. I am always fascinated by the brilliant images on the pages. You can travel the world while never stepping out of your four walls.

Thank you National Geographic magazine



Faith Hope Love

 

Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13

7-4-7 Workout: Short and Sweet

 

7-4-7

is short but a challenge

How it works

A 7-4-7 exercise starts with seven reps using a moderate weight. Without rest, increase the load (and sometimes tweak the exercise slightly) and knock out another four reps. Finish by lightening the load and completing another seven reps. At 18 total reps per set, as opposed to the 8-10 you’re probably used to, you’re getting enough volume to tax your muscles and force your body to call in reinforcements (by laying down new muscle tissue). Increasing the intensity mid-set means you recruit more muscle fibres in a wider range. This dual approach is a rarity in muscle-gain plans and it makes 7-4-7 the right combination to unlock growth.

 

Men's Fitness Workout Program

 

Pray To Be Stronger

 

 

A common cry among organizations and churches is "How can we develop more leaders?"  Leadership development programs and courses abound but how effective are they at developing leaders?  The better question is, "How did Jesus develop His leaders?"  With Jesus class was always in session and the world was His classroom.

 

 Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. Pastor Rick Higgins has a very interesting blog post. Click the picture above to read a great Bible Study.

A Top Five Pick

It would be a sad thing if a frog can’t sing about its own pond.

 

Columbia, SC is in the center of the state which makes it access-friendly to just about everything with-in a short time. Lakes, Ocean, mountains, city or country, it’s all here. Please don’t let this get too well known. The best thing about it is that we love it just like that. I appreciate

 

Kiplinger’s shout-out but if this keeps happening they will come. Enjoy it while it last Columbia. We have been discovered. Click the pic to see the number five pick for best cities.



Slow Down

 

Why am I in such a hurry?

 

He (Jesus) came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to Him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what He said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made… ‘Martha, Martha’, the Lord answered, ‘you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.’”

Luke 10: 38-42

Southern Tied Young Palm Tree

 

 

 

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time,

 but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart

 so that people cannot discover what God has ordained,

 from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

That Old Man Is Stronger Than You Think

As a Christian I have found the heaviest weight I work-out with now has to do with pushing away more that pulling down. Trying to keep the doors close on the things that the Old-Man (your old self) tries to open is a daily challenge. Everyday the struggle to keep those doors and windows close equate to a good weight-pump and/or cardio round.  Training is a must to keep in shape for both. As in any good workout program there has to be consistency. God has built into the body great memory and it will bounce back to time off if it is brief. If the body is in shape it withstands body-blows, mental-mistakes and enemy-challenges. An in-shape body will do things above what you feel you can do during stressful situations.

 

 However the longer you stay away the harder it is to get back into shape. Like a good workout if you don’t lift the Bible daily it gets harder and harder to deal with what comes at you. Without dropping down to you knees daily the voice of God gets weaker and weaker to your ears. And with the wrong meditation the words that flow off of your tongue sounds more and more like what’s already out there.

Your training only gives you what you put in. The Old-Man has been training for a long time. And, it’s natural to him. He is a lot stronger than you think. Only Spiritual training will help you keep him out.

Leaving Our Old Ways Behind (Ephesians 4:17-24)

 This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,  and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.