Are you prepared?

The entire Bible is God's love affair with the human race. He desires to reach the souls of men and woman and give them peace and fulfillment. 

There is a predicament facing a man that often doesn't show up until they lose someone special in their lives. A predicament that sends men running in the opposite direction when 'bad' things happen to them. Depression, anger, guilt, and hate fill their hearts when someone dies.  

"If you're a loving God, then why in hell couldn't you keep my loved one alive. If you loved me then why couldn't you keep my parents together, my sibling alive, and my mom from dying? 

Focus on your own despair you will lose hope, but focus on the Cross of Jesus and you will find peace and understanding of your circumstances.  

Focus on reading God's love story you will see how much Jesus loves you.  

Just as Reverend Billy Graham's earthly life has come to an end, our own lives will one day conclude it's earthly existence.  Where will your eternal destiny take you? To hell away from God, or to heaven in the presence of Jesus Christ.  A quick check on death statistics reveals that 151,600 people each day die and every hour 6,316 die.  The general consensus is that we're all going to die.

I hope this message will help you make the right eternal decision.

Are you ready to die?

There was no greater evangelist than the Reverend Billy Graham. He had the capacity to explain the Gospel in simple terms that made sense to those in need of hearing the truth.  Reverend Billy Graham didn't just die. He didn't just die, but because of his faith in Jesus Christ he bypassed the seat of judgment an went directly to heaven.  

There are many today who do not know Jesus who are banking on the possibility that the bible was a myth and that nothing will happen to them when they do die. This is a fallacy. The truth is there were thousands who witnessed Jesus Christ resurrection.  

To deny Christ would be a gamble- a bet impossible to win.  When given a choice between choosing Christ and going to heaven and rejecting Christ and winding up in hell, I choose Christ. I choose Christ because Jesus paid the penalty for my sin. 

All of us have a decision to make. I hope this Reverend Billy Graham message will persuade you to make the right decision.

These bodies we have are amazing works of our Father in heaven who created them....

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 138:14

On Sunday after returning from Church with Linda and her mom, I noticed a smell coming from the lower level of her mom's home. This smell seemed much stronger the closer I got to the oil burning furnace.  My sense of smell told me it shouldn't be there. Linda's sense of smell had been compromised by her 'cold' which thankfully did not turn into any flu-like symptoms of so many other's, but the moment I mentioned it she began noticing that smell as well.  So she google search the symptoms and not liking what she read she called the local heating guy her parents trusted all these years.  

Well, after describing enough of what the symptoms were he deemed it enough of a concern to stop over as soon as he was done with another person's 'boiler' While we were at the nursing home that evening, Linda spoke with the repair guy of which he rattled off a couple of scenario's and then he added that the family may want to replace the older style oil based furnace with the more acceptable gas furnace which is more energy efficient, and more attractive to future home buyers.

For our safety, he turned off the furnace and gave us 2 space heaters until tomorrow when he can come back to clean out the boiler to see if that would eliminate the smell- if not the decision would have to be made to put a new furnace in.

What I learned from this is how our bodies were fearfully and wonderfully made just like it says in in Psalms 139:14. My sense of smell leads me to the realization of a potentially faulty furnace just like the teachers in the Florida shooting relied on their sense of hearing to help students reach a safe place. 

For those who know me will know that my sense of hearing has been compromised since birth, but God gave me a pair of eyes to more adequately read the non-verbals of others.

As a man, I feel like my purpose was fulfilled when I was able to correctly describe issues I was sensing and was able to help 'fix' the problem by encouraging my wife to contact her parent's furnace professional. 

Just when it is easy to feel discouraged by the world we live in, I remind myself that our bodies were fearfully and wonderfully made and though we, at times, may feel a lack of purpose, God reminds us we are every bit as important to the world around us!