Kimmy's Ponderings

To paraphrase Lewis: We have replaced the question "Is it good?" with the question "Is it fun?" I so needed to read this today....we are in a 'battle' and we don't see it....it's not outside it's 'within' our walls. yes it can be good and fun....but sometimes it's fun and no good...producing what?

"But it took me a while to understand that religion is not a course in self-improvement. Religion is a surrender – that you allow a living God into your life by surrendering to that living God. And then you improve to please God, not please yourself." ~former President George W. Bush

Now Christ was probably born in the Spring but who cares...LOL Great Poem! Usually found on Christmas Cards. In the Bleak Midwinter Christina Rossetti (1872) In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him Nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away When He comes to reign: In the bleak mid-winter A stable-place sufficed The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ. Enough for Him, whom cherubim Worship night and day, A breastful of milk And a mangerful of hay; Enough for Him, whom angels Fall down before, The ox and ass and camel Which adore. Angels and archangels May have gathered there, Cherubim and seraphim Thronged the air, But only His mother In her maiden bliss, Worshipped the Beloved With a kiss. What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb, If I were a wise man I would do my part, Yet what I...

Singing a special Christmas Song Tomorrow at Church. I learned two new precious songs and practiced 4 but This one made me cry in worship..so powerful..our shared testimony unto Him.....He is the Great Love that Came Down.. Love Came For Me If you had not come Tender baby King And Humbly left your throne To Reach someone Like Me If you had not walked upon this broken ground Where on earth would I be now? If you had not come If You had not come To Seek the sick and lame To set the captives free To break the prisoner's chains I'd still be in the dark Grappling for the door Looking for someway, somehow But Love Came for me Love Rescued me Love called my name Love took my place Sweet Lamb of God I'm bowing down My eyes have seen I'm finally free Love Came for me If You had not come Willing spotless Lamb My sin would be too much For you to take me as I am But Oh the Blood of Christ That washes over me Flowing from His Hands, His feet But Love Came for me Love rescued me Lov...

Trials and Pain: Faultfinders But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. --2 Corinthians 4:7-9 Nowhere else in the entire New Testament is the humanity of the great apostle [Paul] seen so clearly as when he staggers under the cruel attacks of the anti-Paul bloc in the Corinthian church. His sufferings are there the most poignant and nearest to the sufferings of Christ because they are inward and of the soul. For always the soul can suffer as the body cannot.... But from Paul and his afflictions we may learn much truth, some of it depressing and some altogether elevating and wonderful. We may learn, for instance, that malice needs nothing to live on; it can feed on itself. A contentious spirit will find something to quarrel about. A faultfinder will find occasion to accuse ...

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"I wonder if we're ready to consider the possiblity - just the possiblity now - that our Protestant-evangelical reaction to Darwin is amazingly similar to the Roman Catholic reaction to Copernicus and Galileo." -Brian McLaren

The following excerpt is from “Under Constraint,” a sermon preached Sunday morning 28 April 1878 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London: I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, “He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.” Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration. I cannot endure false doctrine, however neatly it may be put before me. Would you have me eat poisoned meat because the dish is of the choicest ware? It makes me indignant when I hear another gospel put before the people with enticing words, by men who would fain make merchandise of souls; and I marvel at those who have soft words for such deceivers. “That is your bigotry,” says one. Call it so if you like, but it is the bigotry of the loving John who wrote—”If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, re...