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2 Timothy 3:1-17 NIV

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.


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The whole Bible is God's inspired Word.  Because it is inspired and trustworthy, we should read it and apply it to our life. 

The Bible is our standard for testing everything else that claims to be true.  It is our safeguard against false teaching and our source of guidance for how we should live.  The Bible is our only source of knowledge about how we can be saved.  God wants to show you what is true and equip you to live for him. 

How much time do you spend in God's Word? 

• Read it regularly to discover God's truth and to become confident in your life and faith. 
  
  
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Another cold night.  It is 24°F right now in central Indiana and the wind is still blowing blizzard-like out there.  Come on summer!!!!

I had a busy day mostly writing personal letters to go with Christmas cards.  I am one that likes those newsy letters.  Wish everyone would do that.  I have received some cards from people that I didn't know had changed addresses.  So happy that I now have a new address.

Well, my eyes are tired so I think it is time to hit the sack!  Oops!  Better let the cat back in!!

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"It's not the mountain that wears you out--it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

It's Sue's Birthday today!  I do hope you have a wonderful day, Sue!  Are you going to Mum's?

Quote from: Etta Sue on December 13, 2004, 11:40:30 PM



The whole Bible is God's inspired Word. Because it is inspired and trustworthy, we should read it and apply it to our life.

The Bible is our standard for testing everything else that claims to be true. It is our safeguard against false teaching and our source of guidance for how we should live. The Bible is our only source of knowledge about how we can be saved. God wants to show you what is true and equip you to live for him.

How much time do you spend in God's Word?

• Read it regularly to discover God's truth and to become confident in your life and faith.
  
  
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What a great reminder to all of us, Etta Sue!  Thanks so much.

I seem to think that this hymn would go right along with Etta Sue's devotional today, don't you?

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Quote from: TBEAR on December 14, 2004, 07:20:19 AM

WELCOME ABOARD ...FOTOPLAYJ

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TBEAR reaches out 2 shake hands & 2 welcome our newest member FOTOPLAYJ. I'm sure that you'll have a wonderful time here & the people here are wonderful & they are always there to help out so have fun & I look forward to reading more of your posts in the near future.

BEAR HUGS,
TBEAR

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I see you picked a unique name for yourself.  I like unique names, especially ones that rhyme.  For I have a tendancy to enjoy laughter as it is good medicine & I laugh @ the silliest or corniest jokes.  I even laugh @ my own, for someone has to entertain me while my husband is gone & well, most often it's me.  Although, I have a tendancy to comunicate with people who are full of jokes.

Please take a moment here & introduce URself, for we'd all like to take some time out & get to know ya a little better.  I've not checked too much out here yet, so it may be that I've overlooked your introduction.  My Dear friend TBEAR here told me that we had a new member here, so I thought that I'd take some time out of my busy schedule & Welcome you here:

We love it here.  It's fun here & a lot going on & someone is alway's on line it seem's like.  You can track replies to your posts here, Or ya can find your friend's posts like what I did her with TBEAR.  Well, she told me to.  However, I like to keep intouch with some of my firends this way.

Good morning!  I'm not sure what the weather is like yet, it's still dark outside!  I have to take Beth to the doctor this morning, and Abby is begging me to come to her school today, so I guess that is on the agenda.  Then tonight is the Christmas dinner at Mom's care home.  Busy week!  Have to take Mom to the eye doctor in Garden City each day for the following three days (cataract surgery) and then we will go to Dodge on Saturday to pick up John!  So my traveling isn't over, just changed to more local kind of traveling.

TBear, I love your little graphics!  And I bought quite a few postcards in Thailand, so if you don't mind US postage, I could send you one.  Also have some email ones, so let me know whaich you would like.

I seem to be really tired today.  I guess that should be expected, but..............oh, well.  Whatever I don't get done will wait, I guess.

I wish all of you a wonderful day today.  I will try to check back in later, but don't know how my time will be today----or the rest of the week, for that matter.

Good Morning One and All, Janet, Tbear, Pat, Etta Sue and all the others who will join us herer today.


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We are so glad to have you join us here on CP. Come on in and tell us about yourself we won't bite you so don't be shy.

I have 1 more Christmas gift to get,( I thought I was done until I spoke to Gilbert last night) They need some new cookware, stainless steel. I already got the a George Forman grill and a mini food chopper. So I have to go shopping again.

Well, I will be back later got things to do before I go to work.

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Marilyn,

I like UR graphic's, pictured above!!  May God guide U & wrap you in his love,

K4J

P.S.  I must get busy here & get my day started as I have a lot on my plate to finnish & I'm not talking about eating here.  Although I left a recipe for CreamCheese-N-Egg's, so check it out.  Although, I'm going out to eat tonight.  Deacon's & their Wives, Out to dinner once a year with Pastor McDaniel & his wife Joyce.

 Morning!

I am sending off Christmas cards today so anyone that wants one give me a PM. I got a few of you already.

Etta Sue, I don't write personal notes in my cards.   I have way to many to send out, but I love reading them.   hmm..maybe I should write up a quick note and send it to everyone.

be back later

      Happy Birthday, Sue!!!      

Catching up here.

Papa John:  You may not have time to read this message but I do want to send my sympathy on the loss of your Walker. 

T.Bear:  I am going to check out the pineapple chicken recipe, that sounds unusual.  Thanks.

Sue:  Happy Birthday

Janet:  Welcome Back!  The temperature change must be a shock! 

Pat:  I hope that your cold is about over.

Today, we are finishing a bathroom re-do and hanging the new light fixture as well as Don will pound in the new baseboard that he has been staining and varnishing for five days.  Carol

Good morning from a cold and snowy Western NC.  It is less than an inch, but Bernard said the roads were really bad this morning.  As a result, Travis and I are staying in today.  I have been saying for weeks that if I just had one day at home, I could get things in reasonable order.  I've got my day!!  And I am sitting at the computer.  heheheh

I do a three year cycle with Christmas cards.  I buy them one year (either after Christmas, or if I can find a good sale), address them the next, then send them out the next.  hahaha.  not really, but that is what it seems like.  I, too, like to get cards that have a note in them, rather than just a signature, but I'm a signature kinda gal myself.  This year, I've got a Christmas portrait of nard, trav, and myself that I may put in with a note or letter.

Travis has found our baby monitors and is using them like a cell phone. :-)  how funny.  The child keeps us laughing most of the time.  He is really looking forward to the baby.  I hope he stays that way after she is here.

Janet, good to have you home.  Travelling like that is so exciting, but so tiring, too.  When I came home from Russia in 2000 after 2 weeks over there, it took a week or so for me to get back in the swing of things.  I'm glad you had a good time.

Happy Birthday to those this week, and coming in the next day or two, in case I forget to mention it again. <sheepish look>

Off to see some news!  Have a great day, to all of you!!!!

@ Karmat and her Christmas cards.

Good morning to those on line right now.

Sonifo, Babycakes38, Ruth, evershine, Al Moak, Papa John

Good Morning Everyone!

Wow!  What fun here in New Every Morning today!  The little graphics sure brighten up the spot, don't they?

It's so nice to see your posts Janet.  Great to have you home but you have me so tired already reading what you have to do this week! 

I want to thank you again for all the kind expressions of your sympathy.  The visitation is from 3:00 to 7:00 this afternoon and tonight and the funeral tomorrow afternoon. It is good to have Christian friends.  Carol I have time to read all of the notes here.

It is a beautiful day here so far but it is COLD, down in the 20’s.

Good to see each one.  Welcome to all the new comers.

Ps 8:1-9
1   O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2   Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3   When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4   What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5   For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6   Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7   All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8   The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9   O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
(KJV)

--- Papa John          <)))><<   
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I'm stopping by before leaving for Hugoton.  Beth's doctor says she has lost strength, and some of her pain is back, so he increased the steroids again.  She was down to a half pill every other day, because she HATES gaining weight!  He also is setting up an appointment with an oncologist, and wants her to have another MRI soon.

I have a headache today, but am believing it will be gone soon.  I think it's just due to being so tired, lack of sleep, and falling asleep sitting up on the planes.  That's hard on my neck.  

Marilyn, you are finished shopping (almost anyway) and I haven't started yet!  Well, we did buy lots of things in Thailand, but I do not have the first package wrapped yet!  Poor bare tree just sitting there!

Thanks for the warm welcome home from several of you.  That does give me a warm, fuzzy feeling.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUE!!!  And many more!

Now I must be off to Hugoton.  I had the best conversation with grandson Mark last night.  He was so excited about us meeting his friend Joe in Thailand.  That's the most he has talked to me in ages--it was great!

See you good folks later!

Larry----you are in my prayers today!

Etta Sue: Thanks for your time this morning.

The graphics are sure nice but were do you folk get them from.

Happy Birthday to Our Wonderful Daughter Sue


Pat:   Continue to get well having a cold is no fun.

Last evening hubby started to get dinner before I got home and to my surprise I was greeted with a note and  unfinished dinner saying that he was at the hospital getting his finger stitched back together. The finger got sliced instead of the roast, it anything is good he only required 4 stitches.


Have a wonderful day
Ruth

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Papa John, we will all be thinking about you during this time of sorrow.  Bless your heart!   Just know you are getting some extra love from your loved ones on CP. 

Janet, I can see already that Thailand didn't slow you down.  S l o w e r, b r e a t h e ! ! !

Karma, I like your way of sending Christmas cards....so funny!!!  I like to put in a little note in cards but my writing is terrible.  (I write too close to the paper, too)  So that is one reason why I like to type a generic letter that will fit all my friends and family.  I love reading what all my loved ones have done through out the year.  But, hey, I spill the beans every day here on CP so you guys know all I have done!!  ;D  ;D 

Ruth, glad that hubby did get some stitches.  My husband was a butcher and he visited the ER quite frequently.  I wouldn't let him sharpen knives that I used!!

I have some knitting and crocheting to do.  My DIL called this morning and wants me to crochet one of those eye-lash scarves so she can give it to her daughter...my niece...BY SUNDAY!  I am still knitting dishclothes to give as little thank you's.  And I have noticed that I need some crocheted house slippers for myself...mine all have holes in the soles!!!  So far the girls are allowing me to do this.  Inky forgets and wants to take off with the yarn once in a while but mostly she just sits and watches and wonders why that yarn is moving.    ::) 

Gotta go.  Things to do.  I feel like Janet except I am doing it all at home!!!!

I came in here earlier to say, "I love getting Christmas cards folks! HINT HINT HINT" 

Love y'all!

December 14   

Trials and Pain: The Necessity of Wounds

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.... It
is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your
statutes. 
--Psalm 119:67,71

It is amazing to me! There are people within the ranks of
Christianity who have been taught and who believe that Christ will
shield His followers from wounds of every kind.

If the truth were known, the saints of God in every age were only
effective after they had been wounded. They experienced the humbling
wounds that brought contrition, compassion and a yearning for the
knowledge of God. I could only wish that more among the followers of
Christ knew what some of the early saints meant when they spoke of
being wounded by the Holy Spirit....

In every generation, the people who have found God have been those
who have come to the end of themselves. Recognizing their
hopelessness, they have been ready to throw themselves on the mercy
and grace of a forgiving God. 
Men Who Met God, pp. 59,62

"Lord, don't let me waste the humbling wounds. Do Your great work
within me, and help me to respond properly and learn all You want me
to learn through Your working. Amen."

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Thanks Chris!  Great hymn.  I'm so happy to remember that God WILL take care of me...through any trial.

Today has not been a good day for me - I feel terrible. Ledft work at 3 pm and now am ready to head to bed.

Maybe..tomorrow...

Who knows? Well, God does, and that's what matters.

Ruth Ann