On July 22nd, a group of Christians whom we know flew to Paris to witness to people who are there for the Olympics. Please pray for them! Lane and I took an important legal step to set up our publishing company. Please pray for this effort!
On the 23rd, I updated the Scripture Index on my book, and it is ready to be published. We plan to launch the books on September 1st! Please pray for this! We went to see the new Twisters movie, pretty good. I gave a tract to the clerk. Then we went to a Chick-Fil-A, and had lunch. I gave a tract to the clerk. We heard from the Paris group, and they are doing well. Please pray for them, and the people to whom they witness!
On the 24th, Lane and I took our car with the starting problem to a auto shop, and left it there. It was fixed for a bad cable, and we picked it up this afternoon. I did some online research for new laptops. We need to update ours for the publishing business that we are starting. The best possible one is a 15 inch Apple MacBook Air (2024) with M3Chip. $1,400. For the publishing, we will need two of these--one for publishing and one for the financial records, etc. We will probably have to wait until after we get some funds from actual sales to purchase these. Wow.
Thank you so much for your prayers, and please continue to lift us up!
Food for Thought and Prayer:
If parents were half as diligent in praying for their children’s conversion as they are in keeping them from bad company, their children would turn out far better than they do. —J. C. Ryle
The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all of man’s troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones
As soon as a penitent appears in the doorway of God’s throne-room, the golden sceptre of His royal forgiveness is stretched out for him to touch. —F. B. Meyer
Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have. —Billy Graham
Ironically, it is only when we know how to die properly that we finally have some inkling about how to truly live here and now. —Michael Horton
We make the church like a theater and are then surprised when people respond like theater goers. —Ed Stetzer
Plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan. Man Skill #92, Modern Southern Gentleman
Deal with the big while it is still small. —Lao Tzu
It’s hard to hear God’s voice when you’ve already decided what you want Him to say. —A Modern Day Ruth
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. —Ravi Zacharias
You’ll never get to a person’s soul until you understand their hurts. —Ravi Zacharias
My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice. – Ravi Zacharias
Now God knows who the elect are. I don’t. Someone came to Spurgeon one time and said, “Mr Spurgeon, if I believed as you do, I would not preach like you do. You say you believe that there are the elect, and yet you preach as if everybody can be saved.” Spurgeon’s answer was, “They can all be saved. If God had put a yellow streak up and down the backs of the elect, I’d go up and down the streets lifting up shirt tails to find out who had the yellow streak up and down his back. Then I’d give that person the gospel. But God didn’t do that. He told me to preach the gospel to every creature and that whosoever will may come.” That is our marching order, and as far as I am concerned, until God gives me the roll call of the elect, I am going to preach the “whosoever will” gospel. That is the gospel we are to preach today.
Someone else has put it like this. On the door to heaven, from our side, it says, “Whosoever will may enter. I am the door: by Me if any man….” Any man—that means you. You can come in and find pasture and find life. When you get on the other side of the door someday in heaven, you’re going to look back, and on that door you will find written, “Chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.” I haven’t seen that side of the door yet; therefore, I give God (since He is God) the right to plan His church. —J. Vernon McGee
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. —Roger Staubach
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. —Aristotle
Have patience, believer: eternity will right the wrongs of time. —Charles Spurgeon
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god. —Charles H. Spurgeon
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. —C. S. Lewis
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