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What is YOUR Ultimate Problem?  DON'T MISS OUT--see the drop-down menu showing  the link UNDER "Solving Our Ultimate Problem" above for more information, please!

Here is a way we Christians can share the gospel with millions (honest).  See this video: https://youtu.be/sWDkFn6OP-Q 

It is interesting that sometimes, when I tell people that I am a pastor or retired minister, they automatically see me as trustworthy, and want to spill their guts.  I don't mind, as it often leads to prayer needs, and opportunities to share how God has blessed us in difficult situation.  Yesterday the 19th this happened with two campers--heavy, heavy stuff.  Please pray for the hurting people around us.  Campers often come here to parks to rest their minds and hearts, but still need to know someone cares, God cares, and someone will listen wihtout judgments.

Still at Taylorsville Lake State Park (10th).  Giving out more tracts, both here and at gas stations, stores & restaurants occasionally.  The 'Solving Our Ultimate Problem' (SOUP) site jumped ten hits!  PTL!  Please continue to pray for these seed that have been planted!

Food for Thought and Prayer (updated each Monday and Thursday)

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  —Thomas A. Edison

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.  —Robert Hughes

We can choose to define ourselves (our smarts, our brand, our character) on who rejects us.  Or we can choose to focus on those that care enough to think we matter.  Carrying around a list of everyone who thinks you're not good enough is exhausting.  —Seth Godin

Beloved, I encourage praying for your pastor because he is always fighting something, and you are either holding his hands up in victory, or you are holding them down.  (Exodus 17:8-16).  —Jerry McCullah 

God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.  —Jerry Bridges

Maybe we should stop disliking people for what we have heard, and be grateful God does not dislike us for what He knows.  —TobyMac

A lie doesn't’ become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by a majority.  —unknown

Nothing built for the glory of man will survive God’s scrutiny.  But what is done for His glory will endure forever.  —R. C. Sproul.  The reason for this is that everything was originally created for God’s glory, and for us to share in all of that.  —Richard Graham

Then he said to me, "Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words." — Daniel 10:12

To the wicked man death is the end of all joys; to a godly man death is the end of all griefs.  —Matthew Henry

Bold-hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards.  —Charles Spurgeon

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.  —Aristotle

You know you have forgiven someone when he or she has harmless passage through your mind.  --Rev. Karyl Huntley

(in Philemon) Notice how Paul ping-pongs between authoritative statements and maintaining his relationship with them.  Tim Keller says this kind of frost-and-sun combo breaks people open to God, who fiercely loves us and wants to protect us, but at the same time, He allows just enough pain to make the lessons stick.

When words and body language are in conflict, body language wins every time.  --Nick Morgan, author of Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma

Never judge someone based on a season:

One season David was a shepherd, the next season he was a king!

One season Ruth was working in the field, the next season she was owning the same field!

One season Mordecai was sitting outside the king’s palace, the next season he was inside the palace!

We serve a God who turns things around, the God of unmerited favor!

—ChristianToday

In Genesis, death enters.  In Revelation, death exits.  —Jerry McCullah

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.  —Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

The Fairness of God see Ministries above.

The Difference Between Calvinism and Traditionalism?  See Ministries above.