On Oct. 7th, I continued to send out Yoke Partnership pdf emails.
On the 8th, Lane's sister and her husband picked up Lane's mother, and they went back to Frankfort. Our internet went out for the rest of the day. Lane's mother visited her doctor, and was sent to their local hospital. Later, she was transferred to one of our Louisville hospitals for tests.
On the 9th, Lane's mother continued to have tests, feeling some better. Lane and I went to a restaurant for dinner, and gave a tract to the staff. Later, our son took Lane to her choir rehearsal, and I worked on pdf emails to Alabama pastors.
On the 10th, I worked on AL pdf emails. Later I took her to the Louisville hospital where her mother is being treated, doing better. Lane stayed with her for the night.
On the 11th, I worked on AL pdf emails. Then I picked up Lane at the hospital, and later took her to a choir rehearsal this evening.
On the 12th, I took Lane back to the church for another choir rehearsal, then back home. Lane's mother came back to her sister's home today, PTL!
On the 13th, Lane and I went to our church. Choir did a great job on one of Lane's favorite songs, "Take the Name of Jesus with You." Good message as well. After lunch, we went home. One of our neighbors came by, and I witnessed to him. Today was our oldest son and daughter-in-law's 12th anniversary. We congratulated them.
On the 14th, I worked on AL and AR pdf emails.
On the 15th, I worked on pdf emails. We also worked on making a bedroom in our basement for later guest.
On the 16th, I worked on pdf emails. We went to a fast food place, ate, and gave a tract to the staff. Visited our oldest son briefly. We have had two requests for my Yoke Partnership book, yea!
On the 17th, I worked on sending pdf emails to pastors in SoCal.
On the 18th, I continued to send pdf emails to pastors in SoCal. Fun to connect with them again. It's been five years since we retired from the association! Wow! God has done so much for us during this time! We worked again on the bedroom plans for our basement, got new lightning for the room. We "tweaked" our pdf email that we are sending out. We got two requests for our book, and one purchase via credit card! PTL! We sold our first book!
On the 19th, we mowed our lawns, and re-arranged our garage to get both cars inside of it. Visited a discount store, and gave four tracts to teens there.
Today on the 20th, we picked up our neighbor lady, and the three of us went to church. The children's choir sang the specials, and did a great job! Good message also by one of our associate pastors. We went to a restaurant for lunch, and I gave a tract to the waitress. Went home. I updated my journal, FB, and website. I am doing these updates once a week now, bc of the publishing work on our book. See other FB post on how to get the pertinent information on seeing it!
Thank you so much for your prayers, and please continue to lift us up!
Food for Thought and Prayer:
IMB President Paul Chitwood encouraged attendees from Romans 10:8-15. “There are more lost people alive today than any time in human history,” Chitwood said. “More lost people will die today and enter hell than on any day that has gone before in human history. Unlike the majority of days and ages that have gone before, today we have the capacity to reach almost anyone, anywhere in a matter of days.”
Chitwood acknowledged that more than 40 percent of Southern Baptists’ mission force has been cut since 2008. However, he reminded the congregation that the IMB is dedicated to sending the called to the nations. “We’re not discharging soldiers,” he said. “We’re calling in reinforcements.” —November 8, 2021, Sending Celebration service
I got this real moron thing I do; it’s called thinking, and I’m not a very good American, because I like to form my own opinions …. I have certain rules I live by. My first rule, I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. And I don’t take very seriously the media or the press in this country. —George Carlin
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for? —Leonard Ravenhill
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? —Dr. Seuss
Regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. —Nouwen
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. –Francis of Assisi
Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. –Jameson Frank
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. –Dale Carnegie
Can you be a Christian who struggles with homosexual desire and struggles faithfully in the Lord? Absolutely. And if people are being honest, everybody is struggling with something — and if you are not, you are dead. --Rosaria Butterfield, former practicing lesbian, now married to a man and has had children,
I always hear Christians say that we don't spend enough time around non believers and that we should engage more, they use the argument that Jesus spent a lot of time with sinners and we should do the same. That's actually true, but only half true. Jesus' example wasn't to just spend as much time with non believers as possible, His example was that He was able to spend so much time with sinners and be effective because He spent so much time with the Father!
" bad company corrupts good habits”. —1 Corinthians 15:33
Before you try an save the world and lead them to the fountain of living water, which we should, make sure you yourself know where to find it. —Ruben Young
R. C. Sproul made this comment about foreknowledge, ”Romans 8:29 means that God “fore-loved” certain people, and predestinated them. He chose them; they did not choose Him.” We get our English word to ”prognosticate” for the Greek translated ”foreknowledge” in Roman 8:29. Prognosticate means to prophesy or predict future events from present knowledge. God knew who would believe and who would reject and He therein predestined use to His service. —Bruce Hitchcock
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness. —Martin Luther
The Law requires much, but offers no help in the carrying out of its requirements. The Lord Jesus requires just as much, yea even more (Matt. 5:21-48), but what he requires from us he himself carries out in us. The law makes demands and leaves us helpless to fulfill them; Christ makes demands, but he himself fulfills in us the very demands he makes. —Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life
Early believers had to be commanded not to evangelize. Modern believers have to be urged to speak. —Thom Rainer
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats. —Charles H. Spurgeon
Why wish upon a star, when you can pray to the One who created it? Stars don’t answer prayers. —unknown
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done. —Timothy Keller
Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 years learning he was nobody; and 40 years discovering what God can do with a nobody. —Dwight L. Moody
Perhaps nothing is more damaging to the people of God than a prophet who tells his hearers what they want to hear at the expense of what they need to hear. —D. Stuart Briscoe, All Things Weird and Wonderful (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1977), 80-81.
I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. —Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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!
If someone you speak to today dies tomorrow, will you be satisfied with the last thing that you said to them? Share Jesus and the Gospel! It is very easy with a tract.
