Warning: Flu Shots Are Coming to Your Church

Warning: Flu Shots Are Coming to Your Church:

“As trusted messengers, you’re able to spread messages and help get people vaccinated.”

I don't want to debate the merits or lack of with regard to flu vaccine. I believe getting the vaccine is a personal decision.

I don't know if this will actually become a reality or not, however it's very disturbing. The thought that our government would leverage our places of worship, is troubling.

I'm a full believer in keeping government at arms length. Once we allow them to enter our facilities under the "flag" of community benefit, we're in trouble. They will use this door to "move in" and take advantage and ultimately control.

You can dismiss this as an over reaction on my part and that's your right, however think about this on a broader scale. Forget the flu vaccine platform and consider other "reasons" that can be "Validated" for the "Public GOOD".

Blessings & Peace

~Robert

Christ Alone Journey

I want to invite you to my new blog "Christ Alone Journey".  While I'm still referring to devotionals that I read and commenting on the same, I will be adding posts from my personal study.  I believe this blog served it's purpose initially as I've started this process, however the title doesn't really fit my goals.

My goal is to challenge, encourage and motivate others in their walk with Christ.  I believe that we need input from multiple sources in our journey, however we MUST keep our eyes FIXED on JESUS CHRIST.  To this end I have been able to establish "Christ Alone Journey".

I would be honored to have you follow my new blog.  More importantly, I seek your input in the way of comments to my blogs.  "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another". ~Proverbs 27:17(NIV).  We each need to guidance of the Holy Spirit as we journey through this life and we should also seek solid input from Christians who are seeking to grow in God's grace.

I'll be deleting this specific blog at the end of the year.  I'm sure you've noticed already the lack of posts to this site already and this has been the result of both my concentration on the new site and time constraints.

I would love for you to join my new site and follow me there.  Christ Alone Journey is where you'll find challenges, encouragement and motivation to stay close to our Father and seek His will and way for your journey here.

Blessings & Peace
~Robert

Christ Alone Journey

Fix The Six Reasons You’re Too Heavy | Easy Health Options

Fix The Six Reasons You’re Too Heavy | Easy Health Options:

To me this seems too easy, however if you're like myself...you struggle with weight. Great read, to your health and mine.

Blessings & Peace

~Robert

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What Cost?

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

God loved us, and to prove it to us became human in order to become our brother in the flesh. He became poor, the poorest of the poor, in order to be able to include us all as his brothers (and sisters). He became a little child in order to be like children, even born, children from the slums.  God has loved us and has given all that he is and has.  The Father gave the Son, the Son gave His very self, the Holy Spirit became our habitual sanctifier.... How grateful I should be to this kind Savior!

~Peter Julian Eymard

How grateful indeed?!  This is titled "what cost" today because, when I read the above quote that IS the question that came to mind.  Over and over again, the reality of how God has spared nothing to return us to Himself.  He created us for a personal relationship with Himself and that was broken by selfish desire.


God has never changed in His desire for a personal relationship with each and every soul He's created since the beginning of time.  While I believe that God's heart breaks with every soul lost for eternity, I believe greater joy is expressed in the salvation of each soul.  The bible tells us that, "Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance." ~Luke 15:7


Don't we reach a whole different level of contentment, pleasure or satisfaction when difficult things are accomplished?  When goals are met and greater works and opportunities lay ahead, all things become better and greater!


God's word also tells us that, "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." ~Ephesian 2:10 and "And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.~Philippians 1:6


This journey has more to do with God's desire to set right everything that went wrong.  We can never be equal to God.  We can only because HE has made a way through Jesus Christ, be returned to a relationship with God that was intended from the beginning!  This journey is about allowing God to mold us into the image of Christ and in the process expose God's light to a dark, desperate and lost world.


Having given everything with the complete foreknowledge that so many would reject HIS provision and over of restoration, God has still given HIS all and HIS Best.  So, should we give no less?  Should we even think of the cost to ourselves?  OR, should we throw our everything into being committed, sold out and of use to God for God's purposes alone?!


As always, the choice is ours.  God only asks that we accept, obey and trust in HIM!


Blessings & Peace
~Robert

Steve Jobs and the Seven Rules of Success | Entrepreneur.com

Steve Jobs and the Seven Rules of Success | Entrepreneur.com

I once heard a pastor say, "I love taking from the world and using it for God". Steve Jobs' position on faith and religion are not my topic of discussion today. I do find great value in the article I'm sharing on this blog today.

Just as any man or woman can live by the principles of the bible and still spend eternity in hell, separated from God. You can employ the principles lived by Steve Jobs in business and not own your own business. They can still help you succeed in life.

"Do what you love." - I've heard it said over and over again, "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life". Spend time loving God and choosing to do those things that draw you near to Him and you'll find yourself wanting to do those things that honor Him. Unlike our relationship with our spouse, we can't get things to show how we fill. All we can do is live out our love for Christ by allowing God to form us into His image. Love being used by and formed into Christ's image.

Think about this point today. Allow the Holy Spirit to work this idea deeply into your spirit. Ask our Father to help you grab ahold of HIS vision for your life. You'll be surprised to find that the thing(s) you already love to do, are in fact a huge part of what God created you to do.

Blessings & Peace

~Robert

Perspective

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." ~Matthew 11:28-30

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."  ~Leonardo DaVinci

I receive several emails every morning for devotions.  Today I received the quotes above from one of these emails.  Soul Care.

As we enter into the 2nd work day of the week, are you already feeling pressure?  Was your Monday filled with demands that set the tone for a week that will seemingly require more than you feel is possible?  Don't give into it, not for a moment!

Look to the source, our only source.  Christ has promised us His yoke.  All we have to do is accept that HE is our power and strength.  Through Him we can overcome and not just overcome, we will live Christ in our jobs and communities.

Looking at the quote from DaVinici, I'm reminded that Christ would OFTEN retreat from everyone to pray.  He needed as we do, the quite solitude encountered when we get alone to pray.  Ever noticed that Christ was the best at leading by example?  Jesus never asked His disciples to do anything He didn't first do.

Learn from Jesus, His yoke is easy and His burden is light.  Gentle and humble is His soul and in Him alone will we find the rest needed.  Rest, renewal and recharging is all found in one singular place....Jesus Christ.

Blessings & Peace

~Robert

Delayed

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional, Charles Cowman, Christian Bible Devotions:

"An assured part of God's pledged blessing to us is delay and suffering."

I believe you'll all agree, that we live in a "fast food society" in every aspect of life. Give it to me now, I have to have it now, and why is it taking so long... theses are the constant demands, wants and desires that we live with today. We may not personally live this way, however like myself, there are times during the day when we get a little testy about things taking too long.

We know full well that anything worth having must be earned and often the journey is of much greater value than the end result. How many times have we started out on a quest only to change our minds due to new information received in the process?

The reason our God our Father doesn't just give us everything we need or desire, isn't because He is "holding out". Often we don't need what we ask for and in fact the object we seek could or would be a detriment to our life.

In the end, there is only one thing we should recognize as our need and that is God alone. Anything else will be the icing on the cake. If we seek God's face as all we need in this life, then we will only ask for Him. We will recognize that all we've every really wanted has been right before us.

The vacancy in our soul, our deepest longing and greatest needs are all satisfied by one thing.... acceptance that we cannot and will not ever be able to meet our own needs. In the end, delays in this life will come as certainly as the sun shines on the earth. We again must choose how we live out our life today and everyday.

Choose the best and only direction. Christ and the path to eternal salvation.

Blessings & Peace

~Robert