Notes On Life

 Giving blood Saves The Lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year who have suffered life threatening injuries from certain death. If you have not given, please consider being a blood donor. It not only helps others, but will help your health by regenerating new life-giving blood into your body. Although you may not have been in a horrific accident requiring a blood transfusion to save you from Mortal Death , without a very special Supernatural Blood Transfusion you cannot be saved from Eternal Death without the Blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse and heal you of all sin.. To receive this supernatural transfusion, all you need to do is ASK. If you have not asked Christ to cover your sins with His Supernatural Blood , you can do so right now by sincerely praying this simple prayer from your heart: Heavenly Father, I have done many detestable things in my life and sinned against you and wronged others. I have no excuse for my actions and ask that you forgive me, wipe the slat...

 Walking around Rio de Janeiro as a young man in the Navy was exciting! The beaches, city and weather were absolutely beautiful and it was easy to get distracted by so much to see. Glancing across a wide boulevard jutting above the yacht harbor was “Sugarloaf” mountain and when the light turned green, I hurriedly stepped off the curb to cross the street to get a closer look. No sooner than I did, a little Fiat going about 60 miles an hour ran the stop light, but the strong hand of my weightlifting Navy buddy snatched me by the collar and violently yanked me back off my feet as the car clipped the curb - my flailing shoe lightly brushing the car’ side view mirror as the car raced by. My friend 'Rack' scolded me saying, “They don’t obey traffic lights down here son! When no one’s coming they just GO!” I certainly would have been killed if my shipmate had not literally had my back. I didn’t see the danger coming, and likewise in our lives God often delivers us from dangers we als...

Staying in the middle lane going down the road of life is easy as long as you don’t have to make a decision about ‘religion,’ ‘faith,’ or ‘god.’ As long as there’s road ahead of you and you’re still moving along, there’s no reason to change lanes…that is, until that neutral middle-of-the-road lane ends. Then the question is —  “Will I be taking the left exit or the right exit?” Is this you? Are you driving down the road of your life in that uncommitted center lane, never having made up your mind or even seriously thinking at one point that comfortable “I don’t have to choose” lane is still available? Here is a Real-World Warning that you Cannot Afford To Ignore! That seeming endless road of life WILL end, and it is up to you to decide when it ends which exit you will take. No one sends you to one exit or another, you will either Consciously or Un-Consciously make that choice. Friend, please make that choice before it is too late, or You Will Be LEFT BEHIND . God Bless Your Day Jesu...

  Imagine that you could walk into the Oval Office at any time unannounced to have an audience with the President, or to the King at Buckingham Palace, or speak at the podium to the UN!?! Wouldn’t that be ridiculous? In this world it would,   But In The Court Of Heaven - NO! ...and today’s scripture verse tells us why. Our Heavenly Father has an  'Open Door'  policy! Just like your children can come up to your lap anytime and say “Daddy!” we also can come to the throne of God any time we want. You don’t have to make an appointment, be at a certain 'level of spirituality or holiness', rank, level, or title before God because He is always welcome to you at any day, time, or moment. All you need do is approach. Too many believers think that they have to act like Dorothy in the Wizard of OZ pounding at the gates to the kingdom in order to have an audience with the Most High, but if you think about it, this is ridiculous for the following reason. The Bible says that the h...

 The memorable television program LAW & ORDER chronicled stories of people that had been charged with a crime, tried by the prosecution, but also vigorously defended by an attorney that advocated innocence for the defendant. In the series, almost all were convicted but occasionally, using the law itself, the strong pleadings of the intercessor overcame the charges, and the defendant was found not guilty. In the courtroom of heaven, we are all charged with the crime of sin and violators of God’s law but when Christ came and died on the cross, he paid the wages of sin and death and now stands as our advocate to intercede and plead in the court of righteousness to intervene on our behalf. Unlike the TV series, he uses the heavenly LAW OF GRACE AND MERCY to prove our innocence — and here is how. The word ‘SIN’ in Greek is ‘harmartia,’ and is a metaphor of an archer missing the mark of the bullseye. Each time we sin, in essence we are missing being perfectly on target, and each ...

 An often misunderstood verse is Ephesians 5:15 which says “Be FILLED with the Holy Spirit” — and this old gasoline company ad gives us a very easy to understand analogy on what this means. The most powerful Ferrari will not go very fast OR far without gasoline, and this is just like our life in Christ. When we likewise are “Filled with the Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18) that ENERGY gives the engine the ability to create POWER! As a matter of fact, in automotive technology the reason why some cars are more powerful than others is their ability to use more fuel and Quickly convert it into more Power, but this means we have must have a powerful ENGINE! But what is that?!? As believers — just like a V12 Ferrari — this requires two things. First, how willing are you to have your tank Filled With The ENERGY Of The Holy Spirit? And second, How DYNAMIC Is Your ENGINE Of FAITH effectively operating to convert that energy into the SPIRIT OF POWER? Friend, anyone can go through life driving a...