This is my Bible.
Date Aired on Walk in the Word: January 29, 2009
I am who it says I am.
I can do what it says I can do.
I am going where it says I will go.
God's Word is life and breath to my soul. (John 5:24)
God's Word is milk and meat to feed me. (Hebrews 5:12)
God's Word is seed to grow my faith. (Luke 8)
God's Word is the path that I can follow. (Proverbs 10:17)
God's Word is the light to guide my way. (Psalm 119:105)
God's Word is the rock on which I stand. (Psalm 18:2)
When I read God's Word it brings me joy. (Jeremiah 15:16)
When I study God's Word it gives me wisdom. (Colossians 3:16)
When I memorize God's Word it purifies my heart. (Joshua 1:8)
When I quote God's Word it defeats my enemies. (1 Peter 5:8)
When I meditate on God's Word it anchors my life. (Psalm 143:5-6)
I am a Bible-believing follow of Jesus Christ.
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Faith Print
Date Aired on Walk in the Word: November 1
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“Don’t Quit” Poem
Date Aired on Walk in the Word: April 14
Message Title: “Alive in Me”
Series Title: Just Like Jesus
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems uphill,
When funds are low and debts are high
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but do not quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow;
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are-
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit.
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.
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Excerpt from Heaven, Your Real Home by Joni Eareckson Tada
Date Aired on Walk in the Word: April 6
Message Title: “More of Heaven”
Series Title: A Glimpse of Glory
“It was in the summer of 1957. My family had packed up and piled into our old Buick. We were heading west through the country roads of Kansas. Daddy pulled the car over to the gravel shoulder to stop by a roadside ditch so my sister could go to the bathroom. I jumped out of the sweltering backseat and wandered beside a barb-wired fence along the road. It was a chance to dry the sweat off my back as well as to explore for a moment. I stopped and picked up a piece of gravel, examined it, and then heaved the stone beyond the fence far out into the biggest, widest, longest field I had ever seen. It was an ocean of wheat, waves of gold and grain rippling in the wind, all broad and beautiful against the brilliant blue sky. I stood and stared. A warm breeze tossed my hair. A butterfly flittered. Except of the hissing sound of the summertime bugs, all was incredibly quiet. Or was it? I can’t remember if the song came from the sky or the field or if it was just the sound of the crickets. I tried hard to listen. But instead of actually hearing notes, I felt space – a wide open space filling my heart as if the entire wheat field could fit into my seven-year-old soul. I rolled my head back to look up at the hawks circling overhead. The bird, sky, sun, and field were lifting me in some heavenly orchestration, lightening my heart with honesty and clarity like an American folk hymn in a major key pure and upright and vertical. I had never felt or heard such a thing. Yet as soon as I tried to grasp the haunting echo, it vanished. I was only seven. But standing there by the barb-wired fence of a Kansas wheat field, I knew my heart had been touched by God. I kept staring while humming an old Sunday school favorite, ‘This world is not my home. I'm just passing through.’ For me, the moment was heavenly. Daddy honked the horn and I ran back. Our family drove away with a slightly changed little girl in the back seat.”
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The Silly Frog Poem
Date Aired on Walk in the Word: March 20
Message Title: “Meeting God in My Confusion”
Series Title: Meeting God In…
Two frogs fell into a can of cream,
Or so I’ve heard it told.
The sides of the can were shiny and steep,
The cream was deep and cold.
“Oh what’s the use?” croaked Number One.
“‘Tis fate. No help’s around.”
“Goodbye, my friends. Goodbye, cruel world.”
And weeping still, he drowned.
But Number Two, of sterner stuff,
Dog-paddled in surprise.
All while he wiped his creamy face
And dried his creamy eyes.
“I’ll swim awhile at least,” he said
Or so I’ve heard he said.
“It really wouldn’t help the world
If one more frog were dead.”
An hour or two, he kicked and swam,
Not once he stopped to mutter,
But kicked and kicked and swam and kicked,
And hopped out via butter.
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Anticipated Consequences of Immorality
Date Aired on Walk in the Word: March, 15, 2006
Message Title: “Meeting God in My Moral Failure”
Series Title: Meeting God In…
By Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspective Ministries, 2229 E. Burnside #23, Gresham, OR 97030, 503-663-6481, www.epm.org
Personalized List of Anticipated Consequences of Immorality
- Grieving my Lord; displeasing the One whose opinion most matters.
- Dragging into the mud Christ's sacred reputation.
- Loss of reward and commendation from God.
- Having to one day look Jesus in the face at the judgment seat and give an account of why I did it.
- Forcing God to discipline me in various ways.
- Following in the footsteps of men I know of whose immorality forfeited their ministry and caused me to shudder. List of these names:
- Suffering of innocent people around me who would get hit by my shrapnel (a la Achan).
- Untold hurt to Nanci, my best friend and loyal wife.
- Loss of Nanci's respect and trust.
- Hurt to and loss of credibility with my beloved daughters, Karina and Angela. ("Why listen to a man who betrayed Mom and us?")
- If my blindness should continue or my family be unable to forgive, I could lose my wife and my children forever.
- Shame to my family. ("Why isn't Daddy a pastor anymore?"; the cruel comments of others who would invariably find out.)
- Shame to my church family.
- Shame and hurt to my fellow pastors and elders. List of names:
- Shame and hurt to my friends, and especially those I've led to Christ and discipled. List of names:
- Guilt awfully hard to shake-even though God would forgive me, would I forgive myself?
- Plaguing memories and flashbacks that could taint future intimacy with my wife.
- Disqualifying myself after having preached to others.
- Surrender of the things I am called to and love to do-teach and preach and write and minister to others. Forfeiting forever certain opportunities to serve God. Years of training and experience in ministry wasted for a long period of time, maybe permanently.
- Being haunted by my sin as I look in the eyes of others, and having it all dredged up again wherever I go and whatever I do.
- Undermining the hard work and prayers of others by saying to our community "this is a hypocrite-who can take seriously anything he and his church have said and done?"
- Laughter, rejoicing and blasphemous smugness by those who disrespect God and the church (2 Samuel 12:14).
- Bringing great pleasure to Satan, the Enemy of God.
- Heaping judgment and endless problems on the person I would have committed adultery with.
- Possible diseases: gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, herpes, and AIDS (pain, constant reminder to me and my wife, possible infection of Nanci, or in the case of AIDS, even causing her death, as well as mine.)
- Possible pregnancy, with its personal and financial implications, including a lifelong reminder of sin to me and my family.
- Loss of self-respect, discrediting my own name, and invoking shame and lifelong embarrassment upon myself.
These are only some of the consequences. If only we would rehearse in advance the ugly and overwhelming consequences of immorality, we would be far more prone to avoid it. May we live each day in the love and fear of God.
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