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  • Abraham Lincoln on Criticism

    "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

  • Consider the Cost

    "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." ~Winston Churchill

  • Charles Spurgeon

    "Our blessed Lord reveals himself to his people more in the valleys, in the shades, in the deeps, than he does anywhere else. He has a way and an art of showing himself to his children at midnight, making the darkness light by his presence."

  • Progress through Perseverance

    It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; And who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight of life, knowing neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

  • Psalm 7:10-17

    God will uncase the hypocrites ere long, and make them know, to their sorrow, what is was to trifle with Him." - Richard Baxter

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    Pastor Ron's family (our pastor) - Brother killed in shooting 6.08, trial .......... Jillian needing money for college in the fall....Sale of our home and new ministry.......... Daniel (son) - Placement at Shepherds

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  • The Reformed Pastor – Richard Baxter

    “We must carry on our work with patience. We must bear with many abuses and injuries from those to whom we seek to do good. When we have studied for them, and prayed for them, and exhorted them, and beseeched them with all earnestness and condescension, and given them what we are able, and tended them as if they had been our children, we must look that many of them will requite us with scorn and hatred and contempt, and account us their enemies, because we ‘tell them the truth.’ Now, we must endure all this patiently, and we must unweariedly hold on in doing good, ‘in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.’ We have to deal with distracted men who will fly in the face of their physician, but we must not, therefore, neglect their cure. He is unworthy to be a physician, who will be driven away from a frenetic patient by foul words. Yet, alas, when sinners reproach and slander us for our love, and are more ready to spit in our faces, than to thank us for our advice, what heart-risings will there be, and how will the remnants of old Adam (pride and passion) struggle against the meekness and patience of the new man! And how sadly do many ministers come off under such trials!”

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16 year old sketch artist

Posted on July 7, 2008 by momofmany

Levi has told me for a year that he can’t draw people. Then he sat down and drew this picture of Isaac. I think he was wrong. What do you think?

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friends & enemies

Posted on July 7, 2008 by momofmany

“Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.“  - Saadi (1184 – 1291)

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  • Amy Carmichael

    “If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.“

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    “God reserves His best for those who leave the choice to Him.” Pastor Randy King

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  • Don’t shoot the messenger.

    "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" Galatians 4:16

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  • November 14 Update – Missionary to Uruguay

    Dear Supporting Faithful,
    As we look to a new year in just a few more weeks, we are thrilled to think of what God will do next. Last evening 40 men came to the men's meeting at IBPiedra Angular (Cornerstone Baptist Church). Tonight, our leaders will be meeting to finalize our plans for 2010. Keep these things in your prayers. We are full of joy and hope for the future. Please pray for tonight's meeting that God will give us clarity, peace and wisdom. Thank you.
    Barry Secrest for Barb, Thomas, David and Anthony, Uruguay, South America

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  • True Repentance

    "True repentance is "a change of mind" given to us as a gift from God - turning away from sin and turning to God." ~ Ron Kenney

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    "The first object of teaching, then, is to stimulate in the pupil the love of learning, and to form in him the habits and ideals of independent study." ~ John Milton Gregory

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    "Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." ~ C.T. Studd