Brit Hume message to Tiger Woods

I saw this clip on NBC this morning and to be honest, I think Brit got it right. If we can just go after the light that we see, we can get the message of Jesus Christ to the world. Satan has this world blinded and so many Christians have gotten so entrenched in the world and the pleasures of the world that we can’t see either. My hat is off to you Brit.

I welcome your comments.

Ronnie

This Day In The Life Of Your Pastor -January 4th, 2009

1. butterscotch pie is not going to make me the lean mean running machine that I desire to be, no kidding gotta run today about 3 hours ago from web
2. A legend in his own time, Harry Denman was one of the most greatly beloved leaders the Methodist movement has ever had. about 11 hours ago from TwitterBerry

3. “Evangelism is the normal expression of the Christian experience” Maxie Dunnam about 11 hours ago from TwitterBerry

4. “Christian Evangelism can have a rebirth of authenticity & honor if those God has entrusted with the challenge R wiling 2 pay the price” about 11 hours ago from TwitterBerry

5. Salvation-definition-a transforming personal encounter with Jesus Christ about 12 hours ago from TwitterBerry

6. UMC-some re-prioritizing, “radical transformation” must take place, if we as a denom R serious about the evangelistic task-Bishop Hunt 1974 about 12 hours ago from TwitterBerry

7. Harry Denman’ Methodist Layperson, loved & respected the world over, & called by many greatest practitioner of Evangelism N America about 12 hours ago from TwitterBerry

8. I’m making Butterscotch Pie about 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

9. Praying for the Bill Brewer family about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

10. going home to spend an awesome evening with the family, meatloaf for dinner, one of my favorites, and I get to see the grandkids about 17 hours ago from web

11. I am looking for a nice place to stay for Divine Rhythm for My wife and I along with two other young folks from our church, any suggestions? about 18 hours ago from web

12. a lot of people are following me on twitter who have pictures that scare me about 18 hours ago from web

13. “A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean. Leviticus13:40 YES! I am Clean! about 18 hours ago from web

14. As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. James 2:26 about 18 hours ago from web

15. SNL January 10th, be there https://imagebearer.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/snl-january-10th-2009-spiritual-leprosy/ about 19 hours ago from web

16. I have sold 316 books and starting to give some of them away, the office is looking so much better about 19 hours ago from web

17. “With first and second chair leaders in harmony, their titles lose significance and the kingdom is advanced” Bonem & Patterson about 21 hours ago from TwitterBerry

18. “Every great leader has to have leaders supporting him or her. They can’t do it alone” Preston Mitchell about 21 hours ago

19. “Great leaders are ultimately great followers” Kim Miller about 22 hours ago from TwitterBerry

20. “Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow” J Oswald Sanders about 22 hours ago

21. Salad for lunch, good book, no interruptions about 19 hours ago from TwitterBerry

22. Notice: do not call me if you have bats. I am just glad there is no video of my reaction to that bat flying in my direction about 19 hours ago from TwitterBerry

23. Headed to Out of the Box, Lori reports there is a bat in the building. What am I gonna do with it? The things pastors get to do about 20 hours ago from TwitterBerry

24. @ DSS working on paperwork for Kyles insurance about 20 hours ago from TwitterBerry

25. I am just not built for cold weather. Florida is sounding great. about 20 hours ago from TwitterBerry

26. headed to the office, hope it is warm and the water isn’t frozen this morning about 23 hours ago from web

27. I have a lot 2 accomplish 2day. Praying 4 my time 2 B spent well, we can never get it back but we can receive dividends of time well spent about 23 hours ago from TwitterBerry

28. He who is not with Me if against Me, and he who is not doing the Fathers work of gathering up the flock may as well be scattering the flock. about 24 hours ago from TwitterBerry

29. All the world will find its hope in His name. Matthew 11:21 about 24 hours ago from TwitterBerry

30. Blessed are those who stay on My narrow path. Matthew 11: 6 4:45 AM Jan 4th from TwitterBerry

31. Reading Matthew 11-14 this morning, hope you are too!

Day 5-90 Days to read the New Testament (TNIV)

Matthew 15

That Which Defiles

¹ Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, ² “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

³ Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ ^[a] and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’ ^{[b] 5} But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’ ⁶ they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. ⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:

⁸ ” ‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.

⁹ They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’ ^[c]”

¹⁰ Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. ¹¹ What goes into your mouth does not defile you, but what comes out of your mouth, that is what defiles you.”

¹² Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”

¹³ He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. ¹⁴ Leave them; they are blind guides. ^[d] If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

¹⁵ Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.”

¹⁶ “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them. ¹⁷ “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? ¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile you. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. ²⁰ These are what defile you; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile you.”

The Faith of a Canaanite Woman

²¹ Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. ²² A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”

²³ Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

²⁴ He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”

²⁵ The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.

²⁶ He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

²⁷ “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

²⁸ Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, ^[e] you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand

²⁹ Jesus left there and went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down. ³⁰ Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them. ³¹ The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.

³² Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.”

³³ His disciples answered, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?”

³⁴ “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked.
“Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”

³⁵ He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. ³⁶ Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people. ³⁷ They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. ³⁸ The number of those who ate was four thousand men, besides women and children. ³⁹ After Jesus had sent the crowd away, he got into the boat and went to the vicinity of Magadan.

Matthew 16

The Demand for a Sign

¹ The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.

² He replied, ^[f] “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ ³ and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. ⁴ A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. ⁶ “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

⁷ They discussed this among themselves and said, “It is because we didn’t bring any bread.”

⁸ Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, “You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? ⁹ Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? ¹⁰ Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? ¹¹ How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ¹² Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Peter Declares That Jesus Is the Messiah

¹³ When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

¹⁴ They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

¹⁵ “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

¹⁷ Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. ¹⁸ And I tell you that you are Peter, ^[g] and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of death ^[h] will not overcome it. ¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be ^[i] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be ^[j] loosed in heaven.” ²⁰ Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.

Jesus Predicts His Death

²¹ From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

²² Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

²³ Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. ²⁵ For whoever wants to save their life ^[k] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. ²⁶ What good will it be for you to gain the whole world, yet forfeit your soul? Or what can you give in exchange for your soul? ²⁷ For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward everyone according to what they have done.

²⁸ “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

Matthew 17

The Transfiguration

¹ After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. ² There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. ³ Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.

⁴ Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.”

⁵ While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”

⁶ When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. ⁷ But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.” ⁸ When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.

⁹ As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”

¹⁰ The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”

¹¹ Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things. ¹² But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.” ¹³ Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.

Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy

¹⁴ When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. ¹⁵ “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. ¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

¹⁷ “You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” ¹⁸ Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.

¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

^20-21 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time

²² When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered over to human hands. ²³ He will be killed, and on the third day he will be raised to life.” And the disciples were filled with grief.

The Temple Tax

²⁴ After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”

²⁵ “Yes, he does,” he replied.
When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?”

²⁶ “From others,” Peter answered.

“Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. ²⁷ “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”