Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

7.1-Does the Bible normalize deviance? Training our families is a top notch job for us.  They need correction in order to deliver to us the comfort and delight we desire. They need a vision of the kind of life we have in mind for the them. They need no threats but consequences of choices that are carried out without demeaning anger and discouraging words.  This is the discipline of a loving mother and father.    There is a difference in a healthy family and a dysnfunctional family. Or. Does the Bible normalize deviance? No.  But it does help us not to be self-righteous and conceited about our our own problems.  I believe there is such a thing as a healthy family but not a perfect family. Here are the elements of God’s vision of a healthy family: -Correction of children done in the spirit of love and kindness. -A clear vision of what the goals of the parents are for the children.   - Behavior of the parents that is full of integrity and consistency.

6.30am Reflections on a NDE, Near Death Experience 1 Corinthians 3.10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. Wednesday, 6.28.17,   at about 12.30pm I began and new life.  I was headed to my normal workout at the North Richland Hills Centre. I could have easily been a quadrapelgic for the rest of my life.   I could have been killed instantly because I did something very stupid and foolish.   I was approaching a traffic light in North Richland Hills at the corner of Meadow Road and Chapman Drive just north of Mid Cities and east of Rufe Snow and West of Davis. Please don't look at screens and smart phones when you drive. On Wednesday, 6.28. 17, I was casually living and driving and listening to talk radio and on my car digital screen on my, flashed these words “You have email.”   I looked at it for

6.30- Philippians 2. 17  But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all. 18  You too, I urge you , rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me. Vince Lombardi said, “….I firmly believe that any man’s finest hours – his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear – is that moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”