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[The Mayor]

September 18, 2006

Treasure In Heaven

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READ: Matthew 6:19-21

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. —Matthew 6:21

On a teaching trip to Togo, West Africa, I noticed hundreds of abandoned buildings that were only partially built. I asked my missionary host why so many structures were incomplete. His response was striking.

Apparently, Togolese law allows an injured party to demand payment from the available cash of family members of the person who injured them. Even distant relatives are not exempt. To prevent their cash savings from being attached to a legal action, people will purchase land instead. Slowly, sometimes over decades, they will build a house on it with any extra cash. The hundreds of unfinished buildings were testimony to how easy it is to lose one’s material possessions.

This was certainly part of the reason our Lord taught, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal” (Matt. 6:19). Treasure that is of this world is vulnerable to being lost, stolen, destroyed, or devalued. If that is our focus, we will only experience frustration.

If our hearts are drawn instead to the value of the eternal—godly character, relationships, souls—we won’t be disappointed. We will become rich in the things of Christ. And treasure in heaven can never be taken away! —Bill Crowder

I do not ask for treasures here
To hoard, decay, and rust,
But for the better things of life—
Humility and trust.  —Meadows

Treasures in heaven are laid up as treasures on earth are laid down.

Bible in One Year: Bible in One Year;   Proverbs 30-31; 2 Corinthians 11:1-15

[alfa6]

Monday Bump for the Freeper Foxhole

Look closely at this pic, notice anything a bit out of the ordinary...

The story is here...

(Skyraider)

He he he

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone.

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for the bump - and especially the pik!

[Professional Engineer]

Look closely at this pic,

The plumbing guys here had a good laugh.

[The Mayor]

September 19, 2006

Immortality Breakthrough

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READ: Psalm 90

I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. —John 14:3 Ray Kurzweil is a remarkable scientist and inventor. In a book he coauthored, titled Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Forever, he contends that science and technology hold the key to immortality. Kurzweil lives on a strict diet enhanced with a regimen of supplements, fully convinced that he will be alive when the immortality breakthrough happens. He is not a crackpot but a respected member of the business community.

In contrast to this optimism about what science can do stands the realism of Moses. “The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow” (Ps. 90:10). At best we live a few decades, and then we are gone like grass in the park.

Far better to trust ourselves to Jesus, who promises to join us to the timeless life of God. He told His disciples, “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:3).

Christ’s followers live in the assurance that when the sun has burned its last and the stars have tumbled from the sky, we shall be alive. We anticipate a life greater than anything we could imagine in our wildest dreams. —Haddon W. Robinson

For Further Study
Are you unsure about God’s promise of heaven
to those whose sins are forgiven?
Check out 10 Reasons To Believe In Life After Death

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

Bible in One Year: Bible in One Year;   Ecclesiastes 1-3; 2 Corinthians 11:16-33

[Wneighbor]

Mornin' folks!

Happy belated anniversary PE & PG. Thought about ya last week. :-)

All well with everyone?

[Peanut Gallery]

Thanks WN! We had to celebrate a bit early this year. Mondays are just so busy for us (rat race).

Bitty Girl got her hair cut in a nice bob. She looks adorable! I don't have a pic to post, though. They cut about 3 inches off the bottom!!

[Professional Engineer]

Happy Birthday USAF
(with apologies to real poets)

Off I went into the wild grey yonder
Burnt my boots on the flight line
Keep Big Green rolling
Pumping jet fuel on the flight line
Keep the guys breathing
Pushing LOX on the flight line
Who'd have thought I'd need a parka in Texas
Frooze my puhtooty on the flight line

[Professional Engineer]

Happy belated anniversary PE & PG. Thought about ya last week. :-)

Thanks ma'am

[alfa6]

They cut about 3 inches off the bottom!!?

Crikey lass, ya've scalped her :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

Shoot, I forgot to add the part about the airplanes being museum pieces now.

I pulled untold gallons of fuel into the plane hanging above the capsule. Msdrby took this picture at the Frontiers Of Flight Museum in Dallas. The full tail number is 23645.

[snippy_about_it]

Wonderful thread alfa6, great topic, nice looking boats. Great to see a new thread especially since we've been "offline" for nearly two weeks!! We finally have DIAL-UP.

Talk about taking a trip back in time! Dial-up is all we can get out here in the Georgia deep south.

Hello to everyone, we've missed you all. Sam isn't hooked up yet but I expect he will be tomorrow or the next day. It took me quite awhile just this evening to get the software loaded, dial in and wait for the connection.

Everything is fine here, the furniture, dogs and Sam made it down fine. Sam has been setting up the house and clearing the property this since he arrived on the 1st. I've been doing my daily commute to Tallahasse and happy to come home to a peaceful home, good food and good company.

The dogs have a temporary farm fence they can play around in until we can afford a real fence on the full acre.

Again, we have missed you all and hope to be in touch more often but for tonight it took so long to hook up the first time that now it's time for bed, and way past my bedtime.

We love you guys. Soon we'll be freepmailing email addresses and phone numbers as we get them all set up.

Snippy and SAMWolf

[Soaring Feather]

Welcome back home!!!

You have been missed!

[snippy_about_it]

It's good to be home both here in our new house and back at the Foxhole. We're grinning from ear to ear.

[alfa6]

Arrg Matey, looked what the tide washed up on me beach

Glad to hear things are looking up for y'all

Other than the dial up gig :-(

Regards

alfa6 ;.}

[Soaring Feather]

So glad things have worked out!!

WOO HOO! So nice to see you!!

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. Dial-up, I would have never thought I'd go back to that. This will be interesting but better than nothing. We have to get Direct TV too. They are coming out tomorrow afternoon. I've never had anything but rabbit ears or cable so it will certainly be different. We are enjoying the benefits of being out in the country though even with the minor sacrifices, i.e., lack of technology and lack of convienient nearby services. No more quick trips to the local grocery.

It was really great to see a new thread, a double blessing tonight to be finally able to reach you all and to be greeted by a new and good thread, thanks alfa6.

[snippy_about_it]

We're excited about it all but plenty tired too. Time for bed.

Good to know you're all nearby again.

Goodnight.

[Peanut Gallery]

Snippy, I think I recall Direct TV offering internet service. You may want to look into it. I might be worth the expense?