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The video on the “Revelation Song,” so passionately
and with anointing, done by Kari Jode, exemplifies
what worship can become.

We have become familiar with worship as
connecting to God, a place where
you and God are together, it is as if, you and God
are there and no other person is present, that
sense of His presence invades your heart, touches
your soul, and as you listen to the truth of
adoring Jesus, and the power of that adoration;
the heart of worship develops.

It is that heart which can love, it is the
forgiving and understanding,
and compassionate heart, it is the heart of love.
It is that heart which God gives you. One of the
deepest mysteries of faith in my life is to see
people who believe they are born again, yet they
have not had this change take place in their heart?

Someone asked me how a person can know that they
are a Christian, and near as I can tell, the answer
isn’t hard, their heart won’t be; because the heart
of God, the new heart which God puts into a person
who confesses Jesus as their Lord and Savior
and asks Jesus to forgive them of their sins;
that heart, can’t be the same hard nature one
that existed in that person before.

When a person has this heart surgery,
the meaning of their life becomes love
and to love; so let’s cut through it today,
is that the purpose of your life, to
love and be loved? In my heart it sure
seems that is what John meant in writing
about his Jesus: 1Jo 4:7 Beloved, let us
love one another: for love is of God;
and every one that loveth is born of God,
and knoweth God.
1Jo 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God;
for God is love.

Let’s pray for each other today,
that we will love and be
loved, thank you for allowing me to be.

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If you read success materials, and I try to, and hope you do;
you usually see some inspirational item about starting, or,
doing it now? Have you read such? Do you usually feel like
that’s right? You should start now, and, sometimes you even
are in the midst of doing something? So it’s a good feeling but
an odd feeling, since you are already in the process? Can you
identify with that? This brief set of thoughts comes from a
deeper and more extensive work called “keyhole success,” which
is due out soon; my hope is that you will find it useful and
also, truthful and even helpful. My sense is if you read this
and smile, that’s fantastic, if you read this and smile deeply
and warmly, shucks, you might donate some bucks to keep me
eating, and if you read this, smile deeply and warmly and share
this with some others…WOW…who knows what could happen?

Why, is a challenge for us at all times, in my youth it was how
my mom let me know she was in charge, “Why!” got met with, “Because
I said so!” Which might have been followed with – a sound effect,
how about, THWACK! Remember such, wow, those are warm memories.
Why is a challenge for us at all times, as teenagers our dates
are usually wondering, “Why are we going there…” My hope is
that there is a good reason, my fear is that frequently the
reason may appear good but it isn’t? Why moves up in intensity
as a challenge to us at all times, as adults we begin to want
to earnestly explain the need, to explain and even comply with
the urgency of a given task that requires the question, why?
Why is so good for us, that it is often not wanted; we just
don’t want to hear it, ever experience that, and yet, just as
surely as we feel that way, what comes at us? Ah my, someone
invariably will ask, “why?”

Many times we don’t know, why- and so at that moment we go
into the next phase, which is, now, why now? We feel like
it would be better, and certainly better for us, if we didn’t
have to deal with it right now? Ever feel that way? If you
have, consider what follows, it’s meant as a compliment.
Every person knows what makes them happy, they just sometimes
forget to recall it. Let’s focus on that for one second more,
every person, knows what makes them happy, they just sometimes
forget it, or forget to recall it. Here’s the point in picture
form; chocolate makes me happy, it’s known to do that; heard
there is actually a certain chemical in it that does help
lighten a heavy mood- were that true, it makes sense because
chocolate makes me happy. Especially good chocolate, the sort
that has no heavy after eating twang, but has a nice, smooth,
warming glow to it. Know the stuff? Usually sold at a
specialty shop, usually costs a bit more than the typical
candy isle stuff, but usually it is also worth it, would you
say? When my mood is really not where it should be, if
there is some of the chocolate around, my mood can get better.
You may have something that has a similar effect on you,
hopefully without the calories? Now comes the fact of this,
in the past, when something important involving my personality
would be in the mix, if my mood weren’t exactly fantastic,
it hadn’t occurred to me to eat chocolate, today it surely
has, and does. The result? Better results, why, more smiles-
and why now, because the new smiles are needed.

Curious about the step that makes the difference, curious
about why? Curious about why now? Fantastic, leave your
comments and your questions and the author will get back to you.

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Let’s try a simple but profound experimental game,
why experimental, because we’re not sure what the
outcome will be, why a game, because in real life
the odds are that you would not have the game
conditions come up. Great, now that we have the
legal stuff out of the way, as the Pharisees would
say; let’s get down to it, as the Scribes would say.
Oh we almost forgot the Sadducees, who were odd
in their time, and certainly very hard to understand
in ours. According to one source, they haven’t existed
since 70 A.D..

On to the game, which has as an object, to
prove to you, why you matter. Both as a person,
and in particular, as a Christian. So let’s set
the ground rules. You will need a person to play
the part of the learner, and then you will play
the part of the teacher. For the learner the
script goes like this; “I don’t believe you,
because…” It doesn’t matter what they say,
any reason not to believe you will do. Now for
the part that makes this game resemble the need
which makes you matter, have the person who is
going to play the learner ties your hands behind
your back, with good strong rope- label the rope,
“things you have done wrong that others know
about.” Now you can’t move your hands, now put
good strong rope around your feet, label this
“sins that others believe I have committed.”
So now with no hands and no feet, you will
have trouble moving. Now have the learner
put duct tape over your mouth, so that
you can’t speak, label the duct tape; “the
excuses I’ve come up with not to share the
gospel.” Ok, now, the learner is free to
go- and you have to catch them, and convince
them that you know that Jesus can forgive them
of their sins. “Aw c’mon man, you know I
can’t do that, I can’t walk, because my feet
are bound, I can’t undo the knots, because
my hands are tied up, and I can’t yell because
my mouth is taped shut.” Of course we know
why – question, will the learner ever get
caught? Answer, no. Question, will the
learner ever hear the truth from you? Answer,
no. So there you go- with no hands, no
feet and no mouths, if you were God, what
would you do? It’s just a game folks….
Don’t miss the point here:

Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees
and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them,
O generation of vipers, who hath warned you
to flee from the wrath to come?

It’s a good question- and it is why, you matter, it is
only one of so many reasons why you matter, but it’s
a good one…

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In the brick and mortar world of business you get to meet
folks and see their body language, facial expressions,
how they dress, how they handle themselves, how they present
themselves in a group or personal environ. Those are
great keys to behavior and trust and sales. Those physical
keys are lacking on the web where physical is mixed with
virtual making the outcome less certain through email
than a smile across the table. Thus in the world of
virtual there are some things which a person ought to
get out in the open early in the process of making business
deals, one of these is, who you are dealing with.

Who you are dealing with, is more than a title, titles
are, in the virtual world, easy to come by, and tend to
be functionally defined. A Vice-President of marketing
may be one of hundreds spread out all over the globe; with
no power, finances or clout to carry out contracts or
negotiations. This differs drastically from the brick
and mortar world where Vice-President’s of banks and
other transacting businesses are empowered and have the
ability to affect financing. First aspect of establishing
the “who” process then, might be looked at as, don’t pay
attention to the title, instead, test out the title of the
person, can they do, that their title suggests? How
is that to be determined? Can they enact contracts? Make
payments, and transact business? This is easy to determine
from many different sources, almost without fail, if a
person can transact contracts they have the credit line and
use of card to ensure such; so it is easy to verify that
they do. What if they don’t have such? Then it becomes a
bit trickier, but still can be determined, if you are looking
at a large business transaction and you want to be sure
as to who you are dealing with, why would it offend them to
ask to see a copy of the articles of incorporation for their
business? Almost every business has such, and I can guaranty
you that a person who is genuine about who and what they
are won’t have a problem reflecting such to you.

If we can’t depend upon the title to key us as to the
vitality of the person we are dealing with, what can we
use? In some sense the vernacular, the method employed in
their communication can tell you a great deal about a
person. What sort of language do they employ? Do they
seem to be in command of good faculties in terms of projects
and completions? Are they timely- when they tell you
they are going to be getting back with you, do they? Do
you sense in the dynamics of their web presence, which
is their web site, a trustworthy feeling? Do they
give the impression of having the same sets of values
toward the transaction or communication that you do?

There are deeper and more lasting items of a person
that you cannot always access in a virtual way. Where
a person comes from, their upbringing, their education,
their belief system, their way to taking care of things,
these are all items that we like to gather in person which
in a virtual way may not be as easy to obtain, and in
the speed of the virtual transaction, they may not be
necessary. We should also interject a note of caution
here as to the degree of the transaction being considered.
A minor purchase requires little consideration, whereas,
when one is contemplating a major transaction, larger
in scope, having the ability to gather more realistic
data can be important, if not, essential.

Is it possible to separate who a person is from their
gender? We live in an age where gender is diminished as
to it’s importance, other than, to indicate only that their
exists a difference between male and female- yet, in an
age where the lines which marked the distinction of gender
are becoming increasingly blurred, in the virtual world,
the distinction must be understood. Non gender specific
names are important to bring on the question “pardon me
for asking but are you male or female?” You may get a
response about any number of things, from, the item
requested, to, “none of your business.” At this point
in the transaction, you have to decide, is this a person
that you are comfortable dealing with? Also bear in
mind that because gender confusion is present in the
virtual world, men can be presumed to be female, and
vice-versa; so ti is best where it is possible to try and
determine which gender you are dealing with; especially
if you are handling a gender sensitive issue. It is not
easy to add this to the conversational line, and
frequently forms on the web which are filled out will
include the question as to male or female, when moving
into that process, it makes sense to make sure that
is filled out on your inquiry form, and it makes the
further conversations easier when it comes to this
very important item.

We’ve looked at the defining characteristics of a person
online from the standpoint of what they do, whether they
are effective in getting back to you, if they appear to
have the ability to complete the transaction, and letting
the nature of the transaction being contemplated determine
the depth of background type information that we would
gather. We’ve also brought to light the difficulty of
gender in the virtual world and that it is important if
it can be determined but that finding out the gender of
a person is not an easy thing to do- the old saying is
that one should employ the “Porcupine principal” in this
endeavor. That is to say, “how to Porcupines make love?”
Very carefully. In all virtual transactions the nice
elements of the physical are missing for the logic and
sense of the dealing must be heightened accordingly. The
speed and ease of use for communications of email and
blogs and chat sessions must be considered in light of
the topics within this realm of who we are dealing with.
If you have specific questions regarding this please make
use of the comments section following this article.

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As you are working on your network of contacts and people
that you communicate with; doesn’t it also make sense to not
only enjoy the time you get to spend with them, but also to
use the technology to help you with the process? It is in the
using of the technology that we want to ask you if it doesn’t
make good sense to keep track of things that matter to your
network connections.

We often speak of who, what, when, where, why/how as
the five W’s of effective communications and networks, so that
who is involved, what and when they are involved and where
they are involved from, are all worth noting. When you can
note particulars about people and use the system to keep track
of those types of information, you can help those people feel
that you are connected to their lives. Such connection helps
them feel an interest in your behalf. By using the system you
can effectively help others with such effects. An example of
this is the birthday note which arrives in the email. While
most people aren’t that excited about it, my sense is that it
is nice to receive a note saying “happy birthday.”

If you’ve received such a note, maybe you’d like to contribute
to the overall learning of this group by saying if it was a good
experience? Hard to imagine it not being good? Until the
next get together, in a few days, let’s think about how we
might use the technology we have to secure good stuff to
share with others…

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…final, I’ve made up my mind.” Those are words that can
go either way, they can be good, they can be bad. All depends
upon which way you are headed as a result of them. For
example, you wanted a raise, you talked it over with the
boss, you get called in and she says “This is…final, I’ve
made up my mind.” Are you gonna get the raise? Or
you might get a call from the Mayor’s office, the mayor
has been after you to work on a committee that she
believes you would be excellent on, and she begins
the conversation by saying, “This is…final, I’ve
made up my mind.” Are you gonna get her approval?

The point is much the same when this occurs:

What do you think Jesus was writing? The Bible
doesn’t say what he wrote, but it sure seems possible
that His mind was now made up? Is yours?

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We’ve been looking at judging this week,
we might even take it a bit further and
deeper next week, but for today I want to
take a little break away from the deep
and dark woods for today. We’ve been to
the parted path, seen the majestic snow
with absolutely no prints in it, blown
across ground that shows nothing beneath
the clear, crisp, delightfully pure white.

We’ve been into the depths a little about
what judging is, and is not; and the
personal aspect of it, and that gets deep
so today I thought we’d just lighten up
a bit, if that’s O.K. with you?

Somebody told me one time that the way
that sound travels is in waves, and
at about 186,000 feet per minute, light
multiplies that to 186,000 miles per
second; but that distance traveled
at that given rate for one year is
then called a light year.

Here is the mind bending part of that, it isn’t
a measure of time but of distance.

So when we say that the universe that we
detect light from is 473 million light
years distant, we are, nevertheless
measuring a passage of time. The
universe is not only very old, very
large
(beyond comprehension, which is,
by the way, what God describes Himself
as, beyond comprehension “Iam that Iam”
literally means, I was, I am now and
I will be Forever” Which is beyond
comprehension), and very beautiful,
the universe, somehow, is balanced.

What I mean by that is, when it all
works out, all the factors necessary
for you to be reading this as you are,
happened, and you are, reading this.

Balanced.

Hope you will ponder; that; in order for
that to take place, Martin Luther,
had to nail his 95 theses on the Wittenberg
castle door? The Guttenburg printing
press people had to get it printed up
and out to the people, as one of their
mass printing efforts?

Hope you’ll consider that in order for
that to have happened, the unified body
of worship, the general or “Catholic”
way, had to exist. That they had gotten
off course by claiming to be able to pray
loved ones out of purgatory for contributions
to the rector (called selling indulgences)
; a practice Luther found
without merit in scripture, which was
largely Latin. Few Greek texts survived
Diocletian who approximately 299 to 306 years
after the Ascension of Christ, actively
sought to destroy any Christian writings
or markings of any kind from the Roman Empire.

Hope you’ll ponder that the unified church
came about as methods of worship arose out of
the principally synagogue style of gathering
together to share the knowledge gleaned in
the process of revealed God interacting with man?

Hope you’ll ponder that; as that; was the style
then, so it is still today- and so, some
things just don’t change easily, no matter
how fast light travels!

Ponder that the next time you figure you
need to judge somebody.

That God who created all of this
has declared Himself to be solely capable of
judging sins- and then realize, you may judge
less, but we all sin from time to time.

Then as you are wondering about all of that,
and judging, realize that you were, as you
read it, judging. Life isn’t possible
without judging, and so, that really isn’t
what God meant when He said we aren’t to
be judging, what He likely meant,
(as God who made all of this is hard to fathom,
in my meager brain, I don’t know about
you, but God is so far beyond my ability
to comprehend, that I just read his word
and try to take it for what it says,
how about you?) so when God says to me
that I don’t need to be judging my brother;
it’s generic, it isn’t relegated to any
gender, and God means what He says.
I don’t think He winks at it, I don’t think He
“Aw shucks,” it as some would suggest, I
feel in my heart that to God judging is
very, very, important, and when it comes to
your sin, none of my business.

Why do I say that? Because Jesus said this:

Mat 5:22 “But I say unto you,
That whosoever is angry with his brother
without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:
and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca,
shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever
shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.”

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The bottle was falling – as fast as I could,
with every bit of strength I could muster,
I had to stop it. Grabbed for it, needed to
grip it- sure didn’t want Ketchup all over
the floor! Been there? Milk’s pretty rough
too- have you heard the old cliche’ about
spilled milk? Well, why not cry over it?

The fear that is in that moment can’t last
because either, the bottle will be gripped
by your hand, or the floor? Hmm…before
you have time to contemplate it, you’re
into the next, NEXT- a very interesting
place to be. I remember the Colonel I call
him; he had a car had the license plate
on it said, NEXT; it was a half Cadillac
and half Rolls Royce; guy was so wealthy
he had a Rolls chopped in half and somehow
a Cadillac front end was put on that
pup, he said he liked the Caddilac
transmission, but the ride of Rolls was
one of kind? That was one bizzare looking
car- but- that license plate, wow- that
was what stuck in my head, because he
explained it as a theory to life- NEXT!

He said, some will, some won’t, so what?
NEXT. He said if some wanted to follow,
great, next, if some didn’t, great, next,
if somebody wanted to do something, great,
next…he was always onto; next.

Without realizing it, he had put me onto a
course of HOPE- you see, hope is…NEXT!
I believe in next- a lot of people around me
don’t believe in next- they see what they
see as where they are, and they base what they
believe they are going into upon that, so
strongly, that they aren’t ready for NEXT-
even though it just might happen to them?
What about the person who goes to work
every day believing they are going to
experience the same ol’ mess? They really
believe that- they really do- so they
don’t say, “I love you,” to people they
love, they really do, they just don’t say
it, because they don’t believe anything is
going to be different, they believe it is
all going to remain the same…but ever since
that night when the Colonel explained that
license plate to me, life has been a steady
series of, NEXT- so I always try to let folks
know I love them; as a way of getting ready
for NEXT! You see, we are never ready for
disaster- not really- just as we are never
really ready for, success, not really. We
would like to think we are, but the truth
is, we aren’t- because we never really
know, and we can’t really, what is- NEXT!

So now the question becomes, what will you do with what you know?

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One of my favorite authors, who should be, our favorite author;
is Robert B. Parker, who wrote the famous Spenser for Hire series,
which many years back starred Robert Urich, who we lost to cancer,
sometime back; sadly- and Spenser for Hire was a great T.V. show,
Robert B. Parker is a fantastic author. Introduced this very important
“Morningside” to you that way, because I want to use a quote from
Mr. Parker’s work, it says what we are about so clearly:

“I can’t stand watching you pulled apart like this.
You love two things, …,and you have to
hurt one to help the other.” (”Mortal Stakes”-pg. 251)

Is that, judging?

NIV – Luk 16:13 –
“No servant can serve two masters.
Either he will hate the one and love
the other, or he will be devoted to the
one and despise the other. You cannot
serve both God and Money.”

Right now, you are judging me; and at the same
time, you are being judged- and putting yourself
into a position of being judged- writer and reader,
speaker and listener, any time there is relationship-
there is judging going on. So what can change that?

Ah hah, now you have a reason to catch this devotional
tomorrow- we’ll be here then…today let’s pray for
each other, we have lots to do, don’t we?

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(Do you know someone who needs to read this?)
It doesn’t feel good, guarantee you that, when somebody
comes down on you for no reason, it doesn’t feel good.
It forces you to make a choice, take a stand, be about
something or someone that you might not want to be, it
puts you in a position that you didn’t necessarily ask
for, nor want. Unless it is a position that you have
asked for, and do want?

So it is pretty direct, one way or the other,
when it comes to Jesus and being in a position
of being judged, get ready, one way or
the other you are going to be judged. But
who the judge is, you may not be ready for?

Now the really intriguing thing is,
how you feel right this instant, no, NO,
don’t dismiss that, instead, relate to it,
relate, to the feeling that is inside you at this
instant. Now let’s ask ourselves a very serious
question, what is being judged about? Where does
it really come from? Who really, is the judge that
we are being judged by? And so we approach the
throne of grace, but the question is, are we really
ready to approach that throne of grace?

Mat 5:23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar,
and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
Mat 5:24 Leave there thy gift before the altar,
and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother,
and then come and offer thy gift.

This isn’t to cloud the interpretation waters
on this one, but my heart really wants you to
hear this…hear the Shepard’s voice on this one:

Now take it just a teeny bit deeper – do we need to
be reconciled to our Brother? Hmm…

So we come to the crux, who is judging who about
what? When it comes to you, who is the judge?
Until tomorrow let’s pray for one another?

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