"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one."

In my father's house, there will be social liberals. If it were not so, I would have told you.

"What if when we die, we don't end, but spiritually our life extends on into eternity." -T.Keller

"Why do people say, 'I am not afraid of God b/c I know he is good?' Have they never been to a dentist?" -CS Lewis

DCC--Please pray for Virginia Gutierrez. Her daughter Lydia was murdered in TN today. She just received word; she had 3 sons. -Repost!-

No cross, no crown.

If it's "People vs. Pulpit," tension always shows up: http://ping.fm/na9OA

Listen to this week's sermon: Look like Jesus (1 of 2) http://ping.fm/XVHgf

Great article on the limits of radioactive dating and its inability to disprove creationism: http://ping.fm/16hJr

Great article on the limits of fossil dating to disprove creationism: http://ping.fm/Zo6zC

Temptation provides just as much an occasion to do the right thing as it does to do the wrong thing. Temptation is simply the choice.

Be Smart

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." M.Twain

Overhaul to the Podcast pages: Lots of pretty pics & downloads! www.podcast.billmesaeh.com (Now possum-free!)

Pain

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. – The Problem of Pain

Faith

"God made you so that you would not be able to see into the future no matter how much you try. Even with all the gimmicks to predict the future, you don't really know what's going to happen. Why did God do this? He did it so you would depend on Him." Rick Warren

Rich Christians

"In today's modern times, one out of every three people lives on less than $2 a day - 2.4 billion people total. That's impossible to comprehend. If a third of the world cannot afford one cup of Starbucks a day, that should matter to Christians." - The Green Bible (HarperOne, 2010)

Hatch

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." C.S. Lewis

Change!

A disciple is not someone who stays the same.

Gossip

If people will gossip with you, they will also gossip about you.

mini Me

"We have to keep pushing back toward the real process of making people into little Jesuses." -AND: The Church Gathered and Scattered

Mission

"In the absence of vision, pettiness prevails."

Band of Brothers

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."- Walt Disney Company

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.-GK Chesterson

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting, I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist. -Darwin

You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. Napoleon

Friendship is like peeing your pants... Everyone can see it but only you can feel the warmth.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies. -Mark Twain

"But I am captured by the Word of god and cannot find a way out. The words are there, and they are too strong for me. Human words cannot take them out of my soul." -Martin Luther

"If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me." -John Bunyan

God so loved the world that he sent his only son.

Believe.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. --GK Chesterson

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.--Mark Twain

Dolphins just like pushing stuff. --Dwight Schrute

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. --Mark Twain

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. --CS Lewis

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.--Eleanor Roosevelt

"I find your lack of faith disturbing." -Darth Vader