Please pray for me as I am hurting over the loss of a loved one gone too soon. I also ask that you be careful during this and any other flu season to come and that you pass this SERIOUS WARNING on to your family and friends!!! My nephew was a healthy young man in his 30s that was suffering from severe flu syptoms. Like many others across the country he decided to go to the hospital for help and was given some Theraflu medication. As a young man he was healthy, into working out when he was not running his own barber shop or remodeling his home which he was almost done with. He loved and enjoyed being with and helping out his family in any way that he could and he never had a history of suffering from depression. So how could someone like this in the prime of his life that was so focused on trying to better himself just up and decide to take his life? Well some of the more serious side effects of Theraflu that I never heard of until yesterday after my nephew was found dead in...

Forgiveness (What does it mean to you?)

 

For God so loves us all that He sent His son to die for our sins. This ultimate sacrifice made it possible for us to in a since get a clean slate. How do we use this chance to start fresh and can we learn to practice this form of grace? Of course we will never be as good at forgiveness as God but what can we do to ask for or to offer forgiveness and how do we go about doing it? What more do we need to do besides say I’m sorry or I forgive you? When you hurt someone, what do you do? When someone hurts you do you need to know all of the where, when, and why’s before you can forgive. From your experience does knowing everything help you to forgive or does it in some ways hender your willingness to completely forgive? Do you live by the motto “I forgive you but”, or have you learned to accept an apology without each complete detail knowing that too much information may just piss you off so you make the choice to just let go...

I come to you in the name of our Father in heaven. Not as a preacher or minister, but as a person who's trying to be a better man by excercising my faith. I know that it's by Gods grace that I still have life. Although I do not know God's complete purpose for me I'm learning how to pray better. Not just to ask God for what I want and need but more importantly to ask God for what he wants from me. In the process I'm developing better listening skills. After all prayer is just having a conversation with God and in any good conversation there's talking and listening. I've been asking God for guidance and I've started reading his word trying to get a better understanding of it. I know that God wants us to be productive and put in some work. To be productive we must have faith along with works. (James 2:14-17 says : Of what benefit is it, my brothers, if a certain one says he has faith but he does not have works? That faith can not save him can it? If a brother or a sister is naked and...

This poem is to give you something to think about Will I offer encouragement to someone in need To help their faith grow, will I plant the seed If I don't, maybe someone else will Will I offer shelter to someone in the rain Even when for myself, there's nothing to gain If I don't, maybe someone else will Will I give to a man, standing on the street A little of what I have, so that he can eat If I don't, maybe someone else will Will I extend my friendship to someone alone Knowing that they're new to a place, will I make them feel at home If I don't, maybe someone else will Will I pray for others, even when they don't ask me to Will I make it to heaven, by putting off what God wants me to do If I don't, maybe someone else will Knowing Jesus died for you, How do you feel Would you be the same if Christ had the attitude IF I DON'T, MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE WILL Written by Anonymous Sinner

Lord help me be a better soldier in your army Let me truly be all I can be Lord help me through the lost of my aunt Who was like a second mother to me Lord help me to make better choices Choosing your will over mine Lord help me to continue standing During these trying times Lord help me avoid the clubs and parties Although people say I don't have to drink Lord help me remember what my Dad told me SON STOP AND THINK Lord help me remember many are lost Time and time again Lord help me not to fall Trying to just fit in Lord help me to be strong Even when my flesh is weak Lord help me to change my thoughts About the girl down the street Lord help me to understand your word For I know your word is true And for the favor you keep showing me THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU written by Anonymous Sinner

Lord who am I That you would love Enough to send your son As if I was important As if I mattered As if I was someone Lord who am I That you would watch me As I went through my test Always by my side Never late with a delivery Of a way out of my mess Lord who am I That you would stand by And watch me as I smoked crack Not there to judge But to only show love While asking "Are you done with that?" And when I said yes Lord I need your help You were already reaching out your hand You said, I was always here Welcome home my child I see your down, let me help you stand Lord who am I That you will never leave me Even when I was wrong The Lord said You are my child That was once lost And I sent my son to bring you home written by Anonymous Sinner Do you know who you are?

I was taught a man should be strong
Not letting his feelings show
Even though nothings wrong
Sometimes tears start to flow

It was something I heard
While the preacher taught the word
That allowed me to clearly see

Through the scripture he chose
A truth was exposed
God cared for me

Am I truly blessed
The answer is yes
This much I know is true

That life is full of tests, according to your faith
What He's done for others
 He'll do for you

There's a cure for addictions "In the blood"
It's always been there, in plain sight
At first I couldn't find it, in Gods word
Because I wasn't reading it wright

I prayed for a better understanding
And God answered my prayers
He sent books to read and preachers to teach
Just to show He cared

That I was in a bad situation
For the devil had me bound
I was once lost to addictions
Because of Gods grace I've now been found

To God I give...

I am the reason for this season

As we celebrate a life

Of a Saviour that came for only one reason

On a silient and holy night

 

He came as Gods gift

A present, both now and then

Seeking out souls to lift

Of lost women and men

 

I'm grateful for the birth

Of a man who gave His life

The ony one to ever walk the earth 

That did everything right

 

Though He was punished out of hatred and spite

To do Gods will was the decision He chose

He paid for my sins with His life

But on the third day, from death He arose

 

As I go to and from worship

I'll give thanks because I understand

That I am the reason and the purpose

FOR THE HOLES IN HIS HANDS.

Written by Anonymous Sinner

 

Happy Ressurection Day