Photo for 07/02/2008

A pink with white center columbine.. This picture was shot this spring in our front yard.

Points To Ponder 07/02/2008

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PTP: He came to pay a debt He didn't owe because we owed a debt we couldn't pay.
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BIBLE QUIZ: Fill in the blank(s). Luke chapter 17 (NIV)
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26 "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and _______________them all.
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Photo for 07/01/2008

Hollyhock…. This picture was shot this spring at the Christa McAuliffe Elementary School, Lenexa, Kansas.

Points To Ponder 07/01/2008

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PTP: How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. - C. S. Lewis
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BIBLE QUIZ: Fill in the blank(s). Luke chapter 17 (NIV)
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22 Then he said to his disciples, "The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. 23 Men will tell you, 'There he is!' or 'Here he is!' Do not go running off after them. 24 For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. 25 But ________ he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
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Photo for 06/30/2008

All purple Columbine in our backyard…

Points To Ponder 06/30/2008

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PTP: Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. - C. W. Cerar
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BIBLE QUIZ: Fill in the blank(s). Luke chapter 17 (NIV)
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20 Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, 21 nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within ______."
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Photo for 06/29/2008

Daylilies……at Michael and Nikki’s house (our son and his wife)…..This was shot just a short time before sundown when deep shadows were behind the flowers...

Points To Ponder 06/29/2008

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PTP: If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. - C. S. Lewis
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BIBLE QUIZ: Fill in the blank(s). Luke chapter 17 (NIV)
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15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. 16 He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him-and he was a Samaritan.

17 Jesus asked, "Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18 Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this _________?" 19 Then he said to him, "Rise and go; your faith has made you well."
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Photo for 06/28/2008

All white Columbine in our backyard…

Points To Ponder 06/28/2008

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PTP: The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate. - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, moralist and essayist (1715-1747)
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BIBLE QUIZ: Fill in the blank(s). Luke chapter 17 (NIV)
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11 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"

14 When he saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And as they _______, they were __________.
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Photo for 06/27/2008

This picture was shot this spring at the Christa McAuliffe Elementary School, Lenexa, Kansas.

Points To Ponder 06/27/2008

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PTP: May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion. -Thomas Jefferson
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BIBLE QUIZ: Fill in the blank(s). Luke chapter 17 (NIV)
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7 "Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, 'Come along now and sit down to eat'? 8 Would he not rather say, 'Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink'? 9 Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are ____________ servants; we have only done our duty.'"
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