Photo for 06/01/2010

It is May 31, 2007 as we head up Pike’s Peak, Colorado...Quite a view from up here.....We’re getting higher and higher...In the upper left hand corner you can see one of the few remaining switchbacks.

Points To Ponder 06/01/2010

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POINTS TO PONDER:
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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides - David Viscott
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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FILL IN THE BLANK………. Judges 6:39-40 NIV

Then __________ said to God, "Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make the fleece dry and the ground covered with dew." That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.
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Here is a web link that you can use to look up the passages in the Bible Quizzes…….
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/
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Photo for 05/31/2010

It is May 31, 2007 as we head up Pike’s Peak, Colorado...Quite a view from up here.....We’re getting higher and higher...

Points To Ponder 05/31/2010

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"We learn the secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drive, our interest, and our attention to something outside ourselves." - Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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FILL IN THE BLANK………. Luke 13:10-13 NIV

On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for ______ years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.
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Photo for 05/30/2010

It is May 31, 2007 as we head up Pike’s Peak, Colorado...Quite a view from up here.....We’re getting higher and higher...

Points To Ponder 05/30/2010

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A modern world with no need of God produces modern people with no sense of gratitude.” Os Guinness
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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FILL IN THE BLANK………. What was the story behind this incident? Acts 20:9-10

Seated in a window was a young man named ___________, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "He's alive!" (NIV)
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Photo for 05/29/2010

It is May 31, 2007 as we head up Pike’s Peak, Colorado...Quite a view from up here.....We’re getting higher and higher...

Points To Ponder 05/29/2010

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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs from climbing it.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Who is the ‘he” in the passage below? What was the story behind this incident? I Kings 17:1ff

So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. (KJV)
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Photo for 05/28/2010

It is May 31, 2007 as we head up Pike’s Peak, Colorado...Quite a view from up here.....Once you get above the Denver area smog the sky is amazingly blue...

Points To Ponder 05/28/2010

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy - Martin Luther King
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blank. What was the story behind this incident? Genesis 19:1ff

But ______ wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (NIV)
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Photo for 05/27/2010

It's May 31, 2007 as we head up Pike’s Peak, Colorado...Quite a view from up here.....Once you get above the Denver area smog the sky is amazingly blue...

Points To Ponder 05/27/2010

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POINTS TO PONDER:
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How different things would be if we forget our problems as easily as we forget our blessings!
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Where did Jesus send Peter to get the tax money? Matthew 17:24-27

24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, "Doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax?"
25 "Yes, he does," he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. "What do you think, Simon?" he asked. "From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes-- from their own sons or from others?"
26 "From others," Peter answered. "Then the sons are exempt," Jesus said to him.
27 "But so that we may not offend them, go to . . . . . . . . (NIV)
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Photo for 05/26/2010

It is May 31, 2007 as we head up Pike’s Peak, Colorado...very quickly we are above timberline....

Points To Ponder 05/26/2010

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He who has tact has less to retract.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blank. What was the story behind this incident? I Kings 13:1ff

When King __________ heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, "Seize him!" But the hand he stretched out toward the man shriveled up, so that he could not pull it back. (NIV)
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Photo for 05/25/2010

Pike’s Peak as see from Colorado Springs, Colorado...It is May 31, 2007 and we are headed for the top...

Points To Ponder 05/25/2010

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It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons - William Gurnall
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Acts 28:1ff

But ________ shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god. (NIV)
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Photo for 05/24/2010

Pike’s Peak as see from Colorado Springs, Colorado...Tomorrow we head for the top...this was shot on May 30, 2007...

Points To Ponder 05/24/2010

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Give to a pig every time it grunts and to a child every time it wines, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Who threw the piece of wood into the water? Exodus 15:22-25

. . . . . and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. (NIV)
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Photo for 05/22/2010

Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad at Cripple Creek, Colorado.

Points To Ponder 05/23/2010

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Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it is good only for wallowing. - Katherine Mansfield
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Who delayed the Exodus of Israel at Hazeroth for seven days? What was the sin that caused the delay? Numbers 12:1ff

So __________ was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back. (NIV)
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Photo for 05/22/2010

Steel head frame of the Vindicator Mine at Victor, Colorado...

Points To Ponder 05/22/2010

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. - Albert Schweitzer
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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What is the miracle that is associated with the following Scripture? II Kings 4:42ff

A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. "Give it to the people to eat . . . . ."How can I set this before a hundred men?" his servant asked. . . . (NIV)
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Photo for 05/21/2010

Powder magazine near Victor, Colorado...

Points To Ponder 05/21/2010

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Where there has been no death there can be no resurrection. Only those prepared to die, are prepared to live.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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What is the miracle that is associated with the following Scripture? (John 5:1 and following)

When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" (NIV)
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Photo for 05/20/2010

The Vindicator Mine near Victor, Colorado...

Points To Ponder 05/20/2010

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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. - Martin Luther
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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What is the miracle that is associated with the following Scripture? Matthew 8:28-32

The demons begged Jesus, "If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs." He said to them, "Go!" So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water. (NIV)
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Photo for 05/19/2010

The Vindicator Mine near Victor, Colorado...

Points To Ponder 05/19/2010

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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being. - Francois Fenelon
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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What is the miracle that is associated with the following Scripture? II Kings 4:2

Tell me, what do you have in your house?" "Your servant has nothing there at all," she said, "except a little oil." (NIV)
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Photo for 05/18/2010

The American Eagles Mine near Victor, Colorado...

Points To Ponder 05/18/2010

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The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy, rather it tries to make us great enough for life. - James L Christensen
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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II Kings 2:11 (NIV) (Fill in the blank)

As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and _________ went up to heaven in a whirlwind. **********

Photo for 05/17/2010

Ornate street lights at Victor, Colorado....

Points To Ponder 05/17/2010

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Gems are found by sifting through tons of useless rocks.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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What was the occasion of this miracle? (II Kings 20)

9 And Isaiah said, "This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?"
10 So Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to decline ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten steps."
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD, and He brought the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz. (NAS)
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Photo for 05/16/2010

More buildings at the old mining town of Victor, Colorado....

Points To Ponder 05/16/2010

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No one can help everybody, but everybody can help somebody.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks……………… II Kings 13:21

Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man's body into ___________ tomb. When the body touched __________ bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet. (NIV)

The correct answer for yesterday’s quiz should have been.. II Kings 6:17-18
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Photo for 05/15/2010

Phantom Canyon takes us to the old mining town of Victor, Colorado....here is the old newspaper office...

Points To Ponder 05/15/2010

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Choice not chance, determines human destiny.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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What were the circumstances surrounding this miracle? II Kings 13:21

"O LORD, open his eyes so he may see." Then the LORD opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around them....
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Photo for 05/14/2010

Views of wildflowers along the old narrow gauge railroad bed in Phantom Canyon....Golden Banner...

Points To Ponder 05/14/2010

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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. -Albert Schweitzer
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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What was the miracle that is tied to the following Scripture passage: Matthew 15:22-28

Jesus replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
"Yes, Lord," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
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Photo for 05/13/2010

Views of wildflowers along the old narrow gauge railroad bed in Phantom Canyon....A Penrose....

Points To Ponder 05/13/2010

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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. - C.S. Lewis
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Matthew 8:14-15 (Fill in the blanks)

And when Jesus was come into ________ house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.

1. John’s
2. Philip’s
3. Peter’s
4. Matthew’s
5. Levi’s
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Photo for 05/12/2010

Views of wildflowers along the old narrow gauge railroad bed in Phantom Canyon....

Points To Ponder 05/12/2010

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As long as your focus is anywhere other than Jesus alone, you’re going to feel defeated in helplessness and hopelessness. - Anne Graham Lotz
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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In what town did Jesus stop a funeral procession and raise the dead person back to life? Luke 7:11..

1. Nazareth
2. Bethabara
3. Capernaum
4. Cana
5. Jerusalem
6. Nain
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Photo for 05/11/2010

Views from the old narrow gauge railroad bed in Phantom Canyon....

Points To Ponder 05/11/2010

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Walking in the light means following without compromise anything God shows you to do. - R.T. Kendall
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and ________ and __________; I have come that they may have __________, and have it to the full. (NIV)
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Photo for 05/10/2010

Some wildflowers as we head up the old narrow gauge railroad bed up Phantom Canyon to Victor.

Points To Ponder 05/10/2010

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Delays can actually be part of God’s purpose; seemingly unanswered prayer can be as much a part of God’s will as answered prayer. - R.T. Kendall
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Matthew 7:21-23 (NIV) (Fill in the blanks)

21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the ____________ of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?'
23 Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never ________ you. Away from me, you _______________!'
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Photo for 05/09/2010

We are going to trace a trip from a few years ago to the Pikes Peak, Cripple Creek and Victor areas of Colorado. This trip was done over Memorial Day weekend in 2007...Photos from other dates are included. Right now we are headed up the old narrow gauge railroad bed up Phantom Canyon to Victor.

Points To Ponder 05/09/2010

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As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it. - Hudson Taylor
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Luke 18:29-30 (Fill in the blanks)
29 "I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
30 will fail to receive many times as much in _______ age and, in the age to ________, eternal __________." (NIV)
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Photo for 05/08/2010

We are going to trace a trip from a few years ago to the Pikes Peak, Cripple Creek and Victor areas of Colorado. This trip was done over Memorial Day weekend in 2007...Photos from other dates are included. Right now we are headed up the old narrow gauge railroad bed up Phantom Canyon to Victor.

Points To Ponder 05/08/2010

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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. - C.S. Lewis
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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John 7:38 (Fill in the blank)

Whoever ____________ in me [Jesus], as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." (NIV)

Do you have streams of living water flowing from within you?
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Photo for 05/07/2010

Albino columbine in our backyard...

Points To Ponder 05/07/2010

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A Christian is a keyhole through which other folk see God.-Robert E Gibson.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Luke 4:17-21(Fill in the blanks)

17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him (Jesus). Unrolling it, He found the place where it is written:
18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach _______ ______ to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim __________ for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the ____________,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
20 Then He rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on Him,
21 and He began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." (NIV)
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Photo for 05/06/2010

A shot of a poppy our backyard...

Points To Ponder 05/06/2010

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You can’t fill an empty bucket from a dry well.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Luke 6:45 - The heart of the matter

The good man brings _________ things out of the __________ stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his __________ speaks. (NIV)

(Does your heart have some good stored up in it???)
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Photo for 05/05/2010

A shot of a red and yellow columbine in our backyard...

Points To Ponder 05/05/2010

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Don’t let the world blow out your candle.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new ________ and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your ________ of stone and give you a heart of ________. (NIV)
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Photo for 05/04/2010

Another shot of the snowball bush in our backyard...

Points To Ponder 05/04/2010

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Looking for God--or Heaven--by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters. - C.S. Lewis
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Trivia question

In what is commonly called the miracle of the “Draught of Fishes”…how many fish did John say they caught? (John 21:11)

A. 127
B. 99
C. 151
D. 153
E. 164
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Photo for 05/03/2010

Photo of a poppy taken in our backyard on May 1, 2010

Photo for 05/02/2010

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Too much complaining leaves little time for doing.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Proverbs 4:23

Above all else, guard your ______, for it is the ___________ of life. (NIV)
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