Photo for 07/24/2010

We’re crossing the stream as we head into the ghost town of Geneva which is located off of Guanella Pass, Colorado....The cabin that was featured the last three days is just to the left of the Jeep. Notice in the upper right background of this photo the remains of a cabin...tomorrow we will see what that cabin looked like in 1985.This picture was shot in 2005...

Points To Ponder 07/24/2010

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When a person is no longer anxious to do better, that person is done for.
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Fill in the blanks. What were the circumstances behind this incident? Genesis 32:30-31(NIV)

So ___________ called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared." The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his ______.
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Photo for 07/23/2010

We’re in the ghost town of Geneva which is located off of Guanella Pass, Colorado. Note...this is what the inside of the cabin looked like when I photographed it in 1985. Quite different than what we saw yesterday...

Points To Ponder 07/23/2010

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"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." - C.S. Lewis
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 11:26-29 (NIV)

After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was _________, and the name of Nahor's wife was _________; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
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Photo for 07/22/2010

Inside an old miners cabin at the ghost town of Geneva which is located off of Guanella Pass, Colorado. These pictures were shot in 2005...

Points To Ponder 07/22/2010

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No matter how much a man achieves, it is never enough. He has to go out tomorrow and do it all again. - John Eldredge
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 2:10-14 (NIV)

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the _________; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there). The name of the second river is the _________; it winds through the entire land of Cush. The name of the third river is the __________; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the ___________.
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Photo for 07/21/2010

Old miners cabin at the ghost town of Geneva which is located off of Guanella Pass, Colorado. These pictures were shot in 2005...Santa Fe peak in the background...

Points To Ponder 07/21/2010

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"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." - C.S. Lewis
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Fill in the blanks. Acts 19:13-16 (NIV)

Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, "In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out." Seven sons of ________, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. [One day] the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and I know about _______, but who are you?" Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
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Photo for 07/20/2010

Small alpine lake en route to the old ghost town of Geneva which is located off of Guanella Pass, Colorado. These pictures were shot in 2005...Santa Fe peak in the background...

Points To Ponder 07/20/2010

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"Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies--these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either." - C.S. Lewis
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Recently we had a Bible Trivia Challenge at church (on a Wednesday evening)...I did well, but one question I missed embarrassed me so I decided to remedy the problem. The question was to list the 10 commandments in order...we didn’t have to have all the exact detail...but enough to show we knew what they were...So I came up with an acrostic to help me remember them in order. I had it memorized in five minutes...maybe you will also find it helpful :0) This is based on the NKJV translation.

O = You shall have no other gods before Me.
I = You shall not make for yourself a carved image (or idol).......
V = You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain
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S = Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy....
H = Honor your father and your mother....
M = You shall not murder.
A = You shall not commit adultery.
S = You shall not steal.
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W = You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
C = You shall not covet your neighbor's.......

Photo for 07/19/2010

We are now going to take a quick trip to the old ghost town of Geneva which is located off of Guanella Pass, Colorado. These pictures were shot in 2005...Waterfall en route...

Points To Ponder 07/19/2010

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"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed." — C.S. Lewis
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 6:3

At first people on the earth lived long lives:

• Enoch lived 365 years.
• Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.
• Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
However, God became frustrated with man and limited his years:
Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a _________ years."
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Photo for 07/18/2010

Colorado Columbine in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado)...

Points To Ponder 07/18/2010

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Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against "tomorrow".
You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest your life in things that will have an eternal value. The clock is running.
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Fill in the blanks. Revelation 4:11 (NIV)

"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive _________ and ___________ and _____________, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."
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Photo for 07/17/2010

We are in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado)...

Points To Ponder 07/17/2010

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The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made. - Norman Vincent Peale
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Psalm 147:3 (NIV)

He heals the _______________ and binds up their wounds.
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Photo for 07/16/2010

We are in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado)...

Points To Ponder 07/16/2010

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To be like Christ is to be a Christian. - Daniel Webster
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Fill in the blanks. Exodus 34:29-30 (NIV)

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was _____________ because he had spoken with the LORD. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was ____________, and they were afraid to come near him.
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Photo for 07/15/2010

We are in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado)...

Points To Ponder 07/15/2010

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Graciousness is shown by what you don’t say, even if what you could say would be true. - R.T. Kendall
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Fill in the blanks. Exodus 34:29-30 (NIV)

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was _____________ because he had spoken with the LORD. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was ____________, and they were afraid to come near him.
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Points To Ponder 07/14/2010

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If you don't stretch your limits, you'll set your limits.
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Fill in the blanks. What were the circumstances behind this incident? Joshua 10:11 (NIV)

As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the LORD hurled large ____________ down on them from the sky, and more of them died from the _____________ than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.
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Photo for 07/14/2010

We are in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado)...Indian Paintbrush..

Photo for 07/13/2010

We are in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado)...

Points To Ponder 07/13/2010

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The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth, you regain your perspective and find renewed strength. - Warren Wiersbe
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Fill in the blanks. Who was the man of God? II Kings 4:42-44

A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God __________ loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. "Give it to the people to eat," ________ said."How can I set this before a hundred men?" his servant asked. But ________ answered, "Give it to the people to eat. For this is what the LORD says: 'They will eat and have some left over.'" Then he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. (NIV)
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Photo for 07/12/2010

We are in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride,Colorado)...Colorado Columbines...

Points To Ponder 07/12/2010

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You are never a great man when you have more mind than heart. - Beauchene
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Fill in the blanks. What were the circumstances behind this incident?
1 Samuel 5:1-5 (NIV)

After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Then they carried the ark into Dagon's temple and set it beside Dagon. When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his _______ on the ground before the ark of the LORD! They took Dagon and put him back in his place. But the following morning when they rose, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD! His head and hands had been __________ off and were lying on the threshold; only his body remained. . .
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Photo for 07/11/2010

We are in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado)...

Points To Ponder 07/11/2010

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When we are indignant over someone else’s wickedness, there is the real possibility either that we are self-righteous or that we have no objectivity about ourselves. - R.T. Kendall
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Fill in the blank. What were the circumstances behind this incident? Numbers 16:31-33 (NIV)

As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all ________ men and all their possessions. They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.
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Photo for 07/10/2010

We are in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado).........At lot of waterfalls :0)

Points To Ponder 07/10/2010

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There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed. - Hannah More
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Fill in the blanks. II Kings 2:19-22 (NIV)

The men of the city said to Elisha, "Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive." Bring me a _____ bowl," he said, "and put ______ in it." So they brought it to him. Then he went out to the spring and threw the ________ into it, saying, "This is what the LORD says: 'I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.'" And the water has remained wholesome to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken.
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Photo for 07/09/2010

As you probably gathered from the photo yesterday...we are no longer in Kansas...rather we are on a trip to Colorado :0) We are in the area around Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado).........

Points To Ponder 07/09/2010

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"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." - C.S. Lewis
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II Kings 5:27 (NIV)

Naaman's leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever." Then Gehazi went from Elisha's presence and he was leprous, as white as snow.

What did Gehazi do to bring upon himself and his decedents the curse of leprosy?
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Photo for 07/08/2010

As you probably gathered from the photo yesterday...we are no longer in Kansas...rather we are on a trip to Colorado :0) We are at the top of Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado).........

Points To Ponder 07/08/2010

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"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened. " - C.S. Lewis
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Some of you asked about the acrostic for remembering the 12 disciples...here it is...

Matthew 10:2-4 NIV

2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; 3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 4 Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

2 P = Peter and Philip
B = Bartholomew
4 J =James and John (brothers), James son of Alphaeus, Judas Iscariot.
M = Matthew the tax collector
A = Andrew (brother of peter)
T = Thaddaeus
T = Thomas
S = Simon the Zealot
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Points To Ponder 07/07/2010

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Kindness is a hard thing to give away. It usually comes back to you.
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Fill in the blanks. Mark 7:32-35(NIV)

There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on the man. After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his __________ into the man's ears. Then he ______ and touched the man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, "Ephphatha!" (which means, "Be opened!"). At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.
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Photo for 07/07/2010

The road to Ingram Pass (goes between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado).........

Photo for 07/06/2010

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard duck at the lake at Legler Barn Muesem......

Points To Ponder 07/06/2010

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If you're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.
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Fill in the blanks. Which disciple was missing? Mark 16:14-16 (NIV)

Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen. He said to them, "Go into ____ the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not __________ will be condemned.
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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 07/05/2010

Roses at the Legler Barn Museum...

Points To Ponder 07/05/2010

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A man who wants to lead an orchestra must turn his back to the crowd. - Max Lucado
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Fill in the blanks. Whose faith allowed the paralytic to be healed? Mark 2:1-5 (NIV)

A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an ____________ in the _______ _________ Jesus and, after __________ through it, ___________ the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When Jesus saw ______ faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
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Photo for 07/04/2010

Happy Independence Day......

Points To Ponder 07/04/2010

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Many books can inform, but only the Bible can transform.
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Fill in the blanks. How many came back to praise God? Luke 17:11-19

Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!" When he saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed. ______ of them, . . . . . . . . . . , came back, praising God in a loud voice.
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Photo for 07/03/2010

Monarch coming in for al landing...

Points To Ponder 07/03/2010

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"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." — C.S. Lewis
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Fill in the blanks. James 1:22-24 (NIV)

Do not merely _________ to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a _________ and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately __________ what he looks like.
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Photo for 07/02/2010

Purple cone flowers...”One among many”...at the entrance to Shawnee Mission ark...I shot this yesterday....

Photo for 07/02/2010

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Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don't say it mean.
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What was the point of this illustration? Luke 18:1ff (NIV)

He [Jesus] said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.' "For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!'"
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