Photo for 04/01/2011

Redbud trees at Shawnee Mission Park...

Points To Ponder 04/01/2011

********** POINTS TO PONDER: ********** Reputation is what people think you are. ********** BIBLE QUIZ: ********** Fill in the blanks. Genesis 4:17-18 (NIV) 17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to _____. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son _____. 18 To _____ was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech. **********

Photo for 3/31/2011

Redbud tree blossoms....

Points To Ponder 03/31/2011

********** POINTS TO PONDER: ********** Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow. - Theodore Epp ********** BIBLE QUIZ: ********** Fill in the blanks. Genesis 4:13-16 (NIV) 13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." 15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a _______ on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of _____, east of Eden. **********

Photo for 3/30/2011

Redbud tree blossoms....

Points To Ponder 03/30/2011

********** POINTS TO PONDER: ********** God's answers are wiser than our prayers. ********** BIBLE QUIZ: ********** Fill in the blank. Genesis 4:9-12 (NIV) 9 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's _________?" 10 The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." **********

Photo for 3/29/2011

Red Bud trees...

Points To Ponder 03/29/2011

********** POINTS TO PONDER: ********** Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ********** BIBLE QUIZ: ********** Fill in the blanks. Genesis 4:8 (NIV) 8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and _____ him. **********

Points To Ponder 03/28/2011

Jonquils blooming....

Points To Ponder 03/28/2011

********** POINTS TO PONDER: ********** No two Christians will ever meet for the last time. ********** BIBLE QUIZ: ********** Fill in the blanks. Genesis 4:6-7 (NIV) 6 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, ____ is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it." **********

Photo for 3/27/2011

Star Magnolia Tree in bloom in my neighbors yard...This was shot on 4/5/2005...However, it has been blooming like this for the past several days...However, I’ll be surprised if the blooms make it through the night as we are supposed to get below freezing for the next couple of nights :0(

Points To Ponder 03/27/2011

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The first rule of holes: When you’re in one stop digging.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 4:2-5 (NIV)

Now Abel kept _______, and Cain worked the _______. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
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Photo for 3/26/2011

These same Bradford Pear trees were shot on March 29, 2009 over at the entrance to “Theater in the Park”...needless to say the freeze got most everything that spring...

Points To Ponder 03/26/2011

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Everyone recognizes that Stephen [Acts 6:5ff] was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death. - Leonard Ravenhill
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 4:1-2 (NIV)

4:1 Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to _______. She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man." 2 Later she gave birth to his brother _______.
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Photo for 3/25/2011

Well...I have exhausted my Eureka Springs photos...so for now let’s look at some local photographs. These Bradford Pear trees were shot on April 5, 2010 over at the entrance to “Theater in the Park”.

Points To Ponder 03/25/2011

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Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren. - Martin Luther
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 3:21-24 (NIV)

21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden _________ and a flaming _______ flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
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Ozark duplex for rent...on the way back from Eureka Springs, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/24/2011

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A hope unaccompanied with a godly life had better be given up, and the sooner the better; for, if retained, it will prove as a spider's web when God shall take away the soul. - James H. Aughey
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 3:20 (NIV)

20 Adam named his wife ______, because she would become the mother of all the living.
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Photo for 03/23/2011

White-breasted Nuthatch at Eureka Springs, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/23/2011

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The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love. - Clarence Jordan
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 3:17-19 (NIV)

17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,'
"Cursed is the ________ because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return”.
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Photo for 03/22/2011

Red-bellied Woodpecker at Eureka Springs, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/22/2011

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"What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination." - Zig Ziglar
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 3:16 (NIV)

16 To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in _______________; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
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Photo for 03/21/2011

In case you weren’t aware, last night the moon was a Perigee Moon...what that means is the moon was 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal....it will not be that close to the earth again until 2029...the last time it was this close was in 1993. The photo was shot with a 480mm lens equivalent at f/5.6 @ 1/250 of a second with the ISO set to 100.

Points To Ponder 03/21/2011

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We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen. - Oswald Chambers
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 3:13-15 (NIV)

13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?"
The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this,
"Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your _______ and you will eat ______ all the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
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Photo for 03/20/2011

Here’s a bird with a strange name...it is called a Tufted Titmouse..... at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/20/2011

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The most disappointed people in the world are those who get what is coming to them.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 3:10-12 (NIV)

10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
11 And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
12 The man said, "The ________ you put here with me — ____ gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
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Photo for 03/19/2011

Rose-breasted Grosbeak at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/19/2011

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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 3:68-9 (NIV)

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they ____ from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"
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Photo for 03/18/2011

Downy Woodpecker at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/18/2011

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Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil....it has no point.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 3:6-7 (NIV)

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her __________, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed ____ leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
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Photo for 03/17/2011

Another sunset over Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/17/2011

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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times. God is forever what at that moment, three thousand years ago, He told Moses that He was. - J.I. Packer
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 3:1-5 (NIV)

1 Now the serpent was more _______ than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'"
4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing ______ and ______."
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Photo for 03/16/2011

Here is another shot of a Turkey Vulture...right overhead at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/16/2011

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It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 2:23-25 (NIV)

23 The man said, ’This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called '_________,' for she was taken out of man."
24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
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Photo for 03/15/2011

Another Indigo Bunting at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/15/2011

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them. - Charles West.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 2:20 (NIV)

.......But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's _____ and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
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Photo for 03/14/2011

Turkey vulture at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/14/2011

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -Abraham Lincoln.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Pick the correct answer: Genesis 2:19

Who gave the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air their names?

• God
• Eve
• Adam
• Cain
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Photo for 03/13/2011

Fox at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/13/2011

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The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 2:18-18

18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be ________. I will make a helper suitable for him."
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Photo for 03/12/2011

Indigo bunting at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/12/2011

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He that boasts of being one of God's elect, while he is willfully and habitually living in sin, is only deceiving himself, and talking wicked blasphemy. - J.C. Ryle
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 2:15-17 (NIV)

15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of _______ and ______, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
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Photo for 03/11/2011

Swallowtail butterfly at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/11/2011

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God sends you flowers every spring. Thank Him
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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 03/10/2011

Red bird (Cardinal) at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/10/2011

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Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 2:4-7

When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens — 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground — 7 the LORD God formed the man from the ________ of the ________ and breathed into his nostrils the breath of _______, and the man became a living being.
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Photo for 03/09/2011

Sunset over Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/09/2011

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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
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And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning — the ___________ day.

What day of creation was this?
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Genesis 1:6-8
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Points To Ponder 03/08/2011

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Some marriages may be made in heaven, but they ALL have to be maintained on earth.
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1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, ...................

Based on Genesis chapter 1...On what day did God create the MOON?

Genesis 1:1-31 NIV
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Photo for 03/07/2011

A raccoon at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/07/2011

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Heaven goes by favor: if it went by merit, you would stay out, and your dog would go in.
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1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, ...................

Based on Genesis chapter 1...On what day did God create RACCOONS?

Genesis 1:1-3 NIV
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Photo for 03/06/2011

A turkey vulture over Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/06/2011

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Life has many choices. Eternity has two. What's yours?
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, ...................
Based on Genesis chapter 1...On what day did God create TURKEY VULTURES?

Genesis 1:1-3 NIV
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Photo for 03/05/2011

A view from the deck of the cabin we stay in at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...The island out there is where we have camped.

Points To Ponder 03/05/2011

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Nothing so furthers our prayer life as the feeling of helplessness. - Ole Hallesby
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50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. 51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into -__________. 52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. 53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.

Luke chapter 24 (NIV)
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Photo for 03/04/2011

Sunrise at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...Hey...I do get up early once in awhile :0)

Points To Ponder 03/04/2011

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He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.
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45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the ________ until you have been clothed with power from on high."

Luke chapter 24 (NIV)
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Photo for 03/03/2011

The cabin we stay in is located just above this bluff at Beaver Lake, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/03/2011

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Just remember you’re unique just like everyone else.
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BIBLE QUIZ:
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44 He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the __________."

Luke chapter 24 (NIV)
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Photo for 03/02/2011

Houses built on the cliffs along the streets in Eureka Springs, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/02/2011

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People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. - Pearl Bailey
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40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and _____ it in their presence.

Luke chapter 24 (NIV)
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Photo for 03/01/2011

Old sign on a brick wall in Eureka Springs, Arkansas...

Points To Ponder 03/01/2011

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If a man can be found faithful in hard places, he can usually be trusted in high places.
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37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a _______. 38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."

Luke chapter 24 (NIV)
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