Photo for 05/01/2011

Miniature Pansies in our front yard...Photo was taken today..

Points To Ponder 05/01/2011

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God will not make me think like Jesus, I have to do it myself; I have to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ – Oswald Chambers
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 11:27-30 (NIV)
27 This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. 29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was ________; she had no __________.
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Photo for 04/30/2011

Sweet Potato Vine...shot several years ago in our backyard...

Points To Ponder 04/30/2011

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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. - D.L. Moody
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 11:10-26 (NIV)

10 This is the account of Shem........[if you read verses 10-23 you will see that Abram or Abraham comes from the line of Shem, the first born son of Noah]

........24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah. 25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of _______, Nahor and Haran.
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Photo for 04/29/2011

I was getting ready to grill me a piece of chicken for dinner when I noticed some scatted sunshine on this Columbine...so I grabbed my camera and got this shot.. :0)

Points To Ponder 04/29/2011

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Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 11:5-8 (NIV)

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their _______ so they will not understand each other."

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called ________ because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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Photo for 04/27/2011

Day Lilly in our backyard...this was shot last year :0)

Points To Ponder 04/27/2011

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Even a fish would not be caught if he learned to keep his mouth shut.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 11:1-4 (NIV)

1 Now the whole world had one ________ and a common _______. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
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Photo for 04/25/2011

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

Points To Ponder 04/25/2011

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"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 9:8-17 (NIV)

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you — the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you — every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my ________- in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the _______ appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the ________ appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."
17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."
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Photo for 04/24/2011

Rose of Sharon in our yard....

Points To Ponder 04/24/2011

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Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!
Today is special.....live and savor every moment.....this is not a dress rehearsal.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 9:4-7 (NIV)

4 "But you must not eat meat that has its __________ still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."
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Photo for 04/23/2011

Vinca Vine in our backyard....photo taken today....

Points To Ponder 04/23/2011

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"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."- Michelangelo
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 9:1-3 (NIV)

9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that _____ and _____ will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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Photo for 04/22/2011

Snowball bush in our yard...

Points To Ponder 04/22/2011

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Telling a lie is the worst offense because it is foundational for all other evil acts. Every sin or crime begins with someone believing or speaking a lie. Even if the lie is as simple as "I can get what I want if I lie," paves the way for evil.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 8:18-22 (NIV)

18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds — everything that moves on the earth — came out of the ark, one kind after another.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, ________ and ¬¬¬¬________ will never cease."
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Photo for 04/21/2011

Bleeding hearts in our backyard...

Points To Ponder 04/21/2011

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I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 8:13-17 (NIV)

13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the __________-_________ day of the _________ month the earth was completely dry.

15 Then God said to Noah, 16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you — the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground — so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it."
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Photo for 04/20/2011

Columbine in our backyard...

Points To Ponder 04/20/2011

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Whenever the going seems easy, best be sure you're not going downhill.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 8:6-12 (NIV)

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked _______ _______! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
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Photo for 04/19/2011

Iris in our backyard...

Points To Ponder 04/19/2011

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Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don’t.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 8:1-5 (NIV)

8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a _____ over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
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Points To Ponder 04/18/2011

Roses at the Legler Barn Museum...

Points To Ponder 04/18/2011

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Hummm... In any argument....... those with the greater intelligence are always wrong, because they do not use their intelligence to avoid the argument in the first place.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 7:21-24 (NIV)

21 Every living thing that moved on the earth perished — birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

24 The waters flooded the earth for a _______ and ______ days.
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Photo for 04/17/2011

A big bee at the Christa McAuliffe Elementary School...

Points To Ponder 04/17/2011

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When it comes to Christianity “almost” isn’t enough. It isn’t enough to almost believe in Jesus or follow Him! In eternity it won’t count for anything! - Bob Coy
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 7:17-20 (NIV)

17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than _______ feet.
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Photo for 04/16/2011

A bug in a flower at Shawnee Mission Park...

Points To Ponder 04/16/2011

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Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 7:13-16 (NIV)

13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the _______ shut him in.
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Photo for 04/15/2011

Pink Columbine in our backyard...

Points To Ponder 04/15/2011

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Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 7:11-12 (NIV)

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month — on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth ______ days and _______ nights.
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Photo for 04/14/2011

At the Deanna Rose Farmstead in Olathe, KS....

Points To Ponder 04/14/2011

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Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 7:6-10 (NIV)

6 Noah was ____ hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after the _______ days the floodwaters came on the earth.

Photo for 04/13/2011

A “Painted Lady” at the Legler Barn Museum...

Points To Ponder 04/13/2011

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One of the attractions for dog owners is that "man's best friend" is ever loyal, no matter how badly one behaves in the world. Dogs don't care how you look, or about the stupid things you say. And they never have to forgive you because they don't get mad at you. One pet owner offered the following prayer: "Lord, please make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am."
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 7:1-5 (NIV)

7:1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you ________ of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also ________ of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 ________ days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."

5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
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Photo for 04/12/2011

In our backyard...

Points To Ponder 04/12/2011

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 6:16-22 (NIV)

16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark — you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark _____ of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."

22 Noah did _____________ just as God commanded him.
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Points To Ponder 04/11/2011

Flowers at the Legler Barn Museum...

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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. - Martin Luther King, Jr
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 6:11-15 (NIV)

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be _____ feet long, ___ feet wide and ___ feet high.
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Photo for 04/10/2011

Tulips at the Christa McAuliffe Elementary School...

Points To Ponder 04/10/2011

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Those who think it is okay to tell white lies soon become color blind.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 6:9-10 (NIV)

9 This is the account of Noah.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: _______, ______ and _________.
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Photo for 04/09/2011

A flowering bush in my neighbor’s yard :0)

Points To Ponder 04/09/2011

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The people most occupied with titles and status are usually the least deserving of them.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 6:4-8 (NIV)

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days — and also afterward — when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them." 8 But _____ found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
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Photo for 04/08/2011

Another picture of Bradford Pear Trees on the way to church on Wednesday evening...this is the back entrance to “Theatre in the Park” at Shawnee Mission Park...

Points To Ponder 04/08/2011

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Hummmmm.....A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen.....But the interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this: Those who disliked the largest number of people were themselves the most widely disliked.

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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 6:1-3 (NIV)

6:1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a ___________ and _________ years."

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Photo for 04/07/2011

I shot this on the way to church this evening...this is the back entrance to “Theatre in the Park” at Shawnee Mission Park...

Points To Ponder 04/07/2011

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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. - Dwight L Moody.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 5:28-32 (NIV)

28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. 29 He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed." 30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. 31 Altogether, Lamech lived 777 years, and then he died.

32 After Noah was _____ years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
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Points To Ponder 04/06/2011

Tulips at the Christa McAuliffe Elementary School...

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The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 5:25-27 (NIV) Methuselah lived the longest of anyone recorded in the Bible...How old was he when he died?

25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. 26 And after he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. 27 Altogether, Methuselah lived _____ years, and then he died.
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Photo for 04/05/2011

Tulips at the Legler Barn Museum...

Points To Ponder 04/05/2011

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. - G.K. Chesterton
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 5:21-24 (NIV)

21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because ______ took him away.
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Photo for 04/04/2011

Flowering apple tree......

Points To Ponder 04/04/2011

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Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead of you.
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 5:1-5 (NIV)

We’re not going to look at the entire family history listed in chapter 5...but we will hit a few of the more notable parts :0)

5:1 This is the written account of Adam's line.

When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man."

3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived _____ years, and then he died.
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Photo for 04/03/2011

Close up of Bradford Pear blooms......

Points To Ponder 04/03/2011

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No one is immune from making foolish statements. One of France's greatest thinkers, Voltaire, once said that in 100 years the Bible would be a forgotten book, found only in museums. However, the Bible continues to be the all time best seller and when 100 years were up Voltaire's home became the headquarters of the Geneva Bible Society... :0)
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Fill in the blanks. Genesis 4:25-26 (NIV)

25 Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him _______, saying, "God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him." 26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the name of the LORD.
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Photo for 04/02/2011

Crocus in our backyard...

Points To Ponder 04/02/2011

********** POINTS TO PONDER: ********** Whenever a man is ready to uncover his sins, God is always ready to cover them. ********** BIBLE QUIZ: ********** Fill in the blanks. Genesis 4:19-22 (NIV) 19 Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise __________. 21 His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the _____ and flute. 22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of ______ and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah. **********