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We are the "oyayubi sedai"
2008-01-03 19:10:00
That's what the young people in Japan are called and the title fits for people around the world. Translated it means "The Thumb Generation". Albert Mohler reports that we are using our opposable thumbs like no previous generation. Click here for an interesting read on the cellular phone generation.

1/2/07 - Life Journal - The Fall
2008-01-03 17:36:00
...she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.Genesis 3:6That's it right there. The death sentence for millions over the ages. The first time man uses his free will to make a decision he screws it up. This one act enslaves us all to sin for eternity and separates us from the Father. Not fair you say? You weren't there? Well that's true but I guarantee you've been screwing it up yourselves, I sure know I have. One bite of the apple and we lost the image of God we were first created in and became just as wicked as the world we are exiled in. (It's kinda condemning to all us men that Adam was the first to use the old, "Wasn't me, didn't do it, it was her" excuse. I guess it's wired into our system.)The awesome thing here is that it is all in God's overreaching plan for us. Instead of robots he now has people that can make a choice to be with Him or against Him. A true love between Father and child, not a forced love from o...
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Life Journal Make Up (cont.)
2008-01-03 17:00:00
Click here for December 11th's entry
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Ansley Michelle...
2008-01-02 18:34:00
...and the power of a community of believers prayer.On Monday, December 31st, Ansley Michelle came into this world. She is the daughter of my pastor Adam Mayfield and his wife Lora. She was 1 lb. 15 oz. That's correct, 1 lb. 15 oz. You see, she wasn't due to be born until February but God had other plans for her. Lora entered the hospital this past Saturday after some routine tests revealed that she had preeclampsia which is a narrowing of the blood vessels restricting the flow of blood to her major organs. Normally this isn't quite the emergency situation but with her symptoms accelerating the doctor's determined that her case had progressed to H.E.L.L.P. Syndrome which is a life-threatening obstetric complication considered by many to be a variant of pre-eclampsia. With this news it became obvious that we would be meeting Ansley even sooner than we expected. The only question being how long could she stay in the womb. Ansley was never in immediate danger but it was becoming se...

Life Journal Make Up Time (cont.)
2008-01-02 18:09:00
Click here for December 8th's entry...here for December 9th's entry...and here for December 10th's entry
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1/1/08 - Life Journal - Lord, Thank You for My Eve
2008-01-02 01:18:00
The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."Genesis 2:18Seems like a no duh situation now, but God definitely used his omniscience on this occasion. Bad enough what happens with the snake with Eve calling the shots. Imagine what would have happened if Adam was left to his own devices? New Years Day is a great time to remember how important our wives are to each of us. We can boast all we want about bringing home the bacon and all that but stay at home mom or full time worker, our wives are the CEO's of our households. Everything would get messy real quick without them around.....getting the family up - dressed - and out of the house, running any errands needed, keeping everything in order, making sure we all have clean underwear, keeping the frig stocked and food on the table, seeing to all the school situations, keeping a smile on her face when we say what a tough day we've had, loving us no matter how big of an idiot we are ...
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Make Up Time (cont.)
2007-12-29 05:55:00
Click here for December 7th's entry
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12/28/07 - Life Journal - Our Tears Will Be Wiped Away
2007-12-29 05:45:00
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water,and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."Revelation 7:17What an awesome day it will be, when we stand before Him in our robes of white, getting our first taste of the living water that gives us eternal life with Him. No more sorrows or pain. The tears will be wiped away!There's a lot of suffering and injustice in this world. Not many days pass without a bit of heartache but the promise we have received from Him is more than enough to keep me going if I'd just keep my eyes upon it. The problems of my life are miniscule in comparison to the joy I will have in my heart when I meet Him. Stay focused, share the love I have, increase His kingdom and dream of what is waiting.Lord, I try but I know I fail. I let this world get me down even though I have received your promise of Heaven. What's my problem? I need to be with you daily to keep my heart in line.
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12/27/07 - Life Journal - My Beginning and End
2007-12-28 02:03:00
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God,"who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."Revelation 1:8From John 1:2 we also read, "He was with God in the beginning." Jesus is everything! Our Lord, our Savior, our Rabbi, the Word come to life, our arbitrator, our sacrifice, our discipline, our joy, God in the flesh, our hero, our conqueror, the Victor!He is truly the beginning and the end. I must live my life with this foremost in my mind. First thought in the morning and last thought at night. Jesus, you are my Alpha and Omega, I know I don't always live this way but I do try, definitely not hard enough. I'm working on it but I need your help.
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12/26/07 - Life Journal - Thank Him for That!
2007-12-28 01:42:00
...the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.Psalm 117:2All you have to do is read the history of the Israelites. We're talking thousands of years of the Jews trying their hardest to screw things up but like the verse said, He endured. Not that He didn't punish them or let them be suffer for a time but He was always watching, not letting them be lost forever. He makes a promise he sticks with it. Our trouble sometimes comes in figuring out the whole "God's timing" thing. You know, to God a thousand years is like a day and all that. He comes through in His promises but in a timing that corresponds to His plan. All we need to be concerned about is the fact that know matter what we do, with true repentance in our hearts, he will endure our little fits of rebelliousness.Lord, I can't comprehend the depths of your faithfulness. They are way beyond human understanding. All I can say is thanks.....
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12/25/07 - Life Journal - The Reason for the Season
2007-12-28 01:14:00
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life? the life was made manifest...1 John 1:1,2The Word of Life made manifest. Our Lord in the flesh. He was sitting at the right hand of God, His Father, looking at the wreck we were making out His creation and looked up at His Dad and said, "I can help". Jesus is definitely the instigator behind all of this. He sacrificed all He had for us and that's the point that a lot of people miss. It was all for us! We are truly the reason for the season and all we should be thinking about this time of year is nothing but total, honest, heartfelt thanks. The tradition's of man are all good but in reality extraneous baggage that doesn't really mean all that much. Father, thank you for your son, born without fanfare, to a common family, to live as us but sinless in a world of temptation, to be our final perfect sacrificial lamb.
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Make Up Time (cont.)
2007-12-21 16:52:00
Click here for December 6th's post
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Emo Bull
2007-12-21 15:05:00
Emo Bull Refuses to Run in PamplomaThis cracked me up...........thanks to Julius Bloop

And from the horrible advice column..........
2007-12-20 23:38:00
On Yahoo news, Ann Landers' daughter Margo Howard has a Dear Margo column. Here's a recap of an advice seeker and Margo's answer. An Aunt found her 14 year old nieces MySpace page through her daughters page which she frequently check's out. Seems her niece alluded to a relationship she was having with a lesbian friend. When she asked if she should tell her sister-in-law about it Margo's answer was:I suggest you say nothing. Assuming the "relationship" is sexual (and it may not be), the youngster is experimenting and should be allowed to do so without parental input -- which would not change the outcome, by the way. It's not as though your niece is robbing banks and popping Quaaludes, dangerous behavior requiring intervention. She is figuring out her sexuality, and parents trying to steer a child away from a natural inclination are not going to be successful. When next you talk to your s-i-l, you might ask what she dislikes about this friend, since she told you she is wary of h...
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Good Stuff from Desert Thirst
2007-12-20 22:57:00
Take some time and read Christian's latest post here at Desert Thirst , "Christians are too focused on getting converts??" A good look at ourselves as a body.
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12/20/07 - Life Journal - Casting..........stones?
2007-12-20 21:52:00
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. John 8:6-8What was He writing? I wish I knew, it doesn't say, but I have a feeling. I picture Jesus listing off the sins these Rabbi's and Pharisee's were themselves guilty of, and while he threw the idea of stoning back in there faces he continued on with his silent condemnation. He was setting them straight without publicly chastising them when, as a sinless man, he had every right to "toss some stones".This verses teaches me two things, how not to but also how to deal with someone caught up in a sinful situation. First how to conduct myself , who is a sinful being in the first place, no judging others for there is only one true judge and one final day of judgement. I have my own problems to take care of witho...
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Make Up Time (cont.)
2007-12-20 15:32:00
Click here for December 5th's post
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12/19/07 - Life Journal - Do You Want to be Healed?
2007-12-19 20:40:00
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me."John 5 :6,7This man, paralyzed for 38 years lay beside this pool, Bethesda, on a daily basis just waiting for someone to help him in the water. Jesus approached him with the simple question, "Do you want to be healed?"How many people around me are waiting for someone to ask, "Do you want to be healed?" Everyone has a life they are struggling with and many feel there is no one who cares. That's my job, that's where my purpose is fulfilled, showing them that there is one, Christ Jesus, that cares for them above no other. If I go through life with blinders on, not building relationships and sharing life with people I'll never know the hurt, worries and pain that are strangling this world and the freedom in Ch...
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Little Sister Don't You..........
2007-12-19 17:08:00
...do what your big sister done.I guess Jamie Lynn Spears should have listened to that Dwight Yoakam song a little sooner. The 16 year old star of Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101" and sister of Britney Spears announced that she is 12 weeks pregnant. Their parents back in Shreveport, LA must be so proud.Read the entire story here.
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Make up time
2007-12-19 16:33:00
So as to not rob myself of the time I missed, I am slowly working my way through the journal entries I had inexcusably missed during my illness. Call it penance for not going to Him for healing or a fear that I have missed something great, I have to do it for myself. I'll be posting them in their correct position time-wise but will link to them when their up.Click here for December 4th's entry.
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12/18/07 - Life Journal - 24/7 Church
2007-12-19 04:45:00
So the Jews said to him, "What sign do you show us for doing these things?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?" But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.John 2 :18-22The Jews completely missed the point. The building is not the temple. His body incarnate was the temple to which Jesus was referring. They were too caught up in their worldly thoughts to see the Living God in front of Him.We're just as caught up in our day to day to see our Creator all around us and our minds are too centered on this life to hear Jesus speaking to us. Nowhere is it more evident then our emphasis on Sunday mornings. His church was never meant to be pent up in buildings and our Christ...
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Show us your senior pics! (if you dare)
2007-12-17 18:43:00
In response to Nathan Gaddis' challenge here is my senior pic from Countryside High School in Clearwater, FL.....I graduated in '88 so I figure this was taken the summer of '87. Any other takers to Nathan's challenge? Let us see your pics!
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12/17/07 - Life Journal - Be All That You Can Be
2007-12-17 17:01:00
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.2 Peter 1:5-8Peter here is listing what he believes are characteristics that must be added to your faith to be the best possible witness for Him that you can be. Personal faith alone saves you alone but like James said it is dead. It goes no further from you. Adding these on top of your faith will let it overflow to those around you and increase His kingdom.I read these as having to be accomplished in this order, or if order is not completely necessary, Virtue MUST be first. Merriam-Webster defines virtue as:virtue: noun: Conformity to a standard of right, or m...
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What am I thinking?
2007-12-13 22:22:00
I've been sick for about 3 weeks now but it's really hit hard the past 2. I've got bad bronchitis or "walking" pneumonia, depending on who you ask. I'm scheduled to go to the doctor's again in the morning because the antibiotics aren't seeming to be doing anything. All that to say...........for the last week and a half, as I'm hacking up a lung, not once have I spent any time with my Lord. I claim to be the child of the one true healer yet I'm wallowing in this crap that's in my head and chest. No prayer, no church, no singing to Him and not one journal entry let alone one word of the bible read. Is anyone else out there this stupid? What does this truly say about my relationship with Him that I haven't even shared this with Him?He has used this for good in one aspect........I'll listen next time Sheri says to go to the doc's..........
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WWJD............about X-Mas?
2007-12-13 22:09:00
I've been thinking about this for a while and I have a feeling that He'd be sick that His name was still associated with what we've turned the celebration of His birth into, not the fact that some have taken to use generic, secular terms. Instead of whining about Lowe's selling holiday tree's I think He'd get old school with the whip and knock out anyone trying to get in our pockets "in His name" with their "Christmas" sales. Everything is wrong with how we handle ourselves during this season. It's an orgy of the "seven deadly sins" and our newest master, materialism. I had an incredible time last night at my kids Advent production at their school. Well done, great worship and some great biblical insight on the events leading to Our saviors birth from Genesis to Matthew. That was ChristmasTake His name off your advertising, you don't deserve to have it there.

Acts 29 Kicked out of Missouri?
2007-12-13 22:05:00
Thought about blogging on this but went to the source and their response says it all. Check it out at Act29 Network.
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Back from Fishin....
2007-12-10 02:12:00
...and right to the doctors....Diagnosis?Either a bad case of bronchitis or "walking" pneumonia....Fun...=[I'll tell you about the trip later, hopefully I'll get back on the journals tomorrow...Good Night........
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12/7/07 - Life Journal - Job Description
2007-12-08 05:34:00
We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.Colossians 1:28That's our purpose, nicely wrapped up in one statement. Pray for wisdom so that we can be prepared to lead everyone we meet to perfection in Him.I can't let anything stand in the way of His plan for me. I can fool myself into thinking that I don't have time to spend with Him and to be in the word but the excuses are all lies planted by the King of Lies.Lord, your are my all, I pray to not let this world distract me.
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12/6/07 - Life Journal - My Own Prison
2007-12-06 15:47:00
I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.Philippians 1:12,13Paul sees through the misery of his imprisonment and understands it's purpose. He is being used as an example of standing true to his belief's for the Glory of Christ. It's for the new believers who haven't had the persecution brought upon them yet that he glorifies and praises Jesus even in his confinement. He is telling them that everything that happens will in the end be use for good by Him whos plan will come to fruition no matter what befalls it in this world.Paul doesn't wallow in self pity like I'm prone to do. I've never been imprisoned for my beliefs but many things have happened that have got me down, nothing major in the bigger scheme of things, but never-the-less things that my brain have turned into mountains. I create my own pri...
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12/5/07 - Life Journal - I Love You Sheri
2007-12-05 14:54:00
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...Ephesians 5:25A lot of people have a problem with the verse before this desicribing the submission of wives to husbands. This isn't a blind submission, it's a submission to a LOVING husband as the head of the family as we submit to our LOVING Savior who is head of our church. If the husband doesn't follow through with verse 25 then the whole situation gets thrown out of whack. Husbands love must be shown through a total sacrifice for their wives just as Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice for His church.My home has been unbalanced. Sheri is the perfect example of the wife in verse 22 but her submission has been without return from me. I've been anything but sacrificial to her or the kids. Whatever the reasons it comes down to an extreme selfishness on my part. Taking her love and giving nothing in return. I need to learn to BE Jesus to her. Love her as myself because we are one flesh. Sacrifice my ...
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