HERE IN THE REAL WORLD

Last week Trey Morgan wrote a post about T-Ball and Heaven. His son Cooper had started playing the game and had likened the sport to the place he plans to spend eternity. Well, my niece’s high school softball team had a game last week also. After three nearly perfect innings everything seemed to fall apart in the fourth. After the other team finished batting around, and got tired of running the bases and scoring nine runs, I asked my niece how her arm was feeling. Her answer was, “like I just spent two eternities in Hell.” Both my niece and Cooper had likened their situations to eternity yet they both looked at different sides of it.

When our savior returns many will spend that long inning in Hell with its eternal punishment. John wrote that those whose names were not written in the Book of Life would be cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15). This is eternity in Hell. It is the long inning that never ends. And while others are enjoying eternity in Heaven in the presence of God, those whose names are not written in the book we suffer another fate. Of the eternity in Hell John wrote, “shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever” (Revelation 20:10). There is no time out from the torment as it is all day and night forever.

Gatorade will be a thing of the past. In the story of the Rich man and Lazarus the rich man just wanted Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water to cool his tongue because of the anguish of the flames (Luke 16:19-26). But that couldn’t even happen. For the rich man suffering in the flames there was no relief. And so it will be for many when the Lord returns. There will not be any pinch hitters to help us out: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him (Ezekiel 18:20).

Our worst day or our worst nightmares will be nothing compared to the eternal nonstop torment that will be when the great judgment happens. But, the choice is ours to make. We practice on a daily basis for our eternity. What we do here determines where we spend our eternity. We can have our names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, or we can let Satan pencil us in as his opening day starter.

Around the world of Blogdom tonight:

John Dobbs asks Where are the Wolves
Tim Archer looks at Basketball and The Bible
Paula Harrington looks at second chances
Nick Gill asks how should we understand the atonement
Laymond Meredith has a church united

Until next time May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You: All Y’all!

Bobby
Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net

It would devastate his family if they had any idea what he was doing. He would lose his job. Yet, for all these many years he has been able to keep the secret of his sin hidden. He would sneak in and out at nights. He was quick with making up excuses. The town thought of him as one of their most outstanding citizens. Through all the years of living a double life and hiding his “other life” one person had been watching all along.

Many of us are like that. We try and hide our sins from those around us. And, though we may keep them hidden for a while they will surface. Numbers 32:23 says, “…be sure your sin will find you out.” And all the time we are sneaking and hiding one is watching our every move: Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me (Psalm 139:7-10). No matter where we go to hide our sins God is there.

We tend to sometimes think that we are pulling something over on our families and friends and even God when one of our sins go unnoticed. Yet, God is right there beside us when we commit it! We think God is up in the throne room and not paying attention all the time. But, the Word tells us different: behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee (1Kings 8:27). God fills the whole earth and the Heavens. He is at our every step. We may have slipped away from our spouse but we took God with us. The teacher might be distracted but God’s attention is with us. Maybe we can get up earlier than everyone else to perform our sin, but God doesn’t sleep in.

We can even go so far as to leave our own town and sin in another place. But guess what? “though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 27). Yep, God gets around. And while we may fool some of the people some of the time, we don’t fool God any time. And the sad thing is the very one we don’t worry about fooling is the very one we need to be living for. While we can make our lives on earth miserable through sin and we can even lose our lives. And we can try and hide our sins from the people around us while the very God that we forget about when sinning is the only one that can destroy both the physical and the soul: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Matthew 10:28).

Next time you have to look around before you do something remember the one you don’t see is standing next to you watching everything.

Around the world of Blogdom tonight:

Trey Morgan is reaching out to the tornado victims.
John Dobbs asks, “Could Jesus Have Imagined?”
Matt Dabbs looks at hurdles to New Testament Christianity
Tim Waldrop looks at night clubs for kids
Neva Cooper is spring cleaning
Bobby Valentine has part 5 of his study on Heaven
Laymond Meredith has the Gift
Cecil Walker wants us to live like we are loosing.
Greg England is celebrating the Savior

Until Next time May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You: All Y’all!

Bobby

Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net

Unless someone leaves a comment I never know who is reading my articles. Well, the other day I decided to look at the stats and I have readers from many places. I have alien readers. The stats clearly showed that I have at least one reader from Roswell, New Mexico! I have no clue who the reader(s) from Roswell is/are, but I am glad they read. And, no, the Roswell readers aren’t the only aliens that read “Here In The Real World.” All the readers here are aliens. Paul said as much in Philippians 3:20: For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. The New International Version translates that verse like this: But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. If we are citizens of Heaven and aliens here why do we act so much like we are a part of this world?

When we became in Christ we jumped the borders and became citizens of Heaven. And, with that new citizenship came the responsibility of acting like the citizens that we are. Yet, so many of us think that we can hold a dual citizenship. In 2 Corinthians 5:20 Paul wrote, “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.” Paul considered himself an ambassador for Christ. And as citizens of Heaven in another land we are also representing Christ to those who don’t know him. And yet, we so often only represent the world around us.

Unlike America that seems to have an immigration problem, Jesus didn’t seem to worry about over population. He said we are to go and make disciples (Matthew 28:19). Jesus encourage immigration. Jesus wanted all the poor and tired: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28). As the aliens that we are we have the responsibility of making more aliens. Through the word of God we have to show those who are not citizens life on another plane. We have to show them how to be aliens here.

To be an alien we are called to act like an alien and to encourage more people to become aliens. I am proud of all the aliens that read “Here In The Real World.” But, I think the world would be better served if we went and made a lot more alien. “Nanu Nanu!”

Around the world of Blogdom tonight:

Trey Morgan is in T-Ball Heaven
John Dobbs has some thoughts about Fasting
John also has short on You Tube that talks about all that has been going on in Pascagoula in the aftermath of Katrina it is well worth the watch.
Neva Cooper has a Reclamation Proclamation
Greg England has a Tip
Lisa Leichner is BACK!
Bobby Valentine has another part to his series on Heaven

Until Next time May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You: All Y’all!

Bobby

Bobby Cohoon
North CArolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net

The local news reported that gas prices are going to continue to climb and may hit four dollars by summer. There are shootings at schools. Bomb threats are closing other schools. Everywhere you look things seem to be falling apart. Hard times are knocking on our doors. As Christians we sometimes think we are exempt from hard times, but when we read the scriptures we see that most of those who were followers of Christ suffered. What are we to do when hard times come a knocking?

The church in Thessalonica was one born in hard times: But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people (Acts 17:5). And when Paul wrote his second letter to the Thessalonians things hadn’t changed: So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure (2 Thessalonians 1:4). Though they suffered, they gave us three keys to overcoming hard times. Paul wrote, “We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure (2 Thessalonians 1:3-4).

Paul said that the Thessalonians had a FAITH that was growing exceedingly. So many times we face trials and many of us fall away. But, the Thessalonians’ faith grew exceedingly. It is so easy to say we have faith when times are good, but what about when those times turn bad? Habakkuk wrote, “Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation” (Habakkuk 3:17-18).

LOVE was abounding in the church at Thessalonica. This is a love that Paul said was taught to them by God: But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another (1 Thessalonians 4:9). Today we look around and see hate standing on every corner, yet, under hard times the church in Thessalonica abounded in love.

Lastly the Thessalonians church had PATIENCE. Patience come from our hope: But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it (Romans 8:25). It comes from our faith. It is nurtured through our love. Paul told the Corinthians, “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (1 Corinthians 13:13). The church in Thessalonica excelled in these three through their tribulation.

As the gas prices rise faster than the summer heat, the storms come threatening, the bullets flying, and sin stands staring at you from every angle, how will you handle the hard times?

Around the world of blogdom tonight:

Trey Morgan has ten signs you are not reading your Bible enough
Tim Waldrop asks did Virginia Tech get what they desrved?
Tim Archer has the Lion the Lamb and the Throne Room
Neva Cooper has a friend in Critical Condition
Matt Dabbs says Grace Destroys
Richard Mansel gives his definition of marriage
Greg England is celebrating the Savior (part 3)
Chris Gallagher says Jurors are the problem

Until next time May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You: All Y’all!

Bobby

Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net

She had resigned herself to the position that one eye was beyond repair and that the blindness was a part of her life. Her one eye with vision could only be corrected to 20/80. As calcium started to form on the front of the eye it lost another twenty feet. The vision was dimming in the only eye that had vision. Then the doctor came with the news; there was on shot at being able to see out of that one eye again: surgery. She knew that she had lost the vision in the first eye that went blind through surgery. Her choice was to risk the only eye that had vision to surgery. It was risk total blindness or keep only limited vision. We are faced with those decisions everyday.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego faced a situation where they had just about the same odds. King Nebuchadnezzar had set up an idol of gold for everyone to worship (Daniel 2). They faced worse odds than just losing sight: if they did not bow down to the golden image they were to be thrown into the fiery furnace. Yet, there words to King Nebuchadnezzar were as follows, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up” (Daniel 3:16-17).

The three had absolute faith that God was able to rescue them: our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace. Their faith never wavered. It would have been so much easier to just bow down to Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image, yet they held fast to their faith in the one true God. So many time when faced with such a situation we tend to look not to God but to our own means to save ourselves. Yet, we have never ben in a situation that God couldn’t get us out of.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego also said, “But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.” Here is incredible faith. For now they not only put their faith in God’s ability to save them, but they put their faith in God’s will not their own will. We know what we want and so many times we don’t worry about God’s will. We are willing to forgo what God wants in order to get what we want. When in reality what we want should be nothing more than the will of God and God’s strength to get us through.

They lady in the story opted for the operation. Though she hasn’t had it yet, she has faith that God can allow her to be healed through the capable hands of a surgeon. Yet, she knows that should she lose her sight altogether God is going to give her the strength to get through. Do you have faith only in what you want, or in the Will of God to be displayed?

Around the world of Blogdom tonight:
Trey Morgan wants to know who will pay your moral charge card?
Tim Waldrop looks at prayer in school
Neva Cooper has some short timers
Lisa Leichner has some spring fun
Matt Dabbs looks at youth ministers
Bobby Valentine is still doing an interesting study on Heaven

Until next time May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You: All Y’all!

Bobby

Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net

The weather has been decent and is supposed to be warming up even more the next week. Everyone who has one of those luxuries called a swimming pool has been working hard to get them clean. With the pools sitting up all winter the scum and algae have been having a vacation in them. Gunk has built up in places where no one ever thought gunk could get. The pretty clear water is anything but clear. But now it is time for the summer so the scum and everything else has to go. People are getting ready to take a dip. You ever think about how our lives are like those swimming pools before we take that baptism dip?

Before we are saved our lives are about as pretty as that scum filled pool. Sin is our scum. Ananias told the apostle Paul how to get rid of that spiritual scum: be baptized, and wash away thy sins (Acts 2:16). But alone one can be dipped as many times as he wishes and the sins are not going to leave. Baptism alone won’t save anyone. Peter told those who asked on the day of Pentecost what they must do to be saved: Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins (Acts 2:38). Baptism without repenting is of no value just as repenting without baptism is useless. That little three letter word “and” carries a lot of what in this verse. Because of that little word, whatever repenting means to “for the remission of sins” baptized means the same thing. The two can’t be separated.

Many say that baptism is a work and we are not saved by works. Yet, no one denies that repentance is a part of the salvation equation. Now, ask yourself which one do you have to work at? If baptism is a work it would have to be a work for the one who baptized you after all he did the work you just submitted. Paul said baptism is a work of God: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead (Colossians 2:12). Repenting is our job. We have to turn from spiritual scum and let God do his work. We repent and God does the forgiving and raises us to a new life. Through baptism God, not us or a preacher, washes away the spiritual scum.

Even now that we are saved we have to be careful because that spiritual scum still tries to sneak back in. And, when it does we have to go back and repent and ask for forgiveness: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). After our initial cleansing we have a means through confessing to keep the spiritual scum level down. Have you scrubbed your spiritual pool lately?

I have asked for prayers a few times for a friend of mine who was in rejection from a kidney/pancreas transplant. Here is an email II received from her:

Around the world of Blogdom tonight:

John Dobbs has a tribute to Virginia Tech
Trey Morgan looks at Tornadoes
Neva Cooper asks that we don’t read her blog
Lisa Leichner shows us the normal part of her week
Bobby Valentine has Heaven part two
Matt Dabbs has Old Man Strength

One closing thought: Happy Birthday Mama! Thanks for helping to show me how to get rid of all that spiritual scum.

Until next time May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You: Al Y’all!

Bobby

Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net

A tear trickled down my face today as I was riding down the road and heard my niece crying because an obvious “copy cat” had caused three of our local schools to go into lock down today by threatening to shoot many of the kids. She cried as she wondered what has happened to our world when it is no longer safe to go to school. I understand that the shootings in Virginia this week were news. But, I think there becomes a point when we capitalize so much on it that it gives those out there that are seeking attention a means to get that attention. Why do we focus on the bad? Do we think all our youth are bad? Why don’t we give positive attention?

Why do I have to go to Trey Morgan’s page to finds out about the good works the kids from that area are doing? Go check out the “work camp” that took place in Mexico or the AIM work camp. None of these has ever made our news. Yet, the first child that is on the wrong side of the law we are bombarded with. We learn more about the “bad” than we know about many of our own family: Jesus wept (John 11:35). Break into any show just once and tell me about the kids that are making a positive impact!

Why do I have to visit John Dobbs’ web page to read about all the youth that have been down there rebuilding the coast after Katrina? Do you realize the number of youth that have gone down there and help in some fashion since hurricane Katrina? Many were of the same age as the shooter at Virginia Tech. These are kids that are trying to make a positive impact here in the real world. They are giving up there time to go help someone who is hurting in some way. For a few weeks they have put the needs of others in the place of their own needs: Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy (Matthew 5:7). And, while on the subject of John Dobbs, why do I have to go to his site to read that his son was asked to lead singing at another local church when their leader was out? We have kids that are acting in love and giving of themselves to make our world a better place. We have kids treating others as they would wanted to be treated in those circumstances. Jesus said, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them” (Matthew 7:12). Why aren’t there stories on my news?

Why do I have to turn to Lisa Leichner’s page to read about a teen getting baptized? A teen that has said I am going to make a public confession of faith. One that has acknowledged that he is a sinner and has had his sins washed away has never been on my news. And, if it was all the publicity would go to his sins and the fine print would talk about the washing away.

There are a good many teens here in the real world that are starving for attention. And it seems that all the attention is going to those who do the worst of the crimes. Jesus said we are to, “love thy neighbour as thyself” (Matthew 2:39). Think of the positive attention we could give if we gave attention to those teens that are doing what Jesus said we are all to do. If we did that the next time the big man cried it wouldn’t be sad tears but tears of joy to which I would be happy to dehydrate!
*climbs down from soap box*

Around the world of blogdom tonight:
Trey Morgan says ministering isn’t always easy
John Dobbs has compendium (I had to look that up!)
Tim Waldrop looks at hypocrites
Neva Cooper looks at when fear finds us
Lisa Leichner says this is my father’s world
Bobby Valentine takes another look at Heaven
Greg England has celebrating the savior part two
Matt Dabbs asks some good questions about blogging

Until next time let a youth know they are appreciated, and May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You: All Y’all!

Bobby

Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net

A child lay dead from the hands of what has been called a crazed killer. This was someone’s son. The president made a special trip to the campus and met with many who were also suffering as their children lay dead from the same killer. A nation stands together in a state of mourning. Yet, this family mourns alone their loss. I have yet to hear anyone, aside form this website, ask, for prayers for this family: It is the family of Cho Seung-Hui. Is this the compassion Christ has asked that we share?

Peter wrote, “Use hospitality one to another without grudging” (1 Peter 4:8). There are people hurting on both sides of this issue. And, Jesus came for both sides. We are not to pick and choose who we extend Christ’s love to. Christ didn’t. He made no bones about dying for me and you when we were dead in our sins. And while you may think that because you have killed no one that your standards are higher, it is the sin not the magnitude of the sin that separates us from God. Lying can get you to Hell just as quick as murder.

We find it so easy to overlook the family of the criminal because his crime is so heinous. But, they are hurting just as the families of victims. They have to mourn the loss of their son. They have to live with the fact that he killed 33 people. They have to face the sneers and jeers of others for something they didn’t do. Peter continued by saying, “As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God” (1 Peter 4:10). We are to be good stewards of the manifold grace of God. And, that grace is that He loved us. We have to be a good steward of that love. And, that love is to be extended to all families that are hurting not just the ones we decide it should go to. The same Christ that died for me died for the family of Cho Seung-Hui. John wrote, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” (John 13:34).

Paul wrote to the Galatians, “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2). Cho Seung-Hui’s family has received a burden that didn’t ask for. One they had no way of dodging. One they didn’t even know was coming. And, as Christians we are to help them bear that burden. They too are victims. They also need love. In times like these they need a Savior.

When you pray tonight and remember the families of those shot at Virginia Tech remember the family of Cho Seung-Hui. They too are hurting and are victims. While we sometimes turn off and on who we show our love and compassion to, the spigot of Christ’s love flows free at all times.

Around the world of Blogdom tonight:

Trey Morgan doesn’t like complainers!
JOhn Dobbs has some talking points
Tim Waldrop is frustrated
Neva Cooper looks at the dance of Satan
Paula Harrington is seeking peace
Lisa Leichner is giving thanks
Bobby Valentine has the Greatest Threat
Greg England is celebrating the Savior

I have asked a few times that you pray for a friend of mine named Kathy who was in rejection from a kidney/pancreas transplant. She was to have a biopsy yesterday to see if they had stopped the remission. I have been told they could not do the biopsy as her numbers were not right. She is still in remission. Please keep Kathy and her husband Tom in your prayers they not only need them the appreciate them.

Until next time MAy the Good Lord Bless and Keep You: All Y’all!
And let somebody know you love them.

Bobby

Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net

Global warming seems to be the buzz now days. Everywhere you turn scientist are talking about global warming and how it’s going to wipe us all out. The greenhouse effect is going to take us all away. Don’t use this fuel, or that refrigerant. We literally have to walk a tight rope as to what to use safe from global warming. But, will it work?

This global warming is something science has come up in recent years, but we have known it was coming since way back when Peter wrote, “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up” (1 Peter 3:10). Had the sin in Genesis 3 never been committed then there would have not been a “1 Peter 3:10.” The green house effect that is crippling us is caused by the smog of sin that has engulfed our world.

While we are conscious of all the things that cause the global warming of science, we seem to have become immune to the global warming of sin. So many things have become common place in our world that we seem to overlook the sin that has overtaken our world. How many tragedies of the caliber of the Virginia Tech shooting will it take for us to see the wrong in our world today and begin to drift away from sin and back to the cross? Peter wrote, “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” (1 Peter 3:11).

While science says we can put off and possibly end Global warming of their kind, because of Genesis 3 there is no putting off the Global warming of 1 Peter 3. But, we don’t have to melt away. Peter continued, “Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness” (1 Peter 3:12). While global warming won’t be stopped, we can have a home “wherein dwelleth righteousness.” That is a choice only we can make. The earth has been in the lurch since Genesis, but your eternity doesn’t have to be!

Around the world of Blogdom tonight:

John Dobbs is catching up
Tim Waldrop expects the unexpected
Bobby Valentine “While we weep for Virginia Tech”
Tim Archer is collecting money
Greg England Ukraine
Richard Mansel has a modest thought for today

Please continue to Keep the Virginia Tech family in your prayers. This might not be a popular thought but keep the family of the shooter in your prayers also; they lost too. May God touch them all.

Until Next time May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You: All Y’all

Bobby

Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net

Tragedy struck today in my sister state of Virginia: A gunman killed many and injured others at Virginia Tech. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families that were touched by this horrendous incident. Here in the real world ever since Genesis 3 we have grown accustomed to such things. And, crimes such as these tell us two things about life in the real world.

Jesus told us to, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19). Yet, we have succeeded in getting God out of the schools. We have to ask ourselves how many opportunities have we had to spread that good news and not taken the chance. How many people could have heard the gospel and we just didn’t take the time. People, we live in a cruel world. We live in a world where the value of a human life isn’t what it used to be. We live in a world of hurting people who could be relieved of some of the hurt by one word: Jesus.

Those people who died senselessly toady will not have another chance at salvation. And, we don’t have a promise that we will have another chance at salvation or to spread the Good News. Our lives are but a vapor. We have no promise of our next breath. Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.” (1 Corinthians 13:11-12). That is why it is so important that instead of missing chances, we take chances and make chances.

Until Christ returns there will always be senseless killings and other sins. And while we can’t stop them, we help those involved have a sense or security and peace. There is Good News; we have to spread it. Please keep the families and all involved in your prayers, including the family of the shooter; they are hurting also.

Lord we lift up the Hokie family to you tonight and ask that you be with each and everyone of them. If there are any that don’t know you we ask that through this they come to now you and the Gospel. Father we pray that they will have peace, your peace. In the name of Jesus, and all God’s children say, “Amen.”

Around the world of Blogdom tonight:

Trey Morgan looks at Virginia Tech
Tim Waldrop looks at Creationist
Bobby Valentine looks at faith in a trouble world from on of my favorite books: Habakkuk
Greg England has a strange encounter
Lisa Leichner looks at Virginia Tech
Neva Cooper has Pinata Therapy

Until Next time May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You: All Y’all

Bobby

Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
cohoon@earthlink.net