Sorry about missing last weeks post.  I have been swamped with study and all of a sudden, work also.  And this week is short too but I wanted to at least get this Tuesday post out.  Thanks for your continued support for this blog.

We all talk about praying and having a relationship with God.  We talk to Him and this implies that he also speaks to us.  Not only in prayer but some say He guides and directs them also.

Does God speak to us today?

How does He speak to us?

How does He speak to you if He does?

Love you all

Tags: blog, God, Prayer, relationship, town hall, Tuesday

I have never had many people that I considered friends.  As a very self centered man that really did not like people I found it hard to ever grow really close to anyone.  For the last seven years, as I have grown in Christ, I have also come to realize that I very much need people in my life.  I need friends and I especially need close friends.

We all need someone that will truly love and care for us as we really are.  I am blessed to have at least one such friend in my life.  John Snyder is that friend and today is his birthday.  Happy birthday John and I hope it is a great one.  I love you.

But I want some feedback about friends and friendship today.  I hope it goes better than last week.

What qualities do you believe make a close friend?

How important is friendship in your life?

What do you expect out of a friend?

Comment in any way you like concerning friendship.  I am anxious to read your thoughts.

Love you all

Tags: birthday, Christ, friend, Friendship, Love, town hall, Tuesday

A few days ago I was reading some opinions concerning success.  A question was asked about defining “secular” and “spiritual” success.  An early conclusion by one person was that there is no difference between “secular” and “spiritual” success.  I agree with this wholeheartedly.  What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and yet lose his soul?

But the person went on to describe success as follows:

“There may be Christians who never do anything more than volunteer at their church and live their lives as witnesses of their faith, working diligently at their place of employment and raising their family in the fear and admonition of the Lord — they are immense successes.”

So here are my discussion questions for this week.

Do you believe this statement to be true?

Is what is being described here enough to end up being an immense success?

Is there anything you would add to this statement?

Love you all

Tags: Believe, Christians, Discussion, spiritual success, town hall, Tuesday, witness

My Dad’s name was Bill Cable.  He was not my biological father but he adopted me when I was only two years old and I never knew or met the man that was there when I was conceived.  He is a father also, to me and others later, I heard, so I hope he has a great day also if he still lives.  But he was not my Dad.  Bill Cable was.

I did not even know that I was adopted until sometime in my fourteenth year.  And Bill never gave me any reason to even think it.  I have a sister and two brothers that he was the biological father of but there was never any favoritism.  Well, actually there might have been at times, but it was favoritism towards me.  He loved me as much as or seemingly even more sometimes as any of us.

He was a small man.  Standing only 5′ 2″ tall and weighing about 125 pounds, I still remember him having me sit in his lap when I got out of the Army at six feet tall and 185 pounds.  It was ridiculous looking probably but I am smiling just thinking about it.  My eyes are a little watery also.

Bill Cable, my Dad, died in 1991 at the age of 55.  Much too young and way too early to go.  I miss him.  I don’t talk about it much but before Jesus introduced Himself to me there was no other person on this planet that I felt comfortable telling my deepest secrets, fears, dreams, and thoughts to than my Dad.  I never have been a very open person and have just started growing into it in the last few years even to the degree I am now.  But my Dad would listen, never judge, and tell me like he saw it.  It was not always comfortable but it was real.  How many people tell anyone anything real anymore?  Not enough.  At least not in my life or experience.

Even though I had the best example for a loving father, not a perfect man by any means, but a real, truly loving man which is what really matters, that anyone could have, I still blew it when it came my time.  I have six children.  Five of them are sons that are not mine biologically.  While I do believe I loved them a long time ago, I know I did not do it the right way.  Some of it was me, some was the enemy of all of our souls, but mostly it was my lack of belief that that enemy or God was real.  My Father, God, has and still is, changing me.  I thank Him for that most of all because I do not like who I used to be.

We all have a Father in heaven, whether we have one here or not.  And He is good and gracious and merciful and loving, but most of all He is real.  And He tells us like it is.  If we will only listen.

If you have a father here, let him know you love him and appreciate him today.  Even if he was or is not who you think he should be, he is your father.  And who among us is who our Father, God, wants us to be anyway.  And if you are a father, then be the best one you can be while you still have time.

Happy Fathers Day to all and Dad, I miss you and love you.

Love you all

Tags: army, Belief, Bill Cable, biological father, Father, God, Heaven, jesus, Love, Self