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| SCRIPTURE | TOPIC | THEME, aka Jimism | APPLICATION | |
Ex 5:15 |
Abortion | 11.09.11 | 3762. Don't go to a candy shop to find people to protest sugar. | God v me |
| Ecc 8:4 | Accountability | 01.09.11 | 3451. Accountability is acceptable to everyone but the one who needs it. | I was wrong, honey! |
| Mt 25:28-29 | Action | 07.21.11 | 3642. Is there really any action that is not reaction? | Wasp pun |
| Pr 6:32 | Adultery | 02.05.11 | 3479. What person in their right mind, enjoys one moment that haunts for a lifetime? | Check if you agree. |
| Ps 17:13 | America | 07.01.11 | 3622. It takes no more time to do right than wrong. | Our national debt is unpayable |
| Ps 17:3 | Anger | 05.06.11 | 3566. Open mouth, insert God's Word. | Did I really say that |
Ps 18:8-9 |
Answer | 09.09.11 | 3701. If we really believe God answers prayer, why aren't we praying right now? | Sin-slaying dragon |
| Mt 26:17 | Apathy | 11.01.11 | 3754. What fool waits for Judgment before gathering evidence? | Summer is over; slumber continues |
| Ps 17:14 | Appearance | 07.08.11 | 3629. The Gospel will expose what's real if we open our eyes. | Seeing what God sees. |
| Mt 25:24-25 | Application | 07.14.11 | 3635. Coming and going is not as important as the Door we use. | Close call? |
| Ex 5:8 | Association | 10.19.11 | 3741. Intentions are like inventions, they're both created. | Bad association |
| Ps 17:10 | Attention | 06.17.11 | 3608. We'd be amazed at what God is doing if we opened our eyes. | System restore |
| Ecc 9:17 | Attention | 07.17.11 | 3638. It's easy getting attention; it's deserving it that's hard. | Jello and Cement |
| Pr 8:2-3a | Attittude | 06.18.11 | 3609. Sometimes it takes seeing what God is doing around you to see what He is doing in you. | Busy bee, lazy as can be. |
| Ex 3:13 | Authority | 06.06.11 | 3597. Authority granted but never used, is an affront to Him who gave it. | Greater things? |
Ps 18:21-22 |
Authority | 11.18.11 | 3771. Why ask God's will when we know His way? | Under,but not with, authority |
Ex 4:28 |
Battle | 09.21.11 | 3713. There will be more time wasted today than used wisely. | Battlefield victory |
| Pr 8:25-26 | Belief | 10.08.11 | 3730. The terms and conditions in God's Word are not in small print. | You chose me and not the other way around |
| Ps 17:7 | Believer | 05.27.11 | 3587. Seeing is believing as hoping is to receiving. | Judas didn't realize it either. |
| Ecc 9:16 | Bias | 07.10.11 | 3631. Find him to whom a fool listens and you find a bigger one. | Objective journalist? |
| Ex 3:22 | Blessing | 07.04.11 | 3625. Sometimes surrender is assertion in the wrong direction. | God bless the U.S.? |
| Mt 25:18 | Blessing | 06.23.11 | 3614. Worse than burying your valuables might be losing the marker. | Counter-productive prayer |
| Ps 16:5 | Blessing | 03.11.11 | 3513. What good is blessing if we don't enjoy it? | George Beverly Goulet |
| Ps 18:29 | Blessings | 12.30.11 | 3813. The word "impossible" is a personal no-noun. | Stormy blessings |
| Ps 16:6 | Boundary | 03.18.11 | 3520. Creativity comes from knowing you are where God wants you. | A boundary sets you free |
| Ex 3:8 | Challenge | 05.23.11 | 3583. Everything good comes with a challenge. | Graduating babies |
| Ps 18:7 | Change | 08.26.11 | 3687. I'm not sure most voters can see past their eyelashes | Unchanging change |
| Ex 1:8 | Change | 01.10.11 | 3452. A reputation only serves one generation. | Induction reduction |
| Ex 2:18 | Change | 04.13.11 | 3543. Change is 180 degrees, not 360. | Turn or burn |
| Ex 3:21 | Change | 06.29.11 | 3620. Change is both an over-worked and under-exercised principle. | Oxymoron: politician and change |
| Mt 24:20 | Change | 01.20.11 | 3462. Loss marks life; starting over, a survivor. | Lost reference file. |
Ecc 10:18 |
Change | 11.13.11 | 3766. For every over, there's an under. | Move over and make room |
| Mt 25:20 | Change | 06.30.11 | 3621. A government handout is a "smash and grab" perfected by an elected Flash Mob. | Hope and change |
| Ecc 10:5-7 | Change | 08.28.11 | 3689.A leader takes others where someone took them. | It ain't broke. |
Mt 26:24 |
Choice | 11.22.11 | 3775. Choice reflects the heart, not the other way around. | The righteous Pharisee |
| Mt 25:42 | Choice | 09.01.11 | 3693. It's hard to see what you don't look at. | Binary choices |
| Mt 24:51 | Choice | 05.05.11 | 3565. Making no choice is a choice. | Come on down |
| Ex 6:6 | Chosen | 12.14.11 | 3797. Just because grace is free doesn't mean it didn't cost anything. | I can't see; my eyes are closed |
| Ex 5:12 | Church | 10.31.11 | 3753. When the unthinkable becomes inevitable, the improbable becomes believable. | Religious hard heads. |
Ps 18:24 |
Clean | 12.02.11 | 3785. If we claim to follow God, why are we giving Him directions? | Help, I've fallen and can't get up. |
| Mt 25:36 | Compassion | 08.11.11 | 3663. The time for doing God's work is almost over. | Almost over |
Ex 4:19-20 |
Completion | 09.05.11 | 3697. A loop is made by revisiting square one. | Square one |
| Pr 7:14-15 | Compromise | 04.30.11 | 3560. How do you find something that is looking for you? | What part of "No"... |
| Pr 7:10 | Compromise | 04.09.11 | 3539. Sometimes we need to look in the mirror before we start praying. | It take two to tangle. |
| Pr 7:21 | Conflict | 05.21.11 | 3581. Blame is lame. | A flopper is a blamer |
| Pr 6:29 | Consequences | 01.22.11 | 3464. Sometimes man's remedy can be as offensive as the transgression. | Disappointment |
| Mt 24:27 | Conviction | 02.15.11 | 3489. If Jesus returns and you're not ready, will you even know He came? | Mary and Martha moment |
Ecc 10:9 |
Cost | 09.11.11 | 3703. When the value is high, so is the cost. | Is any price too high? |
| Ex 3:18 | Credentials | 06.22.11 | 3613. Show someone what God hasn't showed them and waste their time and yours. | ASL; are you serious? |
| Ecc 8:14 | Credit | 03.20.11 | 3522. Ownership is a passing fancy. | Name it after me. |
| Pr 7:8-9 | Darkness | 04.02.11 | 3535. Darkness partners with sin to conceal its true intention. | Perigee moon |
| Ecc 9:3 | Death | 05.01.11 | 3561. If you worry about death, then you don't know my Jesus. | CPR and worms |
| Ecc 9:2 | Death | 04.24.11 | 3554. Death is an equal opportunity employer. | Live and Let Die |
| Mt 24:26 | Deceit | 02.10.11 | 3484. What we say is our profession, but what we do proves our possession. | Con me once, not my fault... |
| Pr 8:8-9 | Deceit | 07.16.11 | 3637. Saying, "I'll be honest," implies you're not. | Forked tongues |
| Mt 24:24 | Deception | 02.03.11 | 3477. Everything we accept is a rejection of something else. | Of ducks and men. |
| Pr 9:3-4 | Deception | 12.17.11 | 3800. Salvation may be the only thing too good and also true. | A sucker every second |
| Ex 5:9 | Deception | 10.24.11 | 3746. God has a way of redirecting misdirection. | If I'm lying I'm dying. |
| Mt 25:30 | Decision | 07.26.11 | 3647. Though seldom heard, the best sermon is "Turn or Burn." | Standing in line |
| Mt 25:8-9 | Dependence | 05.31.11 | 3591. Depend on anyone but God and take your chances. | Who's got bread? |
| Ecc 9:7-8 | Desire | 05.22.11 | 3582. Wear your convictions as well as carry them. | Red motivation |
| Pr 8:10-11 | Desire | 07.23.11 | 3644. Desire is not a street car, but it does take you somewhere. | Is salvation assurance or insurance? |
| Ex 2:3 | Desperation | 02.21.11 | 3495. Until we're desperate, we're not in the right position to pray. | Fortune telling bone-heads |
| Mt 24:49 | Discernment | 04.28.11 | 3558. It's not WHAT you can't see that should concern you, but WHO. | Donkey see, donkey do. |
Ps 18:12 |
Discernment | 09.23.11 | 3715. Scripture is to some, God's variation of the Rorschach ink blot test. | Object prayer |
| Ex 5:10-11 | Disciple | 10.26.11 | 3748. All followers are not disciples, but all disciples follow - someone. | Lordship is not optional |
Ex 4:22-23 |
Discipleship | 09.12.11 | 3704. If you can't see God moving, it's time to turn around. | Leading leaders |
Mt 25:45 |
Discipleship | 09.13.11 | 3705. We shouldn't get ahead of the One we follow. | Finders keepers, losers weepers. |
| Mt 24:42 | Discipleship | 04.07.11 | 3537. The difference between a believer and a disciple is one works while the other sits. | Change is good as long as I don't expect someone else to do it. |
| Ecc 10:2 | Discipleship | 08.07.11 | 3659. Everyone is a disciple of someone. | Toliet temptation |
| Pr 7:16-17 | Discipleship | 05.07.11 | 3567. It's not the work that should command our attention, but the worker. | Now or never |
Ecc 10:8 |
Discipleship | 09.04.11 | 3696. What good comes without putting oneself in harm's way? | Two is better than one |
| Mt 24:38 | Discipleship | 03.22.11 | 3524. You can follow Jesus from so far back, you lose sight of Him. | Followship |
| Mt 25:35 | Discipleship | 08.09.11 | 3661. God didn't say "Go," before He said "Come!"God didn't say "Go," before He said, "Come." | 2x2 |
| Mt 25:37 | Disicpleship | 08.16.11 | 3668. Will we soar with eagles or ignore while we snore? | Soar or snore? |
| Ex 3:11 | Disobedience | 05.30.11 | 3590. What part of God's "GO" don't we understand? | "Cute" disobedience |
Mt 25:44 |
Diversity | 09.08.11 | 3700. When God's in the house, everything changes. | Elevator shoes |
| Ps 18:16-17 | Duty | 10.21.11 | 3743. The hour is late but not everyone looks at the clock. | Off-duty |
| Ps 18:18 | Education | 10.28.11 | 3750. On what basis do fools separate themselves from fools? | A class of fools |
| Ecc 8:6 | Encounters | 01.23.11 | 3465. The right thing comes from being in the right place, at the right time for the right reason. | A1 Door |
Ex 4:29-30 |
End time | 09.26.11 | 3718. There's a time for knowing and a time for showing. | Endtime sharade |
| Ex 1:14 | Endurance | 01.24.11 | 3466. When something needs doing, God sends his best ahead of the rest. | Calvin Hunt |
| Ps 17:11-12 | Enemy | 06.24.11 | 3615. You can't win a war unless you recognize your enemy. | Plant sucker |
| Ecc 9:5-6 | Eternity | 05.15.11 | 3575. Eternity is not the end, but life with a different backdrop. | Paradise Found |
| Pr 7:2 | Eternity | 03.05.11 | 3507. For every winner, there has to be at least one loser. | Sudden death |
| Ecc 9:12 | Everlasting Life | 06.19.11 | 3610. When we expect to die and don't, it's like pessimistic optimism. | Sudden Death |
| Ex 1:18 | Excuses | 02.02.11 | 3476. An excuse is an admission dressed up as something else. | No right answer. |
| Ex 2:12 | Excuses | 03.21.11 | 3523. Privilege means little when we abuse it. | Freshman excuse |
| Mt 26:14 | Expectation | 10.25.11 | 3747. Your mouth says one thing, but does your life say something else? | Potty mouth |
| Mt 25:22 | Expectation | 07.07.11 | 3628. I expect someone to expect something of me today. | Off-the-Grid |
Ex 5:17-18 |
Expectation | 11.16.11 | 3769. Expectation is good if it's in God alone. | Bright Light |
| Mt 25:5 | Expectation | 05.24.11 | 3584. Waiting is a product of unrealized expectation. | Buddy's burgers |
Pr 8:33 |
Expectations | 11.05.11 | 3758. Staying the course requires knowing the course. | Life's choices |
| Mt 24:39 | Expectations | 03.24.11 | 3526. Surprises are failed expectations. | Expect the unexpected |
| Ecc 10:13 | Expression | 10.09.11 | 3731. Open mouth; insert sock - please! | Are any carbon footprints left? |
| Mt 26:34 | Failure | 12.27.11 | 3810. Everyone gets knocked down, but not everyone will get back up. | Successful Failures |
Mt 26:25 |
Failure | 11.24.11 | 3777. Failure exposes our breaks, but doesn't cause them. | Down but not out |
| Ps 17:2 | Fairness | 04.29.11 | 3559. Fairness is not a doctrine but an impossible mission. | King Jesus |
| Ex 4:1 | Faith | 07.06.11 | 3627. Our responsibility ends when we give God control. | "Come!" |
| Ecc 11:1 | Faith | 12.04.11 | 3787. It takes a trusting believer to be a receiver of the Almighty Conceiver. | Impossible? |
| Ps 17:15 | Faith | 07.15.11 | 3636. Sanity is not determined by the insane. | Faith and Failure |
| Ps 17:4-5 | Faith | 05.13.11 | 3573. It's not what I think, but what I do that matters. | Just do it. |
| Ex 4:13 | Faith | 08.15.11 | 3667. I imagine God takes our feelings of inadequacy personally. | Double-dog dare |
| Mt 24:33 | Faith | 03.08.11 | 3510. Seeing is believing for the world, but just the opposite for the redeemed. | Believing is seeing |
| Ex 2:24-25 | Family | 04.27.11 | 3557. Why do we expect God to remember more than we do? | Dysfunctional disciple |
| Ex 3:9-10 | Fear | 05.25.11 | 3585. Life is not what we make it, but what it makes us. | Turning the tables |
| Ecc 9:1 | Fear | 04.17.11 | 3547. Independence is a fleeting misconception. | Hellphobia |
| Ex 5:3 | Fear (of God) | 10.10.11 | 3732. Truth or Consequences is not a game as some would have us think. | Time's up. |
Mt 26:19 |
Fellowship | 11.08.11 | 3761. Fellowship is spending personal time with they one you follow. | Following fellowship |
Ps 18:13 |
Fellowship | 09.30.11 | 3722. God speaks in sign language if we care to read it. | Signing fellowship |
| Mt 24:13 | Finish | 01.04.11 | 3446. Why start what you can't finish? | The end? |
| Ecc 10:3 | Focus | 08.14.11 | 3666. Motives offer peace of mind; actions speak for themselves. | I see Jesus when I look at you. |
| Mt 25:2 | Foolish | 05.12.11 | 3572.Foolishness is anything but wise. | No do-overs |
| Pr 7:6-7 | Foolish | 03.26.11 | 3528. One hundred sensible people are no match for one person with spiritual sense. | Poll takers |
| Ex 5:4-5 | Forget | 10.12.11 | 3734. Pardon me, but your questions don't fit my answers | Pete and Repeat |
| Pr 7:25-27 | Forgiven | 06.04.11 | 3595. No one need apologize for failure, but for thinking they haven’t. | Don't raise your hand |
| Ps 18:4-5 | Freedom | 08.12.11 | 3664. Agape gives someone freedom to become a slave. | Casey's twisted rope |
| Ex 4:14 | Friend | 08.17.11 | 3669. Friendship has no strings. | Just one thing more... |
Mt 26:23 |
Friends | 11.17.11 | 3770. An enemy is someone who is not WITH you when God is. | Much is less when God's not in it. |
| Ex 6:7 | Friendship | 12.19.11 | 3802. In choosing friends we also choose enemies. | Friend or foe? |
| Ecc 8:16-17 | Frustration | 04.10.11 | 3540. Intention becomes frustration when presumption leads to assumption. | Outwitting Squirrels |
| Ex 1:22 | Future | 02.14.11 | 3488. Be careful trying to change the future, or the present may run over you and leave you in the past. | The past, present and future disappointment. |
| Mt 24:25 | Future | 02.08.11 | 3482. Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. | Take two and call me in the morning. |
| Ecc 8:7 | Future | 01.30.11 | 3472. God's omnipresence applies to time as much as it does space, so predestination is a no-brainer. | Choice |
| Mt 24:46 | Gifts | 04.21.11 | 3551. The word, servant, pairs best with an active verb. | That's ok; I've already done it. |
| Mt 24:28 | Giving | 02.17.11 | 3491. Death often gives birth to a family calamity. | Charity busters |
| Ex 5:6-7 | Glory | 10.17.11 | 3739. When we don't have what we think we need, God shows us He doesn't need it. | It's in your hand |
| Ecc 10:14 | Gods' Word | 10.16.11 | 3738. Defend God's Word and you both lose. | Shut up. |
| Ecc 10:16 | Government | 10.30.11 | 3752. Ruling shouldn't hurt, especially those being ruled. | Forgetful reminders |
| Ecc 8:9 | Governments | 02.13.11 | 3487. Sometime the best working government is the one that doesn't. | The Egyptian shift change |
| Pr 7:22-23 | Grace | 05.28.11 | 3588. Experience is taking notice of what God has done in my life. | Newton's reaction |
Mt 26:27 |
Gratefulness | 12.01.11 | 3784. Thanksgiving should be a lifestyle, not a seasonal reminder. | Happy Family Day |
| Ecc 9:14-15 | Gratefulness | 07.03.11 | 3624. Gratefulness never expressed is no different from disgust. | Silent gratitude? |
| Ps 17:1 | Guilt | 04.22.11 | 3552. Why should we expect God to pay closer attention than we do? | Sleep without rest? |
| Ex 3:16 | Hardship | 06.15.11 | 3606. Trouble provides contrast to make promise visible. | Love is not temporary |
| Ex 2:1-2 | Harm | 02.16.11 | 3490. What can man do to frustrate God? | No harm, no foul. |
| Ex 1:11 | Hate | 01.17.11 | 3459. Hate comes back as revenge who brings deadly friends with him. | Wind turbines and donkeys |
| Ex 1:6-7 | Hatred | 01.05.11 | 3447. People want you to succeed - a little less than themselves. | Racism |
| Mt 26:29 | Heaven | 12.08.11 | 3791. Some falsely think that desires become holy when they arrive in heaven. | Meet and greet |
Pr 8:23-24 |
History | 10.01.11 | 3723. When did history become multiple-choice? | Past pretense |
| Ex 3:5-6 | Holy | 05.16.11 | 3576. Holiness is not a dirty word. | Fear of God |
| Mt 24:40 | Holy Spirit | 03.29.11 | 3531. What'cha gonna do when He comes for... someone else? | Coke is not the REAL thing. |
| Ps 15:1-2 | Holy Spirit | 01.14.11 | 3456. Sometimes we, the redeemed, will suit up for the wrong team. | Spies and lies |
| Ex 3:1 | Home | 05.02.11 | 3562. The further we go, the closer God gets. | Home is where Jesus is. |
| Mt 24:50 | Honest | 05.03.11 | 3563. You is what you is and ain't what you think. | Do you walk like a duck? |
Mt 26:20 |
Hope | 11.10.11 | 3763. For the Believer, the word "alone" has no application. | Resignation not accepted |
Ecc 10:11 |
Hopeless | 09.25.11 | 3717. You don't have to be an artist to see Treasure Island as a diminishing perspective. | Broke and don't know it |
| Ps 18:27 | Humility | 12.16.11 | 3799. Humility is a position, not a personality. | Humility is not a pie but the main course |
| Ex 2:6 | Image | 03.02.11 | 3504. What we see is not always what we get. | Looking used. |
| Mt 26:15-16 | Impression | 10.27.11 | 3749. What you think you see may not be. | Wrong impression and mission |
| Ecc 9:13 | Impression | 06.26.11 | 3617. Impression is nothing more than reality on pause. | Moon walk |
| Ecc 10:12 | Information | 10.02.11 | 3724. Adequate is the tiny spot between enough and too much. | More than enough |
| Mt 25:39 | Insight | 08.23.11 | 3684. Having eyes doesn't mean you can see. | See you soon |
| Ex 1:9-10 | Intercesison | 01.12.11 | 3454. Control passes to those ready to assume it. | Confession of an intercessor |
| Ex 4:16 | Intercession | 08.24.11 | 3685. God has already defeated the obstacles that will work against me today. | Why do we fight God's battles? 1Sa 17:47 |
| Ps 16:8 | Intercession | 04.01.11 | 3534. Life can be a series of distractions when you take your eyes off God. | Hindside and blindside |
| Ex 2:7 | Intercession | 03.07.11 | 3509. An intercessor doesn't mind dangerous situations because he knows Who is already there. | God is still looking |
| Ps 18:28 | Journal | 12.23.11 | 3806. Having sight is incredible, seeing without it, a God thing. | Write it down |
| Ps 16:9-10 | Joy | 04.08.11 | 3538. Joy is to happiness as rejoicing is to praise. | Walmart greeter or Jesus meeter? |
| Ps 16:11 | Joy | 04.15.11 | 3545. The difference between happiness and joy is Jesus. | When desire won't work, try desperation. |
| Mt 24:47-48 | Judge | 04.26.11 | 3556. You're out of your mind if you think Jesus will remain out of sight. | The first time is not the last time. |
| Ecc 11:3 | Judgment | 12.18.11 | 3801. There's no such thing as normal when you're serving God. | Here come da Judge |
| Mt 24:14 | Judgment | 01.06.11 | 3448. It's never right to do wrong. | Right door, wrong house |
| Pr 8:17 | Justice | 08.27.11 | 3688. Is it surprising that innocence is indefensible in a perverse society? | Ebony and espionage |
| Ecc 8:11 | Justice | 02.27.11 | 3501. Between hasty and quick is where we find maturity. | The real criminals |
| Pr 8:7 | Justice | 07.09.11 | 3630. More important than learning truth is living it. | Caylee's justice? |
| Pr 8:16 | Justice | 08.20.11 | 3681. Justice comes from the One with the biggest gavel. | Just justice |
| Pr 8:30-31 | Kingdom | 10.22.11 | 3744. For every investment I make in God’s work, He does a similar work in me. | Investments in glory |
| Mt 25:26-27 | Knowing | 07.19.11 | 3640. Knowing is an indictment when not associated with doing. | Not doing can be your undoing. |
| Mt 24:32 | Knowledge | 03.03.11 | 3505. It's not what you know as much as what you know about what you know, you know? | A know-it-all |
| Mt 24:31 | Labels | 03.01.11 | 3503. Labels are good only if they accurately identify the ingredients. | Lordship is NOT optional. |
| Ps 18:2 | Language | 07.29.11 | 3650. Praise should be a run-on sentence that never ends. | Prayer Sign |
Mt 26:3 |
Laodicea | 09.22.11 | 3714. What happens to right when it's left to people who know right but don't do right? | Elective hearing |
| Ecc 8:3 | Law | 01.02.11 | 3444. Rules are good, depending on who makes them. | Carpenters have nails, Lawyers, law suits. |
| Mt 25:21 | Leader | 07.05.11 | 3626. Without a mission, trust means very little. | Followship |
| Pr 8:32 | Leader | 10.29.11 | 3751. Every good leader is a better follower. | Pearls and pigs |
| Ex 4:15 | Learning | 08.22.11 | 3683. Teachers are taught to teach, but few inspire anyone to learn. | Teaching may fail, but inspiration prevails |
| Ex 4:11-12 | Learning | 08.10.11 | 3662. Because someone doesn't get credit doesn't mean they don't deserve it. | Strong weakness |
| Ex 3:3 | Learning | 05.09.11 | 3569. What we can't explain, sets the stage for God to explain it. | He's severywhere |
Ex 5:22-23 |
Learning | 11.28.11 | 3781. God has no entitlement programs. | Troble makers |
Pr 8:19 |
Lessons | 09.10.11 | 3702. Value, the product of a grateful heart. | Pink house lesson |
| Mt 26:32 | Life | 12.20.11 | 3803. Because of Jesus, there is life on both sides of death. | Death bookends |
| Ecc 8:15 | Life | 03.27.11 | 3529. Life is to be enjoyed, not endured. | The next chapter |
| Ecc 8:8 | Life | 02.06.11 | 3480. Two things are certain in life: death and missed opportunities. | My DNR |
| Ecc 9:10 | Life | 06.05.11 | 3596. There are no TODO lists beyond the grave. | Grandpaw for dinner? |
| Ecc 8:12 | Life and Death | 03.06.11 | 3508. Long life is a curse without God, a blessing with Him. | Mortality Mountain |
| Mt 26:13 | Listen | 10.20.11 | 3742. It helps to have a listener before you start talking. | Is that smoke I smell? |
| Ex 3:12 | Lost | 06.01.11 | 3592. God is with those who are with Him. | Lost your sticky? |
| Ps 18:1 | Love | 07.22.11 | 3643. Love is proven by what you do, not what you feel or say. | Action speaks louder |
| Ex 1:19 | Luck | 02.07.11 | 3481. What seems small to us may be exactly what God needs to do the impossible through us. | Lucky charms |
| Ecc 9:9 | Marriage | 05.29.11 | 3589. Commitment grows a relationship, but anything else may kill it. | Out-singing the finch |
| Ps 16:2 | Master | 02.18.11 | 3492. Lordship is the flagship of salvation and safe port from the brewing storm. | School Consolidation? |
| Mt 26:18 | Memory | 11.03.11 | 3756. Forgettable is regrettable when someone proves expendable. | Regrettable expendables |
| Ex 6:2-3 | Memory | 12.05.11 | 3788. A sharp mind is one honed through prayer. | Memory aide |
| Pr 7:1 | Memory | 02.26.11 | 3500. If we truly understood forgiveness, we'd work more on forgetfulness. | Thank God He forgives and forgets |
| Pr 6:35 | Memory | 02.19.11 | 3493. Money can't buy my love, but it's a good start. | BJ and Allan |
| Mt 24:22 | Mercy | 01.27.11 | 3469. If God's grace is amazing, His mercy is amazinger. | The Rapture |
Pr 8:22 |
Mercy | 09.24.11 | 3716. God doesn't need to explain Himself to anyone, especially academia. | Mercy me. |
Ex 4:27 |
Ministry | 09.19.11 | 3711. When God moves, we should too. | Stay focused - on the right thing. |
Mt 25:43 |
Ministry | 09.06.11 | 3698. Motives aren't just important, they're everything. | Help is a prayer away |
Pr 8:36 |
Ministry | 11.26.11 | 3779. A ministry made visible is a facade, if not a fake. | Visible ministry oxymoron |
Ex 4:21 |
Mission | 09.07.11 | 3699. Futility is trying to ignore God. | Get right tonite! |
| Mt 25:19 | Mistake | 06.28.11 | 3619. Time is the grace afforded those who seldom capitalize on it. | Dord |
| Mt 25:14 | Mistakes | 06.14.11 | 3605. Success is simple if we remain as small as God is large. | No do-over please. |
| Mt 24:43 | Mistakes | 04.12.11 | 3542. If I knew yesterday what I know today, I would've messed up some other way. | Making excuzes |
| Ecc 10:4 | Mistakes | 08.21.11 | 3682. Grace is not a do-over but the opportunity to learn from our mistakes. | Don't fall on me! |
Ecc 10:20 |
Misunderstand | 11.27.11 | 3780. Slander is advanced with too much information; it finds fruition with too little. | Defrocked flock |
| Mt 25:23 | Money | 07.12.11 | 3633. Being a good servant means you have only one master | Contradiction in terms: spending & growing |
Ecc 10:19 |
Money | 11.20.11 | 3773. Money is not the issue, but a lack of it may be. | Money is funny |
| Mt 25:16-17 | Money | 06.21.11 | 3612. Using OPM (Other People's Money) may be a stronger drug than opium. | The gambler with nothing to gamble |
| Ps 15:5 | Money | 02.04.11 | 3478. Squeezing money shouldn't involve squeezing people. | The cost of HAL 9000 |
| Mt 24:30 | Motivation | 02.24.11 | 3498. Motivation, for most of us, comes when we realize we can't stay where we are. | The only conference I really need. |
| Pr 6:30-31 | Motive | 01.29.11 | 3471. God sees in black and white, not shades of gray. | Loss protection? |
| Ex 1:15-16 | Murder | 01.26.11 | 3468. You can try to stop God, but if only He would stop you. | Abortion |
| Ex 3:14 | Name | 06.13.11 | 3604. What we do is not nearly as important as why we do it. | My "real" name. |
| Ex 3:14 | Name | 06.08.11 | 3599. To know a name is not the same as frequently using it. | The Answer |
| Ex 3:2 | Neglect | 05.04.11 | 3564. It's amazing what God has to do to get our attention. | Set my soul afire. |
| Ex 1:17 | Obedience | 01.31.11 | 3473. Doing the right thing sometimes requires obedience and other times ignorance. | The Bible, our instruction manual. |
| Pr 8:4-5 | Obedience | 06.25.11 | 3616. It's not what we know or say, but what we do that matters. | Smart and smarter? |
Pr 8:20-21 |
Obedience | 09.17.11 | 3709. Obedience is not dependent on understanding. | Understanding comes later |
| Ex 5:2 | Obedience | 10.05.11 | 3727. Respect is like honor without the homage. | Life evangelism |
Ex 6:1 |
Omnipotence | 11.30.11 | 3783. The Almighty is not concerned with what anyone thinks. | Griping ingrates |
| Mt 26:11 | Opportunity | 10.13.11 | 3735. I should've is not good enough when I could've. | 2x2 |
| Mt 25:11-12 | Opportunity | 06.07.11 | 3598. A window of opportunity not only closes but can also lock. | Driver's license ID |
| Ex 2:8-9 | Opportunity | 03.09.11 | 3511. Hope becomes reality when we listen to God, look for opportunity and act. | On Christ alone I stand. |
Ecc 10:17 |
Opportunity | 11.06.11 | 3759. Opportunity: wait and lose. | Fading memories |
| Mt 24:21 | Peace | 01.25.11 | 3467. God's peace is the only peace that can bring peace. | ChimneyRock shooting |
| Ex 2:4 | Permission | 02.23.11 | 3497. 21st Century Christians: Don't ask a question if you don't want to hear the answer. | Permission: an excuse by another name. |
| Mt 26:12 | Persepctive | 10.18.11 | 3740. Things look bad until you see something worse. | Respectful silence |
Mt 26:4-5 |
Plans | 09.27.11 | 3719. Plans may not work, but my God does. | Biz bad, God good. |
| Mt 24:19 | Plans | 01.18.11 | 3460. Planning is good, except it requires presumption which is bad. | Iben Browning |
| Ex 6:4 | Possessions | 12.07.11 | 3790. We may possess it, but God owns it. | Winners and losers |
| Ex 6:9 | Prayer | 12.26.11 | 3809. My job is to testify, God's to get an audience. | Day dreamer |
| Mt 26:30 | Prayer | 12.13.11 | 3796. One song remembered is worth one-hundred sermons forgotten. | Doing right requires knowing right |
| Mt 26:10 | Prayer | 10.11.11 | 3733. If God is everywhere, why don't we see and acknowledge Him? | Praying objects |
| Ex 4:17 | Prayer | 08.29.11 | 3690. There are some things we don't need to ask. | Fellowship relationship |
| Ps 18:6 | Prayer | 08.19.11 | 3680. Answers aren't enough, but time with Jesus is. | Friends |
| Ps 18:3 | Prayer | 08.05.11 | 3657. If prayer fixes things, why are so many things broken? 3657 | Earring dysfunction |
| Ps 17:6 | Prayer | 05.20.11 | 3580. Our problems are God's RSVP to meet and talk. | I'm here; where are you? |
| Ex 2:23 | Prayer | 04.25.11 | 3555. God's three-step plan for success: give up, look up and hook up. | Who's driving anyway? |
| Pr 9:2 | Prayer | 12.10.11 | 3793. Preparation is vital to proper presentation. | Trinket prayer |
| Ecc 8:5 | Prayer | 01.16.11 | 3458. Just because we avoid trouble, doesn't mean it won't affect us. | Valley-Prover |
| Mt 24:36 | Predictions | 03.15.11 | 3517. Scripture tells us all we need to know, not what we think we need to know. | He's coming. |
| Ex 2:21-22 | Prejudice | 04.20.11 | 3550. Prejudice is selfishness born of self-applied righteousness. | May I be your best friend? |
| Ecc 11:2 | Preparation | 12.11.11 | 3794. Here she comes (speaking of life), whether we're ready or not. | Can't give you what I don't have |
| Mt 25:3 | Prepare | 05.17.11 | 3577. The only preparation needed is to walk with God. | Life's intersections |
| Mt 25:6-7 | Prepared | 05.26.11 | 3586. Preparation is pertinent for proper participation. | Ready or not... |
| Mt 24:44 | Prepared | 04.14.11 | 3544. Are you making plans to make plans so you'll be ready when you aren't? | Disciples, start your engines. |
| Mt 24:23 | Pretence | 02.01.11 | 3474.Will the real God come on down and show us what we've won? | Brass shields |
Mt 26:21-22 |
Pride | 11.15.11 | 3768. Love is proven in the rain, not the sunshine. | Much is little |
| Mt 26:31 | Problems | 12.15.11 | 3798. Faith is listening to God more than my doubt, and then acting like it. | I need problems to prove they aren't one |
| Ex 4:3 | Problems | 07.13.11 | 3634. God speaks to us in anyway He has our attention. | When God talks... |
Ex 5:16 |
Problems | 11.14.11 | 3767. Bad is good when God can use it. | Bad? Look again. |
| Ex 1:1-5 | Promise | 01.03.11 | 3445. If a promise is made and no one is there to receive it, is it real? | Unreceived promise? |
| Ex 3:17 | Promise | 06.20.11 | 3611. Rewards are seldom larger than the risk. | Contentment v complacency |
| Mt 24:34-35 | Promises | 03.10.11 | 3512. A promise is as good as the permanence and power of the Provider. | Buntyn Cafe |
| Ex 6:5 | Promises | 12.12.11 | 3795. If this isn't good, what is? | Good enough |
| Ps 17:8 | Protection | 06.03.11 | 3594. Our safety is as good as our Keeper. | Bird's nest |
| Ex 6:10-11 | Protection | 12.28.11 | 3811. Wink at sin and it views it as an invitation. 3811 | Two way street |
| Ex 2:5 | Providence | 02.28.11 | 3502. A refuge is a taxi with God as the Driver. | Acceptance or belief? |
Mt 26:6 |
Provision | 09.29.11 | 3721. Who buys something and never plans to use it? | U-Keep it. |
| Ex 3:4 | Purpose | 05.11.11 | 3571. God goes to those who come to Him. | One thing |
| Pr 9:6 | Race | 12.31.11 | 3814. Most games are decided sooner than later. | Last Ditch Effort |
Pr 8:34 |
Race | 11.12.11 | 3765. Wisdom is not what we make of it, but what it makes of us. | The Instruction Manual |
| Mt 25:1 | Ready | 05.10.11 | 3570. Being prepared means to be ready, though not necessarily finished. | Ready when You are |
| Ex 2:10 | Redemption | 03.14.11 | 3516. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor? | Garments with stories |
| Ps 16:1 | Refuge | 02.11.11 | 3485. Why don't we run to God when everything's fine? | The Con, Part Two |
| Pr 8:14-15 | Relationship | 08.13.11 | 3665. Knowing God should change us. | Relationship dysfunction |
| Pr 6:27 | Relationships | 01.08.11 | 3450. The level of our relationship is related to how much time we're with someone. | Levels of friends and enemies |
| Ex 4:9 | Relationships | 08.03.11 | 3655. Opportunities are terrible things to waste, but it's far worse to never see them. | Ruthie |
| Mt 25:32-33 | Religion | 08.02.11 | 3654. Religion is the reasoning of someone without a clue who God is. | Dualists and deists v diety |
| Pr 7:3 | Reminders | 03.12.11 | 3514. A reminder can accomplish what diligence might not. | Praying man logo |
| Ecc 9:4 | Repent | 05.08.11 | 3568. Expectations can be a cruel master. | Turn or burn |
Ps 18:23 |
Repentance | 11.25.11 | 3778. We can't get past our past if our past is bigger than our present. | Turn or burn |
| Ps 16:4 | Repentance | 03.04.11 | 3506. Careful - it's what you say that can really get you in trouble. | Professers |
Pr 9:1 |
Repentance | 12.03.11 | 3786. In searching for wisdom, I found that to be a wise decision. | Sodom and Nineveh |
| Mt 26:35 | Resolution | 12.29.11 | 3812. Were that our intention was based on retention from paying attention. | Tongues of ink |
| Ex 2:15 | Respect | 03.30.11 | 3532. Running from something may be the shortest line between you and what you fear. | Runner's finish line |
| Pr 8:27-29 | Responsibility | 10.15.11 | 3737. There are two ways to see things, my way and the right way. | I don't know the problem but I know whose fault it is. |
| Mt 25:4 | Return | 05.19.11 | 3579. Waiting on anything but God is idolatry. | May 21, the end? |
| Mt 25:31 | Return | 07.28.11 | 3649. Standing at heaven's throne is one step from sitting on earths. | Rhyme and Reason |
| Mt 25:10 | Return | 06.02.11 | 3593. Life is not a DVR with a reverse, pause and playback. | Game Show Frenzy |
Mt 26:26 |
Revival | 11.29.11 | 3782. Prayer is the result of a growing relationship. | Busy idleness |
| Pr 6:33-34 | Revival | 02.12.11 | 3486. For every sin, there is an equal and opposite conviction - if you are saved. | Revival dust |
| Pr 6:28 | Revival | 01.15.11 | 3457.Play with fire and you become the accelerant. | Fire accelerant |
| Ex 2:17 | Sacrifice | 04.11.11 | 3541. A disciple will be active even when it appears he's not. | Jim Elliot |
Mt 25:46 |
Salvation | 09.15.11 | 3707. The end of the road is really a bend. | Salvation evidence |
| Ecc 8:10 | Salvation | 02.20.11 | 3494. A food label means little until you can taste what's behind it. | The Good, Bad and Ugly. |
| Ps 18:14 | Salvation | 10.07.11 | 3729. Is the light at the end of your dark tunnel a bear with a flashlight? | Fake and family |
| Ps 14:7 | Salvation | 01.07.11 | 3449. Waiting for our Redeemer increases anticipation and decreases anxiety. | Dad and Cuz Francis |
| Ex 6:8 | Salvation | 12.21.11 | 3804. Without problems, there's no way to test promises. | Expensive salvation |
| Pr 8:6 | Salvation | 07.02.11 | 3623. What we don't embrace is just as important as what we do. | Lordship |
| Mt 24:29 | Science | 02.22.11 | 3496. When we learn all there is to know, we will still be ignoramuses who need a Savior. | We're ignoramuses who need Jesus. |
Ex 5:20-21 |
Scripture | 11.23.11 | 3776. Blaming someone else doesn't abdicate ourselves as much as implicate us. | Work in order to rest |
| Mt 24:17-18 | Security | 01.13.11 | 3455. Just because you take up space, doesn't mean you always will. | Fire Escape window guards |
| Ecc 11:4 | Seeking | 12.25.11 | 3808. Blessing usually awaits my doing something first. | ASAP-Always Seeking; Always Pleased |
| Ps 18:25-26 | Seeking | 12.09.11 | 3792. Calling some people intelligent makes both an oxymoron. | Seekers are provers |
Ps 18:10-11 |
Seeking | 09.16.11 | 3708. Just because I hear it doesn't mean I have to listen. | High and lifted up |
Pr 8:35 |
Seeking | 11.19.11 | 3772. You won't find what you don't look for. | Jesus seekers |
| Pr 9:5 | Sense, Common | 12.24.11 | 3807. Common sense: I'd explain it if I thought you'd understand. | Gloom and zoom |
| Ex 4:2 | Service | 07.11.11 | 3632. What's never used is never appreciated. | Fleas and me. |
| Mt 25:40 | Service | 08.25.11 | 3686. God's Word fills our void, no matter the shape or size. | God-shaped ears. |
| Ex 4:10 | Service | 08.08.11 | 3660. What we were has no bearing on what we are in Christ. | Pass the sugar please |
| Mt 24:45 | Service | 04.19.11 | 3549. The right time is anytime your attitude is right. | God is my Assurance Adjustor |
| Mt 26:7 | Service | 10.04.11 | 3726. It's not the gift or the cost that matters, but the reason. | The actor's covenant |
| Ex 4:6 | Sign | 07.25.11 | 3646. Can an idiot do something right if he has enough time and money? | Sign in the sky |
| Mt 26:33 | Sin | 12.22.11 | 3805. It's my intention to always have good intention. | Brown bags for TV |
| Mt 26:28 | Sin | 12.06.11 | 3789. Just because we consider sin inconsequential doesn't mean God does. | The tallest stack |
| Ex 1:20-21 | Sin | 02.09.11 | 3483. God's blessing is usually proportional to the degree of our obedience. | Rotten food |
| Mt 25:41 | Sin | 08.30.11 | 3691. Our will is not free as some suggest; Someone had to pay for it. | It is Finished!! |
| Mt 25:38 | Sin | 08.18.11 | 3670. The greatest problem someone can have is thinking they don't have one. | Spiritual blinders |
Ps 18:7 |
Sin | 09.02.11 | 3694. Why argue that man is destroying the earth while sin is destroying men? | Hurricane Judgment |
| Ps 15:3 | Sin | 01.21.11 | 3463. A first hand sinner is repsonsible for second-hand sin. | The law of Christian dynamics |
| Pr 8:13 | Sin | 08.06.11 | 3658. We don't just invite sin in, we build a room for it. | Rottwiler religion |
| Ex 2:14 | Sin | 03.28.11 | 3530. What we hide becomes obvious and most often to the one we try to deceive. | Tag, you're it. |
Ex 5:19 |
Sin | 11.21.11 | 3774. God's expectation is more evident when the heat is turned up. | Life is perilous, death more so. |
| Pr 7:13 | Sin | 04.23.11 | 3553. Sin, if you want a piece of me, take it up with Jesus. | Dead Man Walking |
Ex 5:14 |
Sin | 11.07.11 | 3760. Why fight when your enemy has surrendered? | Mayan misdirection |
| Ex 2:11 | Sin | 03.16.11 | 3518. You can hide who you are, but it's almost impossible to hide what you are. | A deep cleansing portion |
| Pr 6:26 | Sin | 01.01.11 | 3443. Committing sin is costly enough, but adapting to it places a lifetime mortgage on it. | Resolution disolution |
| Mt 26:8-9 | Sin | 10.06.11 | 3728. Opinions don't matter when you're with Jesus. | Mob action |
| Ecc 10:1 | Sin | 07.31.11 | 3652. Mix the mind of man with anything and you dilute the solution. | Man Stinketh. |
| Ex 3:19-20 | Slavery | 06.27.11 | 3618. Leave and go where? | Emancipation? |
| Ps 16:7 | Sleep | 03.25.11 | 3527. Sleep - God's 24/7 trauma center. | Nighty, night. |
Ecc 10:10 |
Success | 09.18.11 | 3710. Success has two stages; the first is understanding failure, the second, to avoid it. | Look up; don't give up. |
| Mt 25:15 | Success | 06.16.11 | 3607. Real achievement is making something of nothing. | Seemingly impossible? |
| Ps 16:3 | Success | 02.25.11 | 3499. Anything short of obedience to God is idolatry. | Expectation can be defeating |
| Ex 2:20 | Surprise | 04.18.11 | 3548. God is never surprised whereas we seem to be always be. | I promise to promise to promise to pr... |
| Pr 7:18 | Surprises | 05.14.11 | 3574. Life is a steady flow of unexpected events, but none of them surprises God. | Jimmy's finished |
Ex 4:24-264 |
Surrender | 09.14.11 | 3706. Don't give up before you lace up. | I can't fail if I surrender |
| Ps 15:4 | Talk | 01.28.11 | 3470. We may not say it out loud, but our face and body language will. | Body language |
Mt 26:1-2 |
Teachable | 09.20.11 | 3712. What we don't know is bigger than what we know. | Inquiring minds |
| Ecc 8:13 | Time | 03.13.11 | 3515. Time separates the past from the present and too often regret from neglect. | Live and die responsibly |
| Mt 25:34 | Time | 08.04.11 | 3656. I'm glad God is not limited by my perception of Him. | John the time traveller |
| Mt 25:13 | Time | 06.09.11 | 3600. Time is a means to the end. | Vacation just started and almost done. |
Ps 18:20 |
Time | 11.11.11 | 3764. Time is like money in that it runs out sooner rather than later. | Times up - again. |
| Ex 3:7 | Trouble | 05.18.11 | 3578. If you never ask, you'll never know. | Entanglements |
Ps 18:19 |
Trouble | 11.04.11 | 3757. Trouble is what you make it. | Trouble and trust go together |
| Ps 18:15 | Trouble | 10.14.11 | 3736. Forget Mother Nature, it's God's wrath you need to avoid. | Storm Chaser |
| Ecc 9:11 | Trouble | 06.12.11 | 3603. Everything worthwhile costs someone something. | Life with a covered rim |
| Ex 2:16 | Trouble | 04.06.11 | 3536. Things happen, but never randomly. | God, You light up my life. |
| Pr 7:11-12 | Trouble | 04.16.11 | 3546. Mess starts with "Me," which rhymes with "T," that stands for trouble. | Life is a pop quiz |
| Ex 4:7 | Trust | 07.27.11 | 3648. It's impossible to believe in God and not trust His Word. | Garden dreams |
| Ex 4:5 | Trust | 07.20.11 | 3641. God's Word for Dummies: Trust me now or watch me later. | For there's no other way? |
| Ex 5:13 | Trust | 11.02.11 | 3755. Dependency can be good or bad, based on Whom we depend. | Dependency tendency |
| Ecc 10:15 | Understanding | 10.23.11 | 3745. More time is no more a reward than a result. | I can't see what I don't understand |
| Ecc 9:18 | Unity | 07.24.11 | 3645. If we have the same Holy Spirit, why is it we disagree so much? | Sphinx tomato worm |
| Mt 24:15-16 | War | 01.11.11 | 3453. In this life, the things we tolerate will outlive us. | David, the man of war |
| Mt 24:41 | Warning | 03.31.11 | 3533. Coming means going just as knowing means telling. | Cardboard warning signs |
| Mt 24:37 | Warning | 03.17.11 | 3519. Knowing the right thing is no substitute for doing it. | St. Patrick's ignorance |
| Ps 17:9 | Wicked | 06.10.11 | 3601. Wicked is being mean and jealous. | Friend or foe? |
| Ex 4:4 | Winning | 07.18.11 | 3639. If being obedient was easy, everyone would still have to decide. | US v Japan soccer |
| Pr 8:12 | Wisdom | 07.30.11 | 3651. Understanding comes by deducing what is not. | What IS? |
| Pr 8:1 | Wisdom | 06.11.11 | 3602. Before you ran, you had to walk; before that you had to crawl and that started on your knees. | Accreditation |
| Pr 7:4 | Wisdom | 03.19.11 | 3521. Start something God's way and you can trust Him to finish. | The Bible is God's Pop-Quiz. |
| Ex 4:18 | Witness | 08.31.11 | 3692. Timidity and Christianity are contradictory terms. | Blind eyes see. |
| Ex 2:13 | Witness | 03.23.11 | 3525. I will prove today what I believe - without opening my mouth. | Brother Barney's got an attitude! |
| Ex 5:1 | Witness | 10.03.11 | 3725. Why should we expect people to believe what we don't? | Sugar-coat |
| Ex 4:8 | Witness | 08.01.11 | 3653. Telling is our responsibility, getting someone to listen, God's. | Bi-Folding action. |
| Ex 1:12-13 | Work | 01.19.11 | 3461. Determination grows stronger the longer you put it down. | Water cooler |
Pr 8:18 |
Work | 09.03.11 | 3695. Work is what you make it, not what's made for you to do. | Working is a privilege |
Ex 4:31 |
Worship | 09.28.11 | 3720. Worship is loving God; praise is celebrating the fact. | Diminishing worship |