Morningside Devotionals

About The Ball Site of Photo Click Here For some reason this year, it seems we're not hearing as much about the New Year's wish or plans for the New Year , or, what are you going to look back on as being really cool and what not to try again. Remember how big that used to be, and here we are about one day away from the big ball in New York , and the Eiffel Tower getting laser nuts in Paris and all over the planet everybody going "whoo hoo," we made it! Right about now you may be wondering that this really doesn't sound like what a devotional is supposed to sound like? Gee whiz, is it possible that, we're going to climb outside the typical- and here we really don't want to use the word boring , because, devotionals, from the past, are hardly that, are they ? But in writing a devotional for the time we're in, do we need to change gears a bit? It's a question that I want to put out there, because some of my online buds, some of whom are ...

Every year we have the friends over for a little party, about six of them, think it is, anywho, it's nice to see how they have changed and how the world has changed, together, every year; it's a nice measuring stick.  What do you use? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTYIAp0GrLA

See this documentary soon... What an incredible story from the documentary "Collapse," that scientists around 1940 or 1950 tried an above ground nuclear test on a Pacific island.  Going back years later, they discovered about 10,000 monkeys on the island, where, everything seemed to have grown back, but, the monkeys were eating the coconuts which had radiation in their shells. So the scientists took ten monkeys and taught them to wash the coconuts in a fresh water stream, cleaning the radiation. As they monitored the monkeys they found after a short period of time that twelve monkeys were washing their coconuts.  Then a few more as time progressed, some months in, 47 were washing them.  After about a year or more, they noticed that nearly a hundred monkeys were washing  their coconuts, then it happened when the 100th monkey washed the coconut the 10,000 began washing theirs!  This is a phenomenon that had been noticed before, but it give...

When we see a film, for some reason, if it's any good at all, we tend to buy into what it's proposing.  If it's fiction, we get into the plot and the drama and then Click to Site of Image we either smile and cheer or weep at the finish.  If it's a documentary, we either feel it's worthwhile and try to remember what we've seen, or we doubt what it's saying, and we try to forget it. This must have been documentary week for me, as I took in a bunch of them; mostly on the subject of end times.  There are many ways to look at end times.  For example, God who controls my heartbeats might call me home- that's my end time, but it's not the end times that the Bible addresses. The end times that the Bible addresses appear to be much larger, world wide in scale, and yet centered in Israel. But the leading up to events, those are where the interpretive nature of prophecy in the Bible and end times comes into the scene. So it was that t...

As a person who has started, ran, watched fail, and Image Source Web Site participated in, small businesses, and large corporate types of successes; it's my pleasure to tell you, they don't change.  It's nice that they don't because you need some solids in your diet, because we all know what happens if all you get is liquid, right? Now those of you who are religious types, your mind automatically goes to that place called "milk," am I right?  For those of you who aren't particularly religious but read this blog for entertainment or to get P.O.'d- well; suffice it to say, you are what you eat, so it's good that some types of business paradigms don't change, because you need solids in your diet! It is easy to say; that for every ENRON where the corrupt got busted; there are plenty, that didn't, and won't. As my heart raced and my mind struggled to get her message, fully, it occurred to me how amazing it is that Que...

Stay Simple- You Never Cease to Exist! _________________________________ We're (all of us) eternal, let's approach it from the simplest thing that we know; matter is neither created nor destroyed; except, for the first singularity - creation. Now that's a physicist approach, a scientific way of looking at what we are- we are, always going to be. Now let's expand that just one step, we will change; Paul in the New Testament reinforces the teaching of Christ in that, we will change, but we will not cease to exist. Keep It Simple - Eternal Is ______________________   Today a friend of mine for over a year of knowing him and praying for him, changed from this reality to the next.  His passing is significant because the testimony of his life, is significant, because he accomplished a great deal for the kingdom, and, he endured endless pain and suffering, and without complaint; the entire time that I was blessed to know him. What does it mean to su...