The FAIR

Its fair time in East Texas (again)
As many of you know, Rudy's mother has a food booth at the fair so we spend lots of hours there helping them. The food is really good and its actually fun to work there and get to see all the people.
This year is weird. The exhibit buildings are near empty. There used to be 3 exhibit buildings with people advertising their wares.: My daddy used to have a booth for Crawford Hollywood Doors, featuring the "Genie" automatic door opener,Insurance companies giving quotes and free pencils and balloons, siding companys with their drawing a day (good way to get your # so they could call you at a later date to try to sell you siding ect...), make-up (Mary Kay, Avon anyone?),new storm windows, COFFEE (I used to work in that one) samples of bread (little loafs) the sheriffs department, the radio stations, the fire department, The 3 exhibit buildings are EMPTY! The mayfair building where they judge art work, arts and crafts, quilts ect...is 1/2 empty. Harvey Hall is about 3/4 full, but nothing like it was in days gone by... There used to be no space for any vendors.

This year there are about as many empty slots as their are taken ones. Some of the vendors that came have already left. The rides are just walk up and get on, no waiting.Noah was the only one riding the train!
Rudy's mom is barely selling enough to stay open.
So many vehicles being vandalized and broken into in the last couple years, people just dont want to take a chance. I feel like this "era" is ending. I think the fair is dying. I am sad...

HOUSTON

Went to Houston last week with my sister to visit my Aunt and uncle and cousins. Sure enjoyed the visit! Had a nice trip. Sometimes its good to get "out a dodge" for a few days!

This is my cousin J.C.
2nd cousin Christine and 3rd cousin Jonna
My Dear Aunt Melba (aunt Burr) and my Uncle Gene
My cousin A'Laine
This is me and my Aunt "Burr"

This is my mothers only living sister and I think she smelled a little bit like my mother! It was so good to get to go and visit and talk about old times and my mother and things in the past. Everybody was so gracious and they made us feel so welcome.
Thanks ya'll for a great visit!

The sheep's coat shall be stripped off the wolf's back!

(William Dyer, "Christ's Famous Titles")

"Let me die the death of the righteous--and may my end be like theirs!" Numbers 23:10

There is no living a life that is wicked--and then dying a death that is righteous.

Oh, that men would but deal truly with their own souls!

Many talk like a Christian--but few walk like a Christian!

Many know what is to be done--but never do what is to be done.

Many wear Christ's livery--but do the devil's drudgery!

Many have hands as white as snow--whose hearts are as black as hell!

Many appear righteous--who are only righteous in their appearance. But such as deceive others with a false show of holiness--only deceive themselves with a false hope of happiness!

Remember, sirs, that the sheep's coat shall be stripped off the wolf's back! "They come to you in sheep's clothing--but inwardly they are ferocious wolves!" Matthew 7:15

Oh, sirs, that you would consider well these weighty things! Tell me, sir--what did Judas get by all his deceitful dealings? Nothing but a halter--in which his body was hanged; and a fire--in which his soul was burned!

Matthew 7:22&23

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy

name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

NEW TEXAS DRIVING LAWS

• HB 55: Prohibits the use of a cell phone in a school zone unless the vehicle is stopped or a hands-free device is used.

• HB 339: Prohibits teens under 18 from texting or talking on a cell phone while driving.

• HB 537: Requires everyone in a vehicle to wear a seatbelt, regardless of age or where he or she is seated.

• SB 61: Requires that any child younger than 8 be secured in an approved child safety seat system when riding in a passenger vehicle, unless the child is taller than four feet, nine inches. A violation will cost up to $25 for the first offense and not more than $250 for a second offense.


I think these are good laws however I want a law that states that people driving in passing lanes get ticketed. That is my pet peeve. People driving (and camping out) in the passing lane. This causes me INSTANT road rage. I dont act on it but it makes me angry!

Happy Birthday to YOU...

Happy Birthday to YOU, Happy Birthday to Kaleb...Happy Birthday to you!
I sure do miss you sugar buggar. I hope you have a very happy 6th birthday

Granny LOVES YOU!!

Facebook is addicting!

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Scripture Passages: Our Stroll in the Park

How foolish to fear man, when he is but a man, and God saves the soul - "The fear of man brings a snare: but whoso puts his trust in the Lord shall be set on high"
(Prov 29:25).


Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. (James 4:4)


Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. (Psalm 33:8)

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. (1John4:4)



They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. (1John 4:5)


Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)

And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, [be] unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Revelation 5:13

What sayeth the scriptures on homosexuality,adultery, or just sin, period!

God does not pyramid sin . He doesn't look down and hate one sin more than others . God hates sin , all sin , any sin.

Psalm 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

He only see's His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. If we belong to Him, we are covered by HIS robe of righteousness , for we have none of our own.

When we are born into this world, we are born dead in spirit.

Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

We love sin, because, we have our daddy Adam's nature. He had the only choice, and he chose sin . Before you say anything about Adam, you would have done the same thing...
The bible says God told Adam , this day you shall surely die. We all know that Adam did not physically die that day in the garden. He went on to live until he was 930 years old, but THAT day he died spiritually.
You might ask me, how does a spiritually dead man come to life , spiritually? The answer is :


1 Corin 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

A really hard thing to grasp is that, all of us who are apart from , or not IN Christ , LOVE SIN ! We may not all be as bad as we could be . We may not be murderers , or adulterers , or sodomites , or thiefs , or liars , or coveters , or truce breakers , or drug abusers , or child beaters , or the most heinous sins you can think of , but we stand guilty . If you commit one (1) sin , your guilty of them all . God demands perfection and the ONLY perfection is The Lord Jesus Christ .
I know some really moral people. They work, they live peaceably, they are not guilty of a crime that breaks society's law's , they don't deserve to be jailed , they may even go to church , but I promise you, apart from Christ , church or no church , when this moral person dies (and they will die) , they will spend eternity in hell .
My friend , if your walking and talking in this world today , you are a sinner . I do have good news , The Lord Jesus Christ came to save sinners . A big problem in today's society is that so many people are GOOD on their own , or so they think, they don't have a need for a Saviour..
God did not send His Son for good people , Christ died for sinners , your sins and mine .

Mat. 9:13 But go ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard [it], he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

What happens if you are in the big middle of an adultress , or homosexual affair and the Lord saves you ? (and He can, and will, if it is His desire, see JOHN 8.) He tells us like He told that woman in john 8 Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. He doesn't tell us that He will save us and we can continue in our sin . He says GO and SIN NO MORE !
Is it hard to go and sin no more? Well I still lie , I still have bad thoughts , I still speak evil of people , I continue to sin daily , but I hate it . I hate that I sin . I know that the Lord Jesus died for my sin and I still sin . How horrible.

Romans 6:1 & 2 says :What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

My answer is NO. We are NOT to LIVE in sin any longer. Will we still sin ? YES, as long as we are in these mortal bodies, but we realize we have sinned and we ask for repentance.

Hebrews 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame.

The adultress woman who has been saved , stops her adultress affair. The homosexual breaks off his or her homosexual affair. The thief stops stealing . The liar stops lying. Then when you are tempted of sin...
1 corin. 10:13 says: There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].

He doesn't just save us , He keeps us , He leads us , He guides us , He helps us .

1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

The truth is , when you are HIS , you hate sin , you don't want to sin , You want to be like Christ. You want to be obedient to His word. This is why we read and study His word , so that we can learn about Him and feebly attempt to be like Him.
How did he want us to act? Lets go to His word...

Mat 5:3 Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:4 Blessed [are] they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Mat 5:5 Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mat 5:6 Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Mat 5:7 Blessed [are] the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Mat 5:8 Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Mat 5:9 Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Mat 5:10 Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:11 Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

How did he want us to address sin ? He wanted us to tell the truth in LOVE .

Gal. 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy , because I tell you the truth?

Eph. 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:

I don't want to beat anyone up . I want to try to show them through the word of God , what He has shown me !
He wants us to be humble , meek , teachable , and kind . I am not always this way ...
Please forgive me .
My prayer today is that I would be found IN CHRIST .

NEW YORK

We left home for New York last Wednesday (12th) and returned home on Wednesday (19th)
We had visited there before in 2004, so this time we knew what we wanted to do.
The 1st thing everybody asks me is "did you see any shows" and the answer is NO!!!
There were 4 of us in my party (the ones we had to pay for) and at 125.00 a person we could not afford to lay down $500.00 for the girls to "see a show". Frankly, I don't see how anybody does... Can somebody tell me that?
What we did do was we bought 7 day passes for each of us, for the subway...Usually the subway is 2.50 per ride (which is what we paid in 2004, or we may have bought day passes, I'm not sure) but anyway, the 7 day pass was a bargin because we rode the subway everywhere. In my minds eye, this guy was taking flowers home to his beloved, or maybe it was to his sick mother... either which way, its sweet to see a guy with flowers!
John and Rudy had subway maps and it was a real adventure lining out where we were going and what trains to take to get there and return on.
I like the subway, it is FUN-N-N. We even went over to Hoboken , New Jersey on the (path) subway under the Hudson river, that cost $2.50 extra for going to a different state, but we didn't mind. We went to the now famous Carlos Bakery, where they film a show on T.L.C. called "Cake Boss".

I ate what they call a "Lobster Tail". It is very thin pastry with lots of layers rolled up to look like a lobster tail with creme cheese inside... Yum-Yum! It was good. ( Pardon my expression, I was upset with RR when he took this picture!) Hoboken, N.J. is a beautiful little spot just across the river, here's a look at New york from there On this lush green lawn, people were sunbathing playing in the sprinklers, and just enjoying the sunshine!

I took this picture of "peaches" in Hoboken, there are plumbs and cherries in the background.
I couldn't resist taking a picture of the beautiful sunflowers


Rudy and John took the girls to Coney Island to eat a world famous "Nathans hot-dog"
they loved that,

but said that the beach was so crowded that you could not possibly enjoy the water...


There are so many majestic things in New york. I had a hard time deciding what to blog about. There were some gross things there too, like the dogs being treated like humans. We even saw one dog with shoes on... We saw sodomite couples hand in hand, hugging. I guess with everything there is bad
I think the thing that bothered me the most was the "First Baptist Church, of Uptown Manhatten...It no longer houses the First baptist Church of Manhatten, now it is home to a small assembly of Korean Baptist's The words etched in stone are as true today as they were the day they were etched...
ROMANS 10:9&10
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

So long New York

I Know Whom I Have Believed

I know not why God's wondrous grace
To me He hath made known,
Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love
Redeemed me for His own.


I know not how this saving faith
To me He did impart,
Nor how believing in His Word
Wrought peace within my heart.


I know not how the Spirit moves,
Convincing us of sin,
Revealing Jesus through the Word,
Creating faith in Him.


I know not what of good or ill
May be reserved for me,
Of weary ways or golden days,
Before His face I see.


I know not when my Lord may come,
At night or noonday fair,
Nor if I walk the vale with Him,
Or meet Him in the air.

But I know Whom I have believèd,
And am persuaded that He is able
To keep that which I've committed
Unto Him against that day.

A Good Rule for Life.

I Cor 8: weaker brother. Lord help me spend less time parading my freedom & more time modeling 4 others a cross-centered life.

RUNNING SCARED

Trained to be a lawyer, he went into school teaching in Texas, not yet converted and still "shaking my fist" in God’s face, I joined a church. After his conversion he was truly pressed of the Lord into the Gospel ministry. The first sermon he preached, well listen to his biographer: He was out raising money to build a church, one of the businesses he intended to solicit was the one operated by A.P. Borger who "owned the town". When he got there he found several deputy sheriffs waiting for him, along with a photographer from the local newspaper. He was informed that no money would be collected at that business until they had been given a sample of his preaching. Barnard immediately stepped up on a large beer keg and delivered a message on "death". The essence of this message was that those present were going to die physically, and if they remained outside of Christ their souls would die eternally. The photographer took Barnard’s picture while he was preaching. The next day newspapers showed this young preacher standing on a beer keg preaching to this unusual audience. His message of sovereign mercy was an awakening message. It was impossible to remain neutral when Barnard preached. Like the apostle Paul, when Barnard preached, there was either a riot or a revival. As he said so many times, "When the true gospel of grace is preached, the (true) believers will be glad, the rebels will get mad, and the pharisees will be confused."

Text Luke 12:1-5

The body of Christ needs to meet together to hear the Gospel preached in its purity and its proper order; then go out and witness a good confession, whatever the circumstances are. God’s true people have been conquered by the Lord Jesus Christ, and we are not our own, and we do not live for ourselves; we have lost our life that we may gain it. If this is not true of us, we are not God’s children. But you and I as God’s children must face this signal truth that we are attempting to preach the Gospel today in a generation that has been utterly sinned against in that we have forgotten that the Gospel must be preached in its purity and in its proper order. A man cannot hear the Gospel until he has been utterly slain by the law and left desperate, with no hope within himself. Not until that time will he care whether Jesus is the Son of God or not; whether He died for sinners or not; BECAUSE HE IS NOT INTERESTED.

The only weapon that God the Holy Ghost has or has had to prepare men to listen and receive the Gospel; and that is God’s holy requirements. Unless a man is desperate he cannot even hear, much less receive the Gospel of God concerning His Son. A man has to be desperate before he will cry for help or beg God for mercy.

We have a "Jesus" cult today in America. Everybody thinks mighty well of Jesus; but "to hell with God." Is that too tough for you? But they do not know Jesus as their Lord, and God the Father as the lawgiver. Our Gospel has been wrong. Would you be interested in listening to the Truth long enough that the Gospel would be good news to you? If you ever hear the Gospel as the Gospel, you will be saved right then. The big need of every community now is churches with a man of God filled with the Holy Ghost preaching the Word of Truth like it should be preached; so that some would definitely reject and some would be conquered by the Christ of the Gospel.

(He then picks up on his text) God came to Noah and said, "Noah, judgment is coming". I am going to destroy all those people with a flood. All on earth Noah had to go by was God’s word. And the most solemn thing I face and the most crushing burden any human being can bear is the burden of living in a generation that doesn’t believe a word of the Bible. God knows what a burden it is to live every day of your life among your neighbors and your relatives and your church members and folks you work for, and you believe that every step men take is one step nearer the awful consuming judgment of God; and you try to talk to them and they don’t believe a word of it.

How in the name of God can I confess Christ in a generation that doesn’t believe God; in a generation that if you talk to them about the judgment of God, they don’t know what on God’s earth you are talking about? There’s old Bill. He’s headed straight for the judgment. There’s my son or my daughter, they are headed for the judgment, but they don’t believe it. And I do. Now brother, that’s a burden!

It’s foolish to claim to be a Christian unless you devote your life to just two things: (1) the proclamation from the Holy Scriptures of the holy character of God, and His righteous demands and commands. (2). Then pointing men and women who will listen to the only place of escape, which is in Christ. Now that is what Noah did; HE RAN SCARED, he believed something, he believed that God was going to bring judgment on men and women. He couldn’t see it, but he truly believed it.

An old evangelist used to say that some of these days some little humble believer was going to pick up the Bible, read it and believe it. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could believe it? Not argue about it, not sit around in nice little sessions merely discussing it, but with the help of the Holy Ghost believe it. And he said that little simple believer is going to make the rest of us folks ashamed of ourselves. Oh, says some fundamentalist. I believe the Bible from cover to cover." Let me tell you this fact, a man only believes what he obeys, what he puts into practice.

If I had just one sermon to preach, and I was the only preacher to preach, and I could get in some public place as the people of the world passed by, I tell you what I would do: I would hold up my hands, and I’d lift up my voice and I would cry, "Stop, people! You are headed for a meeting with the holy law of God!" There is one thing that no human being will escape. Every human being has got to deal with the holy law of God! Oh, my God! Won’t it be awful to come and have to face God Whose will, and His way, His demands, His commands, and His requirements which are expressed in His law?

If you choose to neglect, refuse, you will still be judged by it. You will end up facing the curse of the broken law, The word of the Divine lawgiver to you will be "Depart from me into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth."

If these truths ever "sink in" and you actually hear them, you will cry out to the holy God to have mercy. You will know you need a Mediator, the man Christ Jesus. That is the Gospel. My only hope, my only plea, Christ Jesus died and He died for me.

Which will it be as you look into the mirror of God’s holy requirements and demands?

1. We will not have this man to rule over us and demand of us.

2. Or, Oh, my God! Is there any hope for me?

(Now you heard for the first time and the Gospel is Good News.)

"Oh Father, may the Spirit of the Almighty God be pleased to convict men of their sinful lost condition; and their need of the only Mediator, the man Christ Jesus. We pray this in His Blessed Name. Amen!"


Excerpts from Running Scared, by Evangelist Rolfe Barnard

UNDERSTANDING SCRIPTURES

I DON'T..........
I find myself questioning my salvation.
I dont understand. I beg for MERCY, I beg for understanding.
I want to know LORD. PLEASE HELP ME.
OPEN MY BLIND EYES.
I am compelled to SEARCH, I Read,
I study, I go to church... I have a hunger to KNOW more about Jesus.
Am I working my way to heaven, or TRYING TO?
"I" am LOOKING to CHRIST ,
BEGGING FOR GUIDANCE.

HELP ME.

MATT 17:14 says:
Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.


Pro 18:15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

Pro 18:16 A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

Pro 18:17 [He that is] first in his own cause [seemeth] just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

Pro 18:18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

Pro 18:19 A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city: and [their] contentions [are] like the bars of a castle.

Pro 18:20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; [and] with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

Pro 18:21 Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Pro 18:22 [Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Pro 18:23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

Pro 18:24 A man [that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.

These WORDS are supposed to be LIFE to me...yet my eyes are SEALED

My foundation is SHAKY...I need RELIEF.

RELIGION and religious people are going to hell.

WHAT IS THE ANSWER.

LOOKING TO CHRIST , THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH...
PLEASE......... finish me. I am in TORMENT.



Begs to be