What is the Love of God

Plans The old saying, ´if you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans´.  I kind of plan, but with a very loose hold on things.  God does what He wants, when He wants to.  I have a general idea, but have learned over the years to just go with the flow. Great News! […]

Smiling AND A TRIP TO THE STATES I think a person´s best attribute is their genuine smile.  Their worst attribute is their false smile. When salesmen are under pressure, they can´t smile naturally.  Superstitious people say that when they are having a loosing streak in sales, they have ´commission breath´.  People can smell desperation they […]

Sticks-Stones Sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you.  Yet another ´wives tale´ has proven to be wrong.  In my opinion, sticks and stones are a lot more civilized.   Life and death are in the lips, said King Solomon.  What we say to others, as well as to ourselves […]

Neighbors Burton Ohio has THE BEST NEIGHBORS in the world. When I was a kid,  I was taught that Jesus said we should LOVE OUR NEIGHBORS AS OURSELVES.  I thought ´THAT´S EASY´!  I can still remember the laughter of the people in Burton Ohio who lived next door to us.  All of us kids played […]

10Jul14 Million Friends HOMELESS The only way to love someone is to actually learn and care about them. The only way to do that is to spend time with them. Make them feel at home, even if you´re not in a house. You have to actually talk to them, and listen to what they tell […]

Givers Paul said he was glad that he learned both to be abased and to abound. Once Dean Jr said, ‘ok I have the abased part down pat, so when do we abound?’…. A popular myth is that there are two types of people out there. Givers or takers. Some give a lot. Others take […]

Memories video of the Jim Winner Home (we got grass!) 57 years of memories. Some good. Some bad. However the memories are only of how other people made me feel. or how I mad others feel. Bullies, deaths, combat, babies, love, betrayals etc leave trillions of memories caused by people. I remember when my little […]

bEtter > The word ‘I’ is the difference between bItter and bEtter (Mike MacIntosh) > > We all want to get better. Life is more bearable and mistakes are forgivable knowing that there is always an opportunity to become better. That´s the joy of living a christian life, knowing that there´s always tomorrow, and we […]

DAYS Special days, days off, holidays and religious days hold no appeal for me. Especially in the summer. Maybe because I have flashbacks of my dad mowing the lawn wearing only shorts, knee high black dress socks and wingtips on his days off. Wintery or rainy days seemed a little more special, but not very […]

MISSIONS I used to have a great aunt.  Her name Aunt Ana (I thought her name was ´antena´ until just a few years ago.  Figured it was a slovak nickname for a crazy person or something.  All my aunts have this little slav accent thing going on, still to this date..Anyways,   She would to tell me in whispered reverence with the wild eyes […]

Preaching what you Practice (John Sclesi) People make such lofty arguments when they are preaching from a safe place. They may be paupers and preach prosperity. They may be sickly and preach health. They may be complete degenerate sinners and preach virtue. What people PREACH when they are among their peers does little good to […]

SHORTCUTS “SHORTCUTS WILL NEVER TAKE YOU TO A DESTINATION WORTHWHILE”……. Zig Ziglar My 12 year old son says that my walks are like my politics, ABSURD! I am crazy about Dean Jr but he hates walking without a specific agenda. When I go for my daily walks, I hate agendas. I love to walk aimlessly, […]

2May14, Million Friends and forgetting When Dean was an infant my wife was laid up in a hospital with appendicitis. I realized there were no diapers for him. So I rushed out side with Dean Jr and grabbed a cab. Upon arriving to the pharmacy to buy diapers I had a feeling as if I […]

Networking Being an ex car salesman, I try to shy away from sales buzz words and sales philosophies and techniques when talking about the Lord. Networking is not about sales nor marketing. It isn´t new. Nor is it nonspiritual or sinful. Peter was told by Jesus to throw the net. Because he obeyed, he received […]

Fwd: 18-4-14 Million Friends and sleep Managua is now known as the city that doesn´t sleep. Between a week of strong earthquakes and tsunami warnings, every one in Managua is like the walking dead with big bags under their eyes. Sleep is nice. The older I get the more I like it. Sleeping heals. It […]

Earthquakes and Falling stuff. Falling stuff, (including people) kill people. Not earthquakes in themselves. We Just had a 6.6 earthquake about 4 minutes ago, 2:49 pm, mountain time, today, friday, 11 April 2014 right here in beautiful Managua Nicaragua. Yesterday we had a 6.2. The thing about earthquakes is that if the structure you are […]

Once I got a late night call and had to make a long 8 hour drive to somewhere. I called my kids and wife, and said, grab what you need. Deannie Jr was like 5 and he grabbed a dvd video of something. We didn’t have a DVD player in the car, but he said […]

24 mar 14, Million Friends and Fainting They shall walk and not faint… People constantly tell me that I bite off more than I can chew. I don´t have a clue what they´re talking about. I just do what I feel the Lord wants me to do every day. It´s fun. It´s a wide variety […]

21 Mar 2014, Million Friends and the WORD Happy Nozoor! (Persian New Year) As a tradition in Iran, the new year (1387 I think on the Iranian calender) is a sign of rebirth. As a token they free some prisoners. Please pray for my friend, Pastor Saeed Abedini, (who is an american citizen arrested almost […]

14 Mar 2014, Million Friends and WAITING The Jewish prophet Isaiah said that “those who wait upon the Lord shall renew in strength” Personally, I hate waiting. Waiting in the way I read it made me weak and old, not stronger. I told you this story before but it applies more than ever. I remember […]

Relationships VS Agendas So, Jesus was told that Lazarus was dying. Yet He dillydallied 3 days before he made it there. By then Lazarus was dead. Jesus said He took His time so God would be glorified. I would have been a maniac if Lazarus was a loved one of mine, and if Jesus was […]

Yet another week has passed in Nicaragua, the Land of Volcanoes and Lakes. Geography aside, Nicaragua is a land of really fantastic people with magnificent resources. We were blessed with the visit of missionaries from Kenya Africa, our lifelong friends, Steve and Diann Warne. What I always notice about them is that they are both […]

Problems. Everyone has them. If not, you are just coming out of one, or about to enter one. But no one escapes from Problems (Mike MacIntosh), Horizon Christian Fellowship, San Diego California. As a supposed ´representative´ of Jesus Christ on this planet, I love people. I love public transportation and taxis. I taking prefer buses […]

St. Valentine´s and other PRECONCEIVED MISCONCEPTIONS ONCE A FRIEND ASKED ME TO TELL HIM THE TRUTH. I DID. HE GOT MAD. NOW WE´RE NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE. Don´t ask for the TRUTH if you really don´t want to deal with the answer. I´ve been on kind of a TRUTH QUEST. The Bible says in James 1:5 […]

EVENTS vs LIFESTYLE I think of events as sales ploys and lies. I always cringe when I see religious groups hold EVENTS. I cringe even more when individuals present EVENTS. Almost always it´s to ´impress others´ which has disastrous results for the victims of the events. The problem with EVENTS are that they are not […]

My 9 year old daughter (Winnie Joy) is now a ´proud grandma´. Must her inner ´slovak studda bubbah´ coming through. Her little weener dog had 9 puppies. (seeing how ´dad´ is our german sheppard watch dog, it´s a small miracle) She has all 9 puppies named, and she actually expects me to remember their names. […]

Opinions Opinions are important. Everyone has one. I have learned over the years that MY OPINION isn´t necesarily the RIGHT opinion. It took a while for that to sink in. Jesus seemed to ALWAYS heard the person out when they came to Him. He LISTENED to them, not just HEARD them. He did that because […]

LOVE not charity LOVE not Charity. I´m not a big fan of discussions (arguments) of which denominations, dogmas nor Bible translation is the best. We´re all wrong (in my opinion) on one thing or another. 1 Corinthians 13:2 in the New International Version, it replaces the word Charity with a better translation, the word LOVE. […]

  January 3, 1977 I enlisted in the US Army,,, man! That was a long time ago. I always have been amazed at God´s grace in my life, and I want that to be the image that our ministry portrays to ´OTHERS´. We are all flaberghasted at what the Lord has done for us and our […]

  I’ve been told that IF you are doing what God wants you to do, you will get attacked by the enemy. All though we don´t have a “fish” on our business card, we are believers in the Risen Lord. We are doing what we feel the Lord wants us to do. Therefore we are […]

Genesis is the instigator. She learned it from her mom. Man, NO ONE MESSES WITH GENESIS!… when someone does, her Mom puts on make up (?) and marches over the couple of blocks away that they live from where we feed. In my delirious, dehydrated state,, and through the heat waves, when Genisis´mom comes over […]