Faith is the backbone of our lives.

 

 

 With all the mess in the Hollywood crowd, people will be taken down. This is what the mess-makers in that industry want. 

It is vital, so important that Christians must be voices of faith. Sometimes those voices are silent, especially when living in a viper pit. Sometimes those voices do and say the words they should have taken time to consider.

Will Smith is the latest in the swamp of public condemnation. What he did was undoubtedly unwise, crazy. He will be wrestling with that for his entire life. Even so, Will Smith recognized his need for God.

Denzel Washington, Tyler Perry, and Bradley Cooper encircled Will Smith, praying with him.

 What about these people in the video below? Were they perfect in their lives? No. Did they make some bad choices? Yes. Did they repent and recognize that God has some plans in their lives? I think so, I hope so.

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This video is about 8 minutes long. Worth every minute. These actors sincerely believe in Jesus, acknowledge they would be lost without Him. Their beliefs are internal, personal.

Please watch this, at least in part.  

The measure of a man is not how he handles weakness, but how he moves on to become a man God holds in His Hands. Denzel Washington

 

 

Watching forgiveness and love being displayed by these top actors show their beliefs and love. Living one's beliefs is what Jesus Christ desired when He was on the cross.

And then, there was Jesus

It did not matter, back then, or in the here and now. We are not in charge. Man was never in charge. We will never be in charge. And really, that is a good thing, since man is famous-notorious-destined for messing things up.

All the tragedies done by man are without number. But there is only ONE being who has not failed and left man, and that is Jesus.

Live like You Are Dying

What would you do if you looked at that Xray, seeing the worst news possible?

Some bloggers could tell immediately what it was like, what they did, and what they realized what they had to do. There are so many who could answer that question.

YouTube: Scott McCreery and Tim McGraw

American Idol 2011

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Lyrics are:

Live Like You Were Dying

Tim McGraw

He said
"I was in my early forties
With a lot of life before me
And a moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days
Looking at the x-rays
Talkin' 'bout the options
And talkin' 'bout sweet time"
I asked him
"When it sank in
That this might really be the real end
How's it hit you
When you get that kind of news?
Man, what'd you do?"

He said
"I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"
And he said
"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying"

He said
"I was finally the husband
That most of the time I wasn't
And I became a friend a friend would like to have
And all of a sudden going fishin'
Wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
I finally read the Good Book, and I
Took a good, long, hard look
At what I'd do if I could do it all again
And then

I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"
And he said
"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying
Like tomorrow was a gift
And you've got eternity
To think about
What you'd do with it
What could you do with it
What did I do with it?
What would I do with it?

Life is urgent, it is now. Believe and then act on your beliefs. 

 John 11:25-26. Our life in Him never ends.

P is for Phillipians

Philippians 3:12

…But one thing I do: 

Forgetting what lies behind and 

pressing toward what lies ahead.  

I press on toward the goal 

to win the prize for which 

God has called me heavenward 

in Christ Jesus.

God in Sandals