Margaret Becker - Never For Nothing

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Never For Nothing

Margaret Becker

You cried

Alone by the window

Over the love that you lost

You gave it all

Never accounting the cost

Rain like tears

Beat on your window

Melting your heart

To the floor

No love returned

And now you have less

Than before

It’s never for nothing

When you love with no return

It's never for nothing

Light your candle in the darkness

‘Cause it's never for nothing

Your friends

Say

You're the fool

For loving with nothing to gain

But they can't

See the reward

That you'll claim

So hold on

To the holy promises

That says

No labor of love is in vain

Precious tears are changed

To jewels

In the rain

It’s never for nothing

When you love with no return

It's never for nothing

Light your candle in the darkness

‘Cause it's never for nothing

No oh oh oh

No oh oh

It’s never for nothing

When you love with no return

It's never for nothing

Light your candle in the darkness

‘Cause it's never for nothing

No oh

It’s never for nothing

When you love with no return

It's never for nothing

Light your candle in the darkness

‘Cause it's never for nothing

No oh oh

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Twila Paris - God Is In Control

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God Is In Control

Twila Paris

This is no time for fear

This is a time for faith

And determination

Don't lose the vision here

Carried away

By the emotion

Hold on to all that you hide in your heart

There is one thing that has always been true

It holds the world together

God is in control

We believe that His children will not be forsaken

God is in control

We will choose to remember and never be shaken

There is no power above or beside Him

We know

Oh oh oh

God is in control

Oh oh oh

God is in control

History marches on

There is a bottom line

Drawn across the ages

Culture can make its plan

Oh but the line

Never changes

No matter how the deception may fly

There is one thing that has always been true

It will be true forever

God is in control

We believe that His children will not be forsaken

God is in control

We will choose to remember and never be shaken

There is no power above or beside Him

We know

Oh oh oh

God is in control

Oh oh oh

God is in control

He has never let you down

Why start to worry now

Why start to worry now

He is still the Lord of all we see

And He is still the loving Father

Watching over you and me

God is in control

We believe that His children will not be forsaken

God is in control

We will choose to remember and never be shaken

There is no power above or beside Him

We know

Oh oh oh

God is in control

Oh oh oh

God is in control

Oh oh oh

God is in control

Oh oh oh

God is in control

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Noreply-Comment@Blogger.com

It was brought to my attention several weeks ago that a couple of my dear friends were no longer replying to the comments that I had been leaving on their respective blog posts.  At first, I assumed that it was just on account of them receiving so many comments and not having the time to leave a reply for them all, but then days stretched into weeks.

Be assured that I found it quite perplexing.  For I thought that they considered me to be as dear of a friend to them as I considered them to be to me.

It was around this time that my natural tendency towards paranoia snuck up and slapped me on the back of my head, and with my wife not being all that good for my self-esteem, it stung quite a bit.  For she has made it abundantly clear on several occasions that I am not nearly as charming, nor funny, as I would like to believe I am.  Therefore, it made sense to me that I may have crossed a line in another attempt at being charming and/or funny in a comment, and it was on account of this that my dear friends were giving me the silent treatment.

I finally asked one of them in an email if I may have upset her in some way, and her assurances that this was not the case did make me feel better.  Nonetheless, her reason for no longer replying to my comments left me even more perplexed.  For she said that I had hidden my email address, and that it was for this reason that she had not been replying to my comments.

Whoa, when did I do that?  For I have always been very focused on making myself as accessible as possible on account of my ministry, and this included all of my online shenanigans activities.

Oh yeah, it was indeed a puzzler to me.  For there was my email address prominently on display on my Google+ profile, and all of my efforts to find an answer online were proving to be rather fruitless.

Adding all the more to my dilemma was that the way my two friends had been replying to my comments lately was via email.  They started out leaving replies as comments, but had switched to replying to comments via email in the same way as one would reply to a regular email, which is something that I have never pursued on account of wanting to keep as much as possible out in the open—especially when it came to a dispute with a reader.

In all fairness, the thought had floated through some weeks ago that the trouble with my email address being hidden started when I switched from having my name attached to my Blogger profile to my Google+ one, but it was not until a few days ago that I went to check, which is when it all become clear to me.  For when my name was attached to my Blogger profile, email notifications of a comment left by me came from Jerry E. Beuterbaugh (after I changed from FishHawk) FishHawk7@gmail.com via blogger.bounces.google.com, which allows the recipient to just hit “reply” to send a reply via email.  Whereas, with my name being attached to my Google+ profile, email notifications of a comment were coming from Jerry E. Beuterbaugh noreply-comment@blogger.com, which obviously does not allow the recipient to just hit “reply” to send a reply via email.

Now, I struggle with the use of replying to comments via email.  For they do not show up in the comments section, which leaves the impression to a newcomer that they have come to another place where the owner does not care to respond to those who have taken the time to express what they think of their efforts—not to mention stop any hope of continuing the discussion for the benefit of those who are content to just read the back and forth.

 Of course, if you do not usually publish articles that might warrant further discussion, there probably would not be much back and forth to read, and if you are trapped in the same bubble as I have been, there probably will not be much back and forth, anyway.  Yeah, the “stuff” that I publish might have something to with that, but I would rather not get into any discussion about it at this time.  (LOL?)

I can also understand how replying to comments via email can save a lot of time for those who have lives to live offline, and it was on account of this that I switched back to my old Blogger profile a couple of days ago.  However, I returned to my Google+ profile when it was brought to my attention that I could no longer “share” blog posts with my followers there, and since their number is now approaching 200, that would be a lot of missed opportunities to "share” what I have been given to offer—regardless of what that may be.

Well, I am really confused right now.  For I just checked if the address associated with email notifications of blog comments from me was still Jerry E. Beuterbaugh noreply-comments@blogger.com with my name being attached to my Google+ profile, and it came up as if it was attached with my Blogger profile.  So, I don’t know if Blogger has made a change or what.  Yeah, if my wife would let me have any of it, her money would be on what.

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Phillips, Craig and Dean - Favorite Song of All

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Favorite Song of All

Phillips, Craig and Dean

Love you, Jesus

He loves to hear the wind sing

As it whistles through the pines on mountain heaves

And He love to hear the raindrops

As they splash to the ground in a magic melody

He smiles in sweet approval

As the waves crash through the rocks in harmony

And creation joins in unity

To sing to Him majestic symphonies

But His favorite song of all

Is the song of the redeemed

When lost sinners now made clean

Lift their voices loud and strong

When those purchased by His blood

Lift to Him a song of love

There's nothin' more He'd rather hear

Nor so pleasin' to His ear

As His favorite song of all

And He loves to hear the angels

As they sing

Holy Holy is the Lamb

Holy Holy

Holy is the Lamb

Heaven's choirs in harmony

Lift up praises to the Great I Am

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

But He lifts His hands for silence

When the weakest saved by grace begins to sing

Ah ah ah

And a million angels listen

As a newborn soul sings

I've been redeemed

'Cause His favorite song of all

Is the song of the redeemed

When lost sinners now made clean

Lift their voices loud and strong

When those purchased by His blood

Lift to Him a song of love

There's nothin' more He'd rather hear

Nor so pleasin' to His ear

As His favorite song of all

It's not just melodies and harmonies

That catches His attention

It's not just clever lines and phrases

That causes Him to stop and listen

But when anyone set free

Washed and bought by Calvary

Begins to sing

That's His favorite song of all

Is the song of the redeemed

When lost sinners now made clean

Lift their voices loud and strong

When those purchased by His blood

Lift to Him a song of love

There's nothin' more He'd rather hear

Nor so pleasin' to His ear

As His favorite song of all

Holy Holy

Holy is the Lamb

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

That’s His favorite song

Holy Holy

Holy is the Lamb

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

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Crazy Stories - Serene and Pearl

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Crazy Stories

Serene and Pearl

I heard a tale

About a whale

Swallowed a man

And put him back on dry land

Two fish and a loaf

Fed some hungry folks

Five thousand or more

No one went away hungry

What a story

Kinda hard to believe

But because of what my God

Did for me

I believe in crazy stories

I believe dreams still come true

I believe in Guardian Angels

I believe in true love too

The eyes of my heart

My heart

Have seen

And I believe

I believe in crazy stories

He was blind from birth

Jesus took some dirt

Placed it in his eyes

He could see for the first time

What a story

Kinda hard to believe

But He opened up my eyes

So I could see

I believe in crazy stories

I believe dreams still come true

I believe in Guardian Angels

I believe in true love too

The eyes of my heart

My heart

Have seen

And I believe

I believe in crazy stories

One lonely girl

In a big lost world

Found a Pearl

Changed her life forever

What a story

Kinda hard to believe

But you know that lonely girl

She was me

She was me

That girl was me

And I believe in crazy stories

I believe dreams still come true

I believe in Guardian Angels

I believe in true love too

The eyes of my heart

My heart

Have seen

And I believe

I believe in crazy stories

I believe in crazy stories

Crazy stories

Dreams still come true

True love does too

Crazy stories

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Rounding The Corners

This is a continuation of [Four Corners], and it should not be ignored.  For aside from it being found way too acceptable to teach that the Lord Jesus Christ is not really all-powerful, all-knowing, always-present and perfect in all of His most awesome ways, far too many are being led to focus all of their attention upon His perceived humanity, which is (in effect) to drag Him down to our level, when He wants to raise as many as will up to His.

No, they know not what they are teaching.  In fact, the actual intent of focusing attention upon His perceived humanity is to make Christ Jesus appear to be as approachable as possible.

Yes, much was needed to be changed.  For after hundreds of years of it being preached that we must clean up our own acts before we can be welcome in His sight, reminding people of the fact that He did walk among us as just a regular guy seemed like a good thing to do, and it would have been, if only it was indeed true.

No, this is not to deny that while He walked among us in the flesh that Christ Jesus suffered from hunger [Luke 4:2] and fatigue [John 4:6], nor that He could become enraged [John 2:13-16] and even deeply troubled [Luke 22:42-44].  Nonetheless, all of this was solely for the benefit of those who would have trouble believing that He truly understood what they were going through in this world [Hebrews 2:14-18].  For He most certainly was not just a regular guy [Matthew 8:23-27].

Yes, it can argued that Christ Jesus’s power was not His own.  For it is written: Then Jesus, full of and controlled by the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led in (by) the (Holy) Spirit. [Luke 4:1 AMP]

There are many other verses that allude to this, such as [John 5:30] and [John 6:37-40], but there is no getting around [John 1:1].  That is, unless you go as far as to rewrite the verse to fit what you want to believe, such as in the [New World Translation].

By the way, does not Luke 4:1 refute the claims that His Holy Spirit could not enter into this world until Christ Jesus returned to His Kingdom of Heaven?  That falsehood is based upon a gross misunderstanding of what Christ Jesus told His disciples on the eve of His crucifixion [John 16:5-7].  For instead of Him saying that His Holy Spirit could not come, He was merely reminding them of what He had already revealed, which was that He would always be with them in a different form after He gave Himself up as the sacrifice for all of our sins [John 14:15-20], which was always part of the plan [John 15:1-8].

Be assured that as it was with them [John 14:10-14], so is it in the same way with all who are truly in Christ Jesus [Mark 16:17-18]—even in this day and age [1Corinthians 12:1-13:13].  Nonetheless, it would do us well to understand that everything depends upon what [our Heavenly Father] wants to accomplish in and through someone [1 Corinthians12:11].  For those who want to believe that they have been actually given power and the authority to wield it as they see fit will not be welcome to spend all of eternity with our Heavenly Father in His Kingdom of Heaven as an heir to all that is His in glory, come Judgment Day [Matthew 7:21-23].

Alas, when a foundation is made smaller, it is made less stable to build upon.  Woe be it unto those who would rather believe the false things that are taught about Christ Jesus [2 Timothy 4:2-4] than humbly accept what He actually says is absolutely true about Himself [Matthew7:24-27].

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Just Satan

Militant Muslims are quite fond of referring to the United States of America as being the great Satan, and [here] is Mitt Romney giving them a reason to think about us as they do.  For he could be our next president, and he feels like we should not be ashamed of the actions of some of our citizens when they do awful things.

If you are not up to speed on what this is about, the “stuff” was about to hit the proverbial fan in the Muslim world over a trailer for [Innocence of Muslims] being on YouTube, and in the hope of appeasing the outraged, a staffer with the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt issued a statement.  Now, I was unable to find a copy of the original statement, but I saw the following on a televised [Anderson Cooper] segment: The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continued efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims…as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions we firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.

If you haven’t seen Innocence of Muslims yet, you better hurry.  For the trailer can still be seen [here], but I don’t expect it to be up too much longer.  In fact, I am rather shocked that YouTube has not taken it down already.

Oh yeah, you are in for a real treat when you see it.  For Innocence of Muslims looks like something produced by a couple of teenagers while on a spray paint-huffing binge that makes even some [Syfy movies] look Oscar-worthy!

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