John Smith

Retired/Refocused United Methodist Pastor - Lifelong Follower of Jesus Christ.

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Suffering attracts fixers the way roadkills attract vultures. ~Introduction to the Book of Job, The Message

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@AccountableGOP @NicolleDWallace @SarahLongwell25 I keep waiting for a Republican leader courageous enough to say that the Emperor has no clothes.

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"When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have...Then come, follow me.” ~Luke 18:22.
Most of us have one thing that is standing in the way of our trusting ourselves fully to Christ. For him it was his wealth. What is your one thing?

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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
~Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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"People ruin their lives by their own stupidity,
so why does God always get blamed?"
~Proverbs 19:3.
A good question!

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“There are no social problems that would be solved if solving them would reduce people’s dependence on the state.”
-Arkady Renko in "Independence Square," the new novel set in Ukraine by Martin Cruz Smith.