“Smile More”

Having read a number of encouragements to smile, I asked myself some time ago the question, “Has our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ever smiled?” Not finding anything in my Bible concordance, I left it like that.

“A smile is a curve that puts a lot of things straight,” for example is written on one of our fridge magnets.

I know that “Smile! It improves your face value!” has been used as a church sign. “Smile if you love Jesus! Anyone can honk,” has also been used as a church sign.

I read also “Smile! It takes  72 muscles to frown and only 14 to smile.” But I don’t know if that is true.

My last one-liner is about laughter, “Laughter is a tranquiliser with no side effects.”

“There is no record anywhere of our Lord having laughed aloud, “says D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones almost at the end of his book on ROMANS. Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17, The Sons of God. I am reading that today in the last sermon of the book.

Does that not answer my question with which I started this post?

SMILE

ROMANS

Today I finished reading the book “The Sons of God”.

All I can say is, “GET HOLD OF THE BOOK AND READ IT!”

THE CROSS

“They

Revelation 12:11,12

Intr.:

overcame him

1.  by the blood of the Lamb and

2.  by the word of their testimony;

3.  they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

end:

Therefore rejoice, …”

Who know the name of the Flower?

“Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.” – Matthew 24:12,13

Hearing Device

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Liquorking

“Holiday Tragedy”

“Camper dies in noise row,”

(The New Zealand Herald) and “Camper dies cutting Cable,” (The Northern Advocate) are the headlines today.

A lady was sitting in a parked car in front of the shop which sells the papers and when she saw me reading the headlines she started a conversation and she mentioned alcohol.

“The violence stops now,” is the headline in our local paper, THE NORTHLAND AGE, Thursday, January 15, 2015. There is also a picture with “Protesters against domestic violence outside the Kaitaia District Court yesterday.”

What two great men said about alcohol:

Shakespeare, “Alcohol is a poison men take into the mouth to steal away the brain.” 

Lord Chesterfield, “An artist in human slaughter.”