Coming to the Still Waters

A 12 mile hike last week with Stephanie up to Little Yellowstone Canyon in the Rocky Mountain National Park .  It might be our last together until we don the snowshoes.  Stephanie lets me take her places she wouldn't usually go like this next picture to sheer drop offs looking down into the canyon at the Colorado River .  She told me, "No grandkids up here with Grandpa, no kids either!" The snow is flying in the air today in Grand Lake, Colorado .  We have seen it on the mountain tops but now it has made it down to 8400 ft.  We also have made it through the third sermon on Matthew 19:1-12 and 1 Corinthians 7 .  I am always thankful to give as clear as an answer from God's word because it is a missing element in our world and even some of our churches today.  We so many times disregard what God has said.  It is mimicking what Jesus did by asking to the religious leaders of the day, "Have you not read" and taking them back to the beginning to fin...

All I can think of when I see this picture is Mr. Magoo!  It was a very windy day on the Blue Ridge Trail at 11,300 ft.  No elk to be seen but I'm not complaining.  You think you are the only one around and then you meet a fellow hiker coming down from Cascade Mountain.  A dusting of snow on the ground and the roofs this morning and a chill in the air has swept over Grand Lake.  Time to put the snow shovel back on the deck for what is to come. Part 2 of this passage allowed me to focus in on the one exception that Jesus gives and also the one requirement held over from the Old Testament to the New Testament.  The one exception that is permitted but not commanded is that of marital unfaithfulness to the one-ness relationship created by God when He created them male and female and the man leaves his father and mother to cleave or join to his wife and they become one flesh.  The one requirement that is carried over from the Old to the New is to marry with...