Marion Gaskins

Sunday, August 26, 2018 Do you have a  vision ?     What are you passionate about?     What is your all-consuming desire? What do  “feel”  deep in your heart that God has called and gifted you to do? (Yes, when your  vision  is truly of God, you will  “feel”  it.") Habakkuk 2:2 Then the  Lord  answered me and said: “Write the vision And make  it  plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it."                                                             Habakkuk 2:3   "For  the vision  is  yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will  not lie. Though it tarries,  wait for it; Because it will  surely come,   It will not tarry." ..... “it will su...

Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Life Lessons From A Boat We  learn  many things on a boat - names of various pieces of hardware, how to tie knots, nautical terms etc. We also learn and continue to learn beyond the physical boundaries of the boat.....lessons that flow over to everyday life.                                                        Boating teaches us how to deal with unexpected situations  and to operate in a constantly changing environment. Learning to confidently and competently handle unknowns on the water makes it easier to handle unexpected chang es in our daily lives. (Sometimes, the unexpected will change your life.)                                                     ...

Sunday, August 12, 2018 Evangelism and Discipleship                                                                                 Disclaimer. ....No - I'm not being critical.   But, sharing some disturbing observations...... #1 - Is it just me ........or does it seem that  Christians and churches have become a little  too focused on "you come" to us instead of "we go"? #2 -  "political correctness"  has entered the ranks of the believers.   Christians are backing away from sharing the truth of the gospel for fear they will "offend" others.   Unlike the examples of Jesus on this earth, they aren't getting out, into their local neighborhoods and communities to befriend or mingle with the non-Christian.  "It's more comfortable." ...

The Parable Of The Cracked Pot                                    A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on the end of a pole which he carried across his neck.  One of the pots was perfectly made and never leaked.  The other pot had a crack in it and by the time the water bearer reached his master's house it had leaked much of it's water and was only half full. For a full two years this went on daily with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his master's house.  Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.  But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream.  "I am ashamed of myself, and I w...

Saturday, June 17, 2017 Salt and Light Urgent! -  We are the  light and the salt , and when we lose our ability to shed light and the salt loses its taste! Actually, Jesus said we become good for nothing, meaning our goodness becomes useless. Matthew 5:13 Being salt and light is not optional.   Jesus did not say  you can be...or you have the potential to be ...He said  you are! Everyone  who has trusted Christ for  salvation  and is born again  is  the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Jesus did not say you are the honey or sweetener of the world.  Instead, Christ-like believers may aggravate wounds like salt in a cut; be an irritant.  Why"   Because  the world in which we live is decaying and rotting.  It is in need of a preservative!  In the ancient world, salt has two primary functions. The first was a preservative. Salt was rubbed into meat to slow...

"K eep us, O God, from all pettiness. Let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with fault-finding and leave off all self-seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face, without self pity and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in judgment, and always be generous. Let us always take time for all things, and make us to grow calm, serene and gentle. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, to be straightforward and unafraid. Grant that we may realize that it is the little things of life that create differences, that in the big things of life, we are as one. And, O Lord God, let us not forget to be kind!" Amen. Mary Stewart  "Written in 1904 as a prayer for the day by Mary Stewart, a high school principal in Longmont, Colorado, and a member of women's clubs of town and country.  "I called it a 'Collect for Club Women' because I felt that women working t...

What have you learned this week?                                                             I've learned that... life is like a roll of toilet paper.  The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. I've learned that... that no matter how serious and bogged down your life becomes, everyone - yes, everyone needs a friend or someone with whom they can act silly with.                                                           I have also learned that... the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than myself. Lastly, I have learned that... it is those tiny and small daily events/happenings that make life so spectacular and wonderful....