Eccles' Stories

                                                                                        Who can you trust? Can you put your trust in Money?  What about sports?  Maybe you think you can put your trust in Music?  Then what about trusting the television?  I know you think you can put your trust in the "In crowd", right?   The problem is that when you put your trust in these things, you may be and probably are putting your trust in tools of the Devil. In II Chronicles 32:10, we find that the king of Assyria is taunting the king of Jerusalem when he poses this question.  The question He poses in fact is "What do you trust?"  So the question I put before you now is, do you put your trust in God or Satan?  If you lay it in anything o...

                                                             Our Freedom In The Lord                                                                       John 8:31-32                                      Those who hold true to Christ's teachings will be free from the death of sin. For the resurrection, as we are told in I Corinthians 15, Christ, the first man, was raised from the dead.   By raising Christ from the dead, He gave us the freedom to live.  Later on in verse 45, it says "that the  first man Adam became a living being, and the second a li...

                     Jean Paul was a ten-year-old child who was hit by a car, and placed in a hospital in the   state of Oklahoma.  His parents were given no hope of his ever recovering, no hope of him ever coming out of the hospital.  He would have home visits which would be few and far apart.  Life in the hospital was not a normal one for a child, but Jean Paul did not know what a normal child life was.                  Life for Jean Paul was school (if you call classes in a hospital school)  and therapy.  He had  some supervised playtime with the other patients.   While the staff kept an eye on things, they claimed  that they could not always keep an eye out to stop the dangers.  The truth is the staff just turned a blind  eye while watching the events unfold.                  ...

                                                                  Thunder hung around at Casey's Ol' General Store as he always did.  Casey was an old goat who needed to sale the store and move on with his life.  So, he offered Thunder Senior the store for a grand $500.000 saying, "After all, Thunder you are here quite a bit of the time.  I might add you build up  business by being here too!  What I'm offering you is really a steal.  Baah!           Thunder just smiled and grabbed his debit card paying Casey $500,001 for the store.  Thunder  drank a root beer as they signed the contract.  (His sons Thunder & Lightening signed as witnesses.) Lightening made a record of all this for the Big Woods Gazett.             Mos...

 "A deceived heart has turned him aside; and cannot deliver his soul..." Could we not just as easily say,  "A sinning heart has delivered his soul in the depths of hell." The following is a list of sins which Billy Graham feels the Christian has a daily struggle with in which I concur. One is immortality which comes from the Greek word porneia, in which the word pornography comes from. Two is impurity which covers the natural lusts found in Romans 1:24. Three would be sensuality which comes come the greek word for Wantonness or Debauchery.  This  same word is also used in II Peter 2:7. Along with this is Idolatry's, Sorceries, Enmities (  Enmities has to do with hatred), strife. jealousy, outburst of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions or heresies, envying's, drunkenness, carousing's (the  greek word for this is interpreted orgies), From this list we may feel that there is none who are worthy to lead or speak from the pulpit. Let us not forget, howeve...

       Like all old dogs, Thunder, one day decided to step down from the office of the President of the  USA.  Some thought this was a wise choice, while others were sorry to see him go.  Thunder just felt  that he had done everything he had set out to prove.  It was now time for the family, and him, to return  to the Big Woods of Indiana.        Upon returning Maxine would be able to sip tea, lemonade, coffee, or whatever the day called for with the lady animals of the Big Woods.  As for Thunder he would go to the Good Old General Store to chat with the old timers about whatever was on their mind.  As for Thunder Junior he stepped into his Daddy's shoes, becoming a rich and famous therapist seen on Wednesdays on WPAW.  As for  Lightning, he became the writer of the family.  So do not worry just because, Thunder stories do not  come from the White House anymore, there will always be loads...