Sarah's 6th Birthday

 

  

 

 

 

                                                                             

Making Memories

I love to make memories. My children are growing up so fast I wish sometimes I could hit the pause button. I was reminded of that tonight when my youngest girl Sarah started singing a song as I played it on the guitar. I'm not sure of the name of the song but it is from the movie "Summer Magic". It's one of the few movies we watch as a family. The song goes something like.."All I want to do, when the day is through, is linger here on the front porch with you". I really wish I could "linger" sometimes, but time goes on. My prayer is I make the most of the time God gives us. Sarah will be grown before Mom and I know it, but the scripture tells me that God can redeem the time that I sometimes waste and He can do that for you too. I pray you all have some "Summer Magic". I know I'm really enjoying this one.

Ephesians 5:15-16

English Standard Version (ESV)

15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Before You Click Send/Post/Pin

You meet them all the time. You know who I'm referring to. The person who claims to love and represent the Lord and then it happens. Yep, they open their mouths. I've seen this behavior for years and it hurts the cause of Christ. These mouth explosions pass and most mature Christians forget it and go on remembering the fall; but there has been something brewing over the past several years that is an alarming trend. Al Gore claims he started it, but we know better. It's called the INTERNET. Do you realize that some people think that using social media is like talking in a two way private conversation? They don't realize that delete doesn't take it away from this socialistic world and years later when attempting to get a job, or running for political office; it bites them. It's not a memory forgotten, it's recorded. We all need to be reminded of this and here is a great little article doing so:

http://www.paulchappell.com/2011/12/02/before-you-click-%E2%80%9Csend%E2%80%9D/

Going Private

We've decided to take the blog to a private status but would love to keep in touch with you.  If you would like an invite to continue reading our blog please send us a private email with your name and email address.  Our email is parrismissy@gmail.com!  Hope to stay in touch!

Mother's Day

We so enjoyed Mother's day and being able to celebrate with my wonderful wife and mom. So many mothers will not embrace this high calling as Missy does. I am so thankful for a Godly wife, mother, and friend. I'm copying a short article by Nancy Campbell from "Above Rubies". This lady truly loves the Lord and is an inspiration to all.....

Disarming the Gainsayers, No. 206

DISARMING THE GAINSAYERS 

Zechariah 8:12 (NLT), “I believe, therefore have I spoken.”  
“Who am I? Have you sighed these words on your difficult mothering days? It’s a good question, for if you don’t know who you are, you will flounder in life. Fortunately, it’s not a hard question to answer. God created you uniquely, like nobody else on earth, with special gifts that no one else has. But, transcendentally, you are a mother. You have an in-born urge to nurture. If you don’t want to mother children, you will find yourself mothering something else, maybe your pet dog or cat. It is distinctive to us as females.
  
God created you with a womb and with breasts to nurture and nourish life. Why not embrace who you are? Be the best at who God created you to be instead of running from it. Start enjoying it. Disarm the feminists! Disown the lies! Destroy the deceptions and delight in motherhood. 



Love from NANCY CAMPBELL 
http://aboverubies.org/

PRAYER: 

“I thank you, Lord, that you created me to be a mother. Help me to shine with your glory and lift up your truth wherever I go.”  

AFFIRMATION:

I am heralding the joy of motherhood wherever I go.

We will update with some pictures soon.......

Sammy

Short Term Missions

Great video on how important it is to keep the "Gospel" center in missions.......

Easter 2014

Resurrection Weekend: Forgiveness/Repentance/Judgement

I am often puzzled over the things "Christians" say I pray out of ignorance to God's Word. One of which is the understanding of Forgiveness, Repentance, and Judgement. Any beginning bible student hopefully understands that they are all linked.

Peter once asked Jesus how many times you are to forgive your brother......Here's Jesus talking....

Matthew Chapter 18 verses 15 - 22
   
¹⁵ “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. ¹⁶ But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. ¹⁸ Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed^[f] in heaven. ¹⁹ Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ²⁰ For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” ²¹ Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” ²² Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.
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On another occasion, John (The Baptist) was baptizing those that were trusting in God in the Jordan River and in Matthew chapter 3 he says something quite strange from a "Worldly" perspective. Some of the Religious "Fake" leaders called Pharisees came to see what all the excitement was about......................

Matthew Chapter 3 verses 1 - 12 

1 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, ² “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” ³ For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said,

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare^[a] the way of the Lord;
    make his paths straight.’”

⁴ Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, ⁶ and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? ⁸ Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. ⁹ And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. ¹⁰ Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
¹¹ “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹² His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Sounds a little judgmental to the "knowledgeable" people today doesn't it. Please notice the reference to "fruit in keeping with repentance". This means that the Pharisees were fake because they wanted to be called "Righteous and Holy" without living out true Holiness. They were wanting to have Forgiveness and be Right with God, without CHANGING.

Then again there is the time when Jesus is talking about the "thorn" in the eye and not to "Judge", but please continue to read further....well, here it is from God's Word: 

Matthew Chapter 7 verses 1 - 7
      
 1“Judge not, that you be not judged. ² For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. ³ Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? ⁴ Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Notice why he calls the "Fake" leaders here Hypocrites; because they will not look at themselves before looking at others to help them. So from this understanding it's not WRONG to point out another's faults in the right way, but you should make sure that you are right with God first.                .

Here is the point, if you take the ENTIRE council of God's precious Word, you will find that if you truly are sorrowful and want to change, you will, (Repentance) and you can have a right relationship with God and others and He and others will accept you, (Forgiveness) and you will not live under condemnation (Judgement) from the result of your wrong behavior.

Please understand, I'm not saying that you can be perfect, but it does mean if you have God in your life you will recognize when you fall and be quick to repent and seek forgiveness. If you're not willing to do this, I plead with you because you are standing in Judgement for your unholiness before God and your only escape is in trusting in the Life, Death, And Resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ. There would be no better weekend to do this than this Easter Weekend.

May God open your eyes,
Sammy

Introductions!

Introducing our new puppy.  He is 8 weeks in this photo and he is really big already.  We got him when he was 6 weeks and I think he has almost doubled since then.

His name is Gus Pike Valentino Parris
Gus Pike-obviously because we enjoyed watching Road to Avonlea but didn't think he looked like a Felix.  Valentino because we knew all day on Valentine's day that we were going to get him the very next day.

Our kitty is Albert, he is a beautiful sweet black kitty.  He doesn't have a middle name, we need to work on that.  So far they really like each other.  Gus is still inside for now but he really needs to be an outside dog.  So he will join our  Golden Retriever  eventually.  She is as good as they come but right now still has the smell of that skunk from two weeks ago. We need to add a recent picture of her.

We hope Gus and Albert will enjoy growing up together.  Albert has already tried to show Gus who is boss, now that was funny.

I've never claimed to be a big animal person.  They are nice to look at but no biggie to me.  I have however formed an attachment to Gus already.  He is a pretty relaxed dog unless he sees Honey (the outside dog) he's not very fond of other dogs right now.  Katie wants to take him for walks on the greenway so he can get used to people.  Today he took a trip to Petco but he was terrified.  I have come to realize that I am totally outnumbered in this house and I live with people who enjoy pets.  Not just any pets but big ones.  Katie has always liked big dogs.  I mean absolutely loved them.   All the kids do for that matter except Morgan, she is getting used to it but ever since that dog knocked her down and licked all over her face when she was two she just didn't get over it.  I have seen her being sweet with Gus though, he's a heartbreaker so it's hard not to love him.   When Katie was 3 she used to cry all the time for a Saint Bernard.  NO WAY!!!!  I had to put my foot down on that one.  Somehow at the age of 15 she snuck this one in on me.  I think Gus will be as big or bigger than a Saint Bernard.  I plan on posting more of him as he grows so we can remember how little he was at the beginning.

Valentines Day

How many shots before you get just the right one?

We decided this one would have to do...

2013 Birthdays part 2

Since Morgan was turning 18 we did quite a bit to celebrate over a 3 day period.  In our house we usually celebrate for a couple days for each persons birthday. The first one on here  was really dark but the movie was just about to start.  The next one was a quick shot at Cracker Barrel, Morgan is asking me if I am actually taking pictures and Katie is about to start laughing because I can't ever get a good picture.  They DO NOT like this one but I do since it's the only one that turned out a little okay.   

2013 Birthdays Part 1

 

Since we did barely any blogging last year I decided to put some birthday pictures on here.  somehow this got put into two different posts.  That's ok, I'll leave it rather than try to fix it and  mess it all up. 
Jacob turns 9 - October 5
Josiah turns 13 - November 23
Morgan turns 18 - December 5
Katie turns 15 - July 5
part of Morgan's are on here and Katie's birthday is on part 2.