Comments for Clay in the Hands

Comment on Hold Fast to Your Faith by Christy Vigil

Christy Vigil — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:08:21 +0000

This story is tooooo funny, and I saw the shopping cart in the median but didn’t know all this had happened…..ROFL…..I wondered how it got there! :0)

Comment on God Is Already At Work by Bev Tiller

Bev Tiller — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:09 +0000

I needed that reminder that I am only a messenger. Praying for God’s Will be done & the safety of the team

Comment on Will God Show Up? by PAUL ANDERSON

PAUL ANDERSON — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:19:58 +0000

5/11/2012
How true, this battle we have with self trying to achieve while real results only comes when it is Jesus in us doing the achieving. Great blog!
Paul Anderson

Comment on How Have You Been Impacted? by jbrianhill

jbrianhill — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:11:45 +0000

Pat,

Thanks much for sharing! These are awesome words!

Comment on How Have You Been Impacted? by pat vigil

pat vigil — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:09:20 +0000

Hi Brian
As I started my journey into manhood I crossed paths with a man by the name of Alan Jenkins we called him “Pappy”. An ol’ welder from the shipyards on the east coast during WWII. I met him when I lived in Oklahoma City. I had just graduated from a welding school and thought a lot of myself. My first encounter with Pappy, I was working for a oil derrick manufacturing firm,as a welder, and I delivered some parts to his shop. He asked if i was a welder? i told him i just graduated form school could rod, mig, & tig weld. to which he said if you want to learn to weld come see me. Kind of flew all over me, but I went to see him.
In my 2 yrs working with Alan i learned much more than welding. he taught me about life. things a parent can’t teach a child, sometimes it has to come from a different source. for me it was Pappy.
he could eyeball something and tell if it was square without using what he called an “idiot stick” tape measure and proved it to me on several occasions. He told me when he hired me he would cure some of my bad habits, chewing tobacco, and cursing. he did. he told me i had words in my mouth he would not hold in his hand. then told me why swearing was bad in the eyes of the lord. the chewing tobacco he just waited till i had a juicy chew and patted me on the back. a little harder than usual. I yakked for awhile and if i smell Levi Garrett to this day i would start all over.
He had all kinds of sayings i use to this day like;

they shot daddy can’t along time ago.

there is always time to do it again, but never time to do it right the first time.

aint nothin to it but do it

He is also the one that told me i was wasting my time welding my calling was somewhere else helping people. that i needed to go back to school. i don’t know how he knew this, but after being a paramedic for 20 years, i just wish i could tell him Thank You! When i went back to Oklahoma some years back the shop was gone and no one knew the where a bouts of Pappy. I do! he told me several times he would live till at least 95 years old or if lucky 115. then go be with his savior and Lord Jesus Christ! A Good Man a very Good Man!

Comment on How Have You Been Impacted? by Jim O'Dillon

Jim O'Dillon — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:54:04 +0000

Gosh, Brian! There are so many! Janet Walker allowed me to begin teaching an adult class in a housing project when I had just come to Christ at age 18 in my hometown of Macon, GA. M. P. Belding prayed so intently that many times as a child I opened my eyes to see if Jesus were physically in the sanctuary. Roland Elder and Russell Brown took me to make ministry, evangelistic, and hospital visits while I was at Georgia College. Charlie Watts spured me on to more love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24) within the Royal Ambassador group, encouraging me to complete the highest honor and level that Royal Ambassadors could earn in the late 1960′s. And then their are God’s heroes in every church that I’ve served on the vocational ministry staff: Gorrell Motsinger Bodenheimer in Winston-Salem, NC; Lawrence Marvin Williams III and Ray Eslinger in Ooltewah, TN; Rene’ Beaver in Mobile; and Paul Levering here in Cullman, AL. God has always surrounded me with a GREAT crowd of witnesses! Too many to tell. Jim O’Dillon

Comment on What Is Your Motivation? by jbrianhill

jbrianhill — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:43:01 +0000

Awesome Nancy! What a moving response! Be blessed today.

Comment on What Is Your Motivation? by Nancy Gierhart

Nancy Gierhart — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:14:47 +0000

I follow Jesus because I just can’t help it. He is the giver of life and the only way for me to live victoriously ( when I allow him to make it victorious) He keeps me singing, not well, but with a smile on my face!

Comment on Virtual or IRL? by Jim O'Dillon

Jim O'Dillon — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:17:57 +0000

WORD!

Comment on Living Resurrected by Bev Tiller

Bev Tiller — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:17:16 +0000

This life is just a vapor. We live ressurected lives by the knowing that when we leave this life we step right into Glory. I cannot wait to be with my Savior . There is no fear of death & we have eternal life with the One & Only God who loved us so much that He gave his Only Son to be the penalty for my sin. Jesus left streets of gold to come & walk through this life so He could be die just for me. When Jesus left He left us the Holy Spirit so we can walk daily with the Comforter who carries us through this life. I thank My God for Ressurected Life. This is what Ressurected Life is alll about.