tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40472463133382370572024-03-21T08:21:31.100-07:00Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat CenterA Christian Camp & Retreat Center located in the heart of the heartland of Eastern Kansas. We offer a natural setting for your group to fellowship in the midst of God's creation.Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-38716373569544727502013-10-31T09:04:00.000-07:002013-10-31T09:04:19.102-07:00<div style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;">
Psalm 8:3-5 tells us that we are superstars in God’s eyes: “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, . . . what is man that You are mindful of him? . . . You have crowned him with glory and honor.” Soak that in! God—who spoke into existence a universe so vast that the Hubble telescope hasn’t found the end of it—created you, and He cares deeply for you. He cared enough to ask Jesus to leave heaven to die for you.</div>
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Look up in wonder at God’s creation and praise Him that He crowned you with glory through His Son Jesus.</div>
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We praise You, Father, for Your creation which reaches<br />beyond our imagination, for the spellbinding night<br />sky with its vast array of lights, and for loving each of<br />us enough to send Jesus to be our personal Savior.</div>
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Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-15218725836505568942012-04-28T09:10:00.001-07:002012-04-28T09:10:29.524-07:00Timber Lakes Newsletter Mar-Apr<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Greetings from Timber Lakes!</b>
Spring has sprung and with it comes the anticipation of our 2012
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As many of you may be aware, on March
4<sup>th</sup> we were blessed with the opportunity to see God's hand
move at Timber Lakes. This was the day that a major natural gas leak
was discovered. Through God's provision, we were sitting on the back
deck of the associate director's house and heard an odd rushing
sound. Upon further investigation, it was the sound of thousands of
cubic feet of natural gas rushing through the meter 50 yards away.
Praise God He put us in the exact right place at the exact right time
to discover the issue within hours of the leak starting! Now the
daunting reality of not having heat or hot water in our facilities or
a way to cook for any group was staring us in the face. We took this
challenge to the Lord as well trusting and believing in God's
provision!</div>
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After extensive trouble shooting we
found that the gas leak was unfortunately underground. Due to the
nature of the leak, the only option was to replace every foot of
natural gas line...all 3,000 feet of it! Reluctantly, we were forced
to call in a expert to bid fixing the leak, all the while prayerfully
seeking the Lord asking for His guidance. The bid came in right at
$26,000. This was a crushing blow and would really affect our
maintenance budget. Yet, we kept praying and believing that God would
not lead us where he can not keep us.</div>
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It was at this time that God prompted
our hearts to call on Dave Parry, a close friend of the camp, for
added counsel and prayer support. By the grace of God, Dave was
prompted to call a professional acquaintance Shon, owner of Moore
Plumbing. Without ever stepping foot on the camp before or hearing of
the ministry, Shon was prompted by God to come alongside us. <span style="text-align: center;">Shawn arrived March 9</span><sup style="text-align: center;">th</sup><span style="text-align: center;"> and
within 4 hours God had stirred his heart to halt his other projects
and out of his own pocket pay for 100% of the trencher & labor
for his crew to lay the 3,000 feet of gas line! This left us with
$8,000 (which we are still believing the Lord to provide) for the
cost of the pipe and fittings. As of March 15</span><sup style="text-align: center;">th</sup><span style="text-align: center;"> 20 hours
before the district Men's Retreat, all 3,000 feet had been laid and
every building turned back on! NO PIPES FROZE!!!! Dave Perry then
graciously donated 100% his time and equipment to back fill the
trench. Along with the others mentioned, we would like to thank Gary
Chadwell, who took 2 days off and came to help lay the pipe! Praise
the Lord!</span></div>
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We are extremely excited to make
everyone aware that the <b>2012 Family Retreat program </b>is
officially open for registration!<br />
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During this one week program you
are invited to Pray, Play, and Provide! During your week there will
be family prayer and spiritual growth opportunities. You will have
the opportunity to build relationships and play through different
activity sessions that will appeal to all age and physical ranges. As
you grow together your family will have the chance to provide by
engaging in two daily service opportunities (approximately 1 hour
each). This has spurred our hearts in such a way that Timber Lakes is
subsidizing this program so that no matter what your income level you
can participate in the full six day program for just $40 a day for
the whole family! This is all-inclusive: meals, lodging, activities,
and supplies! Just bring yourself, bedding, and a heart that is
wanting to engage your family!</div>
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For reservations or information contact
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<span style="text-align: center;">Phone: (785) 242-3422</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:timberlakesretreat@gmail.com" style="text-align: center;">timberlakesretreat@gmail.com</a></div>
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<b>Prayer:</b></div>
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Please seek the Lord and ask if there
is a way you could use your gifting to further the ministry here at
Timber Lakes. As mentioned before, we are at this time $8,000 off our
fiscal plan for 2012 due to the unexpected gas pipe replacement.
Please seek the Lord concerning your involvement in this working at
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We are also seeking donations of used
paintball equipment. You might have dusty gear laying in the back of
your closet that you would be willing to make a tax deductible gift
of! We will be using this equipment as back up gear if there is an
unexpected breakage.
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As spring cleaning ensues, you may
come across some gently used fishing equipment that you no longer
have need of. Prayerfully consider making a tax deductible gift of
your equipment! We will be using this equipment for ministry
opportunities where a staff can take a youth, child, or adult fishing
who many times has never have the thrill of catching their first
fish!
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Many of us have just done our taxes
and realized that we could have invested some of our resources in
kingdom ministries as opposed to paying into the government. We
would ask you to prayerfully consider helping us fully support our
missionary couple Skylar & Ashley Lipson. They are only $6,500
away from being fully supported for 2012! Praise the Lord for his
provision! Please consider making a tax deductible gift to fully
support their ministry efforts here.</div>
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Thank you to all who consistently keep
us in your prayers. We feel you lifting us and this ministry up!
Timber Lakes would not exist without every man, woman, and child's
support. May God have all the Glory!</div>
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In His Service,
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Randall Lipson [Director Timber
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<br /></div>Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-39882152158164252392012-04-06T07:59:00.000-07:002012-04-06T08:06:31.795-07:00Tozier DevotionalTOZER DEVOTIONAL
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Friday, April 06, 2012
"Tension Between the Old Nature and the New"<br />
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Christ in a believer's heart will act the same as He acted in Galilee and Judea. His disposition is the same now as then. He was holy, righteous, compassionate, meek and humble then, and He has not changed. He is the same wherever He is found, whether it be at the right hand of God or in the nature of a true disciple. He was friendly, loving, prayerful, kindly, worshipful, self-sacrificing while walking among men; is it not reasonable to expect Him to be the same when walking in men? Why then do true Christians sometimes act in an un-Christlike manner? Some would assume that when a professed Christian fails to show forth the moral beauty of Christ in his life it is a proof that he has been deceived and is actually not a real Christian at all. But the explanation is not so simple as that. The truth is that while Christ dwells in the believer's new nature, He has strong competition from the believer's old nature. The warfare between the old and the new goes on continually in most believers. This is accepted as inevitable, but the New Testament does not so teach. <br />
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<strong>A prayerful study</strong> of Romans 6 to 8 points the way to victory. If Christ is allowed complete sway He will live in us as He lived in Galilee.
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Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5:24-25
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Christ in us does not mean that we no longer are. Our old nature is not ripped out. Christ will change us and live out through us as we daily live under His control.
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Thank You, Lord, for Your patience with me. I sometimes stumble and miserably fail. But You convict me and forgive me. Live through me!Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-36812587676288849012012-03-19T12:52:00.003-07:002012-03-19T12:52:24.385-07:00After salvation...then what?TOZER DEVOTIONAL
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Growing Up into Christ
By "instant Christianity" I mean the kind found almost everywhere in gospel circles and which is born of the notion that we may discharge our total obligation to our own souls by one act of faith, or at most by two, and be relieved thereafter of all anxiety about our spiritual condition. We are saints by calling, our teachers keep telling us, and we are permitted to infer from this that there is no reason to seek to be saints by character. An automatic, once-for-all quality is present here that is completely out of mode with the faith of the New Testament. In this error, as in most others, there lies a certain amount of truth imperfectly understood. It is true that conversion to Christ may be and often is sudden. Where the burden of sin has been heavy the sense of forgiveness is usually clear and joyful. The delight experienced in forgiveness is equal to the degree of moral repugnance felt in repentance. The true Christian has met God. He knows he has eternal life and he is likely to know where and when he received it. And those also who have been filled with the Holy Spirit subsequent to their regeneration have a clear-cut experience of being filled. The Spirit is self-announcing, and the renewed heart has no difficulty identifying His presence as He floods in over the soul. But the trouble is that we tend to put our trust in our experiences and as a consequence misread the entire New Testament. We are constantly being exhorted to make the decision, to settle the matter now, to get the whole thing taken care of at once--and those who exhort us are right in doing so. There are decisions that can be and should be made once and for all. There are personal matters that can be settled instantaneously by a determined act of the will in response to Bible-grounded faith. No one would want to deny this; certainly not I. The question before us is, Just how much can be accomplished in that one act of faith? How much yet remains to be done and how far can a single decision take us?
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Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4:15
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Growing up into Christ calls for tremendous growing. It does not occur at one point in time or by means of one decision. Oh, how much growing we have yet to experience!
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Lord, plant my feet on higher ground! I want to grow up into Christ. May Your Spirit fill me and change me day by day, month by month, year by year.Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-84129788570244840552012-03-05T09:29:00.003-08:002012-03-05T09:29:54.730-08:00The Cross...Foolishness or Power?TOZER DEVOTIONAL
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The Cross Message: Foolishness or the Power of God?
The cross stands in bold opposition to the natural man. Its philosophy runs contrary to the processes of the unregenerate mind, so that Paul could say bluntly that the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. To try to find a common ground between the message of the cross and man's fallen reason is to try the impossible, and if persisted in must result in an impaired reason, a meaningless cross and a powerless Christianity. But let us bring the whole matter down from the uplands of theory and simply observe the true Christian as he puts into practice the teachings of Christ and His apostles. Note the contradictions: The Christian believes that in Christ he has died, yet he is more alive than before and he fully expects to live forever. He walks on earth while seated in heaven and though born on earth he finds that after his conversion he is not at home here. Like the nighthawk, which in the air is the essence of grace and beauty but on the ground is awkward and ugly, so the Christian appears at his best in the heavenly places but does not fit well into the ways of the very society into which he was born.
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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18
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The message of the Cross--Christ dying for sinners--is perceived so differently. It is foolishness to those who are perishing. It is the power of God to those who are being saved. Faith makes the difference; faith that recognizes personal sin and God's i
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You are the crucified, risen Christ. I thankfully receive Your forgiveness of my sin and Your life for my daily living. Praise Your name!Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-66100293554134352092012-02-28T11:18:00.000-08:002012-02-28T11:18:20.207-08:00Randall the "pancake man" for Wildmen of KS Retreat this last weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ld0yGW-5p911oxXEcSBtgkfVrOML4QMxvyThqofyuTKoiicJgBMJN4X4KdICml_jCa4iCHApABjdtYDad_I_zYEkbYkqW-zfhd69STL5jgUoDuOzIT_Dq73dCXI7ua6nevva7rAkRdgv/s1600/DSCN1392.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ld0yGW-5p911oxXEcSBtgkfVrOML4QMxvyThqofyuTKoiicJgBMJN4X4KdICml_jCa4iCHApABjdtYDad_I_zYEkbYkqW-zfhd69STL5jgUoDuOzIT_Dq73dCXI7ua6nevva7rAkRdgv/s320/DSCN1392.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-2700124703011461222012-02-27T12:25:00.000-08:002012-02-27T12:25:18.702-08:00His mercies never fail!<div class="heading passage-class-0" style="background-color: white; color: #5c1101; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><h3 style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Psalm 77:8-14</h3><div class="txt-sm" style="font-size: 12px;">New King James Version (NKJV)</div></div><div class="result-text-style-normal text-html " style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="poetry" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><div class="line"><span class="text Ps-77-8" id="en-NKJV-15102" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </sup>Has His mercy ceased forever?</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-8" style="position: relative;">Has <i>His</i> promise failed forevermore?</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-9" id="en-NKJV-15103" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </sup>Has God forgotten to be gracious?</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-9" style="position: relative;">Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? <span class="selah" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 2em;">Selah</span></span></div></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><div class="line"><span class="text Ps-77-10" id="en-NKJV-15104" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </sup>And I said, “This <i>is</i> my anguish;</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-10" style="position: relative;"><i>But I will remember</i> the years of the right hand of the Most High.”</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-11" id="en-NKJV-15105" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </sup>I will remember the works of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>;</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-11" style="position: relative;">Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-12" id="en-NKJV-15106" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </sup>I will also meditate on all Your work,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-12" style="position: relative;">And talk of Your deeds.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-13" id="en-NKJV-15107" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </sup>Your way, O God, <i>is</i> in the sanctuary;</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-13" style="position: relative;">Who <i>is</i> so great a God as <i>our</i> God?</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-14" id="en-NKJV-15108" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </sup>You <i>are</i> the God who does wonders;</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-77-14" style="position: relative;">You have declared Your strength among the peoples.</span></div></div></div>Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-27704397728234143302012-01-23T08:50:00.001-08:002012-01-23T08:50:58.546-08:00Devotional<div id="lead" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-clip: initial; background-color: #dad6ca; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; orphans: 2; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 700px; word-spacing: 0px; z-index: 5;"><h2 style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font: italic 18px/1 Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Christ's Loveliness Reflected in His People</h2></div><div id="main" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-clip: initial; background-color: #dad6ca; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; float: left; font: 12px/18px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 10px 15px 0px; orphans: 2; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 700px; word-spacing: 0px; z-index: 5;"><div style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some good Christians are afraid to give notice to any lovely virtues which may appear here and there among God's people lest they detract from the glory of Christ. Such timidity is understandable, but uncalled for. If we know to begin with that all goodness is from Christ, that all sweetness, all holiness, all loveliness are out of Him and from Him and in Him, we will not hesitate to recognize moral excellence wherever it may occur on this dark planet. If a ray of holy light shines out from any man's life, it must be because Christ is there shining in secret in a human breast, and we should be quick to catch this dim glimpse of the Light of the World again incarnated in a human being. The glory of Christ will not suffer from this frank and eager acknowledgment of virtue where we find it. Because we are sentient beings, we must have some love-motivation to keep us running. This fact (on a lower level) is well known to everyone. God knew this (for He made us) and gave us the supreme love-Object of the universe to fire our hearts with holy passion. That Object is Jesus. The Christian faith may be summed up in the love of Jesus. To love Him enough is to be sweetly and wonderfully free. To love Him as He should be loved is to know at once complete release from religious forms and traditions. It is to reach the goal of life even here below. A.W. Tozier</div></div><div class="box left" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: #e6e4dc; background-image: url(http://www.cmalliance.org/images/corner.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 100%; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 10px 12px 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><h3 style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font: bold 14px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 1.4em 0px 0.6em; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Verse</h3><div style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And let the loveliness of our Lord, our God, rest on us, confirming the work that we do. Oh, yes. Affirm the work that we do! (The Message).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Psalm 90:17</em></div><h3 style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font: bold 14px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 1.4em 0px 0.6em; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thought</h3><div style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Experiencing Christ's love and loving Him brings a new dimension to daily living. We serve Him, we obey Him, we follow Him because we love Him! Have we opened ourselves to that love?</div><h3 style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font: bold 14px/17px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 1.4em 0px 0.6em; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prayer</h3><div style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May Your loveliness rest on me and all your people. It is that loveliness that confirms the work we do. We serve You as an expression of our love for You.</div></div></div>Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-12764159570067169462012-01-18T21:00:00.000-08:002012-01-18T21:00:29.722-08:00Wildlife Around Timber Lakes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr6j06NFjJ_oAT9H_jR-55hkN77PWKa7L2YV1yVu8osX1GV1LEAdAnqOoyQFi67uGhxmt4zcV3wMHi-Wlzpr_7trvTN0IzqyLgOF6JSrJxZ1af2LG66qdrPPkfXYLfb7qAKW3qVrSJf6cZ/s1600/009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nfa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr6j06NFjJ_oAT9H_jR-55hkN77PWKa7L2YV1yVu8osX1GV1LEAdAnqOoyQFi67uGhxmt4zcV3wMHi-Wlzpr_7trvTN0IzqyLgOF6JSrJxZ1af2LG66qdrPPkfXYLfb7qAKW3qVrSJf6cZ/s320/009.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<strong><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Men's Conference: March 16-17</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Ladies Retreat: April 20-21</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Youth Camp: June 4-8</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Children's Camp: June 11-15</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">District Conference & Family Camp: July 30 - Aug. 5</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Fall Youth Retreat: Nov. 9 - 11</span></strong> </span>Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-35142760322412091022012-01-10T22:43:00.000-08:002012-01-18T21:12:27.814-08:00Facilities & Lodging<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pavillion w/Stage & Lights</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10 A/C & Heated Cottages W/ Bathrooms & 4 bunks ea . Bring your own linens.</td></tr>
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</div>Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-44626384430351111312012-01-10T11:16:00.003-08:002012-01-10T11:16:55.854-08:00Devotional<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font: 12px/18px verdana, geneva, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div id="key-verse-box" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 5px;">I now send you, to open their eyes . . . that they may receive forgiveness of sins . . . —Acts 26:17-18</div></div><div class="post-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font: 1.2em/18px verdana, geneva, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 5px;">This verse is the greatest example of the true essence of the message of a disciple of Jesus Christ in all of the New Testament.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 5px;">God’s first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the words, “. . . that they may receive forgiveness of sins . . . .” When a person fails in his personal Christian life, it is usually because he has never<em style="font-style: italic;">received</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>anything. The only sign that a person is saved is that he has received something from Jesus Christ. Our job as workers for God is to open people’s eyes so that they may turn themselves from darkness to light. But that is not salvation; it is conversion-only the effort of an awakened human being. I do not think it is too broad a statement to say that the majority of so-called Christians are like this. Their eyes are open, but they have received nothing. Conversion is not regeneration. This is a neglected fact in our preaching today. When a person is born again, he knows that it is because he has received something as a gift from Almighty God and not because of his own decision. People may make vows and promises, and may be determined to follow through, but none of this is salvation. Salvation means that we are brought to the place where we are able to receive something from God on the authority of Jesus Christ, namely, forgiveness of sins.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 5px;">This is followed by God’s second mighty work of grace: “. . . an inheritance among those who are sanctified . . . .” In sanctification, the one who has been born again deliberately gives up his right to himself to Jesus Christ, and identifies himself entirely with God’s ministry to others.</div></div>Timber Lakes Camp and Retreat Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01738230630854818153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047246313338237057.post-5830361717017849362012-01-10T10:13:00.000-08:002012-01-10T10:13:59.072-08:00Construction of my Son's & Daughter-in-law's home on Timber Lakes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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