The blissful couple went to Pigeon Forge, TN for their honeymoon.  Here are a few pictures of that wonderful week.

Jamie had lots of first's this week, including a helicopter ride:

Chandler & Jamie went to Cade's Cove hoping to see a bear.  They didn't, but they did get really close to a lot of deer.

Chandler tried to instruct Jamie on how to play pool, but her mind just wasn't there.

Jamie loves horses.

Chandler and Jamie went out on the town.  Lots of people cheered them on.

They had a wonderful honeymoon cabin up in the mountains.

Jamie was no match for Chandler on this game.

But she got better and better at air hockey until she beat him!

They had a great view from their cabin...made all the better.

Chandler took Jamie to see her first snow.

That's all folks!  I hope y'all enjoyed them.

Answers to FAQ's:  They took most of the pictures themselves with the timer on their camera.  A couple of the pictures in town were taken by passer-byers.  Wedding pictures are coming as soon as we get the CD from the photographer.  You can get a preview of wedding pictures by visiting http://www.xanga.com/SusieLynne  But before you go, remember to leave a comment. 

Does your faith move mountains, or do mountains move your faith?

If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust Him much.

Worry is like a rocking chair - It keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." Corrie Ten Boom

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Quite often you will find the psalmist, the most outstanding servants of God, and yourself crying out because of God's seeming delay or indifference.  As in the case of Lazarus it sometimes looks as though God were unhurried to the point of being tardy just when needs are most acute. 

God demands persistant faith.  Right after Elijah defeated the prophets of Baal with a great show of fire coming down and licking up the water drenched sacrifice, the people shouted, "The Lord, He is God!"  But that was not the end of this work, as there was still a great drought in the land, and fire was not the answer to a drought.  Surely, since the people had repented and the need for water was so great, surely rain would come pouring down now....but it didn't.

Elijah wasn't worried.  He did not hesitate to tell Ahab that rain was coming.  His faith was strong, but he did not relax at all, but went higher up on this mountain of crisis, put his head between his knees, and prayed through.  James tells us that "he prayed earnestly".  This occasion called for concentration, persistency, and unwavering faith. 

The story should help us fear complacency.  Even after we have poured ourselves out and been assured that we have succeeded, we must beware of letting go too soon.  We must develop persistence of faith.  If you had gone successfully through a battle like Elijah's with the prophets of Baal and seen such a tremendous victory and had an inner assurance that the end was reached, would you have been tempted to sit back a bit and just wait for God to work the whole matter out?

"Ahab went up to eat and drink.  And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel" - to pray.  He was determined to see the matter through.  He earnestly prayed...sent his servant out to look for a sign of answered prayer...only to hear, "There is nothing!"

After all that spiritual battle, after all that prayer, that exhausting ordeal of laying hold of God and seeing the fire fall, was it possible that the skies were as closed as ever?  It was a moment of great peril to Elijah's faith, to have battled so far and expected so much , only to be disappointed and find a complete lack of any evidence of God's working.  What a painful anticlimax  that could have been IF Elijah had stopped and given way to despair because of the seeming unresponsiveness of God.

But Elijah kept going...as many times as it took.  Six times that servant came back with depressing news..."There was nothing!"  Oh I'm so glad he did not give up there.  "He prayed earnestly."  And he sent that servant back the seventh time.  Instead of a great outpouring, there was only seen in that great big sky one little cloud the size of a man's hand.  God was still pressing Elijah's faith and persistency.

That little cloud was only a token, but it was enough to Elijah who immediately sent his servant to warn Ahab to prepare for a great outpouring of rain.  God did not disappoint, as soon the sky was black with clouds.

It is so easy to make a big start, with a good deal of noise and activity and high expectations of something big which we think God is going to do, and then to lose heart because of disappointments and delays.  Our prayers grow dim and our energy and enthusiasm dwindle just because God seems to be unresponsive. 

What is God doing?  He is making a servant.  Such a servant has to learn that the Lord is more concerned about His own name than we are, and knows best how to vindicate it.

"The Lord, He is God."  The Lord had to make that clear not only in the fire (judgment), but also in the water (mercy).  His delays, His hiddenness, His seeming indifference, are all testing means by which He develops true faith in His servants.  It was easy for Him to send the rain; what was more difficult but infinitely more worthwhile was to enable His servant to go on watching and praying for the full seven times, never despairing, never doubting, never giving up.  In the end there was no lack of rain.  But it came as a result of a second battle.  First there was the battle with Baal, and then the battle with unbelief: the outside battle and the inside battle.  Full victory comes as a result of faith's persistency.

The fear of man makes a coward, the fear of God makes a wise man. 

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.

All true wisdom is summed up in 'the fear of the LORD'.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. (Proverbs 8:13)

Jesus said, "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst." Then that makes Him in a world that we cannot see, that our five senses doesn't contact. Jesus Christ is here, present. If we could be conscious of that!

And, remember, not only here, but when you're walking down the street, wherever you are, you that profess to be believers and fear the Lord, remember, the Angels of God are moving with you wherever you are. They watch everything you do, every thought that goes through your mind, and They know all about you. Therefore, we must be conscious of that.

If we're not conscious of it, then you act any way.  So people mostly, today, too many people, are not conscious of the Presence of the Lord Jesus, that's the reason (they) we have these things that we have going on now, that's not right.  (63-0803E)