Letters from Roscoe (Page 7)

If that last prayer of yours was your last chance to talk to God, would you be happy with what you said? It was an interesting message that Eddie preached tonight.  It folded right in with the lesson from Sunday School the other day.  Bottom line of the message;   Why DO we find it so hard to pray? I kind of see it more like, “Just how good is your relationship with God?” Let that question sink in for a…

Do You Look for God?   I asked a friend the other day to help take care of the web site for me while Cindy and I travel next month.  As I was teaching him how to post the Daily Bible Verse in WordPress, I was explaining to him that when I go to find the image to go with the day’s verse I just type the book, chapter and verse into Google and then look at the Image page. …

The Hollow Man   Do you ever feel like something is missing inside of you?  Perhaps it is more like you just aren’t complete. Like you are hollow. I joined the Navy before I ever left High School.  It was the tail end of the Vietnam War.  (It was a war by the way, not a conflict.)  I joined the military which at the time was not that popular of an idea.  I went through my boot camp training and…

Wait a minute!  Did I just miss a blessing? Well did everyone see the snow today?  I did, I was out in it, driving to Wally-World to pick up a few groceries.  As I was approaching the intersection of the southbound I-75 off ramp and 321 I noticed a dark haired, bearded man walking over the bridge.  A Hitchhiker, I assumed as he had a backpack on.  But what really caught my eye was that in the midst of the…

Lord, please take me from the Middle. I was born the third child of five.  I am in the middle. I am the only boy among four sisters.  I am in the middle. All of my life, I have been the moderate.  I have hardly ever taken the hard line, be it ‘Left’ or be it ‘Right’.  I have always been pulled to one side and then the other.  I am in the middle.  The other day I was beginning…

Three Things First thing.  I love my church.  I thank the good Lord for leading us to it when we moved here from Texas.  I have grown more spiritually here than I have anywhere.  I will grow best where God has planted me.  At Highland Park Baptist Church in Lenoir City Tennessee, I am surrounded by a fellowship that loves God.  They comprise the earth in which I grow.  Brother Eddie showers us with the word of God.  That is…

Thou shalt not covet…   Now what do you think he really meant by that?  You see, I’ve been wanting to upgrade the family room TV.  Well, yes. I do already have one.  Yes.  It is working fine.  Yes.  It is a good size.  Why do I want a new one then?  Because the new ones are better!  Look at that picture!  Listen to the sound!  It’s ULTRA High Def!  My wife sees a man just mesmerized by the beautiful pictures…

Reality Check!   Hey everyone, I would just like to make a quick statement here. The Letters from Roscoe series is nothing more than an entertaining look at one person’s personal experiences.  I share the moments in my life that I feel God wants other people to see.  I do not profess to be a learned scholar, or teacher of any religious faith.  In fact, what I know about my own religion you could put in a gallon milk jug and…

The Steady Eddie 4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all.  5  There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord.  6 God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us. – 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 NLT   When I was a working person, the previous management regime where I worked had several terms that they used to…

Roscoe here, a Christian in Training. I had another piece of the puzzle click into place this afternoon.  In fact, in a way we hit the Daily Double! I was driving up to the boat this afternoon and K-LUV was starting to fade and skip on the radio so I turned it down a bit and started talking to God.  You know, there is one good thing about cell phones and wireless headsets; nowadays, when someone sees you talking to…

This week Cindy and I traveled south to visit an elderly aunt of mine that lives near the coast in Florida’s panhandle.  To get there, we had to pass through my old home town.  Things have really changed in the forty plus years since I left. Throughout the trip I felt like God was trying to tell me something.  I would see things and feel like there was a message in what I was seeing and that I needed to…

Lord, I think I’m going to need a push… God answers our prayers. He answers the big ones, and the small ones.  Nothing is too small to ask for God’s help with.  As I understand it, God wants us to be in prayer with him always.  Had a good day?  Stop and tell God about it.  Praise Him for it, because HE is the one that gave it to you.  Got a complaint?  He’s listening.  God wants us to talk…