<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488</id><updated>2012-01-21T15:21:07.128-08:00</updated><category term='understanding life and making it count'/><category term='Feel The Passion'/><category term='what&apos;s in your life you want to change'/><category term='I love life'/><category term='curvy road ahead'/><category term='American Church Leaders'/><category term='Let us not forget Jesus the son of the Living God'/><category term='life does not wait for your next big break'/><category term='vacation in Destin Florida'/><category term='do not exit'/><category term='Where does change live? Inside us.'/><category term='your turning point'/><category term='Time To Conquer'/><category term='procrastination will stop a dream'/><category term='This is a new day'/><category term='hate crime'/><category term='personality plus'/><title type='text'>Give Me Your View...</title><subtitle type='html'>life is a journey... a time to share God's amazing story.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-3003712522979616904</id><published>2012-01-18T15:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T17:27:08.818-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Church Leaders'/><title type='text'>A Passionate Leader</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PRR_zUQPueg/Tu5WEn259qI/AAAAAAAAAMs/9LmOfNcpkYc/s1600/100_0316.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PRR_zUQPueg/Tu5WEn259qI/AAAAAAAAAMs/9LmOfNcpkYc/s200/100_0316.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;A Passionate Leader&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;The American church is now entering familiar territory - a cross forward into an old concept... one journey... one walk...&amp;nbsp; one story to share; which transcends a passive leader into a passionate leader... touching this generation with the same concept used for centuries... building the church by telling the story that transforms unbelievers into believers. Taking &lt;i&gt;What we have received&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;giving&lt;/i&gt; this same unconditional love and compassion to those placed on our journey.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;The church reached new levels for centuries by sharing the correct story but at the same time disputing the Holy scriptures in debates across this land - following traditions and interpretations founded upon the wisdom of that era... reaching the level for that time frame.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;As present leaders; we hear the voice of God as He speaks from the hearts of this generation and HIS desire is as always,&lt;i&gt; motivate them to commune with me&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;His divine calling confirms who we are -&lt;i&gt; leaders in Christ&lt;/i&gt;. His authoritative power urges us as leaders to push past strongholds of yesterday, yet hold on to the transcending story; elevating that same message to a new level in which we live... into the hearts of this generation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;It takes faith and boldness to be this type of leader - who will follow God and lead God's people into the next level yet a familiar place in God. My Pastor, Marvin Norris is that type of leader.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;From the pastor's wife, some say the preacher's wife, Betty Norris&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazinglifechurch.com/"&gt;www.amazinglifechurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.healingimpact.com/"&gt;www.healingimpact.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-3003712522979616904?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/3003712522979616904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=3003712522979616904' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/3003712522979616904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/3003712522979616904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2008/10/good-morning-world-have-cup-of-coffee.html' title='A Passionate Leader'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PRR_zUQPueg/Tu5WEn259qI/AAAAAAAAAMs/9LmOfNcpkYc/s72-c/100_0316.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-6357661481636835472</id><published>2012-01-01T12:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T15:21:07.132-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Skinny As A Rail In 2012 update</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I had said on FACEBOOK my New Years Resolution was&lt;i&gt;: Skinny as a rail in 2012 ha! ha!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So today it has been one week since I started my journey to lose 20 to 30lbs. I have lost 5lbs... I am going to start all over again this week... so if I can loose 5 more pounds; I will be very pleased. I need your prayers and I'm standing on the scripture Luke 1:37 &lt;i&gt;"For with God nothing shall be impossible.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.beyonddiet.com/bd/landing?food=avocado"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-njZUpC09bKE/Tw5NV1SDaRI/AAAAAAAAAOE/0zqfkbPBxTE/s1600/100_1708.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-njZUpC09bKE/Tw5NV1SDaRI/AAAAAAAAAOE/0zqfkbPBxTE/s320/100_1708.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;LAST WEEK'S POST:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;So today is January 4th, and I went to my physician for a check-up and was weighed... want drama? It was me, running frantic in my inner thoughts. Obviously I knew it had been a few years since I had seen my usual 120 lb weight zone and I knew I had went from a size 5 to a size 12 in the past few years but had managed to remain in that size 12... even...  after being prescribed blood pressure medicine prior to this visit. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I had been weighed several times before this visit but this time the number &lt;b&gt;jumped&lt;/b&gt; out at me like a monster in a scary movie. So I have decided to lose weight. I want to loose 20 to 30 pounds and I wanted to be accountable... so I involved you guys to keep me focused. I started exercising today... &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;a starting point.. I will keep you posted. 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;able to endure it.t.Galatians 5:22-23 ESV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;self-control; against such things there is no law.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DBN0i4C6i_k/TwS8JonKyCI/AAAAAAAAANk/u6KV6niRF6k/s1600/100_1706.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DBN0i4C6i_k/TwS8JonKyCI/AAAAAAAAANk/u6KV6niRF6k/s200/100_1706.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-6357661481636835472?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/6357661481636835472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=6357661481636835472' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/6357661481636835472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/6357661481636835472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2012/01/skinny-as-rail-in-2012.html' title='Skinny As A Rail In 2012 update'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-njZUpC09bKE/Tw5NV1SDaRI/AAAAAAAAAOE/0zqfkbPBxTE/s72-c/100_1708.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-2779940192946898231</id><published>2011-12-16T06:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T17:05:14.701-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Feel The Passion'/><title type='text'>The Heartbeat Of Progress Is Change</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--QpNem-00_I/Tuu_uO9bx0I/AAAAAAAAAME/9oNxBJxqF9U/s1600/100_0332.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--QpNem-00_I/Tuu_uO9bx0I/AAAAAAAAAME/9oNxBJxqF9U/s320/100_0332.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Change is definitely the heartbeat of progress yet we all hate it superlatively. Change is always moving, never ceasing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our biggest problem with change is we do not like getting out of our comfort zone - it's easy... no extra thought processing, no extra work habits... the ordinary... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;doing the same ole thing, the same ole way&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without change we become stagnant in a pool of do-nothing... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in a box... in a rut... in a circle... &lt;/span&gt;where our vision has perished, the passion is faded, the zeal  is gone and there remains no purpose. It is time for 'RADICAL" change... and the 'AUDACITY' to move forward.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Pastor Marvin's life and my life as well, have been changing since the day we were born, and especially since our total commitment to God when we began our church... no split, just faith; because it is about the journey. Life is our own personal story to share... the roller coaster rides... hills, curves, drop offs, sudden stops, tunnels and bright lights-but it is so comforting to know we are in God's hands, in God's control because when you pastor; you never know what's ahead but you do know who's directing you... I would not change it for this world riches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;by Betty Norris, the pastor's wife, some say the preacher's wife.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazinglifechurch.com/"&gt;www.amazinglifechurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossncrownchurch.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-2779940192946898231?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/2779940192946898231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=2779940192946898231' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/2779940192946898231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/2779940192946898231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2008/09/change-is-heartbeat-of-progress.html' title='The Heartbeat Of Progress Is Change'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--QpNem-00_I/Tuu_uO9bx0I/AAAAAAAAAME/9oNxBJxqF9U/s72-c/100_0332.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-4526122878661033515</id><published>2011-12-15T06:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T14:53:13.921-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='do not exit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='curvy road ahead'/><title type='text'>Where Destiny Awaits</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Sim8fJrBZM/Tu5LD76tCnI/AAAAAAAAAMU/HElgfVdkscE/s1600/canstock2552985.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Sim8fJrBZM/Tu5LD76tCnI/AAAAAAAAAMU/HElgfVdkscE/s1600/canstock2552985.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"&gt;Straight Shot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;There are billboards flashing in the minds of God's people... placed there by the enemy of your destiny... constructed every few blocks to off course your journey... extravagant, alluring signs that will take you into a part of town you do not want to be... a place where the enemy is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt; looking for people just like you to make the wrong turn. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;His specialty is a business of deception...with charismatic words and pleasing pictures that are inviting and appealing to the eye but to yield the exit will take you onto an unrecognizable path,where heartbreak and destruction lives. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;The enemy of your destiny is all about destroying your life, your family, your character and the influence you have on others... pausing God's plan for your life... beware of this trickery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;If you do accidentally take the exit... reach for God's &lt;i style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;G P S&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;and follow His directions... HIS WORD and YOUR PRAYERS... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;will get you back on the main highway where restoration is waiting at the next rest stop... a place of preparation to get you back on&amp;nbsp; the right road again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;This time you will listen more carefully for the heartbeat and voice of God... watching for the ROAD SIGNS that Christ has placed for you to follow as you travel God's interstate, as it leads you to HIS destination...&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; exactly where you are suppose to be... His plan and purpose for your life where destiny awaits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;By Betty Norris, the pastor's wife or some say the preacher's wife.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-4526122878661033515?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/4526122878661033515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=4526122878661033515' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/4526122878661033515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/4526122878661033515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2008/09/billboards-motion-pictures-and-road.html' title='Where Destiny Awaits'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Sim8fJrBZM/Tu5LD76tCnI/AAAAAAAAAMU/HElgfVdkscE/s72-c/canstock2552985.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-4423609936316693520</id><published>2011-12-14T11:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T18:33:33.729-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Preacher's Wife</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0aQW5na-oI/AAAAAAAAALQ/ccWP3_XbYtg/s1600-h/100_0781.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VvPFWRQwX-M/TuqtzzTQ8lI/AAAAAAAAALs/tjPcb0MxW98/s1600/beautiful+betty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VvPFWRQwX-M/TuqtzzTQ8lI/AAAAAAAAALs/tjPcb0MxW98/s320/beautiful+betty.jpg" width="230" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: georgia; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Good morning! This is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;an awesome day-God has made.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;My Name is Betty Norris and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;I am married to the pastor of Amazing Life church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;I, as most &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;pastor's wives are frequently introduced: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"&gt;"This is my pastor's wife."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;We're so glad some of you claim us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt; lol-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Seriously, does this phrase diminish respect? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Of course not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt; Does this phrase take away our individuality? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Not at all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt; We are indeed pastors wives but...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt; we are also Christian leaders.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Our first ministry is our marriage: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Unity in love! Unity in spirit! Unity in respect!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a Christian wife; my first leadership role is to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;stand by my husband. There is a purpose why God  placed him in my life; to love and become a  true help-mate, fulfilling our destiny together in Christ.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;There is a joke: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"&gt;"God made man the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns his head." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;This is true, we as wives can influence our husbands to a degree on certain issues...&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt;but if he is a true pastor - a true leader; no-one, not even his wife will change "THE WORD" that he has received from his calling... for the sake of Jesus Christ. He will stand firmly and fight to give that exact "WORD" to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-weight: normal;"&gt; his congregation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Pastor! Pastor Marvin Norris is that kind of leader. A great man and I am proud to be introduced as his wife. Thank God for pastors that are true leaders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;The Preacher's Wife or some say The Pastor's Wife&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;Betty Norris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;From a wife's perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossncrownchurch.com/" style="color: #990000;"&gt;www.amazinglifechurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-4423609936316693520?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/4423609936316693520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=4423609936316693520' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/4423609936316693520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/4423609936316693520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2009/08/preachers-wife_26.html' title='The Preacher&apos;s Wife'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VvPFWRQwX-M/TuqtzzTQ8lI/AAAAAAAAALs/tjPcb0MxW98/s72-c/beautiful+betty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-3334393968977562288</id><published>2011-12-11T20:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T18:47:58.385-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life does not wait for your next big break'/><title type='text'>The Moment</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ElYJOtUFyOw/TuqwAhw0VEI/AAAAAAAAAL0/TE81Ri9zwww/s1600/100_0728.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ElYJOtUFyOw/TuqwAhw0VEI/AAAAAAAAAL0/TE81Ri9zwww/s320/100_0728.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Life keeps living through the moment... through the trial... through the good and through the bad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;Life does not wait for your next big break... until you get on your feet... get it all together... find your self or accomplish your next dream.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;Life just lives; why not learn to live your life in 'HIM' ...'HE' is the gift of life. Life is all about the journey and sharing our stories... influencing and helping others get to their destiny.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;'God' is our creator and is the very air we breathe... giving us a precious redeemer through 'HIS' throne of grace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;Live, rejoice, learn to be content, smile...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;Praise 'HIM' as the Savior of this world. 'He' is worthy to be praised.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;By Betty Norris, the pastor's wife, some say the preacher's wife.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazinglifechurch.com/"&gt;www.amazinglifechurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-3334393968977562288?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/3334393968977562288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=3334393968977562288' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/3334393968977562288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/3334393968977562288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2008/09/moment.html' title='The Moment'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ElYJOtUFyOw/TuqwAhw0VEI/AAAAAAAAAL0/TE81Ri9zwww/s72-c/100_0728.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-5048506057418650675</id><published>2011-12-10T07:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T19:07:44.846-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='I love life'/><title type='text'>Around The Coffee Table</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOKiSZIzUoI/AAAAAAAAAFI/Bjom2YSC_Oc/s1600-h/NoLimitsES100.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rlJCLmQhpBo/Tuq0DYp7VBI/AAAAAAAAAL8/rjT1TU138bg/s1600/100_0813.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="233" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rlJCLmQhpBo/Tuq0DYp7VBI/AAAAAAAAAL8/rjT1TU138bg/s320/100_0813.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #bf9000; font-style: italic;"&gt;Good Morning To An Awesome World-Have A Cup Of Coffee...&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;RE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt;think&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Living...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;LIFE is a gift from God. A span of time to live and share our journey... our stories... knowledge, thoughts, interest and talents... helping others to live their lives to the fullest.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;A positive input adds and build's  friendships, relationships, families, communities, and God's kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember in the Christmas movie... Scrooge, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt;the musical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;... the song, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt;'I LOVE LIFE' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;... he didn't know how much he loved life until he was faced with the fact: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt;He was going to die if he didn't change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; We should truly live and make every second count for our families, friends and promoting the love of Christ to our world...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Developing a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt;'little&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;' bit of our legacy, and a whole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt; 'lot'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; of the Savior's legacy to live on through the next generations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I challenge you to face life today with a new zeal in your participation... get involved... become a part of God's kingdom in doing good for our churches, our towns, our communities and our country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066; font-size: small;"&gt;by Betty Norris, the pastor's wife or some say the preacher's wife.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazinglifechurch.com/"&gt;amazing life church home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;ALC BLOG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.healingimpact.com/"&gt;www.healingimpact.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-5048506057418650675?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/5048506057418650675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=5048506057418650675' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/5048506057418650675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/5048506057418650675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2008/09/morning-motivator-around-coffee-table.html' title='Around The Coffee Table'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rlJCLmQhpBo/Tuq0DYp7VBI/AAAAAAAAAL8/rjT1TU138bg/s72-c/100_0813.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-4047916854645073087</id><published>2010-11-17T12:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-22T15:04:34.067-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hate crime'/><title type='text'>I Am Tired Of Labels On People</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;John 3:26 says "for God so loved the world" He doesn't just love good people, well dressed people, rich people or well behaved people; He loves all of humanity, every single person. This ideal is so simple and yet seems so very hard for people to understand. God loves everyone, and if He does; that means, He loves the ones we have labeled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the really hard part, so what did we do to deserve the love of the creator of the universe. What do we offer Him that makes Him want to love us? Nothing, absolutely nothing. That answer makes no sense, but it's the truth. God loves us simply because He is God and it is His nature to love and if we are made in the image of God, it will be our nature to love all of humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am married to an awesome man and we pastor and founded an awesome church. in a rural small town.. we welcome all people; we can not see God using the labels that people place on others today. People are no longer known by their name, knowledge or what they attribute to society; but are referred to by their sin or sex life... sounds a lot like the Pharisees, with the adulterous woman they wanted to stone; but Jesus said, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more.&lt;/span&gt;" Jesus was all about love and grace to the ones that needed it the most.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can not be a part of placing labels. I will be a part of God's love and grace. I love people... God's creation is to be loved as he loves us ALL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are the labels to do with their problems and questions in life? Do you think they can only get self help books? Are they suppose to skip church because they offend someone by just being in the midst or singing a song to worship their creator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do they not have the right to come and worship God regardless of what you think? This is not about what we think or how we feel; it is about God's saving grace and His awesome developing plan and purpose in the lives of others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have run a group of people away from the church because we can't just love as God does. We won't allow God to use the good news and His Spirit to move in the hearts of the people we do not understand. Don't you know God understands. He knows their birth, He knows their tragedies and He knows their hearts desires... the things we can't see or understand and God has the answers. He knows how to solve the smallest problem. He knows how to heal and bring people together through love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Church is all about love and not hate and arrogance... introducing others... all people to the love of Christ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ezek. 16:49 &amp;amp; 50&lt;sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-20812"&gt;    &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;49 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="font-style: italic;" class="versenum" id="en-KJV-20813"&gt;50&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASB &lt;sup style="font-style: italic;" class="versenum" id="en-NASB-20812"&gt;49&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="font-style: italic;" class="versenum" id="en-NASB-20813"&gt; 50&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me Therefore I removed them when I saw it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-4047916854645073087?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/4047916854645073087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=4047916854645073087' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/4047916854645073087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/4047916854645073087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-am-tired-of-labels-on-people.html' title='I Am Tired Of Labels On People'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-7622234169850497707</id><published>2010-01-28T20:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T08:54:39.644-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hardin County Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Awards/Pastor Marvin Norris Nominee for the GEM Award</title><content type='html'>&lt;img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-263" title="100_0560" src="http://amazinglifetalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/100_0560-150x150.jpg" alt="100_0560" width="150" height="150" /&gt;First a special thank you to the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce, Executive Director, Beth Pippin. Also Bud Young and our community for nominating my amazing husband, Pastor Marvin Norris of Amazing Life Church, formerly &lt;em&gt;Cross N Crown&lt;/em&gt; for 'GOING THE EXTRA MILE &lt;em&gt;(GEM)&lt;/em&gt; AWARD. Click on our &lt;a href="http://1lifejourney.com/?page_id=2"&gt;One Life Journey about page&lt;/a&gt; to learn about all our giving. click on this link to see our annual community project: &lt;a href="http://crossncrownchurch.blip.tv/file/2347651/"&gt;Backpack Give-A-Way&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazinglifechurch.com/"&gt;ALC HOME PAGE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Awards were presented this past Tuesday, January 26, 2010  at the Pickwick Inn Convention Center. It was the 14th Annual Community Distinguished Service Awards and Leadership Hardin County.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Congratulations! Here are the winners:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Service Award-- David Channell&lt;br /&gt;* Community Service-- Carl Perkins Center&lt;br /&gt;* Going the Extra Mile-- (GEM) DeShawn Martin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Going the Extra Mile-- (GEM) Nominees were: Amazing Life Church Pastor Marvin Norris, Larry Lowery, Savannah Fire Dept Fire Fighters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Public Servant-- Gary Combs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Public Servant Nominees were: Terry Hosea, Lisa Shaw Taylor, Stacy Wilson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Student-- Kristen Lackey&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Student Nominees were: Corey Horton, Ethan Hosea, Kara Wyatt, Christopher Jerrolds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Educator-- Cyndy Brooks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OtherEducator Nominees were: Jimmy Neal Bain &amp;amp; Diane Griffin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Volunteer-- Harrison Perry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Volunteer Nominees were: Patsy Gibbs &amp;amp; Jeff Woodside&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Friend of Tourism-- Kent Collier&lt;br /&gt;* Industry-- ISR Group&lt;br /&gt;* Woman of the Year-- Helen Hamilton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Woman Of The Year Nominees were: Sondra Apple &amp;amp; Micki Greer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Man of the Year-- Gordon Majors&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Man Of The Year Nominee was: Steve Warren&lt;/strong&gt;HC C of C Annual Membership Banquet&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-7622234169850497707?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/7622234169850497707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=7622234169850497707' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/7622234169850497707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/7622234169850497707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2010/01/hardin-county-chamber-of-commerce.html' title='Hardin County Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Awards/Pastor Marvin Norris Nominee for the GEM Award'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-526052373014105144</id><published>2010-01-05T18:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-07T18:06:08.253-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Living In A Glass House</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/StT1vUILA2I/AAAAAAAAAJ4/HzkKL6cMXzo/s1600-h/100_0728.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/StT1vUILA2I/AAAAAAAAAJ4/HzkKL6cMXzo/s400/100_0728.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392204847074968418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Glass House&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am Betty Norris, the Pastors' wife at Amazing Life Church in Savannah, Tennessee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;Husband &amp;amp; wife joke: "But , pastor," lamented the young husband in for counseling, "whenever Mary and I quarrel, she becomes historical." Pastor said, "You mean hysterical?" Young husband said, "no, I mean historical, she is always digging up my past." lol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;Marriage Joke: A young man was listening to his pastor teach on marriage. Afterwards, pastor said, "Earl would you like to get married, someday?" Earl said, "well sir, marriage is a great institution, but I'm just not ready for an institution yet!" lol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Glass House:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our society places pastors &amp;amp; pastors wives in glass houses... transparent to the world's view.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A view where the religious sect had rather take their vacation or set up permanent dwelling than to go view the awesome Caribbean Islands or live in an Hawaii Resort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skeptics &amp;amp; scoffers are constantly looking for anything to discredit God in our lives. We 'all' need to look for God's awesome Grace &amp;amp; forgiveness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What will you see when you look inside our glass home?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; * You will see Christ's love covering a couple who loves "HIM" &amp;amp; loves each other wholeheartedly.&lt;br /&gt; * You will see broken lives healed from past wounds... almost destroyed by decisions but restored by the Savior's touch.&lt;br /&gt; * You will see all clean laundry... cleansed by the blood of the "LAMB."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We wouldn't want to live anywhere else. We're living in the will of God... in a glass house with free lighting... transparent to a world that need light... where anyone can see who we are, where we've been and where we're going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Connect with us in God's house, Amazing Life Church, transparent and covered by the love &amp;amp; the HOLY WORD of GOD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By The Preacher's wife or some say The Pastor's Wife, Betty Norris&lt;br /&gt;From the wife's perspective&lt;br /&gt;www.amazinglifechurch.com&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-526052373014105144?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/526052373014105144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=526052373014105144' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/526052373014105144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/526052373014105144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2009/10/living-in-glass-house_13.html' title='Living In A Glass House'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/StT1vUILA2I/AAAAAAAAAJ4/HzkKL6cMXzo/s72-c/100_0728.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-2324246038117718927</id><published>2010-01-03T12:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T10:01:43.806-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='what&apos;s in your life you want to change'/><title type='text'>Extreme Life Change</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOE1YEqymtI/AAAAAAAAAD4/9JhHw8Bkqcw/s1600-h/LookingForAFreshStartES100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOE1YEqymtI/AAAAAAAAAD4/9JhHw8Bkqcw/s200/LookingForAFreshStartES100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251537328177060562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:100%;color:blue;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;What's in your life you want to change?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;CROSS FORWARD!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;We live in a world of extreme circumstances: uncertainty, violence, abuse, immoral conduct and addictions. A world where individuals, couples, parents &amp;amp; children... 'JUST' can't cope... extreme living in a world of extreme change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time to Cross forward into abundant living. God offers a Cross forward to anyone desiring an extreme life change; who's committed to change... because as long as we 'love' what we're doing or will tolerate what's going on in our lives; we will never experience our Cross forward. We will have to get fed up enough to find the Cross in our extreme circumstances that leads us from extreme living into 'HIS' abundant living. We will continue to deal with problems and issues; but if we're committed to change; we can... because God will change us and help us cope and conquer the enemy of our destiny. If we fall, 'HE' will lift us up again... restore and never condemn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;The Most radical extreme life change in the Bible, in my opinion is in Luke the eight chapter starting at the 25th verse where the man is possessed... living in the tombs... out of his mind... unclothed but when Jesus walked into his life... a Cross forward took place... His life was turned around from extreme living to abundant living. I believe he was committed to change and God saw that sincerity in his heart and delivered him. Jesus went through EXTREME living to give us our CROSS forward into 'HIS' abundant life... it is time... we find the CROSS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;by Betty Norris, the pastor's wife, some say the preachers wife.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;(email my url's to your friends)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossncrownchurch.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;www.crossncrownchurch.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-2324246038117718927?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/2324246038117718927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=2324246038117718927' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/2324246038117718927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/2324246038117718927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2008/09/extreme-life-change_29.html' title='Extreme Life Change'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOE1YEqymtI/AAAAAAAAAD4/9JhHw8Bkqcw/s72-c/LookingForAFreshStartES100.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-3879169072946712321</id><published>2009-07-14T16:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T12:19:06.774-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cross N Crown Church 09 Backpack Give A Way</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.amazinglifechurch.com/"&gt;Our church,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch"&gt; Amazing Life Church,&lt;/a&gt; formerly Cross N Crown Church in Savannah, TN had our 2nd Annual Backpack Give A Way this past Saturday. We gave away over 300 Backpacks, School Supplies, Bibles, BBQ, Drinks, Chips and a drawing for UT Pictures and a $50.00 Gas Card. Check it out... watch this video: &lt;a href="http://crossncrownchurch.blip.tv/file/2347651/"&gt;http://crossncrownchurch.blip.tv/file/2347651/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-3879169072946712321?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/3879169072946712321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=3879169072946712321' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/3879169072946712321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/3879169072946712321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2009/07/our-church-cross-n-crown-in-savannah-tn.html' title='Cross N Crown Church 09 Backpack Give A Way'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-7986737392089790358</id><published>2009-06-01T07:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-01T11:03:54.417-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Let us not forget Jesus the son of the Living God'/><title type='text'>The Answer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6PeXrofGxs&amp;feature=related"&gt; Where is the answer?&lt;/a&gt; God is God. &lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-7986737392089790358?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/7986737392089790358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=7986737392089790358' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/7986737392089790358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/7986737392089790358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2009/06/answer.html' title='The Answer'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-5379370944108704314</id><published>2009-05-28T11:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T21:06:37.948-07:00</updated><title type='text'>One Life Journery</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://crossncrownchurch.blip.tv/file/1063902/"&gt;My husband preaching It Is Worth The Fight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossncrownchurch.blip.tv/file/1118319/"&gt;2008 Backpack Giveaway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have one life, one walk to offer to God to use for his glory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At Cross N Crown we have begun this year walking the walk of the church.  It is time for the church to rise above denominational walls and reach beyond our own strength.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're a small church, so we've had to give small but I believe we are still making a difference in our area and the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;We are feeding the hungry in our community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;We are drilling wells in third world countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;We are reaching special need orphans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;We are giving to the IOCC, which in the spirit of Christ’s love, offers emergency relief and development programs to those in need worldwide, without discrimination,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;and for the second year now are giving backpacks and school supplies to our area students. Pray for us as we endeavor to do more in his kingdom.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-5379370944108704314?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/5379370944108704314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=5379370944108704314' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/5379370944108704314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/5379370944108704314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2009/05/one-life-journery.html' title='One Life Journery'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-6973516329781797315</id><published>2009-05-03T18:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T20:52:25.742-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacation in Destin Florida'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/Sf5PH_qv7TI/AAAAAAAAAIw/OLCdEmuCG-8/s1600-h/100_0715.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/Sf5PH_qv7TI/AAAAAAAAAIw/OLCdEmuCG-8/s320/100_0715.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331786007621659954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://crossncrownchurch.blip.tv/file/1075602/"&gt;My husband preaching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/Sf5LgTqmJzI/AAAAAAAAAIY/utBLDZ-07s4/s1600-h/100_0662.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/Sf5LgTqmJzI/AAAAAAAAAIY/utBLDZ-07s4/s320/100_0662.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331782027260077874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/Sf5K5NKrk6I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/L4ZTlk_tp8o/s1600-h/100_0728.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/Sf5K5NKrk6I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/L4ZTlk_tp8o/s320/100_0728.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331781355500704674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our vacation in Destin, Florida was awesome. Marvin is a lot like Chevy Chase, he radiates with the vacation excitement... so my wonderful husband and I slipped away early before my Mom is released from HMC Skills and when I will take on the task of caregiver again. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Attention all prayer warriors...&lt;/span&gt; Mom has had a severe stroke; her entire left side has been affected to the point where she cannot walk or do anything for herself. Pray for Marvin also because I know it's not going to be long that he will need another vacation... or a get-a-way with me, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;his wife&lt;/span&gt;, especially when I'm not with him as much as I would like to be. So pray for us too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-6973516329781797315?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/6973516329781797315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=6973516329781797315' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/6973516329781797315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/6973516329781797315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2009/05/our-vacation-in-destin-florida-was.html' title=''/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/Sf5PH_qv7TI/AAAAAAAAAIw/OLCdEmuCG-8/s72-c/100_0715.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-8041662994867348095</id><published>2009-03-06T07:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-12T11:45:22.100-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='understanding life and making it count'/><title type='text'>Life</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SblYOqPHfvI/AAAAAAAAAII/rEnaS1GRuOE/s1600-h/Judged470.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 106px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SblYOqPHfvI/AAAAAAAAAII/rEnaS1GRuOE/s200/Judged470.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312374244339318514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Understanding Life &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Will your life only be a statistic?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We use the word statistic so frequently but have you ever thought about the fact that you are a statistic! &lt;em&gt;Your birth, length of life, cause of death, and the day you die&lt;/em&gt; are all statistics! Think about it! I did and I finally realized my life is a gift, a span of time given to me from God. The way I use this gift is my destiny I choose.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;To exist simply means, we will also die. It is hard to imagine us dying ~ death only happens to someone else, right; because we all have known others that have died.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I don't know about you, but I refuse to be only a statistic in the obituary column reading:&lt;em&gt; born ~ died ~ the daughter of ~ survived by.&lt;/em&gt; No way! I want to be more than an existence! I want to make a positive difference in lives, in society, in my generation and in the kingdom of God for the generations to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What legacy will you leave behind?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I'm not talking about wealth, material things, an awesome career move. I'm  talking about a Godly influence, a positive difference made in our own lives and in the lives of others that will continue~effectively after we die.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It is important to live a Godly life. It is important to be good to my husband, It is important to be a mom to my children, It is important to help my fellowman. It is important to be used by the spirit of God in re-directing lives ~ headed down the path of destruction. It is important to enlighten others and to see their lives transformed by the Spirit of God!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What's about you?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Are you interested in making a positive change in your life which will make a difference not only in your life but in the lives that are all around you. Our Divine Destiny begins when we invite Jesus into our lives. I think we can all make a difference by understanding our origin~we come from God and understanding  our provision~accepting Jesus Christ and then understanding life~a gift from God, a span of time given where we're changing, growing, learning, influencing &amp;amp; achieving.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt; Life never stays the same; there is always change, there is always good and there is always bad but God is the good in the bad. He is in  full control! He has all knowledge!. He has all wisdom! He is our understanding when we can't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I am not a great theologian nor do I have years of study in anthropology, but I have been through many difficult times and in retrospect, I see the hand of God. And I see myself. I realize when I was younger none of those difficulties were of my doing but God so graciously took me through them. I also realize as I got older and made some wrong decisions in life, that they could have been avoided if I would have obeyed the Bible: His wisdom, His knowledge,His understanding. We're not perfect and God loves us! He restores us and if we will only read our manual~the Bible, and do what God says, we will always be a positive influence in this world that will effect others,  will effect eternity and will advance the kingdom of God by restoring shattered lives. I am one that was saved by the grace of God and I have been restored by the grace of God.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Do you know someone wasting the gift of life?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I ask you to pray for them, not judge &amp;amp; condemn them, but allow God to use you to bring them to the Cross; because Calvary is all about saving, restoring shattered lives~making a difference in this world for the world to come.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossncrownchurch.com/"&gt;www.crossncrownchurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.healingimpact.com/"&gt;www.healingimpact.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/"&gt;cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-8041662994867348095?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/8041662994867348095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=8041662994867348095' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/8041662994867348095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/8041662994867348095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2009/03/life.html' title='Life'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SblYOqPHfvI/AAAAAAAAAII/rEnaS1GRuOE/s72-c/Judged470.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-2257660946999174779</id><published>2009-02-23T17:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T12:24:20.544-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personality plus'/><title type='text'>Be Who You Are</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;BE WHO YOU ARE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;You're familiar with the bible story: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;David And Goliath&lt;/span&gt;. How David was instructed to put on the armor of Saul; and how it wasn't David's style... it didn't fit...  he had to walk in his own style to please God.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;You must be who you are in God, and don't try to wear another man's armor. It didn't work for David and it will not work for you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;God does not want you to be bound in fear suffocating you from being who you are... you need to be free in Christ. Allow God to show off within you! If you will be the person God made you... you will attract others... they will want to be around you because you are... who you are; and you can go forth and conquer the giant in your life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;It is sad to be around someone, trying to act like someone they are not. In their minds they are really fitting in... making an impression, when actually they look like the &lt;i&gt;misfit&lt;/i&gt;... exactly what they didn't want to look like; and the irony of it is, the person usually  has a dynamic sparkling personality but because of shyness or fear they close themselves off where only one or two of their closest friends truly know them...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;God loves stretching you. God made you different with a unique personality. If Christ is in you and you are in Him... you are a new creature... you can grasp life and walk boldly in Him; accomplishing more than you ever dreamed. God wants to take you to greater heights! He loves to surprise you and raise you up in places where you &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;couldn't go... He enjoys stretching you until you become flexible and of use to Him.  &lt;i&gt;He is the best that is within you; allow him to shine&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_790256680"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazinglifechurch.com/"&gt;www.amazinglifechurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-2257660946999174779?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/2257660946999174779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=2257660946999174779' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/2257660946999174779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/2257660946999174779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2009/02/be-who-you-are.html' title='Be Who You Are'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-8315771873791175931</id><published>2009-02-22T12:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T17:21:12.663-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Where does change live? Inside us.'/><title type='text'>Change?  where is it?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Change is within you. The changes you make, good or bad, will depend on the choices you make and the directions you follow in life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact you are alive is because God chose you to be born. Your existence is for his benefit, his glory, and his purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In your one life journey are many opportunities. The most important is the choice to become a Christian.  You, accepting Christ is only the beginning of an awesome life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After salvation... follows assurance and purpose because as you seek him, he will open doors for you to serve others, where you can make a real difference in your community and in your world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Serving adds to his kingdom because you are influencing others. Your spiritual growth will bring change ~ not so much about ‘doing’ as it is ‘becoming’ – becoming more like Christ. It's a one life journey of change which takes perseverance and intentional focus toward a total commitment to God desires and not your own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should strive to achieve and learn but it will not be personal achievements nor intellectual changes that matters; it is who you are becoming in the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christian living is and will always be about change. The change from the inside out through the Holy Spirit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At Cross N Crown Church, we believe what we are and what we have should be shared with others... loving them the same way Jesus loves you and through genuine fellowship of sharing, serving and giving sacrificially for the cause of Christ, together we can make a difference in the world in which we live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.healingimpact.com/"&gt;www.healingimpact.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossncrownchurch.com/"&gt;www.crossncrownchurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnccpastorswife.cblogspot.com/"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.cblogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-8315771873791175931?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/8315771873791175931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=8315771873791175931' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/8315771873791175931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/8315771873791175931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2009/02/change.html' title='Change?  where is it?'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-4638772456526133875</id><published>2008-12-30T08:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T12:27:42.759-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Time To Conquer'/><title type='text'>WINNING</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Where will your enemy show to take away what God has given?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;He will show in peace… when everything is going great and the peace of God is so  awesome in your life… the enemy will appear to destroy, just as he did in the Garden of Eden with Adam &amp;amp; Eve. Genesis the 3rd chapter. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;He will show in increase… when everything is going your way… blessings, prosperity, righteousness &amp;amp; perfection… he will show himself to kill and destroy… just as the enemy did in Job’s life ~ taking away everything he had even the lives of his children; even his friends accused him of wrong doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Job's enemy showed up in Job the first chapter but keep reading because every wrong brought him closer to God. In chapter 42 Job said, “I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;The enemy will show when you are full of the Holy Spirit… Jesus was full of the Holy Ghost, and was led by God into the wilderness. satan showed himself  offering every temptation: natural food, worldly power and mind manipulation. Jesus fought by using the Word of God and conquered every temptation. This all took place in Luke the 4th chapter. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;I love the 18th &amp;amp; 19th verses… after he came out of the wilderness, Jesus quoted this passage: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossncrownchurch.com/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/amazinglifechurch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www,amazinglifechurch.com/"&gt;www,amazinglifechurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.healingimpact.com/"&gt;www.healingimpact.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-4638772456526133875?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/4638772456526133875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=4638772456526133875' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/4638772456526133875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/4638772456526133875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2008/12/wining.html' title='WINNING'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-3687859042869529075</id><published>2008-10-02T06:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T16:15:28.992-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='procrastination will stop a dream'/><title type='text'>Morning Coffee Talk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOTSTn_STbI/AAAAAAAAAGI/AImmSEIUZFQ/s1600-h/FearfullyAndWonderfullyMadeES100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOTSTn_STbI/AAAAAAAAAGI/AImmSEIUZFQ/s200/FearfullyAndWonderfullyMadeES100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252554300014611890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;"  &gt;Good Morning World! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;"  &gt;Have A Cup Of Coffee...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;" &gt;What's Your Dream?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;We all have a dream,&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt; more than likely&lt;/span&gt;, that we have never accomplished during our life time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;As we look back into our childhood we see how we could not wait until we started to school... how we could not wait until we were sixteen... and then there's our teen years when we could not wait until we were twenty-one years old. '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Now' &lt;/span&gt;we realize we're senior citizens... saying to ourselves... &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'I can't believe how my time has vanished and how much of it I have wasted and I have not fulfilled the dream that lies dormant inside me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Whether we're young of old, the number &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'one'&lt;/span&gt; reason why we haven't fulfilled our dream is procrastination. When we're young we think we have plenty of time and when we're old we think we don't have enough time... sound familiar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;But I'm here this morning to become your motivator. If you are breathing, do something toward fulfilling your dream; If it will benefit humanity or if it will benefit the kingdom of God. God will bless your ambition and your passion in your dream. Allow the passion to rise up in you motivating you to a new level with the audacity to finish your dream... yes you can.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;By Betty Norris, the pastors wife some say the preacher's wife.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;(email our URL's to your friends)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossncrownchurch.com"&gt;www.crossncrownchurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.healingimpact.com"&gt;www.healingimpact.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-3687859042869529075?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/3687859042869529075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=3687859042869529075' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/3687859042869529075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/3687859042869529075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2008/10/morning-coffee-talk.html' title='Morning Coffee Talk'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOTSTn_STbI/AAAAAAAAAGI/AImmSEIUZFQ/s72-c/FearfullyAndWonderfullyMadeES100.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140969430828133488.post-5539565096527814909</id><published>2008-09-30T15:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T16:17:26.087-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='your turning point'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='This is a new day'/><title type='text'>Morning Coffee Talk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOK15xxdKxI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/koY12HPXFfM/s1600-h/AllThingsNewES100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOK15xxdKxI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/koY12HPXFfM/s200/AllThingsNewES100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251960119685360402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;"  &gt;Good Morning World! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;"  &gt;Have A Cup Of Coffee...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;A Brand New Turning Point..&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Today is a new Day, God has given us with new opportunities. It can be a brand new turning point in many of our lives, full of God's promises; and full of God's dreams if we follow 'HIS' road signs. We'll find the correct turns in His  WORD.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Turning point&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt; is a change in direction at a specific time, for a reason or need, in an individual's life to bring about meaning and purpose... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;what we call as Christians destiny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;If we are honest, we &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'all' &lt;/span&gt;want to experience meaning from the time and opportunities, God has given us as individuals while we're living.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt; The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;beginning&lt;/span&gt; point in our &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;turning&lt;/span&gt; point is accepting Christ which will bring about focus, direction, meaning &amp;amp; purpose in a personal relationship on a daily basis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;Joke, laugh &amp;amp; enjoy life:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;The only exercise some people get is: jumping at conclusions, running down their friends, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;blog writing by Betty Norris, the pastor's wife some say the preacher's wife.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;(email my URL's to your friends)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" href="http://www.blogger.com/www.crossncrownchurch.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crossncrownchurch.com/"&gt;www.crossncrownchurch.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/"&gt;www.cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.healingimpact.com"&gt;www.healingimpact.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/245x30.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href='http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=lovely01' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates/banners/lilgator.gif' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6140969430828133488-5539565096527814909?l=cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/feeds/5539565096527814909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6140969430828133488&amp;postID=5539565096527814909' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/5539565096527814909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6140969430828133488/posts/default/5539565096527814909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cnccpastorswife.blogspot.com/2008/09/have-cup-of-coffee.html' title='Morning Coffee Talk'/><author><name>Welcome to my blog, "The Pastors Wife" by Betty Norris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11522391747028358382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/S0YQlhKqefI/AAAAAAAAAKM/irZTXluN3HQ/S220/100_0781.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_McljAEFQWK8/SOK15xxdKxI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/koY12HPXFfM/s72-c/AllThingsNewES100.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
