The Incomplete Works of Rick Everingham

By Rick Everingham

Over the past 12 years I have worked as an over the road truck driver. During that time I have had some opportunity to write articles for an on-line ministry for truck drivers and have contributed to a blog. I have also written some stories for children with a little different perspective. This little book is a collection of those articles and stories. And finally there is an allegory that came to me a little at a time. I hope you find it interesting, enjoyable and possibly thought provoking.
The Opinions expressed here are just that; opinions. They are based on my experiences and study over the years. If you think I’m wrong, you might be right, but I can only give you what I have. I hope you find it worthwhile.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rick Everingham
• Release date: Jan 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301254897

Rick Everingham

Over the years I have worked at many occupations, but for the last 12 I worked as an over the road truck driver. Happily I am now retired living with my wife, mostly in Medford Or.For most of my life I have thought of myself as a Christian and been a part of many church fellowships. Now I am learning to be a disciple of Jesus and hope to encourage others to be disciples as well.

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Contents:

Some Useful Words

The Gospel as I See It

Life Changing Experience

Best Friend

God Bless America

Are You Willing to be Wrong?

An Acquired Taste

Rest

A Hero

Jesus Was Amazed

The Vision

Be Perfect

Political Action

Papa’s Story

Before Bed Time

A Story in a garden

A really big box!

A Promise in the sky!

To be special

Extra Stuff

The Tree of Life (an allegory)

Over the past 12 years I have worked as an over the road truck driver. During that time I have had some opportunity to write articles for an on-line ministry for truck drivers and have contributed to a blog. I have also written some stories for children with a little different perspective. This little book is a collection of those articles and stories. And finally there is an allegory that came to me a little at a time. I hope you find it interesting, enjoyable and possibly thought provoking.

The Opinions expressed here are just that; opinions. They are based on my experiences and study over the years. If you think I’m wrong, you might be right, but I can only give you what I have. I hope you find it worthwhile.

I am starting with an article called some useful words because I often hear people use words and then as they continue speaking I become sure that I don’t know what they meant. Well I think that if you look at the meaning I have given to these words you will find I keep pretty close to the meaning I have given. After that I have covered some topics that have been significant for me.

Some Useful Words

These are some meaningful words that God is using in my life these days. He is especially using them by making them meaningful to me and then giving me opportunity to apply the meaning to my life. I share what I have received and hope that it can be of some encouragement to others.

SIN

Sin is a word that is surrounded by confusion and opinion. But for me it has become simple to define though not always easy to pinpoint. Romans 14:23b, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. There is no need to talk of cloths, tobacco, vocations, or any such things. If my activities and speech are in response to faith there is no need to discuss these things. But I must be ever growing, listening moving toward God and his will. God’s will is defined for me in Romans 8:29 …to be conformed to the image of his son. If someone has this as his standard there is no need to talk of other things, if not there is no profit in talking of other things.

I was listening to a preacher today or yesterday speak of sin and the devil. He spoke as if sin was something that comes from outside my body. It seemed as if he was saying the devil puts ideas into my head that I would never have thought, on my own. We need to understand what we are made of in order to come to the right conclusions about how God wants to work in our lives.

James 1:14-15 says Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lusts, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived it brings forth sin. So sin comes when I entertain lust. And there is an abundance of those in my flesh, that come up regularly and want to entertain me. As I wrote this I thought of the strange woman in Proverbs 7:6-23. She entices the young man and he is drawn away. I don’t know if women can appreciate this, as much as men, but for me it is a clear picture of how lust draws me away and entices me. As soon as I consort with the lust in my mind I have sinned.

SALVATION

Jesus came to save us from our Sins. There is significant evidence that this means more than just paying the debt for sin. That is redemption. To be freed means to be loosed from the power of some force. When the slaves in the south were freed, their former masters had no more legal right to control their lives. Some slaves remained servants in the hire of their former masters, but some left and lived lives free of their former masters. To be free from sin then indicates that I now have the power to choose and a will to choose to not sin. So I am coming to understand that Salvation is an activity that begins after we are redeemed and continues until we become like Jesus (Rom. 8:29). This is a calling that I must actively work with God to achieve (Phil. 2:12-13).

REVELATION

The Word of God is living and active and sharper than a two edged sword dividing between soul and spirit… and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Heb. 4:12. This is the tool I use to decide if