Introduction: Snapshots of The Savior

In John 20:30-31 the Apostle John said, “And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book: but these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”  Earlier (John 14: 8-9) Phillip asked Jesus to “Show us the Father, and it suffice us.”  Which one of us would not want to see the Father – the question is natural, but so was Jesus’ answer.  “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Phillip?  He that hath seen me hath seen the Father…”

 Our purpose in this series of snapshots is two-fold.  First, in order to be like Jesus we need to know the Savior personally – we want to watch him work and play so we’ll know how to work and play.  Second, in knowing Jesus we will see the Father.  Also, we want to emulate Jesus so that our family, friends, and co-workers will see a glimpse of Jesus in us – not perfectly, not exhaustively – but an image none-the-less to entice and whet their appetite for more.

Why “Snapshots of the Savior”?  I’m a visual and tactile learner needing to both see and touch.  So when I look at the events of Jesus’ life I create an image of the scene – a snapshot – and then examine the whole and the parts for fuller understanding.  When we see a landscape painting we first see the “big” picture, but then we are drawn in to the finer details – I call it looking for the hidden squirrel.  While the big picture is beautiful, it is the details which give depth without which the big picture would fail.  Often, the details are too many to take in during any one viewing so we must return over and over again to find them.  In the end, we may never find them all, but that is the allure.  Finding what the artist hides in plain sight.

The Holy Spirit is the master artist.  He uses words to paint the most wonderful and life changing sceneries.  He’ll never waste a word or detail; nothing He gives us is without significance.  For those wanting a deeper understanding of Jesus and therefore the Father, everything about the scene is vital.  So then, it is important for us to consider the place, the time, the event and the subjects – primary and secondary.  Jesus is always the focal point because we want to be like him, but in examining the other subjects in the scene we learn a lot about ourselves too.  A good photograph or painting includes contrast.

There is a danger in this approach – we miss the forest for the tree.  We get so caught up in the details we lose sight of what the Holy Spirit is telling us.  The details are there to produce the final product and the final product is paramount.  But ignoring the finer details reduces the snapshot’s richness and contrast.  So we must have a proper focus of our lens for the best view.

Jesus is the Son of the living God.  He came, not only to prepare a way for you to get to heaven by dying on the cross and shedding his blood; but also, to show you and me by his ministry and the very details of his life, the way to live while here.  Many more are the reasons for studies that peer into the life of Christ.  While the Gospels are certainly the most consolidated and concentrated collection of snapshots of the Savior, there are snapshots of Jesus throughout the bible.  We’ll look together through the Bible’s photo album in search of all that the Holy Spirit gives us.  Sit back, and enjoy the journey, knowing that we’ll never exhaust the content …

JerryLowry

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Football!! (2nd Quarter)

Are you a team player? Christianity is certainly individualized, but it is a team as well. There is no doubt that we are responsible for our own salvation (Philippians 2:12), but the support of our brother’s and sister’s in Christ is extremely important! How many times have we seen a great team fail (and therefore the individuals fell) because of a prima donna?    What follows is an exhortation for us all to become good team players…

Rom 15:1-3  We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.  (2)  Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.  (3)  For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

This passage is not one of assertion, but of servitude. In order for us to win individually, we must help the team win as well. Heaven, albeit a singular goal, will not be very enjoyable if we are all alone. The great commission, given to us by our Lord and Savior is one of singular effort to bring forth the greater spiritual good! Jesus didn’t come to save just one or two, he came so that all might have hope. This means we must be a good team player!

Within this team effort we must have individual excellence.

Rom 14:4  Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

Our individual excellence must not be that of someone seeking attention from man, but that of giving glory to God.

Rom 15:6-7  That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  (7)  Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

We should strive for unity. For we are all part of the body of Christ “fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.” (Ephesians 4:16)

Let us all strive for that individual excellence and be the team player that God would want us to be.

Act 2:44  And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

Max Gaskins

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The sneaky benefit of complexity

At my house I have a box of remote controls. One for the TV, one for the DVR/Satellite, one for the Clearplay, one for the over-the-air HD-digital receiver, one for the stereo, one for the DVD/VCR recorder combo, etc. Now, being a typical man, I see this as a thing of beauty. For one, I love remotes, and secondly no-one in the house but me knows which remote does what with which device, sooooooo guess who always gets to run the remote when it’s TV time? Clever eh? Just make something so complex that no-one else understands it, and the job is always yours.

Okay, I suspect that our government does this to us all the time [The US tax code for instance]. But what I’m more interested in here is how our religious leaders do the same thing. How many times in a sermon have you heard something like “In the Greek, this word means servant, but not just any kind of servant, it is a special kind of servant, and to get the thought you must understand the ever so delicately discerned shade of meaning that is the critical centerpiece of God’s message here… This is the kind of servant…that you couldn’t possibly understand, much less teach anyone about, unless you have a Master’s of Divinity Degree from an Accredited Theology Department in a Prestigious University, like I do…”

MichaelMcCorkle

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Football!! (1st Quarter)

Football is not a game for the weak of mind or body. It is a sport that requires discipline and dedication. You might think that comparing this gruesome sport to our spiritual walk is far fetched, but I submit unto you that it is not. I hope by the time you finish reading this you will be a stronger and more determined child of God than when you started, and that you will have a fervor and zeal for the Lord’s work, akin to a warrior;  for Christianity is not for the weak of mind. It is a life of quiet strength and leadership that requires us to continually be adjusting and re-evaluating the direction we are headed.

To play a game of football you must have a game plan:

Mat 6:19-20  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:  (20)  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Without a long range goal of what you want from your spiritual walk, you wont have direction. You won’t know when to run, pass or catch. This long range goal is one that must be kept in front of us, so we can see the “cross” bars and know how far to go for a touchdown and ultimately a win!

A successful game plan must have an offense:

Mat 28:19  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

In football there are many individuals that make up a successful offense, each individual, putting forth his best effort to get a win. In this “game” what position do you play?  Are you on the line, blocking the defense and protecting the quarterback? How about being a running back, taking the ball and running with it? Are you a receiver? Do you go out into the field and catch what is thrown at you? Or, are you a quarterback; organizing, passing and when necessary running with the ball yourself?

A successful game plan must have defense:

The defensive line is one of the most integral parts. Being the first line of defense against Satan and what he throws at us is nothing to laugh at. While the defensive line is attacking Satan’s offense, the linebackers must contain, contain, contain. Whenever Satan breaks through that line, then the linebackers attack, attack, attack! The secondary is also a containment field. Not only that, they are that third line of defense that shakes up Satan’s offense and keeps him from scoring a big play, intercepting his advances!

No game plan is complete without the special teams:

Sometimes we might have to punt. It doesn’t mean the game is over, it simply means we need to regroup and put forth an even stronger effort against what is thrown at us.

You might look at these positions and think that you aren’t much of a player… Maybe you are a coach! The coach teaches the game plan, works with the players, sees the overall goal and coordinates the players throughout the game.

Or… Are you on the bench?  At first glance you might think the bench is a bad place. Not necessarily!  A successful win will require replacements. Everyone needs a backup. Everyone needs support!

Speaking of support, there might be times in our lives that we must simply struggle from the sidelines. When this happens we can’t fall into despair; we must cheer our team on!

Rom 15:5  Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Max Gaskins

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Holy Hands

It’s amazing to watch a child grow. Each moment in an infant’s life, they discover new and exciting things, such as rolling over in the crib or crawling. They’re soon driven by a desire to stand on two wobbly things called legs and not long after, walk on them.

Most of us can’t remember being an infant struggling with the things we now take for granted. However, by watching a child, we are reminded of the struggles we certainly faced at that age.

As a tradition, my wife and I gave each of our three children their very own, small chocolate cake on their first birthdays. They sat in the high chair with the cone shaped hat secured by its elastic string, with nothing on but a diaper and a smile, staring at the treat in front of them.

Driven by curiosity, they would touch the brown icing with a finger and put it to their tongue to determine if it was something to be desired. It was usually at this point that a look of excitement was followed by both hands submerged into the chocolate cake.

Covered in rich, dark colored sweetness, their hands delivered the sugary substance to their mouths, and cheeks, ears and hair. Indulgent gratification set in as the cake was consumed.

Covered from head to toe in chocolate cake and icing, each child became tired and began to rub their eyes, further smearing the chocolate to cover any part of their face and head that had gone untouched. Now weary, they lifted up their dirty hands, wiggling their fingers pleading for mommy to pick them up and hold them.

I noticed that before mommy picked them up, she said, “Let’s clean you up first!”

Many times we find ourselves covered in sin, having tasted it and found it pleasurable. Then we lift our dirty hands to God wanting him grant our petitions. Notice what he said to his people Israel.

Isaiah 1:15 “And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

As long as our hands are dirty, He will not hear our prayers. However the Lord says, “Let’s clean you up first, white as snow!”

When the chocolate is wiped away from the face of the little one and their hands cleaned, Mommy lovingly picks the child up and comforts it, fulfilling their request. In order to approach our Heavenly Father, we must be washed in the blood of His Son.

Jesus Christ cleans us up so that we can approach the Father.

“….Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,” Rev. 1:5

When we request a petition from our Father in prayer, we must have clean, holy hands.

1 Timothy 2:8 “I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.”

When you approach the Lord in prayer, are your hands clean?

CraigKeel

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Reflections

Matthew 19:13-14, “Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

Lately I have been thinking about this passage and the meaning. “Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven,” what does that really mean? What virtues was Jesus trying to teach? How do children show us those virtues? Then, I started watching Lexi, really paying attention to her behavior, everything from what she needs, wants, the things she notices, just her daily activities. Watching Lexi has been an eye opening experience.

Her needs are her wants. Let me clarify that…she wants to eat, that is a need, she wants to sleep, that is a need, and she wants love, which is our greatest need of all. Loving God with all of our heart, soul, and mind is a foundation for us as Christians. So we as humans have all these things we want outside of our needs. Maybe we need to take a step back and examine our hearts, re-evaluate our desires.

 (Heb 13:5)  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

 Her love is unconditional. Lexi sees past all my flaws, all of David’s flaws and simply loves us. What better way to learn how to love than to watch a child?! They desire love, but the best thing is: children will love others, whether or not that love is returned. Will a child respond better to some people? Yes, but that idea does not take away from the fundamental truth that a child loves unconditionally. Looking at myself as a mother, I realize I do not deserve her unconditional love. She gives it to me anyways.

(I John 4:7)  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

Her heart does not judge. All a stranger has to do is talk to her, and she will smile. She does not care if you have some kind of record or history of sin. Really she does what we all should do…takes a person at face value.

(Matthew 7:1)  Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Her forgiveness is truly forgiving. Sleep deprivation can take a toll on parents, and it is hard not to be abrupt or annoyed when dealing with our child. One minute I can be annoyed or not loving enough to Lexi, and in that same minute, she’ll smile at me, cuddle close to me, just love me. Really think about that for a minute. I can wrong her, and in the same breath she answers with love and forgiveness. Her answer to wrongdoing is forgiveness, love, and FORGETTING. When I think about the lessons she is teaching me, I sometimes wonder if maybe I should carry a notebook and pen with me to take notes.

(Ephesians 4:32)  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Her sense of wonder is amazing. Life moves so fast and is so short. At what point do we stop taking in the world around us and appreciating the beauty of God’s creation? Lexi will stare at a pretty flower forever. She wants to hold it, examine it, and she won’t take her eyes off it. Why don’t I appreciate God’s creation anymore? Somewhere in the hustle and bustle of life, I got too busy. Life is like a vapor, and I realize, watching Lexi, that I need to savor each moment and truly enjoy the blessings God has given me.

(James 4:14)  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Elise Fleming

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Only Human?

How many times have you used the phrase: “I’m only human…”  Have you ever considered that this might actually be demeaning to God?

Gen 1:26  “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: …”

When we take a look around us, we see beauty beyond imagining.

 

We praise God for nature and its glory.

We are amazed at the life and transformation of ugly caterpillars into beautiful butterflies.

I live in Alabama and I find the mountains, trees…

lakes…

sunrises…

and sunsets…

just amazing as seen in my part of the world. I am sure there is beauty for you wherever your geographical location is. But yet we take the greatest creation of all, the human, and deface it by saying it is something that is “only.”

God made us in his image! Whether by intelligence, personality, attributes, or even the fact that of all beings we are the only ones with a living soul!

It seems that the legacy of man will always be to minimize, or not appreciate what God has done for us. Take for instance the first male and female.  In Genesis 2:8 it reads that God made a garden for them.  Then shortly thereafter man decides that what God has provided for him and his wife is not good enough. They just had to partake of the fruit of the tree that was in the midst of the garden.  (Gen 3:22  “And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:”) So they end up cast out of that Garden. What happens next?  According to Gen 6:5, man became so wicked that God had wished he had never even created him!  It took a flood to appease our Father! Thankfully Noah and his family knew the importance of the gift of eternal life and persevered.

There is no doubt that we will make mistakes.  There is no doubt that only one man has ever, or will ever live an infallible life (our Savior, Jesus Christ).

Next time you make a mistake, I encourage you to not degenerate God’s creation of man by saying you are only human.  Maybe next time, when that mistake occurs, praise Him that you are human, blame the one that is truly responsible (Satan) and put forth even more effort to honor God’s greatest creation…. YOURSELF!

Max Gaskins

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Are You Happy To Be Here?

Attending the worship service should be something that we all enjoy. There are many reasons for this. First of all, it is our opportunity to remember the suffering that our savior went through for us. That sacrifice that was made, remembered by partaking of the supper that our Lord instituted, is the focal point of who/what we are as a Christian! Secondly it is our opportunity to praise God with our brothers and sisters in song and prayer. Thirdly it is our opportunity to be enriched by God’s word.

Our attitude before, during and after a worship service will make the difference between how well our coming work week progresses. We all realize how difficult it can be interacting with people out in the world that could really care less about God and their state as a person answerable to Him. Having the right attitude towards our worship service can make that coming work week much easier to handle.

There are some questions that I think are important for us to ask ourselves in preparing for a worship service. Maybe if we can prepare our minds before each service by attending to these questions and giving ourselves honest answers, we can be better suited as a Christian.

1) Are you happy to be here?
Our initial state of mind will go along way to a profitable service. If we are not in the best of moods, or woke up on the proverbial wrong side of the bed; maybe we need to take a step back, a deep breath and reorganize our thoughts.

2) While you are here, what are your expectations?

Are you planning on being uplifted? Are you looking forward to being edified? Are you expecting to enjoy yourself? Are you excited to spend time with the others there? The worship service is the one place we should be able to go, release all of our problems and be strengthened!

The writer of Hebrews states: “By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name,” in the 13 chapter, verse 15. If we are not in the correct frame of mind, we should sacrifice our “bad” attitude for a good one! Do you think this is unreasonable?

How many times have you not been in the best of moods, saw something agreeable and it change your whole day? If we work on it, we can change our attitude…

I encourage us all to attend church, and not just go for socializing or seeing what mental state everyone else is in, but prepare for services with a good attitude. We should be asking ourselves the questions needed for us, and as a byproduct everyone else, to be uplifted and edified!

God Bless!

Max Gaskins

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Yesterday? Tomorrow? Today!

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our lives that we forget about one of the fundamental precepts God’s Word provides for us.

For a Christian what is truly important is not yesterday, or tomorrow, it is TODAY!

Jas 4:14  “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future.  I live now.” Granted, there must be some sort of planning to our lives. Granted, we must take in the big picture spiritually. Granted, we learn (or at least should) from our mistakes. But, when it comes to living; walking and talking through our spiritual lives today is what is most important!

Was yesterday truly important?

Robert Nathan wrote in So Love Returns: “There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.” Jesus gave us the model prayer that we have coined The Lord’s Prayer. In Luke’s account he writes: “Give us day by day our daily bread.” This is our petition to God. This is a belief, or a faith in Him, that He will provide. Certainly we cannot overlook the Apostle Paul’s assertion that we must provide for our own. He told Timothy, “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” In 1^st Timothy 5:8.

Our faith in him though, is supposed to be a reliance that he will provide and with our efforts in place; that is exactly what will happen! If we spend too much time looking backwards, we can “clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves our arms too full to embrace the present.” As  Jan Glidewell wrote. We don’t need to look backwards and wish that our present was different. Guess what, there is nothing we can do about it now! What’s done is done. What is, is. We expect God to forgive us our sins. How helpful is it that we wallow in those sins?  We hope that our loved ones will forgive us our shortcomings… Why should we continually look backwards to what was and not to the present of what is? “We don’t need let the past steal our present.”  ~Cherralea Morgen

What about Tomorrow?  Shouldn’t we plan?  Yes! Shouldn’t we provide? Yes! But guess what… Tomorrow is not here yet…  Today is mine, tomorrow is none of my business.

Again, God’s Word provides direction for us. I’m reminded of the movie Rambo First Blood part II.  At the end of the movie Rambo and his colonel are in the jungles of Vietnam. Rambo has just obliterated a whole battalion of bad people and feels that there has been an injustice committed against him.  As Rambo is about to vanish into the undergrowth his colonel asks him. “How are you gonna live John…” to which Rambo replies… “day by day.” I’ve often wondered if they meant to quote directly from The Holy Bible?!

2Co 4:16  “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”

A Daily renewing! That means we actually try to start each and every day, as if it is our first and last.  The Psalmist wrote in Ps. 51:10 this exact idea: “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” What better way to start each and every day than with this thought on our mind? To renew ourselves on a daily basis, means that we put yesterday behind us, learn from it, and be a better, stronger person today.  To renew ourselves daily means that we need to look into God’s word daily, for the answers to the questions that we might have. God’s word is profitable according to Paul’s letter to Timothy. It is for instruction. We should renew ourselves daily with God on our lips, hips and fingertips. Talking about him, acting like him and turning his pages of wisdom! When we do this we might actually find that we are rejuvenated, and ready to please him!

Eph 4:23  “And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;”

If we start each day fresh, with God on our lips, hips and fingertips we can grow each and every day!

Col 3:10 “And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:”

There have been many times that I have tried to button my pants, or put on one of my favorite shirts, that I have told myself I need to exercise more.  Of course one of the first things that comes to mind, is that I should wake up 30 min. earlier and walk.  Why not have the same idea but direct it towards my spiritual health?

Isa 40:31  “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

Charles R. Swindoll  wrote: “I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.”

Jesus Christ said “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

Mat 6:34   Mat 6:30

It’s not about yesterday. It’s not about tomorrow…. It’s about today!

Max Gaskins

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Cold, Darkness & Evil

According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every substance, whether a body or an object; is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy. Heat is what allows matter to have, or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-459.67° F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel  when heat starts to disappear. 

Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton’s prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. We cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. In order to measure how dark something is a measurement of the amount of light present determines the result. Darkness is a term to describe what happens when there is no light present.

Think about this concept…..

John 8:12 (KJV) Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Jesus is the light, If we have Jesus in our lives there is no darkness, there is no death. Sure our bodies will die, but our souls will spend eternity in heaven. The Gospel of John tells us about the beginning and the word. John states that all things were made by the Word and and explains life and light.

John 1:1-5 (KJV) ‘in him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5) And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

Why did darkness not comprehend? It did not comprehend, because darkness is simply the absence of light.

What about evil?

Genesis 2:9 (KJV) And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

When Adam and Eve ate of the tree, they first of all disobeyed God. While before they walked with God in the Garden; they were now hiding from him. They had left, or ignored his presence. Secondly they gained knowledge. It was the tree of knowledge after all. Before this they had no knowledge of anything except what God had shown and given them. Now, because they had ignored God’s command; they had knowledge of all things. They had knowledge of evil. The very act of eating the tree gave them knowledge of evil, because it was against God’s command.

John 8:44 (KJV) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Satan doesn’t do the truth, because he has an absence of it!

I pray that we can all be aware of the cause and effect that happens in our lives when we sin.  God is not a cold, dark being that tempts us with evil. God is full of warmth, light and simply put…. GOOD!

Max Gaskins

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