July 30, 2006

Are you a serious follower of Jesus or non serious follower?

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if there is any left I buy food and clothes. - Desiderius Erasmus

I always do my exercises regularly in the morning. Immediately after waking I sternly say to myself, "Ready, now. Up. Down. Up. Down." And after two strenuous minutes I tell myself, "Okay, now try the other eyelid.

I think NASCAR would be much more exciting if, like in a skating rink, every 15 minutes someone announced it was time to reverse direction.

** Have you ever wondered why clocks run clockwise? Before there were clocks, there were sundials. In the northern hemisphere, the shadows on the sundial rotate in the direction we now call clockwise, and the hands of the clock mimic the natural movements of the sun. So too our lives should imitate the Son of God.

While working at a pizza parlor I observed a man ordering a small pizza to go.? He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6.?
He thought about it for some time before responding.?
"Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces.?

Walking in Circles
You may know the famous story of Jean Henri Fabre, the French naturalist, and his processional caterpillars. He encountered some of these interesting creatures one day while walking in the woods. They were marching in a long unbroken line front to back, front to back. What fun it would be, Fabre thought, to make a complete ring with these worms and let them march in a circle.
So, Fabre captured enough caterpillars to encircle the rim of a flowerpot. He linked them nose to posterior and started them walking in the closed circle. For days they turned like a perpetual merry-go-round.
Although food was near at hand and accessible, the caterpillars starved to death on an endless march to nowhere.
That seems to be the story of many people today. They are on a march that leads to nowhere. We need to stop for a moment, and sit down in the presence of Jesus.
Then we need to receive what Christ has to offer us, just as the multitude received the loaves and fish.

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

"Laughter is an instant vacation." Milton Berle

The person who spends all of today bragging about what he is going to accomplish tomorrow probably did the very same thing yesterday.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. - Italo Calvino

One afternoon my 5-year-old daughter, Faith, and her preschool brother, Alfred, were doing "homework." Alfred had a habit of saying phrases like "I can't" or "I don't know how."
This particular afternoon, Faith responded with a Bible verse she had learned at school: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Alfred replied, "Then you do it."

The perfection of God's Word is a multifaceted perfection, not a monolithic one. Too rich to be harnessed in a single utterance—God is lord, shepherd, rock, eagle, bear, lion, lamb, king, horn, and consuming fire—God's truth is displayed in the prism of 66 books and several genres.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand

The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...). The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you!)

We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

When I go to casinos, the most ridiculous sign I see is the one that says...
"If you have a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER."
So, I call them and say, "I have an ace and a six. The dealer has a seven. What do I do?"

“I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?” ~Anonymous


There’s a new diet out. "The Beer and Ice Cream Diet". I read on with interest but wondered about its scientific validity (maybe the scientifically minded can advise me). The basic theory the writer put forward is this: it takes one calorie to heat up one gram of water one degree Celsius. That means that if you eat very cold food the body has to warm this up to body temperature when it hits your stomach and to do this it sucks the calories out of the only available source – your body fat.

An example of how this works is this. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories as the body raises the icy cold beer to body temperature. The conclusion is that if you drink a 6 ounce glass of beer you burn up 6,216 calories. Of course if you eat frozen food like ice cream you will burn even more calories as the body raises the temperature of the frozen food.

I got to thinking. We all know that pizza is served hot, is loaded with calories, and is guaranteed to add to your size. However, if the above is true when you eat pizza, drink plenty of icy cold beer and follow that up with several big servings of ice cream or frozen yoghurt, you will lose weight.