May 6

You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults. -- Italian Proverb

"God grant me the ability
to reject the things about me
that are not true,
the humility to accept
the things that are,
and the discernment
to know the difference."

"Your integrity will affect your destiny, don't leave home without it." -- Clarence E. Hodges

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." -- Lou Holtz

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mohandas Gandhi

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." --Napoleon Hill

"Alexander, Caesar, and Hannibal conquered the world but had no friends.... Jesus founded his empire upon love, and at this hour millions would die for him.... He has won the hearts of men, a task a conqueror cannot do." -- Napoleon

Risk
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk rejection.
To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken...because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave. He has forfeited his freedom.
Only a person who takes risks is free.

Seven Deadly Sins
Truth, if it becomes a weapon against persons.
Beauty, if it becomes vanity.
Love, if it becomes possessive.
Loyalty, if it becomes blind, careless trust.
Tolerance, if it becomes indifference.
Self-confidence, if it becomes arrogance.
Faith, if it becomes self-righteous.


"God hasn't promised us tomorrow, but he has promised us eternity." — Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary at Davidson College, his alma mater, on the occasion of his returning to work after surgery to remove a cancerous growth that had metastasized to his liver.

"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you." - Fran Lebowitz

"Many church leaders decry the decline of biblical literacy and knowledge among the younger generations. Rightly so; many teenagers don't even know what they believe, or why. But the leaders are pointing fingers at the wrong culprits. The debate shouldn't be between entertainment versus biblical education. We ought to be discussing (loudly and openly) the difference between ineffective instruction and truly life-changing instruction." - Jeff White, Holy Wow: Boost Your Youth Ministry Creativity (Group, 2004)

"I try not to make a big soap opera out of the shark attack. I would rather focus on what God has allowed me to do in picking up the pieces of my old life and adjusting to parts that are new and different for me. Most of all, I want to use my story as a way to tell people about God's story. It seems like he has given me the attention of the world for a moment, and I had better take advantage of it while I can." - Bethany Hamilton, teenage surfer who lost an arm to a shark, Soul Surfer (Pocket Books, 2004)

"Busyness does not equal effectiveness." - Doug Fields, What Matters Most

A CHARTERED BUS was rolling along the highway to a football game when one rider turned to his companion and said, "I feel guilty. Here it’s Sunday and I’m going to a football game instead of church."
"What would you be doing in church?" his friend asked. "Listening to the sermon," the man replied. "Well, why don’t you act as if you were in church listening to the sermon," the friend suggested. The man thought this was a terrific idea. So he settled back into his seat and fell asleep.

The UN says livestock farming generates 18 per cent of greenhouse gases while transport accounts for 14 per cent.


When you're too busy for family, friends or most importantly, God , , you really are too busy.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it in the nest.

The Church in Action From time to time we hear statistics about how people first came into church membership. These figures trace back to the Institute for American Church Growth, which asked 10,000 people about their pilgrimage. What led them in? Answers were:
Special need, 2 percent;
Walk-in, 3 percent;
Pastor, 6 percent;
Visitation, 1 percent;
Sunday school, 5 percent;
Evangelistic crusade, 5 percent;
Program, 3 percent;
Friend/relative, 79 percent.
SO....get out there and spread the word!!
**Number of nonchurched Americans who listen to Christian radio: 1 in 6. Stats from WMBI-FM, Chicago-Il.

So, you think a gallon of gasoline is expensive, huh?? Check this out...
Diet Snapple 16oz for $1.29 = $10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16oz for $1.19 = $ 9.52 per gallon
Gatorade 20oz for $1.59 = $ 10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16oz for $1.25 = $ 10.00 per gallon
Pint of milk 16oz for $1.59 = $12.72 per gallon
Evian water 9oz for $1.49 = $ 21.19 per gallon
STP Brake Fluid 12oz for $3.15 = $ 33.60 per gallon
Vick's Nyquil 6oz for $8.35 = $ 178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4oz for $3.85 = $123.20 per gallon
Whiteout 7oz for $1.39 = $25.42 per gallon
Scope 1.5oz for $0.99 = $ 84.48 per gallon