July 29
THE ABCs OF GOD'S SALVATION
A = All have sinned.
B = Behold he Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
C = Come to Christ for peace, pardon, and eternal life.
THE HEART OF THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father....The Paternity of God
Who art in heaven...The Place of God
Hallowed be Thy name....The PRAISE of God
Thy kingdom come....The PURPOSE of God
Thy will be done....The PLAN of God
Give us bread....The PROVISION of God
Forgive us our debts....The PARDON of God
Lead us not into temptation....The POWER of God
Deliver us from the evil one....The PROTECTION of God --Elmer L. Towns
How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
Here is one of the very best pieces of information on Global Warming that I have ever seen. The information is in the form of a test. It is very interesting. You should take the time to visit the site and take the 10 question test. Very informational! Gives the context of global warming in a geologic, and long term historical context.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html
I’d play the lottery if they let me pick the balls.
"What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are." - C.S. Lewis
Sometime this year (2007) humanity will reach a significant demographic achievement. For the first time in history more people will live in cities than in rural areas. By 2030 more than 60 percent of humanity will live in cities. - Source: The United Nations
"My greatest fear is not falling away from God. It isn't losing my marriage or reverting back to drugs. My greatest fear is that I should ever lose the hand of God on my life. Without his touch, everything I would do, as Solomon said, would be 'vanity of vanities!'" - Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor (Bethany House, 2007)
An older couple was asking for a room with a king, queen or double bed. The clerk apologized and said that the only rooms available had twin beds.
Disappointed, the man remarked, "I don't know. We've been sharing the same bed for 44 years."
"Could you possibly put them close together?" the wife asked.
Several people nearby smiled, and someone commented, "How romantic."
Then the woman finished her request with, "Because if he snores, I want him close enough to be able to punch him."
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else" - Charles Dickens
~~
I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
The world is moved along, not only by the might shovels of its heros, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." - Helen Keller
~~
"True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service, but by giving oneself in selfless service to them." - Author Unknown
~~
The world measures greatness by money, or eloquence, or intellectual skill, or even by prowess on the field of battle. But here is the Lord's standard: "Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven." Matthew 18:4 - J.H. Jowett
~~
The beginning of greatness is to be little,
The increase of greatness is to be less,
And the perfectino of greatness is to be nothing. - Author Unknown
~~
"The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving. The less there is of you, the more the light shines through."
~~~~~
"Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks." -- Phillips Brooks
~~~~~
-Why are there no father-in-law jokes?
- Can a rabbit have a bad hare day?
- Why are all the "do-it-yourself" books written by more than one person?
- If you marry someone you met online, should you exchange passwords instead of vows?
- Why do we celebrate America's Independence Day with fireworks made in China?
- If a police interrogator took enough college courses, could he get a third degree?
- Would it be a waste of time to throw away your watch?
- Why do I back up my computer? Why can't I back it down?
- What happens to all the daylight we save?
- Do plumbers go home tired every day because their work is so draining?
~~~~~
A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office.
After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, "your husband is suffering from a very severe stress disorder. if you don't do the following, your husband will surely die.
"Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant at all times. For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don't burden him with chores. Don't discuss your problems with him--it will only make the stress worse. And most importantly, no nagging. If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely."
On the way home, the husband asked his wife, "what did the doctor say?"
"He said you're going to die," she replied.
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." -- Holmes
"If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders" – Abigail Van Buren
"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." -- Anais Nin
"How was your blind date?" a college student asked her roommate.
"Terrible!" the roommate answered. "He showed up in his 1932 Rolls Royce."
"Wow! That's a very expensive car. What's so bad about that?"
"He was the original owner."
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today." -- Chinese proverb
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." -- Les Brown
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge." -- Daniel J. Boorstin
"The easiest thing in the world is to be you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position." -- Dr. Leo Buscaglia
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post." -- L. Thomas Holdcroft
David Jeremiah points out that, "Christian leaders who appear on secular television talk shows are often asked whether they believe Jesus is the only way to heaven. If the answer is 'Yes, Jesus is the only way,' the interviewer often paints the Christian as intolerant, arrogant, narrow-minded, out-dated, and fanatical.
"But if the interviewer were talking to a physician who had made a medical breakthrough for a terrible disease, would he say, 'Doctor, how intolerant to think this is the only cure for this disease.' If he were talking to a mathematician about the multiplication table, would he say, 'Professor, how can you be so arrogant as to believe that three times three always equals nine? '"
"Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so our lives matter, so the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it."
Lance Briggs during the offseason after the Chicago Bears offered him $7.2 million to occupy 16 of his Sundays playing football: "I've played my last snap for them. I'll never play another down for Chicago again." He signed with the Bears on Wednesday for $7.2 million.
"If genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, I wind up sharing elevators with a lot of bright people." - Unknown
Why don't you ever see the headline: "PSYCHIC WINS LOTTERY"?
Be as patient with others as God has been with you.
Enthusiasm for Christ is contagious -- has anyone caught it from you?
Those who walk with God won't run from people's needs.
When you find yourself far from God, remember it is not He that moved.
When God calls 'Time', the game is over. Which exit will you take?
Experts made the Titanic. Amateurs made the ark.
God doesn't need great men. Great men need God.
Visitors aren't just welcome. They are expected.
Give your troubles to God. He's up all night anyway.
You learn to walk by starting on your knees.
God answers knee mail.
The Joy of Life
The adventure of life is to learn.
The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of life is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give.
The joy of life is to love.
Football players at the high school were stealing the practice jerseys, so the coach ordered a set with "Property of Central High School" emblazoned on them.
When the thefts continued, he ordered a new batch that had the imprint "Stolen From Central High School." But the jerseys still kept disappearing.
The larceny finally stopped after he changed the wording to "Central High School 4th String."
A mother sent her fifth grade boy up to bed. In a few minutes she went to make sure that he was getting in bed. When she stuck her head into his room, she saw that he was kneeling beside his bed in prayer. Pausing to listen to his prayers, she heard her son praying over and over again. "Let it be Tokyo! Please dear God, let it be Tokyo!"
When he finished his prayers, she asked him, "What did you mean, 'Let it be Tokyo'?"
"Oh," the boy said with embarrassment, "we had our geography exam today and I was praying that God would make Tokyo the capital of France."
Prayer is not a magical means by which we get God to do what we want. Prayer is an inner openness to God which allows his divine power to be released in us. Ultimately, the power of prayer is not that we succeed in changing God, but that God succeeds in changing us.
Has it really come to this? In order to get Americans to care about a Presidential debate, debate organizers felt it was necessary to ask candidates the difficult questions in snowman form and in horrible song form. Apparently, we have become so apathetic we can't simply listen to a moderator ask the questions anymore, we have to watch some schmuck from East Nowhere asking questions in a chicken suit. Is the ability to post a video clip online really this important? It's a sad state of affairs, ladies and gentlemen.
An exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief, finally asked him, "How do you expect to get into Heaven?"
The boy thought it over and said, "Well, I'll run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, 'For Heaven's sake, Dylan, come in or stay out!'"
"Alter your attitude and you can alter your life."
"You can't risk what you don't have and you can't have what you won't risk for."
"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision." -- Stevie Wonder
The children of Israel wandered around the desert for 40years. Even in biblical times, men wouldn't ask for directions.
One hour of eternity, one moment with the Lord, will make us utterly forget a lifetime of desolations. --Horatio Bonar
- "A pedestrian is a person who should be seen and not hurt."
- "Customers who think the waiter is rude, should see the manager."
- "Sorry to needle you. We need your blood."
- On a college president's door: "Closed--If it's something important, see the custodian."
- Municipal golf course sign: "Please don't find lost balls until they stop rolling.
- New Jersey tourist sign: "Come to beautiful Atlantic City and see the bored walk."
- Sign in a nut shop: "No credit cards here. Strictly cashew and carry.
- By some bananas in a fruit store: "Please don't tear us apart. We grew up together.
- In a barbershop window: "Cutting out for lunch."
- What's the difference between a dry cleaner and a lawyer? If the dry cleaner loses your suit, he'll pay you. If the lawyer loses your suit, you'll still get taken to the cleaners.
- I don't know why they make you wear your hair so short in the Navy. I thought Captains didn't like crew cuts.
- Two podiatrists opened their new practices across the street from each other. They were arch enemies.
- My wife is sick. She got a little buggy, then she got a little hoarse. We're calling it the Amish Flu.
- "I used to own a Rolls-Kinardly," I boasted to a friend. "What kind of car is that?" he asked. "The kind of car that Rolls down one hill and Kinardly get up the next."
- I bought a new clothes iron. It's magnetic. It's supposed to make my clothes attractive.
- We have pretty good health insurance. You could say I'm ill at ease.
Biblical Bumper Stickers
Adam: "You are what you eat."
Eve: "At least he doesn't compare me to his mother."
Abraham: "I'm goin' not knowin'. "
Noah: "Honk if you believe in treading water."
Moses: "From a basket case to the promised land."
Elizah: "When Jezebel ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
Balaam: "My second donkey talks!"
At the Sinai desert: "Winding road next 40 years"
At the Red Sea: "Caution! Subject to sudden flooding"
A = All have sinned.
B = Behold he Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
C = Come to Christ for peace, pardon, and eternal life.
THE HEART OF THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father....The Paternity of God
Who art in heaven...The Place of God
Hallowed be Thy name....The PRAISE of God
Thy kingdom come....The PURPOSE of God
Thy will be done....The PLAN of God
Give us bread....The PROVISION of God
Forgive us our debts....The PARDON of God
Lead us not into temptation....The POWER of God
Deliver us from the evil one....The PROTECTION of God --Elmer L. Towns
How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
Here is one of the very best pieces of information on Global Warming that I have ever seen. The information is in the form of a test. It is very interesting. You should take the time to visit the site and take the 10 question test. Very informational! Gives the context of global warming in a geologic, and long term historical context.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html
I’d play the lottery if they let me pick the balls.
"What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are." - C.S. Lewis
Sometime this year (2007) humanity will reach a significant demographic achievement. For the first time in history more people will live in cities than in rural areas. By 2030 more than 60 percent of humanity will live in cities. - Source: The United Nations
"My greatest fear is not falling away from God. It isn't losing my marriage or reverting back to drugs. My greatest fear is that I should ever lose the hand of God on my life. Without his touch, everything I would do, as Solomon said, would be 'vanity of vanities!'" - Wayne Cordeiro, The Divine Mentor (Bethany House, 2007)
An older couple was asking for a room with a king, queen or double bed. The clerk apologized and said that the only rooms available had twin beds.
Disappointed, the man remarked, "I don't know. We've been sharing the same bed for 44 years."
"Could you possibly put them close together?" the wife asked.
Several people nearby smiled, and someone commented, "How romantic."
Then the woman finished her request with, "Because if he snores, I want him close enough to be able to punch him."
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else" - Charles Dickens
~~
I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
The world is moved along, not only by the might shovels of its heros, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." - Helen Keller
~~
"True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service, but by giving oneself in selfless service to them." - Author Unknown
~~
The world measures greatness by money, or eloquence, or intellectual skill, or even by prowess on the field of battle. But here is the Lord's standard: "Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven." Matthew 18:4 - J.H. Jowett
~~
The beginning of greatness is to be little,
The increase of greatness is to be less,
And the perfectino of greatness is to be nothing. - Author Unknown
~~
"The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving. The less there is of you, the more the light shines through."
~~~~~
"Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks." -- Phillips Brooks
~~~~~
-Why are there no father-in-law jokes?
- Can a rabbit have a bad hare day?
- Why are all the "do-it-yourself" books written by more than one person?
- If you marry someone you met online, should you exchange passwords instead of vows?
- Why do we celebrate America's Independence Day with fireworks made in China?
- If a police interrogator took enough college courses, could he get a third degree?
- Would it be a waste of time to throw away your watch?
- Why do I back up my computer? Why can't I back it down?
- What happens to all the daylight we save?
- Do plumbers go home tired every day because their work is so draining?
~~~~~
A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office.
After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, "your husband is suffering from a very severe stress disorder. if you don't do the following, your husband will surely die.
"Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant at all times. For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don't burden him with chores. Don't discuss your problems with him--it will only make the stress worse. And most importantly, no nagging. If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely."
On the way home, the husband asked his wife, "what did the doctor say?"
"He said you're going to die," she replied.
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." -- Holmes
"If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders" – Abigail Van Buren
"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." -- Anais Nin
"How was your blind date?" a college student asked her roommate.
"Terrible!" the roommate answered. "He showed up in his 1932 Rolls Royce."
"Wow! That's a very expensive car. What's so bad about that?"
"He was the original owner."
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today." -- Chinese proverb
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." -- Les Brown
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge." -- Daniel J. Boorstin
"The easiest thing in the world is to be you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position." -- Dr. Leo Buscaglia
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post." -- L. Thomas Holdcroft
David Jeremiah points out that, "Christian leaders who appear on secular television talk shows are often asked whether they believe Jesus is the only way to heaven. If the answer is 'Yes, Jesus is the only way,' the interviewer often paints the Christian as intolerant, arrogant, narrow-minded, out-dated, and fanatical.
"But if the interviewer were talking to a physician who had made a medical breakthrough for a terrible disease, would he say, 'Doctor, how intolerant to think this is the only cure for this disease.' If he were talking to a mathematician about the multiplication table, would he say, 'Professor, how can you be so arrogant as to believe that three times three always equals nine? '"
"Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so our lives matter, so the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it."
Lance Briggs during the offseason after the Chicago Bears offered him $7.2 million to occupy 16 of his Sundays playing football: "I've played my last snap for them. I'll never play another down for Chicago again." He signed with the Bears on Wednesday for $7.2 million.
"If genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, I wind up sharing elevators with a lot of bright people." - Unknown
Why don't you ever see the headline: "PSYCHIC WINS LOTTERY"?
Be as patient with others as God has been with you.
Enthusiasm for Christ is contagious -- has anyone caught it from you?
Those who walk with God won't run from people's needs.
When you find yourself far from God, remember it is not He that moved.
When God calls 'Time', the game is over. Which exit will you take?
Experts made the Titanic. Amateurs made the ark.
God doesn't need great men. Great men need God.
Visitors aren't just welcome. They are expected.
Give your troubles to God. He's up all night anyway.
You learn to walk by starting on your knees.
God answers knee mail.
The Joy of Life
The adventure of life is to learn.
The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of life is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give.
The joy of life is to love.
Football players at the high school were stealing the practice jerseys, so the coach ordered a set with "Property of Central High School" emblazoned on them.
When the thefts continued, he ordered a new batch that had the imprint "Stolen From Central High School." But the jerseys still kept disappearing.
The larceny finally stopped after he changed the wording to "Central High School 4th String."
A mother sent her fifth grade boy up to bed. In a few minutes she went to make sure that he was getting in bed. When she stuck her head into his room, she saw that he was kneeling beside his bed in prayer. Pausing to listen to his prayers, she heard her son praying over and over again. "Let it be Tokyo! Please dear God, let it be Tokyo!"
When he finished his prayers, she asked him, "What did you mean, 'Let it be Tokyo'?"
"Oh," the boy said with embarrassment, "we had our geography exam today and I was praying that God would make Tokyo the capital of France."
Prayer is not a magical means by which we get God to do what we want. Prayer is an inner openness to God which allows his divine power to be released in us. Ultimately, the power of prayer is not that we succeed in changing God, but that God succeeds in changing us.
Has it really come to this? In order to get Americans to care about a Presidential debate, debate organizers felt it was necessary to ask candidates the difficult questions in snowman form and in horrible song form. Apparently, we have become so apathetic we can't simply listen to a moderator ask the questions anymore, we have to watch some schmuck from East Nowhere asking questions in a chicken suit. Is the ability to post a video clip online really this important? It's a sad state of affairs, ladies and gentlemen.
An exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief, finally asked him, "How do you expect to get into Heaven?"
The boy thought it over and said, "Well, I'll run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, 'For Heaven's sake, Dylan, come in or stay out!'"
"Alter your attitude and you can alter your life."
"You can't risk what you don't have and you can't have what you won't risk for."
"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision." -- Stevie Wonder
The children of Israel wandered around the desert for 40years. Even in biblical times, men wouldn't ask for directions.
One hour of eternity, one moment with the Lord, will make us utterly forget a lifetime of desolations. --Horatio Bonar
- "A pedestrian is a person who should be seen and not hurt."
- "Customers who think the waiter is rude, should see the manager."
- "Sorry to needle you. We need your blood."
- On a college president's door: "Closed--If it's something important, see the custodian."
- Municipal golf course sign: "Please don't find lost balls until they stop rolling.
- New Jersey tourist sign: "Come to beautiful Atlantic City and see the bored walk."
- Sign in a nut shop: "No credit cards here. Strictly cashew and carry.
- By some bananas in a fruit store: "Please don't tear us apart. We grew up together.
- In a barbershop window: "Cutting out for lunch."
- What's the difference between a dry cleaner and a lawyer? If the dry cleaner loses your suit, he'll pay you. If the lawyer loses your suit, you'll still get taken to the cleaners.
- I don't know why they make you wear your hair so short in the Navy. I thought Captains didn't like crew cuts.
- Two podiatrists opened their new practices across the street from each other. They were arch enemies.
- My wife is sick. She got a little buggy, then she got a little hoarse. We're calling it the Amish Flu.
- "I used to own a Rolls-Kinardly," I boasted to a friend. "What kind of car is that?" he asked. "The kind of car that Rolls down one hill and Kinardly get up the next."
- I bought a new clothes iron. It's magnetic. It's supposed to make my clothes attractive.
- We have pretty good health insurance. You could say I'm ill at ease.
Biblical Bumper Stickers
Adam: "You are what you eat."
Eve: "At least he doesn't compare me to his mother."
Abraham: "I'm goin' not knowin'. "
Noah: "Honk if you believe in treading water."
Moses: "From a basket case to the promised land."
Elizah: "When Jezebel ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
Balaam: "My second donkey talks!"
At the Sinai desert: "Winding road next 40 years"
At the Red Sea: "Caution! Subject to sudden flooding"
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