August 19
"A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing." -- Martin Luther
"A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction." -- Benjamin Spock
"The person all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty little package." -- Unknown
"He who throws mud loses ground." -- Unknown
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." -- Mark Twain
Special Thoughts Dr. James Dobson's experience at the public school system was from 1960-1963. At the final year, he had to say goodbye to 25 to 30 teary-eyed kids. One young lady whom he said goodbye to in 1963 called him in 1975. Julie had grown up. James remembered her as a seventh grader with a crisis of confidence in herself. Her Latin heritage embarrassed her and she was overweight. She had only one friend, and this friend had moved away the following year. She and Dr. Dobson talked on the phone about the good ole days.
"Where do you go to church?" she asked. He told her, and she asked if she could visit. He told her she could, and the next week she came. In the coming months, she became a Christian.
A few months after her initial visit, Dobson asked her, "Julie, I want to ask you a question. Will you tell me why you went to so much trouble to obtain my unlisted number and call me last fall?"
"Because when I was a seventh-grade student in junior high school, you were the only person in my life who acted like you respected and believed in me, and I wanted to know your God."
You can tell the ideals of a nation by it’s advertising.
"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them." - Bill Vaughan
"Most of the time when we think of church, we think of Sunday. But Sunday is really about Monday. If our job as Christians was simply to get together and worship God, we could do that in Heaven. But our job is more than that: that's why God has us strategically placed right where we are." - John Ortberg, “The Church on Monday Morning”
"The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer." - F. B. Meyer
"I was worried that my mechanic might try to rip me off, so I was relieved when he told me all I needed was blinker fluid."
I’m not fat, I’m nutritionally enhanced.
Nursing Home Gift Ideas
Bring a relative or friend helpful gifts, such as postcards or envelopes with stamps, small change in a coin purse, perfume samples or a package of greeting cards or playing cards.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, over 380 billion plastic shopping bags are used in the U.S. annually. Only a tiny fraction (0.6 percent) of the plastic bags are recycled. As many as 1 trillion plastic bags may be used globally each year, or about one million bags per minute.
It takes 1,000 years for plastic bags to degrade. In addition, plastic bags contain harmful chemical such as lead, cadmium, mercury, and diethylhexyl phthalate, which is a carcinogen. About 100,000 birds, marine mammals, whales, and sea turtles each year either choke to death on plastic bags, or die of an intestinal blockage after eating one.
- The church is the only conscience the government has. When the church is silent, the state can have no conscience. - Edward W. Grant
- "I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- Douglas MacArthur
- "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency." -- Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy
- I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. -- Jackie Mason
- Next year we aren't going far, we're going to spend our vacation somewhere near our budget.
Women who use make-up on a daily basis can absorb almost 5 pounds of chemicals into their bodies each year.
Some of the compounds present in make-up have been linked to side effects ranging from skin irritation to cancer.
One class of cosmetic chemicals which could be dangerous are parabens. Traces of parabens have been found in breast tumor samples.
Another chemical, sodium lauryl sulfate, can cause skin irritation.
Nine out of ten women also use out-of-date lipstick and mascara, which can be a breeding ground for harmful bacteria.
Many women use more than 20 different beauty products a day. The effects of these multiple combinations of chemicals are largely unknown.
Settle it in your mind once for all: Christians are not supernaturally protected from the blasts, the horrors, the aches, or the pains of living on this globe. Christians can be unfairly treated, assaulted, robbed, raped, and murdered. We can suffer financial reversals, we can be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and divorced by uncaring mates. Then howcan we expect to be joyful, unlike those around us? Because God promises that deep within He will give us peace ... an unexplainable, illogical inner peace. --Charles Swindoll
Firefighters, scientists and teachers are seen as the most prestigious occupations by U.S. adults, while bankers, actors and real estate agents are the least prestigious occupations, according to the annual Harris Poll that measures public perception of 23 professions and occupations.
Six occupations are perceived to have "very great" prestige by at least half of all adults — firefighters (61%), scientists (54%), teachers (54%), doctors (52%), military officers (52%) and nurses (50%). They are followed by police officers (46%), priests/ministers/clergy (42%) and farmers (41%).
By contrast, the list includes ten occupations which are perceived by less than 20 percent of adults to have "very great" prestige — real estate brokers (5%), actors (9%), bankers (10%), accountants (11%), entertainers (12%), stockbrokers (12%), union leaders (13%), journalists (13%), business executives (14%) and athletes (16%). Those rated as having "hardly any prestige at all" included stockbrokers (25%), union leaders (30%), entertainers (31%), real estate brokers (34%) and actors (38%).
When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. --Frederick William Faber
A Weird New Religious Cult
A sociology professor every year begins his course on "The Family" by reading to his class a letter, from a parent, written to a government official. In the letter the parent complains that his son, once obedient and well motivated, has become involved with some weird new religious cult. The father complains that the cult has taken over the boy's life, has forced him to forsake all of his old friends, and has turned him against his family.
After reading the letter, the professor asks the class to speculate what the father is talking about. Almost without exception, the class immediately assumes that the subject of the letter is a child mixed up with the "Moonies," or some other controversial group. After the class puts out all of the possible conclusions they can think of, the professor surprises them by revealing that the letter, was written by a third century father in Rome, the governor of his province, complaining about this weird religious group called "The Christians."
As we think about what is new and what is old and what is worth holding onto this day, Church historian JaroslavJan Pelikan provides discerning statement as to what is new, what is old and what matters. He writes that "tradition is the living faith of those who have passed and traditionalism is the dead faith of those living." So here we have a guide: Is our faith a dead formalism or a living faith, a blazing fire?
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. -- Chinese Proverb
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Gagehot
"A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction." -- Benjamin Spock
"The person all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty little package." -- Unknown
"He who throws mud loses ground." -- Unknown
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." -- Mark Twain
Special Thoughts Dr. James Dobson's experience at the public school system was from 1960-1963. At the final year, he had to say goodbye to 25 to 30 teary-eyed kids. One young lady whom he said goodbye to in 1963 called him in 1975. Julie had grown up. James remembered her as a seventh grader with a crisis of confidence in herself. Her Latin heritage embarrassed her and she was overweight. She had only one friend, and this friend had moved away the following year. She and Dr. Dobson talked on the phone about the good ole days.
"Where do you go to church?" she asked. He told her, and she asked if she could visit. He told her she could, and the next week she came. In the coming months, she became a Christian.
A few months after her initial visit, Dobson asked her, "Julie, I want to ask you a question. Will you tell me why you went to so much trouble to obtain my unlisted number and call me last fall?"
"Because when I was a seventh-grade student in junior high school, you were the only person in my life who acted like you respected and believed in me, and I wanted to know your God."
You can tell the ideals of a nation by it’s advertising.
"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them." - Bill Vaughan
"Most of the time when we think of church, we think of Sunday. But Sunday is really about Monday. If our job as Christians was simply to get together and worship God, we could do that in Heaven. But our job is more than that: that's why God has us strategically placed right where we are." - John Ortberg, “The Church on Monday Morning”
"The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer." - F. B. Meyer
"I was worried that my mechanic might try to rip me off, so I was relieved when he told me all I needed was blinker fluid."
I’m not fat, I’m nutritionally enhanced.
Nursing Home Gift Ideas
Bring a relative or friend helpful gifts, such as postcards or envelopes with stamps, small change in a coin purse, perfume samples or a package of greeting cards or playing cards.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, over 380 billion plastic shopping bags are used in the U.S. annually. Only a tiny fraction (0.6 percent) of the plastic bags are recycled. As many as 1 trillion plastic bags may be used globally each year, or about one million bags per minute.
It takes 1,000 years for plastic bags to degrade. In addition, plastic bags contain harmful chemical such as lead, cadmium, mercury, and diethylhexyl phthalate, which is a carcinogen. About 100,000 birds, marine mammals, whales, and sea turtles each year either choke to death on plastic bags, or die of an intestinal blockage after eating one.
- The church is the only conscience the government has. When the church is silent, the state can have no conscience. - Edward W. Grant
- "I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- Douglas MacArthur
- "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency." -- Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy
- I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. -- Jackie Mason
- Next year we aren't going far, we're going to spend our vacation somewhere near our budget.
Women who use make-up on a daily basis can absorb almost 5 pounds of chemicals into their bodies each year.
Some of the compounds present in make-up have been linked to side effects ranging from skin irritation to cancer.
One class of cosmetic chemicals which could be dangerous are parabens. Traces of parabens have been found in breast tumor samples.
Another chemical, sodium lauryl sulfate, can cause skin irritation.
Nine out of ten women also use out-of-date lipstick and mascara, which can be a breeding ground for harmful bacteria.
Many women use more than 20 different beauty products a day. The effects of these multiple combinations of chemicals are largely unknown.
Settle it in your mind once for all: Christians are not supernaturally protected from the blasts, the horrors, the aches, or the pains of living on this globe. Christians can be unfairly treated, assaulted, robbed, raped, and murdered. We can suffer financial reversals, we can be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and divorced by uncaring mates. Then howcan we expect to be joyful, unlike those around us? Because God promises that deep within He will give us peace ... an unexplainable, illogical inner peace. --Charles Swindoll
Firefighters, scientists and teachers are seen as the most prestigious occupations by U.S. adults, while bankers, actors and real estate agents are the least prestigious occupations, according to the annual Harris Poll that measures public perception of 23 professions and occupations.
Six occupations are perceived to have "very great" prestige by at least half of all adults — firefighters (61%), scientists (54%), teachers (54%), doctors (52%), military officers (52%) and nurses (50%). They are followed by police officers (46%), priests/ministers/clergy (42%) and farmers (41%).
By contrast, the list includes ten occupations which are perceived by less than 20 percent of adults to have "very great" prestige — real estate brokers (5%), actors (9%), bankers (10%), accountants (11%), entertainers (12%), stockbrokers (12%), union leaders (13%), journalists (13%), business executives (14%) and athletes (16%). Those rated as having "hardly any prestige at all" included stockbrokers (25%), union leaders (30%), entertainers (31%), real estate brokers (34%) and actors (38%).
When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. --Frederick William Faber
A Weird New Religious Cult
A sociology professor every year begins his course on "The Family" by reading to his class a letter, from a parent, written to a government official. In the letter the parent complains that his son, once obedient and well motivated, has become involved with some weird new religious cult. The father complains that the cult has taken over the boy's life, has forced him to forsake all of his old friends, and has turned him against his family.
After reading the letter, the professor asks the class to speculate what the father is talking about. Almost without exception, the class immediately assumes that the subject of the letter is a child mixed up with the "Moonies," or some other controversial group. After the class puts out all of the possible conclusions they can think of, the professor surprises them by revealing that the letter, was written by a third century father in Rome, the governor of his province, complaining about this weird religious group called "The Christians."
As we think about what is new and what is old and what is worth holding onto this day, Church historian JaroslavJan Pelikan provides discerning statement as to what is new, what is old and what matters. He writes that "tradition is the living faith of those who have passed and traditionalism is the dead faith of those living." So here we have a guide: Is our faith a dead formalism or a living faith, a blazing fire?
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. -- Chinese Proverb
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Gagehot
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