September 30
"What ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says." - Rick Warren
"Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." - Romans 12:2 (NLT)
A prime mark of the Christian mind is that it cultivates the eternal perspective. That is to say, it looks beyond this life to another one. It is supernaturally orientated, and brings to bear upon earthly considerations the fact of heaven and the fact of hell. - Harry Blamires
Our theological systems are not infallible, our God’s propositional revelation is. - Carl F. H. Henry
Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words, and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need. - Dr. Meredith Grey, ^Grey’s Anatomy^
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca
More than 70 percent of people who were married since 1970 celebrated a 10th anniversary. - USA Today, Sept. 19, 2007
- A recent survey of church growth indicated that 70 to 80 percent of a church's growth is the result of friends witnessing to friends and relatives. While visitation evangelism and other methods of outreach help, the personal contact brings the harvest. - Warren Wiersbe
- The Great Commission is not an option to be considered but a command to be obeyed. - J. Hudson Taylor
- The last request made by our Lord was "Be My witnesses."
Golf - the four letter word explained... A "gimme" can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers...neither of whom can putt very well.
An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play; it is always possible to get worse.
We want what we want, immediately. I was amused some time ago when I heard a child pray that God send her friend back to see her "Right Now!" We don't want to wait. We demand quick satisfaction, regardless of cost.
SANCTIFIED EXHAUSTION
We cannot possibly flatter the Almighty by hurrying into his presence, flinging a song and prayer at him, and hurrying out of church back into our hassled lifestyles. God is never flattered by our sanctified exhaustion. -- Calvin Miller in "Into the Depths of God"
ARE YOU IN A FOG TIME RIGHT NOW?
We may experience times of unusual closeness, when every prayer is answered in an obvious way and God seems intimate and caring. And we may also experience "fog times," when God stays silent, when nothing works according to formula and all the Bible's promises seem glaringly false. Fidelity involves learning to trust that, out beyond the perimeter of fog, God still reigns and has not abandoned us, no matter how it appears. -- Philip Yancey
"One of the great dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God." - C.S. Lewis
- Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand. - Mark Twain
- Why is the Atheist's main target always Jesus of Nazareth, and never Buddha, Confucius, or Mohammed? Why is the aspiring athlete's target always the true champion and never the also-rans? - Anonymous
Try to imagine the population of North America – around 316 million people. Now try to imagine a population almost 3 times bigger. That is the number of people worldwide that do not get enough food – over 840 million people. We are told that about 1.1 billion people do not have clean drinking water. About 25,000 people die each day from hunger or causes related to hunger. Can you imagine every 4 days a small size town the size of 25,000 being wiped out?
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant,
but not a favorite author.
He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body,
but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! Jim Rohn
You may have heard about a young woman about to get married who said to her mother, "I can't marry him, mother. He's an atheist and he doesn't believe there is a hell."
Her mother responded, "That's all right, dear, marry him and between the two of us I am sure we can convince him."
The following was overheard at a recent high society party...
"My ancestry goes all the way back to Alexander the Great," said one lady. She then turned to a second woman and asked, "How far does your family go back?"
"I don't know," was the reply. "All of our records were lost in the flood."
During a recent flood in the Idaho lowlands, the family decided to send little Johnny to stay with an uncle, in another part of the state. They included a letter explaining the reason for the nephew's sudden and unexpected visit.
Two days later the parents received a telegram: "Am returning boy. Send the flood."
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"You know you're old when they've discontinued your blood type.
A lady recently being baptized was asked by a coworker what it was like to be a Christian. She replied 'It's like being a Pumpkin'... God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off that you may have gotten from the other pumpkins. Then he cuts the top off and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see.
"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000l-step process." -- Thomas A. Edison
"The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time." -- Vince Lombardi
How does McDonald's get low wage employees to work full time when there is a vast shortage of labor for low-wage jobs?
They invite people to join "The McDonald's Team."
Let's invite people to join "The Jesus Team."
If you're not a team player, you can't be a disciple of Jesus, the Christ.
You can’t control the length of your life, but you can control its width and depth. You can’t control the contour of your countenance, but you can control its expression. You can’t control the other person’s opportunities, but you can seize upon your own and make the best of them.
You can’t control the weather, but you can control the atmosphere which surrounds you. You can’t control the distance that your head will be above the ground, but you can control the level of the contents of that head.
You can’t control the other person’s annoying faults, but you can see to it that you yourself do not develop or harbor similar propensities.
Dear Dad,
$chool i$ really great. I am making lot$ of friend$ and $tudying very hard. With all my $tuff, I $imply can't think of anything I need, $o if you would like, you can ju$t $end me a card, a$ I would love to hear from you.
Love,
Your $on.
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Dear Son,
I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep even an hoNOr student busy. Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble task, and you can never study eNOugh.
Love,
Dad
What often goes missing in the bumper-sticker "The One Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins" philosophy of life are considerations of the cost of consumption. Not just the initial down-payment costs, but the subsequent emotional, family and psychological costs.
The greatest irony in the pursuit of the most toys is that it inevitably requires the most time to get them, leaving the least time to use them. Pollster Lou Harris has found that people have an average 32 percent less leisure time than they did a decade ago.
There being only so many hours in the day, something has to give. Consequently, the dream car has been parked so long it's used more air in the tires than gas in the tank. The country house for weekend getaways may as well be in another country. The two-week ski trip to Europe has been delayed for the third winter. And the treasured wooden skiff hasn't touched anything wet in eight months. Blessed are the toys for they shall inherit the...dust! (Robert Kriegel, If IT Ain't Broke...Break IT! [New York: Warner Books, 1992]
"America's wealth makes her poverty much worse than India's because it leads to spiritual death." -Mother Teresa,
"Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." - Romans 12:2 (NLT)
A prime mark of the Christian mind is that it cultivates the eternal perspective. That is to say, it looks beyond this life to another one. It is supernaturally orientated, and brings to bear upon earthly considerations the fact of heaven and the fact of hell. - Harry Blamires
Our theological systems are not infallible, our God’s propositional revelation is. - Carl F. H. Henry
Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words, and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need. - Dr. Meredith Grey, ^Grey’s Anatomy^
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca
More than 70 percent of people who were married since 1970 celebrated a 10th anniversary. - USA Today, Sept. 19, 2007
- A recent survey of church growth indicated that 70 to 80 percent of a church's growth is the result of friends witnessing to friends and relatives. While visitation evangelism and other methods of outreach help, the personal contact brings the harvest. - Warren Wiersbe
- The Great Commission is not an option to be considered but a command to be obeyed. - J. Hudson Taylor
- The last request made by our Lord was "Be My witnesses."
Golf - the four letter word explained... A "gimme" can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers...neither of whom can putt very well.
An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play; it is always possible to get worse.
We want what we want, immediately. I was amused some time ago when I heard a child pray that God send her friend back to see her "Right Now!" We don't want to wait. We demand quick satisfaction, regardless of cost.
SANCTIFIED EXHAUSTION
We cannot possibly flatter the Almighty by hurrying into his presence, flinging a song and prayer at him, and hurrying out of church back into our hassled lifestyles. God is never flattered by our sanctified exhaustion. -- Calvin Miller in "Into the Depths of God"
ARE YOU IN A FOG TIME RIGHT NOW?
We may experience times of unusual closeness, when every prayer is answered in an obvious way and God seems intimate and caring. And we may also experience "fog times," when God stays silent, when nothing works according to formula and all the Bible's promises seem glaringly false. Fidelity involves learning to trust that, out beyond the perimeter of fog, God still reigns and has not abandoned us, no matter how it appears. -- Philip Yancey
"One of the great dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God." - C.S. Lewis
- Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand. - Mark Twain
- Why is the Atheist's main target always Jesus of Nazareth, and never Buddha, Confucius, or Mohammed? Why is the aspiring athlete's target always the true champion and never the also-rans? - Anonymous
Try to imagine the population of North America – around 316 million people. Now try to imagine a population almost 3 times bigger. That is the number of people worldwide that do not get enough food – over 840 million people. We are told that about 1.1 billion people do not have clean drinking water. About 25,000 people die each day from hunger or causes related to hunger. Can you imagine every 4 days a small size town the size of 25,000 being wiped out?
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant,
but not a favorite author.
He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body,
but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! Jim Rohn
You may have heard about a young woman about to get married who said to her mother, "I can't marry him, mother. He's an atheist and he doesn't believe there is a hell."
Her mother responded, "That's all right, dear, marry him and between the two of us I am sure we can convince him."
The following was overheard at a recent high society party...
"My ancestry goes all the way back to Alexander the Great," said one lady. She then turned to a second woman and asked, "How far does your family go back?"
"I don't know," was the reply. "All of our records were lost in the flood."
During a recent flood in the Idaho lowlands, the family decided to send little Johnny to stay with an uncle, in another part of the state. They included a letter explaining the reason for the nephew's sudden and unexpected visit.
Two days later the parents received a telegram: "Am returning boy. Send the flood."
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"You know you're old when they've discontinued your blood type.
A lady recently being baptized was asked by a coworker what it was like to be a Christian. She replied 'It's like being a Pumpkin'... God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off that you may have gotten from the other pumpkins. Then he cuts the top off and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see.
"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000l-step process." -- Thomas A. Edison
"The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time." -- Vince Lombardi
How does McDonald's get low wage employees to work full time when there is a vast shortage of labor for low-wage jobs?
They invite people to join "The McDonald's Team."
Let's invite people to join "The Jesus Team."
If you're not a team player, you can't be a disciple of Jesus, the Christ.
You can’t control the length of your life, but you can control its width and depth. You can’t control the contour of your countenance, but you can control its expression. You can’t control the other person’s opportunities, but you can seize upon your own and make the best of them.
You can’t control the weather, but you can control the atmosphere which surrounds you. You can’t control the distance that your head will be above the ground, but you can control the level of the contents of that head.
You can’t control the other person’s annoying faults, but you can see to it that you yourself do not develop or harbor similar propensities.
Dear Dad,
$chool i$ really great. I am making lot$ of friend$ and $tudying very hard. With all my $tuff, I $imply can't think of anything I need, $o if you would like, you can ju$t $end me a card, a$ I would love to hear from you.
Love,
Your $on.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Son,
I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep even an hoNOr student busy. Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble task, and you can never study eNOugh.
Love,
Dad
What often goes missing in the bumper-sticker "The One Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins" philosophy of life are considerations of the cost of consumption. Not just the initial down-payment costs, but the subsequent emotional, family and psychological costs.
The greatest irony in the pursuit of the most toys is that it inevitably requires the most time to get them, leaving the least time to use them. Pollster Lou Harris has found that people have an average 32 percent less leisure time than they did a decade ago.
There being only so many hours in the day, something has to give. Consequently, the dream car has been parked so long it's used more air in the tires than gas in the tank. The country house for weekend getaways may as well be in another country. The two-week ski trip to Europe has been delayed for the third winter. And the treasured wooden skiff hasn't touched anything wet in eight months. Blessed are the toys for they shall inherit the...dust! (Robert Kriegel, If IT Ain't Broke...Break IT! [New York: Warner Books, 1992]
"America's wealth makes her poverty much worse than India's because it leads to spiritual death." -Mother Teresa,
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