November 11
SHORT AND SWEET
Pythagorean theorem : 24 Words
The Lord's Prayer : 66 Words
Archimedes' Principle : 67 Words
The 10 Commandments : 179 Words
The Gettysburg Address : 286 Words
The Declaration of Independence : 1,300 Words
The U. S. Government regulations on the sale of cabbage : 26,911 Words
(Ahhh...the power of government.)
You and I are human post offices. We are daily giving our messages of some sort to the world. They do not come from us, but through us; we do not create, we convey. Let us make certain that our messages come from heaven. --Vance Havner
"Parents, what are your children learning from your worship? Do they see the same excitement as when you go to a basketball game? Do they see you prepare for worship as you do for a vacation? Do they see you hungry to arrive, seeking the face of the Father? Or do they see you content to leave the way you came?.....They are watching. Believe me. They are watching." - Max Lucado
"Behind every successful man stands a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law" - Brooks Hays
A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
When I want to speak let me think first:
Is it true?
Is it kind?
Is it necessary?
If not, let it be unsaid
Bible Verse 1 Corinthians 4:13 When slandered, we speak kindly.
Prayer Lord, when speaking of others this day and other days, I pray for a spirit of kindness. May all my conversations be pleasing in Your sight. Amen
"There is only one thing I know I am going to do in my life. I don't know if I'll be a success, a failure, married, single - but I do know that sooner or later, I'm going to die. The finality of that is kind of like God's little joke. No matter how cool you think you are, you will decompose. Most people live most of their lives ignoring death. Anything that will remind us, we remove from sight. This obsession with immortality is a bizarre thing. What that tells me, though, is we must be immortal." - Rich Mullins, the "Awesome God" guy
As I quietly abide in You and let Your life flow into me, what freedom it is to know that the Father does not see my threadbare patience or insufficient trust, rather only Your patience, Lord, and Your confidence that the Father has everything in hand. In Your faith I thank You right now for a more glorious answer to my prayer than I can imagine. Amen.
In those times I can't seem to find God, I rest in the assurance He knows how to find me. --Neva Coyle
RESPONSE FROM LAST SUNDAY’S MESSAGE “After your message about Zaccheas on Sunday you challenged us to go out and find someone that we could assist, come along side, or just be friend. I did that and made a phone call to a neighbor who I heard had been diagnosed with cancer. It took me out of my comfort zone but boy did God bless me with their response. They couldn’t thank me enough for calling. I told them I could see their lights from our bedroom window and every time I did I would be praying for them. This initial contact will make future visits and calls easier. May this spirit of Zaccheas invade Joy, infect everyone and turn the lights on for many of our neighbors.” - Anonymous
When temperatures plunged to 26 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, the Rockford, Ill., Register Star asked its readers to finish the sentence, "It was so cold that..." Here are some of the responses:
...you could freeze an egg on the sidewalk.
...I had to go up and break the smoke off my chimney.
...we opened the refrigerator to heat the house.
...when police saw a bank-robbery suspect and said, "Freeze!" he did.
...when I called home to Arizona, the message caused the cactus to frost over.
...I let my dog out, and I had to break him loose from the tree.
Chicagoans eat more chocolate and drink more cola than other U.S. urbanites, and are among the top consumers of energy drinks and coffee.
They are also likely to say caffeine is good for you, according to the poll conducted by Prince Market Research.
Tampa, Miami, Phoenix and Atlanta rounded out the top five most caffeinated cities, while residents of San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Detroit and Baltimore consumed the least caffeine.
A GLOBAL survey recently conducted by the Pew Research Center shows that the wealthier you are, the less likely you are to be religious. The survey, done as part of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, covers a wide swath of economic matters, including global trade and immigration (pewglobal.org).
Pew found that there is “a strong relationship between a country’s religiosity and its economic status.” The poorer a country, the more “religion remains central to the lives of individuals, while secular perspectives are more common in richer nations.”
The United States is the “most notable” exception. Other exceptions are oil-rich, mostly Muslim nations like Kuwait.
There is no simple interpretation of the findings. Perhaps as “people get less religious, they get wealthier,” wrote Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog (washingtonmonthly.com). “Or perhaps the other way around. Or perhaps there’s something else behind both trends.”
Mr. Drum concludes that it’s “probably a bit of all three.”
Obesity: We're Too Big For Disneyland's "It's A Small World"
Back in 1963, when the boats that carry customers through Disneyland's "It's a Small World" ride were designed, the average male weighed 175lbs and the average female 135lbs. Not anymore. Nowadays the boats frequently bottom out, overloaded with extra flesh, says CalorieLab:
The Small World ride now must accommodate adults who frequently weigh north of 200 pounds, which it often cannot do. Increasingly, overweighted boats get to certain points in the ride and bottom out, becoming stuck in the flume.
The ride monitors attempt to leave empty seats on many boats to compensate for the hefty, but this routinely antagonizes the hundreds of paying customers waiting in line. When a boat does bottom out, a long line of other boats backs up behind it, their passengers slowly going mad from listening to the ride's theme song.
The ride monitors must then track down the stuck boat and attempt tactfully to help a rider or two to exit at one of the emergency platforms, which the riders in question do not always deal with graciously.
Disney is now undertaking a massive renovation in which the boats will be redesigned and the flume deepened to accommodate the additional poundage. It's a new, bigger world.
Did You Know...
• The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s is greater than the population of North America.
• In India, it’s the top 28%.
Translation: They have more honors kids than we have kids.
• China will soon become the number one English-speaking country in the world.
• If you took every single job in the US today and shipped it to China, it still would have a labor surplus.
• During the next 5 minutes, 60 babies will be born in the US.
• 244 babies will be born in China.
• 357 babies will be born in India.
• The US Dept. Of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10 to 14 jobs by the age of 38.
• The US Dept. Of Labor estimates 1 out of every 4 workers today is for a company for whom they have been employed for less than 5 years.
• More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years.
• The education Secretary predicts the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 did not exist in 2004.
• We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet, using technologies that haven’t yet been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t know even know are problems yet.
• Name this country...richest in the world, largest military, center of world business and finance, strongest education system, world center of innovation and invention, currency the world standard of value, highest standard of living.....England...in 1900.
• The US is 20th in the world in Internet usage (Luxemburg just passed us)
• Ninetendo invested $140 million in research and development in 2002 alone.
• The US Federal Government spent less than half as much on research and innovation in education.
• 1 out of every 8 couples married in the US last year met online.
• We are living in exponential times. There are over 2.7 billion searches on Google each month.
• There are about 540,00 words in the English language, about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare time.
• More than 3,000 new books are published daily.
• It is estimated that a week’s worth of NY Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th Century.
• The amount of new technological information is doubling every 2 years.
• For a student starting a 4 year technology or college degree, this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third tear of study.
• It is predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010 by 2023, when first graders will be 23 years old and beginning their first career.
In the office where I work, there is a constant battle between our technical-support director and customer-service personnel over the room temperature, which is usually too low.
The frustrated director, trying to get us to understand his position, announced one afternoon, "We need to keep the temperature below seventy-five degrees or the computers will overheat."
Thinking that this was just another excuse, one of my shivering colleagues retorted, "Yeah right. So how did they keep the computers from overheating before there was air conditioning."
Nearly 21 percent of Americans smoke, a number that has been stalled since 2004, federal researchers reported on Thursday in a study they said means governments must spend more to persuade people to kick the habit.
More than 45 million Americans smoked in 2006, or 20.8 percent of the population, 80 percent of them daily smokers
Inner Strength
Gardens have their seasons. Frost comes too soon. Rain waits too long. Ice comes too heavy. Ice can make trees and bushes bend. If we try to remove the ice, the branches will most likely break.
There is a strength inside the branches that will carry more weight than we know. There is a life inside that has more strength than the weight on the outside. There is an inner strength. To watch a garden or a forest is to notice the hidden power deep inside all that grows.
It is the same with all who plant and grow the gardens. We have the promise: You will not be tempted above what you are able. The ice will not be too heavy. We can bend far and not break. We can be dead and alive, lost and found, asleep and then awake, broken hearted and then healed.
Notice the strength deep inside the branches of a large tree, a fern, tall tulip stems. See how hidden strength is. See this strength inside someone.
Dear God, bend us so we will not break. Reprinted by permission from Living Well: 100 Seeds to Grow Your Spirit Copyright 2005 by Wheat Ridge Ministries
The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.
If people were not meant to have late-night snacks, why did God put a light in the refrigerator?
Pythagorean theorem : 24 Words
The Lord's Prayer : 66 Words
Archimedes' Principle : 67 Words
The 10 Commandments : 179 Words
The Gettysburg Address : 286 Words
The Declaration of Independence : 1,300 Words
The U. S. Government regulations on the sale of cabbage : 26,911 Words
(Ahhh...the power of government.)
You and I are human post offices. We are daily giving our messages of some sort to the world. They do not come from us, but through us; we do not create, we convey. Let us make certain that our messages come from heaven. --Vance Havner
"Parents, what are your children learning from your worship? Do they see the same excitement as when you go to a basketball game? Do they see you prepare for worship as you do for a vacation? Do they see you hungry to arrive, seeking the face of the Father? Or do they see you content to leave the way you came?.....They are watching. Believe me. They are watching." - Max Lucado
"Behind every successful man stands a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law" - Brooks Hays
A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
When I want to speak let me think first:
Is it true?
Is it kind?
Is it necessary?
If not, let it be unsaid
Bible Verse 1 Corinthians 4:13 When slandered, we speak kindly.
Prayer Lord, when speaking of others this day and other days, I pray for a spirit of kindness. May all my conversations be pleasing in Your sight. Amen
"There is only one thing I know I am going to do in my life. I don't know if I'll be a success, a failure, married, single - but I do know that sooner or later, I'm going to die. The finality of that is kind of like God's little joke. No matter how cool you think you are, you will decompose. Most people live most of their lives ignoring death. Anything that will remind us, we remove from sight. This obsession with immortality is a bizarre thing. What that tells me, though, is we must be immortal." - Rich Mullins, the "Awesome God" guy
As I quietly abide in You and let Your life flow into me, what freedom it is to know that the Father does not see my threadbare patience or insufficient trust, rather only Your patience, Lord, and Your confidence that the Father has everything in hand. In Your faith I thank You right now for a more glorious answer to my prayer than I can imagine. Amen.
In those times I can't seem to find God, I rest in the assurance He knows how to find me. --Neva Coyle
RESPONSE FROM LAST SUNDAY’S MESSAGE “After your message about Zaccheas on Sunday you challenged us to go out and find someone that we could assist, come along side, or just be friend. I did that and made a phone call to a neighbor who I heard had been diagnosed with cancer. It took me out of my comfort zone but boy did God bless me with their response. They couldn’t thank me enough for calling. I told them I could see their lights from our bedroom window and every time I did I would be praying for them. This initial contact will make future visits and calls easier. May this spirit of Zaccheas invade Joy, infect everyone and turn the lights on for many of our neighbors.” - Anonymous
When temperatures plunged to 26 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, the Rockford, Ill., Register Star asked its readers to finish the sentence, "It was so cold that..." Here are some of the responses:
...you could freeze an egg on the sidewalk.
...I had to go up and break the smoke off my chimney.
...we opened the refrigerator to heat the house.
...when police saw a bank-robbery suspect and said, "Freeze!" he did.
...when I called home to Arizona, the message caused the cactus to frost over.
...I let my dog out, and I had to break him loose from the tree.
Chicagoans eat more chocolate and drink more cola than other U.S. urbanites, and are among the top consumers of energy drinks and coffee.
They are also likely to say caffeine is good for you, according to the poll conducted by Prince Market Research.
Tampa, Miami, Phoenix and Atlanta rounded out the top five most caffeinated cities, while residents of San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Detroit and Baltimore consumed the least caffeine.
A GLOBAL survey recently conducted by the Pew Research Center shows that the wealthier you are, the less likely you are to be religious. The survey, done as part of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, covers a wide swath of economic matters, including global trade and immigration (pewglobal.org).
Pew found that there is “a strong relationship between a country’s religiosity and its economic status.” The poorer a country, the more “religion remains central to the lives of individuals, while secular perspectives are more common in richer nations.”
The United States is the “most notable” exception. Other exceptions are oil-rich, mostly Muslim nations like Kuwait.
There is no simple interpretation of the findings. Perhaps as “people get less religious, they get wealthier,” wrote Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog (washingtonmonthly.com). “Or perhaps the other way around. Or perhaps there’s something else behind both trends.”
Mr. Drum concludes that it’s “probably a bit of all three.”
Obesity: We're Too Big For Disneyland's "It's A Small World"
Back in 1963, when the boats that carry customers through Disneyland's "It's a Small World" ride were designed, the average male weighed 175lbs and the average female 135lbs. Not anymore. Nowadays the boats frequently bottom out, overloaded with extra flesh, says CalorieLab:
The Small World ride now must accommodate adults who frequently weigh north of 200 pounds, which it often cannot do. Increasingly, overweighted boats get to certain points in the ride and bottom out, becoming stuck in the flume.
The ride monitors attempt to leave empty seats on many boats to compensate for the hefty, but this routinely antagonizes the hundreds of paying customers waiting in line. When a boat does bottom out, a long line of other boats backs up behind it, their passengers slowly going mad from listening to the ride's theme song.
The ride monitors must then track down the stuck boat and attempt tactfully to help a rider or two to exit at one of the emergency platforms, which the riders in question do not always deal with graciously.
Disney is now undertaking a massive renovation in which the boats will be redesigned and the flume deepened to accommodate the additional poundage. It's a new, bigger world.
Did You Know...
• The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s is greater than the population of North America.
• In India, it’s the top 28%.
Translation: They have more honors kids than we have kids.
• China will soon become the number one English-speaking country in the world.
• If you took every single job in the US today and shipped it to China, it still would have a labor surplus.
• During the next 5 minutes, 60 babies will be born in the US.
• 244 babies will be born in China.
• 357 babies will be born in India.
• The US Dept. Of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10 to 14 jobs by the age of 38.
• The US Dept. Of Labor estimates 1 out of every 4 workers today is for a company for whom they have been employed for less than 5 years.
• More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years.
• The education Secretary predicts the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 did not exist in 2004.
• We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet, using technologies that haven’t yet been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t know even know are problems yet.
• Name this country...richest in the world, largest military, center of world business and finance, strongest education system, world center of innovation and invention, currency the world standard of value, highest standard of living.....England...in 1900.
• The US is 20th in the world in Internet usage (Luxemburg just passed us)
• Ninetendo invested $140 million in research and development in 2002 alone.
• The US Federal Government spent less than half as much on research and innovation in education.
• 1 out of every 8 couples married in the US last year met online.
• We are living in exponential times. There are over 2.7 billion searches on Google each month.
• There are about 540,00 words in the English language, about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare time.
• More than 3,000 new books are published daily.
• It is estimated that a week’s worth of NY Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th Century.
• The amount of new technological information is doubling every 2 years.
• For a student starting a 4 year technology or college degree, this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third tear of study.
• It is predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010 by 2023, when first graders will be 23 years old and beginning their first career.
In the office where I work, there is a constant battle between our technical-support director and customer-service personnel over the room temperature, which is usually too low.
The frustrated director, trying to get us to understand his position, announced one afternoon, "We need to keep the temperature below seventy-five degrees or the computers will overheat."
Thinking that this was just another excuse, one of my shivering colleagues retorted, "Yeah right. So how did they keep the computers from overheating before there was air conditioning."
Nearly 21 percent of Americans smoke, a number that has been stalled since 2004, federal researchers reported on Thursday in a study they said means governments must spend more to persuade people to kick the habit.
More than 45 million Americans smoked in 2006, or 20.8 percent of the population, 80 percent of them daily smokers
Inner Strength
Gardens have their seasons. Frost comes too soon. Rain waits too long. Ice comes too heavy. Ice can make trees and bushes bend. If we try to remove the ice, the branches will most likely break.
There is a strength inside the branches that will carry more weight than we know. There is a life inside that has more strength than the weight on the outside. There is an inner strength. To watch a garden or a forest is to notice the hidden power deep inside all that grows.
It is the same with all who plant and grow the gardens. We have the promise: You will not be tempted above what you are able. The ice will not be too heavy. We can bend far and not break. We can be dead and alive, lost and found, asleep and then awake, broken hearted and then healed.
Notice the strength deep inside the branches of a large tree, a fern, tall tulip stems. See how hidden strength is. See this strength inside someone.
Dear God, bend us so we will not break. Reprinted by permission from Living Well: 100 Seeds to Grow Your Spirit Copyright 2005 by Wheat Ridge Ministries
The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.
If people were not meant to have late-night snacks, why did God put a light in the refrigerator?
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