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#207 From: letshavefun2day@...
Date: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:06 pm
Subject: ***Thought & Humor*** - Please Forward - July 21, 2005 - A Mid Summer Night's Dream 		letshavefun2day@...
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Recently, while I was on a shopping trip in
a department store in Chapel Hill, I heard
a UNC student talking to her roommate on
the down escalator.
 
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A Quiz For People Who Think
They Know Everything

 
 1. There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor
the participants know the score or the leader until the
contest ends. What is it?

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly
moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their
own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must
be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial
vegetables?

4 Name the only sport in which the ball is always in
possession of the team on defense, and the offensive
team can score without touching the ball?

5. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

6. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with
a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe,
and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way.
How did the pear get inside the bottle?

7. Only three words in standard English begin with the
letters "dw." They are all common. Name two of them.

8. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English
grammar. Can you name half of them?

9. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los
Angeles Lakers?"

10. There are seven ways a base ball player can legally
reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on
balls-a walk-is one way. Name the other six.

11. It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold
frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other
form but fresh. What is it?

12. Name six or more things that you can wear on your
feet that begin with the letter "S."
 
     
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How A Father
Builds a Son
 
 
 
I guess it's in the testosterone. Guys are just wired to build something; a business,
a church, furniture, home improvement projects. Some men build a team, some build
financial security for their family, and some just build a name for themselves. Even I've
felt motivated to build a few things and I'm the ultimate un-handyman. There was the little
tree house - well, more like a tree platform - but the kids enjoyed it. The dollhouse for our
daughter. The miniature barn for our son. There's a reason that God put this building thing
in guys. Some of us have a really big project to build!

When God trusts a man with a son, He is putting in his hands probably the most important
building project of his life. If a man builds a mighty empire or a billion dollar enterprise and
loses his son, can we call his life a true success? A boy will decide what the word "man" means
based on the first one he knows and the one he knows best - his dad. A boy will likely decide
what God is like - and whether or not he wants anything to do with Him - based on how his dad
treats him - because God has introduced Himself to us as our Heavenly Father.

How a man treats the women in his life; what he thinks really matters - what he thinks really
doesn't matter, he'll get that from copying the biggest man in his life - his father. And how
many boys have grown up into men who are never sure they were good enough, always
insecure, and always feeling like they have something to prove. Because the main man
in his shaping years failed to make him feel loved and confident and valuable. Building
a son - now that takes a real man. Tearing one down - that's not much of a man at all.

There's a revealing picture of how a father builds a son in our word for today from the
Word of God in Matthew 3:16-17. Jesus, God's Son, is about to launch into the earthly
ministry that His Father sent Him to earth for. His first public act is to be baptized by
John the Baptist. And it's there that we get an incredible glimpse behind the veil at the
awesome relationship between God the Father and God the Son. The Bible tells us:
"As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water ... And a voice from
heaven said, 'This is My Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased.'"

Here's the Father affirming His approval of His Son - a vote of confidence that must
have meant a lot to Jesus as He headed out into the battle. It's a demonstration of the
power of a father's praise at the highest possible level. It's what your son desperately
needs from you, Dad. 1 Thessalonians 2:12 describes in three action words how a father
should treat his children - "encouraging, comforting and urging." The question is, Dad,
how do you try to motivate your children; especially your boy? With shame? With silence?
By giving love when they perform and withdrawing it when they don't? By never letting
them know where they really stand? That's not building a boy. That's dismantling a boy.

He needs your praise - frequently. He needs the kind of focused time with you that says
to him, "I like you, son. I want to be with you." Your son needs your undivided attention
when he's talking so he learns that what he says is important to you, just because he's
saying it. And often your son needs to hear your compliments, your pleasure, your pride
in him. You can give him the courage that he'll need to lead, to say no to the pressure,
to attempt great things, to treat other people like they're important.

You build a son by building up your son, by often helping him see the awesome thing
God did when He created that boy. Even God the Father launched His Son into life with
His public approval. How can you do any less for the son He's given you?
 
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At just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ
died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a
righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly
dare to die.  But God demonstrates His own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    --Romans 5:6-8
 
 
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#208 From: letshavefun2day@...
Date: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:25 pm
Subject: ***Thought & Humor*** - Please Forward - July 22, 2005 - H.B. C.T. 		letshavefun2day@...
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Q: Did you hear about the UNC student who stood
in front of a mirror with her eyes closed?
 
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Why Your Failure
Doesn't Have to be
            Final
 
 
 
We're not horse racing fans, but I happened to stumble onto a horse race
on TV when I was looking for the evening news. It was The Preakness; the
second race in a three-race series called the Triple Crown. Those races are,
in essence, horse racing's World Series. The first race in 2005 had been won
by a horse whose odds of winning were 50 to 1, beating out the odds-on favorite,
Afleet Alex. Then came that second race, The Preakness. As the race passed the
halfway point, Afleet Alex made his move. He quickly caught up with another horse
who had been in the lead - who, for some reason, swerved unexpectedly right into
his path, and both horses started to collide and stumble. Afleet Alex's jockey ended
up hanging onto his horse's neck, fully expecting to go down in a potentially deadly
fall that could all be trampled. But amazingly, Afleet Alex somehow managed to regain
his balance, surge into the lead, and win the race in a dramatic finish. The headline the
next day said it all: "From stumble to stunning finish."

That headline could be autobiographical for someone who's listening right now. You've
stumbled spiritually, and you could go down and stay down. Or you could - because of
the kind of Savior Jesus is - get up and go on to a stunning finish.

You wouldn't be the first one. Take Jesus' disciple, Peter, for example. He stumbled big-time.
In the hours just before Jesus was arrested, tortured, and executed, Simon Peter pledged that
he would follow his Lord to prison and to death. Jesus said, in essence, "No, you won't. You
will deny me three times in the next few hours before the rooster crows." Sadly, that's exactly
what Peter did when Jesus needed him most. This man who had made such bold promises
about his commitment to Jesus wouldn't even admit to a little girl that he even knew Jesus.

The Bible says that Jesus was led through the place where Peter was going down spiritually
and "the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter." That rooster crowed and Peter "went outside
and wept bitterly" (Luke 22:62). It was over - or so it looked. He had stumbled majorly.

Now fast forward only a few weeks later to the streets of Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost.
In our word for today from the Word of God in Acts 2, beginning with verse 14, the Bible says,
"Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd ... 'Let all Israel be
assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ'" (verse 36).
Man, what boldness! That day God used Peter's sermon to move 3,000 people to come to Jesus.
Peter went on to run an amazing race for Jesus, all the way to his martyr's death for his Lord.

That same Jesus wants to pick you up from your fall and enable you to run an amazing race for
Him. The devil's lie is that it's over; you failed and it's no use trying to go on with Jesus. But Peter's
comeback is living proof that your failure doesn't have to be final if you'll do what he did. Realize
how much your sin is hurting your Savior and repent of what you've done with all your heart. Let
your sin break your heart.

Then, accept the forgiveness that He died to give you for that sin. And surrender to Jesus for whatever
He wants you to do for Him, opening yourself up to a total Holy Spirit takeover. Let your stumble lead
to surrender - not surrender to your failure but to your Savior. And let that surrender give birth to a
holy determination to take some serious spiritual revenge on the devil by making him sorry he ever
tried to bring you down.

A stumble can lead to a tragic and even permanent fall. Or it can set the stage for a stunning victory.
Get up, get back into the race, and go on to an even more glorious victory!
 
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At just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ
died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a
righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly
dare to die.  But God demonstrates His own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    --Romans 5:6-8
 
 
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#209 From: letshavefun2day@...
Date: Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:27 pm
Subject: ***Thought & Humor*** - Please Forward - July 23, 2005 - Happy Weekend 		letshavefun2day@...
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Soon after my wife and I met, she mentioned how she really
wished that she could afford a riding lawnmower. She was a
single gal that worked all day and was often tired in the evening
when she got home from work.

So, being the handy sort of guy that I was, I made her a riding
lawnmower (see below for photo of lawnmower.) I guess I thought
she would squeal with delight and give me a big hug.

To this day I have never been able to understand why women are
so hard to please.
 
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Hurting But
Passed By
 
 
 
Our friend Steve has been involved with horses most of his life. He's even owned
a couple of champions. But one day at the barn - in one moment of carelessness -
Steve allowed himself to get in what horse lovers know as the "kill zone" - that area
behind a horse where they can kick you with those potentially deadly hooves. In one
life-changing moment, Steve was kicked in the leg, and it shattered his bones. Even
though he was in excruciating pain, he managed to drag himself to the highway near
his house where he pulled himself up and began waving for help. Car after car just
drove right on past this seriously injured man - even his friends and neighbors.
They didn't know he was hurting. They thought he was just waving "Hi!"

A broken man - and no one knew his need. No one stopped for him. That could be
part of the story of your life. A waving world, speeding past the hurt that you carry
inside. Everybody's in a hurry - everybody's in a hurry to get where they're going.
Meanwhile, you suffer with that brokenness inside you in a world that doesn't know,
or just doesn't care.

There's someone who does know. There's someone who does care. Someone who's
been broken, too - more broken than any of us could possibly be. It's the One the
Bible calls the "man of sorrows" - Jesus Christ. Why can you trust Him? Because,
as the Bible says, He was "familiar with suffering ... He was despised ... He took up
our infirmities and carried our sorrows" (Isaiah 53:3-4). This is the man who told His
followers to remember the sacrifice He was about to make for them on the cross with
bread that was broken - a symbol of what would happen to the body of the Son of God.

Jesus understands broken. When He was here, He always stopped for the hurting people
that everyone else just drove on by. In Isaiah 61:1, our word for today from the Word of
God, He announces what He wants to do for each of us - for you. He said: "The Lord has
sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release
from darkness for the prisoners."

But He came to do much more than just relieve your pain. He came here to deal with the
human cancer that causes our pain. Our brokenness is ultimately the result of a broken
relationship - with the very Creator, who gave us our life; who planned our life to have a
cosmic purpose. But we all thought we could run it better. Instead of having God at the
center of our life, we've pushed Him to the margins, trying to placate Him by being religious.

But sin is very serious business. It walls us off from God, from His love, and it brings us
under the eternal judgment of the God we were made to live for. But God really loves you -
enough to sacrifice the most precious thing He had to heal your broken relationship with
Him. He allowed the body of His only Son to be broken on the cross for you as He died
your death penalty for your sin.

Jesus wants to fix what's broken between you and God so He can forgive you and enter
your life, and fix what sin has broken inside you. The problem hasn't been that He wouldn't
stop for you. You haven't stopped for Him. He's been waiting for you to open up to His love
for a long time. And one more time, He's giving you the chance to experience His healing,
forgiving touch. But you've got to open the door. You've got to tell Him, "Jesus, I want to
be Yours, starting right now. I'm ready to turn from living my way. I'm putting all my hope
in what You did on that cross for me."

That opening of your life to this Savior who was broken for you is the beginning of your
spiritual healing. It's the beginning that I wrote about in a little booklet. It's called Yours
For Life. I really would like to send this to you. I think it would help you be sure that you
really do belong to Him. If you want it, why don't you go to our website and just let us
know that. That's yoursforlife.net or you can call us toll-free at 1-877-741-1200.

Jesus, the only Son God had, was broken so you don't have to be. Let Him into the life
that He died for. And let the healing begin.
 
 
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At just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ
died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a
righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly
dare to die.  But God demonstrates His own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    --Romans 5:6-8
 
 
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#210 From: letshavefun2day@...
Date: Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:35 pm
Subject: ***Thought & Humor*** - Please Forward - July 25, 2005 - For Educational Purposes Only 		letshavefun2day@...
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A UNC grad goes to the doctor and tells him
that he hasn't been feeling well. The doctor
examines him, leaves the room and comes
back with three different bottles of pills.
 
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{How News Should Be Written -
If Reporter Was Honest}
Spoof of U.S. President At Faux
Faulkner Contest Aids Terrorist


U.S. President concerned about terrorist related deaths in Britain and Egypt.

JACKSON, Miss. - A scathing parody that likens the
President of the United States to the "idiot" in William
Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury" has won
this year's Faulkner write-alike contest — and touched
off a literary spat. The event is sponsored by United
Air Lines.

Sam Apple, a 29-year-old writer for a licentious New York
sex magazine named Nerve, planned to be in Oxford this
weekend to read his parody aloud of the President of the
United States at the 32nd annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
Conference at the University of Mississippi.
.....Apple, Porn Magazine Author

Terrorist around the world took heart because the President
of the United States had brought them to the brink of defeat.
Now they have promised additional attacks on defenseless
men, women & children in European Nations, the United States,
and around the world.


An unidentified Egyptian man lies on a bed in the Sharm
el-Sheikh International Hospital following terrorist car bombs
that rocked the tourist-packed Red Sea resort.


Foreign tourists from Turkmenistan react to the
scene of a terrorist car bomb explosion in Egypt's
Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik Saturday July 23,
2005. Explosions ripped through a luxury hotel and
a coffee shop, killing at least 88.

First two paragraphs taken from Friday's news wire with minor modifications...
 
 
 
 
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When The Passion
Becomes Personal
 
 
 
Twenty-three marks on the wall of his four-by-four prison cell told the story.
It has been just over three weeks when the soldiers had captured him - the
number one name on the Most Wanted List - at a local bar and hauled him
into this cell. The charges: robbery, treason, and murder. Day twenty-three
was going to be just another day there - or so he thought until he heard the
growing sounds of that angry mob outside the window above him. He managed
to grab the bars on the window and pull himself up high enough to hear what
the crowd was screaming. It was a combination of shock and fear that swept
through him when he heard they were shouting his name! "Give us Ba-rabbas!
Give us Ba-rabbas!"

Then the chant gradually began to change. Now they were shouting with this
bloodthirsty anger, "Cru-ci-fy him! Cru-ci-fy him!" Barabbas slumped to the floor.
He couldn't believe it. He'd been their hero, but now they were calling for his
execution by the most brutal means of execution ever devised - death on a cross.
Within minutes, five soldiers were dragging him, kicking and screaming down
the corridor, up the stone steps, and to another door. They flung the door open,
pushed him through it, and slammed the door behind him.

It took a little while for him to realize where he was. He was out on the cobblestone
street of Jerusalem. He was free! Before the reality could fully dawn on Barabbas,
the door behind him opened again. He literally had to roll out of the way to keep
from being trampled by the angry crowd pushing their way through with a bare-
backed, bleeding man in the middle of them. As Barabbas plastered himself
against the wall of that narrow street, he could see that the man's back had
been so brutally beaten that it was just one gaping wound, exposing tissue
and bone. Barabbas' first instinct was to run while he could, but he didn't.
He followed that crowd all the way up the skull-shaped hill just outside the
city, where, from a distance, he heard the hammer and the spikes that the
heartless executioners of Rome were driving into the man's hands and feet.

It turned dark as night in the middle of the day and the skies opened up with
a deluge of rain. Curious spectators just began to drift away. Finally, Barabbas
felt safe enough to walk slowly to the top of Skull Hill, with his head covered.
It was as if there was a magnet pulling him toward the man hanging on the
middle cross between two other dying criminals. Barabbas had heard the
man say from that cross, "Father, forgive them." Barabbas had heard many
things at crucifixions - cursing, screaming, threatening - but never "forgive."

He now could recognize the face there that was beaten almost beyond recognition.
It was Jesus - the Man who had done no wrong, whose only crime was to love those
that no one else cared about. And in that moment Barabbas found himself looking
up into the eyes of that man on the middle cross and saying aloud, "You don't
deserve to be there, Jesus. I do. But because You're dying there, I don't have to die."

I could walk up to the cross where Jesus died and say that, and so could you.

I don't know if Barabbas ever really made it to the cross, but I do know that getting
to that cross to have your sins forgiven is your only hope of heaven. Galatians 2:20,
our word for today from the Word of God simply says, "The Son of God ... loved me
and gave Himself for me." If you've never been to Jesus' cross and said those words,
"For me. You're dying for me," this could be your personal Jesus-day - when you tell
Him you're His, when every wrong thing you've ever done is erased from God's book -
when you trade hell for heaven.

Let me encourage you to get my little booklet. It's called Yours For Life, and it walks
you through how to be sure you belong to this incredible Savior. If you want it, just
let us know by going to our website at yoursforlife.net or call us toll-free at 1-877-741-1200.

He died for your sin so you don't have to. Isn't it time that you take what He died to give you?
 
 
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Or, call 1-888-NEED HIM.
 
 
At just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ
died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a
righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly
dare to die.  But God demonstrates His own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    --Romans 5:6-8
 
 
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Date: Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:16 pm
Subject: ***Thought & Humor*** - Please Forward - July 26, 2005 - For Educational Purposes Only 		letshavefun2day@...
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In a small business office in Chapel Hill, N.C., they have an
answering machine that instructs callers to leave their name
and address, and to spell any difficult words.
 
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One UNC student noticed another UNC student walking
up and down Main Street, wearing a sandwich board that
read "Free Big Mac!"
 
 
 
 
 
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Strangers Among Us

 
 
 
In the American Heritage Dictionary, the word "stranger" is defined as "one
who is neither friend nor acquaintance-a foreigner, newcomer, or outsider"
or "one who is unaccustomed to or unacquainted with something specified."

Since early times, the issue humanity has continued to faced is how
to handle or address differences.  The Greeks divided people into two
categories: those who were civilized and those who were barbarians. 

In modern times the challenge of strangers is compounded by a rapidly
pluralizing world in which the old and the familiar keep disappearing
while new perspectives keep getting mixed in the public square, and while
refugees, economic migrants, and politically displaced people fill our
streets.  It is a volatile mixture and a source of tension.  For many, the
stranger is a threat or a presence of something discomforting, so the
attitude is defensive or hostile and the approach either outright
rejection or coldly ignoring them.

When the dignity of all people is clearly taught in Scripture, how should
followers of God respond and what can we offer to the wider society?
Sadly, we haven't always responded much different from the norm.   

When Jesus asked the crowd to define the word neighbor, first telling a
story of three men and their different responses to a man in need, he
could not have used a more potent example.  To the people of Israel at
that time, the Samaritans were despised, the lowest of the low.  And yet
the answer to Jesus' question was unavoidable.  "Which of these three do
you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?"
(Luke 10:36).  The expert in the law replied as anyone listening would
have:  "The one who had mercy on him" (10:37).  And Jesus told him,
"Go and do likewise." 

The story exposes the hypocrisies of all those who considered themselves
the insiders, the guardians of culture and honor, yet those who failed in
the most fundamental way.  Clearly, it is the stranger who stands out as
the hero in the story.

The basis of civility, of respect, of communication, is the willingness to
treat others as you wish to be treated.  Multiculturalism is not a problem
to be solved or a Trojan horse for cultural collapse.  It is an ever
deepening reality that is a part of our changing world, which demands
courage, will and skill to be faced and addressed in terms that can make
a difference.

As Robert Burns muses, "Oh, to see ourselves as others see us."  Or as
Stephen Covey notes, "Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
To the degree we see our own vulnerability, needs and problems, to that
degree can we reach out to others.  This is the first step, to try to look
at yourself in the eyes of the other.  As Jesus instructs in Matthew 7:12,
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  This means
listening, hearing, deferring judgment in order to gain perspective,
insight and understanding.  Neighborliness is characterized by deeds,
not words only. 

In Genesis 1, we read that we are made in the image of God.  Irregardless
of our status among the masses as outsider or insider, stranger or friend,
the Bible clearly insists that all have value, worth, unique attributes and
characteristics and that all are to be esteemed, cared for, and looked
after.  Your value is intrinsic, not extrinsic.  Your neighbors were made
in the image of the Almighty.  Therefore, go and treat them likewise.
 
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 While attending a convention in Chapel Hill, three psychiatrists
take a walk.

"People are always coming to us with their guilt and fears,"
one says, "but we have no one to go to with our own problems."

"Since we're all professionals," another suggests, "why don't
we hear each other out right now?"
 
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Hungry for
"Something
More"
 
 
 
 
 
If you look on the backside of an American nickel, you'll see a picture of it. It's the
domed mansion of President Thomas Jefferson, known as Monticello. And it's a
living monument to the genius of one of America's great minds - the author of
America's Declaration of Independence, the architect of the Louisiana Purchase
that more than doubled the size of this nation in a day. Monticello reflects so much
of his creative genius and his insatiable, inquiring mind. Everywhere you turn, there
are inventive touches that were there years ahead of their time. Perhaps the single
feature of that house that best reveals the mind of Thomas Jefferson is the direction
that its main rooms face. His study, bedroom and library, for example, all face west.
Jefferson loved to look west; he wanted his guests and friends to be looking west
because that's where the frontier was. That's where the unexplored territory was.
And Tom Jefferson was always facing the frontier!

Facing that frontier - that's an exciting way to live. With a restless heart that says,
"You know, there's more out there, and I want it." It's the heart of the spiritually
healthy Jesus-follower. However far you've come in your relationship with Christ,
however much you've experienced of Him, you know there's much more. And you
want to go beyond anywhere you've gone before.

That was the passion of the great Apostle Paul - thirty years into what may have
been the most powerful relationship with Jesus anyone ever had. But in Philippians
3, beginning with verse 10, our word for today from the Word of God, he says:
"I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of
sharing in His sufferings ... Not that I have already obtained all this, or have
already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ
Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold
of it." If the Apostle Paul felt that way - that he had much more of Jesus to experience -
you should be concerned if you find your heart isn't restless for more! Oswald
Chambers put it this way: "Beware the danger of spiritual relaxation." The spiritual
level you're at may very well be enough to satisfy your pastor or other Christians,
but I hope it isn't enough to satisfy you.

I pray for you and me the driving passion of Paul as he says: "Forgetting what is
behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the
prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." There's so much
more - a greater experience of the closeness of Jesus, the power of Jesus, the
moment-by-moment leading of Jesus.

There are two major spiritual frontiers to hunger for. First, greater intimacy with
Jesus. I'm by nature a doer. I'm more Martha than I am Mary, busy running around
serving Jesus. But I want to experience more of the realness of His presence and
His love, the sound of His voice in my soul. I want to be a lot more like Him a lot
more minutes of the day.

The second frontier is a greater impact for Jesus; making a greater difference for
Him than I've ever made before. The road to His glorious "more" is increased time
with Him each day, more "cuddle time" where I just love on Him and let Him love
on me; a passionate pursuit of personal orders from Jesus every time I open His
book. Every time we're in His book, every time we're in a Christian meeting, we
should go with this prayer in our heart, "Jesus, help me come away with more
of You!" And then, we need to be mining each day for every possible opportunity
to have an impact on somebody's life for Him.

"More, Lord, I want more. I want all You have for me. I want to go beyond anywhere
I've ever gone with You before!" Let that be the cry of your hungry heart, and don't
ever be content with how far you've come. There's so much more!
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Why God is Turning
Up The Volume
 
 
 
 
 
Some people seem to have a special gift for sleeping. So much so that waking them
up is more like a resurrection. We had one of those gifted people staying at our house
for a few weeks. Greg was a young intern helping out and training in our ministry. And
he did a good job - once you got him out of bed. He stayed at our house - so I got the
joy of figuring out how to get him up each morning in time to start his work day. I started
with just an alarm clock. Forget about it - no alarm so much as fazes this boy. I tried
shaking him, and then shaking him violently. I tried bells. I tried water. If he did ever
wake up, he just went back to sleep until I landed on the Extreme Wakeup Option - the
pan. I got the biggest metal pan we had and the biggest metal spoon and marched into
his room playing percussion. If standing at the door clanging that pan didn't do it, I just
moved progressively closer until he was up and out of bed. I'm sorry it had to go that far,
but he had to wake up.

Could it be that you are one of God's hard-to-wake children? I think we all take our turn
be spiritually asleep, oblivious to something He's trying to say or do in our life. And that
may explain some of the pain, some of the struggle, some of the frustration that's been
building lately. It's God trying to get your attention. And like me with our deep-sleeping
friend, if one kind of wakeup call doesn't work, He will escalate His methods. He will not
just let you sleep.

God's been having to turn up the pressure to wake His children for a long time. That's why
He told His people about His Extreme Wakeup Options way back at the dedication of the
magnificent temple Solomon built. It's recorded in 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, our word for today
from the Word of God. You may recognize 2 Chronicles 7:14. "If My people, who are called
by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land." So
much they need done in their lives that only God can do - just like us. But first they've got
to wake up and deal with their pride, their self-reliance, their casual relationship with God,
and the things that they're not doing God's way.

What God does to wake them up - His "banging pan" in their ear - is spelled out in the previous
verse: "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour
the land or send a plague among My people, if My people who are called by My name," and
so on. It's going to take serious pain to wake them up to what God wants them to do.
Unfortunately, it's often that way with us.

As you're searching for answers and reasons for some of the painful or difficult things going
on lately, consider the possibility that this is God's tool to wake you up for what He wants to do.
Not because He doesn't love you, but because He does love you. Hebrews 12 tells us, "Do not
make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you ... Our fathers
disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that
we may share in His holiness." If you're going to get the pain, you might as well get the point
sooner rather than later.

If God's been turning up the volume, don't just turn over and go back to sleep. The noise will
only get louder. Because God loves you too much to stop trying to get your attention; to stop
working on you to live the way He created you to live. The sooner you wake up, the sooner it
will let up.
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Why There are
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I've never seen the TV show, and based on what I've read about its moral content,
I don't plan to see the show. But there's no denying it has skyrocketed to being a
hit from its very first season. Maybe, in part, because so many women can relate
to its provocative title, "Desperate Housewives." There are more than a few of those.

Proverbs 31 in the Bible presents God's idea of an awesome woman. She's not a
desperate housewife. In fact, she's a wife who's strong, secure and satisfied. She's
really making a difference for her family and her community. And one of the big
reasons she's this kind of woman is revealed in our word for today from the Word
of God in Proverbs 31:23-24. The Bible says: "Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her." Here's what he tells her: "'Many women do
noble things, but you surpass them all.'"

No wonder this is God's "Wonder Woman." She's married to a man who makes her
feel wonderful! I'm guessing the reason her children praise her is because they've
heard their dad treat mom that way. If we look at this from the flip side, we could
surmise that one reason some wives are desperate or discouraged or negative is
a husband who is failing them in his most basic responsibility - to be a provider.
Yes, he's supposed to supply for his wife materially, but that's the easy part. What
a woman needs most from her man is Triple-A treatment: meeting her need for
affection, for attention, for affirmation.

So each of us married men should be giving ourselves a little three-question test
about how we're treating our wife. First, am I loving her in the ways that make her
feel loved? Secondly, am I offering her my exclusive attention on a regular basis?
Thirdly, am I building her confidence by frequently praising her for specific strengths
I see in her? The man who can answer "yes" to those questions is really a man -
a provider for his woman's greatest needs.

Ephesians 5 lays out a beautiful picture of how a husband and wife are to love and
support each other. In the verses that precede that marriage blueprint, God says,
"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful
for building others up" (Ephesians 4:29). For Husbanding 101, this means lose the
comments that tear your bride down - critical comments, insults, putdowns.

Then, Ephesians 5:1 tells us to "live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave
Himself up for us." That's love demonstrated, not just with words, flowers and cards -
although those aren't bad ideas - but with sacrifice. Pitching in to help her when
you're really tired, listening to her heart when you're all listened out, and putting
her needs ahead of yours. God reaffirms that a few verses later when He says,
"Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself
up for her.

One day at an altar, you pledged to cherish and protect and love and care for
the woman you were marrying, and she believed you. God was there as a witness,
and He believed you. He entrusted her life into your hands. She entrusted her life
and her happiness into your hands. The most manly thing you'll ever do is to keep
those promises - provide for her deepest needs. She won't be a desperate housewife.
She will be a woman who knows that she's safe, knows she's treasured, and knows
she's loved. And she'll live like it because of a husband who was, in God's eyes and
her eyes, a real man.
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A fellow took a UNC student to the movies. During the pre-
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One Hand Short
of Heaven
 
 
 
 
 
It may have been the scariest moment of my life. I was only ten years old,
but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was with my friends in Lake Michigan.
We started out just wading, but they kept getting deeper - until the lake bottom
dropped off sharply. My buddies started swimming. I didn't know how, and
I was too embarrassed to tell them. And I started taking on water fast. I went
under once, I went under twice, and I was desperately thrashing around. As
for my buddies, they thought I was just clowning around. Can you imagine
me clowning around? Well, I was drinking the lake. I can see that water burying
me there like it was yesterday, and honestly, I was almost a goner. And then
he came - the man from the shore who saw my predicament and he jumped
in to do something about it. He had come to rescue me. I grabbed him with
both hands. I hung onto him as if he were my only hope. He was.

As I've studied the Bible, I've learned that what happened to me that day at the
lake is a picture of another life-or-death situation and the rescue on which a life
depends. In this case, the life-or-death situation involves the entire human race.
It's about you.

The Bible reveals our true spiritual condition in hopes that we'll recognize it and
take the only action that will save our souls. God's book says, "your sins have
separated you from your God" (Isaiah 59:2) - that we are "without God and without
hope in this world" (Ephesians 2:12) - that we are "dead ... in our sins." Sin is so
much more than just breaking somebody's religious rules. It's defying Almighty
God by ignoring His rule over our lives and doing what we want instead. It's ultimate
arrogance. It's defiant rebellion against the One to whom we owe our existence.
And it's all of us; even the most religious person listening today. We differ only
in the degree of our rebellion against our Creator, not in the reality of our rebellion
or of its awful, eternal consequences.

We are that little guy, drowning, with no hope of saving ourselves. Our only hope
of avoiding certain death is a rescuer. And it's at that point that Jesus Christ comes
off the pages of the history books and becomes a deeply personal issue for you and
me. He saw we were dying, He left heaven's shore, He jumped into save us at the cost
of His own life when He gave His life in exchange for ours on a cross.

Our word for today from the Word of God, John 3:18, spells out the difference between
those who will be lost and those who will be rescued: "Whoever believes in Him (that's
Jesus) is not condemned, but whoever does not believe in Him stands condemned
already because He does not believe in the name of God's one and only Son."

It isn't what you do with some religion or some set of beliefs. It all comes down to what
you do with Jesus - whether or not you believe in Him. In the original Greek word that's
translated as "believe," it means to put your total trust in Jesus, to hold onto Him like
a drowning person would hang onto his rescuer. And take it from me, that means
holding onto Him with both hands.

Some people miss Him because they try to grab Jesus with just one hand - because
there's something else in the other hand they don't want to let go of. A sin they don't
want to forsake, a person, a pleasure, an escape from their problems. But that's what
the Bible calls "another god." And you can't hold Jesus with one hand and some junk
He died for in the other. Believing in Jesus is grabbing Him with both hands, turning
from, abandoning whatever else has been your hope. Could it be you've tried to turn
to Jesus without turning from your sin, your other hope? It's got to be a two-hand faith,
grabbing Jesus with all your heart and both your hands.

If you've never taken that life-saving step - and you know it's time - then tell Him that
right now. He's come to where you are, reaching for you with both hands - both nail-
scarred hands. It's time you grabbed Him with both of yours. This step is so important
that I wrote a little booklet about it called Yours For Life, which I want to send to you
if you want it. You can ask for it without any obligation by going to our website at
yoursforlife.net or by calling us toll-free at 1-877-741-1200.

Grabbing Jesus with one hand or with both hands - it's the difference between being
saved and being lost.

 
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The Choice
That Changes
Many Futures
 
 
 
 
 
Marty McFly met a strange scientist with a machine that promised interesting results -
the ability to go back in time. And he did. He went, as the title of the movie about it says,
"Back to the Future." He had a most amazing experience getting to know his mother and
his father when they were teenagers - an experience some of us might find very interesting.
His dad, George McFly, was a milquetoast, bossed-around kind of guy, afraid to stand up
to anybody. Marty has always known him to be that kind of a man, until he is transported
back to the night that will determine the course of the rest of his Dad's life - and his Mom's.
One decision - whether or not George McFly will stand up to the bully who is attacking his
girlfriend - who is to become Marty's mother - is the turning point of George's life. And Marty
is there to help his Dad make the right and courageous choice. It totally changes the course
of George McFly's life. He steps up, defends his girl, and neutralizes the bully who wanted her.
So instead of the life Marty has known with a pretty unsuccessful, wimpy dad, he returns to his
life with a strong and successful dad because of that choice. A very different life because of one
decision that changed the future.

Some of us might wish we could somehow go back to the crossroads moments in our lives for
a do-over. But that's only in the movies. What is possible is to make a choice now that will change
not only your future, but the futures of many others - even people who haven't been born yet. It's
a decision future generations will be very grateful you made.

The choice that changes many futures revolves around the man who made this simple but profound
promise: "I am making everything new!" (Revelation 21:5). Those are the words of Jesus Christ, the
man who has changed so many lives, so many families over the years. I know I got a new dad because
one day he acknowledged he had the spiritual cancer that the Bible calls sin; that he needed Jesus Christ
in his life to forgive him and change him. And Jesus did change him - dramatically. I know. I lived that
change. That transformed man planted seeds in me that have come up in my children, and now in my
grandchildren. It all would have been so different had it not been for that day when my dad placed his
life in Jesus' hands.

Psalm 102:18, our word for today from the Word of God, comments on this potential we all have to
profoundly leave our mark on the future. It says: "Let this be written for a future generation, that a
people not yet created may praise the Lord." One man or woman who gets right with God can inject
a life-changing, life-stabilizing faith into many who will come after them.

For you, for those you love, and for those who come from your life, so much depends on what you
do with Jesus. The miracle begins when you recognize your need for the forgiving, life-changing work
of Jesus Christ - the miracle made possible by His death on the cross and His resurrection from the
dead. If there's never been a time when you've opened your life to this amazing Savior, if you've lived
enough days without His love, His forgiving, His power in your life, why don't you tell Him that you want
this to be the day you begin your personal relationship with Him. Tell Him, "Jesus, I believe that only the
Man who died for my sin can forgive my sin and remove my sin. So here I am, Lord, I'm Yours."

I've tried my best to briefly describe this getting started with Jesus in a little booklet called Yours For Life.
It's something I'd like you to have if you want it. You can let me know you want it just by going to our website
at yoursforlife.net or you can call toll-free at 1-877-741-1200.

Every life leaves a legacy. Every life marks the lives of many others - including people you'll never meet.
There is no greater legacy you can leave than a life that radiates the goodness, the love, the power of Jesus
Christ. It begins with you the day you begin with Him.

 
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Letter From A Farm Kid -
Now At Paris Island
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
.
Dear Ma and Pa:

I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer that the
Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join
up quick before maybe all of the places are filled. I was restless at first
because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 am, but am getting so I like
to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth
your cot and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to
mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing. Men got to shave but
it is not so bad, there's warm water.

Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon,
etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie
and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the
two city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you till
noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.
 
 
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 An elderly man 88, just returned from the doctors only to
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most important people in his life to tell.

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Adrenaline
 
 
 
 
Recently, I spoke at a church and I followed it up with a question and answer time.
The questions ranged from things about our ministry, to questions about reaching
lost people, to my family. It was a little of everything. One man in the back asked a
question that was even a little amusing. He said, "Where do you get all this energy?"
I have been accused of being the Energizer Bunny, but the ironic thing is that I had
come into that church totally depleted by a heavy weekend of outreach. I was wishing
I could just go to my room and sleep, to tell you the truth. In fact, I even told the pastor
that the meeting isn't going to be very long because I was too exhausted. It went for two
hours! Physically, I think I must just have deep reservoirs of adrenaline. Adrenaline is
our friend at times when we just don't have what it takes physically to meet the demands
of the moment. Adrenaline is that amazing substance that you don't have when you don't
need it, but that surges into your system at just the moment you do need it. And you are
able to do things that if I had asked you earlier you would say you could never do.

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from 2 Corinthians 9:8 - a great verse here:
"And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having
all that you need, you will abound in every good work." Well, there it is - grace, the spiritual
adrenaline of God. People have been known to do amazing things when an emergency arose,
physically speaking. They have been able to lift incredible weight, fight off someone who is
much stronger than they are because the adrenaline rush empowered them in a way that they
were never empowered before.

Well, the God who invented adrenaline to give us resources to match our moment also invented
grace to accomplish that same miracle. Grace can be defined as God's intervening power and
love when we're running on empty. And God gives us this phenomenal, comprehensive insurance
policy. He says He will give it to us, "in all things ... at all times ... having all you need." There will
never be a situation where you will not have emotional and spiritual resources to match it; in fact,
to more than match it. The word "abound" is the same word used to describe the basketfuls of
leftovers after the feeding of the 5,000. It means literally, having more than enough. In a situation
that looks like you have nowhere near enough, Jesus will turn that into more than enough by
releasing His grace adrenaline through your system.

Recently, I touched that grace very powerfully in a single day. In the morning, I talked with Greg
who along with his wife were on the eve of the arrival of their first child when the baby died in the
womb. They had to go through the whole process of delivery for a baby that was already gone.
You can imagine the pain in their hearts. I asked Greg, "How are you doing?" He said, "Well,
so many people are praying, and we can feel those prayers. We're hurting, but it's amazing,
we're making it." There is only one explanation for that - strong grace.

That night I stood by the casket of a good friend who had died unexpectedly. As I talked with
his wife and children, I was amazed as everyone else was there, at their poise and strength -
a strength that was more than they ever experienced before. That's because they never needed
it before, but when they needed it, it was there. Spiritual adrenaline. Strong grace. And that
grace is there for you, in the seemingly unbearable burden that you may be facing right now.

If you know Jesus, there may be some things in your life that are or will be almost unbearable.
But because of His grace adrenaline, there is no such thing as unbearable. His grace is always
greater than the burden.

 
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A Place In The
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If you're going to be a great coach in sports, you generally need to be a great motivator.
The team rises to the level of their coach's motivation. When your team is an entire nation
that's under heavy attack, the coach had better be one incredible motivator. The nation was
Great Britain. The time was the beginning of WWII, when the team seemed like it was losing
badly and the coach was the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. He may have been the most
inspiring leader of the 20th Century as he motivated his nation to make tremendous sacrifices
and win a seemingly unwinnable victory. In those early days of the war, he desperately needed
the cooperation of the leaders of Britain's coal industry. Their extra sacrificial efforts would be
critical to keeping the war effort going, and the way he did it was masterful. Churchill asked those
industry and union leaders to picture the parade at the end of the war. Look at the proud British
sailors who kept the sea lanes open, and then the soldiers who valiantly fought the land war,
and the airmen who heroically won the battle in the skies, followed by the coal miners of Britain
whose work made those victories possible. Churchill said, "They will not be in military uniform,
but they will have won a place in the victory parade.

The ultimate war, the one with the most at stake, is still raging. It's the war between the forces
of Christ and the forces of darkness for the lives of the people Christ died for. That battle has
never been more intense, especially as it approaches its climactic stages. Here's the question.
Will there be a place for you in the great victory parade of King Jesus?

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from 1 Samuel 30:24. David has just won
a mighty victory. He has left behind 200 men who were just too exhausted to go to that battle,
so he has assigned them to guard the supplies. Some of those who had just fought the battle
don't think that those 200 should share in the spoils of the victory. The Bible says, "The share
of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the
battle. All will share alike."

There's an exciting Biblical principle here. God considers those who fight the battle and those
who support them as equal contributors and equal shareholders in the victory. In Philippians 4,
Paul urged those believers to support his ministry so "my fruit will be credited to your account."
In the accounting of God, every person Paul reached for Christ, his supporters reached for Christ.
Can't you just imagine getting to heaven and God showing you your account, and you're asking,
"But, Lord, where did all these names come from? I don't know these people." I can imagine the
Lord saying, "They were reached by such and such a ministry or through your church and you
helped reach those people. Would you like to meet them now?"

You may feel like your part in the Lord's work is insignificant. You say, "All I do is volunteer
some time. I just drive, pray regularly, I give some money, I just cook. All I do is just work
behind the scenes." Hear God's words: "The share of the man who stayed with the supplies
(that's who worked in an unglamorous, no glory role) is to be the same as that of him who
went down to the battle. All will share alike." Now you may feel your work is insignificant,
but Jesus doesn't. He promises an eternal reward even for a cup of cold water given in
His name!

So do not minimize the eternal value of the work you do for Jesus; of your part in the greatest
battle of all, the battle for people's never dying souls. You may not have worn the uniform of
a soldier, but I believe there's going to be a place of honor for you in the parade; for anyone
who contributed to the war. I hope to see you in King Jesus' Victory Parade.

 
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Trapped beneath the surface of Narnia, the children of C.S. Lewis's
The Silver Chair engage in a most frustrating conversation with the witch,
the queen of what is called Underland.  The children try desperately to
describe to the queen the scenes and certainties of Narnia; they speak of
the sun and the moon, of the stars-and of Aslan.  The witch responds with
the cunning deconstructionism of a postmodern wordsmith.

"What is this sun that you all speak of?" she asks. "Do you mean anything
by the word?  And Aslan, what a pretty name!  What does it mean?"
Struggling with the weight of what feels like an enchanted fog over their
minds (and is), the children try their best to explain.  "The sun is like
a lamp, only far greater and brighter." And of Aslan: "He is a lion-the
great Lion. a little bit like a huge cat, with a mane."  To this the witch
counters with the sweetest of laughs, "You see?  You have seen lamps,
and so you imagined a bigger and better lamp and called it the sun.  You've
seen cats, and now you want a bigger and better cat, and it's to be called
a lion. Look how you can put nothing into your make-believe without copying
it from the real world. Put away these childish tricks. There is no Narnia,
no sky, no sun, no Aslan." (1) 

I don't believe it is too bold to say (and neither did Lewis) that life as
a Christian sometimes feels something quite like this.  Amidst the fog of
a world that sees moral confusion and bewilderment and recognizes it as
freedom, it can become quite exhausting to find the right words to explain
that which we know to be true, only to be told that our words have no
meaning.  "Truth," "sin," and "God" are matters of utmost consequence
all too often being condensed into word games.  It has never been more
difficult, nor more important, to be able to defend your faith.  

But perhaps the Christian life is like this Narnian scene in another way.
The less the children struggled to hold on to the reality of Narnia and
memories of Aslan's goodness, the more reasonable the queen's explanations
seemed to become: "Well, 'tis a pretty make-believe, but to say truth, it
would suit you all better if you were younger."

As Christians living within a world that bombards us with reasons not to
believe, with reasons to accept half-truths as truth, and sin as mere
psychosis, it is an active task to remain thinking, to keep our hearts and
minds continually renewed by God's Word. It is necessary to recall his
faithfulness in our lives, to hold before us the promises He has made, to
daily keep our eyes sensitive to his presence.  For God has called us to
worship Him in spirit and in truth.

In the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Earth's crammed with heaven, 
And every common bush aflame with God.  
But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
The rest sit 'round and pluck blackberries.

The light of the knowledge of the glory of God, seen in the face of
Christ, actively proclaimed in our lives, continually pursued and held
before us, pierces through the fog of sin and death and falsehood.  It is
light that cannot be overcome, and we must look to it.  "I am the light of
the world," Jesus proclaimed. "Whoever follows me will never walk in
darkness, but will have the light of life"(John 8:12).  Let us be
encouraged even in the fog of life, for the light of Christ cannot be
extinguished.  All who have eyes to see, let us see.  Jill Carattini


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My friend, Jerry, was a pilot. And not long ago, he went home to be with the
Lord that he loved. At his memorial service, his son told some of the stories
of Jerry's very adventurous life. Like the time just a couple of years ago when
he was flying a twin-engine plane over our area. This made the headlines - both
engines went out on him! Jerry was pretty unflappable. That's a pretty good
characteristic for a pilot, huh? He quickly surveyed the ground to find the
safest place to make an emergency landing. His choice - the local golf course.
There weren't any golfers out there. It's a good thing. (They would have really
been teed off, I suppose.) He started to bring the plane down for a landing,
but as he neared the ground, he saw the one obstacle between him and a safe
landing - a huge oak tree coming right at him. And he had no power to help
him miss it. So Jerry quickly talked to God about it. He just said, "Lord, it will
take a miracle. Please do one." And at that moment, one engine leaped to life
for just a moment; just long enough to give Jerry the lift he needed to clear
that tree.

My friend was rescued by a last-minute miracle. Do you know how many times
God works that way in the lives of His children? That may be what God has in
mind for your situation right now. Except all you can see is the tree coming at
you!

Here's some encouragement. Our word for today from the Word of God comes
from Isaiah 43:16-19, "This is what the Lord says - He who made a way through
the sea (or over the tree), a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the
chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there,
never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick." Now He's talking about
the mightiest army on earth of its time - the Egyptian Army. It looked like they
would crush these helpless Jews who were standing trapped by the Red Sea.
But God blew them out like we blow out a candle.

You know those people had to be looking at the water in front of them and the
approaching army behind them and saying, "No way." Kind of like Jerry's situation,
it looked like there was no way to do anything but crash. But then God says, "Way."
And our Lord, who is the great Way Maker, removes an obstacle that looks absolutely
impossible to remove, or He lifts us over it as in my friend's case.

He says, "Do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up.
Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland."
That's Isaiah 43. God says, "I want you to trust Me for a bold new thing I'm going to
do in your life." We say, "But what about the sea? What about the tree?" He says,
"Remember, all the other miracles of the past? I'm the same God who did those.
I will make a way where there is no way. I will provide resources where there seem
to be no resources - in the desert - in the wasteland.

And when will He do this? Probably at the same time He did it for the Jews by the
Red Sea. The same time He did it for Jerry who was about to crash into a tree - the
last minute. That way, you will learn the most trust and He will get the most glory.
So, go to this awesome Lord and say, "Lord, a miracle is my only hope. And only
You can do the miracle. Please do what only You can do." And as that tree is getting
closer and closer, trust the God of the last-minute lift!


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I did not wish to be unsubscribed, and tried
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I was very busy in the past two weeks.
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I hope it's not too late.

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Dear Howdy,
I enjoy reading your humorous letters. I
look forward to receiving them also in the
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Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
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Keep up the humor and the good work!

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Please don't unsubscribe me. I don't know if I can go on if I don't receive
Howdy any longer. I am sure, at bare minimum, I would suffer sever
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Please continue to send me "Thought and Humor" - it's just what
I need on those days when laughter is the only medicine!!

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I DO NOT want to be PHASED OUT of receiving such a delightful
publication. I enjoy both your clever antics and eloquence of language.
The jokes aren't bad either! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE--DO NOT
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friend and break from the stress of college.
Keep up the good work.
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Your newspaper is fun and informative,
but I will unfortunately no longer have
an active e-mail address from the end
of this week- therefore I must unsubscribe,

Thanks,
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I did actually take the time to read your entire e-mail,
which I thought was terribly amusing. I admire your
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I don't forward your Thought and Humor as I copy them
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geology tours, fishing, boating, etc., along with other stories
and jokes placed in that notebook.  Everyone seems to enjoy
reading my notebook.  So thank you very much for your stories,
jokes, etc. and for future ones. Why don't you publish a book
full of your stories and Jokes?  Shouldn't I get a no-prize book
if and when you do this?  Ha, Ha!
Sincerely,
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the jokes and brain teasers are great, and i really like the devotion type
things. They really make me think. yep, those pesky hired howdy hunters
must've been at it again... i'd really like to keep getting the newsletter.
Thanks and God Bless!

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whimsical newsletter.

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email... never quit, the world would be a lesser place without the few who
insist on actually using the wonderful cognitive processes with which the
Creator has blessed us.  Your mini-novel was wonderful, and yes we are
responsible for ensuring that as many as possible have a ticket as soon as
possible. GOD Bless you

IMM

Indira Maharaj-Mikiel
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Dear Howdy,


Where in the world (besides NC) did this come from???
Who in the world sent it to me?
Where in the world have you been hiding?
Over a million readers???    I don't know how I missed you or you missed me
for so long???
Dr. Robert G. Balnicky

P.S.
A lot of mind searching without being boring.  A lot of Humor---downright
good clean fun.

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Your 'Thought and Humor" have been a great help with the students that I
work with and I would think there are several of them that are now
getting your 'Thoughts and Humor'.
Thank you for making my days better and the students that I work with.
Richard Miller
Gov. Docs and Maps
University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Dear Howdy,

Please forgive me but I cannot think of any way for you to improve on your
newsletters. They are so creative, fun and thought provoking, I envy you
your dedication and expertise. I guess my biggest problem is I don't want to
lose any of them. Consequently my e-mail filled up so I printed them. I am
running out of filing cabinets to keep them in. I am also saving them on floppies,
only about 2 will fit on each disk. I started that in the spring. So you can
imagine how many disks I have. I have forwarded them to friends and family.
So, to make a long story short, too late, just keep 'em coming and let me know
if there is an archive I can access so I won't have to worry about keeping them all
myself.
God Bless You,
Patti
STERLING TEAM
"Solid Service"

Your referral based
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I think you are doing a wonderful job! I am finishing up my 4th year here at
George Mason University in Fairfax VA, and have been reading Howdy for about
a year now. I have no idea how i got on the list but i love it! I will soon
be moving to Australia (to study abroad) for 6 months so i'll be sure to
spread it around down there. Keep up the good work! Josh

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people!  On weeks when I'm not too busy, I really enjoy reading as much of
it as possible.  And those times when I'm bogged down in work, the lighter
side of T&H is a perfect pick-me-up.  You're doing a great work for God's
Commission, Howdy.  Thank you!

Blessings,
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Blood Needed
 
 
 
 
There were only two words in the headline in USA Today, but most of us understand
how urgent those two words can be: "Blood needed!" They were talking about an
alarming shortage of blood available in blood banks due to severe winter weather,
a holiday season, and a bad flu season. One spokesman for the Association of Blood
Banks said, "If you've had a bad car accident or a couple of gunshot wounds, you're
in a world of trouble." I guess so. There is no fact more basic to human life - without
the blood you need, you die.

We understand the need for blood to live physically. But if God didn't explain it to us,
we would never understand our need for blood to live spiritually and to live eternally
after we die. Our word for today from the Word of God explains it in Hebrews 9:22. It
says, "Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness." The reason forgiveness
is so critical is because that's the only way to have the sins of our life removed from
God's book. There's no chance of heaven for you or me if we try to go there with our
sin, and there's no way to get rid of our sin without God's forgiveness. And here God
tells us there's no way to get that forgiveness without blood - blood that is shed for the
death penalty that sin carries.

For God's ancient people, the Jews, that meant a system of regular animal sacrifices
where the shedding of a substitute's blood - the blood of that animal - could provide
a way to be forgiven. But it was only temporary and it was very incomplete because,
as God says later in Hebrews, "It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take
away sins" (Hebrews 10:4). But then God sent to earth the only One who was perfect
enough to be the substitute for all of us, shedding His blood for us. "We have been
made holy" the Bible says. That means acceptable to God, "through the sacrifice of
the body of Jesus Christ, once for all." (Hebrews 10:10)

Now, there are some people who don't like all this talk about blood. But this isn't about
gore. It's about love. We just don't understand the seriousness of our condition with God.
We're lifelong rebels against His rule over us. We're under an eternal death penalty that
can only be paid by someone dying! If you want to see the horror of all our lies and our
selfishness and our pride and our sexual sins and the hurting we've done, just walk up
to the Cross of Jesus and look at the mangled form of the Son of God. Listen as He cries,
"My God, why have You forsaken Me?" That's what our sin looks like. That's what it took
to pay for it. It took the blood of the Son of God.

If you're depending on anything else, no matter how spiritual or religious, to get you to God,
you're not going to make it. God provided this way for you to be forgiven, for you to live forever.
The question is, have you ever been to Jesus' cross in your heart and put all your trust in the
One who died there in your place? There's no reason for you to pay for your sin. Not when
Jesus in His love, already paid it for you as your substitute. The Bible says, "He is the Lamb
of God who takes away the sins of the world" - and yours.

Have you ever put your total trust in Jesus to be your Savior, your Rescuer, your Forgiver?
If not, and if you want to begin a relationship with Jesus Christ today, why don't you tell Him
that and say, "Jesus, I've been running my own life. I resign. I know there's a death penalty
for hijacking my life from you. But I believe you loved me so much that you died my death
penalty when you died on that cross. You took my hell, and I know that it took your blood
being shed for me to be right with God. And today, I'm abandoning trust in everything else
and putting all my trust in You to be my personal Savior from my personal sin.

If you want to begin a relationship with Him like that, then I'd like to send you the booklet
I wrote about how to begin that relationship. It's called Yours For Life, and I can send it to
you if you'll just let me know by visiting out website at yoursforlife.net. Or you can call us
at 1-877-741-1200.

For you to have a relationship with your creator, for you to ever go to heaven, there's blood
needed - the blood of Jesus Christ covering the sin of your life. Without the blood, we die.
But life is within your reach right now, right where you are.


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Heart Holes
 
 
 
I'm not sure if it's harder for a baby to have major surgery or for adults like us.
The baby has no idea of what's going on - which might make it easier. We know
too much, so we get to worry a lot. Little Jamie's not even a year old, but recently
he had to undergo heart surgery; which I associate with old guys like me. Jamie
is the nephew of one of our team members, and she's from Australia. The miles
made it pretty tough on her, so we all joined her in praying for this little guy so
far away. And thankfully, Jamie came through with flying colors. His heart was
fixed. It was a tough operation, but it had to be done. You see, Jamie had a hole
in his heart, and you can't just leave it that way!

It's understood that a hole in a human heart is serious business and that you have
to take corrective action to get it fixed. Thank God, there are surgeons with the ability
to do just that. But when it comes to emotional holes and the spiritual holes in the
human heart, it's amazing how many people are walking around with that heart
condition untreated. But, like its physical equivalent, a hole in your heart spiritually
will greatly limit what your life could be, and one day it will cost you your life. The
good news is there's a surgeon who repairs the spiritual hole in the human heart.

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from John 4. It's a story out of Jesus'
life. It's noon, it's hot; Jesus stops at a well - for a meeting that it turns out God has
arranged. A woman arrives at the well with her water pot to get another day's water
supply. She has no idea Jesus knows all about her. She's a woman with a past, with
a reputation, with a lot of mistakes in her life. As the conversation proceeds, she's
forced to admit that she's been divorced five times and she is currently living with
another man. Her life has been an endless search for love and fulfillment in a series
of unfulfilling relationships. She's got a hole in her heart that has never gone away.
Maybe like you.

Jesus addresses it in a disarming way - by comparing it to the physical thirst that
brings her to the well every day. Verse 13 of chapter 4 - He says, "Everyone who
drinks this water will be thirsty again." Thirsty again - that's a word picture of our
lifelong search for something that will quench the thirst in our soul - to fill that
hole in our heart. It could be that every relationship, every accomplishment,
even your religion has left you "thirsty again."

Listen to Jesus' offer: "But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.
Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to
eternal life." Well, who needs all these trips to wells that never fill you up when
Jesus could put a spiritual and emotional spring inside you that will finally quench
your thirst. All our lives, it's our creator we've been thirsty for - because all of the
me-first, sinful choices of our life - they've cut us off from the One who made us.
But all that garbage was heaped on Jesus when He went to the cross to pay for
your sin and mine so we could finally find that peace-giving relationship with
God that we've needed all along.

It's a relationship that's within your reach right now; if you'll tell Jesus you want
Him to be your Savior from your sin. That woman we just read about did not have
"meeting the Savior" on her list for that day, and probably you don't either. But
Jesus met her where she was, which is what He's doing with you right now. So
today could be your last trip to wells that never satisfy.

If you're tired of that hole in your heart, if you're ready for the personal relationship
with your Creator that can finally fill it, I'd love to send you my booklet that I wrote
about beginning this relationship. It's called Yours For Life. I just need to hear from
you that you want it, and you could let us know that by going to yoursforlife.net,
or if you'd like to call toll free and ask for it, its 1-877-741-1200.

Jesus is the only Heart Surgeon who can finally repair the lifetime spiritual hole in
your heart. Why go one more day with the emptiness when the Son of God is waiting
to finally make it go away forever?
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A young UNC grad met her maiden aunt downtown
for lunch one afternoon and during the meal, the
older woman asked her niece to deposit a paycheck
for her at the bank where the girl worked. On her way
back from work, the girl was accosted by a purse snatcher.


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1) Can you decipher this famous saying?

That prudent avis which matutinally
deserts the coziness of its abode will
ensnare a vermiculate creature.


2) What has one leg,
but not two.
Never gets fat,
has 15 teeth,
but doesn't chew.
All green and no blue,
bugs don't like them but I do.
What are they?


3) Without a bridle, or a saddle,
across a thing I ride a-straddle.
And those I ride, by help of me,
though almost blind, are made to see.
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His Gracious Choice
 

 
Many times as I've unpacked something I've purchased, I've found enclosed
a warranty and a little card bearing a survey from the manufacturer.  I've
rarely, if ever, filled out such a survey.  I suspect that very few people
complete these and mail them in.  But there are two categories of people
who are quite likely to fill out a manufacturer's survey: those who are
dissatisfied with the product (and perhaps hoping for a refund) or those
who find that a product has exceeded their expectations and want to
express their joy.

The same sorts of motivations prompt people who don't, under ordinary
circumstances, pray to express their joy or grievances to the
"manufacturer of our circumstances."  The birth of a child may prompt a
new parent to send up a prayer of gratitude, though they may not know
who will hear the prayer.  Others shake their fist in the air when tragedy
strikes, unsure who might be up there to blame.  Both of these are
circumstances when we should be in touch with our maker.  In fact,
our natural response in the extreme joys and extreme sorrows of life
points us to what should be our response for everything.  We were created
to ponder, question, seek out, and worship the God who made us.

We never are and never will be dispassionate observers of God's creation
or God's will.  We are a part of that which He has made.  Some write and
talk about God and his dealings with mankind as if they were literary
critics, removed from the story.  But we are caught up in it, and our role
is to constantly reflect the one who is telling the story.  Lyrics written
by Matt Redman capture the paradox that even praise of God Himself
would not be possible if God did not enable it:

We have nothing to give
That didn't first come from Your hands
We have nothing to offer You
Which You did not provide
Every good, perfect gift comes from
Your kind and gracious heart
And all we do is give back to You
What always has been Yours

Lord, we're breathing the breath
That You gave us to breathe
To worship You

Those who never fill out a manufacturer's survey are still likely to pay
attention to the manufacturer's instruction.  Our creator has advised us
that praise is good for us; we read in Psalm 135:3, "Praise the LORD,
for the LORD is good; sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant."  Psalm
150:6 says, "Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the
LORD!"  It is hard to think of a more all-encompassing command found
in Scripture.

I like the way one hymnodist expresses the idea that we were created to
praise God: "Praise is his gracious choice."  Praise is not the penance we
owe to the God who has blessed us beyond what we deserve.  Praise-even
the kind that begins with wrestling-is a gift from God, for us, for our good.
                                       - - Betsy Childs

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your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same
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How could 50 states be wrong?

 

Somewhere along the way, the Federal Courts and the  Supreme Court have misinterpreted the U. S. Constitution. How could fifty States be wrong?         THIS IS VERY INTERESTING!       Be sure to read the last two paragraphs.

America's founders did not intend for there to be a separation of God  and state, as shown by the fact that all 50 states acknowledge God in their state constitutions:

 

Alabama 1901, Preamble. We the people of the State of   Alabama, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following  Constitution ...

Alaska 1956, Preamble. We, the people of  Alaska,  grateful to God and to those who founded ournation and pioneered this great land ..

Arizona 1911, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Arizona,   grateful to Almighty God for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution...

Arkansas 1874, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government...

California 1879, Preamble. We, the People of the Stateof California, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom ..

Colorado 1876, Preamble. We, the people of Colorado, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of Universe.

Connecticut 1818, Preamble. The People of Connecticut, acknowledging  with gratitude the good Providence of God in permitting them to enjoy .

Delaware 1897, Preamble. Through Divine Goodness all men have, by nature, the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences ..

Florida 1885, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Florida,  grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty . establish  this Constitution...

Georgia 1777, Preamble. We, the people of Georgia, relying upon protection and guidance of Almighty God,  do ordain and establish this Constitution...

Hawaii 1959, Preamble. We, the people of Hawaii,  Grateful for Divine Guidance ... establish this  Constitution.

Idaho 1889, Preamble. We, the people of the State of  Idaho, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to  secure its blessings ..

Illinois 1870, Preamble. We, the people of the State  of Illinois, grateful to Almighty God for the civil,  political and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors.

Indiana 1851, Preamble. We, the People of the State of Indiana, grateful to Almighty God for the free exercise of the right to chose our form of government.

Iowa 1857, Preamble. We, the People of the State of Iowa, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of these blessings . establish this Constitution

Kansas 1859, Preamble. We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges . establish this Constitution.

Kentucky 1891, Preamble. We, the people of the Commonwealth of grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties...

Louisiana 1921, Preamble. We, the people of the State  of Louisiana, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy.

Maine 1820, Preamble. We the People of Maine ..acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of_the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity ... and imploring His aid and direction.

Maryland 1776, Preamble. We, the people of the state of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civiland religious liberty...

Massachusetts 1780, Preamble. We...the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe ... in the course of His Providence, an opportunity .and devoutly imploring His direction ..

Michigan 1908, Preamble. We, the people of the State  of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the  blessings of freedom .. establish this Constitution

Minnesota, 1857, Preamble. We, the people of the State  of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and  religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate its blessings:

Mississippi 1890, Preamble. We, the people of Mississippi in convention assembled, grateful to Almighty God, and invoking His blessing on our work.

Missouri 1845, Preamble. We, the people of Missouri, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness ... establish this Constitution ...

Montana 1889, Preamble. We, the people of Montana, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty.establish this Constitution ...

Nebraska 1875, Preamble. We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom .. establish thisConstitution .

Nevada 1864, Preamble. We the people of the State of Nevada, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom establish this Constitution ...

New Hampshire 1792, Part I. Art. I. Sec. V. Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.

New Jersey 1844, Preamble. We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors .

New Mexico 1911, Preamble. We, the People of New Mexico, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty ..

New York 1846, Preamble. We, the people of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings.

North Carolina 1868, Preamble. We the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those ..

North Dakota 1889, Preamble. We, the people of North Dakota, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, do ordain...

Ohio 1852, Preamble. We the people of the state of Ohio, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings and to promote our common ..

Oklahoma 1907, Preamble. Invoking the guidance of  Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessings of liberty ... establish this ..

Oregon 1857, Bill of Rights, Article I. Section 2. All  men shall be secure in the Natural right, to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their consciences..

Pennsylvania 1776, Preamble. We, the people of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance

Rhode Island 1842, Preamble. We the People of the State of Rhode Island grateful to Almighty God for thecivil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing

South Carolina, 1778, Preamble. We, the people of he State of South Carolina. grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution.

South Dakota 1889, Preamble. We, the people of South Dakota, grateful to Almighty God for our civil andreligious liberties ...

Tennessee 1796, Art. XI.III. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their conscience...

Texas 1845, Preamble. We the People of the Republic of Texas, acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace and beneficence of God.

Utah 1896, Preamble. Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we establish this Constitution ..

Vermont 1777, Preamble. Whereas all government ought to ... enable the individuals who compose it to enjoy their natural rights, and other blessings which the Author of Existence has bestowed on man ..

Virginia 1776, Bill of Rights, XVI ... Religion, or the Duty which we owe our Creator .. can be directed only by Reason ... and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance, Love and Charity towards each other ...

Washington 1889, Preamble. We the People of the State of Washington, grateful to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution ...

West Virginia 1872, Preamble. Since through Divine Providence we enjoy the blessings of civil, political and religious liberty, we, the people of West Virginia reaffirm our faith in and constant reliance upon God ...

Wisconsin 1848, Preamble. We, the people of Wisconsin, grateful to  Almighty God for our freedom, domestic tranquility ..

Wyoming 1890, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Wyoming, grateful to God for our civil, political, and religious liberties .. establish this Constitution

 ...

 

After reviewing acknowledgments of God from all 50 state constitutions, one is faced with the prospect that maybe, just maybe, the ACLU and the out-of-control federal courts are wrong!

"Those people who will not be governed by God will be  ruled by tyrants." - William Penn

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His Gracious Choice
 

 
Georg Cantor was a well-known mathematician who lived from 1845-1918. 
Due to Cantor's discoveries, infinity became a popular component of modern
mathematics.  Previously, the idea of infinities had been abhorrent to
many mathematicians, and an equation with an infinite solution was
considered an equation misworked.  This abhorrence was understandable;
mathematics is the business of quantifying our universe, and infinity
flies in the face of anything quantifiable.

Cantor argued that not all infinities are equal; the set of infinite
decimals is larger than the set of infinite squares, odd integers, or
integers themselves.  So although an infinite set is infinitely large, it
may not be as large as another infinite set.  Just try to get your mind
around that!  Unfortunately, most of us can't.  Even Cantor, when he
began catching on, wrote to a friend, "I see it, but I don't believe it."
Mathematicians since have come to believe it, and although unequal
infinities may boggle the mind, the concept made infinity more
quantifiable, and hence, part of mainstream mathematics. 

In a sense, Georg Cantor came closer than any of his contemporaries to
comprehending the incomprehensible.  But the fact that we have finite
minds means that infinity will never be a subject we can master.  The
more we learn about it, the more it will baffle us.  In the end, Professor
Cantor went mad.  The sad conclusion to his amazing life is that he
started writing papers to prove theorems that had already been proved.
The founder of modern set theory died impoverished in a mental hospital.

In his poem "Numbers and Faces," W.H. Auden writes "Lovers of small number
go benignly potty.. Lovers of big numbers go horridly mad."  The poem ends
with the pronouncement "calling Infinity a number does not make it one."
Blaise Pascal (himself a mathematician) writes, "Man is equally incapable
of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which
he is engulfed." (1)  Yet although our incapability of grasping the
infinite is readily apparent, still we try to measure it, prove it, and
write poems about it.  We have souls that yearn for the unquantifiable
and the unrestrainable, but we have minds that can only comprehend
the tangible.

This struggle against our limitations reveals the fact that we are
creatures.  I believe that it is the image of God in us that causes us to
want to push our minds beyond their natural limits.  We read, "He has also
set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done
from beginning to end" (Ecclesiastes 3:11b).  We are not infinite, but we
have been breathed into existence by one who is.  The existence of things
we cannot understand testifies that man is not the measure of all things.
When our minds start to ache, we should marvel at our creator.  As the
heavens are higher than the earth, so God's thoughts are higher than ours
(Isaiah 55:8).  Giving God his due is the very sanest response that we as
creatures can offer.               Betsy Childs

(1) Pensees. 1670.

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After much urging by his wife, Uncle Joe applied for work on
a farm. The foreman decided to give him a try and told him to
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Matchless Wonder
 

 
For anyone who has ever been troubled by the lone sock left at the end of
the laundry, help is on the way, and it comes in the form of indignation:
Who ever said socks had to come in pairs?  At least that is the rebellious
philosophy of one sock manufacturer who is single handedly trying to
change the way we see the sock problem.  "The missing sock is never going
to go away," said one of the company's founders. "This is a way to really
have fun with a real-world problem: that people lose their socks. Let's
embrace the problem, and run with it." Currently they have in circulation
over 600,000 socks, all sold without matches in packages of 1, 3, or 7.

Type A personalities aside, the embracing of mismatched socks is catching
on quickly.  I happen to think the idea is clever, particularly among the
target market (girls age 9-13), but I also think it is one more logical
outworking of the current philosophical frame of mind.  "Imbalance by
design-and the studied quirkiness it reveals-is everywhere," notes one
cultural observer.  "Random is the new order," declares another product
aimed at teens.  Whether selling music or socks, in the constant undertow
of marketing, the spirit and mood of the age can be felt. 

Leon Lederman, the physicist and Nobel laureate, once jokingly remarked
that the real goal of physics was to come up with an equation that could
explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt.  With
this challenge in mind, Oxford scientist Richard Dawkins offered up his
own T-shirt slogan:  "Life results from the non-random survival of
randomly varying replicators."  The universe, he insists, has neither
design nor purpose; it exhibits nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

But if the universe has always been a disordered series of time plus
matter plus chance, how do we account for the intricate orderedness to
life, the uniformity of nature, the very intricacy of the mind that asks
this question?  How can we believe in the non-random consistency of nature
in a random world?  What would it really look like if random was the new
order?  Even in the nonconforming concept of mismatched socks, the
factories making them still exhibit a scrupulous degree of order; each
random sock is designed and produced with creativity and intent.

Scribbled on a note card, a quote by Frederick Buechner marks the page
of one of my favorite Scriptures.  "We learn to praise God," it reads,
"not by paying compliments, but by paying attention."  Microbiologist
Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, is one who pays closer
attention than most.  In his book, Behe describes irreducibly complex
systems, such as the blood-clotting mechanisms of the cell or the motor
mechanisms of bacterial flagellum.  Nothing has ever been written on how
such systems could have evolved by random mutation and natural selection.
There would be no reason for a pre-version of the mechanism to survive,
and the probability of such an intricate, multi-component mechanism
simultaneously and randomly developing at once is nil.  They are
mechanisms a chance-driven world simply cannot account for. 

Martin Luther once said that the promise of the resurrection is written
not in words alone but in every leaf in springtime.  So the promise of
purpose and intent, the matchless wonder of a Creator is written in every
cell of every leaf, and in the very eyes that notice them.

The verse I have marked with a reminder to pay attention was written by
one who did just that:  "When I look at your heavens, the work of your
fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man
that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?  Yet
you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him
with glory and honor.. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all
the earth!" (Psalm 8:3-4, 9).             Jill Carattini

    

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Subject: ***Thought & Humor*** - Please Forward - Aug 12, 2005 - Ninth Inning - Bases Loaded - Two Out - Full Count 		letshavefun2day@...
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A UNC student walks into a dentist's office and says,
"Excuse me, can you help me. I think I'm a moth."  

"You don't need a dentist.  You need a psychiatrist."  

"Yes, I know."  

"So, why did you come in here?"  

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1) Two people are talking on the phone long distance. One
is in an East Coast state of the U.S., the other is in a West
Coast state of the U.S. The first asks the other, "What time
is it?" He hears the answer and says, "That's funny. It's
the same time here!" Neither one of them were mistaken
about the time. How is this possible?


2) Can you tell me what is remarkable about this rather
long sentence?

Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice,
Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana,
Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina,
Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan,
Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel,
Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina,
Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned.

 
3) Eliminate all the days of the week except for one, and to be
forthright about it, this day is NOT the day after Sunday or
the day before Wednesday, and it can't be that Saturday is
tomorrow, nor can it be that Saturday was yesteday, and it
most certainly couldn't be two days before yesterday, and
while we're at it, let's eliminate Thursday. So, what day
is it?               
 
 
 
 
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Has Science
Disproved
Religion?
 

 
One of the assumptions behind the question of whether science has disproved
religion is that the discoveries of modern science have proved biblical
religion to be indefensible.  One such false belief is that the scientific
method can actually "prove" things.  In fact, because empirical science
rests on what philosophers call the inductive method, scientific
conclusions never offer certainties, only probabilities.

Induction is the principle of scientific inquiry that begins with
particular instances of a specific observation in order to offer a
generalization about the thing observed.  For example, all the dogs I have
encountered have four legs, so I conclude with the generalization that all
dogs have four legs. However, my conclusion is not proved as such. It is
not deduced from a universally known truth; it is based on limited
exposure to the "facts," and so is only a statement of probability.  And
as it happens, there are dogs born with three legs or injured and left
with three. 

Inductive scientific methods cannot prove with certainty. Furthermore,
the past is not directly accessible to us and so all theories concerning
origins and earth history are hypotheses not facts.  Similarly, the future
is not accessible to the senses so predictions about natural processes in
the future are based on philosophical assumptions (faith).

Though readily admitted by philosophers of science, the general public
is often unaware of the nature of the scientific enterprise.  So when the
question is posed in relation to Christianity, most people are referring
to a blind leap in the dark that is undertaken at the point where science
and reason can take us no further. Christianity, they believe, is held to
in the absence of evidence or even contrary to the known facts. 

Faith is not, however, a leap; it is a foundation.  Furthermore, all
science is based upon a faith of some kind; we must all believe certain
things before we can speak of science.  For example, we must believe
there is a real world of matter "out there" that is accessible and correlated
to our senses.  We must believe that our minds are giving us reliable
information about the world.  We must believe that language and
mathematics, reason and logic can all be applied to the world of our
senses.

In fact, the most basic assumption of the sciences, taken for granted
by each, is the uniformity of nature-the expectation that the present
and future will be like the past.  Yet these are not proven by natural
science-they are believed on faith!  It is because we believe these things
that science itself is made a meaningful and intelligible discipline.

Since science is based upon faith assumptions (metaphysical beliefs)
that cannot be proved, we need to ask a different question: What kind
of faith do we need in order to make our use of science intelligible?
Which faith provides an adequate foundation for science?  And,
importantly, how then does each faith perspective affect the methods
and conclusions of science?

Everybody, scientist or not, nurtures these "religious perspectives" about
the world through a number of interconnected beliefs (presuppositions). 
We call this simply, a worldview.  In order to adequately answer these
questions then, we must compare and contrast the pre-suppositions
of these differing faith systems.

Naturalism holds that matter and energy is all there is.  The whole
universe is in flux, matter in motion.  Everything we observe in the
universe created itself from an ultimate chaos.  The universe is the
product of chance not design, and thus requires no recourse to God
for an explanation.  Human beings are nothing more than a random
collocation of atoms.

In contrast, Christian theism holds that the God of the Bible, perfectly
manifest in Jesus Christ, is the creator, sustainer and redeemer of this
world.  Rather than the void of chance, the mind of the triune God creates
orders and sustains all that is.

Recognizing the two divergent starting points is imperative-it is either
chance or it is God.            Joe Boot

    

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Subject: ***Thought & Humor*** - Please Forward - Aug 14, 2005 - Vacation Time - Wave As You Pass On Interstate 		letshavefun2day@...
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My parents have been married for almost 40 years.
Whenever anyone asks my Dad how they've stayed married
for so long, he claims they are compatible. They both
like to fight! He says that they have come to an
agreement on one thing...


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Dear Friends,
 
We're taking a bid of vacation next week. May have time to post
on blog once or twice...
 
Your Devoted Friend,
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Has Science
Disproved
Religion? Part II
 
 
As we observed below, the starting points for the naturalist and
Christian are very different: it is either chance or God.  In the first
case, the mind of finite man must be the ultimate criteria for truth. 
The Christian theist on the other hand holds that God and his infallible
Word are the ultimate criteria for truth.  God alone (who is not confined
to the inductive method) has all the facts readily available.  So, humans
do not create knowledge or fashion the universe from their own minds,
but rather they look to the God of creation as the ultimate source of all
knowledge and reality.

People with both religious worldviews are looking at the same data or
evidence.  However, the facts do not speak for themselves; they are
interpreted according to a worldview.  Thus, when the naturalistic thinker
looks at the evidence, he interprets everything accordingly.  He claims,
for example, that he does not see design in the genetic code, just selfish
genes and random replication.  He claims not to see God revealed in the
heavens, he sees cosmic evolution. In looking at himself, he does not see
a creature made in God's image, but an animal that has arisen from
lifeless chemicals.  To him all "facts" must be naturalistic, evolutionary
facts in order to be facts at all.

The Christian theist, on the other hand, sees all the evidence as
pointing to God.  All facts are theistic facts.  They are not interpreted
arbitrarily by the finite and ever-changing thinking of people but
pre-interpreted by the mind of God.  All facts are therefore read in the
light of God's revelation in scripture.

So we see that the idea that science has disproved Christianity is a myth.
 Naturalism as a religion has its science and the theist has his science.
Each worldview stands antithetically opposed to the other.  It is one
faith (religion) that opposes the other, not an objective scientific
establishment that opposes religion.

For the genuine seeker, the real question then is simply, which
faith makes scientific knowledge possible?  Which view provides
an adequate foundation for the sciences?

If the universe is ultimately chaotic, just time plus matter plus chance,
if all is in flux, then you cannot finally know anything at all.  Thus,
how can we believe in the uniformity of nature in a chance-driven
universe?  How can we trust that the chemical accident of our brain is
giving us valid knowledge?  How could we judge what is valid from what
is invalid?  If everything is matter in motion how can we apply abstract,
universal and immaterial laws of mathematics and logic to reality?  How
can we even use meaningful language to communicate ideas in science
if we have come from nothingness and are returning to it?

Has science disproved religion?  Some scientists would like to make
their views synonymous with science itself, and so claim that science
has indeed disproved religion.  I suggest however, that the Christian
faith must be the very bedrock of all intelligible science.  It is the
Christian worldview alone that can provide the pre-conditions of
intelligible science. It is God who gives order, structure, and regularity
to the universe, who makes the cosmos rational.  He has made us in His
image with mind and Spirit distinct from matter, capable of exploring
understanding and investigating the world.  It is the God-given nature
of human beings living in God's world that makes science possible. 

And without such a faith, there is no science to speak of.

 
Part I
 
One of the assumptions behind the question of whether science has disproved
religion is that the discoveries of modern science have proved biblical
religion to be indefensible.  One such false belief is that the scientific
method can actually "prove" things.  In fact, because empirical science
rests on what philosophers call the inductive method, scientific
conclusions never offer certainties, only probabilities.

Induction is the principle of scientific inquiry that begins with
particular instances of a specific observation in order to offer a
generalization about the thing observed.  For example, all the dogs I have
encountered have four legs, so I conclude with the generalization that all
dogs have four legs. However, my conclusion is not proved as such. It is
not deduced from a universally known truth; it is based on limited
exposure to the "facts," and so is only a statement of probability.  And
as it happens, there are dogs born with three legs or injured and left
with three. 

Inductive scientific methods cannot prove with certainty. Furthermore,
the past is not directly accessible to us and so all theories concerning
origins and earth history are hypotheses not facts.  Similarly, the future
is not accessible to the senses so predictions about natural processes in
the future are based on philosophical assumptions (faith).

Though readily admitted by philosophers of science, the general public
is often unaware of the nature of the scientific enterprise.  So when the
question is posed in relation to Christianity, most people are referring
to a blind leap in the dark that is undertaken at the point where science
and reason can take us no further. Christianity, they believe, is held to
in the absence of evidence or even contrary to the known facts. 

Faith is not, however, a leap; it is a foundation.  Furthermore, all
science is based upon a faith of some kind; we must all believe certain
things before we can speak of science.  For example, we must believe
there is a real world of matter "out there" that is accessible and correlated
to our senses.  We must believe that our minds are giving us reliable
information about the world.  We must believe that language and
mathematics, reason and logic can all be applied to the world of our
senses.

In fact, the most basic assumption of the sciences, taken for granted
by each, is the uniformity of nature-the expectation that the present
and future will be like the past.  Yet these are not proven by natural
science-they are believed on faith!  It is because we believe these things
that science itself is made a meaningful and intelligible discipline.

Since science is based upon faith assumptions (metaphysical beliefs)
that cannot be proved, we need to ask a different question: What kind
of faith do we need in order to make our use of science intelligible?
Which faith provides an adequate foundation for science?  And,
importantly, how then does each faith perspective affect the methods
and conclusions of science?

Everybody, scientist or not, nurtures these "religious perspectives" about
the world through a number of interconnected beliefs (presuppositions). 
We call this simply, a worldview.  In order to adequately answer these
questions then, we must compare and contrast the pre-suppositions
of these differing faith systems.

Naturalism holds that matter and energy is all there is.  The whole
universe is in flux, matter in motion.  Everything we observe in the
universe created itself from an ultimate chaos.  The universe is the
product of chance not design, and thus requires no recourse to God
for an explanation.  Human beings are nothing more than a random
collocation of atoms.

In contrast, Christian theism holds that the God of the Bible, perfectly
manifest in Jesus Christ, is the creator, sustainer and redeemer of this
world.  Rather than the void of chance, the mind of the triune God creates
orders and sustains all that is.

Recognizing the two divergent starting points is imperative-it is either
chance or it is God.            Joe Boot

    

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Be self-controlled and alert.  Your enemy the devil prowls
around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that
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 A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery
store in Chapel Hill, but couldn't find one big enough for her family.

She asked a stock boy who was a recent UNC grad,
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Where You Were
     Born to Be
 
 
Hey, you could use a good fish story today, huh? Well, once upon a time there were
these beautiful fish who lived five miles under the ocean. How do I know? They were
the subject of a PBS television special. So this is a for real fish story. Now, because
these fish are really striking - they are incredibly colorful - some folks thought they
might look good in someone's tropical fish aquarium. So they tried to bring these
fish to the surface. They didn't make it. They blew up when they got near the surface!
They were designed to live under that pressure at the bottom. Well, no happy ending,
except they're leaving the rest of them where they belong - five miles under the ocean
because that's where they are created to be!

You know, it really works this way in all of God's creation. There's an environment that
things and people were created to be in, and things really work when they're in that place.
They really don't work very well when they're not where they were designed to be. Well,
thankfully, God makes very clear the environment you and I were created for. So we don't
have to waste our lives searching for it. In fact, probably the single most important question
you have to answer while we're on earth is this: Why am I here?

God answers that question in six simple, but life-changing words in His Book - the Bible.
Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Colossians 1:16. Speaking of Jesus
Christ, the Bible says, "All things were" - and here are those six words - "created by Him
and for Him." Now, try putting your name in that Biblical statement. Here's your name: "_____
was created by Jesus and for Jesus." Just like those fish were created to be in the pressure
of that deep sea environment, just like the earth was created to be in an orbit around the sun,
you were created for Jesus, you were created by Jesus for a relationship with Jesus, where you
live for Jesus. When you have this personal relationship with Him, you're finally where you were
born to be.

Problem: We don't live for the One who gave us our life. We live for ourselves. Again, in God's
own words, "All of us have wandered away like sheep; each of us has turned to our own way"
(Isaiah 53:6). The Bible has a word for this rebellion of ours - sin; middle letter - I. And it says that
our sin separates us from the One we were made by and made for. If we die with that sin-wall
still there, it's there forever.

When those deep-sea fish are outside the environment they were made to live in, they eventually
die, and so do we. And some of that dying happens even now as we keep looking for love in
places that don't deliver it - looking for some inner peace, some fulfillment in achievements
and relationships and experiences that can't possibly give it to us because we're not where
we were born to be - knowing Jesus, living for the One who gave us our life and who gave
His life for us.

That's the only way we could have a chance to get into the orbit we were created for. All those
sins of ours have hell as their penalty - a penalty you and I deserved to pay. A penalty that God's
Son paid in our place when He died on the cross. Whether or not you ever experience why you're
here, whether or not you ever see heaven depends totally on what you do with what Jesus did for
you. His call to you is to put your total trust in Him to be the rescuer from your sin. The moment
you do that, the relationship you were born for becomes yours forever.

If you've wondered why life isn't delivering - why it isn't working, if you want to experience the
peace and the wholeness that only a relationship with Jesus can give you, then I hope you'll tell
Him right now that you want Him to come into your life. And then I hope you'll let me send you
a little booklet I wrote about beginning this relationship called Yours For Life. A couple of ways
you can get it. One is to contact us at yoursforlife.net or to call us toll free at 1-877-741-1200.

All these years you've been away from the One that your heart's been searching for all along.
Isn't it time to experience the relationship you were made for, and to be finally where you were
born to be.
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A UNC student is driving around in her red sports car that
her Dad purchased for her and suddenly gets pulled over
by the police.

The policeman approaches the car holding the ticket and pen
ready and says: "Young lady, you've been driving almost
double the speed limit. Give me your name please."


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A UNC student walked into the pet store and, after looking
up and down the aisles, asked the sales clerk for help.

"I'd like a box of birdseed," said the lady. "For which kind
of bird?" he asked helpfully.  
             
 
 
 
 
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White Flags
And Cannonballs
 
 


If you're from Texas, you know that Alamo is more than just a rental car or pie with ice cream on it.
The Alamo is that old Spanish mission in the heart of downtown San Antonio where 189 brave freedom
fighters took their stand against the army of Mexico in the battle for Texas independence. I visited the
Alamo recently, and once again I was moved by the sacrifice of those men who gave their lives for the
cause of freedom, but only after inflicting some pretty heavy losses on the enemy army and inspiring
the ultimate victory with the Texas battle cry, "Remember the Alamo!" Colonel William Travis was in
command of the garrison as his valiant band stood against those overwhelming odds. I was especially
moved as I read the letter that Colonel Travis wrote addressed to "the people of Texas and all Americans."
In fact, I was so moved that I read part of it to the 5,000 young people I spoke to that night. He said, "The
enemy has demanded a surrender. Otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword if the fort is taken.
I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall
never surrender or retreat." That's more than history. It's a battle cry for you and me.

In the spiritual battle raging all around you, your enemy the devil keeps calling for you to surrender -
surrender to discouragement, to despair, to bitterness, to disobedience, to retreat. During those grueling
days when Satan tried to get our Lord to surrender to temptation, we learn how those temptations have to
be answered.

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Luke 4, "For 40 days, Jesus was tempted by the devil.
He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them, He was hungry. The devil said to Him, 'If you are
the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread'" (vs. 2-3). In other words, "You've got this need, right? Why
don't you do something that will meet your need, even if it's a little outside of what God wants you to do?"
Jesus answers the call for surrender with a cannon shot! "It is written: Man does not live on bread alone."
(vs. 4) Jesus answers with the heavy artillery of a statement from the Word of God.

When Satan then takes Jesus to a mountain and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world, he offers them
to Jesus if Jesus will just bow down to him. No cross He'll have to go through. He can have it easily,
without all the pain. "Jesus answered, 'It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only'"
(vs. 8). Again, the temptation to surrender - answered with the cannonball of God's Word.

It could be that the enemy is working overtime right now to deceive you into some moral or spiritual
surrender. He's saying something like, "Things are dark and they don't look like they're going to change.
Why don't you give in to discouragement?" Or, "You could really benefit from compromising right now;
just giving in a little to this temptation. It's wrong, but it might help you. Surrender to temptation." Or maybe
the enemy is saying, "There is no hope for this marriage - surrender to divorce." "There's no hope of an answer -
surrender to taking charge of this yourself - surrender to self-solutions or surrender to giving up." He might say
this: "If you take a stand for Jesus, it will cost you too much - surrender to denying Jesus."

As Colonel Travis so dramatically demonstrated at the Alamo, when the enemy calls for surrender, you cannot
answer that passively. You have to answer aggressively. You can't just say, "Well, I'll try to resist. I'll try to do
better." No, you've got to go to God's words about that issue in the Bible, and use those words that the Bible
says are like "a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces." Or, a cannonball! Stand on God's truth, in God's
strength, in Jesus' name and declare it boldly, "The flag of Jesus still flies proudly from these walls. I shall
never surrender or retreat!"
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The Crisis Of A
Closing Heart
 


Fettuccini Alfredo! It's that great Italian dish that has buttered noodles served in a rich,
creamy cheese sauce. Unfortunately, one news magazine in an article on nutrition and
our health called it a "heart attack on a plate." That may be a bit of an overstatement,
but the fact is that a lot of foods do contribute to the slow shutdown of the valves that
happen to carry the blood and oxygen into your heart. I love what one commercial calls
it -- blood sludge. Medical people refer to the hardening of the arteries -- the process in
which foods that are high in cholesterol and fat start building up hard deposits in your
arteries. If this hardening in your heart is allowed to continue long enough, it is not a
laughing matter. It really can threaten your life.

Hearts can harden physically and spiritually. It can become really dangerous in the heart
of any man or woman who is trying to make a difference for Jesus Christ. It was Jesus'
heart that motivated all He did -- a heart that the Bible says was "moved with compassion
when He saw the multitudes." He was deeply moved. He saw them the Bible says, as
"threatened and helpless sheep without a shepherd." He wept over His city Jerusalem
because they wouldn't come to Him and the life He wanted to give them. Paul was a model
for all of us who want to serve Christ when he revealed what drove him to suffer incredible
pain and sacrifice to tell people about Jesus. Our word for today from the Word of God is
2 Corinthians 5:14, "Christ's love compels us."

Not long ago I was told about a Rev. Gomez who is a pastor in one of America's major cities.
Often, he wouldn't come into the service until a few minutes before his message. But this one
particular Sunday, it came time for the sermon and Rev. Gomez was not on the platform. A
couple of church leaders went to check his office, and there he was looking out over the endless
rows of apartments and houses that jammed their depressed neighborhood. And he was weeping.
One of the men who had come looking for him said gently, "Pastor, I understand, you're weeping
because of the great needs all around us, aren't you?" "No," the pastor told him, "I'm weeping
because it doesn't move me like it used to."

That is cause for weeping. This servant of God realized that something had happened to his heart.
Like a person with hardening of the arteries, his heart had started to close up -- to harden. Maybe
yours is, too. Like that physical hardening, it happens slowly and imperceptibly, but the longer it
goes unchecked, the more dangerous it becomes.

Most of us start serving the Lord with a healthy heart. We're moved by the lostness of people who
don't have a Savior. We realize the life-or-death importance of getting to them with the message of
Jesus. Heaven and hell are at stake.And we come into the Lord's work with a heart that's soft toward
the pain and suffering and dysfunction that sin is causing in lives all around us. We ask the Lord to
use us to make a difference, whatever it takes.

But for some of us, that healthy heart started to harden somewhere along the way. With all the pressures,
the politics, the disillusionments, the programs, the conflicts, we can no longer say that it is this burning
love of Christ for the lost and hurting that drives us. What once was passion has become profession. What
once was a deep affair of the heart has become an exercise of our head and our busy hands. And the joy,
the fire is going out -- or gone.

But the One who gave you that original piece of His heart wants to give it to you again if you'll recognize the
crisis of your closing heart and tell your Master that you want His life-changing heart surgery -- to open up
what the deposits of the years have closed, and to give you a new heart, throbbing with His love and His
passion and His tears for the lost. Without that, there ultimately is no life. Go to the Master Heart Surgeon
today and tell Him you want a heart like His.
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around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that
your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.     --1 Peter 5
 
 
 
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I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]:
"I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I
don't accept His claim to be God."

That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was
merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would
not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic --
on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg --
or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice. Either this Man was, and is,
the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse ....
You can shut Him up for fool, you can spit at Him and kill
Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him
Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing
nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has
not left that option open to us. He did not intend to.

          -- From Case for Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

 
"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider
well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ
which is eternal life (John 17:3)." 
 
   - - - The Laws and Statutes of Harvard College in 1643

 "All scholars shall live religious, godly, and blameless lives according
to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the
fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties
of religion, both in public and secret."
 
 - - - Two central requirements in Yale College 1745 charter
 
Muhammad or Jesus???
 
 
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"Not being on the air, that's not important. But I'd like
to be in the newsroom helping set the agenda."

Retired CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite

{Dear Walter, Fair news knows no agenda - Howdy}
 
God designed humans to want to believe in something.
That's the image of God that is in us. But as G. K.
Chesterton famously put it, when we reject the God
of the Bible, we don't believe in nothing; we believe
in everything -- including Little Green Men.
 
             - - Chuck Colson
 
Dear Howdy,
 
Thank you for your simply addicting newsletter...it's truly a candidate
for the 8th wonder of the world and 1st candidate for the cyber-world...
it just keeps blooming with more of what I need and, I think, what we
all need...please keep up the great works!!!
 
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Dear Howdy, Indeed I am a faithful Tarheel*, having both
MA and Ph.D. from their fine chemistry department.
But that doesn't keep me from getting a great kick out
of the humor propagated by what appears to me to be
a pack of wolves!!**


SERIOUSLY, THE HUMOR IS GREAT FUN BUT MY
MAIN ATTRACTION WAS TO THE CONSERVATIVE
MORAL AND POLITICAL STANCE THAT SEEMED
TO CHARACTERIZE THE FIRST ISSUE I SAW.
INCIDENTALLY (HE SAYS ACCIDENTALLY!), it was
sent to me by a friend,  so I really didn't "hear about
you" at all, and still haven't. All I know is what has
come in the two issues of the Newsletter I have
seen. The best to you.

S. P.

*Another name for UNC.
** UNC's archrival - NCSU.
 
 
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"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to
us through this book."        -- President Abraham Lincoln

"For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. 
The eyes of all people are upon us.  So that if we shall deal
falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and
so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us, we
shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world."
--John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630  
 
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and
the Bible." - President George Washington

"The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a
power that conquers all that oppose it." - Napoleon

"That Book accounts for the supremacy of England."
- Queen Victoria

"If there is anything in my thought or style to commend ,
the credit is due my parents for instilling in me an early
love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principals taught
in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper;
but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority,
no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and
bury all our glory in profound obscurity." - Daniel Webster (Founding Father)

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."
- Patrick Henry   (original member of the Continental Congress)

"The Bible is the anchor of our liberties." -  President U.S. Grant

"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people.
The principals of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
- Horace Greeley  (Editor)

"That Book is the rock on which our Republic rests." - President Andrew Jackson

"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me
light and strength." - Gen. Robert E. Lee

"Bible reading is an education in itself." - Lord Tennyson (Poet)

"So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin
to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful
citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for
many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year."
- President John Quincy Adams

"The existence of the Bible, as a Book for the people, is the greatest
benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to
belittle it is a crime against humanity." - Immanuel Kant (Philosopher)

"The New Testament is the very best Book that ever or ever will be
known in the world." - Charles Dickens (Author)

"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of
confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the
Sacred Scriptures." - Sir William Herschel (Astronomer)

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in
any profane history." - Sir Isaac Newton (Scientist)

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences
progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human
mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation
and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels,
it will not go." - Goethe (Author)

"I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time,
and of these eight-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible
is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable
distance separates it from all competitors."
- W.E. Gladstone (Prime Minister)

"Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply
due to the fact that when I was a chile my mother daily read me
a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart."
- John Ruskin (art critic and social commentator)

"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed.
The human race is not in a position to dispense with it." - Thomas
Huxley (Author & Scientist)

"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever
growing influence of the Bible." - W.H. Seward (Secretary of State)

"America was born a Christian nation. America was born
to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness,
which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures.
Part of the destiny of Americans lies in their daily perusal
of this great book of revelations. That if they would see
America free and pure they will make their own spirits
free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Spirit."
--President Woodrow Wilson
 
For Christians, the life and death of Jesus are the ultimate
expressions of love, and the supreme demonstrations of
God's mercy, faithfulness, and redemption. Since Christ's
miraculous Resurrection on Easter, more than 2,000 years
ago, Christians have expressed joy and gratitude for this
wondrous sacrifice and for God's promise of freedom for
the oppressed, healing for the brokenhearted, and salvation.
      --President George W. Bush

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians;
not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.  For this
very  reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum,
prosperity, and freedom of worship here." 
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Take the best medicine of all for what ails you -- laughter:
 
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon
  without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road."
~Henry Ward Beecher
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
--Arnold Glasow
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
--Doris Lessing
"If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life."
--Bette Midler
"The human race has one really effective weapon,
  and that is laughter."
--Mark Twain
 "What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."
-- Yiddish Proverb
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
-- Milton Berle
 "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-- Victor Borge 
 
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time
to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a
time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a
time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. (King Solomon)

NOTICE: The jokes published in this list were either submitted
directly to 'Thought & Humor' or are, we believe, in the public
domain.  If you think that we have published a joke without
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Four important things to KNOW:

1) For ALL (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus,
Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist,
Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) have sinned
& fall short of the glory of God.

2) For the wages of above (see #1) are DEATH (Hell, eternal
separation from God, & damnation) but the Gift (free & at
no charge to you) of God  (Creator, Jehovah, & Trinity) is
Eternal Life (Heaven) through (in union with) Jesus Christ
(God, Lord, 2nd Person of The Trinity, Messiah, Prince of
Peace & Savior of the World).

3) For God so greatly loved & dearly prized the world
(Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist,
Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians,
Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) that He even gave up
His only begotten (unique) Son, that whosoever (anyone,
anywhere, anytime - while still living) believes  (trust in,
relies on, clings to, depends completely on) Him shall
have eternal  (everlasting) life (heaven).

4) Jesus said: "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, & THE LIFE.
No one (male/female - American, Muslim, Jew, Catholic,
Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Presbyterian, European, Baptist,
Brazilian, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc. ) comes (arrives)
to the Father (with GOD in Heaven) EXCEPT BY (through)
ME (no other name).

This wonderful loving GOD gives you the choice - - -
(Rev. 3:20)

{Please note that church membership, baptism, doing good
things, etc. are not requirements for becoming a Christian -
however they are great afterwards!!!}


Jesus said, "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that
leads to destruction (Hell, damnation, eternal punishment),
and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow
the road that leads to life (Heaven, eternal happiness,
forever with God), and only a few find it.      --Matthew 7:13-14
 
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Date: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:48 am
Subject: ***Thought & Humor*** - Aug 25, 2005 - Please Forward To Your Prof/Boss/Uncle/Friend/Prince 		letshavefun2day@...
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From a passenger ship, everyone can see a thin bearded
man on a small island, shouting and desperately waving his hands.

"Who is it on that island?" a passenger asks the captain.

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A UNC grad was sitting in the top row at the UNC - NCSU game,
barely able to see the field. He noticed a vacant seat about 3 rows
back on the 50-yard line. It was still vacant when the second quarter
started, so he went down and asked the man seated next to it if anyone
was sitting there since they were both pulling for the losing team.

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The Invisible Victim
 


Senior year in college - somehow our son had maneuvered himself into a coveted
on-campus house for his senior lodging. About a dozen guys set up their own little
universe there (not necessarily an orderly universe, of course). He told me that one
day he and several other guys were talking about a student leader who was a friend
of theirs. We'll call him Marty. And in the "talk, then think" atmosphere of college
guys in a room, our son was reviewing some of the dumb things (that was his opinion)
Marty had done in his leadership choices. As he was finishing this little barbecue,
someone drifted into the room from the kitchen - the room right next door. It was,
of course, Marty with his cup of coffee in his hand. He'd been right next door making
himself some coffee - no doubt listening to this critical review of his leadership. He
didn't say anything. He didn't have to. Our son felt about an inch tall when he realized
who he had been hurting.

If you have ever hurt someone you didn't realize you were hurting, you know how bad
it feels when you finally wake up. Funny, isn't it, just like in that college gab session.
What you're doing doesn't bother you until suddenly you realize who you've been
hurting. Maybe that's something you need to be thinking about right now.

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Genesis 39. It's about Joseph,
a Jewish young man who's been taken as a slave to the land of Egypt. He's purchased
by a powerful general named Potiphar, and rises to the position of estate manager.
The Bible picks up the story with a powerful temptation that suddenly confronts Joseph -
and the powerful response. Here's what is says: "Joseph was well-built and handsome;
and after a while, his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, Come to bed with me!'
But he refused. 'With me in charge,' he told her, 'my master does not concern himself with
anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. My master has
withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such
a wicked thing and sin against God?" (vs. 6-9) Here Joseph resists an incredibly attractive
temptation. Why? He said, "I can't do this to God." Not to Potiphar, not to Potiphar's wife,
not to his religious upbringing. He said, "If I do this, I'll be hurting God."

The flip side: King David, who said yes to a sexual temptation that marked his life from
that night on. He had sex with another man's wife and then conspired to have that man
killed. His agony over this sin is recorded in Psalm 51. He says, "My sin is always before
me. Against you, and you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight" (vs. 3-4).
Bottom line: he hadn't sinned against Bathsheba's husband, or Bathsheba, or the rules
ultimately. He said, "God, I did this against you, didn't I?"

Right now you may be involved in something you know is wrong - it's a compromise,
it's rebellion, it's wrong. You say, "Well, it's not hurting anyone." Oh yes, it is. When
Jesus' right hand man, Peter, denied him, the Bible says that Peter went out and wept
bitterly over it - but only after Jesus, on His way to His trial, turns and looks straight
at Peter. And suddenly Peter realized he wasn't just breaking laws. He was breaking
his Savior's heart.

And so are you with that sin of yours. This isn't about rebelling against your parents
or your church, or breaking some religious rules. This is about breaking the heart of
Jesus - who gave His life so you wouldn't have to do that kind of junk! Please hear this.
You're doing this to Jesus! The One who loves you the most knows what you're doing
and it really hurts. Can you keep on doing it when you know it is breaking your Savior's
heart?
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To find out how you can begin a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,
please visit YOURS FOR LIFE: HOW TO HAVE LIFE'S MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP
at:  http://www.yoursforlife.net
Or, call 1-888-NEED HIM.
 
 
Be self-controlled and alert.  Your enemy the devil prowls
around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that
your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.     --1 Peter 5
 
 
 
===============
            
                        
         
            "How to Be Sure You're
               a REAL Christian"
                   http://www.actsweb.org/htbs1.htm
               1-888-NEED-HIM        (24/7 - free call)
 
 
===============
 
 
 Depressed, Troubled, Worried???
 Big Problems???
 Want to talk with a LIVE trained counselor???
 Want to get REAL help???
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===============


 
 
I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]:
"I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I
don't accept His claim to be God."

That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was
merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would
not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic --
on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg --
or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice. Either this Man was, and is,
the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse ....
You can shut Him up for fool, you can spit at Him and kill
Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him
Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing
nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has
not left that option open to us. He did not intend to.

          -- From Case for Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

 

 
===============
 
 
 
 
"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider
well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ
which is eternal life (John 17:3)." 
 
   - - - The Laws and Statutes of Harvard College in 1643

 "All scholars shall live religious, godly, and blameless lives according
to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the
fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties
of religion, both in public and secret."
 
 - - - Two central requirements in Yale College 1745 charter
 
 
 
 
===============
 
 
 
Muhammad or Jesus???
 
 
(Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor')
 
   


===============              

 

 
 
 
   (Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor')
 
 

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AMERICA ARCHIVED
http://www.archives.gov/
This government site offers access to historic documents.
View the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
 
 
 
===============
 
 
'Thought & Humor' -  often polemical but
never tasteless/unrefined/uncouth/ribald.
 
 
===============
 
 
 
Please note: If you see a UNC student or liberal reading 'Thought & Humor',
please explain to them which is thought & which is humor. They usually get it backwards.......




 
===============
            
                    
                      
 
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                   http://www.ccci.org/wij/    
 
        (Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor')



===============

 
 
 
 
God designed humans to want to believe in something.
That's the image of God that is in us. But as G. K.
Chesterton famously put it, when we reject the God
of the Bible, we don't believe in nothing; we believe
in everything -- including Little Green Men.
 
             - - Chuck Colson
 
 
 
===============
 
 
Dear Howdy,
 
Thank you for your simply addicting newsletter...it's truly a candidate
for the 8th wonder of the world and 1st candidate for the cyber-world...
it just keeps blooming with more of what I need and, I think, what we
all need...please keep up the great works!!!
 
Type atcha later...
 
God bless you,
 
Phil H
WI
 
 
===============
 
 
Dear Howdy, Indeed I am a faithful Tarheel*, having both
MA and Ph.D. from their fine chemistry department.
But that doesn't keep me from getting a great kick out
of the humor propagated by what appears to me to be
a pack of wolves!!**


SERIOUSLY, THE HUMOR IS GREAT FUN BUT MY
MAIN ATTRACTION WAS TO THE CONSERVATIVE
MORAL AND POLITICAL STANCE THAT SEEMED
TO CHARACTERIZE THE FIRST ISSUE I SAW.
INCIDENTALLY (HE SAYS ACCIDENTALLY!), it was
sent to me by a friend,  so I really didn't "hear about
you" at all, and still haven't. All I know is what has
come in the two issues of the Newsletter I have
seen. The best to you.

S. P.

*Another name for UNC.
** UNC's archrival - NCSU.
 
 
===============
 
 
 
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===============
 
 

 
                        
Bible - God's Word to you in different languages...

                       http://www.scriptures.com/
 
                 (Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor')
 
 
 
 
 
 
===============
 



"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to
us through this book."        -- President Abraham Lincoln

"For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. 
The eyes of all people are upon us.  So that if we shall deal
falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and
so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us, we
shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world."
--John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630  
 
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and
the Bible." - President George Washington

"The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a
power that conquers all that oppose it." - Napoleon

"That Book accounts for the supremacy of England."
- Queen Victoria

"If there is anything in my thought or style to commend ,
the credit is due my parents for instilling in me an early
love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principals taught
in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper;
but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority,
no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and
bury all our glory in profound obscurity." - Daniel Webster (Founding Father)

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."
- Patrick Henry   (original member of the Continental Congress)

"The Bible is the anchor of our liberties." -  President U.S. Grant

"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people.
The principals of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
- Horace Greeley  (Editor)

"That Book is the rock on which our Republic rests." - President Andrew Jackson

"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me
light and strength." - Gen. Robert E. Lee

"Bible reading is an education in itself." - Lord Tennyson (Poet)

"So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin
to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful
citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for
many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year."
- President John Quincy Adams

"The existence of the Bible, as a Book for the people, is the greatest
benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to
belittle it is a crime against humanity." - Immanuel Kant (Philosopher)

"The New Testament is the very best Book that ever or ever will be
known in the world." - Charles Dickens (Author)

"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of
confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the
Sacred Scriptures." - Sir William Herschel (Astronomer)

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in
any profane history." - Sir Isaac Newton (Scientist)

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences
progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human
mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation
and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels,
it will not go." - Goethe (Author)

"I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time,
and of these eight-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible
is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable
distance separates it from all competitors."
- W.E. Gladstone (Prime Minister)

"Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply
due to the fact that when I was a chile my mother daily read me
a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart."
- John Ruskin (art critic and social commentator)

"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed.
The human race is not in a position to dispense with it." - Thomas
Huxley (Author & Scientist)

"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever
growing influence of the Bible." - W.H. Seward (Secretary of State)

"America was born a Christian nation. America was born
to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness,
which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures.
Part of the destiny of Americans lies in their daily perusal
of this great book of revelations. That if they would see
America free and pure they will make their own spirits
free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Spirit."
--President Woodrow Wilson
 
For Christians, the life and death of Jesus are the ultimate
expressions of love, and the supreme demonstrations of
God's mercy, faithfulness, and redemption. Since Christ's
miraculous Resurrection on Easter, more than 2,000 years
ago, Christians have expressed joy and gratitude for this
wondrous sacrifice and for God's promise of freedom for
the oppressed, healing for the brokenhearted, and salvation.
      --President George W. Bush

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians;
not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.  For this
very  reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum,
prosperity, and freedom of worship here." 
--Patrick Henry  (original member of the Continental Congress)


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Q: Who is Howdy?
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Take the best medicine of all for what ails you -- laughter:
 
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon
  without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road."
~Henry Ward Beecher
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
--Arnold Glasow
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
--Doris Lessing
"If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life."
--Bette Midler
"The human race has one really effective weapon,
  and that is laughter."
--Mark Twain
 "What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."
-- Yiddish Proverb
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
-- Milton Berle
 "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-- Victor Borge 

 
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time
to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a
time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a
time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. (King Solomon)

NOTICE: The jokes published in this list were either submitted
directly to 'Thought & Humor' or are, we believe, in the public
domain.  If you think that we have published a joke without
giving proper credit to its author/owner, please let us know
and we will provide appropriate credit in a future mailing.



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Four important things to KNOW:

1) For ALL (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus,
Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist,
Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) have sinned
& fall short of the glory of God.

2) For the wages of above (see #1) are DEATH (Hell, eternal
separation from God, & damnation) but the Gift (free & at
no charge to you) of God  (Creator, Jehovah, & Trinity) is
Eternal Life (Heaven) through (in union with) Jesus Christ
(God, Lord, 2nd Person of The Trinity, Messiah, Prince of
Peace & Savior of the World).

3) For God so greatly loved & dearly prized the world
(Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist,
Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians,
Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) that He even gave up
His only begotten (unique) Son, that whosoever (anyone,
anywhere, anytime - while still living) believes  (trust in,
relies on, clings to, depends completely on) Him shall
have eternal  (everlasting) life (heaven).

4) Jesus said: "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, & THE LIFE.
No one (male/female - American, Muslim, Jew, Catholic,
Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Presbyterian, European, Baptist,
Brazilian, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc. ) comes (arrives)
to the Father (with GOD in Heaven) EXCEPT BY (through)
ME (no other name).

This wonderful loving GOD gives you the choice - - -
(Rev. 3:20)

{Please note that church membership, baptism, doing good
things, etc. are not requirements for becoming a Christian -
however they are great afterwards!!!}


Jesus said, "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that
leads to destruction (Hell, damnation, eternal punishment),
and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow
the road that leads to life (Heaven, eternal happiness,
forever with God), and only a few find it.      --Matthew 7:13-14
 
Send any comments for Howdy to:
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References gleaned for great humor & information: Merry Heart,
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But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up,
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 A UNC grad was having some physical problems and his doctor
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At the end of a week he returned and the doctor asked if he was
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The Mountains Of
Yesterday & Tomorrow
 
 


There is a spot in Vermont that our family has loved to visit for years. And God
has introduced us to some wonderful friends who make it possible for us to stay
at the place they own. Even the trip up there is beautiful! First, we drive through
the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, then we head into the Champlain
Valley of Vermont. As we're leaving the one range of mountains, we're looking
at the next range - the scenic Green Mountains of Vermont. The inn we stay at
is in the valley between the two. So, when we arrive, we look West at those
mountains we have just been through, and East at those mountains we plan
to explore tomorrow. It's a great place to be.

We just visit that valley between the mountains. I believe God intends for us
all to live in a valley like that.

To see that kind of living in action, let's go to a dramatic example in the history
of God's ancient people. Our word for today from the Word of God is in 2
Chronicles 20. Jehoshaphat is the Jewish king when "some men came and
told Jehoshaphat, 'A vast army is coming against you'" (vs. 2). The threat is,
frankly, overwhelming. But this godly king doesn't get overwhelmed - maybe
a little nervous and scared, but not overwhelmed. We find out how to live this
way when we listen to some of his prayer to God.

"O Lord, are you not the God who is in heaven? ... Power and might are in your
hand, and no one can withstand You. O our God, did you not drive out the
inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the
descendants of Abraham? They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary
for Your Name" (vs. 6-8). Can you tell what he's doing? He's looking back at the
mountains of yesterday - the walled cities and barbaric tribes the Jews had to
conquer - the taking of a promised land that they didn't have an inch of, and all
the challenges of living since then, including the building of an incredible temple
to God. And Jehoshaphat is grateful to God for making all those mountains that
once looked so big into monuments to His love and power and faithfulness.

Then, the king looks ahead at the mountains of tomorrow - this vast army. He says,
"O our God, we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us" (vs. 12).
Maybe that feeling of powerlessness is where you are right now. He says, "We do
not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You" (vs. 12). And the Lord's words to
His servant, "Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the
battle is not yours, but God's" (vs. 15). The King is now trusting God for the
mountains of tomorrow.

Right there is the picture of a victorious life of faith - a life in which nothing is
overwhelming - living in the valley between what God has done and what God
is going to do. To put it simply, God leads you in such a way that there's always
something to thank Him for and always something to trust Him for! First, you
must look back at all the amazing works God has already done and specifically
thank Him for them. Your confidence will grow as you do. Then you look ahead
at the huge challenges in front of you and you trust Him for those; the same God
who brought you through all the mountains before.

At a time when our ministry finances had looked pretty discouraging for an
extended time, our bookkeeper reported to me a day of pretty limited income.
And then, knowing better than anyone the pressures we faced, he smiled and
said, "Another day to trust Him." The battle is the Lord's.

Those four words say it all about this day and each tomorrow in your life. It's
another day to trust as you thank God for what He did in the mountains of
yesterday and trust God for what He's going to do in the mountains of tomorrow.
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To find out how you can begin a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,
please visit YOURS FOR LIFE: HOW TO HAVE LIFE'S MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP
at:  http://www.yoursforlife.net
Or, call 1-888-NEED HIM.
 
 
Be self-controlled and alert.  Your enemy the devil prowls
around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that
your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.     --1 Peter 5
 
 
 
===============
            
                        
         
            "How to Be Sure You're
               a REAL Christian"
                   http://www.actsweb.org/htbs1.htm
               1-888-NEED-HIM        (24/7 - free call)
 
 
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 Depressed, Troubled, Worried???
 Big Problems???
 Want to talk with a LIVE trained counselor???
 Want to get REAL help???
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       1-800-633-3446 
 
 
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===============


 
 
I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]:
"I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I
don't accept His claim to be God."

That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was
merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would
not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic --
on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg --
or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice. Either this Man was, and is,
the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse ....
You can shut Him up for fool, you can spit at Him and kill
Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him
Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing
nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has
not left that option open to us. He did not intend to.

          -- From Case for Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

 

 
===============
 
 
 
 
"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider
well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ
which is eternal life (John 17:3)." 
 
   - - - The Laws and Statutes of Harvard College in 1643

 "All scholars shall live religious, godly, and blameless lives according
to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the
fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties
of religion, both in public and secret."
 
 - - - Two central requirements in Yale College 1745 charter
 
 
 
 
===============
 
 
 
Muhammad or Jesus???
 
 
(Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor')
 
   


===============              

 

 
 
 
   (Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor')
 
 

===============
 
 


AMERICA ARCHIVED
http://www.archives.gov/
This government site offers access to historic documents.
View the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
 
 
 
===============
 
 
'Thought & Humor' -  often polemical but
never tasteless/unrefined/uncouth/ribald.
 
 
===============
 
 
 
Please note: If you see a UNC student or liberal reading 'Thought & Humor',
please explain to them which is thought & which is humor. They usually get it backwards.......




 
===============
            
                    
                      
 
        Who is Jesus?  
                   http://www.ccci.org/wij/    
 
        (Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor')



===============

 
 
 
 
God designed humans to want to believe in something.
That's the image of God that is in us. But as G. K.
Chesterton famously put it, when we reject the God
of the Bible, we don't believe in nothing; we believe
in everything -- including Little Green Men.
 
             - - Chuck Colson
 
 
 
===============
 
 
Dear Howdy,
 
Thank you for your simply addicting newsletter...it's truly a candidate
for the 8th wonder of the world and 1st candidate for the cyber-world...
it just keeps blooming with more of what I need and, I think, what we
all need...please keep up the great works!!!
 
Type atcha later...
 
God bless you,
 
Phil H
WI
 
 
===============
 
 
Dear Howdy, Indeed I am a faithful Tarheel*, having both
MA and Ph.D. from their fine chemistry department.
But that doesn't keep me from getting a great kick out
of the humor propagated by what appears to me to be
a pack of wolves!!**


SERIOUSLY, THE HUMOR IS GREAT FUN BUT MY
MAIN ATTRACTION WAS TO THE CONSERVATIVE
MORAL AND POLITICAL STANCE THAT SEEMED
TO CHARACTERIZE THE FIRST ISSUE I SAW.
INCIDENTALLY (HE SAYS ACCIDENTALLY!), it was
sent to me by a friend,  so I really didn't "hear about
you" at all, and still haven't. All I know is what has
come in the two issues of the Newsletter I have
seen. The best to you.

S. P.

*Another name for UNC.
** UNC's archrival - NCSU.
 
 
===============
 
 
 
{Double click this link or copy and paste this link into your Web Browser's address line
for more info - Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor' in any way - but should be}
 
 
 
===============
 
 

 
                        
Bible - God's Word to you in different languages...

                       http://www.scriptures.com/
 
                 (Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor')
 
 
 
 
 
 
===============
 



"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to
us through this book."        -- President Abraham Lincoln

"For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. 
The eyes of all people are upon us.  So that if we shall deal
falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and
so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us, we
shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world."
--John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630  
 
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and
the Bible." - President George Washington

"The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a
power that conquers all that oppose it." - Napoleon

"That Book accounts for the supremacy of England."
- Queen Victoria

"If there is anything in my thought or style to commend ,
the credit is due my parents for instilling in me an early
love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principals taught
in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper;
but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority,
no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and
bury all our glory in profound obscurity." - Daniel Webster (Founding Father)

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."
- Patrick Henry   (original member of the Continental Congress)

"The Bible is the anchor of our liberties." -  President U.S. Grant

"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people.
The principals of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
- Horace Greeley  (Editor)

"That Book is the rock on which our Republic rests." - President Andrew Jackson

"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me
light and strength." - Gen. Robert E. Lee

"Bible reading is an education in itself." - Lord Tennyson (Poet)

"So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin
to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful
citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for
many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year."
- President John Quincy Adams

"The existence of the Bible, as a Book for the people, is the greatest
benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to
belittle it is a crime against humanity." - Immanuel Kant (Philosopher)

"The New Testament is the very best Book that ever or ever will be
known in the world." - Charles Dickens (Author)

"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of
confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the
Sacred Scriptures." - Sir William Herschel (Astronomer)

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in
any profane history." - Sir Isaac Newton (Scientist)

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences
progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human
mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation
and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels,
it will not go." - Goethe (Author)

"I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time,
and of these eight-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible
is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable
distance separates it from all competitors."
- W.E. Gladstone (Prime Minister)

"Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply
due to the fact that when I was a chile my mother daily read me
a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart."
- John Ruskin (art critic and social commentator)

"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed.
The human race is not in a position to dispense with it." - Thomas
Huxley (Author & Scientist)

"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever
growing influence of the Bible." - W.H. Seward (Secretary of State)

"America was born a Christian nation. America was born
to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness,
which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures.
Part of the destiny of Americans lies in their daily perusal
of this great book of revelations. That if they would see
America free and pure they will make their own spirits
free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Spirit."
--President Woodrow Wilson
 
For Christians, the life and death of Jesus are the ultimate
expressions of love, and the supreme demonstrations of
God's mercy, faithfulness, and redemption. Since Christ's
miraculous Resurrection on Easter, more than 2,000 years
ago, Christians have expressed joy and gratitude for this
wondrous sacrifice and for God's promise of freedom for
the oppressed, healing for the brokenhearted, and salvation.
      --President George W. Bush

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians;
not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.  For this
very  reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum,
prosperity, and freedom of worship here." 
--Patrick Henry  (original member of the Continental Congress)


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"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon
  without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road."
~Henry Ward Beecher
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
--Arnold Glasow
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
--Doris Lessing
"If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life."
--Bette Midler
"The human race has one really effective weapon,
  and that is laughter."
--Mark Twain
 "What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."
-- Yiddish Proverb
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
-- Milton Berle
 "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-- Victor Borge 

 
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time
to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a
time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a
time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. (King Solomon)

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Four important things to KNOW:

1) For ALL (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus,
Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist,
Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) have sinned
& fall short of the glory of God.

2) For the wages of above (see #1) are DEATH (Hell, eternal
separation from God, & damnation) but the Gift (free & at
no charge to you) of God  (Creator, Jehovah, & Trinity) is
Eternal Life (Heaven) through (in union with) Jesus Christ
(God, Lord, 2nd Person of The Trinity, Messiah, Prince of
Peace & Savior of the World).

3) For God so greatly loved & dearly prized the world
(Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist,
Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians,
Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) that He even gave up
His only begotten (unique) Son, that whosoever (anyone,
anywhere, anytime - while still living) believes  (trust in,
relies on, clings to, depends completely on) Him shall
have eternal  (everlasting) life (heaven).

4) Jesus said: "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, & THE LIFE.
No one (male/female - American, Muslim, Jew, Catholic,
Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Presbyterian, European, Baptist,
Brazilian, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc. ) comes (arrives)
to the Father (with GOD in Heaven) EXCEPT BY (through)
ME (no other name).

This wonderful loving GOD gives you the choice - - -
(Rev. 3:20)

{Please note that church membership, baptism, doing good
things, etc. are not requirements for becoming a Christian -
however they are great afterwards!!!}


Jesus said, "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that
leads to destruction (Hell, damnation, eternal punishment),
and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow
the road that leads to life (Heaven, eternal happiness,
forever with God), and only a few find it.      --Matthew 7:13-14
 
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 Dr. Franklin finished examining Matilda and went
into the hallway to talk to her husband Bernie.

"I don't want to alarm you," he said to Bernie,
"but I don't like the way your wife looks at all."


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The Most Important
Arrangements You'll
Ever Make
 
 


When you're little, your parents seem immortal. They're not. Sooner or later, most of us
get the kind of call I got not long ago - a parent is gone. In my case, the hospital called
to say my Mom had been admitted due to a medical emergency, but her body gave out
and she was gone. No matter what the circumstances, the death of someone you love is
always a shock. When you're the only living child and your other parent is already gone,
there can be a numbing list of arrangements that you suddenly have to make. Thankfully,
that wasn't the case with my Mom. Mercifully, funeral arrangements had been made and
paid for years ago.

It was a real blessing to have funeral arrangements made in advance. But my mother had
made much more important pre- arrangements for the day she died, and those arrangements
were the greatest blessing of all. Years ago, my Mom made a choice that guaranteed she
would be in heaven for all eternity. These are the most important arrangements you will
ever make - or fail to make.

God knows we're so busy living that we don't give much thought to dying. In fact, we generally
try to avoid thinking about death as much as possible. Until we're looking in the casket at
someone we've just lost. It's hard to look face-to-face at death like that and not think about,
"Where will I be when it's me there?" This isn't about being morbid. It's about being ready.
If I know I'm prepared for something that's coming up, I don't have to keep thinking about it.
It's settled. There's nothing more critical for you to settle than your eternal destination. Avoiding
those arrangements carries a price too high to pay.

That's why the Bible says in Amos 4, verses 12 and 13, our word for today from the Word of God,
"Prepare to meet your God ... He who forms the mountains, creates the wind ... and treads the high
places of the earth - the Lord God Almighty is His name." It is this awesome God who will decide
when you and I will take our last breath; when eternity will begin for each and every one of us. The
Bible says that you and I have an appointment with our Creator - the time when the old-timers used
to say you "meet your Maker." God's Book says, "Man is destined to die once, and after that to face
judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). A divine appointment, the nearness of which we cannot know, and judgment
for every wrong thing we've ever done.

When you face God, it's too late to make your arrangements. That needs to be done here and now.
So many people think they'll get to heaven by being good. They're wrong - eternally wrong. The Bible
clearly explains: "It is by grace (that's undeserved love) that you have been saved, through faith - and this ...
is the gift of God - not by works" (Ephesians 2:8-9). All our good can't possibly cancel our sin because sin
has an eternal death penalty, and a death penalty can't be paid by doing good. Someone has to die, and
someone did. Jesus did - so you don't have to. Your only hope is grabbing Him like a drowning person
would grab a rescuer.

If you've never done that, you're not "prepared to meet your God." But you can be beginning this very day.
You can actually know from this moment on that you are going to heaven when you die, because the sin that
would keep you out of heaven has been forever forgiven by the One who died for that sin. Your spiritual rescue
begins the moment you say, "Jesus, I'm putting my total trust in You and what You did on the cross for me. I'm
Yours." I wrote a little booklet called Yours For Life to explain how you begin your personal relationship with
Jesus Christ. I want to send it to you if you'll just let me know you want it.

There is no greater peace, no greater security, than to know your arrangements for eternity have all been made.
This very day you can prepare to meet your God.
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To find out how you can begin a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,
please visit YOURS FOR LIFE: HOW TO HAVE LIFE'S MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP
at:  http://www.yoursforlife.net
Or, call 1-888-NEED HIM.
 
 
Be self-controlled and alert.  Your enemy the devil prowls
around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that
your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.     --1 Peter 5
 
 
 
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In contrast to the ideals, opinions and feelings of
today's "Hollywonk" the real actors of yester-year
loved the United States.

They had both class and integrity. With the advent of
World War II many of our actors went to fight rather
than stand and rant against this country we all love.

They gave up their wealth, position and fame to become
service men & women, many as simple "enlisted men".

This page lists but a few, but from this group of only
18 men came over 70 medals in honor of their valor,
spanning from Bronze Stars, Silver Stars, Distinguish
Service Cross', Purple Hearts and one Congressional
Medal of Honor.

So remember; while the "Entertainers of 2004" have
been in all of the news media lately I would like to
remind the people of what the
entertainers of 1943 were doing, (61 years ago).

Most of these brave men have since passed on.



Real Hollywood Heros


Alec Guinness (Star Wars) operated a British Royal!
Navy landing craft on D-Day.


James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek) landed in
Normandy with the U. S. Army on D-Day.


Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an R.
A. F. pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and
tortured by the Germans.


David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and Lt. Colonel
of the British Commandos in Normandy.


James Stewart Entered the Army Air Force as a private
and worked his way to the rank of Colonel.

During World War II, Stewart served as a bomber pilot,
his service record crediting him with leading more
than 20 missions over Germany, and taking part in
hundreds of air strikes during his tour of duty.

Stewart earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying
Cross, France's Croix de Guerre,and 7 Battle Stars
during World War II.

In peace time, Stewart continued to be an active
member of the Air Force as a reservist, reaching the
rank of Brigadier General before retiring in the late
1950s.


Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out)
Although he was beyond the draft age at the time the
U.S. entered WW II, Clark Gable enlisted as a private
in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles.

He attended the Officers' CandidateSchool at Miami
Beach, Fla. and graduated as a second lieutenant on
Oct. 28, 1942.

He then attended aerial gunnery school and in Feb.
1943 he was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at
Polebrook where flew operational missions over Europe
in B-17s.

Capt. Gable returned to the U.S. in Oct. 1943 and was
relieved from active duty as a major on Jun. 12, 1944
at his own request, since he was over-age for combat.


Charlton Heston was an Army Air Corps Sergeant in
Kodiak.


Ernest Borgnine was a U. S. Navy Gunners Mate
1935-1945.


Charles Durning was a U. S. Army Ranger at Normandy
earning a Silver Star and awarded the Purple Heart.


Charles Bronson was a tail gunner in the Army Air
Corps, more
specifically on B-29s in the 20th Air Force out of
Guam, Tinian, and Saipan


George C. Scott was a decorated U. S. Marine.


Eddie Albert (Green Acres TV) was awarded a Bronze
Star for his heroic action as a U. S. Naval officer
aiding Marines at the horrific battle on the island of
Tarawa in the Pacific Nov. 1943.


Brian Keith served as a U.S. Marine rear gunner in
several actions against the Japanese on Rabal in the
Pacific.


Lee Marvin was a U.S. Marine on Saipan during the
Marianas campaign when he was wounded earning the
Purple Heart.


John Russell: In 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps
where he received a battlefield commission and was
wounded and highly decorated for valor at Guadalcanal.


Robert Ryan was a U. S. Marine who served with the O.
S. S. in
Yugoslavia.


Tyrone Power (an established movie star when Pearl
Harbor was bombed) joined the U.S. Marines, was a
pilot flying supplies into, and wounded M arines out
of, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.



Audie Murphy, little 5'5" tall 110 pound guy from
Texas who played cowboy parts?

Most Decorated serviceman of WWII and earned: Medal of Honor,
Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Star Medals,
Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals with "V", 2
Purple Hearts, U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service
Medal, Good Conduct Medal, 2 Distinguished Unit
Emblems, American Campaign Medal,
European-African-Middle Eastern
Campaign Medal with One Silver Star, Four Bronze Service Stars
(representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze Arrowhead
(representing assault landing at Sicily and Southern
France) World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation
Medal with Germany Clasp, Armed Forces Reserve Medal,
Combat Infantry Badge, Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar,
! Expert Badge with Bayonet Bar, French Fourragere in
Colors of the Croix de Guerre, French Legion of Honor,
Grade of Chevalier, French Croix de Guerre With Silver
Star, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Med al of
Liberated France, Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm.

So how do you feel the real heroes of the silver
screen acted when compared to the hollywonks today
who spray out anti-American drivel as they bite the hand
that feeds them? Can you imagine these stars of
yester-year saying they hate our flag, making anti-war
speeches, marching in anti-American parades and saying
they hate ur president?

I thought not, neither did I!

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I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]:
"I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I
don't accept His claim to be God."

That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was
merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would
not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic --
on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg --
or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice. Either this Man was, and is,
the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse ....
You can shut Him up for fool, you can spit at Him and kill
Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him
Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing
nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has
not left that option open to us. He did not intend to.

          -- From Case for Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

 

 
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"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider
well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ
which is eternal life (John 17:3)." 
 
   - - - The Laws and Statutes of Harvard College in 1643

 "All scholars shall live religious, godly, and blameless lives according
to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the
fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties
of religion, both in public and secret."
 
 - - - Two central requirements in Yale College 1745 charter
 
 
 
 
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God designed humans to want to believe in something.
That's the image of God that is in us. But as G. K.
Chesterton famously put it, when we reject the God
of the Bible, we don't believe in nothing; we believe
in everything -- including Little Green Men.
 
             - - Chuck Colson
 
 
 
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Dear Howdy,
 
Thank you for your simply addicting newsletter...it's truly a candidate
for the 8th wonder of the world and 1st candidate for the cyber-world...
it just keeps blooming with more of what I need and, I think, what we
all need...please keep up the great works!!!
 
Type atcha later...
 
God bless you,
 
Phil H
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Dear Howdy, Indeed I am a faithful Tarheel*, having both
MA and Ph.D. from their fine chemistry department.
But that doesn't keep me from getting a great kick out
of the humor propagated by what appears to me to be
a pack of wolves!!**


SERIOUSLY, THE HUMOR IS GREAT FUN BUT MY
MAIN ATTRACTION WAS TO THE CONSERVATIVE
MORAL AND POLITICAL STANCE THAT SEEMED
TO CHARACTERIZE THE FIRST ISSUE I SAW.
INCIDENTALLY (HE SAYS ACCIDENTALLY!), it was
sent to me by a friend,  so I really didn't "hear about
you" at all, and still haven't. All I know is what has
come in the two issues of the Newsletter I have
seen. The best to you.

S. P.

*Another name for UNC.
** UNC's archrival - NCSU.
 
 
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"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to
us through this book."        -- President Abraham Lincoln

"For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. 
The eyes of all people are upon us.  So that if we shall deal
falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and
so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us, we
shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world."
--John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630  
 
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and
the Bible." - President George Washington

"The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a
power that conquers all that oppose it." - Napoleon

"That Book accounts for the supremacy of England."
- Queen Victoria

"If there is anything in my thought or style to commend ,
the credit is due my parents for instilling in me an early
love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principals taught
in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper;
but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority,
no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and
bury all our glory in profound obscurity." - Daniel Webster (Founding Father)

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."
- Patrick Henry   (original member of the Continental Congress)

"The Bible is the anchor of our liberties." -  President U.S. Grant

"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people.
The principals of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
- Horace Greeley  (Editor)

"That Book is the rock on which our Republic rests." - President Andrew Jackson

"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me
light and strength." - Gen. Robert E. Lee

"Bible reading is an education in itself." - Lord Tennyson (Poet)

"So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin
to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful
citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for
many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year."
- President John Quincy Adams

"The existence of the Bible, as a Book for the people, is the greatest
benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to
belittle it is a crime against humanity." - Immanuel Kant (Philosopher)

"The New Testament is the very best Book that ever or ever will be
known in the world." - Charles Dickens (Author)

"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of
confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the
Sacred Scriptures." - Sir William Herschel (Astronomer)

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in
any profane history." - Sir Isaac Newton (Scientist)

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences
progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human
mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation
and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels,
it will not go." - Goethe (Author)

"I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time,
and of these eight-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible
is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable
distance separates it from all competitors."
- W.E. Gladstone (Prime Minister)

"Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply
due to the fact that when I was a chile my mother daily read me
a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart."
- John Ruskin (art critic and social commentator)

"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed.
The human race is not in a position to dispense with it." - Thomas
Huxley (Author & Scientist)

"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever
growing influence of the Bible." - W.H. Seward (Secretary of State)

"America was born a Christian nation. America was born
to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness,
which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures.
Part of the destiny of Americans lies in their daily perusal
of this great book of revelations. That if they would see
America free and pure they will make their own spirits
free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Spirit."
--President Woodrow Wilson
 
For Christians, the life and death of Jesus are the ultimate
expressions of love, and the supreme demonstrations of
God's mercy, faithfulness, and redemption. Since Christ's
miraculous Resurrection on Easter, more than 2,000 years
ago, Christians have expressed joy and gratitude for this
wondrous sacrifice and for God's promise of freedom for
the oppressed, healing for the brokenhearted, and salvation.
      --President George W. Bush

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians;
not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.  For this
very  reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum,
prosperity, and freedom of worship here." 
--Patrick Henry  (original member of the Continental Congress)


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Take the best medicine of all for what ails you -- laughter:
 
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon
  without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road."
~Henry Ward Beecher
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
--Arnold Glasow
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
--Doris Lessing
"If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life."
--Bette Midler
"The human race has one really effective weapon,
  and that is laughter."
--Mark Twain
 "What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."
-- Yiddish Proverb
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
-- Milton Berle
 "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-- Victor Borge 

 
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time
to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a
time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a
time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. (King Solomon)

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Four important things to KNOW:

1) For ALL (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus,
Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist,
Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) have sinned
& fall short of the glory of God.

2) For the wages of above (see #1) are DEATH (Hell, eternal
separation from God, & damnation) but the Gift (free & at
no charge to you) of God  (Creator, Jehovah, & Trinity) is
Eternal Life (Heaven) through (in union with) Jesus Christ
(God, Lord, 2nd Person of The Trinity, Messiah, Prince of
Peace & Savior of the World).

3) For God so greatly loved & dearly prized the world
(Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist,
Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians,
Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) that He even gave up
His only begotten (unique) Son, that whosoever (anyone,
anywhere, anytime - while still living) believes  (trust in,
relies on, clings to, depends completely on) Him shall
have eternal  (everlasting) life (heaven).

4) Jesus said: "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, & THE LIFE.
No one (male/female - American, Muslim, Jew, Catholic,
Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Presbyterian, European, Baptist,
Brazilian, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc. ) comes (arrives)
to the Father (with GOD in Heaven) EXCEPT BY (through)
ME (no other name).

This wonderful loving GOD gives you the choice - - -
(Rev. 3:20)

{Please note that church membership, baptism, doing good
things, etc. are not requirements for becoming a Christian -
however they are great afterwards!!!}


Jesus said, "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that
leads to destruction (Hell, damnation, eternal punishment),
and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow
the road that leads to life (Heaven, eternal happiness,
forever with God), and only a few find it.      --Matthew 7:13-14
 
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The Set Of
Your Sail
 
 


Over the years we've lived near the ocean, and we were blessed to have a friend
who was a veteran sailor. He'd been sailing the East Coast since he was a boy.
And he was generous enough to allow us to go sailing with him sometimes and
to watch a master at work. I tried to apply for "first mate," but he always said,
"Don't call us, we'll call you." Which he never did. But I was a grateful, and I was
a curious passenger. He told me some great stories of sailing adventures. He
showed us how to do some of what he did, and he related times that he had seen
one sailboat after another fall over as they were unprepared for a shift in the wind.
You don't have to be a seasoned seaman to understand a fundamental law of a
successful voyage: It's the set of the sail, not the force of the gale, that determines
the way you go.

That law is never more true and never more important, than when it comes to making
"no regrets" choices when you're under great pressure to make wrong choices. The
Old Testament leader, Daniel, gives us a sterling example of setting your sail...

He's only a young man when a pagan king demands that he and his Jewish friends
eat certain foods that the king has prescribed for guys in his leadership-training
program. And you don't mess with the king. But Daniel's faith in Jehovah God forbids
him to eat those foods; especially in light of the fact that they have been used in idol
worship. To do the right thing could cost him an incredible future. It could cost him
his life even. But Daniel 1:8 tells us that in spite of the probable price tag, "Daniel
resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine." He risks everything. He
stands up to massive pressure, and ultimately is blessed by God and rewarded by t
he king with great position and privilege. Over and over in his life, even into his senior
years, Daniel is faced with similar moral choices that could cost him everything. And
every time, he does the right thing.

Is that you? The force of the gale on Daniel was powerful. He didn't cave in because
he had firmly set his sail in God's direction. And no one - not even the most powerful
person in the world - could blow him off course. In order for you to be that kind of moral c
hampion, you're going to need more than just a list of rules that your religion gave you.
You'll need deep-down inside convictions, based not so much on a list of what's wrong,
but on the ability to know what makes something wrong for a child of God.

So set your sail by asking these five questions about your life-choices: 1. Will this pollute
or damage my body, which is God's temple? (1 Corinthians 6:19-20); 2. Will this hurt my
reputation? (Proverbs 22:1); 3. Could this control me? (Matthew 6:24). Anything that's
controlling your mind or your time or your affections means Jesus isn't. The 4th question:
will this hurt people I influence? (Romans 14:13). And finally: 5. Will this discredit Jesus?
(Colossians 3:17). That Five-Way Test for your life choices will help you measure every
decision by the things that matter to Jesus. It's not rules - it's reasons to do what's right;
to do what Jesus wants. He's the only One who loved you enough to die for you!

The heavy winds of pressure to do what others want you to do will continue to blow hard.
But that won't decide what you do. No, it will be the set of your sail, pre-set before God,
before the choice arises. And remember, it's the set of your sail, not the force of your gale,
that will determine the way you go!
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To find out how you can begin a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,
please visit YOURS FOR LIFE: HOW TO HAVE LIFE'S MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP
at:  http://www.yoursforlife.net
Or, call 1-888-NEED HIM.
 
 
Be self-controlled and alert.  Your enemy the devil prowls
around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that
your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.     --1 Peter 5
 
 
 
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In contrast to the ideals, opinions and feelings of
today's "Hollywonk" the real actors of yester-year
loved the United States.

They had both class and integrity. With the advent of
World War II many of our actors went to fight rather
than stand and rant against this country we all love.

They gave up their wealth, position and fame to become
service men & women, many as simple "enlisted men".

This page lists but a few, but from this group of only
18 men came over 70 medals in honor of their valor,
spanning from Bronze Stars, Silver Stars, Distinguish
Service Cross', Purple Hearts and one Congressional
Medal of Honor.

So remember; while the "Entertainers of 2004" have
been in all of the news media lately I would like to
remind the people of what the
entertainers of 1943 were doing, (61 years ago).

Most of these brave men have since passed on.



Real Hollywood Heros


Alec Guinness (Star Wars) operated a British Royal!
Navy landing craft on D-Day.


James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek) landed in
Normandy with the U. S. Army on D-Day.


Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an R.
A. F. pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and
tortured by the Germans.


David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and Lt. Colonel
of the British Commandos in Normandy.


James Stewart Entered the Army Air Force as a private
and worked his way to the rank of Colonel.

During World War II, Stewart served as a bomber pilot,
his service record crediting him with leading more
than 20 missions over Germany, and taking part in
hundreds of air strikes during his tour of duty.

Stewart earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying
Cross, France's Croix de Guerre,and 7 Battle Stars
during World War II.

In peace time, Stewart continued to be an active
member of the Air Force as a reservist, reaching the
rank of Brigadier General before retiring in the late
1950s.


Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out)
Although he was beyond the draft age at the time the
U.S. entered WW II, Clark Gable enlisted as a private
in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles.

He attended the Officers' CandidateSchool at Miami
Beach, Fla. and graduated as a second lieutenant on
Oct. 28, 1942.

He then attended aerial gunnery school and in Feb.
1943 he was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at
Polebrook where flew operational missions over Europe
in B-17s.

Capt. Gable returned to the U.S. in Oct. 1943 and was
relieved from active duty as a major on Jun. 12, 1944
at his own request, since he was over-age for combat.


Charlton Heston was an Army Air Corps Sergeant in
Kodiak.


Ernest Borgnine was a U. S. Navy Gunners Mate
1935-1945.


Charles Durning was a U. S. Army Ranger at Normandy
earning a Silver Star and awarded the Purple Heart.


Charles Bronson was a tail gunner in the Army Air
Corps, more
specifically on B-29s in the 20th Air Force out of
Guam, Tinian, and Saipan


George C. Scott was a decorated U. S. Marine.


Eddie Albert (Green Acres TV) was awarded a Bronze
Star for his heroic action as a U. S. Naval officer
aiding Marines at the horrific battle on the island of
Tarawa in the Pacific Nov. 1943.


Brian Keith served as a U.S. Marine rear gunner in
several actions against the Japanese on Rabal in the
Pacific.


Lee Marvin was a U.S. Marine on Saipan during the
Marianas campaign when he was wounded earning the
Purple Heart.


John Russell: In 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps
where he received a battlefield commission and was
wounded and highly decorated for valor at Guadalcanal.


Robert Ryan was a U. S. Marine who served with the O.
S. S. in
Yugoslavia.


Tyrone Power (an established movie star when Pearl
Harbor was bombed) joined the U.S. Marines, was a
pilot flying supplies into, and wounded M arines out
of, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.



Audie Murphy, little 5'5" tall 110 pound guy from
Texas who played cowboy parts?

Most Decorated serviceman of WWII and earned: Medal of Honor,
Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Star Medals,
Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals with "V", 2
Purple Hearts, U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service
Medal, Good Conduct Medal, 2 Distinguished Unit
Emblems, American Campaign Medal,
European-African-Middle Eastern
Campaign Medal with One Silver Star, Four Bronze Service Stars
(representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze Arrowhead
(representing assault landing at Sicily and Southern
France) World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation
Medal with Germany Clasp, Armed Forces Reserve Medal,
Combat Infantry Badge, Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar,
! Expert Badge with Bayonet Bar, French Fourragere in
Colors of the Croix de Guerre, French Legion of Honor,
Grade of Chevalier, French Croix de Guerre With Silver
Star, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Med al of
Liberated France, Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm.

So how do you feel the real heroes of the silver
screen acted when compared to the hollywonks today
who spray out anti-American drivel as they bite the hand
that feeds them? Can you imagine these stars of
yester-year saying they hate our flag, making anti-war
speeches, marching in anti-American parades and saying
they hate ur president?

I thought not, neither did I!

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I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]:
"I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I
don't accept His claim to be God."

That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was
merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would
not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic --
on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg --
or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice. Either this Man was, and is,
the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse ....
You can shut Him up for fool, you can spit at Him and kill
Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him
Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing
nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has
not left that option open to us. He did not intend to.

          -- From Case for Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

 

 
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"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider
well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ
which is eternal life (John 17:3)." 
 
   - - - The Laws and Statutes of Harvard College in 1643

 "All scholars shall live religious, godly, and blameless lives according
to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the
fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties
of religion, both in public and secret."
 
 - - - Two central requirements in Yale College 1745 charter
 
 
 
 
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God designed humans to want to believe in something.
That's the image of God that is in us. But as G. K.
Chesterton famously put it, when we reject the God
of the Bible, we don't believe in nothing; we believe
in everything -- including Little Green Men.
 
             - - Chuck Colson
 
 
 
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Dear Howdy,
 
Thank you for your simply addicting newsletter...it's truly a candidate
for the 8th wonder of the world and 1st candidate for the cyber-world...
it just keeps blooming with more of what I need and, I think, what we
all need...please keep up the great works!!!
 
Type atcha later...
 
God bless you,
 
Phil H
WI
 
 
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Dear Howdy, Indeed I am a faithful Tarheel*, having both
MA and Ph.D. from their fine chemistry department.
But that doesn't keep me from getting a great kick out
of the humor propagated by what appears to me to be
a pack of wolves!!**


SERIOUSLY, THE HUMOR IS GREAT FUN BUT MY
MAIN ATTRACTION WAS TO THE CONSERVATIVE
MORAL AND POLITICAL STANCE THAT SEEMED
TO CHARACTERIZE THE FIRST ISSUE I SAW.
INCIDENTALLY (HE SAYS ACCIDENTALLY!), it was
sent to me by a friend,  so I really didn't "hear about
you" at all, and still haven't. All I know is what has
come in the two issues of the Newsletter I have
seen. The best to you.

S. P.

*Another name for UNC.
** UNC's archrival - NCSU.
 
 
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"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to
us through this book."        -- President Abraham Lincoln

"For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. 
The eyes of all people are upon us.  So that if we shall deal
falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and
so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us, we
shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world."
--John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630  
 
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and
the Bible." - President George Washington

"The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a
power that conquers all that oppose it." - Napoleon

"That Book accounts for the supremacy of England."
- Queen Victoria

"If there is anything in my thought or style to commend ,
the credit is due my parents for instilling in me an early
love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principals taught
in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper;
but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority,
no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and
bury all our glory in profound obscurity." - Daniel Webster (Founding Father)

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."
- Patrick Henry   (original member of the Continental Congress)

"The Bible is the anchor of our liberties." -  President U.S. Grant

"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people.
The principals of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
- Horace Greeley  (Editor)

"That Book is the rock on which our Republic rests." - President Andrew Jackson

"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me
light and strength." - Gen. Robert E. Lee

"Bible reading is an education in itself." - Lord Tennyson (Poet)

"So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin
to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful
citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for
many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year."
- President John Quincy Adams

"The existence of the Bible, as a Book for the people, is the greatest
benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to
belittle it is a crime against humanity." - Immanuel Kant (Philosopher)

"The New Testament is the very best Book that ever or ever will be
known in the world." - Charles Dickens (Author)

"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of
confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the
Sacred Scriptures." - Sir William Herschel (Astronomer)

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in
any profane history." - Sir Isaac Newton (Scientist)

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences
progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human
mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation
and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels,
it will not go." - Goethe (Author)

"I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time,
and of these eight-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible
is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable
distance separates it from all competitors."
- W.E. Gladstone (Prime Minister)

"Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply
due to the fact that when I was a chile my mother daily read me
a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart."
- John Ruskin (art critic and social commentator)

"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed.
The human race is not in a position to dispense with it." - Thomas
Huxley (Author & Scientist)

"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever
growing influence of the Bible." - W.H. Seward (Secretary of State)

"America was born a Christian nation. America was born
to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness,
which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures.
Part of the destiny of Americans lies in their daily perusal
of this great book of revelations. That if they would see
America free and pure they will make their own spirits
free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Spirit."
--President Woodrow Wilson
 
For Christians, the life and death of Jesus are the ultimate
expressions of love, and the supreme demonstrations of
God's mercy, faithfulness, and redemption. Since Christ's
miraculous Resurrection on Easter, more than 2,000 years
ago, Christians have expressed joy and gratitude for this
wondrous sacrifice and for God's promise of freedom for
the oppressed, healing for the brokenhearted, and salvation.
      --President George W. Bush

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians;
not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.  For this
very  reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum,
prosperity, and freedom of worship here." 
--Patrick Henry  (original member of the Continental Congress)


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Take the best medicine of all for what ails you -- laughter:
 
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon
  without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road."
~Henry Ward Beecher
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
--Arnold Glasow
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
--Doris Lessing
"If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life."
--Bette Midler
"The human race has one really effective weapon,
  and that is laughter."
--Mark Twain
 "What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."
-- Yiddish Proverb
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
-- Milton Berle
 "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-- Victor Borge 

 
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time
to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a
time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a
time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. (King Solomon)

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1) For ALL (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus,
Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist,
Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) have sinned
& fall short of the glory of God.

2) For the wages of above (see #1) are DEATH (Hell, eternal
separation from God, & damnation) but the Gift (free & at
no charge to you) of God  (Creator, Jehovah, & Trinity) is
Eternal Life (Heaven) through (in union with) Jesus Christ
(God, Lord, 2nd Person of The Trinity, Messiah, Prince of
Peace & Savior of the World).

3) For God so greatly loved & dearly prized the world
(Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist,
Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians,
Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) that He even gave up
His only begotten (unique) Son, that whosoever (anyone,
anywhere, anytime - while still living) believes  (trust in,
relies on, clings to, depends completely on) Him shall
have eternal  (everlasting) life (heaven).

4) Jesus said: "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, & THE LIFE.
No one (male/female - American, Muslim, Jew, Catholic,
Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Presbyterian, European, Baptist,
Brazilian, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc. ) comes (arrives)
to the Father (with GOD in Heaven) EXCEPT BY (through)
ME (no other name).

This wonderful loving GOD gives you the choice - - -
(Rev. 3:20)

{Please note that church membership, baptism, doing good
things, etc. are not requirements for becoming a Christian -
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leads to destruction (Hell, damnation, eternal punishment),
and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow
the road that leads to life (Heaven, eternal happiness,
forever with God), and only a few find it.      --Matthew 7:13-14
 
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When the student returned, he shocked the doctor by losing
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Too Close
      To
The Edge
 
 


No matter how big you expect the Grand Canyon to be, it's bigger. And when
our family has had the privilege to visit there, we've all been impressed with
this awesome, divine masterpiece. One big problem there though has been
our boys, because they think they're part mountain goat. Of course, mountain
goats cannot read the signs that tell you to stay behind the fences. Apparently,
our boys can't read them either. They always had this irresistible urge to venture
out as far as possible on those rocks that overlook the canyon. Of course, one
false step, and it's all over -- actually, you're all over. All our lectures about going
too far for safety's sake made a lot more sense the morning after we had stopped
at one particular overlook. The morning paper reported that on the same afternoon
we had been there, two young men went to that same overlook and one never came
back. He ended up dead at the bottom of the canyon. The reason? He got too close
to the edge.

God has a word today for someone who's hurting, who's depressed and may be getting
too close to the edge. There may be this voice inside you, or someone you know, that's
saying, "You know, life just hurts too much. Maybe I should just check out once and for
all." You're looking over the edge of the abyss called suicide.

You need to know where that voice is coming from. Our word for today from the Word of
God is John 10:10. "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that
they may have life, and have it to the full." Two voices: one is the life-taker -- the devil,
who wants to destroy you. The other is the life-giver -- Jesus, who thought you were worth
dying for. Any thoughts of ending your life are from Satan himself. And you cannot let
him take you over the edge and rob you of all the tomorrows God has planned for you.

That edge of the cliff called suicide can only be a consideration if you don't realize how
tragically expensive suicide is. First, it's the ultimate act of defiance toward the God who
made you. In Psalm 139:13 and 16, it says, "You created my inmost being; You knit me
together in my mother's womb ... All the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be." Only the One who gave you your life has the right to end
it. And He's the One you meet the moment your life is over. You don't want to go into
eternity defying the God you are about to meet.

Suicide is also the ultimate act of selfishness toward the people who love you. They'll never
recover from the awful agony of this decision. Don't do this to them. And suicide is the
ultimate waste of the life Jesus gave His life for. He didn't die on that cross just to have
you throw away the life He gave everything for. One last thing -- suicide is the ultimate
surrender to the devil who hates you.

It may be that you have gotten too close to the edge recently, and you've been thinking
about suicide as an answer. But, believe me, living is always better. Jesus said, "I have
come that you might have life." Right now, pour out all that pain and all that struggle at
the feet of this One who loves you most. He said, "I was sent to bind up the brokenhearted."
And then talk to someone today about your struggle - a pastor or counselor who's probably
walked through this with other people. Whatever the risks of reaching out, they're not nearly
as expensive as giving up.

The Lord wants you to live -- to have all your tomorrows. That's why He sent you this message
of life today. Get away from the edge, and don't ever go near it again! In God's own words from
His book, "Choose life!"
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Be self-controlled and alert.  Your enemy the devil prowls
around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that
your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same
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       On Blogging



            “I didn’t really think about the consequences of everyone in the
world being able to see it… I was just doing it to amuse friends,” said a
startled and probably repentant blogger to a Chicago Tribune reporter in
a story earlier this month. The stories indiscreet bloggers tell apparently
are almost always the same. Blogging has cost many careless, forgetful
people their jobs and relationships, or, at the very least says Steve
Johnson, “a lot of time spent explaining what they wrote,”1 or as I would
put it, cleaning up after their mouths. I suspect blogging will leave a
paper trail that will prevent unwitting users from public careers in the
future.

            Some of the things people have dashed off in what Johnson
brilliantly calls “an example of digital smallness” are slangy, tasteless
criticisms of employers, particulars of sexual life, gossip about
colleagues, and disrespectful, even obscene remarks by students about their
professors—and that at notable universities. In one incident, a professor at
Northwestern University discovered that an online group had coalesced around
her.

            “It could be your generation who communicates that way,” that
professor, Michele Weldon, remembers telling a student journalist covering
the controversy, “but you have to remember that my generation is the one who
gives out the consequences.”2

           Consequences are the first thing that everyone in this culture needs
to be reminded of. Secondly, and far more crucial, is the issue of discretion.
“Discretion” or better yet “circumspection,” is defined as the art of being
cautious or reserved in speech…the ability to make responsible decisions…
the ability, presumably to distinguish between what is wise and foolish…
being thoughtful, qualities that mark a culture of civility. Presumably,
maturing involves learning when to contain one’s opinion, anger, selfishness
and even ones sense of justice. Only very young children get to say whatever
passes through their heads, and wise parents slowly and painstakingly
discipline that tendency as they grow older.

            “I think a lot of Americans sometimes confuse freedom of speech
with the idea that we have a right to say anything without any consequences
whatever,” said Daniel Drezner, a University of Chicago political science
professor who maintains a well-regarded blog which has raised his profile as
a commentator on international affairs. Proverbs 15:2 and 4 say it even more
incisively for the Christian whose activities should always be measured by
the Word of God: “The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable, but the
mouth of fools spouts folly. A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but
perversion in it crushes the spirit.” Dr. Rosalie de Rosset



1 Johnson, Steve. “Blogs Can Bite.” Chicago Tribune. 15 August 2005. Sec. 1,
p. 1.
2 Ibid, Sec. 1, p.10.
 
 
 
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I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]:
"I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I
don't accept His claim to be God."

That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was
merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would
not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic --
on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg --
or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice. Ei