Thought for today - 10/31/2013

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." 
- Psalm 139:13-14

Thought for today - 10/30/2013

PATIENCE 
James A. Garfield, prior to serving as President of the United States, was president of Hiram College in Ohio. One day a father asked Garfield if there were a short-cut whereby his son could get through college in less than the usual four years. He wanted his son to get on with making money. 
   The college president gave this reply: "Of course there is a way; it all depends on what you want your boy to do. When God wants to grow an oak tree, he takes 100 years. When he wants to make a squash, he only takes two months."

*AVAILABLE* CONNECTIONS News for week of 10/27/2013

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For week of October 27, 2013
Issue 482

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The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the LORD; the knowledge of the holy one is understanding.
- Proverbs 9:10 (CEB)

     CONSIDER 
“My worth to God in public is what I am in private.”
- Oswald Chambers

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Thought for today - 10/29/2013

CONSIDER 
"I belong and will ever belong to "The Great God Party." I will have nought to do with "The Little God Party..." Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible." 
- C. T. Studd (1860-1931)

Thought for today - 10/28/2013

"Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care." 
- Psalm 95:6-7

Thought for today - 10/27/2013

Alcohol is a perfect solvent: It dissolves marriages, families, and careers.

Thought for today - 10/26/2013

ON PRAYER 
"I need the opportunity to free my mind of sorrow and personal concerns; to see my world through the mirrored reflection of holiness. I need a time of prayer to leap beyond what is limiting in me as a person; to rediscover what is important and what is trivial; to take counsel with what my tradition stresses as the living faith. I need prayer."
- Albert Silverman

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Thought for today - 10/25/2013

"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." 
- Psalm 51:10

Thought for today - 10/24/2013

"Some people want to be vaccinated with a mild dose of Christianity so as to be protected from the real thing." 
- William Culbertson

Thought for today - 10/23/2013

"Live near to God and all things will appear little to you in comparison with eternal realities." 
- Robert M'Cheyne

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Thought for today - 10/22/2013

"The Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one." 
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3

Thought for today - 10/21/2013

REAL JOY 
"The service of the Holy Spirit is that He helps us to distinguish pleasure from happiness and develop real joy. There are many experiences which give us temporary pleasure but do not add up to abiding satisfaction. Their thrills pass quickly, and sometimes leave a trail of regret and remorse. Some of our sense pleasures are like lightning flashes, while true joy is like the sunlight." 
- Ralph Sockman

Thought for today - 10/20/2013

PRIORITIES 
"Jesus did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which Gad gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity and leave them with God."
- Charles E. Hummel (1923-2004), The Tyranny of the Urgent, Chicago: Inter-Varsity Press, 1967

PULPIT PIMP RICK WARREN LOOKING TO CASH IN ON THE “DANIEL FAST”

Rick warren and his partners are counting on their "flock" (and the
gullible masses) to line their pockets with their version of the "Daniel
Fast" made popular by the book by Susan Gregory a couple of years back.

Many have benefited by the simple diet and it seems that Warren et al,
are looking for their place at the table.

I'm not going to place a link to their obvious money grab. Just wanted
to tell you to keep your money in your pocket. Pull out your old "Daniel
Fast" book and give it another go.

There are better ways to spend $24.99

Thought for today - 10/19/2013

CONSIDER 
"Hope is not wishful thinking, nor fanciful imagination. Hope is the realism of the man of faith who knows that there is a line of meaningful development from the past, through the present, into the future. Hopelessness is the true condition of hell." 
- Joshua Haberman

*REBROADCAST* - Evangelistic Malpractice

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An astounding number of conversions are racked up but the problem is
this: The conversions don't stick!
What is behind all this malpractice?
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Thought for today - 10/18/2013

"Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?' declares the Lord. 'Do not I fill heaven and earth?' declares the Lord." 
- Jeremiah 23:24

Thought for today - 10/17/2013

Have you ever thought that life is a car wash, and you're on a bike?

Thought for today - 10/16/2013

ON PRAYER 
"To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven."
- J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), A Call to Prayer, published in the 1850's as a pamphlet, p. 1 

Sticker Shock: Obamacare deductibles

Adam Weldzius, a nurse practitioner, considers himself better informed than most when it comes to the inner workings of health insurance. But even he wasn't prepared for the pocketbook hit he'll face next year under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Thought for today - 10/15/2013

"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." 
- Proverbs 15:1

Escaping "church"

Morpheus: “The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters; the very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system... You have to understand; most of the people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.”

It is all they know. The main point is once you are comfortable with the institutional church, there is a real cost to unplugging.

We need to count the cost of freedom and growth. Many “church” people will react in fear we we stop playing the “church” game. When people are fearful, they usually react in the fight of flight mode, in which they will either turn away from you or turn on you. Most of us, while under the influence of the church system, were fairly fearful. We have been programed by the church system to be fearful about most everything. We are afraid of God because the Old Testament Law is still taught in church, as if we, by our own willpower, could ever keep it. We couldn't, so we often felt like failures. We were certainly afraid to question the many contradictions of the church life because we would have risked rejection or ostracization. We were afraid to think for ourselves for fear that we might come up with a different answer to the church dogma and be out of sync with our friends, denomination, or church beliefs. We were taught if you are “out of church” too long that the devil will get a hold of you, trick you, hurt you, and cause you to backslide.

Church attenders have been assimilated onto a system that is based on this world's ways, disguised as the Body of Christ. Things contrary to Christ abound: association around a denomination (division), approval based on works, coercion and manipulation using shame and guilt, law keeping, motivating by using fear, honoring the wealthy, to name a few. Many people have been involved in church for years, or even decades. Church involvement is not an easy pattern to get free from because we get so entrenched in it. But freedom does exist.

-Excerpt from, “Was church God's Idea?” by Marc Winter (italacs & bold mine)

Thought for today - 10/14/2013

CONSIDER 
"Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren." 
- J. C. Ryle

Thought for today - 10/12/2013

"He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" 
- Micah 6:8

Thought for today - 10/11/2013

"Keep me, Lord, from ever hardening down into the state of being just another average Christian." 
- A. W. Tozer

Thought for today - 10/10/2013

"Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint."
- Isaiah 40:28-31 (NLT)

Thought for today - 10/08/2013

"I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a signature of no importance, but the decisive factor. The fact that the name of Jesus comes at the beginning does not make it a prayer in the name of Jesus; but this means to pray in such a manner that I dare name Jesus in it, that is to say, dare to think of Him, think His holy will together with whatever I am praying for." 
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Journals, ed. Alexander Dru, Oxford University Press, 1959, p. 336-337

Thought for today - 10/07/2013

"He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." 
- Philippians 1:6

Thought for today - 10/06/2013

"No Christian is where he ought to be spiritually until the beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ is being reproduced in daily Christian life." 
- A. W. Tozer

Thought for today - 10/05/2013

"There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul." 
- Leo Tolstoy

Dr. Ben Carson Targeted by IRS, Big Three Networks Censor

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Thought for today - 10/04/2013

"Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." 
- Hebrews 11:6

Thought for today - 10/03/2013

"God seems to do nothing of Himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. He commands us to do slowly and blunderingly what He could do perfectly and in the twinkling of an eye. Creation seems to be delegation through and through. I suppose this is because He is a giver." 
- C.S. Lewis in The World's Last Night

Living As Salt and Light - Derek Prince Book Release

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Thought for today - 10/02/2013

"Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you."
- Jeremiah 32:17

Thought for today - 10/01/2013

"Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God." 
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Thought for today - 10/01/2013

"I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws." 
- Psalm 119:7