The Margaret Street Church of Christ
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Four
Sentence Sermons:
+ Born once - die twice; Born twice - die once.
+ You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.
+ Let your policy be honesty, humility, fairness and love.
+ Don't make the mistake of believing that you work for someone else.
+ Failures can be stepping stones to success.
+ Instead of seeing things as they are, we often see things as we are.
+ He who has a "why" to live can put up with the "how."
+ A lot of folks need to give their minds a bath.
+ Sleeping saints please Satan -- they should awake to righteousness.
+ God has included you in His plans; Have you included God in yours?
+ We should temper our temper and be tender hearted.
+ As Christians we must function, or we will fizzle.
+ It is far better to live for Christ today than to later wish you had.
+ When the church became prominent in the world, the world then became prominent in the church.
+ Most people want to go to heaven only if they can take their "luggage" with them.
+ Men, like kites, should rise against the wind.
+ You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
+ Children are afraid of darkness; many men are afraid of the light.
+ It takes great courage to say "No", when most others are saying "Yes".
+ Do what you can, where you can, when you can, with what you have.
+ The pathway to hell is paved with good intentions.
+ To BE righteous, one must DO righteousness.
+
Temptations: You can't stop birds from flying over your head, but you
can keep them from building nests in your hair.
+ "Better is little with righteousness than great revenues without right." (Solomon).
+ "The hoary head is a crown of glory, IF it be found in the way of righteousness." (Solomon).
+ "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?" (Prov. 20:9).
+ "It IS possible for a man to live straight in a crooked generation."
+ "A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks."
+ "Much may be known of a man’s character by what excites his laughter."
+ "Swallowing your pride will not give you indigestion."
+ "There is nothing so sad as willful ignorance."
+ "You may think that alcohol peps you up, but in the end it lets you down."
+ "Some people will fall for everything and stand for nothing!"
+ "If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything."
+ "Gossip is like a balloon; it grows bigger with every puff."
+ "A person with a closed mind can get by o.k. if he also keeps his mouth closed."
+ "Fewer marriages would hit the skids, if more who said, 'I do' – still did!"
+ "Common sense and honesty should be more common".
+ "Treat your wife like a thoroughbred and she won't be a nag".
+ "A man without principle never draws much interest."
+ "A Christian's walk should match his talk."
+ "It is easier to float a rumor than to sink one."
+ "The brook would lose its song if you took the rocks away."
+ "Hypocrites are like a pin – point one way and head the other."
+ "No great nation has ever been overcome until it has destroyed itself." Will Durant
+
If you really desire to be a patriot; if you are truly concerned about
America;
if you earnestly want God to bless America -- Then live a life in harmony
with
the will of God.--John Gibson via, Gospel Power, Vol. 11, No. 49, Dec.
12, 2004.
+ "Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people" (Prov. 14:34).
+ "If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
+ "Don't let your worries get you down. Remember, Moses started out as a basket case".
+ Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited - until you try to sit in their pews.
+ Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.
+ It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.
+
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose,
but mosquitoes and sand gnats seem to come close.
+ When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God waiting there.
+
People are funny, they want the front of the bus, the middle
of the road, and the back of the church.
+
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your
front door forever.
+
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your
door, leans on your doorbell and calls your name.
+ Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn't belong.
+ If the church wants a better preacher, it only needs to pray for the one it has.
+ God Himself does not judge a man until he is dead, so why should you?
+ Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
+ Peace starts with a smile.
+
I don't know why some people change churches; what difference does it
make
which one you stay home from?
+
A lot of church members who are singing "Standing on the Promises"
are just
sitting on the premises.
+ We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges.
+ Be ye fishers of men. You catch them - He'll clean them.
+ Coincidence may be when God chooses to remain anonymous.
+ Don't put a question mark where God put a period.
+ Don't wait for 6 strong men to take you to church.
+ Forbidden fruits create many jams.
+ God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
+ God grades on the cross, not the curve.
+
God loves everyone, but probably prefers "fruits of the spirit"
over "religious nuts!"
+ God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
+ He who angers you, controls you!
+ If God is your Co-pilot - swap seats!
+ Prayer: Don't give God instructions -- just report for duty!
+
The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace
of God will not protect you.
+ We don't change the message, the message changes us.
+ You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.
+ We should alter our lives to conform to God's unaltered Word.
+ When a child gets off the track, he can be put back on it by pulling a switch.
+ There is never a right way to do a wrong thing.
+ We look at things which are not seen now because some day soon they will be seen most clearly.
+ Outward expressions reveal the inward man.
+ Without true friends, you are truly without.
+ Money may take you anywhere but to heaven; may provide nearly everything but happiness.
+ Many so-called Christians are like the farmer's pond: dried up in the summer and frozen in the winter.
+ Maybe the reason women strive for beauty more than brains is that they believe men can see better than they think.
+ Outward expressions reveal inner thoughts and feelings.
+ "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of".
+ "If fault-finding generated electricity, some people would be power-houses".
+ "Hem up both ends of the day with prayer, and it won't be so likely to unravel in the middle".
+ "When looking for faults, use a mirror and not a telescope".
+ Alcohol costs a man both in dollars and in sense.
+ You will not become a drunkard if you never take the drink just before the second one.
+ Getting accustomed to sin does not make sin any less sinful.
+ We should rid ourselves of evil, not merely supervise it.
+ The Word of God is for our information and transformation.
+ "The ability to use experience – even of others – is true intelligence."
+ "It is not wise to tell every thing you know, but it is best to know every thing you tell."
+ "Some people think they are good cooks merely because they roast their neighbors."
+ "If you stretch the truth, don’t be surprised if it snaps."
+ A word to the wise is sufficient
+ "The end never justifies meanness."
+ "He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas."
+ "No amount of riches can atone for poverty of character."
+ "The man who is rowing the boat, has no time to rock it."
+ "If it wasn't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done."
+
"Nothing motivates to action like the last minute".
+ "Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep
it from themselves."
+ "Truth may lose some battles, but it never loses a war."
+ "Some people get into some pretty deep water while they are trying to make a splash."
+ "If ‘revenge is sweet,’ why does it leave such a bitter taste?"
+ If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
+ In fishing for men there is no closed season.
+ Some folks give according to their means, and others according to their meanness.
+ It takes a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.
+ Usually the chains of a habit are too small to be felt until they are too strong to break.
+ If you deal loosely, don't be surprised if you get into tight places.
+ When you are facing the sun, your shadow will fall behind you.
+ Some people will praise DEAD saints and persecute LIVING ones.
+ People usually get at odds with one another when they try to get even.
+ Be master of your habits or they will master you.
+ Money makes a good servant but a terrible master.
+ Don't fill up on this world's crumbs; feed your soul on living bread.
+ You must stand for something or you will fall for anything.
+ Sorrow looks behind; Worry looks around; Faith looks up.
+ Guard your thoughts because what you think, you are.
+ "He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" ----- Abraham Lincoln.
+ One of the best ways to stay out of evil is to fill your life with doing good.
+ "Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
+ The price of sin, no one can afford.
+ The faith in your heart will be seen by the works in your life.
+ "Some people are like vinegar, the older they become, the more they sour."
+ "Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."
+ "As a man grows older and wiser, he talks less and says more."
+ "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".
+ "A good listener is not only popular; after a while he knows more."
+ "Others may ruin your reputation, but only you can ruin your character."
+ "Some who complain that others do not understand them, ought to be glad of it."
+ "Honest mistakes need correction just as all mistakes do."
+ "Seems it is easier to give advice than to lend a helping hand."
+ "To err is human, but try not to let the eraser wear out before the pencil does".
+ "Faith must have adequate evidence or else it is mere superstition."
+ "Compromise is always wrong when it means to sacrifice a principle of truth."
+ "The Christian must have "won’t" power as well as "will" power."
+ "How young folks turn out depends to a great extent on what time they turn in."
+ "Unless you thirst for truth and righteousness, the sermon will seem dry."
+ "The early church was no more Roman Catholic than the apostles were Americans."
+ "No man’s character is better than his word."
+ "Some learn from their mistakes; the truly wise learn from the mistakes of others."
+ "We must learn from the mistakes of others for we do not have enough time to make all of them ourselves"--Mark Twain
+ We can't control the wind, but we can adjust our sails to meet the challenge.
+ "Perseverance is that quality of character that sees a thing through in spite of adversities and even though results are not immediately visible." John Witt
+ "The heart of education is the education of the heart."
+ "No smutty stories are told in heaven – or on the way to heaven."
+ "The law of love is quite harmonious with the love of law."
+ "A beautiful heart more than offsets the handicap of a homely face."
+ What some people call the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
+ Take responsibilities on your shoulder and it will leave no room for "chips."
+ Peace to a Christian is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God.
+ Some people criticize the Scriptures like they do a restaurant; if they have no appetite, they think the food is no good.
+ He who will not forgive others thereby burns the bridge over which he must someday pass.
+ A man has the right to do as he pleases - only as long as he pleases to do right.
+ The pleasures of sin are temporary - the wages of sin are eternal.
+ For each person killed by a mad dog thousands are killed by liquor. Why is it that the dog is shot and the liquor is licensed?
+ When you throw mud you lose ground.
+ Some preachers preach by the mile and practice by the foot.
+ You cannot take your money with you but you can send it on ahead.
+ To be victorious in Christ we must sing, shine and surrender.
+ Sin deforms us but Christ can transform us -- if we will only let Him.
+ Any religion that does not motivate a person to obey God is false.
+ For God to be with us we must abide in Christ!
+ Freedom from sin does not mean free to sin.
+ While most people seek to please men, true Christians seek to please God.
+ Without God all men, in reality, are failures.
+ Many receive advice but only the wise profit by it.
+ "Evil has no power if the good are unafraid." -- Ronald Reagan.
+ "In every pang that rends the heart, The Man of sorrows had a part." -- Michael Bruce.
+ There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
+ "The thing most needed in the American home today is the family."
+ "Popularity comes from pleasing people, but greatness comes from pleasing God."
+ "Some people read just enough to stay misinformed."
+ "The best thing parents can spend on their children is time – not money."
+ By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks his father is wrong.
+ Most footprints on the sands of time were made with work shoes.
+ Obstacles are those things we see when we take our eyes off the goal.
+ Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you reach your destination.
+ "No one ever listened himself out of a job" -- Calvin Coolidge.
+ What we weave in time we will wear in eternity.
+ It's not what we gain, but what we give, that measures the worth of the life we live.
+ If you are not kind, you are the wrong kind.
+ Wild oats thrive during a spiritual drought.
+ Many young folks sow their wild oats - then hope for a crop failure.
+ No one is truly educated who lacks a knowledge of God's Word.
+ The Bible does not need to be re-written, but re-read.
+ The pro-choice rant is a pack of lies; for selfish convenience, a babies dies?
+ The pro-choice rant is a wicked lie; how can you choose to let a baby die?
+ Nothing is harder to break than the softness of indifference.
+ Many are hacking at the branches of evil when they should be striking at the root.
+ Defer not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun may never rise.
+ One man with courage is a majority. (Andrew Jackson).
+ A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.
+ Truth often suffers more by the lives of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
+ Don't bite at the bait of pleasure until you know there is no hook beneath it.
+ In mercy God bears with the wicked, but will not forever.
+ Giving free advice is not always a sign of generosity.
+ Marriages must be properly maintained to be permanent.
+ Marriages may be made in heaven, but must be maintained on earth.
+ When it comes to spotting the faults of others, we all seem to have 20/20 vision.
+ Experience may not be worth what it costs, but we can't seem to get it for less.
+ Beware of the high cost of low living.
+ Rumor is one thing that gets thicker as you spread it.
+ Goodness is an investment that never fails to pay rich dividends.
+ Kind words, cheerful smiles and helping hands are the rays of sunshine through clouds of sorrow.
+ More wisdom is required to profit from good advice than is required to give it.
+ When calamity comes, your integrity is tested.
+ Your disposition, not your position, will make you happy or unhappy.
+ Much is accomplished with aptitude, even more with a good attitude
+ Give God what's right -- not what's left.
+ Man's way leads to a hopeless end -- God's way leads to an endless hope.
+ A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
+ He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
+ In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma--but you need not let him be the period.
+ Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.
+ Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to church services for a faith-lift and a face-lift.
+ When praying, don't give God instructions - just report for duty.
+ Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.
+ Don't attemp to change God's message - Let His message change you.
+ The church is prayer-conditioned.
+ When God ordains, He sustains.
+ NOTICE: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.
+ Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
+ Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position.
+ Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.
+ Exercise daily -- walk with the Lord.
+ Never give the devil a ride -- he will always want to drive.
+ Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.
+ Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
+ He who angers you controls you.
+ Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed.
+ Give Satan an inch & he'll try to be a ruler.
+ Be ye fishers of men -- you catch them & He'll clean them.
+ God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
+ Read the Bible -- It will scare the devil out of you.
+ What we do in this life echoes forever in the next life.
+ Our life on earth will soon be past - only what's done for Christ will last.
+ Grateful people are happy people! Those who aren't, aren't.
+ A patronizing disposition always has a meaner side.
+ That man is richest whose pleasures are the simplest.
+ A joyful life comes not only by knowledge, but also action.
+ You can often tell what makes a person tick by the way they unwind.
+ Don't merely find fault but find a remedy.
+ Just as tears cleanse grief, so does laughter cleanse anger.
+ Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
+ You never know until you try to reach them how accessible people are; but you must approach each person by the right door.
+ Blowing out another fellow's candle will not make yours shine brighter.
+ Those who complain most are most to be complained of -- Matthew Henry.
+ It is amazing how many people will struggle to learn what is right; and then not do it.
+ Courage isn't having the strength to go on -- it's going on when you don't have the strength.
+ A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
+ It is far better to slip with the foot than with the tongue.
+ Satan may ring your door bell, but you don't have to let him in.
+ He who provides for the moment and neglects his soul may seem wise for a moment but is a fool forever.
+ One of the main ingredients of sin is selfishness.
+ Greet the Word of God with an open mind and receptive heart.
+ If you are not a dog, don't spend so much of your time growling.
+ Ability is of little account without opportunity (Napoleon).
+ Prayer is an attitude of gratitude.
+ Some folks live and learn, others just live.
+ Don't blame God for the harvest since you are the one who did the sowing.
+ Regardless of what your past has been, you can have a spotless future.
+ The one thing that most people "in love" don't want is advice.
+ Once you've traded your good reputation for money, it is impossible to trade back.
+ There are no traffic jams on the straight and narrow way.
+ One slip does not make a person forever a failure anymore than one good deed makes him a saint forever.
+ Those who live only for pleasure do not get real pleasure out of living.
+ Busy people are also the happiest people.
+ Righteousness is to have no fellowship with unrighteousness anywhere at anytime for any reason! (cf. 2 Cor. 6:14).
+ Only those who are faithful in "little" things should be called on to do "big" things (cf. Lk. 16:10).
+ Patience includes the ability to let your light shine after you have blown a fuse.
+ You may see a rainbow after you patiently bear the storm.
+ Your work is a commentary on you character.
+ If you skate on thin ice, you may end up in hot water.
+ A clear conscience, like a soft pillow, will help you sleep well.
+ We should be "conservative" in our thinking and "liberal" in our giving.
+ We should be lowly but not lying.
+ We should be meek, but not weak!
+ We should be "considerate," but not "compromising!"
+ Actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often!
+ If you don't care where you're going, any road will get you there!
+ A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same!
+ "Money is a good servant, but a cruel master!
+ Caution: Anger is one letter less than danger!
+ "Appreciation is one of the rarest, but also one of the most beautiful virtues."
+ "Sooner or later you must learn that God makes no deals."
+ "You can not strengthen a man’s character by whitewashing it."
+
"The man who lives only for self is engaged in a very unprofitable
business."
+ The phrase that is guaranteed to wake up an audience: "and in
conclusion."
+ "Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent" --Horace Smith.
+ "Common sense is in spite of, not the result of education" -- Victor Hugo.
+ Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live.
+ Since God is our Father, we should be willing to act like His children.
+ One minute of keeping your mouth shut may be worth an hour of explanation.
+ When at a loss for the right word to say, try silence.
+ The religion that costs nothing is worth nothing.
+ The more we grow up, the less we blow up.
+ Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.
+ People do not lack strength as much as they lack will.
+ Sometimes suffering requires more courage than death.
+ Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.
+ A true friend can hear a tear drop.
+ Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
+ "Christianity" is a battle, not merely a dream.
+ If you would lift me you must be on higher ground. -- Emerson.
+ There is no education like adversity.
+ Self conquest is the greatest of victories -- Plato.
+ He will not be weary of the cross who is sure of the crown.
+ Abundant life may be smothered by material abundance.
+
"Reason and free inquiry are the effective agents against error.
They
are the natural enemies of error, and error only" --Thomas Jefferson.
+ He who offers God a second place offers Him no place at all.
+ He is truly wise who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
+ "Some people must get sick before their religion is strong enough to assert itself."
+ Some people have only enough religion to make them miserable.
+ "Some people can make a cloak out of the smallest piece of religion."
+ God never altars the robe of righteousness to fit the man, but the man to fit the robe."
+ "When a Christian stops doing, he starts dying."
+ "A narrow mind and a long tongue usually go together."
+ To assert that a world as intricate as ours emerged from chaos by chance is about as sensible as to claim that Shakespeare’s dramas were composed by rioting monkeys in a print shop. -- Merrill C. Tenney
+ “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” - Margaret Lee Runbeck
+ "True charity is the desire to be useful to others without the thought of recompense."
+ "The troubles of yesterday added to the worries of tomorrow are too heavy to be carried today."
+ "A good way to forget your troubles is to help others to forget theirs."
+ “A page of history is worth a pound of logic.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
+ To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
+ "If you hold your religion lightly, you are sure to let it slip."
+ "Faith is never surprised at success."
+ "Beware of the rubber conscience and the concrete heart."
+ "The trouble with little sins is they don’t stay little."
+
Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing who to thank.
+ "The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the best of everything that comes along their way."
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A Mind Twister
I thought I knew,
I knew it all,
But now, I must confess,
The more I know I know I know,
I know I know the less.
Know what I mean?
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ALONE
(Author Unknown)
If one walks in the way of truth and conviction, he must be prepared
to
walk alone. “No man stood with me but all men forsook me,”
wrote the
battle-scarred apostle in describing his first appearance before Nero
to
answer for his life for believing and teaching contrary to the Roman
World.
Truth has been out of fashion since man changed his robe of fadeless
light for a garment of faded leaves. Noah built and voyaged alone -
his
neighbors laughed at his strangeness and perished in style. Abraham
wandered and worshipped alone - Sodomites smiled at the simple shepherd,
followed the fashion and fed the flames. Daniel dined and prayed alone.
Jeremiah prophesied and wept alone. Jesus loved and died alone.
On the lonely way His disciples should walk, Jesus said: “Strait
is
the gate and narrow the way which leadeth unto life and few there be
that find it.” Of their treatment by men who walk in the broad
way,
Jesus said, “If ye were of the world, the world would love his
own; but
because ye are not of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”
Peter
later stated that because the multitude went in “pernicious ways”
the
way of truth would be evil spoken of.
The people in the wilderness praised Abraham and persecuted Moses. The
people under the kings praised Moses and persecuted the prophets. The
people under Caiaphas praised the prophets and persecuted Jesus. The
people under the popes praised the Savior and persecuted the saints.
And
multitudes now, in the church and in the world, applaud the courage
of
the patriarchs and prophets, the apostles and martyrs, but condemn as
stubbornness or foolishness, that same faithfulness today.
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The following is a quote from something a communist said he would do
if he believed what Christians say we do.
“If
I believed, as millions say they do, that a knowledge and practice of
Christianity in this life influenced destiny in another world, Christianity
would be to me everything. I would cast aside earthly thoughts as vanities
and earthly feelings as follies. Christianity would be my first waking
thought, and my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousness.
I would labor in its cause alone. I would take thought for tomorrow
and eternity alone. Earthly consequences would never stay my hands nor
seal my lips. I would esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a lifetime
of effort. I would go forth and preach Christ to the world, and my theme
would be, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world
and lose his soul”.
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Abraham
Lincoln said, "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that
I have.
I must stand by anybody that stands right and stand with him while he
is
right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
"There
is but one straight course, and that is to seek the TRUTH and pursue
it steadily." George Washington
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The Holy Bible and the TV Guide
They lie on the table side by side
The Holy Bible and the TV guide.
One
is well worn and cherished with pride.
Not the Bible, but the TV guide.
One
is used daily to help folks decide.
No, not the Bible, but the TV guide.
As
the pages are turned, what shall they see.
Oh, what does it matter, turn on the TV.
Then
confusion reigns, they can't all agree
On what they should watch on the old TV.
So
they open the book in which they confide,
No, not the Bible, but the TV guide.
The
Word of God is seldom read,
Maybe a verse as they fall into bed.
Exhausted and sleepy and tired as can be;
Not from reading the Bible, from watching TV.
So
then back to the table side by side,
Lie the Holy Bible and the TV guide.
No time for prayer, no time for the Word,
The plan of Salvation is seldom heard.
But
forgiveness of sin, so full and free,
Is found in the Bible, not on TV.
Author unknown
OPEN DOOR POLICY
If
God brings you to it,
He will bring you through it.
Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.
What
a wonderful way to explain it.
A sick man turned to his doctor, as he
was preparing to leave the
examination room and said, "Doctor, I am
afraid to die. Tell me what
lies on the other side."
Very quietly, the doctor said, "I don't know."
"You don't know? You, a Christian man,
do not know what is on the other side?"
The doctor was holding the handle of the
door; on the other side came a
sound of scratching and whining, and as
he opened the door, a dog sprang
into the room and leaped on him with an
eager show of gladness.
Turning to the patient, the doctor said,
"Did you notice my dog? He's
never been in this room before. He
didn't know what was inside. He
knew nothing except that his master was
here, and when the door opened,
he sprang in without fear. I know little
of what is on the other side
of death, but I do know one thing... I
know my Master is there and that is enough."
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May today there be peace within you.
May you trust God that you are exactly
where you are meant to be.
"I believe that friends are quiet angels
who lift us to our feet when our
wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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Some people complain that God put thorns on
roses, while others praise Him for putting roses on
thorns.
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THE DIARY OF A BIBLE:
JANUARY:
-- A busy time for me. Most of the family decided to
read me through this year. They kept me busy for the first two
weeks, but they have forgotten me now.
FEBRUARY:
-- Clean-up time. I was dusted off yesterday and put
in my place. My owner did use me for a few minutes last week.
He had been in an argument and was looking up some references
with which to prove that he was right.
MARCH:
-- Had a busy day the first of the month. My owner was
elected president of the PTA and used me to prepare a speech.
APRIL:
-- Grandpa visited us this month. He kept me on his lap
for an hour reading from 1 Pet. 5:5-7. He seems to think more of
me than do some people in my own household.
MAY:
-- I have a few green stains on my pages. Some spring
flowers were pressed between my pages.
JUNE:
-- I look like a scrapbook. They have stuffed me full of
newspaper clippings - one of the girls got married.
JULY:
-- They put me in a suitcase today. I guess we are off on
vacation. I wish I could stay home: I know I'll be closed up in this
thing for at least two weeks.
AUGUST: -- Still in the suitcase.
SEPTEMBER:
-- Back home at last and in my old familiar place.
I have a lot of company. Two women's magazines and four comic
books are stacked on top of me. I wish I could be read as much
as they are.
OCTOBER:
-- They read me a little bit today. One of them is very
sick. Right now I am sitting in the center of the coffee table. I
think the preacher is coming by for a visit.
NOVEMBER:
-- Back in my old place. Somebody asked today if
I were a scrapbook.
DECEMBER:
-- The family is busy getting ready for the holidays.
I guess I'll be covered up under wrapping paper and packages
again...just as I am every Christmas. ---- via. Henderson Blvd.
Bulletin.
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THIS IS WHAT LOVE IS ALL ABOUT
It
was a busy morning, approximately 8:30 am, when an elderly gentleman
in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He stated
that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am.
I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be
over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him looking
at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient,
I would evaluate his wound. On examination of it, I noticed it was well
healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies and
removed his sutures and redressed his wound.
While taking care of his wound, we began to engage in conversation I
asked him if he had a doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in
such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the
nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I then inquired as to her
health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she
was a victim of Alzheimers Disease. As we talked, and I finished dressing
his wound, I asked if she would be worried if he was a bit late. He
replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized
him in five years now.
I was surprised, and asked him. "And you still go every morning,
even though she doesn't know who you are?" He smiled as he patted
my hand and said. "She doesn't know me, but I still know who she
is."
I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and
thought, "That is the kind of love I want in my life."
True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance
of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.