You Know You’re From Oklahoma If…
You measure distance in minutes. You’ve ever had to switch from “heat” to “A/C in the same day. Stores don’t have bags; they have sacks. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year. You use “fix” as a verb.
Pursuing God’s Own Heart
– Jerry Vines “It is my conviction that God has a plan for the life of every Christian,” Vines explains. “If you are a Christian and you seek to make your heart sensitive to Him, then He will use you in a great way, just as He used David so many centuries ago.” Pursuing God’s
A Virus Update …
I thought you would want to know about this e-mail virus. Even the most advanced programs from Norton or McAfee cannot take care of this one. It appears to affect those who were born prior to 1960. Symptoms: Causes you to send the same e-mail twice. Causes you to send a blank e-mail. Causes you
"It's sad, but some people think that becoming a Christian means you never get to smile anymore." - Source unknown
"An individual who has no geniality about him had better be an undertaker, and bury the dead, for he will never succeed in influencing the living. I commend cheerfulness to all who would win souls; not levity and frothiness, but a genial, happy spirit. There are more flies caught with honey than with vinegar, and there will be more souls led to heaven by a man who wears heaven in his face than by one who bears death in his looks." - Charles Spurgeon, in addressing young men who wanted to be pastors
"Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending. Perversely, I will not give the happy ending (in my stories). I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all-interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite." - Jamaica Kincaid (quoted in Utne Reader, Jan/Feb 1998, pg 41
"If you happiness depends on what somebody else says or does, I guess you do have a problem." - Richard Bach
Happiness
New Bill of Rights
The following has been attributed to State Representative Mitchell Kaye from Georgia. “We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt free liberty to ourselves and
Roaring Lambs
– Bob Briner This book should be in the hands of anyone who wants to impact secular society. Briner has given us culture shaping strategies on how to be salt and light in a decaying and dark world. Make sure you read this one. 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael
"Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him." - Martin Luther
"Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me." - Jack Hayford, on being humbled by God
"A sign on a department store dressing room mirror: 'Objects in mirror may appear bigger than they actually are.'" - Hope Health Letter (12/95)
Humility
"Yet we should approach this new century with humility. Remember that the 20th century opened with brimming optimism, too. A New York Times editorial on Dec. 31, 1899, hailed the 19th century for its economic and scientific advances and predicted that the 20th would be even better. The next day, Jan. 1, 1900, a Times headline proclaimed 'The United States the Envy of the World.' But some rude surprises were just ahead. Historian John Keegan has said that the 20th century can be written through the biographies of six men: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt. The first four were tyrants who dimmed the lamps of freedom and plunged the world into the bloodiest conflicts in all of human history. Those two wars, along with a crushing depression, darkened man's outlook for years thereafter. As Americans we owe an extraordinary debt to those generations who have brought us to the edge of a new promised land. Their sacrifices not only brought us a good life, but through war and hard times, kept those values alive. Our Judeo-Christian values are now the greatest gift we can pass on to the 21st century."
Heritage
The Essentials of Life
– Griffith Thomas. Pickering and Inglis. Griffith Thomas was a great writer and expositor. His works remind us of the fundamental facts on which our faith is based. He was a popular speaker at Keswick and in conferences around the world. He was a teacher of the Word that you need to become familiar with.
Battle Zone
Arming Yourself to Wage War with the Devil – Greg Stier. Moody. A book written for young people to help them understand the serious nature of Spiritual warfare. The author also gives good insights into the book of Galatians, helping them arm themselves to do battle with the devil. 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started
"People don't fall into immorality instantly. The road to immorality involves a process. Absolutely anyone can fall, and that person can do it while having a successful ministry." - Lois Mowday Rabey in 'The Snare' (NavPress) quoted in Virtue, Sep/Oct 1997, page 58
"Luther E. Smith is professor of church and community at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. He had this to say in a speech to students about living honestly. 'Faking it for a class session is one thing. But it's so easy to find ourselves making faking it a lifestyle. We fake it with others. We fake it with ourselves. We fake it with God. This summer I saw a bumper sticker that said: 'Jesus is coming. Look busy!''" - Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 11, 1996
Hypocrisy
"Someone asked the American historian Charles A. Beard if he could summarize the lessons of history in a brief book. He said he could do it in four sentences: '(1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; (2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; (3) the bee fertilizes the flower it robs; (4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.'" - Warren W. Wiersbe in On Being a Servant
History