Hold Nothing Back
Hold Nothing Back, How Sacrificial Obedience Leads to Intimacy with God – Alicia Williamson, New Hope Publishers. Alicia is a former member of TRUTH and is currently a recording artist, speaker at Women’s conferences and concert artist. After being healed of cervical cancer, she and her husband, Richard now have two ‘miracle’ children, Michael Chandler
Why Good People Do Bad Things
– Erwin W. Lutzer. Word. Lutzer is the Senior Pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago. His writings are practical and helpful for pastors and lay leaders. The chapter titles of this book include: The Challenge of Self-Discovery, Deceived and Loving It, The Path of Least Resistance, The Curse and Cure for Shame, The Roots
Things I Have Learned About Oklahoma
Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Oklahoma. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Oklahoma, plus a couple no one’s seen before. Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when
Worth Repeating
– Bob Kelly I’m a sucker for a great quote book and this is one I’m enjoying. Selections range from funny to profound. Every preacher should have a collection of quote books to season a sermon and drive home a point. 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build
Leading Beyond the Walls
– Adam Hamilton Lyle Schaller calls this, ‘the best book I have ever read on how to be an effective parish pastor.’ Hamilton is the Senior Pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. The church averages over six thousand in worship per weekend. A book written to help mainline churches
Where Churches Stand
The confirmation of the Episcopal Church’s first gay bishop makes it the first major Christian denomination to say that people in committed gay relationships are not barred from leadership. How other denominations stand on ordaining homosexuals, blessing same-sex unions and ordaining women: Denomination No. of Members(in millions) Ordain Openly Gay Clergy Bless Same-sex Unions Ordain
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