“The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life’s basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.” --Billy Graham
“Home is eating cold watermelon together on a hot day in the backyard and building a snow man six months later in the same spot. Home is where I discover wonder and learn to dream. It is where I find joy.” --Bill and Nancie Carmichael
“You know what’s helped in the Swindoll home? To think of where we live as a training place, not a showplace. The home is a laboratory where experiments are tried out. It is a place where life makes up its mind. The home is a place where a child is free to think, to talk, to try out ideas. In a scene like that, God fits very comfortably into the entire conversation. And at any place where His name is inserted, it fits.” --Charles Swindoll
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” --Robert Frost
“Home to me is not just a roof over my head, but a dream. If I lost my home it would be like losing all my thoughts, dreams, and memories. I love everything about it, from the north of the house to the south of the house. From the east of the house to the west of the house. If a fire burned down my house, the tears would roll down my face like the water down dirty windows.” --Allison Slater, age nine
“Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is useless.” --Psalm 127:1
“When home is ruled according to God’s Word, angels might be asked to stay with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.” --Charles H. Spurgeon
Home and Family
Seven Essentials of Church Building Projects
Mike Hankins (as seen in Rev Magazine, July/August 2005) Commit to the overall project budget early in the process. If you can afford $2 million, don’t have an architect design an $8 million project. Hankins says a typical formula used by lending institutions to determine a “ballpark figure” for what your church can afford is: three times your annual
When People Throw Stones
– Blaine Allen. Kregel. This is one of three books I would recommend to those who are going through the battle or trying to survive the batte. This one, Ron Dunn’s book Surviving Friendly Fire and Marshall Shelley’s Well Intentioned Dragons. All three should be required reading for ministers 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren
The Wilberforce Connection
– Clifford Hill In the mid 18th century Wilberforce and his friends set out to transform society. Their impact on Great Britain can not be denied. This is worthy reading if you are interested in impacting the 21st century culture. We need the same vision and passion if we are going to address this post modern
Emerging Church
– Michael Moynagh While the term emerging church is not a new one, this book is a good introduction and overview to this movement. I was in a recent pastors meeting where there was much discussion and debate about the emerging church. I wish I had read this book before that meeting and been more aware
Behold The King, A Study in Matthew
– Stanley Toussaint This long time professor at Dallas Theological Seminary has written a classic commentary on the first gospel. The book is biblically solid and practical. If you are preaching on the Kingdom of God, this is a great resource from a dispensational and premillennial perspective. 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren
Urbana
This site features InterVarsity’s Urbana mission conferences for college students and young adults. www.urbana.org 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and encourage pastors.
Mission Network News
Mission Network News keeps Christians informed of mission activity around the world in hopes of education and motivating them to pray for, participate in, and support mission efforts. www.mnnonline.org 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and encourage pastors.
GMI
This is a link to Operation World, which enlists Christians to pray for world missions. Each day highlights the prayer needs of a specific country. www.gmi.org/ow 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and encourage pastors.
Praying In Line With the Four Accordings
by Vance Havner Indeed, we are to attempt great things for God expecting great things from god. But not everything that we want or ask for or expect from God is best for us. Our praying must be in line with the four accordings: According to His Word. According to His will. According to our need. According to
Nothing destroys the Christmas spirit faster than looking for a place to park.
Last year a big store in Milwaukee started its Christmas sale so early that Santa Claus wore Bermuda shorts.Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Christmas is when we celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace by giving our kids rockets, machine guns, atom-bomb kits, and tanks.Keeping Christmas is good, but sharing it with others is much better.
At Christmas most parents spend more money on their children than they did on the honeymoon that started it all.Christmas is a time for exchanging a lot of things you can’t afford for a lot of things you don’t want.
God shocked the world with a babe, not a bomb.
A father’s biggest difficulty at Christmas time is convincing the children that he is Santa Claus and his wife that he is not.Christmas is a race to see which gives out first—your money or your feet.
What most of us want for Christmas is the day after.
Christmas
Various Statistics
How do airline travelers avoid conversations with the people sitting next to them? (Rev Magazine, 2005)Start reading—49%Put on earphones or listen to music—41%Pretend to be asleep—27%Get up to go to the restroom or to stretch legs—19%Ask to be left alone—10%Change seats—9%Lie—7%Play sick—4%15 Conservative scholars were asked to rank the 10 most harmful books of the 19th