With hurricanes, flooding, tornadoes, mud slides, fires out of control, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?
[Editor’s note: There were just too many good ones; I couldn’t decide which to post, so here are all of them.]
He that rose from the clods we expect from the clouds. –Thomas Adams
He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near. It is he who, whether it be far or near, awaits it with sincere faith, stead-fast hope and fervent love. –Augustine
The certainty of the Second Coming of Christ should touch and tincture every part of our daily behavior. –John Blanchard
The only remedy for all this mass of misery is the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Why do we not plead for it every time we hear the clock strike? –Anthony Ashley Cooper
The subject of the second coming of Christ has never been popular to any but the true believer. –Billy Graham
Christ will come when He pleases, to show His sovereignty, and will not let us know when, to teach us our duty. –Matthew Henry
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com) and seen in Cup O’Cheer
Nathaniel Hawthorne came home heartbroken. He’d just been fired from his job in the customhouse. His wife, rather than responding with anxiety, surprised him with joy. “Now you can write your book!” she said. He wasn’t so positive. “And what shall we live on while I’m writing it?” he asked. To his amazement she opened a drawer and revealed a wad of money she’d saved out of her housekeeping budget. “I always knew you were a man of genius,” she told him, and “I always knew you’d write a masterpiece.”
She believed in her husband. And because she did, he wrote. And because he wrote, every library in America has a copy of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” You have the power to change someone’s life simply by the words you speak.
From A Love Worth Giving
It’s morning, Jesus. It’s morning, and here’s that light and sound all over again.
I’ve got to move fast … get into the bathroom, wash up, grab a bite to eat and run some more.
I just don’t feel like it, Lord. What I really want to do is get back into bed, pull up the covers, and sleep. All I seem to want today is the big sleep, and here I’ve got to run all over again.
Where am I running? You know these things I can’t understand. It’s not that I need to have you tell me. What counts most is just that somebody knows, and it’s you. That helps a lot.
So I’ll follow along okay? But lead, Lord. Now I’ve got to run. Are you running with me, Jesus?
by Malcolm Boyd – Seen In Cup O’Cheer
Sacrifice for the kingdom will be amply rewarded both now and in eternity. In part 17 of The Gospel of Mark, Pastor Dan Cox reads from Mark 10:13-31.
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Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do like, and the eyesight to tell the difference
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