Amy and I, since we have all the time in the world with 1 week left of summer vacation, worked together on one of those activity sheets. The paper starts out with a page covered with random small shapes. We are to color in the spaces that has a dot in it, and do not color in the spaces without a dot. After it’s all done, it’s suppose to be a recognizable picture.
Year: 2007
This is from my sister-in-law, written by her, not an e-rumor. I am reminded again that I have nothing to complain about.
Hello, my friends,
If you’re anything like me, I struggle with how to pray for the war in Iraq. Even though I do believe it was a good thing to go there, it…
“See, I am doing a new thing.” Isaiah 42:9
That was the theme of our church one or two years ago. Our church was founded about 20 years ago, and we asked God to rejuvenate us, to do a new thing in our church.
Well, looking back, I think God is doing a new thing.…
What can you do to amuse yourself on a hot afternoon?
I read a book – Death of a Maid, by M. C. Beaton.
In this Hamish Macbeth series, the victim is always someone annoying whom everyone wants dead. No one feels sorry for the deceased, so almost everyone in the small seaside village is a suspect.
Why are some people just so unhappy? Sure, there are times when circumstances are against us and makes us unhappy. But some people have a general “unhappiness” about them.
I think here are some reasons why:
They pine for what could be instead of seeing their present circumstances as a gift.
This is what the little Tercel looks like now, after the accident.
She served us well! We will miss getting 35 miles per gallon on this little car.
Life in the suburbs does not demand much.
I have to decide whether to have chicken or fish for dinner, not where my next meal will come from. I have to go to work, by driving there in a air-conditioned fully automatic car. I have to help my mother-in-law buy her medicines, by sitting in my swivel cushioned chair, order them on high speed internet, and they arrive at the front door.
You paid for it with your tax dollars.
You might as well make use of it.
It has comfortable seating, the temperature is always set just right – cool in the summer and warm in the winter. It contains the resources you need to learn about any topic you want. You can also choose to laugh, or cry, or experience suspense and mystery. You can even find out the current celebrity gossip.
As our church is going through a time of change, after our associate pastor has left and many who are discouraged has also left, I am reflecting on who are the ones who are staying on.
In this free country where there is a good church every other block, what keeps a person staying with a church when things are not going well?
Recipe for a successful VBS:
Take an amateur but talented musician with a lot of enthusiasm and have him put together a live band of equally enthusiastic and talented teenagers to play the music and lead songs for the kids. It would even be better if he could take a week off work to hang out around church and work on last minute details.