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Posted on 08/23/2004 5:03:04 AM PDT by JustAmy
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Read: 1 Corinthians 9:19-27
I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. —1 Corinthians 9:27
Bible In One Year: Psalms 113-115; 1 Corinthians 6
Eighty years ago, Eric Liddell electrified the world by capturing an Olympic gold medal in the 400 meters—a race he was not expected to win. Liddell was the favorite at 100 meters, but he had withdrawn from that race after learning the qualifying heats would be on Sunday, a day he observed as one of worship and rest. Instead of lamenting his lost chance in the 100, he spent the next 6 months training for the 400—and set a new Olympic record.
Paul used a sports metaphor to emphasize the Christian's need for spiritual discipline. "Everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things" (1 Corinthians 9:25), that is, goes into strict training. "Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown." Paul longed to remain faithful to Christ because he wanted to bring the message of salvation to others (vv.19,27).
Throughout Liddell's life, he disciplined himself spiritually each day by spending time in God's Word and in prayer. He remained faithful until he died of a brain tumor in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
Strengthened by the grace and power of God, Eric Liddell ran well and finished strong in the race of life. And so can we. —David McCasland
Hug Your Sweetheart Day
Ride The Wind Day
Rowing my sweetheart
Edward Ghoti
The big hug
Dr. Rafael Springmann
Hugging ????
Per Johansson
Group Hug
Chris Nichols
Wind whirlygig
ERNIE BUCHANAN
Good Morning Everyone! The shredder has a short so we were unable to finish our shredding last week while business was slow. We'll have to do it while doing the rest of our work now. So far the work load has not been so bad that I can not FReep, but I do now know how many FReeping/work days I will have. I'll enjoy it while I can!
This came to me in e-mail...
Subject: FW: Amen for Senior Moments
A couple in their nineties is having problems remembering things, so they decide to go to the doctor for a checkup. The doctor tells them that they are
physically okay but they might want to start writing things down to help them remember.
Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair.
His wife asks, "Where are you going?"
"To the kitchen," he replies.
She asks, "Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?"
The husband says, "Sure."
She gently reminds him, "Don't you think you should write it down so you can remember it?"
He says, "No, I can remember that!"
She then says, "Well, I'd like some strawberries on top. You'd better write it down 'cause I know you'll forget it."
He says, "I can remember that! You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries."
She adds, "I'd also like whipped cream. Now I'm certain you'll forget that, so you'd better write it down."
Irritated, he says, "I don't need to write it down. I can remember that! Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream!"
He then grumbles all the way to the kitchen.
After about 20 minutes the old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs.
She stares at the plate for a moment and says, "Where's my toast?"
LOL!!
I wondered how you were going to picture 'ride the wind'. Good job on all your illustrations of today's special things to celebrate!
Thank you for the toast, Mayor!
I wondered if he was having a senior moment or if he had planned to make bacon and eggs all along when he got up to go to the kitchen...
Did you say, "Where's my toast?"
A Toast to our Native Land
Huge and alert, irascible yet strong,
We make our fitful way 'mid right and wrong.
One time we pour out millions to be free,
Then rashly sweep an empire from the sea!
One time we strike the shackles from the slaves,
And then, quiescent, we are ruled by knaves.
Often we rudely break restraining bars,
And confidently reach out toward the stars.
Yet under all there flows a hidden stream
Sprung from the Rock of Freedom, the great dream
Of Washington and Franklin, men of old
Who knew that freedom is not bought with gold.
This is the Land we love, our heritage,
Strange mixture of the gross and fine, yet sage
And full of promise destined to be great.
Drink to Our Native Land! God Bless the State!
-- Robert Bridges
If you thought the last was awful, then you may want to join the "Just Say 'No" to Toast Campaign:
1. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.
2. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
3. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
4. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
5. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
6. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
LOL! Thanks, PAL. Hope you are having a good Monday.
Uh-Oh!
We're toast!!
Good Morning Amy! I hope you are having a wonderful day today. It's storming out right now. Hopefully it will clear up some before I have to go into the office.
Thank you so much or the beautiful lyrics and graphic!
Where's my O.J., I'll drink to that!
NOOOOOOO, don't take my bread away!
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