Be Careful Whom You Judge

A young minister graduated from seminary just before World War I and he was
appointed to a church in a very small town. He had been there only a couple of
weeks when he received the call every new minister dreads -- the call to do his
first funeral. The person who had died was not a member of his church. She was,
in fact, a woman with a very bad reputation. Her husband was a railroad engineer
who was away from home much of the time. She had rented rooms in their house to
men who worked on the railroad and rumor had it that she rented more than just
rooms when her husband was away.
      The young preacher, faced with his first funeral, found no one who had a good
word to say about this woman, until he entered the small old-fashioned grocery
store on the day before the funeral. He began to talk to the store owner about
his sadness that the first person he would bury would be someone about which
nothing good could be said.
      The store owner didn't reply at first and then, in his silence, he appeared
to make a decision. He took out his store ledger and laid it on the counter
between him and the preacher. He opened the ledger at random and, covering the
names in the left-hand column, he pointed to grocery bills written in red –
groceries that people had bought on credit -- and then the column that showed
the bill had been paid.
      He said, "Every month, that woman would come in and ask me who was behind in
their grocery bills. It was usually some family who had sickness or death -- or
some poor woman trying to feed her kids when her husband drank up the money. She
would pay their bill and she made me swear never to tell. But, I figure now that
she is dead, people ought to know -- especially those who benefited from her
charity who have been most critical of her."

"Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the
kingdom of God ahead of you."
--Roger G. Talbott, Good News for the Hard of Hearing, CSS Publishing
Company

Going Fishin’ For Sins
A pastor's son and his mom had been to a shopping mall and the boy had acted
badly, wanting this and that, running off, etc. As they were driving home, he
could sense her displeasure and said, "When we ask God to forgive us when we are
bad, He does, doesn't He?" His mother replied, "Yes, He does."
The boy
continued, "And when he forgives us, He buries our sins in the deepest sea,
doesn't He?" The mom replied, "Yes, that's what the Bible says." The boy was
silent for awhile and then said, "I've asked God to forgive me, but I bet when
we get home, you're going to go fishing for those sins, aren't you?"
Too often, we do "go fishing" for other people's sins that God has already
buried.


“The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the
tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.” 
  — William Barclay

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“For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth
simple faith and implicit obedience.” 
      — Alfred Edersheim

“There are no accidents in the life of the Christian.” 
      — Rowland Bingham 

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful
people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't
quit. - Conrad Hilton

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help,
something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
-- Albert Schweitzer

“I can contribute nothing to my own salvation, except the sin from which I need
to be redeemed.” 
      — William Temple

IF...

If you never felt pain,
Then how would you know that I'm a Healer?

If you never went through difficulty,
How would you know that I'm a Deliverer?

If you never had a trial,
How could you call yourself an overcomer?

If you never felt sadness,
How would you know that I'm a Comforter?

If you never made a mistake,
How would you know that I'm forgiving?

If you never were in trouble,
How would you know that I will come to your rescue?

If you never were broken,
Then how would you know that I can make you whole?

If you never had a problem,
How would you know that I can solve them?

If you never had any suffering,
Then how would you know what I went through?

If you never went through the fire,
Then how would you become pure?

If I gave you all things,
How would you appreciate them?

If I never corrected you,
How would you know that I love you?

If you had all power,
Then how would you learn to depend on me?

If your life was perfect,
Then what would you need Me for?


“We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we
should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could
never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.” 
— George A. Buttrick





“We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.”
— Roger Williams

                                                                              Bumper stickers of the year: 
Faith enables us to move   through the storms carrying our calm with us.

The gospel is NOT "you do" it is "Jesus did!"

“Our faith should be our steering wheel, not our spare tire.”

 “God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.” 

“God has a history of using the insignificant to accomplish the impossible.”

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.

Try measuring your wealth by what you are than by what you have.

'If you can read this, thank a teacher -
and, since it's in English, thank a soldier'

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.

Try measuring your wealth by what you are than by what you have.


                                                                                                            Tid Bits

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A lady calls the police to report  her husband is missing. The police arrive and ask for a description.
She tells  them he's 6 foot 2 inches tall, blonde wavy hair and has a smile that makes  everybody love him. The
police then go to the next door neighbor to verify his  report and the lady next door tells the police, "You
can't believe her. He's 5  foot 4 inches tall, has no hair and he wears a perpetual frown on his face." The 
neighbor then goes and asks the lady why she gave the police such a false  report. She replies, "Just because
I reported him missing, doesn't mean I wanted  him back!"