Source:
Firm Foundation (date unknown)
Monday, April 14, 2014
Bad News
Gay Campbell, director of communications of the Everett School District in Washington state, commenting on an effort to pass school levies at the National School of Public Relations, said, "Parents are some of the worst enemies we have."
Source:
Firm Foundation (date unknown)
Source:
Firm Foundation (date unknown)
The Brevity of Life
The court jester was overcome with grief. His world was at an end!
For a long time he had served the Caliph at Baghdad and his court, keeping them amused whenever they called upon him. But in a moment of thoughtlessness he had displeased his ruler who had ordered that he be put to death.
"However," said the Caliph, "in consideration o the merry jests you've told me all these years, I will let you choose ho you are to die."
"O most generous Caliph," replied the jester, "if it's all the same to you, I choose death by old age."
Source:
Unknown.
For a long time he had served the Caliph at Baghdad and his court, keeping them amused whenever they called upon him. But in a moment of thoughtlessness he had displeased his ruler who had ordered that he be put to death.
"However," said the Caliph, "in consideration o the merry jests you've told me all these years, I will let you choose ho you are to die."
"O most generous Caliph," replied the jester, "if it's all the same to you, I choose death by old age."
Source:
Unknown.
Church Conflict
By Mike Benson (editor)
Greek mythology tells of Cadmus who, while searching for his sister, came upon a dragon blocking his travel. Cadmus fought and killed the fierce dragon. He then extracted the teeth of the savage beast and buried them in a field.
The next time he traveled that way, he was surprised to discover every tooth had become an armed giant. It seemed impossible that he could pass through their midst. How could he overcome them?
He thought of a scheme. While hiding behind a tree, he threw a stone, hitting one of the giants. The giant, thinking another of the giants had struck him, hit back in return. The other giants began to take sides and quarrel. Their fighting escalated and soon involved their weapons. Finally, all were wounded. Then Cadmus was able to pass.
THOUGHT: When we allow Satan to sow seeds of discord and disunity in the church, we will end up fighting one another.
Source:
KneEmail, date unknown
Greek mythology tells of Cadmus who, while searching for his sister, came upon a dragon blocking his travel. Cadmus fought and killed the fierce dragon. He then extracted the teeth of the savage beast and buried them in a field.
The next time he traveled that way, he was surprised to discover every tooth had become an armed giant. It seemed impossible that he could pass through their midst. How could he overcome them?
He thought of a scheme. While hiding behind a tree, he threw a stone, hitting one of the giants. The giant, thinking another of the giants had struck him, hit back in return. The other giants began to take sides and quarrel. Their fighting escalated and soon involved their weapons. Finally, all were wounded. Then Cadmus was able to pass.
THOUGHT: When we allow Satan to sow seeds of discord and disunity in the church, we will end up fighting one another.
Source:
KneEmail, date unknown
Disguised "Delegates"
By Marlin Connelly
In December 1983, the New York Times reported that a man who posed as a medical doctor for a decade before being caught and convicted had received some commendations from the Army and had been hired by the National Institute of Health as a medial fellow. The native of Ghana had used at least three sets of fake credentials to carry out his deception. His odyssey of deceit came to an end when his mistakes in an operating room left a patient with irreparable brain damage, causing him to remain in a persistent vegetative state fore the rest of his life.
Source:
'Know Your Bible," Gospel Advocate, April 2002, p. 11.
In December 1983, the New York Times reported that a man who posed as a medical doctor for a decade before being caught and convicted had received some commendations from the Army and had been hired by the National Institute of Health as a medial fellow. The native of Ghana had used at least three sets of fake credentials to carry out his deception. His odyssey of deceit came to an end when his mistakes in an operating room left a patient with irreparable brain damage, causing him to remain in a persistent vegetative state fore the rest of his life.
Source:
'Know Your Bible," Gospel Advocate, April 2002, p. 11.
Funeral
Charles Bancroft Dillingham, theatrical manager and producer, while carrying the coffin of Harry Houdini, said, "I bet you a hundred bucks he ain't in here."
Source:
Firm Foundation, Feb. 2002.
Source:
Firm Foundation, Feb. 2002.
God Can Handle Today - and Tomorrow
In May 1995, Randy Reid, a 34-year-old construction worker, was welding on top of a nearly completed water tower outside Chicago. According to writer Melissa Ramsdell, Reid unhooked his safety gear to reach for some pipes when a metal cage slipped and bumped the scaffolding he stood on. The scaffolding tipped, and Reid lost his balance. He fell 110 feet, landing face down on a pile of dirt, just missing rocks and construction debris. A fellow worker called 911. When paramedics arrived, they found Reid conscious, moving, and complaining of a sore back. Apparently the fall didn't cost Reid his sense of humor. As paramedics carried him on a backboard to the ambulance, he requested: Don't drop me. (Reid came away from the accident with just a bruised lung.) Sometimes we resemble that construction worker. God protects us from harm in a 110-foot fall, but we're still nervous about three-foot heights. The God who saves us from hell and death can protect us from the smaller dangers we face this week.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? - Romans 8:32
Source:
House To House, http://www.housetohouse.com/HTHPubPage.aspx?pub=3&issue=210&article=2590
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? - Romans 8:32
Source:
House To House, http://www.housetohouse.com/HTHPubPage.aspx?pub=3&issue=210&article=2590
Have A Drink
More than 128 Kenyans are dead and almost 400 are in hospitals, many suffering from blindness, after drinking an illegal home-brew known as "kill me quick."
Drinkers have been falling dead on the streets of Nairobi's slum areas since last Tuesday when a lethal batch of chang'aa came on the market. It was laced with methanol, a type of alcohol used in anti-freeze or as a car-fuel.
Nairobi's main hospital has been inundated with victims; some arriving in a coma while others writhe in pain after losing their sight. One man reportedly died at the hospital door after stepping out of a taxi. The driver then stole his shoes to cover the fare.
Source:
Firm Foundation, date unknown.
Drinkers have been falling dead on the streets of Nairobi's slum areas since last Tuesday when a lethal batch of chang'aa came on the market. It was laced with methanol, a type of alcohol used in anti-freeze or as a car-fuel.
Nairobi's main hospital has been inundated with victims; some arriving in a coma while others writhe in pain after losing their sight. One man reportedly died at the hospital door after stepping out of a taxi. The driver then stole his shoes to cover the fare.
Source:
Firm Foundation, date unknown.
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