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    Verse of the Day
    “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
    John 16:33 NIV
     
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    Fame is fleeting
    By Jason Nelson
    I had some time, so I made a list of famous people I’ve met. When I say “met,” I am using the term loosely. These are celebrities I saw unexpectedly. Some of them I shook hands with and talked to. I had a couple autographs but don’t know where they are now. I had a brush with Hubert Humphrey, Don Majkowski, Dennis Farina, Robin Yount, Walter Cronkite, Muhammad Ali, Stan Musial, Mickey Mouse, and Ronald McDonald. I thought about including Pastor Jeske and my town chairman, Terry, but I had to draw the line somewhere.

    You may not know some of these people. Their celebrity has faded. Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” He added that he preferred obscurity. He would know. He was sent into exile twice because he became a little too famous in Europe for his own good.

    Not long into human history people developed reputations (see Genesis 4). Some early people became known for the good work they did because they started doing something positive others could emulate. Other people became known for immoral behavior. Lamech killed a man and a boy and made up a song about it. He wanted to be even more notorious than Cain.

    Some people say that any publicity is good publicity. I don’t think so. Wouldn’t you rather fade into obscurity than be remembered for doing the wrong thing?

    “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall” (1 Peter 1:24).
     
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    Knowledge does not substitute for wisdom. It is the application of knowledge that brings wisdom.

    There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. (A smile does a lot too.)

    A society without control over change is a society with its future out of control.

    The news is only the first draft of history.

    It’s usually a thinking cap you get a feather in.

    We urgently need leaders; people who will carefully analyze the problems and the resources, be willing to take the calculated risks and break new ground.

    Man is only wise during the time that he searches for wisdom; when he imagines he has completely attained it, he is a fool.
     
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    Verse of the Day
    Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
    Proverbs 16:3
     
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    To choose time is to save time, and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air. Francis Bacon

    Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

    Some people think they can gain rights by committing wrongs.

    The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

    When you come to the end of a perfect day, it probably isn’t over yet.

    A crisis which sends people back to thinking is not a crisis, but a cure.

    All things are possible to one who believes.
     
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    Verse of the Day
    When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
    Psalms 56:3 NIV
     
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    Opportunity wears many disguises, including trouble.

    In the long run, it is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that counts.

    I’ve had to listen to some folks a long time to find out they had nothing to say.

    The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

    The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have. Charles Schwab

    You can’t believe everything you hear, but you can repeat it. Should you?

    It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Goethe
     
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    Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

    Perhaps perseverance has been the radical principle of every truly great character.

    We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

    A compulsion is a highbrow term for temptation we’re not trying too hard to resist.

    People often ask me if I know the secret of success, and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working. Walt Disney

    Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more then their words.
     
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    Verse of the Day
    So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
    Isaiah 41:10 NIV
     
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    Verse of the Day
    To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
    Proverbs 21:3 NIV
     
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    If you are honest, it is the best thing in the world. It goes above intelligence.

    Real wisdom means man and nature have to be the joint authors of the human predicament. Jonas Salk

    Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Winston Churchill

    Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

    Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you’re working at.

    Much earnest philosophical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

    There is no virtue in the sweat of the brow; it’s the size of the crop that matters. Henry Ford
     
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    Verse of the Day
    God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
    Psalms 46:1-2 NIV
     
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    Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

    Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of the little things in others.

    Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

    We should not forget all those who lived without expressing themselves. They may have possessed part of the secret we are still seeking.

    Man is so made that when anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.

    What is new is not necessarily needed and what is old is not automatically obsolete.
     
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    No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
    1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV
     
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    Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

    The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

    The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes.

    A single hour in the day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge. Channing

    There should be no monotony in studying your botany.
    It helps to train and spur the brain, unless you have’t gotany.
    It teaches you, does botany, to know the plants and spotany
    And learn just why they live and die, in case you plant or potany.
    You learn from reading botany of wooly plants and cottony
    That grow on earth and what they’re worth, and why some spots have notany
    You sketch the plants in botany; you learn to chart and plotany,
    Like corn or oats. You jot down your notes, if you know how to jotany.
    Your time, if you’ll allotany, will teach you how and whatany
    Old plants or trees can do or be. And that’s the use of botany!
     
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    WORD From The Woods

    Revelation 2:18-29

    “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write:‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze. I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. Only hold fast what you have until I come. The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.“



    This message to the church in Thyatira is similar to the message to the church in Pergamum that we looked at last week. They are both similar because of the warning against false teaching. The church in Thyatira is warned about tolerating a prophetess that Christ refers to here as “Jezebel.” Jezebel was a wicked woman who married Israel’s King Ahab nearly 1,000 years before this was written. Jezebel violently imposed idol worship on the northern kingdom of Israel and led the nation astray. The mention of Jezebel here is a clear warning to the church that the prophetess they were following was leading them astray in the same way. I don’t know if they were actually involved in some kind of pagan worship involving sexual immorality or if that is a metaphor that points to a kind of spiritual adultery where the church was being unfaithful to God by following false teaching. It very well could have been both, and it really doesn’t matter. The point is that they we’re not being faithful to the teaching found in the word of God. The last part of this passage mentions the “morning star,” who is Christ Himself. They were told to hold fast to gospel of Christ and the truth of His word in order to conquer the false teaching that they were being bombarded with. As I mentioned last week, we’re facing the same kind of false teaching and immorality all around us every day. As loggers we will face it this morning on the CB on the way to the job. Sexual immorality and all sorts of things that go against the clear teaching found in God’s word are all around us everywhere we go. It is rampant in our world today. As followers of Christ, we are called to live in a way that points people back to Him and we can do that because of the Holy Spirit living in us. We don’t strive to live that way to be better than the guys we work with, but to show them in love and humility, who Christ is and what He has done for us. When we live according to the ways of the world but call ourselves Christians, we drag the name of Christ through the mud and the people watching us won’t want anything to do with Him. As you go about your week, seek to live for Christ, rest in the power of the Holy Spirit working in you and through you, and ask Him to point you to truth in all that you do!



    God bless, and have a great week! -Terry-
     
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    Save the Outhouse

    I want to remind you, neighbor, as I have said before
    We must protect the little house, with the button on the door.
    There’s nothing like an outhouse beneath the shaded trees,
    Where we can have a quiet place to enjoy a nice cool breeze.
    There’s not so many nowadays, perhaps you see a few,
    That’s why I say it always pays to fight the DEQ.
    There was a time when we were free to enjoy a happy life,
    We had a place where we could sit and another for the wife.

    Or if you should get into a spat and your wife would throw you out.
    You always had a place to go where you could sit and pout.
    So don’t give up your outhouse, no matter what they do
    It was built by our ancestors so we could use it too.
    We could always find a shelter, while tramping through the snow
    We often sat and shivered but we had a place to go.
     
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    Ive got to share this one. Funny but true.
     
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    When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
    When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
    When the funds are low and the debts are high,
    And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
    When care is pressing you down a bit,
    Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit!
    Success is failure turned inside out,
    The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
    And you never can tell how close you are,
    It may be near when it seems afar;
    So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
    It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit!
     
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    Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
    Matthew 19:26 NIV
     
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