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Question & Thought for February 26th, 2016!!!

Question & Thought for February 26th, 2016!!!
Good Friday Morning!
1. Question – Are you dissatisfied with yourself?
2. Thought – Perhaps you are very dissatisfied with yourself. You are not a genius, have no distinctive gifts, and are inconspicuous when it comes to having any special abilities. Mediocrity seems to be the measure of your existence. None of your days are noteworthy, except for their sameness and lack of zest. Yet in spite of this you may live a great life.
John the Baptist never performed a miracle, but Jesus said of him, “Among those born of women there is no one greater” (Luke 7:28). His mission was to be “a witness to the light” (John 1:8), and that may be your mission and mine. John was content to be only a voice, if it caused people to think of Christ.
Be willing to be only a voice that is heard but not seen, or a mirror whose glass the eye cannot see because it is reflecting the brilliant glory of the Son. Be willing to be a breeze that arises just before daylight, saying, “The dawn! The dawn!” and then fades away.
Do the most everyday and insignificant tasks knowing that God can see you. If you live with difficult people, win them over through love. If you once made a great mistake in life, do not allow it to cloud the rest of your life, but by locking it secretly in your heart, make it yield strength and character.
We are doing more good than we know. The things we do today – sowing seeds or sharing simple truths about Christ – people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him. For my part, I will be satisfied not to have some great tombstone over my grave but just to know that common people will gather there once I am gone and say “He was a good man. He never performed any miracles, but he told me about Christ, which led me to know Him for myself.” (George Matheson, from Streams in the Desert, by L.B. Cowman -February 24th devotional)
“Indeed this is the best part of my job. In every given year the pupils I really like are in a minority; but there is hardly a year in which I do not make some real friend. I am glad that people become more and more one of the sources of pleasure as I grow older.” (C.S. Lewis)
DON”T TEXT AND DRIVE. Read and be good!
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for January 27th, 2016!

Question & Thought for January 27th, 2016!
Good Wednesday Morning!
1. Question – If you were to say you are conservative, or liberal or left or right in your principles – how would you define what those principles are?
2. Thought – It is popular in the classroom as well as the press to refer to “Communism on the left,” and “Fascism on the right.” People and parties are often called “Leftist,” or “Rightist.” The public do not really understand what they are talking about.
These terms actually refer to the manner in which the various parties are seated in the parliaments of Europe. The radical revolutionaries (usually the Communists) occupy the far left and the military dictatorships (such as the Fascists) are on the far right. Other parties are located in between.
Measuring people and issues in terms of political parties has turned out to be philosophically fallacious if not totally misleading. This is because the platforms or positions of political parties are often superficial and structured on shifting sand. The platform of a political party of one generation can hardly be recognized by the next. Furthermore, Communism and Fascism turned out to be different names for approximately the same thing – the police state. They are not opposite extremes but, for all practical purposes, are virtually identical. (The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen)
“I am apprehensive, therefore – perhaps too apprehensive – that the government of these States may in future times end in a monarchy. But this catastrophe, I think, may be long delayed, if in our proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction, and tumult, by making our posts of honor places of profit.” (Benjamin Franklin)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for January 20th, 2016!

Question & Thought for January 20th, 2016!
Good Wednesday Morning!
1. Question – Are you an atheist or an apatheist?
2. Thought – Jonathan Rauch, in an article for the Atlantic Monthly coined a term to describe his own spiritual condition. After a couple of glasses of Merlot, someone asked him about his religion. He was about to say, “atheist” when it dawned on him that this wasn’t quite accurate. “I used to call myself an atheist,” he ended up responding, “and I still don’t believe in God, but the larger truth is that it has been years since I really cared one way or another. I’m” – and this is when it him – “an – apatheist!” Rauch went on to describe his state as a “disinclination to care all that much about one’s own religion, and an even stronger disinclination to care about other people’s.” He notes that it is more of an attitude than a belief system. He has the culture he deserves. (Serious Times by James Emery White)
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.” (Parker Palmer)
3. What two teams do you want to see in the Super and why? I will post all responses Friday.
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question and Thought for January 17th, 2016!

Question and Thought for January 17th, 2016!
Good Sunday Morning!
1. Question – The $1,000,000.00 question is – How much time does a divided house have until it collapses?
2. Thought – From Mark 3:23-26: Jesus called them over and responded with an illustration. “How can Satan cast out Satan?” he asked. “A kingdom divided by civil war will collapse. Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart. And if Satan is divided and fights against himself, how can he stand? He would never survive.”
“Learn to ask of all actions, ‘Why are they doing that?’ Starting with your own. (Marcus Aurelius)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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