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Action - Faith without Works is Dead
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about the Acts of the apostles.
Horace Mann
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What's done can't be undone. (the good or bad, gsa)
Shakespeare
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles

Ability
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Longfellow
A buried talent is never a buried treasure. Talents become treasures only through use.
Rupert
They are able because they think they are able.
Vergil

Dependability
When a man can't be depended on it is because his vessel has too many holes.
Old Saying

Where is God in all this turmoil?
Can two walk together, except they be agreed,
Amos 3:3
gsa

We never have what is needed
Youth has worth to the older, but owned by the younger
Wisdom has worth to the older and younger and owned by neither
Maturity has worth to the older, and too late owned by the older

Why are you doing all this?
It is not all the good stuff we do, but what are we doing for Jesus.

Why are you hanging around Jesus?
No, really, why?
Is it for spirituality maturity?

Multifaceted?
Most believe that the human being is complex.
People initiated this error to justify their inability to improve their character or the belief that it is not necessary.
Complexity enters the equation from observations of the many insignificant gains and failures which have their origin from the simple noun and verb: sin.
Complexities show up when people say: "It is not my fault, I couldn't help it. I was born with this malady or inability or circumstances.

Talent
The flesh believes that nothing is more important than talent.
Morals have very little value.

Live the Truth
Living a deception will not make it true.

Live like you are saved
You may be saved from hell, but are you living like you are still going there?

Legalism
Legalism is not in the Bible, so is not defined by the Bible.
have you assigned your own definition.

Life
If we would only give, just once,
the same amount of reflection
to what we want to get out of life
that we give to the question
of what to do with a two weeks' vacation,
we would be startled at our false standards
and the aimless procession of our busy days.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Freedom, Means
Freedom is not worth fighting for
if it means no more than license
for everyone to get
as much as he can get for himself.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Attitude
To bless God for mercies
Is to increase them
To bless God for miseries
Is to remove them
William Dyer

Blessings
Blessings are sweetest
When won with prayers
And worn with thanks
Thomas Goodwin

Burden or Builder
Righteous is not the
Christian's Freight
But his Ballast
To be used to Poise
Not Load the Vessel
Unknown

Christ, Cheapening
Judas sold Jesus
For thirty pieces of silver
How much less
Did you today
Unknown

Companionship
Following after
Non-producers
Produces little production
gsa - Prov 28.19

Conscience
The Conscience
is Judicial, not Legislative
It determines
Right from Wrong
But, does not determine
Right and Wrong
Curtis Hutson

Conspiracy
Ordinary sin worsens to evil
As the sinner conspires
with others
gsa

Cost of Emotion
No one can afford
The luxury of
Fear
Temper
Anger
gsa

Cutting
Though the tongue
Is not made of steel
It can be very sharp
gsa

Desire
A man would not wrongfully
Take with the hand
If he had not wrongfully
Desired with the heart
Unknown

Excuses
Unbelief
Is the alibi
for most sin
Unknown

Faith
Is trusting with doubt
Hope
Is trusting with assurance
Charity
Is trusting with assured commitment to others
gsa - 1^st Cor 13:13

Faith
Faith has two meanings:
1. Truth or Doctrine
 2. Acting on the first
gsa

Faithfulness
The faithful are given
Responsibility
The faithful in one accord
are given Stewardship
gsa

Fellowship
The only true fellowship
Is from us
Through Christ
To others
gsa

Financially Wise
Live on what you earn
Not on what you own
gsa

Flesh
As we despise the serpent
For its poison
Loath the flesh
For its sin
gsa

Forethought
Sin is not so bad in the having
As it is in the loving
Unknown

Forgiveness, True
 Know!
That you have forgiven
By forgiving them now
For even the next time
gsa

Gamble
Risk of value
Without trusting in the Lord
Creates gambling
gsa

Genius
Someone recently studied the lives
Of twenty geniuses and found
Three common denominators
1. As children they had loving interactions
with adults in learning situations
2. They were basically isolated 
      from children outside the family
3. They were encouraged to use
their imaginations in problem solving
Unknown

Grace - Power
Tap the power
That made the universe
Walk with Jesus
gsa

Gratitude, True
The truly thankful Are thankful
First to the giver
Secondly for the giver
Lastly for the giver’s gift
gsa

Guiding
Horses are led by bridles
Fishes are led by lures
Most men are led by covetousness
gsa

Hawk or Dove
More is lost in neutrality
Than by confrontation
gsa

Hear and Heed
All in the church may
Hear the Word of Christ
But few hear Christ in the Word
gsa

Honesty
The honest saint
Can not pretend
Knowing sin is in all
At which he tends
gsa

Hope
Hope sees the invisible
Feels the intangible
Achieves the impossible
gsa

Judging
Christians may judge others
For sin
No one may judge
for intentions
gsa

Justifications
Excuses, alibis and exaggerations
Are the tropical storms
Before the hurricanes of reality
gsa

Kidding Self
Leading all faults
Is the notion
You have none
gsa

Leadership
 1. Dream the plan
2. Make the plan
   3. Manage the plan
 4. Inspect the plan
gsa

Leisure
Idlers succeed
In their occupation
Without progress
gsa

Lending
Be truly benevolent
Be apt to give away
What you loan
gsa

Long Shot
The lottery is a tax
For those who
Do not understand math
gsa

Love Vs Like
Liking you
Is up to you
Loving you
Is up to me
gsa

Low Estates
Man snags the bottom feeders
In muddy waters
Likewise with satan
gsa

Making of Men
Pillars of the church
Must be hewn
Unknown

Middle Ground
Compromise is like gangrene
Neither can be stopped
Without amputation
gsa

Missions
I will go anywhere
Provided it is forward
David Livingstone

Mother
Who ran to help me
When I fell
And would some healing
Story tell
Or kiss the place
To make it well
Unknown

Not So Bad
Why is it
Most think it is worse
To speak evil
Than to listen to it or watch it
gsa

Not what you think
Sin promises silk and fur
Sin delivers nakedness
gsa

Origin
Sin does not attach
As we go by
But is developed
From within
gsa

Overindulgence
Excess converts
The acceptable
Into the except-able
gsa

Perpetuity
Eternity is a sea
Without bottom or bank
No shore to stake
No base to fathom
Unknown

Precious to Pork
Any stray lamb
May stray into a ditch
But they become pigs
That wallow there
gsa

Price
The cost of Righteousness Fades
To the Cost of Sin
gsa

Pride
Some men grow
Others swell
Shakespeare
Julius Ceasar

Pride
When the devil cannot stay us
From a good work
He labors by all means
To make us proud of it
Unknown

Purposes
Goals are not our purpose
Goals are measurements we set
To manage our purposes
gsa

Recognition
'Til sin be Bitter
Christ cannot be Sweet
Unknown

Repent
Sin cannot be cast out
Without a cleansing repentance
gsa

Repentance
Many prefer
Their Sins Covered
Rather than Cured
Unknown

Repentance
The Divine Dove
falls on
The Cleansed Cage
 gsa 

Responsibilit
Democracy presupposes
The political and moral virtues
Of individual citizens
William Bennet

Rewards
Spiritual rewards are a gift
To the trusting
Not earnings to the meritorious
gsa

Sabbath
Everyday is a day of rest
To the New Testament Christian
gsa

Satisfaction
Discontentment
Makes rich men poor,
While Contentment
makes poor men rich
Unknown

Seen not Heard
Many sorrow having spoke
Few mourn staying quiet
Unknown

Self Entertained
Music is for
the music-maker
Before the music-listener
gsa

Self Reserve
Men who mind
their own business
And in such
Practice repetition
Are men
Surely to succeed
Due to lack of completion
gsa

Senseless
Mistreatment of the humble
Is always unprovoked
gsa

Separation
Be Separate
But separation is not the way
to spirituality
Spirituality is the way
To separation
gsa

Situations
Don't evaluate each circumstance
In terms of happiness produced
But allow God
To arrange all circumstances
And the essentials will be induced
gsa
Inspired by Ed Bordell's letter

Sooner Rather Than Later
The victorious Christian
Is aware of truth now
The lost sinner
Will be aware
of truth later
gsa

Spirituality
Fasting intensifies prayer
But adds nothing
Of its own
gsa

Spirituality
Spiritual gifts
Are not a sign
Of spirituality
gsa - Malachi 3:10

Spirituality, True
Spirituality is a one lane road
And can only we traveled
With Jesus
gsa

Steady as She Goes
The Christian that sails
Deep in the water
Due to laden blessings
Does not sail fast
But arrives
gsa

Steps
Evil hearing
Evolves into
Evil speaking
gsa

Sufficiency
If He can handle
Our after-life
How much more
Our now-life
gsa - Psalm 56:13

Supervision
Allow for the erring student
But never the erring teacher
gsa

Supervision
Don’t expect
What you do not inspect
Jack Hyles

Training Children
Do not train children
Just to thank
But to be thankful
gsa

Tribute
Honor can only be given
By the honorable
gsa

True Character Revealed
As daylight can be detected
Through very small holes
So little things can reveal
A person’s character
Smiles

Understand
The soul is made
For understanding
But only for the light
It abounds with free will
But only to chose the right
Lastly it is designed for love
Not be exercised in flight
gsa

Unequally Yoked
Separation
Is not
Spirituality
gsa

Useful
Be used of God
Not a user of God
gsa

Value
The false teacher’s
Building materials
Are dog hair
And chicken beaks
gsa

Verbal Guarantee
Oaths do not guarantee truth
gsa

Victory
Do not pray for tasks
Only equal to your power
Pray for power
Equal to your tasks
Phillips Brooks

Victory
Talking the good life
Is good
Living the good life
is better
Spreading the good life
Is Best
gsa

Walk with Jesus
God furnishes
No joy
Or peace
Outside Himself
Unknown

Wealth, True
Jesus like a vein of ore
The farther traced
enriching the more
William Cowper

Wisdom
The Bible
Can keep you from sin
Or sin can keep you from
The Bible
Unknown

Witness Lost
Most testimonies
Are lost to the devil
By being his friend
And not his foe
gsa

Worry - Concern
Concern takes it to the Lord
Worry takes it back
gsa

Worry
Worry like hate and anger
Cannot repair, change or prevent a problem
But will exhaust the worrier
gsa

I thought I got this
We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics.
I understand this.
But, we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Now I am confused.

So that is how it works
Seems we constantly hear about how Social security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about welfare running out of money?
What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't. So if you do not work, there will always be money for you.

1. Law of Mechanical Repair - After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and the restroom will call.

2. Law of Gravity - Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

3. Law of Probability- The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

4. Law of Random Numbers - If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal and someone always answers.

5. Supermarket Law - As soon as you get in the smallest line, the cashier will have to call for help.

6. Variation Law -If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now.

7. Law of the Bath - When the body is fully covered in water, the telephone rings.

8. Law of Close Encounters - The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

9. Law of the Result - When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

10. Law of Biomechanics - The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

11. Law of the Theater & Hockey Arena - At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last. They are the ones who will leave their seats several times to go for food, beer, or the toilet and who leave early before the end of the performance or the game is over. The folks in the aisle seats come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or big bellies and stay to the bitter end of the performance. The aisle people also are very surly folk.

12. The Coffee Law - As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

13. Murphy's Law of Lockers - If there are only 2 people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

14. Law of Physical Surfaces - The chances of an open-faced jam sandwich landing face down on a floor, are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet or rug.

15. Law of Logical Argument-Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

16. Brown's Law of Physical Appearance - If the clothes fit, they're ugly.

16a. Brown's Law of Physical Appearance - If the clothes fit, they are on someone else.

17. Oliver's Law of Public Speaking- A closed mouth gathers no feet.

18. Wilson's Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy -As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

19. Doctors' Law- If you don't feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you'll feel better... But don't make an appointment, and you'll stay sick. This has been proven over and over with taking children to the pediatrician.
Internet

Don't let your worries get the best of you;
Remember, Moses started out as a basket case.
Internet

Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited
Until you try to sit in their pews.
Internet

Many folks want to serve God
But only as advisers.
Internet

It is easier to preach ten sermons
Than it is to live one.
Internet

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose
But mosquitoes come close.
Internet

When you get to your wit's end
You'll find God lives there.
Internet

People are funny; they want the front of the bus
Middle of the road
And back of the church.
Internet

Opportunity may knock once
But temptation bangs on the front door forever.
Internet

Quit griping about your church
If it was perfect, you couldn't belong.
Internet

If a church wants a better pastor
It only needs to pray for the one it has.
Internet 

We're called to be witnesses
Not Prosecuting Lawyers or Judges.
Internet

God Himself doesn't propose to judge a man until he is dead.
So why should you?
Internet

Some minds are like concrete
Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
Internet

I don't know why some people change churches
What difference does it make which one you stay home from?
Internet

Be ye fishers of men.
You catch 'em - He'll clean 'em.
Internet

Stop, Drop, and Roll
won't work in the Lake of Fire..
Internet

Coincidence is when
God chooses to remain anonymous.
Internet 

Don't put a question mark
where God put a period.
Internet

Don't wait for 6 strong men
to take you to church.
Internet

Forbidden fruits
create many jams.
Internet

God doesn't call the qualified
He qualifies the called.
Internet

God grades on the cross
not the curve.
Internet 

God loves everyone,
But probably prefers 'fruits of the spirit'
over 'religious nuts!'
Internet

God promises a safe landing
Not a calm passage.
Internet

He whom you allow to anger you
Controls you!
Internet

If God is your Co-pilot
Swap seats!
Internet

Prayer:
Don't give God instructions
Just report for duty!
Internet

The task ahead of us
Is never as great
As the Power behind us.
Internet

The Will of God
Never takes you
To where the Grace of God
Will not protect you.
Internet

We don't change the message
The message changes us.
Internet

You can tell how big a person is
By what it takes to discourage him/her.
Internet

The best mathematical equation I have ever seen:
1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given.
Internet

There is no greater treasure
Than good friends & family!
Internet

Free Stuff
The folks who are getting the free stuff don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because …
1. the folks who are paying for the free stuff do not want to pay for more free stuff for the folks receiving the free stuff
2. the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.
3. the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop.
And the folks who are getting the free stuff think they deserve even a larger quantity of the free stuff they are already getting.
Some of the folks receiving the free stuff are even selling some of their free stuff, so they can buy stuff that is not free and in some cases even illegal.
Now... the people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff and who do not participate in giving free stuff have told the people who are receiving the free stuff that the people who are paying for the free stuff are being mean, hateful, prejudiced, racist and even stingy with the free stuff.
So... the people who are getting the free stuff have been convinced by the people who are forcing some people to pay for the free stuff they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place, making them sub-servant.
The people who force the giving of the free stuff have let the free stuff giving go on for so long …
1. that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff,
2. that those receiving the free stuff cannot continue the free stuff life style unless they have more of the free stuff,
3. that those receiving the free stuff think that there is a lot more in life that ought to be part of the free stuff.

Dependents
I finally received my tax return for 2012 back from the IRS. Puzzling!
They are questioning how many dependents I claimed.
I guess it was because of my response to the question:
"List all dependents."
I replied ...
* 12 million illegal immigrants;
* 3 million crack heads;
* 42 million people on food stamps,
* 2 million people in over 243 prisons; and
* 535 persons in the U.S. House and Senate, plus
* 1 useless President
Evidently, this was NOT an acceptable answer.
I keep asking myself, who did I miss?
Internet

Bystander or Participant?
Are you a Bystander? None of these will be crowned
Are you a Participant? Some of these will be Crowned
Are you a Participant to the End? All of these will be Crowned
G. Steven Andres

God does not promise to your ...
Greeds, but will
Meet your Needs
Unknown

Look Upwardly (to Jesus)
So you can look inwardly (to judge yourself)
Which enables you to look outwardly (to serve others)
G. Steven Andres

Surrender, Humility
God cannot do something with you,
until He can do something through you.
G. Steven Andres

Listening, Heeding
Listening to Fears, or
Listening to Feelings, or
Listening to Frustrations, or
Listening to Faith
Unknown - edited by G. Steven Andres

The saying is true ...
Once a liar always a liar.
Once a coward, always a coward.
Once a contemporary president, always a liar and coward
Bill Clinton's Military Career
Bill Clinton registers for the draft on September 08, 1964, accepting all contractual conditions of registering for the draft. Selective Service Number is 326 46 228.
Bill Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964.
Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968.
Bill Clinton ordered to report for induction on July 28, 1969.
Bill Clinton refuses to report and is not inducted into the military.
Bill Clinton reclassified 1-D after enlisting in the United States Army Reserves on August 07, 1969, under authority of COL. E. Holmes.
Clinton signs enlistment papers and takes oath of enlistment.
Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969.
Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969, as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2) (a) registrant who has failed to report ... remain liable for induction.
Bill Clinton's birth date lottery number is 311, drawn December 1, 1969, but anyone who has already been ordered to report for induction is INELIGIBLE!
Bill Clinton runs for Congress (1974), while a fugitive from justice under Public Law 90-40.
Bill Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General (1976), while a fugitive from justice.
Bill Clinton receives pardon on January 21, 1977, from President Carter.
Bill Clinton becomes the FIRST PARDONED FEDERAL FELON ever to serve as President of the United States.
All these facts come from Freedom of Information requests, public laws, and various books that have been published, and have not been refuted by Clinton.

Albert! The day you feared has arrived, but no one knows it because they are all looking at their phone. Also, idiots may be a little strong, should we call them unparented mental dwarfs.

The Business of the Church and every Christian
1. Knowing Jesus better
2. Making Jesus known to others
Neither of the above are to be done at the expense of the other.
G. Steven Andres

Preference
"I'm trying" trumps "I can", but didn't
G. Steven Andres

If God directs, He empowers
1. The Lord says do it
2. Obedience to Him is humbling
3. Humility is the progenitor of Grace (James 4:6)
4. Grace is the power of God
5. Now the Gumption to do it (I don't think Gumption is in the Bible)
G. Steven Andres

Making the best of what you have
"The spider takes hold with her hands and lives in King's palaces."
It is possible to make a living modestly with your hands, yet live with a King.
G. Steven Andres

Choice, Pick, Preference
You may choose any course of life, but the consequences will be dictated to you.
G. Steven Andres

Bible, God's Book
The Word of God is ...
The Way of God to show us ...
The Will of God
Which is very simple, although not easy for some.
G. Steven Andres

What man made thing, leaves no shadow?
A shadow!
Everyone must have a shadow, just don't be one.
G. Steven Andres

Today is the day
He who waits for an opportunity to do much good all at once,
never does anything.
Unknown

Politics, Politicians, Critics
He who throws mud
Looses Ground.
Unknown

Resistance, Opponent, Unfriendliness, Opening, Prospective
Opposition is Opportunity.
G. Steven Andres

Age, Seniors, Outlook
"You are old when you are looking backward, instead of forward."
General Douglas MacArthur

I am in my own little world.
But don't worry, they all know me.
Tee Shirt

True vs New
Whatever is new is not true
Whatever is true is not new
Unknown
Ever notice how science has always got a NEW theory?
Ever notice how science is always saying, "We used to believe ...". They always are placing their faith in the latest idea, to find out the next day a new idea in which to place their faith. This sounds exactly like heathen religions.
G. Steven Andres

Socialism
Father must I go work?
No my lucky son.
We are living now on easy street
With dough from Washington. 

We’ve left it up to Uncle Sam,
So don’t get exercised.
Nobody has to earn his ham
We’ve all been subsidized. 

But if our uncle treats us all so well
And feeds us milk and honey,
Please, Daddy, won’t you tell
What he is going to use for money? 

Don’t worry Bub, there’s not a hitch
In this here noble plan
He simply soaks the filthy rich
And gives to the common man 

But, father, won’t there come a time
When they run out of cash
And we have left them not a dime
Then things will go to smash? 

My faith in you failing, son,
You noisy, nosey brat
You do way too much thinking, son,
To be a Democrat.
Unknown

Socialism
Farewell to well care
When well care is under welfare.
Steve Andres

Giving
Even though God owns everything, He keeps nothing. He delights in giving and seeing the recipients give as well.
Steve Andres

Giving
When giving to God, He keeps nothing, having no pockets, bank accounts, basements, attics or storage lockers. He does not even have keys to ensure possession. What He does not have to give, He takes from the non-giver or creates from nothing.
Steve Andres

Giving
Giving is the the end of the gift, but the beginning.
Steve Andres

The best of people and waters ...
are those that flow, not stilled.
Even though the Jordan River flows into the dead sea, it is a much better water.
Steve Andres

Attitude
Motive qualifies the labor and the product.
Purpose toughens or weakens.
Steve Andres

Giving and Receiving
Receive eternally by giving presently.
Receive for later by giving now.
Receive presently, forfeit eternally.
Steve Andres

Commitment
Commitment is measured by the sacrifice you are willing to make. True commitment is measured by attitude during the sacrifice.
Steve Andres

Giving
Giving proves to self, I am not a self-provider.
Steve Andres

The whole point of personal business ...
is not ownership
it is stewardship
Ownership does not pay. The thing owned can be of no value or can become of no value.
Stewardship adds value to all things, whether owned or not. Stewardship evens adds value to the steward.
Thus, importance is not in owning, but laboring.
Steve Andres

It is all in perception
After the Civil War General Sheridan left off the burning of Georgia and came to Texas to turn the Indians back to peacefulness. Upon arrival, he had this to say, "If I owned Hell and Texas, I would live in Hell and rent-out Texas.

Salvation - Saved - Righteous - Self-righteous - Doing Good
You can't get right in order to get saved.
You must get saved in order to get right.

Washing Machine
A seven year old boy was sent home from school. A tornado hit the home. The father arrived at the home only to see a Washer left standing. Immediately the father asked God, why leave me with just a Washer. Instantly the boy cried out, "Dad, I am in the Washer?"
God has a Washer for you and after everything is gone, just you and Jesus will be all that remains.

Morality - Being Good - Righteous
Morality will keep you out of Jail.
Morality cannot keep you out of Hell.

Worry - Concern
Why worry about thunder after you have already heard it roll?
Why worry about thunder even before you hear it roll? Thunder is like the bark of the dog. Lightning is compared to the dog's bite.
No point in worrying about lightning, since if it hits you, you will never see it or hear it.

200 years ago
3 men were crucified, all 3 died.
2 men went to heaven.
1 went to pay for his sins in eternal punishment.
Had you been the 4th to die that day, which way would you have gone?
Why do you say you would or would not go to hell?
Why do you say you would or would not go to heaven? Is it because you have sought and found the Saviour and asked Him for mercy because of your sins, like the one thief did?
Did you notice that the 2, besides Jesus, were sentenced to death because they were thieves?
Did you notice that thievery had nothing to do with the final destination of either of them?

What do you call the container for dead batteries?
A flashlight.

If you were ever scared half to death,
be careful to not get scared again.

Stop repeat offenders!
Quit voting for them.

The early bird may get the worm
But the second mouse gets the cheese

The Big Bang
God spoke and BANG!

Atheism
A non-prophet organization

Have you ever noticed ...
when you are looking for something you always find it in the last place that you look? That is because, if you are like most people, when you find it, you stop looking.

Did you ever consider ...
no matter where you go, you are there?

National Atheists Day
April 1st

I believe that if you will stop and think for a minute ...
you will find that it is not hard to meet expenses, THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!

God made mankind
Sin has made man evil.

My mind is like a steel trap
Illegal in 37 sates.

Eat Right - Stay Fit
And you will live long enough to suffer through old age and die anyway.

If at first you do not succeed ...
Destroy all the evidence that you tried
Find someone to blame
Deny all involvement
Then ask all involved whose idea this was

Birth, Pessimism, Out Look
We are all born wet, naked and hungry, then things start down hill from there.

Grades, Failing, Failure, Passing, Promoted, Graduation
The only test in which you do not want a negative report is a final exam.

Prayer in School, Tests, Exams, Grades
There has been prayer in public schools and always shall be as long as they continue to give tests.

Change is inevitable Except from 2 places and both have promised it ...
1. Obama
2. Vending Machines

Wealth, Rich, Broke, Poor
I started out with nothing and have managed to fight and scrape through life to keep most of it.

Fountain of ?
We have enough youth.
How about a Fountain of Smart?

Maturity, Mature, Old, Immature, Immaturity
Few women will admit their age
Few men will act it

Insane, Insanity, Crazy, Madness, Lunacy, Mental Illness
I don't suffer from insanity, I am enjoying every minute of it.

Lottery
A tax on people who are not good at math.

Lawyers, Attorney, Barristers, Gypsies, Thieves, Graf, Extortionists
99% of the lawyers give the others a bad name.
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No one knows when Jesus will return, but everyone is responsible for being ready.
Steve Andres

God's promises are always fulfilled. He never makes a casual statement.
Steve Andres

God usually requires what we try to retain.
What God requires, he is able to replace.
God's replacements are better than our retentions.
Pastor Chuck Reynolds

Only angels are allowed to be observers. Active, Urgent Service for the rest.
Steve Andres

Devine Delay!
This answers a lot of questions and gives comfort to a lot of anxiety.
Pastor Chuck Reynolds

To cry at the Gate,
Is to cry too late.
Man at the Texas State Fair

It is good to know what to do, but that is not enough.
It is better even if you stumble over what to do and then go ahead and do it.
Steve Andres

Opportunistic!
Knowing what to do
Doing it
With urgency
Steve Andres

It is better to be Active
Than to know everything about the Activity
Steve Andres

Are you Sitting and Soaking?
Pastor Chuck Reynolds

Active for Service
Many are signed up for ministry, but forgot to get active.
Pastor Chuck Reynolds

Stay Alert to Sin
Pastor Chuck Reynolds

Yield the Right of Choice.
Pastor Chuck Reynolds

Poem
If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven,
And bring you home again.
Found in Shiner Texas Cemetery

It is so hot in Texas ...
The chicken ranchers are feeding crushed ice to the chickens so they won't lay hard-boiled eggs.

It is so hot in Texas ...
Someone actually saw a fire hydrant trying to bribe a dog.

It is so dry in Texas ...
* The Baptists are baptizing by sprinkling
* The Methodists are baptizing with "Wet Wipes"
* The Presbyterians are giving our Rain Checks
* The Catholics are trying to turn the wine back to water
* The Jehovah Witnesses still don't know there's a drought

It is so dry in Texas ...
One of the kids brought home a catfish with flea problems.

Thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new
Thought about you yesterday and days before that too.
I think of you in silence, I often speak your name
All I have are memories and your picture in a frame.
Your memory is my keepsake with which I'll never part.
God has you in His keeping. I have you in my heart.
Poem on tombstone in Schulenburg, Texas

"Music is my higher power"
Oliver James
Oh gosh, Ollie, you are so deep, so profound, so ... You sound like an old hippy. No, an old, old hippy. Who were you the drummer for, the Neon Opossum? Or did you play lead guitar for the Spelunking Ostrich.
So much for sarcasm. Forgive me. I tried to resist, but food, my higher power, got the best of me and I filled up on cooked goose.
For something or someone to be a higher power, it would need to be higher. Music is not higher than man. Music is for man. Man writes it, for Pete's sake.
Ollie, have you been listening to Country and Western stations?
Steve Andres

"Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes."
George Carlin
George really sounds noble here. Each person is to decide what is right or wrong for them. George is promoting anarchy, but he does it with the most noblest of words: you are fine, I am fine. Did you notice that he is not fine with you (something about your shoes) and that being the case, you are probably not fine with him.
George, shouldn't we decide what is truth and stick with that, rather than each of us deciding by ourselves what is truth for us and what is truth for tomorrow and next year and some one else?
George you come across much more nobler, when you just stand there and say nothing.
Incidentally, George made a living as comedian. It gets worse, a political comedian. "I can see clearly now ..." the singer sang.
Steve Andres

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
Abraham Lincoln

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
Dalai Lama XIV
Born Lhamo Döndrub, he became the leader of Buddhism at the age of 2. He was enthroned as the ruler of Tibet at 15.
To say that his religion is simply kindness indicates that there is no spirituality at all. Everything is up to him and his ability to be kind. Yet to take over a religion at 2 years of age, indicates a spirituality of some sort in control and guiding the events of man. This only leaves Lhamo as god. Which is exactly what the Buddhists believe. We should all be working our way to becoming a god, kindness givers. Sounds good on the surface, but yet the Bible says that the very best we can do is as filthy rags. And by experience, my own and with others, I know this to be true. This means that this "becoming gods", is not coming along too well.
Steve Andres

"I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them."
Philip Pullman
We are sure that Philip was very proud of the above quote, it may have taken him a few hours to pen it. He was correct in at least the part where he claimed ignorance. But to go on and state that God is hiding, when I see Him everywhere goes beyond ignorance to being pitiable.
Though God is ashamed of Christians, there is no doubt. But His love goes beyond all of man's errors to giving Himself for man.
Lastly, we are so glad that Philip is not God. Philip gives up so easily. Philip wants nothing to do with us sinners. Does Philip put himself above us, in not wanting anything to do with us? If so, he certainly has dimmed any light he may have received and we hope he has not wasted too much time in musing over other quotes.
Steve Andres  

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
Carl Sandburg

Only those who are still alive deny the existence of God. Everyone who has ever lived and died are believers. Everyone in heaven and every single unforgiven soul in hell: believes. Belief for the latter, merely came too late. It is not too late for you.
Steve Andres

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
Friedrich Nietzsche - died August 25, 1900
It has been over 112 years, now, since Fredrich has discovered the majesty of God and His judgment on the unforgiven. If he could address us today in one of his famous lectures, he would freely confess that there is a God, who is justified in demanding praise.
Steve Andres

"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life."  Proverbs 4:23
Do not hold back with any diligence in guarding your heart. The heart effects everything else in life. I have met many men and women and a few young folks, who let their heart experience all it wished. A few were sorry for what had happened, but very few realized how it happened, so some of those who followed them, fell into the same pit.
Steve Andres

Man does have the ability, contrary to popular opinion, to pay for his own sins. It merely takes a stint in the lake of fire that lasts forever. Shall it be everlasting Heaven or everlasting ...
Steve Andres

The only way an unforgiven sinner can stay out of hell is to not die. But this seems to only work for 3 score and 10 and sometimes plus a little.
Steve Andres

"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
C.S. Lewis

Read the whole thing before you judge ...
"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
Charles Bukowski
Charles died March 9, 1994 - How is all that working out for you now, Charles. We wonder if death is still trembling???

"Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?"
Luke 6:46

To make holy water, one must boil all the hell out of it.
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Read the Bible, it is user friendly.
Tech support is offered on Sunday mornings.
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Adam blamed Eve.
Eve blamed the serpent.
The serpent did not have a leg to stand on.
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There are some questions that cannot be answered by Google.
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Honk of you love Jesus.
Text if you want to meet Him in person.
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Education, Knowledge, Wisdom, Learning
When little is known ...
much is imagined
truth is illusive
Steve Andres

Successful, Victory, Victorious, Accomplished
The ladder of success cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket.
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The Medium is not the Message
The medium is the display or the package or the vehicle that delivers the message.
Tee Shirt

Fools, Foolish, Foolishness, Folly, Silly, Silliness, Stupidity, Idiocy, Unwise, Imprudent
Don't approach a bull from the front.
Don't approach a horse from the rear.
Don't approach a fool from any direction.
Sign in Store

Football is often considered
1. Too Hard
2. Too Hot
3. Too much Pain
There is something wrong with everything. You must want it bad enough to get it.

Abortion
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
This seems to mean that those advocating abortion cannot speak from the benefits of personal experience.
G Steven Andres

Praying without Believing
Prayer without faith is like shooting your gun with out bullets.

It is not where you are, but who you are
Remember, going to church does not make you a Christian, any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

Is there a Purpose
Life without Christ
Is like an unsharpened pencil,
It has no point.

Look who's here!
I was shocked, confused, bewildered
As I entered Heaven's door,
Not by the beauty of it all,
Nor the lights or its decor.

But it was the folks in Heaven
Who made me sputter and gasp--
The thieves, the liars, the sinners,
The alcoholics and the trash.

There stood the kid from seventh grade
Who swiped my lunch money twice.
Next to him was my old neighbor
Who never said anything nice.

Joe, who I always thought
Was rotting away in hell,
Was sitting pretty on cloud nine,
Looking incredibly well.

I nudged Jesus, 'What's the deal?
I would love to hear Your take.
How'd all these sinners get up here?
God must've made a mistake.

'And why is everyone so quiet,
So somber - give me a clue.'
'Hush, child,' He said,
'they're all in shock.
No one thought they'd be seeing you.'

Care for the call when God makes it.
To cry at the gate
Is to cry too late.
G. Steven Andres

Atheist says ...
I don't believe in God therefore He does not exist.
God says ...
I don't believe in Atheists therefore I will not let them exist.
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Wal-Mart is not the only saving place.
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Socialism is ...
* a philosophy of failure,
* the creed of ignorance,
* the gospel of envy,
* the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as  Europe .
Thomas Jefferson 

Footprints in the sand of time are not made by the person ...
who hears the call or need
who hears the call or need and decides to do something
who hears the call or need and decides to do something and gets up
who hears the call or need and decides to do something and gets up and takes a few steps
Footprints in the sand of time are made by the person who hears the call or need and decides to do something and gets up and takes a few steps and continues to take a few steps every day.
G. Steven Andres

I don't have an anger problem.
I do have an idiot problem.
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The problem with normal people is their normality.
G. Steven Andres

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. 
Thomas Jefferson 

Delay is just before ...
Desist, which is part of ...
Didn't, which is just prior to ...
Deny, which is the foundation for ...
Defeat
G. Steven Andres

Obedience is the key to humility.
Humility is the source of spiritual power.
Spiritual power is other wise called grace.
"God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." James 4:6
G. Steven Andres

According to the Koran, it is the duty of every muslim to spread sharia law.
G. Steven Andres

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. 
Thomas Jefferson 

According to the Koran, muslims may lie, if the end justifies it for Allah.
G. Steven Andres

Integrity, Social Participation, Contribution to Society
It is not about color (of the person's skin)
It is about behavior (the choices made)
Notes in parentheses supplied by editor
Bill Cosby

Bigotry, Political Correctness, Racism, Bias, Intolerance
It is alright to disparage behavior, no matter what color or religion the person is.  People cannot help what they are born with, but there is no excuse for their behavior since birth. Some things we are born with and did not choose. Other things are choices we make. The choices are where the problems are.
G. Steven Andres

The secret to my success
Deny everything
Admit to nothing
Blame someone
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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. 
Thomas Jefferson  

Eternity, Hereafter
Everyone has their own opinion of Heaven and Hell.
That is too bad.
This also means that everyone thinks about it.
This is good.
G. Steven Andres

Witnessing, Soul Winning, Evangelism
It is easier to talk to God about others
Than to talk to others about God
Way of the Master

There is time, but not always
Tank is topped
Tires inflated
Tickets punched
But yesterday dated
G. Steven Andres

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. 
Thomas Jefferson 

Christianity is not building a church.
Christianity is building churches.
Quit worrying about the thithers.
Start building a ministry that builds other ministries.
God will send the help, when there is a need for them.
Help comes with or after the need.
Most churches are getting ready to get ready. Getting bigger to get bigger. Gathering money to gather stuff. Staffing to supervise.
G. Steven Andres

Those with the most character can be recognized by their scars.
Some scars from experience.
Some scars from opposition.
All scars are from character growth.
G. Steven Andres

Everybody knows ebay.
Very few know obey.
G. Steven Andres

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. 
Thomas Jefferson 

To cry at the Pearly Gate
Is to cry one second too late.
G. Steven Andres

Atheists want to be saved, if they could believe it is true. They must be shown the Gospel and the proof of salvation, the changed heart. Everybody is an unbeliever until they hear the truth and God begins to work.
G. Steven Andres

Sin always insists on urgency.
God is patient.
G. Steven Andres

Perhaps my time seemed all too brief
Don't lengthen it now, with undue grief
Lift up your heart, and share with me
God wanted me now, He set me free
S Mode

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies..
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
Thomas Jefferson

"There are 2 certainties: Death and Taxes
There is at least one more certainty: Death does not get worse every time Congress meets."
Will Rogers

The only way to keep the vessel full is to keep it under the tap
DL Moody

Education, Wisdom, Learning
Is time wasted when you don't know what you are doing? Only if nothing is learned.

Wisdom
Time flies when you don't know what you are doing.
Time flies when you don't have enough time.
Time drags when you are waiting for an opportunity.
Time flies when you are searching for opportunity.
Time drags when you are waiting for Christmas.
Time flies when you are preparing for Christmas.

Atheism, Disbelief, Unbelief, Agnostic
Since a person is an atheist, it does not mean he does not want to be saved, but just happens at that time not believe it is true.

Lazy, Apathy, Couch Potato, Lethargic, Slothful, Sluggish, Idle
Some have never suffered from laziness. They seemed to have enjoined every second of it.
Tee Shirt

God promises a safe landing, not a calm crossing.
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Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
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Tempting - Lure - Persuade
Opportunity for good is behind every door. Opportunity for temptation is only behind your door.
G Steven Andres

Worry - Anxious - Troubles
Troubling Times? Remember, Moses started out as a basket case.
"This too, will come to pass."

Effective: Outreach - Evangelism - Soul Winning - Witnessing
Touch your community with the Gospel, so the Lord can reach it.
G. Steven Andres

Aging - Older - Health - Senior Citizen
Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber.
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Exercise - Health - Aging - Older - Senior Citizen
While attempting to get into shape,
I discovered that round is a shape.
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Aging - Older - Senior Citizen
Wisdom may come with age,
but age may come alone.
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Aging - Older - Reconciler - Senior Citizen
Time is certainly a great healer,
But is a lousy beautician.
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Older - Wisdom - Senior Citizen
Aging has a way of supplying all the answers,
but frustration sets in when no one asks the questions.
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Aging - Opportunistic - Older - Senior Citizen
Falling at my age just affords an opportunity to look around to see what can be done while down there.
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Aging - Staying Healthy - Older - Senior Citizen
Forget health food.
I need all the preservatives I can get.
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Aging - foolishness - Senior Citizen
Growing old is mandatory
Growing up is optional
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Memorial Day Quote
"Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored."
Daniel Webster

You are not the Message.
You are the Messenger.
Tell the Message.
often repeated

Watch your thoughts ; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Unknown

Assurance, Eternity, Faith
Man's way leads to a hopeless end.
God's way leads to an endless hope.
Unknown

"I used to believe ..."
Every scientist who has ever lived has uttered this single phrase a great deal more than once: "I used to believe ..."  They say this to prove their advanced and advancing knowledge.  But their statement betrays their knowledge.  Whatever they insist on today as being truth, is simply a refinement or editing of what they used to believe the day before.  So, tomorrow they will have a new truth that they will insist is the last word on the subject.
They all speak with the most definite authority, but all have a change in belief at one point in time or another.  Notice the word "belief", not facts.  Facts do not change.
G. Steven Andres

Concession, Conciliation
If the whole idea of politics is to compromise so we can have others help us get what we want, then why are we upset with politicians?  The whole idea of politics is to compromise.
G. Steven Andres

Communalism - Liberalism - Communism
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of England

Babel's Fallen!
Babylon, Confusion, Conspired Error

Clear - Accord - Harmony - Conformity
Clarity must precede agreement.
Clarification from both sides assists understanding.
Understanding is on the path to tolerance.
Tolerance lives next door to agreement.
G. Steven Andres

O! For a Perfect Trust

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee."
Isaiah 26:3

O! for the peace of a perfect trust,
   My loving God, in Thee;
Unwavering faith that never doubts
   Thou choosiest best for me.

Best, though my plans be all upset;
   Best though my way be rough;
Best, though my earthly store be scant;
   In Thee I have enough.

Best, though my health and strength be gone;
   Though weary days be mine;
Shut out from much that others have;
   Not my will, Lord, but Thine.

And e'en though disappointments come,
   They, too, are best for me
To wean me from this changing world
   And lead me nearer Thee.

O! for the peace of a perfect trust,
   That looks away from all;
That sees Thy hand in everything,
  In great events and small.

That hears Thy voice — a Father's voice —
  Directing for the best —
O! for the peace of a perfect trust,
   A heart with Thee at rest.
      —Author unknown

What Jesus Is To Me
He is my Shield from every dart;
He is my Balm for every smart;
He is my Sharer of each load;
He is my companion on the road.

He is my Door into the fold;
He is my Anchor that will hold;
He is my Shepherd of the sheep;
He is my Guardian of my sleep.

He is my Friend with Whom I talk;
He is the Way by which I walk;
He is my Light to show the way;
He is my Strength for every day.

He is my Source of my delight;
He is my Song to cheer the night;
He is the Thought that fills my mind;
He is the Best of All I find.
Anonymous

Cooperation, Really Counts
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr

Reverence, Value, Admiration - Insistance
Respect is earned by your life
Not by demanding it
Sign on wall, Jackson Jr High School, San Antonio, TX

Hopeful or Hopeless
Hope
Sees the Invisible
Feels the Intangible
Achieves the Impossible
Unknown

Measurement
The measure of a life
Is its service for Christ.
Adapted from the motto of
Sam Houston State University

Beer Joint, Gin Joint, Wine Shop
The proverbial roadside "Dive" is not an underwater resort, although many go there to drown their troubles.
G. Steven Andres

Watchmen, Watchman, Censure, Reprimand, Jesus
Be on the Look-out for sin and sinners,
but keep your heart with God.
Michael, the Archangel, dutifully told the Devil,
"The Lord rebuke thee."
G. Steven Andres

Will it really all be over soon?
"The End is Near." An optimistic statement for some. A pessimistic statement for others. How does it effect you?
G. Steven Andres

Hard Work, Worth
Value is derived from the effort provided.
Since beauty is natural, there is no value added to the owner.
Since talent comes with birth, there is no room for the holder to boast.
Skill and expertise add worth to the possessor, because they come out of the owner's hard work and character. He or she has added value to self.
G. Steven Andres

Speak-up, Proclaim, Preach
Uncorrected Error
    evolves into
Perceived Truth
G. Steven Andres

Have you noticed?
Most liberals quote the Lord's Prayer as it appears in the King James, but read from versions which leave out the last line: "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen"
G. Steven Andres

We heard recently
A woman who blesses with "holy water" the bed of contrary men is called for frequently, by people, most would perceive as normal.
G. Steven Andres

Watch and Act
Observe the need
Take the lead
Unknown

Has your church changed your community
or has your community changed your church?
G. Steven Andres

Jesus Changed the Known World in 300 years
by changing one person at a time.
Unknown

What is your perspective?
The Saviour is over the situation.
The situation is over the Saviour.
Unknown

Why Is It?
From the great Gales of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad
For all their wars are merry
And all their songs are sad
GK Chesterton

A Beautiful Life
(Public Domain)

Each day I’ll do a golden deed,
By helping those who are in need;
My life on earth is but a span,
And so I’ll do the best I can.

To be a child of God each day,
My light must shine along the way;
I’ll sing His praise while ages roll,
And strive to help some troubled soul.

The only life that will endure,
Is one that’s kind and good and pure;
And so for God I’ll take my stand,
Each day I’ll lend a helping hand.

I’ll help someone in time of need,
And journey on with rapid speed;
I’ll help the sick and poor and weak,
And words of kindness to them speak.

While going down life’s weary road,
I’ll try to lift some trav’ler’s load;
I’ll try to turn the night to day,
Make flowers bloom along the way.

• Refrain:
  Life’s evening sun is sinking low,
  A few more days, and I must go
  To meet the deeds that I have done,
  Where there will be no setting sun.

• by William Golden, 1918
  Public Domain

An Irishman is a man who?

May not believe there is a God,
but is darn sure of the infallibility of the Pope

Won't eat meat on Friday,
but will drink a pint for breakfast

Has great respect for the truth
but saves it for emergencies

Gets more Irish
the further he gets from Ireland

Believes in civil rights,
but not in his neighborhood

Believes to forgive is divine,
therefore doesn't exercise it himself

Scorns money,
but worships those who have it

Considers any Irishman who achieves success
to be a traitor

by an Irishman

A Silver Lining in Old Age
I've sure gotten old!  
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees, fought prostate cancer, diabetes, half blind and I can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine.
I take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.
I have bouts with dementia.
I have poor circulation.
I hardly feel my hands and feet anymore.
I can't remember if I'm 85 or 92.
I have lost all my friends.
BUT, thank God,
I still have my driver's license.

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Joy, Foolishness
If ignorance is bliss, there should be a lot more people happy.
Unknown

Walking with God, Communion
The most difficult thing for man to do is hold hands.  Of course we are speaking of God's hand.
G. Steven Andres

Aging Symptoms
I am not sure what is wrong with me.  But there are 2 things that I am sure of:
1. My memory is not as sharp as it used to be.
2. My memory is not as sharp as it used to be.
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Servants, Sentence
To forget we are under God, is to discover we are under judgment.
G. Steven Andres

Bible Study, Word of God, Sunday School, Scripture Teaching
"If our posterity neglects religious instruction, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."
Daniel Webster

Detective Work
There is something going on in my life and I have been doing some snooping.  As I grow older, I have noticed that more and more items in my shopping cart, seem to have as part of their advertisement, "... for fast relief."
Internet

The Lord First, Proper Vision
"Our end in leaving our native country is not to gain riches and honor, but singly this: to live wholly to the glory of God."
James Oglethorpe, on the founding of the state of Georgia

Trust, Faith, Sold-out, Inventiveness, Revelation
"God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His."
George Washington Carver

Revelation
God is behind everything.  This is why He is so hard to be seen by most people.
G. Steven Andres

Pride, Humility, Humble, Proud
"Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Following God, Citizenship
"Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
James Madison

Calling Good Evil and Evil Good
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.  
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.  
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.  
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.  
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.  
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.  
Attributed to Evangelist Billy Graham

Adoration
(Public Domain)
Daniel O. Teasley, 1911

Philosophy for Life
Work like you are earning the last dollar available.
Love like you can never be hurt.
Live like tonight will be your last.
Sing like you do when no one is listening.
Share as if your father owns Wall Street.
Dream as if it will come true.
Witness like you believe hell is hot, hideous and horribly eternal.
G. Steven Andres

May God Give You ...

For every storm, a rainbow
For every tear, a smile
For every care, a promise
And a blessing for every trial

For every problem life sends
A faithful friend to share
For every sigh, a sweet song
And an answer for every prayer
Unknown

God's Service?
Serving God is not an advisory position.
Unknown

If there is really a God, where is He?
Of course He is found ...
* at your wit's end
* just on the other side of the brick wall you are about to hit
* at the end of your rope
Steve Andres

What is all that noise?
You may have heard the axiom: Opportunity only knocks once.  Not sure about that, but it is certain, if someone knocks so much your hinges rattle, it is Temptation.
Unknown

Are you sure he is a member of our church?
Changing churches may be all right, unless you are mostly absent from the new one, too.
Unknown

"Faith without works is dead"
Sitting on the premises is not standing on the promises.
Unknown

Comparison
We are called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges.
Unknown

The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The People

Soul Winning
Fishing for men is simply baiting the hook.  God does the catching and cleaning.
Steve Andres

Meeting the Requirements
God is only looking for the qualified to use in His work.  Fortunately, the worst of the saved, qualifies.
Steve Andres

Declaration of Independence, excerpt
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Thomas Jefferson

The 10 Commandments
See the list as quoted from the Bible.
God

Followers?
Everyone loves God, but most cannot stand His fan club.
Unknown

What is the Bible about?
The Bible is a commentary on God doing the impossible.
Unknown

Raising Children
In parenting,
*You don't get what you want
*You do get what you are
A Parent

Discernment
Don't listen to their lips.
But look at their lives.
Unknown

Bumpy Ride?
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
Unknown

Who is in charge?
If God is your co-Pilot, swap seats.
Unknown

Misbehavior Encouraged by Others
* When Others Enable Improper Demeanor
* When Others Empower Malicious Actions
* When Others Minimize Bad Manners
* When Others Allow Errors in Truth
G. Steven Andres

Putting Revelation to Work
Divine Inspiration
Without Divine Presentation
Is a Divine Waste of Time
Unknown

Reaping What You Sow
What you weave in Time
You will wear in Eternity
Billboard

Heretical Doctrine
Do not make small
What God makes tall
G. Steven Andres

The World Needs Men
* Who cannot be bought
* Whose word is their bond
* Who are willing to take a chance
* Who will not lose their identity in a crowd
* Who are honest in the least as well as the great
* Who will make no compromise with wrong
* Who are larger than their vocations
* Who put character above wealth
* Whose ambitions have nothing to do with desires
* Who are true to their friends
* Who defend the weaker
* Who are not afraid to stand for the truth
* Who know how to say, no
Lord, make me this kind of a man
Unknown

Political Philosophies Explained
* Feudalism: You have 2 cows, the lord takes some of the milk.
* Pure Socialism: You have 2 cows.  The government takes them and puts them in a barn with the cows of others.  The government gives you some of the milk.
* Bureaucratic Socialism: You have 2 cows.  The government takes them and puts them in a barn with the cows of others.  They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers.  You care for the chickens taken from the chicken farmers.  You receive milk and eggs according to regulations.
* Fascism:  You have 2 cows.  The government takes both and hires you to care for them and sells you the milk.
* Russian Communism:  You have 2 cows.  You care for them, but the government takes the milk.
* Dictatorship:  You have 2 cows.  The government takes both and shoots you.
* Representative Democracy:  You have 2 cows.  Your neighbors vote on a person to tell you what to do with the milk.
* British Democracy:  You have 2 cows.  You feed them sheep's brains and they go mad and the government doesn't do anything.
* Bureaucracy:  You have 2 cows.  At first, the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them.  Then it pays you not to milk them.  Then it takes both cows and shoots one, milks the other, but pours out the milk.  Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
* Capitalism:  You have 2 cows.  You sell one and buy a bull.
* Totalitarianism:  You have 2 cows.  The government takes them and denies they ever existed.  Bans milk.
* Environmentalism:  You have 2 cows.  The government bans you from milking them or killing them or using the fertilizer.
* Surrealism:  You have 2 giraffes.  The government requires you to take accordion lessons and forbids the sale of your 2 cows.
* Counterculturism:  Wow, dude, there's like ... these 2 cows, man.  This is like, wild, where milk comes from.
* Hong Kong Capitalism:  You have 2 cows.  You sell 3 of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law, then execute a debt equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all 4 cows back, with tax deduction for keeping 5 cows.  The milk rights of 6 cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority stock holder, who sells the rights to all 7 cows' milk back to the listed company.  They now have all 8 cows with an option for one more.

You May Be A Redneck If . . .
* You think the Stock Market has a fence around it.
* Your coffee table is an old cable spool.
* Your mother has "ammo" on her Christmas list.
* You burn your front yard, rather than mow it.
* Fewer than half your cars run.
* You have been kicked out of the zoo for heckling the monkeys.
* Your dog and your wallet are both on a chain.
* You think tooth paste is for gluing teeth back together.

Liberty, Oppression, Appreciative
If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?"
Jesse Helms, US Senator from North Carolina, died July 4th

Thankfulness, Robbery
On the very night that Matthew Henry was robbed, he prayed this prayer ...
"I thank Thee,
FIRST, because I was never robbed before;
SECOND, because although they took my money,
they did not take my life;
THIRD, because although they took my all, it was not much;
FOURTH, because it was I who was robbed and not I who was doing the robbing.
Matthew Henry

The Fields are white unto Harvest
If all the lost people of the world were to line up single file ...
The line would reach around the world 30 times. 
The line would grow at the rate of 20 miles per day.
If you should attempt to drive 50 miles per hour, 10 hours per day, it would take you 4 years and 40 days to get to the end of that line. But, by the time you reached the end of that line, it would have gotten 30,000 miles longer.
The need of the lost is to be saved, the way they are multiplying, we had better get busy.
Unknown

Learning to use good judgment, Pearls, Swine
Always judge others to help them
Never judge others to condemn
Do not forget to judge yourself, first.
Matthew 7:1 and following
G. Steven Andres

Following
Follow the Lord, never follow your heart
Follow love, never follow like
Follow clear thinking, never follow fear
Follow the truth,
* never follow opinion
* never follow the crowd
* never follow appearances
* never follow fashion
Follow forbearance, never follow vengeance
Follow consistency, never follow whim
Follow decisiveness, never follow procrastination
G. Steven Andres

Genius
Someone recently studied the lives of 20 Geniuses and found three Common Denominators
1.  As children, they had loving interaction with adults in learning situations.
2.  They were basically isolated from other children outside the family.
3.  They were encouraged to use their imagination in terms of creative problem solving.

Top 10 signs that you may not be reading your Bible.
10)  The preacher announces the Book of Galatians and you check the table of contents
9)  You think Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had a hit song in the 60's
8)  You open your Bible and a WWII savings bond falls out
7)  Your favorite Bible character is Hercules
6)  A small family of woodchucks knows where you Bible is and you don't
5)  You become frustrated because Charlton Heston is not in the Concordance
4)  You have often wondered how the priests could carry Noah's Ark
3)  You think the minor prophets worked in a quarry
2)  You fell for it when the preacher asked everyone to to turn to 1st Condominiums
1)  The kids keep asking too many questions about your usual bedtime story: "Jonah the Shepherd Boy and His Ark of Many Colors."

Blame, Fault, Adam, Eve
It was not the apple on the tree that caused all the problems, it was the pair on the ground.
Unknown

Adversity Teaches
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English Proverb

Commending, Congratulatory, Fault
I like to praise and reward loudly, but blame quietly.
Catherine II

Personal Failure
When others do not perform to our standards, it is not weakness on their part.
Unknown

Counter Arrangements
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas a` Kempis
1420, in his work, "Imitation of Christ", Book. I, Chapter 19

Out of Control
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a` Kempis
1420, in his work, "Imitation of Christ", Book. I, Chapter 16.

Pride vs Humility
It is possible for men to become to big for God, but men can never become to little.
Unknown

Printing Press
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books which confine instead of spread the public treasure.  Let us break the seal which seals up holy things and give wings to Truth in order that she may win every soul that comes into the world by her word no longer written at great expense by hands easily palsied, but multiplied like the wind by an untiring machine.
Johannes Gutenberg, Johannes
Alphonse De Lamartine, "Memories of Celebrated Characters", p. 277.

Welcoming another Day
In the typical custom of the age, each day a young sailor would announce the day by singing out:
Blessed be the light of day
And the Holy Cross, we say;
and the Lord of Veritie  (Verification, Truth)
And the Holy Trinity.
Blessed be th' immortal soul
And the Lord who keeps it whole,
Blessed be the light of day
And He who sends the night away.
Columbus, Christopher
John Eidsmoe, "Columbus & Cortez, Conquerors for Christ" (Green Forest, AR: New Leaf Press, 1992), p. 107.

Character, Discipline, Standing
The person who has moved the world is a person the world has not moved.
Unknown

Swearing Truth with the Written Name
The Criss-Cross or Christ's-Cross was a form of written oath before God, used when signing one's name on a document; and in the event a person could not write, was used in place of their sign (signature).
"Criss-Cross"  Victoria Neufeldt, editor, Webster's New World Dictionary of American English (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Third College Edition, 1988), p. 328.

Victory, Flop, Crash
The cost of failure is enough to pay for success.
G. Steven Andres

Dedication to Labor and Accomplishment
Lord, grant that I may always desire to do more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo de Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, the great artist and sculpturer.  
Perry Tanksley, "To Love is to Give" (Jackson, Mississippi: Allgood Books, Box 1329; Parthenon Press, 201 8th Ave., South, Nashville, Tennessee, 1972), p. 19.

Read and Heed
The Bible was written for men with a head upon their shoulders.
Luther, Martin
William Neil, Ph.D., D.D., "Concise Dictionary of Religious Quotations" (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1974). p. 9, No. 14.

Thankfulness
If you do not have enough to be thankful for, consider some things you don't have.
Unknown

Red Tape, Filibuster, Compromise
"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them though the U. S. Congress."
President Ronald Reagan

The Ministry of Jesus Christ
Every aspect has meaning for man:
in his life, an example
in his death, a sacrifice
in his resurrection, a conqueror
in his ascension, a king
in his intercession, a high priest  (edited for clarity by gsa)
Luther, Martin
Tryon Edwards, D.D., "The New Dictionary of Thoughts  - A Cyclopedia of Quotations" (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1852; revised and enlarged by C.H. Catrevas, Ralph Emerson Browns and Jonathan Edwards [descendent, along with Tryon, of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), president of Princeton], 1891; The Standard Book Company, 1955, 1963), p. 88.

Written in Nature
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf in the springtime.
Luther, Martin
"Bless Your Heart" (series II) (Eden Prairie, MN: Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1990), 4.8.

Medicine and Miracles
I treated him, God cured him.
Ambroise Pare'
French Surgeon, was:

Faith in the Resurrection
In his Bible, found in the Gatehouse at Westminster after his death, Sir Walter Raleigh left this version of one of his earlier poems:
Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
And from which earth, and grave, and dust,
The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
Raleigh, Sir Walter
1618, in a poem left in his Bible which was found in the Gatehouse at Westminster after his execution.
John Bartlett, "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 173.

God's or Man's Books
There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
Sir Frances Bacon

Get Busy
The only spectators allowed in life are angels.
G. Steven Andres

What Will You Leave?
In 1626, Sir Francis Bacon wrote in his Last Will and Testament :
I bequeath my soul to God ... My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.
Sir Francis Bacon
John Bartlett, "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 181.

Working with a Vision
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. 
A great player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

Education Changes the Owner
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth
It is better to be divided by truth than united by error.
Unknown

Truth
It is better to speak the truth that hurts, that hurts then heals, than a lie that comforts then kills.
Unknown

Truth
It is better to be hated for telling the truth, than loved for telling a lie.
Unknown

Truth
It is better to hear tough or rough truth than tender or polished lies.
Unknown

Truth
It is better to stand alone for the truth than stand with a crowd in a lie.
Unknown

Experience is Better than Hearsay
It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bull ring.
Spanish Proverb

Risk and Reward
If you play it safe, you don't get to play.
G. Steven Andres

Venture and Adventure
Take a chance or take nothing.
G. Steven Andres

Conscientious
If responsibility is removed, so is completion.
G. Steven Andres

Power
To mention your authority, is to begin to lose it.
G. Steven Andres

Taking a Chance
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Erika Jong

Speed Increases Hazard
If everything seems under control you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti, race car driver

Christian Founders
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on the religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  For this very reason people of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
Patrick Henry

Becoming what you hate
You cannot hold a man down, without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington

Companions
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Spirituality
Love of eloquence for eloquence sake
Is entertainment.
Unknown

Tolerant
Tolerance of evil
Is not a virtue.
Unknown

Perseverance
His hand clave unto the sword.
2 Sam 23:10

Resistance
We have not resisted unto blood
Heb 12:4

Prospectives 
Opportunity is passage through the door Christ opens!
Unknown

Positive and Negative
It is not enough for a gardener to love flowers, he must also hate weeds.
Unknown

You already said that!
Would it be redundant to say, "My Congressman is a Fool"
G. Steven Andres

Response
"We should react the same, whether we win or lose, just be certain that both reactions are as if you won."
G. Steven Andres

Truth Vs Lies
Truth is related in simple terms.
Lies have need of many adjectives.
G. Steven Andres

Identifying Mark
Today's conversations are filled with talk of Branding Oneself.
But no one's Brand is proclaimed for what they are going to do.
G. Steven Andres

Missions
“The light that shines fartherest, shines brightest nearest home.”
Fred Donnelson

Don't Quit, Don't Stop, Don't Pause
“Anywhere, provided it be forward – farther still farther into the night”
David Livingstone

Witnessing, Evangelism
“Soul Winning: everything, the only thing, the right thing”
Fred Donnelson

Church Business
“The right arm of every church should be missions”
Fred Donnelson

Unity, Missions
“Think what we can do together to reach the world for Christ”
Carl Boonstra

Missions
“Why wait for a call when you have a command”
Bob Hughes

Missions
“Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?”
Oswald J. Smith

Sacrifice
“God had only one Son and He made Him a missionary”
David Livingstone

Heavenly Goal
“Nothing earthly will make me give up in despair”
David Livingstone

Anticipation, Challenge
“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God”
William Carey

Spiritual Warfare
“Battles are won by teaching soldiers how to die, not how to avoid dying”
Marshal Foch

Objects hold no power
“To a Christian there is no difference between the secular and the sacred; all ground is holy ground, and every bush is a burning bush”
Bob Jones, Sr.

Command, Obligation, Surrender
“I must go.  If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him”
C.T. Studd

Obey
“Delayed obedience is disobedience and disobedience is sin”
Don Hillis

Command, Obligation
“You must go, or send a substitute”
Oswald J. Smith

Purpose
“The mission of the church is missions”
Oswald J. Smith

Soul Winning
“The church that does not evangelize will fossilize”
Oswald J. Smith

Potentiality, Guarantee, Assurance
“The prospects are as bright as the promises of God”
Adiniron Judson

Sacrifice, Effort
“Now let me burn out for God”
Henry Martyn

Liberality, Soul Winning, Witnessing, Evangelism
“The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon be evangelical”
Alexander Duff

Witnessing, Soul Winning, Evangelism
“My only business is to keep just one more person out of hell”
John Wesley

Evangelism, Witnessing, Soul Winning
“You have only one business on earth – to save souls”
John Wesley

No Regrets, Sacrifice
“I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.”
David Brainerd

Deserving Praise and Honor
“No sacrifice is too great for the King of kings and Lord of lords”
Jack Baskin

Sacrifice
“If I had a thousand lives I would give them all for China”
Hudson Taylor

Keep Going, Don't Quit
“Let a thousand fall but don’t give up Africa”
Melville Cox

Soul Winning, Evangelism, Witnessing
“This generation must reach this generation”
John R. Mott

Missions, Responsibility
“Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go”
A.   B. Simpson

Self-Centeredness
“World missions is God’s therapy for the sin of selfishness within the local church”
Clifford Clark

Sacrifice
“Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ”
George Whitefield

Sacrifice
“Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill.  It is my reasonable service – He paid mine”
Carl Baugh

Prayer, Leading
“Don’t pray for an easier life – pray that God use you and take you through the one you have”
Unknown

Missions, Leadership
“Every church should have two pastors, one for the many at home, one for the millions abroad”
Unknown

Label
On Sears hairdryer: "Do not use while sleeping".
Unknown

Label
On a bag of Fritos: "You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside".
Unknown

Label
On a bar of Dial soap: "Directions: Use like regular soap."
Unknown

Label
On Swanson frozen dinners: "Serving suggestions: Defrost."
Unknown

Label
On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom of box): "Do not turn upside down."
Unknown

Label
On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: "Product will be hot after heating".
Unknown

Label
On packaging for a Rowenta iron: :"Do not iron clothes on body."
Unknown

Label
On Boot's Children's Cough Medicine: "Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication."
Unknown

Label
On Nytol Sleep Aid: "Warning: May cause drowsiness"
Unknown

Label
On most brands of Christmas lights: "For indoor or outdoor use only."
Unknown

Label
On a Japanese food processor: "Not to be used for the other use”
Unknown

Label
On Sainsbury's peanuts: "Warning: Contains nuts”
Unknown

Label
On an American Airlines packet of nuts: "Instructions: open packet, eat nuts." (Step 3: Fly Delta)
Unknown

Label
On a child's Superman costume: "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly."
Unknown

Change
If you are what you were then you ain’t.
Unknown

Be sure your sin will find you out
What is it about sin that forces itself to reveal itself?
G. Steven Andres 

Being Sure, Knowing the Heart
Continued Conviction is a sign of conversion,  but, conversion is not a sign of continued conviction.
G. Steven Andres

Finding Your Way 
Clear the Conscience to Clear the Path
G. Steven Andres

Concerned 
Keep a burden for yourself and those you lead.
G. Steven Andres

Do Your Own Study Work
Be fresh in your preaching and you will never be boring.
G. Steven Andres

Spiritual Guidance
Let the Lord lead in the course of things. 
Once He has led, never waver from the course until He changes it.
G. Steven Andres

True Spirituality
Separation is not a measure of Spirituality.  Spirituality allows for separation.
G. Steven Andres

Draw, Appeal
Spiritual Christians attract spiritual Christians.  Christ is the attraction and the connection.
G. Steven Andres

Goes Without Saying
Spiritual leaders must be spiritual. 
Duhhh
G. Steven Andres

Wisdom, Smart Bargain
The cost to follow Christ is cheap, but it is everything you have or want.
G. Steven Andres

Imperative, Critical
There must be an urgency in preaching, about the urgency of the topic.
G. Steven Andres

Witnessing, Evangelism
The time and place of soul winning is not chosen.  It is always urgent and appropriate.
G. Steven Andres

Worldliness
There are great world-killers, but they have skinny sheep.
Wayne Van Gelderen, Sr.

Idols, Icons, Statues
Spiritual Idolatry is
* preaching your own convictions
* wishing God were different
* doing right for the approval of others.
G. Steven Andres

Opportunity 
To the Israelites, Goliath is “too big to hit”; but to little David he is “too big to miss.”

Opportunity 
About the only thing that comes to him who waits is whiskers.

Opportunity 
The trouble with an opportunity is that is more recognizable going than it is coming.

Opportunity 
You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.

Pessimism
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Opportunity 
Whatever your lot in life, why don’t you try to build something on it?

Opportunity 
Some people fail to recognize opportunity because it so often comes to them in overalls and looks like work.

Preaching, Bored, Stirring, Inspirational
No sermon is dull that cuts the heart.

Preaching
Every sermon should have a train of thought, but it should also have a terminus.

Preaching
If you preach what is new, it won’t be true.  If you preach what is true, it won’t be new.
Spurgeon

Preaching 
When a preacher cannot get fire into his sermon, he should put his heart on fire.

Preaching 
Don’t be squeamish in the pulpit-like one who said, “Jonah was three days and three nights in-ahem-the society of the fish.”
Spurgeon

Preaching
When preaching:
* to be heard is good
* to be understood is better
* to inspire is best
G. Steven Andres

Preaching
I always like to act according to Cobbett’s rule: “I speak not only so that I can be understood, but so that I cannot be misunderstood.”
Spurgeon

Preaching 
To be an effective preacher,
* be scriptural
* be sincere
* be simple
* be short
* be seated.
C.W.H.

Preaching 
If you can smile while you skin them and make them smile while they are being skinned, they will follow you to the tannery to get the hide.
Sam Jones

Preaching 
The best ingredient in most sermons is shortening.
Unknown

Preaching 
The preacher needs
* the head of a scholar
* the heart of a child
* the hide of a rhinoceros
Unknown

Preaching 
A preacher who was in the habit of writing his sermons out carefully found himself at church one Sunday morning without his manuscript. “As I have forgotten my notes,” he began his sermon, “I will have to rely on the Lord for guidance. Tonight I shall come better prepared.
Unknown

Preaching 
Put a giraffe in the pulpit and the lambs will starve to death.
Unknown

Preaching 
There are some men who preach so well when in the pulpit, that it is a shame they should ever come out of it; and when they are out of it, they live so silly that it is a shame they should ever enter it again.
Charles Wesley

Preaching 
One man remarked to his pastor, “Every sermon you preach is better than the next one.”
Re-read this.
Unknown

Preaching
Someone suggested, “If you don’t strike oil in thirty minutes, stop boring.”
Unknown

Preaching 
A Christian minister once said, “I was never of any use until I found out that God did not intend me to be a ‘great man.’”
Unknown

Preaching 
When liberty was offered to John Bunyan, then in prison, on condition of abstaining from preaching, he consistently replied, “If you let me out today, I shall preach again tomorrow.”

Preaching 
The young unknown preacher, speaking for his first time in a big conference, said, “I feel like a ‘Who’s he?’ in a group of ‘Who’s Who?’”
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Preaching 
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write a better sermon now than I did seven years ago.
John Wesley.

Preaching 
There is a hatred which is downright charity; that is the hatred of erroneous doctrine.  There is an intolerance which is downright praiseworthy; that is the intolerance of false doctrine in the pulpit.
Bishop J.C. Ryle.

Preaching 
Someone reminded me that all my sermons have happy endings and then explained, “Everybody is happy when you finish.”
C.W.H.

Preaching 
Billy Sunday used to say, “Put the cookies on the lower shelf so everybody can reach them.”

Preaching 
One Sunday morning a lady said to the pastor, “I did not like your sermon this morning,” to which he replied, “Neither did the Devil. Classify yourself and come back next Sunday.”

Preaching 
No sermon is ever quite a success which leaves men satisfied with themselves.
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Preaching 
The preacher’s opening remark was, “I feel like the lightning bug who backed into the fan.  I’m delighted to be here!”
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Preaching 
One preacher said, “I am bad to exaggerate.  As a matter of fact, I have cried a bucket of tears over it!”
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Preaching 
Dr. James Gray, when asked, “Where did you get that sermon?” replied, “I admit I milked twenty-one cows, but I made my own butter.”
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Preaching 
When a man shoots above the heads of the congregation, it doesn’t prove he has superior ammunition; it only proves he has a bad aim.
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Preaching 
Wesley, when once asked how he got the crowds, replied, “I set myself on fire, and people come to see me burn.”

Endurance 
Patience is accepting a difficult situation without giving God a deadline to remove it.
Bill Gothard

Persistence
Patience is the ability to put up with what you want to put down.

Staying power 
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. 
Abraham Lincoln

Patience 
The ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Doggedness 
Yard by yard is mighty hard, but inch by inch is a cinch.

Expectations 
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he will never be disappointed. 
Pope

Pessimism 
It seems that people always play up the bad side of things.  Have you ever seen a sign reading “NICE DOG.”

Negativity 
The pessimist says, “If I don’t try, I can’t fail.”  The optimist says, “If I don’t try, I can’t win.”

Cynicism  
“I hear you have a good crop of potatoes this year, Mrs. Higgins.  That must cheer your heart,” said the neighbor.  “Aye, they’re good enough, but where’s the bad’uns to feed the pigs?”

Gloom 
A pessimist is one who blows out the candle to see how dark it is.

Bright Side, Optimism 
I like the optimist who fell out the window of the 20th story floor and was heard to say as he passed the 2nd floor, “Safe so far!”

Negativity 
A pessimist is one who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a casket.

Pessimism
Definition of a pessimist:  A man who has swallowed an egg; afraid to move for fear it will break; afraid to sit still for fear the thing will hatch.

Confidence 
The bald-headed optimist went into the drug store and asked for some hair restorer.  When he started to leave, he said, “Oh, and by the way, I’ll take two combs, also.”

Pessimism 
A pessimist is someone whose daydreams are nightmares.

Pessimism 
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society.  The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist invents the parachute.

Optimism 
The spirit of optimism is the spirit that makes the tea kettle sing even when it is up to its neck in hot water!

Pessimism 
The worst pest in the world is a pessimist. 
C.W.H.

Optimism 
Somebody said, “An optimist is the fellow who takes the cold water thrown on his ideas, heats it with enthusiasm, makes steam and pushes ahead.”

Pessimism 
Pessimism:  Looking at the world through woe-colored glasses.

Pessimism 
One lady who complained about everything said, “I always feel bad even when I feel good because I know I’ll feel bad again after while.”

Prayer 
A wise prayer: 
“Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff
and nudge me when I’ve said enough. 
Amen.”

Prayer 
When Jesus prayed in public, His prayers were always short.  But when He prayed alone, His prayers were longer.  On one occasion He continued all night to God in prayer. 
C.W.H.

Prayer 
Take no rest from prayer, and give him no rest. 
Spurgeon

Prayer 
If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have. 
Moody

Prayer 
God may be out of sight, but He is certainly not out of reach:  He is only a prayer away. 
C.W.H.

Prayer 
Anchor yourself to the throne of God, then shorten the rope.

Prayer 
The best place to pray for potatoes is on the end of a hoe handle. 
Bud Robinson

Prayer 
One man, praying, said, “Lord, I haven’t prayed in forty years; and if You’ll answer my prayer this time, I won’t bother You again for another forty years.”

Prayer 
When we work, we get what we can do; but when we pray, we get what God can do.

Prayer 
“I was not looking at the little in hand, but at the fullness of God,” said Mueller when his needs were great and the supply small.

Prayer 
Pray for a poor memory when people seem unkind.

Prayer 
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. 
D.L. Moody

Prayer 
Pray I the key to open the day and the bolt to shut in the night. 
Bishop Taylor

Prayer 
The possibilities of prayer exceed our ability to ask or even think (Eph. 3:20). 
C.W.H.

Prayer 
Groanings that cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. 
Spurgeon

Prayer 
True prayer should be a way of life, not just a case of emergency.

Prayer 
I am sometimes startled at the power of a feeble prayer to win a speedy answer. 
Spurgeon

Prayer 
Some folks are like the little boy who, when asked by his pastor if he prayed every day, replied, "No, not every day.  Some days I don’t want anything.”

Prayer 
Pray a definite prayer for a definite thing, meet definite conditions, exercise definite faith, and God will give a definite answer.

Prayer 
Prayer is something more than asking God to run errands for us.

Prayer 
If prayer will help me out of trouble, it will surely help me to keep out of trouble.

Prayer 
When we pray for rain, we must be willing to put up with some mud.

Prayer 
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies; yet the distance makes no difference—He is praying for me. 
McCheyne.

Prayer 
To pray bout something and not make ourselves available is hypocrisy.

Prayer 
Prayer is no substitute for duty.

Prayer 
Prayer is measured by depth, not length!

Prayer 
Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.

Works
A Christian does good deeds, but just doing good deeds does not make a man a Christian. 
Bob Jones, Sr

Grace
God is in the cleansing business, not the whitewashing business.

Certainty
Absolute dependence on what God has done equals salvation; absolute dependence on what God has said equals assurance. 
C.W.H.

Works
The religions of the world say, “do and live.”  The religion of the Bible says, “live and do.” 
Bob Jones, Sr

Religion
Religion is the best armor a man can have, but it is the worst cloak. 
John Bunyan

Free Will
Although God created man without man’s help, He will not save man without man’s consent.

Priority 
We don’t go to Heaven head first but heart first. 
Tom Malone, Sr.

Grace
It is just as easy to climb to Heaven from a molehill as it is from the top of Mount Everest.  You can do neither. 
C.W.H.

Salvation
You don’t spell salvation “D-O.”  You spell it “D-O-N-E.” 
C.W.H.

Repentance
Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the Devil, then blowing the smoke into the face of God. 
Billy Sunday

Salvation
Better never to have been born at all, than never to have been born again.

Salvation
Most anybody can put a new suit of clothes on a man, but only God can put a new man in a suit of clothes.

Salvation
Justification is something that cannot be reversed and followed by damnation.

Procrastination
If we put off repentance another day, we have a day more to repent of, and a day less to repent in. 
Mason

Grace
Trying to earn salvation by our goodness is like putting a drop of perfume in an ocean of filth. 
C.W.H.

Faith
I don’t know I’m saved because I feel good; I know I’m saved because the Bible says so; and I feel good because I know I’m saved. Bob Jones, Sr.

Soul Winning
Salvation may come in quietly, but few people can keep quiet about it. 
C.W.H.

Certainty
The salvation that Jesus Christ purchased for a lost world is wonderful in its magnitude.  It is as deep as fallen humanity, as broad as the compassion of God, as high as Heaven, and as everlasting as the eternal Rock of Ages. 
Uncle Bud Robinson

Salvation
You have not been high-born until you have been born from on High. 
Bob Jones, Sr.

Procrastination
Many who expect to be saved in the eleventh hour die at ten-thirty.

Asking and Receiving
Christ knocks at my door here, and I knock at His door over there.  If I open to Him here, He will open to me over there.  Isn’t that fair? 
Uncle Bud Robinson

Fools, Foolishness
Under the Constitution of the United States every man has the right to make a fool of himself as he sees fit.

Repentance
Many people believe that admitting a fault means they no longer have to correct it.

Attitude
Don’t go around with a chip on your shoulder—people might think it came off your head.

Selfishness, Lazy
When we expect more of others than we expect of ourselves, we are in a state of carnality.

Your Father the Devil, Your Father in Heaven?
What you are is not nearly as important as whose you are.

Pride
Self always wants to be crowned, but God says you must be crucified.

Remembrances, Thankfulness
He who forgets his friend is ungrateful to him, but he who forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself. 
Bunyan

Repentance
Confessing your sins is no substitute for forsaking them.

Pride
“No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.”
Charles Simmons

Pride
When a man won’t listen to his conscience, it’s usually because he doesn’t want advice from a total stranger.

Pride
The Greeks said, “Know thyself.”  The Romans said, “Control thyself.”  Christ said, “Deny thyself.”

Pride
Who has deceived thee so oft as thyself? 
Benjamin Franklin

Pride
If a hypocrite is between you and Heaven, then he’s closer to Heaven than you are.

Pride
Big shots are small shots who keep on shooting.

Pride
Many people are suffering from self-inflicted wounds.

Pride
I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself. 
D.L. Moody

Repentance
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. 
Leo Tolstoy

Pride
I always like to hear a man talk about himself, because then I never hear anything but good. 
Will Rogers

Appropriate
One man complained, “I am the kind of person who, if it were raining soup, I would be standing there with a fork.”

Pride
He who falls in love with himself is not apt to have much competition.

Pride
It is all right to talk with yourself, but you are in trouble when you start asking questions.

Pride
I like to talk to myself for two reasons.  First, I like to hear intelligent people talk; and second, I like to talk to intelligent people. 
John R. Rice

Pride
Some people think they are big shots just because they explode with a loud noise!

Optimism
No man who thinks in terms of catching mice will ever catch lions.

Pride
Give some people an inch, and they think they are rulers.

Pride
We are all dangerous a fold without God’s controlling hand. 
William Ward Ayer

Grace
The will of God will never lead us where the grace of God is inadequate to keep us.

Character
“You can never do more than your duty,” said Robert E. Lee,  “and you should never wish to do less.”

Character
Service can never become slavery to one who loves. 
J.L. Massee

Ministry
If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following.

Character
It is more important to be than to do.  You can do without being but you can’t be without doing. 
C.W.H.

Character
Serve for the good you can do, not for the praise you get.

Character
The higher you rise in the likeness of Jesus, the lower you will stoop in your service for others.

Character
Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

Character
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Opportunity
Slight not what’s near while aiming at what’s far.

Importance
The most important light in the house is not the chandelier in the parlor.  It’s that little back hall light that keeps you from breaking your neck when you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. 
Bob Jones, Sr.

Character
The best ability is availability. 
C.W.H.

Character
Have your tools ready; God will find you work. 
Gospel Message

Faith
Reward for Christian service is based on faithfulness to opportunity given. 
C.W.H.

Pride
He who serves God for money will serve the Devil for higher wages.

Character
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as it had nothing else in the universe to do. 
Galileo

Opportunity
The measure of your responsibilities is a measure of your opportunities. 
Bob Jones, Sr.

Character
The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use the one talent.

Pride
What a big difference there is between giving advice and lending a hand!

Character
A good rule to follow:  give God the first part of every day, the first day of every week, and the first part of your income. 
C.W.H.

Character
God never puts any man in a place too small to grown in.

Character 
Our Lord was a willing Saviour, and He uses only willing servants. 
C.W.H.

Power of God
God doesn’t call the fit; he fits the called.

Place Value Correctly
When the good takes the place of the best, even the good becomes bad.

Ready 
We need the eagerness to serve like that of a hunting dog awaiting a chase.

Acting Out Sin
Temptation is not a sin.  It only becomes a sin when it is yielded to.  Even our Lord was tempted. 
C.W.H.

God Limits Himself
Stay away from the precipice!  You can’t alter the inevitable!  If you lean too far out of the window, they’ll call the coroner!  If you eat salt herring, even the grace of God won’t keep you from being thirsty!  Eat raw onions, and even the grace of God won’t give you the sweet breath of a baby!  Some things are INEVITABLE.

Profound
You can find the world’s shortest sermon on a thousand traffic signs:  KEEP RIGHT. 
Amarillo News

God Limits Himself
God will lower the gate of warning, sound the bell, flash the red light, but He won’t keep you from crossing the tracts.

Transfer of Power
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

God Changes the Heart
Sin is a heart disease than can only be permanently remedied by the Great Physician.

Order
The lust of the flesh is a consuming desire to do.  The lust of the eyes is a compelling urge to have.  The pride of life is a constant thrust to be.

Common Sense
When in doubt play safe.
Bob Jones, Sr.

Relationship
Christ died for sin; the believer dies to sin; the unbeliever dies in sin. 
D.L. Moody

Incurable
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
W.E. Gladstone

Priorities
A ship is safe in the ocean as long as the ocean is not in the ship.  And a Christian is safe in the world so long as the world is not in the Christian.

Resist
By yielding to temptation, one may lose in a moment what it took him a lifetime to gain.

Acknowledgement, Results
A prisoner mending his trousers was asked, “Are you sewing”, “No,” he replied, “I’m reaping.”

Results 
Whosoever sows to the flesh must pluck the thistles of his own sowing.  He will be thrashed, scratched and bruised by the thorns of his own misdeeds.

Without Honor
Sin in a Christian’s life makes a coward of him.

Singlemindedness
Christ cannot reign in the parlor of our hearts
while we entertain the Devil in the cellar of our thoughts.

Temptations
One of the worst things about sin for the Christian is that it weakens our moral and spiritual resistance.
C.W.H.

Payday, Results
Sin: a moment of gratification; an eternity of remorse.

Resist
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. 
Franklin

Sowing and Reaping
Wild oats need no fertilizer.

Clear Conscience
A gash in the conscience may disfigure a soul forever.
Spurgeon

Priorities
Bad things in life are enjoyed first and paid for later, but good things in life are paid for first, then later enjoyed.

Priorities
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Determination
No one can honestly or hopefully be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. 
Ruskin

Sin Stains
You cannot think dirty, you cannot talk dirty, you  cannot act dirty-and be clean!

Resistance
Temptations, when first we meet them, are as a lion that roared upon Samson, but if we overcome them, the next time we see them, we shall find a nest of honey within.
John Bunyan

Appropriate
The time is never right to do a wrong thing.

Sin is Never Discounted
One thing to be sure of – there will be no reduction in the wages of sin.

Backslidding
To explain why you backslide does not justify it.

Narrow, Straight Path
Some people have yet to learn that they cannot travel in the wrong direction and reach the right destination.

Sin will expose itself
The Devil always gets out a few extra copies when a saint goes wrong.

Exposed
If we cover our sin, God will uncover it; if we uncover it to God, He will cover it with His blood.

Try Your Best
It is a sin to do less than your best.
Bob Jones, Sr.

Trap
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
Dryden.

Numbness
The further a man goes in lust  and iniquity, the more dead he becomes to purity and holiness.  He loses the power to appreciate the beauties of virtue or to be disgusted with abominations of vice. 
Spurgeon

Immodesty
Where modesty is absent, virtue has no means of protection.

Forgiveness, Forsake
Sin must be dealt with in one of two ways – punishment or pardon.

Responsibility
Do not blame God for the harvest when you do the sowing.

The Fields are white unto Harvest
If all the lost people of the world were to line up single file ...
The line would reach around the world 30 times. 
The line would grow at the rate of 20 miles per day.
If you should attempt to drive 50 miles per hour, 10 hours per day, it would take you 4 years and 40 days to get to the end of that line. But, by the time you reached the end of that line, it would have gotten 30,000 miles longer.
The need of the lost is to be saved, the way they are multiplying, we had better get busy.
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Following
Follow the Lord, never follow your heart
Follow love, never follow like
Follow clear thinking, never follow fear
Follow the truth,
* never follow opinion
* never follow the crowd
* never follow appearances
* never follow fashion
Follow forbearance, never follow vengeance
Follow consistency, never follow whim
Follow decisiveness, never follow uncertainty
G. Steven Andres