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Sound Words, July 8, 2018
What Parents Can Do For Their Children Parents can give you life, but they cannot live that life for you. Parents can buy you lovely things, but they cannot make you lovable. Parents can give you some good advice about your friends, but they cannot choose good friends for you. Parents can give you their love, but they cannot force you to accept it. Parents can give you direction, but they cannot always be there to lead you. Parents can…
Moments Wisdom – July 8, 2018
A Moments Wisdom –A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring his students with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron. –It is fortunate that in this country we have freedom of speech, but it is unfortunate that the supply usually exceeds the demand. –How much easier it is for some to critical than to be correct. –Treat arguments like weeds, nip them in the bud. –If you are waiting around for something to turn up, why don’t…
Moments Wisdom – July 1, 2018
A Moments Wisdom — Money will buy a bed but not sleep, books but not brains, food but not an appetite, medicine but not health, luxury but not culture, amusement but not happiness, a crucifix but not a Savior, a house of worship but not a home in heaven. — To make a day full and pleasant, we need five things: plenty of work to do, a purposeful hope in life, someone to love, a period of relaxation, and a…
Sound Words, July 1, 2018
He Takes Thought of Me By Kent Heaton “But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God” (Psalm 40:17). There are a lot of things on the mind of God. It is an incredible volume of knowledge that is contained within the spirit of the Creator as He thinks upon all He has created. The universe is held together…
Moments Wisdom – June 24, 2018
A Moments Wisdom –Everyone is criticizing and belittling the times. Yet I think that our times, like all times, are very good times, if only we know what to do with them. –Regardless of how educated, confident, and ambitious you are, you will not reach your potential without simple, basic honesty. And the first person you have to be honest with is yourself. –If you are a self-starter at work, your boss won’t be a crank. –Fathers who take their…
Sound Words, June 24, 2018
Answering More Questions on Catholicism By Paul R. Blake Question: “What is your opinion of the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation?” Answer: I am happy to answer your question; however, as I’ve said before, I don’t do opinion, but I will contrast the doctrine of transubstantiation against what is written in scripture. It is defined as: “the doctrine of the change of substance or essence by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist…
Moments Wisdom – June 17, 2018
A Moments Wisdom –Why think and talk about debt, doubt, disease, disaster, discouragement, depression, decay, disorder, danger, defeat, difficulty, discord, deception, disappointment, distrust disagreement, dread, dejection, destitution, and desolation, when we could just as easily think and talk about peace, prosperity, plenty, power, pluck, persistence, purpose, promotion, possession, proficiency, progress, perseverance, prayer, and Paradise? –We choose the clothes we wear; we choose the food we eat and drink; but even more important, are the thoughts we choose to think. –Pleasure…
Sound Words, June 17, 2018
Life’s Little Lessons XVIII “I Hungered to See the Dawn” “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned” (Matt. 4:15-16). A man named Rudd told what it is like to live at the North Pole during three months of…