Not long ago, author Frank Viola asked me if I’d ever read his book
“Pagan Christianity.” Well, I just did and, mercy! What an eye-opener!
I had the privilege of attending two of Viola’s sessions at a conference
last Labor Day weekend. A woman there who had read the book
quipped, “After I read it, I realized I wasn’t even a Christian!” I like
the book because it’s loaded with footnotes and is quite scholarly in
its approach, yet it’s a very easy read.

Saturday was an incredible day here in Stephenville. Not only did many people from a variety of denominations join together in “Operation:Jesus!” going door-to-door asking people how they could pray for them, but a team of women from Coppell, Texas made the 3-hour trek, quietly entering our town for a day of training, impartation and blessing that, many felt, will change this place at a very deep level.

It was phenomenal!

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/bath/index_1.html

Isn’t it strange that, with all the talk about Global Warming (GW), we

just had one of the coldest winters we’ve had in a long time? The 2007

Farmers’ Almanac, whose predictions are up to 85% accurate, predicts

frigid temperatures, as much as 20 degrees below seasonal norms (and

nearly 40 degrees colder than last winter), for Montana, the Dakotas

and parts of Wyoming. For the Gulf Coast up through New England,

unseasonably cold, or “shivery,” conditions are expected. Snow, and

lots of it, is also forecast for the nation’s midsection, parts of New

Are we REALLY that surprised by the recent campus slaughter?

Personally, I’m surprised that kind of thing doesn’t occur MORE

often. Surely we aren’t that good at rounding up all the “crazies”

in society and placing them in mental institutions.

 

Whether it was V-tech, the UT sniper, such mass killings are less

common than plane crashes. Fortunately, they happen once in a blue

moon. Although the shooting at V-Tech was terrible, it pales in

comparison to some of the horrific tragedies that are happening on

Recently, here in Texas, a nursing home janitor who
had been terminated, later returned with a gun and
held the place hostage. There were cops, plenty of
media attention but, thankfully, it all ended without
any violence.

The following article is 100% TRUE according to Snopes.com…and I’m GLAD!

You should go there and read what else it says about this inspirational teacher.

Blessings,

Mike Tummillo

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/nodesks.asp

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren,
a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock , did
something not to be forgotten.

On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent,
the principal and the building supervisor, she took all of the desks
out of the classroom.

Who are the Wardians? YOU are the Wardians…those under the employ of Diane Ward.

Why are we blessed? Because Diane cared enough about YOUR spiritual lives to provide a Workplace Chaplain, a rising trend among some of America’s most progressive corporations, by the way. That’s right…we’re on the cutting edge! It’s an honor and a privilege for me to serve you in this way and it’s making a difference in the lives of many who - for a myriad of reasons - tell me they cannot get to traditional church services. Whether it’s their weariness with perceived hypocrisy, their own lack of “churchy” attire, the stress of getting kids ready on their only day off, for many, Bible Study attendance IS the only Church they have.

Like everyone else, radio talk show host, Don Imus, has done and said some really dumb things. Fortunately for most of us, our SNAFU’s aren’t shot around the planet for all the world to see.

For the handful who aren’t aware of what Ol’ Don did, and for the benefit of the millions of earthlings who couldn’t give a rat’s tail, in a nutshell, Imus stuck his foot in his mouth while commenting on the Woman’s Rutgers basketball team that lost the NCAA women’s championship game to Tennessee last week. His exact words? He thoughtlessly referred to the Rutgers players as “nappy-headed hoes.”

Over the years, I have ministered to many people who were struggling with online porn. I’ve received phone calls from young women who found porn on their husband’s computers. I’ve heard from older men by eMail who found themselves out of control because of porn.

Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the
church’s morals, kept sticking her nose in to other people’s business. Several members did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town’s only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told Frank (and several others) that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing.

There are certain things that we read in Scripture that many people simply have a hard time wrapping their minds around. Here’s one, for example: The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you (Romans 8:11).

Do you believe that?

Personally, I don’t believe we can be reminded of this truth often ENOUGH. I daresay, it’s because we are NOT reminded of this that the Church remains so impotent and ineffective. As 2 Timothy 3:5 says, we have a “form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!”

I can recall sitting in the pew of a Catholic Church as a boy. I had always wondered why it was that, at Communion time, some people remained seated or kneeling in a very prayerful, pious position while others shuffled forward to humbly receive the bread and wine. As time went on, and the length of time between my confessions grew too long (in my own opinion) and the types of sins I was capable of committing grew “worse” (again, in my own opinion), I found that, I, too, would refrain from taking communion because, in my own opinion, I was simply unworthy.

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