A Thought for Today 30-12-2011

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honour your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may have long life and may prosper in the land that the Lord your God gives to you.

 

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
(Michael Jordan)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiDOyQCCpKs&feature=related 

 

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4fFhgr__k8U

 

 

A Thought for Today 29-12-2011

Hebrews 1:1-2

At various times in the past and in various different ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but in our own time, the last days, he has spoken to us through his Son, the Son that he has appointed to inherit everything and through whom he made everything there is.

 

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.
(Kenneth Scott Latourette)

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BwfQURWJ8&feature=related

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 28-12-2011

Jeremiah 31:16,17

Stop your weeping, dry your eyes, your hardships will be redressed. There is hope for your descendants, says the Lord.

 

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
(Corrie Ten Boom)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSJuwudeoTE 

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 23-12-2011

Jeremiah 14:9

Lord, you are in our midst, we are called by your name. Do not desert us, O Lord our God!

 

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
(Corrie Ten Boom)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he9BdHNrXTs

Christmas Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4fFhgr__k8U

 

 

A Thought for Today 22-12-2011

Isaiah 45:8

Send victory like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain it down. Let the earth open for salvation to spring up. Let deliverance, too, bud forth which I, the Lord, shall create.

 

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
(Corrie Ten Boom)

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puLybRGSAw

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 21-12-2011

Daniel 9:19

Listen, Lord! Lord, forgive! Hear, Lord, and act! For your own sake, my God, do not delay, because they bear your name, this is your city, this is your people.

 

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
(Sydney J. Harris)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX8NkTERktI&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 20-12-2011

Ezekiel 34:15-16

I will pasture my sheep, I will show them where to rest – it is the Lord who speaks. I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the wounded and make the weak strong. I shall be a true shepherd to them.

 

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
(Abraham Lincoln)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC191TMNBqc&feature=relmfu

 

 

A Thought for Today 19-12-2011

Philippians 3:20-21

We are waiting for our saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body. He will do that by the same power with which he can subdue the whole universe.

 

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
(Albert Einstein)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C65aJef1J_Y&feature=related

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 16-12-2011

2 Peter 3:8-9

With the Lord, ’a day’ can mean a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord is not being slow to carry out his promises, as anybody else might be called slow; but he is being patient with you all, wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to change his ways.

 

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
(Edwin Louis Cole)

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5sypIy52dw&feature=related

 

Weekly Blessing:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YSjC7asFDwQ  

 

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A Thought for Today 15-12-2011

Isaiah 45:8

Send victory like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain it down. Let the earth open for salvation to spring up. Let deliverance, too, bud forth which I, the Lord, shall create.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
(Jeane Kirkpatrick)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfvEef_vAeA 

A Thought for Today 14-12-2011

Isaiah 2:11

Human pride will lower its eyes, the arrogance of men will be humbled. The Lord alone will be exalted, on that day.

I look upon pride as a sin.
(Tommy Lee Jones)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjuZL6v2H9A&feature=related

 

A Thought for Today 13-12-2011

Jeremiah 23:5

See, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I will raise a virtuous Branch for David, who will reign as true king and be wise, practising honesty and integrity in the land.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
(W. Clement Stone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKtz1cna0is&feature=related 

 

A Thought for Today 12-12-2011

Isaiah 2:3

Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob that he may teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths; since the Law will go out from Zion, and the oracle of the Lord from Jerusalem.

 

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
(Anita Brookner)

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbKWk6RzaiM&feature=related

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 09-12-2011

Jeremiah 30:21,22

The Lord says this: Their prince will come from Jacob, their ruler come from their own people. I will let him come freely into my presence and he can come close to me. And you shall be my people and I will be your God.

In Christ the original image of God is restored by faith, in this world and by sight in the world to come.
(Walter Lang)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXpqoP4PLxg

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YSjC7asFDwQ

A Thought for Today 06-12-2011

Jeremiah 23:5

See, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I will raise a virtuous Branch for David, who will reign as true king and be wise, practising honesty and integrity in the land.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
(Jimmy Carter)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfpK6cNPF7Y

A Thought for Today 04-12-2011

Isaiah 10:20-21

That day, the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the House of Jacob will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.
(Terrence Howard)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jed_Bgknehg&feature=related

A Thought for Today 02-12-2011

Jeremiah 29:11,13

I know the plans I have in mind for you – it is the Lord who speaks – plans for peace, not disaster, reserving a future full of hope for you. When you seek me you shall find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
(Napoleon Bonaparte)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdLwZCprtkI

A Thought for Today 01-12-2011

Haggai 2:6,9

A little while now, and I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. The new glory of this Temple is going to surpass the old, and in this place I will give peace – it is the Lord of Hosts who speaks.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
(William Gurnall)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHuokdjT4UY&feature=related

A Thought for Today 30-11-2011

2 Corinthians 5:19-20

God has entrusted to us the news of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
(Saint Augustine)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUk1MbKTms0

A Thought for Today 29-11-2011

Ezekiel 34:15-16

I will pasture my sheep, I will show them where to rest – it is the Lord who speaks. I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the wounded and make the weak strong. I shall be a true shepherd to them.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
(Charles Maurice de Talleyrand)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nde0onVYV9g&feature=related

A Thought for Today 28-11-2011

Isaiah 13:22-14:1

Its time is almost up, its days will not last long. Yes, the Lord will have pity on Jacob, and Israel will be saved.

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
(Pope Benedict XVI)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0YYfH01BcE

A Thought for Today 25-11-2011

Deuteronomy 1:31

The Lord carried you, as a man carries his child, all along the road you travelled.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
(Samuel Rutherford)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by1Tq2nGffA

A Thought for Today 24-11-2011

Galatians 5:13-14

My brothers, you were called, as you know, to liberty; but be careful, or this liberty will provide an opening for self-indulgence. Serve one another, rather, in works of love, since the whole of the Law is summarised in a single command: Love your neighbour as yourself.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
(David Wilkerson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDvRRY5eT4

A Thought for Today 23-11-2011

1 Peter 5:5-7

Wrap yourselves in humility to be servants of each other, because God refuses the proud and will always favour the humble. Bow down, then, before the power of God now, and he will raise you up on the appointed day; unload all your worries on to him, since he is looking after you.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
(Pope Benedict XVI)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fedOmAUbEI

A Thought for Today 22-11-2011

Romans 3:23-25

All have sinned and forfeited God’s glory, and all are justified through the free gift of his grace by being redeemed in Christ Jesus who was appointed by God to sacrifice his life so as to win reconciliation through faith.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
(Mother Teresa)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5sypIy52dw

A Thought for Today 21-11-2011

Jeremiah 15:16

When your words came, I devoured them: your word was my delight and the joy of my heart; for I was called by your name, Lord, God of hosts.

Every creature is a word of God.
(Meister Eckhart)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PycBrNP8dXg

A Thought for Today 18-11-2011

2 Corinthians 13:4

He was crucified through weakness, but still he lives now through the power of God. So then, we are weak, as he was, but we shall live with him, through the power of God, for your benefit.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
(Franz Grillparzer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF6a9gr_xDU

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=geXuODrsbI0

A Thought for Today 17-11-2011

Amos 4:13

He it was who formed the mountains, created the wind, reveals his mind to man, makes both dawn and dark, and walks on the top of the heights of the world; the Lord, the God of Hosts, is his name.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
(Man Ray)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfHDP3RI3I

A Thought for Today 16-11-2011

1 Peter 1:15-16

Be holy in all you do, since it is the Holy One who has called you, and scripture says: Be holy, for I am holy.

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
(Carl Olson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35iRA37TqgQ

A Thought for Today 15-11-2011

Job 5:17-18

Happy indeed the man whom God corrects! So do not refuse this lesson from the Omnipotent: for he who wounds is he who soothes the sore, and the hand that hurts is the hand that heals.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
(Jim Rohn)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbQyQavqqMI&feature=related

A Thought for Today 14-11-2011

James 1:19-20,26

Be quick to listen but slow to speak and slow to rouse your temper; God’s righteousness is never served by man’s anger. Nobody must imagine that he is religious while he still goes on deceiving himself and not keeping control over his tongue; anyone who does this has the wrong idea of religion.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
(Washington Irving)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgcrLcTa8VE

A Thought for Today 10-11-2011

Hebrews 12:1-2

We should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started. Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of the joy which was still in the future, he endured the cross, disregarding the shamefulness of it, and from now on has taken his place at the right of God’s throne.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
(Ayrton Senna)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q6o4sbndVE&ob=av2e

A Thought for Today 09-11-2011

Ephesians 4:26-27

Even if you are angry, you must not sin: never let the sun set on your anger, or else you will give the devil a foothold.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
(Mark Twain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_tvUtjGbw

A Thought for Today 08-11-2011

1 John 3:17-18

If a man who was rich enough in this world’s goods saw that one of his brothers was in need, but closed his heart to him, how could the love of God be living in him? My children, our love is not to be just words or mere talk, but something real and active.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
(John Gay)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B1Lv8k5pEc

A Thought for Today 07-11-2011

Leviticus 20:26

Be consecrated to me, because I, the Lord, am holy, and I will set you apart from all these peoples so that you may be mine.

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
(George Whitefield)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRbSCTUAlc8

A Thought for Today 04-11-2011

Romans 3:21-22

God’s justice that was made known through the Law and the Prophets has now been revealed outside the Law, since it is the same justice of God that comes through faith to everyone who believes.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
(Joel Osteen)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN9J8eqKovY&ob=av2e

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNkc8bT0VV8&feature=player_embedded

A Thought for Today 03-11-2011

Wisdom 19:22

Lord, in every way you have made your people great and glorious. You have never disdained them, but stood by them always and everywhere.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
(William Ames)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uIHc376SiI

A Thought for Today 02-11-2011

Isaiah 25:8

The Lord will destroy Death for ever. He will wipe away the tears from every cheek; he will take away his people’s shame everywhere on earth, for the Lord has spoken.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
(Paul Ricoeur)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ikYVGFZ-0

A Thought for Today 01-11-2011

Ephesians 1:17-18

May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit of wisdom and perception of what is revealed, to bring you to full knowledge of him. May he enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see what hope his call holds for you, what rich glories he has promised the saints will inherit.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
(James Huneker)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiMmgMrk3Lk&feature=related

A Thought for Today 26-10-2011

Isaiah 55:8-9

My thoughts are not your thoughts,

my ways not your ways – it is the Lord who speaks.

Yes, the heavens are as high above earth

as my ways are above your ways,

my thoughts above your thoughts.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
(Albert Einstein)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8_ckg0OdO4&feature=related

A Thought for Today 24-10-2011

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make an everlasting covenant with them. I will not cease in my efforts for their good, and I will put respect for me into their hearts, so that they turn from me no more.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
(Kenneth Burke)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9WXUlERHKc&feature=related

A Thought for Today 21-10-2011

2 Corinthians 13:4

He was crucified through weakness, but still he lives now through the power of God. So then, we are weak, as he was, but we shall live with him, through the power of God, for your benefit.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
(Edmund Waller)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1ZgtCRO-KY&feature=related

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9QB6uTtCfIA

A Thought for Today 20-10-2011

Amos 4:13

He it was who formed the mountains, created the wind, reveals his mind to man, makes both dawn and dark, and walks on the top of the heights of the world; the Lord, the God of Hosts, is his name.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
(Jonathan Larson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5phCWq6l7vw

A Thought for Today 19-10-2011

1 Peter 1:13-14

Free your minds, then, of encumbrances; control them, and put your trust in nothing but the grace that will be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. Do not behave in the way that you liked to before you learnt the truth, but make a habit of obedience.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U092ClcY8M&ob=av2e

A Thought for Today 18-10-2011

1 Thessalonians 2:2-4

It was our God who gave us the courage to proclaim his Good News to you in the face of great opposition. We have not taken to preaching because we are deluded, or immoral, or trying to deceive anyone; it was God who decided that we were fit to be entrusted with the Good News, and when we are speaking, we are not trying to please men but God.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
(Mark Twain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgWOcYpHm0o

A Thought for Today 17-10-2011

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10

God chose us to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that, alive or dead, we should still live united to him.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
(Marcus Aurelius)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHcCBtIcxhQ&feature=relmfu

A Thought for Today 14-10-2011

Romans 12:17,19-20,21

Never repay evil with evil. As scripture says: Vengeance is mine – I will pay them back, says the Lord. But there is more: If your enemy is hungry, you should give him food, and if he is thirsty, let him drink. Resist evil and conquer it with good.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
(Samuel Johnson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdMo0rOt2Kk&ob=av2e

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uu5khL-_uMg

A Thought for Today 13-10-2011

Wisdom 1:1-2

Love virtue, you who are judges on earth, let honesty prompt your thinking about the Lord, seek him in simplicity of heart; since he is to be found by those who do not put him to the test, he shows himself to those who do not distrust him.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
(Thor Heyerdahl)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRpT7oal4LA

A Thought for Today 11-10-2011

Isaiah 55:10-11

Thus says the Lord: ‘As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the eating, so the word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without carrying out my will and succeeding in what it was sent to do.’

Let God's promises shine on your problems.
(Corrie Ten Boom)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNWjZCJo4OY&feature=related

A Thought for Today 10-10-2011

Baruch 4:21-22

Take courage, my children, call on God: he will deliver you from tyranny, from the hands of your enemies; for I look to the Eternal for your rescue, and joy has come to me from the Holy One at the mercy soon to reach you from your saviour, the Eternal.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
(Mark Twain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgTNXqXdsNA&feature=related

A Thought for Today 07-10-2011

Galatians 4:4-5

When the appointed time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law and to enable us to be adopted as sons.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
(C.S. Lewis)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKy5WXEu8lY&feature=iv&src_vid=PNNpmDU6aHk&annotation_id=annotation_720066

A Thought for Today 06-10-2011

Deuteronomy 4:7

What great nation is there that has its gods so near as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him?

Sir, 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)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNNQQGScPS4

A Thought for Today 04-10-2011

Proverbs 22:22-23

Because a man is poor, do not therefore cheat him, nor, at the city gate, oppress anybody in affliction; for the Lord takes up their cause, and extorts the life of their extortioners.

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
(John Perkins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37hfTkQTpdg

A Thought for Today 03-10-2011

Colossians 1:21-22

Not long ago, you were foreigners and enemies, in the way that you used to think and the evil things that you did; but now he has reconciled you, by his death and in that mortal body. Now you are able to appear before him holy, pure and blameless.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
(Abraham Lincoln)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdjRmM0Q0qs

A Thought for Today 30-09-2011

Deuteronomy 1:31

The Lord carried you, as a man carries his child, all along the road you travelled.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
(Oscar Wilde)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by1Tq2nGffA

A Thought for Today 29-09-2011

Daniel 9:22-23

The angel Gabriel spoke to me and said ‘Daniel, you see me; I have come down to teach you how to understand. When your pleading began, a word was uttered, and I have come to tell you what it is. You are a man specially chosen. Grasp the meaning of the word, understand the vision.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
(C.S. Lewis)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5YcwlZAikk

A Thought for Today 28-09-2011

Romans 8:35,37

Nothing can come between us and the love of Christ, even if we are troubled or worried, or being persecuted, or lacking food or clothes, or being threatened or even attacked. These are the trials through which we triumph, by the power of him who loved us.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
(Thomas Babington)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkx_rS6hGx4&ob=av2e

A Thought for Today 27-09-2011

1 Corinthians 12:4-6

There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit; there are all sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord; working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is the same God who is working in all of them

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
(Michael Jordan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5HYznywIg

A Thought for Today 26-09-2011

Jeremiah 15:16

When your words came, I devoured them: your word was my delight and the joy of my heart; for I was called by your name, Lord, God of hosts.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_5oE0ijhKg

A Thought for Today 23-09-2011

Colossians 3:12-13

You are God’s chosen race, his saints; he loves you, and you should be clothed in sincere compassion, in kindness and humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with one another; forgive each other as soon as a quarrel begins. The Lord has forgiven you; now you must do the same.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
(Robert Fripp)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI78mF-DzKM

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo37K46qz0w&feature=player_embedded

A Thought for Today 22-09-2011

Amos 4:13

He it was who formed the mountains, created the wind, reveals his mind to man, makes both dawn and dark, and walks on the top of the heights of the world; the Lord, the God of Hosts, is his name.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
(Charles Dickens)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD6Hx4xRzIA

A Thought for Today 21-09-2011

2 Corinthians 5:19-20

God has entrusted to us the news of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
(Matthew Henry)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAJaZEOWL-0

A Thought for Today 20-09-2011

Romans 13:11,12-13

You must wake up now: the night is almost over, it will be daylight soon. Let us give up all the things we prefer to do under cover of the dark; let us arm ourselves and appear in the light. Let us live decently as people do in the daytime.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
(Stan Laurel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ERSxK3040

A Thought for Today 19-09-2011

Romans 13:8,10

Avoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations. Love is the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour; that is why it is the answer to every one of the commandments

A man in debt is so far a slave.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9aXaeheYFw

A Thought for Today 16-09-2011

Romans 12:17,19-20,21

Never repay evil with evil. As scripture says: Vengeance is mine – I will pay them back, says the Lord. But there is more: If your enemy is hungry, you should give him food, and if he is thirsty, let him drink. Resist evil and conquer it with good.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
(William Tecumseh Sherman)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le-TG4sRRiQ&feature=fvsr

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo37K46qz0w&feature=player_embedded

A Thought for Today 15-09-2011

Hebrews 12:1-2

We should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started. Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of the joy which was still in the future, he endured the cross, disregarding the shamefulness of it, and from now on has taken his place at the right of God’s throne.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
(Ernest Hello)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM6wuVudnP8&ob=av2n

A Thought for Today 14-09-2011

Ephesians 1:7-8

In Christ and through his blood we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins. Such is the richness of the grace which he has showered on us.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
(Dag Hammarskjold)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id6hkzslQww

A Thought for Today 13-09-2011

1 John 3:17-18

If a man who was rich enough in this world’s goods saw that one of his brothers was in need, but closed his heart to him, how could the love of God be living in him? My children, our love is not to be just words or mere talk, but something real and active.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdGwQpyreh0

A Thought for Today 12-09-2011

Wisdom 15:1,3

You, our God, are kind, loyal and slow to anger, and you govern all things with mercy. To acknowledge you is indeed the perfect virtue, to know your power is the root of immortality.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5iGjfIbL18

A Thought for Today 09-09-2011

Romans 1:16-17

The power of God saves all who have faith – Jews first, but Greeks as well – since this is what reveals the justice of God to us: it shows how faith leads to faith, or as scripture says: The upright man finds life through faith.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGDyZlT_44&feature=related

A Thought for Today 08-09-2011

Apocalypse 21:3

You see this city? Here God lives among men. He will make his home among them; they shall be his people, and he will be their God; his name is God-with-them.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
(Plato)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgQccYki-9Y

A Thought for Today 07-09-2011

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offence, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
(Euripides)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR1ljs8RBdQ

A Thought for Today 06-09-2011

Proverbs 22:22-23

Because a man is poor, do not therefore cheat him, nor, at the city gate, oppress anybody in affliction; for the Lord takes up their cause, and extorts the life of their extortioners.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
(Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PFIeHyWBO0&feature=related

A Thought for Today 02-09-2011

Wisdom 1:13-15

Death was not God’s doing, he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living. To be – for this he created all; the world’s created things have health in them, in them no fatal poison can be found, and Hades holds no power on earth; for virtue is undying.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
(Berthold Brecht)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWEllqh5J0

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ZiWTyL4v0&feature=player_embedded

A Thought for Today 01-09-2011

Romans 14:17-19

The kingdom of God does not mean eating or drinking this or that, it means righteousness and peace and joy brought by the Holy Spirit. If you serve Christ in this way you will please God and be respected by men. So let us adopt any custom that leads to peace and our mutual improvement.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
(William Law)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGx-xU6TnU8

A Thought for Today 31-08-2011

1 Samuel 16:7

God does not see as man sees; man looks at appearances but the Lord looks at the heart.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
(Jean de La Fontaine)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZe6OgBjAFY