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