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Archives 1989 to 1996
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    1996
12/08/96
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
11/28/96
If we pause to think, we'll have cause to thank! 
11/21/96
You can't discharge your debt to God but you can make payments on it. 
11/17/96
Profanity is the use of strong words by weak people.
11/10/96
Grouches spread cheer wherever they don't go. 
11/04/96
The fair is over, we had a ball, for your support we thank you all. 
10/27/96
Craft's enticing. Ditto pricing. 
10/20/96
Large goals are not easy to accomplish with small change. 
10/13/96
Counting your blessings is not as important as making your blessings count. 
10/06/96
It is much wiser to choose what you say than to say what you choose.
09/29/96
Education broadens a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for a big head.
09/22/96
All of our days are gifts from God - God's presence! 
09/15/96
Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. 
09/08/96
If your faith means much to you live so that it means much to others.
09/01/96
Unless we all work for the common good, there wont be any. 
08/25/96
We stand tallest only when we kneel.
08/11/96
Are you having a life while you're making a living? 
08/04/96
The dictionary is the only place where victory comes before work! 
07/28/96
A kindness takes only a moment, but its echo is eternal.
07/21/96
The distance from earth to heaven is a matter of attitude not altitude. 
07/14/96
When we do what we can, God will do what we can't. 
07/07/96
Will power - If you give God your will, He gives you His power!
07/02/96
Be not judged by what you drive, but by what drives you.
06/30/96
Faith with works is a force - faith without works is a farce! 
06/09/96
When you think God has put you on hold, don't hang up! 
06/02/96
Do you aim to make a buck or to make a difference. 
05/26/96
Those who deserve love least need it most.
05/19/96
Those who fall in love with themselves will have no rivals. 
05/12/96
Fear brings more pain than does the pain it fears. 
05/05/96
Drive carefully. Remember, its not only a car that can be recalled by its maker. 
04/21/96
Very few of us get cramps from seizing our opportunities. 
04/14/96
There is plenty of heavenly music for those who are tuned in. 
03/24/96
Forbidden fruit is responsible for many a bad jam. 
03/17/96
Jesus is in the world to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
03/10/96
Is there such a thing as civilized war? 
02/25/96
You can't cultivate friends by digging up dirt around them.
02/18/96
Love can be more easily demonstrated than defined. 
02/11/96
Wishing wont bring the bucket from the bottom of the well.
01/28/96
You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind. 
01/21/96
Hate is a luxury no one can afford. 
    1995
11/12/95
Those with deep wells seldom worry about a water shortage. 
10/26/95
Church is not a convention to which a family member merely sends a delegate. 
10/15/95
Service is love in work clothes.
10/08/95
The important thing about your lot in life is whether you use it for parking or building.
10/01/95
A first-class mistake is to treat anyone like a second-class person. 
09/24/95
Faith does not make things easy - it makes them possible.
09/17/95
Faith is more than a fact. Faith is an action.
09/10/95
God puts no restriction on faith. Faith puts no restriction on God.
09/03/95
Give all your troubles to God He will be up all night anyway.
08/27/95
A school is a building with four walls and tomorrow inside.
08/20/95
When we do what we can God will do what we can't.
08/13/95
People see God everyday they just don't recognize Him.
08/06/95
It is in the shelter of each other that we people live.
07/30/95
Keep cool! Avoid heated arguments!
07/23/95
Don't wait for your ship to come in if you haven't sent one out.
07/16/95
Ideas only work if you do.
07/09/95
Distance to heaven is not so much a matter of altitude as it is attitude.
07/02/95
Optimism - having a flat tire but making the most of despair. 
06/25/95
Its easier to build a child than to repair an adult.
06/18/95
We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
06/11/95
People seldom get dizzy spells from doing good turns.
06/04/95
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
05/23/95
If you wave the American Flag, don't waive what it stands for.
05/07/95
Common horse sense usually comes from stable minds.
04/23/95
You cannot get ahead while you're getting even.
02/26/95
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
02/12/95
The thing to try when all else fails is again.
01/22/95
Faith may move mountains, but only hard work can create the tunnels.
01/15/95
Last prayer stop before the Beltway.


Life is a puzzle. Look here for the missing peace.


Grouches spread cheer wherever they don't go.


When a friend makes a mistake, don't rub it in, rub it out.


A narrow mind and an open mouth usually go together.


Nothing stops criticism like involvement.


The husband who boasts he never made a mistake has a wife who did.


Hot words make for cold friendships .


Let them that would move the world first move themselves.


Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.


Manana is often the busiest day of the week.


The family altar would alter many a family.


Compliments are like perfume - to be inhaled not swallowed!


The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.


Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.


The past should be a springboard not a hammock.


Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.


Although we can't change the wind, we can adjust the sails.


God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.


Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.


If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.


What we do to our children, they will do to their future.


You're never too old to feel younger.


The best mind-altering drug is truth.


You don't learn good manners without seeing any.


Our task is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts
    1994
12/30/94
Resolutions go in one year and out the other. 
12/11/94
If you can't be a star in the sky, be a candle. 
11/08/94
If you want to feel rich, just count all the things money can't buy. 
09/11/94
God provides a safe landing but not a calm voyage.
09/04/94
Big ideas seldom come from swelled heads. 
08/28/94
People cannot shake hands with clenched fists.
08/21/94
Heaven is a bargain however great the cost.
08/07/94
We don't always see things as they are but as we are. 
06/19/94
Christianity helps us face the music even if we don't like the tune. 
05/29/94
Blowing your stack only adds to pollution. 
05/08/94
God asks growth not perfection. 
05/01/94
Don't miss the silver lining looking for the gold. 
04/21/94
Worry is misused imagination! 
04/17/94
The sun is shining, the grass is green.  God did it again! Give thanks!
04/03/94
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. 
03/01/94
Whitewashing the pump will not purify the water. 
01/31/94
Some people get caught in their own mouthtrap. 
01/23/94
This will be a better world when the power of love replaces the love of power. 
01/16/94
People who lose their heads are usually the last to miss them. 
01/09/94
Love people, not things; use things, not people. 
01/02/94
Time for an annual overhaul - resolutionize your life. 


An egotist is truly an I soar!


Soular-powered by the Son.


There's a time to speak your mind and a time to mind your speech.


To lose the burden of guilt, confess it.


Hotheads seldom set the world on fire!


The door to the human heart opens from the inside.
    1993
11/21/93
The church is not a museum for saints, but a hospital for sinners.
11/07/93
A moment of thought is often worth an hour of talk. 
10/24/93
Fear is the darkroom where only negatives are developed. 
10/17/93
People who fly into a rage, usually make a bad landing.
10/10/93
Praying will give you a calmplex. 
10/03/93
The longer one carries a grudge, the heavier it becomes.
08/29/93
Eternity - smoking or non-smoking? 
08/15/93
Life is a puzzle.  Look here for the missing peace.
08/08/93
The end never justifies the mean. 
08/01/93
Pick your friends - but not to pieces. 
07/25/93
Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape. 
06/23/93
Stop looking at the world through woes colored glasses. 
06/15/93
We don't know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future.
06/09/93
Alibis are the nails that build ?
05/30/93
A person's height is no indication of their depth.
04/11/93
The Lord's work -- low pay but the benefits are out of this world.
04/04/93
This is the week for cross examination.
03/28/93
Avoid the Easter Rush - come to church this Sunday 
03/21/93
Christianity is a steering wheel, not a spare tire.
03/14/93
If your halo is too tight you may give someone else a headache too. 
03/07/93
Chance favors the prepared mind. 
02/25/93
Read the Bible, free gift inside. 
02/04/93
The hardest thing to give is in.
01/07/93
When confronted with a foe, praise it, bless it, let it go.


Faith makes all things possible - love makes all things easy.


God knows your load limit and He will limit your load.


There are 10 commandments, not suggestions.


Keep your words sweet, you may have to eat them.


Forbidden fruit makes for a bad jam.


Swallowing pride is nonfattening.


To love someone is to bid him to live and invite him to grow.


Personality opens many doors, but character keeps them open.


Don't burden today's strength with tomorrow's load.


Love is the stuff God uses to glue people together.


Are you a walking Bible - or a walking libel?


Don't mistake activity for achievement.


A broken home is the world's most tragic wreck.


Let another's shipwreck be your beacon.


Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind.
    1992
10/04/92
God loves you through thick or sin. 
09/23/92
Forgiveness is the glue that can repair broken relationships. 
09/16/92
When the mind is in reverse, put the tongue in neutral. 
08/30/92
Take time to look around, the day is too short to be selfish. 
08/09/92
When your cup runneth over, slosh some on somebody. 
08/02/92
Don't just keep the faith, share it. 
03/30/92
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. 
03/16/92
The woods would be silent if only the best birds sang. 
02/09/92
When it comes to generosity, some people stop at nothing.
02/01/92
Those who sling mud, lose ground. 
01/23/92
You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
01/16/92
Troubles are often tools by which God fashions us for better things.
01/09/92
Happiness is not a goal; it's a way of living.
01/02/92
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, Faith looks up. 


A person wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.


If a man takes bread with indifference, he takes a bitter loaf that feeds half his hunger.


The one who forgives ends the quarrel.


Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.


Pain is inevitable - misery is optional.


It's what I learn after I know it all that counts.


Excellence is not an act but a habit.


Problems are opportunities in work clothes.


Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.


Money isn't everything - sometimes it isn't even enough.
    1990-1991
08/18/91
We welcome you with open Psalms. 
08/11/91
What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake. 
07/14/91
Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts 
07/02/91
When you bury the hatchet, don't mark the grave. 
06/29/91
Limit your cross words to puzzles 
06/09/91
Sometime you can make a more positive statement by holding your tongue. 
05/23/91
Triumph is just "umph" added to try! 
05/02/91
Count your blessings then stop and thank about it. 
03/10/91
What the caterpillar thinks is the end, the butterfly knows is only the beginning. 
01/21/90
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
    1989
10/22/89
If God's love is not in you - then, where? 
09/18/89
Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts. 
09/11/89
Let go - Let God!
08/21/89
God knows my wants, but meets my needs. 
08/14/89
Speak kind words and you will hear kind echoes. 
08/07/89
God is near us, right now and all the time. 
07/24/89
If it's not hopeful, it's not Christian. 
07/17/89
Be prepared.  It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. 
07/10/89
God's love is expressed in all we do. 


Beyond each yesterday, is promise of new beginning.


The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.


When it rains - look for the rainbow.


Learn from yesterday - live for today - hope for tomorrow.


Patience is a virtue that carries a lot of wait.


Most of us know how to say nothing; few of us know when.


How to succeed; act on the advice you give others.


God listens to prayer, not advice.


Ignorance with love is better than wisdom without it.


Prayers are the stairs that lead to God.


Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.


It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.


When you have peace in your heart, any place is home.


Live each day as if Jesus died yesterday, rose today and is coming tomorrow.


Do not pray for tasks equal to your power; pray for power equal to your tasks.


God made time, but humans made haste.


Any time the going seems easy, better check and see if you're going downhill.


If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.


If you want to put the world right, start with yourself.


If you meet someone who has no smile, give them yours.


Give others a piece of your heart, not a piece of your mind.


If your day is hemmed with prayer it is less likely to unravel.


Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there.


The smallest package in the world is a man wrapped up in himself.


Where love is thin, faults are thick.


Abandon worry all ye who enter here.


If God sends us on stony paths, He provides strong shoes. 


Wrinkled with care?  Come in for a faith lift.


If you can't sleep, don't count sheep - Talk to the Shepherd.


Patience is a virtue that carries a lot of wait.


God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our  own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.


We welcome you with open psalms.


A good example is the best sermon.


A smile adds to your face value.


Learn to pause - or nothing worthwhile can catch up with you.


A man can't stumble when he's on his knees.


Our church is prayer conditioned.


God hasn't made many of us lawyers, be He has subpoenaed all of us as witnesses.


Prepare and prevent rather than repair and repent.


Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.


A prayer is a wish turned heavenward.


You do not feel God near you?  The reason is easily proved.  Just ask yourself this question-- who moved?


Give God what is right, not what is left.


Christians who are worth their salt will make others thirsty.


It is better to bite your tongue than to let it bite someone else.


God may stretch your patience to enlarge your soul.


It isn't your position that makes you happy, its your disposition.


Sunset in one land is sunrise in another.


The measure of a person's life is the well spending of it, not it's length.


The past is to learn from, not to live in.


A bad habit is like good bread - better broken than kept.


Do I look at others the way God looks at me?


Waiting time can become learning time if we pray.


I will be called to account for what I did with what I had, not forwhat I would have done with more.


If we don't change our direction, we may wind up where we are heading.


One woman's affirmative action is another man's reverse discrimination.


Don't look at me and say "There's a hole in your side of the boat."


What I do may only be a drop in the ocean but if that drop were missing, the ocean would be diminished. 


Minds are like parachutes - they must be open to function perfectly.


If you are envious of those who have more, look closely at those who have less.


Sins left unconfessed will be stowed away at owners expense.


If God seems far away, who moved.


Love is a many-mended thing .


Too many of us expect life to serve the dessert before we have eaten our veggies.


If you're looking for something to roll up, start with your sleeves.


If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at (on?) it.


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