If it's not in the Word forget what you heard.
If you're not living with God, you're rooming with the devil.
Satan takes you further than you want to go, and keeps you longer than you want to stay.
God grades on the cross, not on the curve.
Prayer: Don't give God instructions; just report for duty!
The will of God will never take you to where the grace of God will not protect you.

- Via THE SOWER, the weekly bulletin for the Arthur church of Christ in Arthur , IL . Ron Bartanen serves as editor and preachers and may be contacted at ron33dor@one-eleven.net

Vol 6
#4
June 4
2006

Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and when he grows up, he’ll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway (via The Lantern, Highway church of Christ , Sullivan , IL ).

"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time." -- Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

Some Thoughts on Love:

• "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction" (Antoine de Saint-Exupery).
• "Sometimes the more love we give away, the more we have."
• "If there is anything better than being loved, it is loving."
• "No one can love who has not served."

Vol 6
#5
July 2
2006

""We must not change the message; the message must change us" (Galatians 1:6-9) [via The Mathis Messenger, the weekly bulletin of the Mathis church of Christ, Mathis, TX; website: www.mathiscofc.org  e-mail: MathisCofC@stx.rr.com]

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them (Suzanne Necker).

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple" (Barry Switzer).

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." (John Wayne; via the APRIL 2006 MSFYi; Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Internet Newsletter).

Vol 6
#6
Aug 6
2006

THE BIBLE is the chief moral cause for all that is good, the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of man and the only book that can serve as an infallible guide for future felicit"  (Noah Webster, 1833).

"It's not dying for a faith that's so hard; 'tis the living up to it that is difficult" (Thackeray).

A prayer to be prayed more often: "Dear Lord, please keep your arm around my shoulder, and your hand over my mouth."

"Lord, thank you for this beautiful day! Please help me to see the beauty in every day, and help others to see the beauty in your wonders.  Guide me through perils toward your brilliant light.  Amen" (Kate E. Ritger, Prayer in All Things).

- via THE SOWER, a weekly publication of the Arthur church of Christ, Arthur, IL. Ron Bartanen, who serves as minister and editor, may be contacted a ron33dor@yahoo.com

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment" (Jim Horning).

“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” (Abraham Lincoln).

-- Via the Mathis Messenger, the weekly bulletin of the Mathis church of Christ, Mathis, TX.  They may be contacted at MathisCofC@stx.rr.com

Dignity is one thing that cannot be preserved in alcohol.

- Via The Lantern, the weekly bulletin of the Highway church of Christ, Sullivan, IL.  Ron Thomas serves the congregation as minister and bulletin editor and may be contacted at rthomas1@one-eleven.net

Vol 6
#7
Sept
2006

We often try to fix problems with WD-40 and duct tape. God did it with a nail.

- via Ed Thomason, co-editor of BulletinGold and minister of the New Madrid church of Christ, New Madrid, MO.  He may be contacted through one of his websites, preachtoday.com, a great resource for on-line Bible study materials.

The following were collected from The Encourager, the weekly publication of the Dongola church of Christ, Dongola, IL..  Gerald Cowan serves as their minister (he may be contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com):

The shaft of an arrow has been feathered with one of the eagles’ own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”

- Aesop (620 B.C.-560 B.C.); via The Mathis Messenger, the weekly bulletin for the Mathis church of Christ, Mathis, Texas.

Vol 6
#8
Oct
2006

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong wont!
(Henry Ward Beecher)

“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
(C. S. Lewis; via Bible Seed, James Guy, moderator)

It is never too soon to repent, because you never know how soon it may be too late.
(via The Encourager, the weekly bulletin of the Dongola church of Christ in Dongola, IL.  Gerald Cowan preaches for this congregation and he may be contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com)


Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
(via The Encourager, the weekly bulletin of the Dongola church of Christ in Dongola, IL.  Gerald Cowan preaches for this congregation and he may be contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com)

CHURCH SIGN BOARD:

Vol 6
#9
Nov
2006

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."(a Chinese proverb)

“People occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off like nothing happened” (Winston Churchill, via the Main Street Monitor, Main Street church of Christ, Manchester, TN).

"Some people merely stretch the truth. Others mutilate it" (The Encourager, the weekly bulletin of the Dongola church of Christ , Dongola , IL ).

"The learned man knows that he is ignorant" (Victor Hugo). 

Vol 6
#10
Dec
2006

"Time changes.  Weather changes.  But Christ remains the same."

"The world has too many cranks and not enough self-starters."

"Worry is the interest paid on borrowed trouble."

 --All from Leadership Magazine.

"Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch" (Robert Orben).

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"  (Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC).

Vol 6
#11
Jan
2007

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
We don't change God's message, It's message changes us!
In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma but never let him be the period.
-- All of the above were taken from The Lantern, the weekly bulletin for the Highway church of Christ, Sullivan, IL.
If you were on trial for being a Christian...
            ...would there be enough evidence to convict you?
-- Harrisburg church of Christ, Harrisburg, IL.
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life. 
-- -Barbara Johnson, via Kevin Rayner's Parables group.  Kevin preaches for the Highland church of Christ in Tecumseh, OK.  To join the group send an e-mail to parable-2006@yahoogroups.com.  You can contact Kevin at otchurch@hotmail.com
Someone asked C.S. Lewis, "Why do the righteous suffer?" "Why not?" he replied. "They're the only ones who can take it."
-- Via The Bible Says, visit their website at: http://biblesays.faithsite.com

Vol 6
#12
Feb
2007

Some women have learned that if you give your husband an inch he may think he is a ruler.
--  THE ENCOURAGER, weekly bulletin of Dongola church of Christ, Dongola, IL.

“Marriage is a coming together for better or worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred” (William O. Douglas).

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me” (Winston Churchill).

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage” (Martin Luther). 

"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up" (Ogden Nash).

"Most churches have more guidelines on what can be done during a wedding than they do on whether a couple should be getting married in the first place?"
-- The Family Friend, monthly newsletter dedicated to improving family relationships and spiritual training. 
"A woman's always younger than a man of equal years" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning).