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Welcome to THE TIMOTHY REPORT for February 9, 2004
“To assist, encourage, enable and equip”
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WE ALL NEED JESUS
Some folks think they are good really good people. Let's suppose that a person only sins 3 times a day. A sin in the morning, a sin during the day and a sin at night. Sounds like a pretty good person! Let's think for a moment. If that person is saved at 10 years old and dies at 80 years old that person will commit 76,650 sins in their lifetime! Imagine nearly 80,000 sins and this is from the life of a "good person." The truth is that all have sinned (more than we would really like to know) and we all need Jesus.
--Richard Wilson
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
February 9, 2004)
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FORGIVENESS
When best-selling author Tony Hillerman was fourteen, he worked on a farm in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. He learned about digging postholes, delivering calves and about forgiveness.
One afternoon his boss, Mr. Ingram found a truck filled with his watermelons stuck in the mud. Mr. Ingram told young Tony to watch for the man to return to the "scene of the crime." When he did, Mr. Ingram said, "I see you're wanting to buy some watermelons."
After a long pause, he cleared his throat and said, "Yep, whatcha gettin fer 'um?"
"Two bits a piece," Mr. Ingram said.
They finished the transaction and Tony and Mr. Ingram helped him get his truck out of there. After he left, Mr. Ingram said, "Son, if you don't forgive your enemies, you're going to run out of friends."
--“Reader's Digest,” March 2000, p. 119
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
February 9, 2004)
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SOUND, BUT SOUND ASLEEP
There are too many churches with impeccable credentials for orthodox theology whose outreach is almost nil. They are sound, but they are sound asleep . . . It is far too easy for the Church to become a sort of religious clique where Christians retreat from the world.
--Leighton Ford, THE CHRISTIAN PERSUADER (New York: Harper & Row, 1966)
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
February 9, 2004)
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I DON’T WANT TO DRIVE ANYMORE
One winter morning the year before I started to school, my dad came in and asked if I would like to go with him to feed the cows. That sounded like fun, so I dressed in my warmest clothes, including the mittens connected by a string through the sleeves of my jacket, and went out with my dad to take my place in the world of work.
It was a pleasant morning. The sun was shining brightly, but it was cold and the ground was covered with a blanket of new snow. We harnessed the team, Babe and Blue, and went over the hill with a wagon full of hay. After we had found the cows and unloaded the hay for them, we started home. Then my dad came up with a good idea. "Would you like to drive?" he asked. And I responded in typical manly fashion. I like to drive anything: cars, trucks, golf carts or donkey carts. I think the attraction must be the power. There is such a sense of power to be in control of something larger than I am, and it's good for my male ego.
I took the lines from my dad, held them looped over my hands as he showed me, and we plodded back home. I was thrilled. I was in control. I was driving. But the plodding bothered me. I decided that while I was in control, we should speed up, so I clucked the horses along and they began to hurry. First they began to trot, and I decided that was a much better pace. We were moving along and we would get home much faster. But Babe and Blue came up with a better idea. They decided that if they would run, we would get home even sooner.
The horses went to work on their plan and began to run. As I remember it, they were running as fast as I have ever seen horses run, but that observation might have a slight exaggeration factor built in. But they did run. The wagon bounced from mound to mound. As the prairie dog holes whizzed by, I concluded that we were in a dangerous situation, and I started to try my best to slow down this runaway team. I pulled and tugged on the lines until my hands cramped. I cried and pleaded, but nothing worked. Old Babe and Blue just kept running.
I glanced over at my dad, and he was just sitting there, looking out across the pasture and watching the world go by. By now, I was frantic. My hands were cut from the lines, the tears streaming down my face were almost frozen from the winter cold, and stuff was running out my nose. And my dad was just sitting there watching the world go by.
Finally in utter desperation, I turned to him and said as calmly as I could, "Here, Daddy, I don't want to drive anymore."
Now that I am older and people call me Grandpa, I reenact that scene at least once a day. Regardless of who we are, how old we are, how wise or how powerful we are, there is always that moment when our only response is to turn to our Father and say, "Here, I don't want to drive anymore."
--Cliff Schimmels
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
February 9, 2004)
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ARE WE ON HIS SIDE?
"America was founded by people who believed that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side."
--Ronald Reagan
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
February 9, 2004)
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JESUS AND THE BIBLE
The Bible is a collection of portraits of one supreme Person who overshadows all the rest of the pictures. The central object of this Bible Album is Jesus Christ….He is the central figure on every page, and the other pictures grouped about Him are added only to bring into bolder relief the loveliness, the superlative beauty, the infinite perfection the Man of the Book, the Lord Jesus.
--M. R. DeHaan
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
February 9, 2004)
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HE IS OUR ROCK
(NOTE: the story which previously appeared here, and has encouraged many, has been deleted at the request of the author, who claimed that I violated her rights to copyright, since I did not request her permission. She claimed that I was "stealing" her work, even though I clearly credited her as the author. I do normally attempt to locate the author, but in this case, I had no idea how to do that. I believed then, and believe now, that my use of the story fell under the "Fair Use" provisions of copyright law. However, the author has requested that I remove her article....so I have.)
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
February 9, 2004)
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HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE THIS?
More churches have been destroyed by the accuser of the brethren and its faultfinding than by either immorality or misuse of church funds. So prevalent is this influence in our society that, among many, faultfinding has been elevated to the status of a "ministry"!
--Francis Frangipane
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
February 9, 2004)
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CHANGE, MOTIVATION
If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post. If you particularly want it to be white you must be always painting it again; that is, you must be always having a revolution. Briefly, if you want the old white post you must have a new white post. But this which is true even of inanimate things is in a quite special and terrible sense true of all human things.
--G.K. Chesterton
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
February 9, 2004)
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