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Welcome to THE TIMOTHY REPORT for June 7, 2004
“To assist, encourage, enable and equip”
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GOOD FOR FATHER’S DAY
BECAUSE I’M A MAN
Because I'm a man, when I lock my keys in the car I will fiddle with a wire clothes hanger and ignore your suggestions that we call a road service until long after hypothermia has set in.
Because I'm a man, when the car isn't running very well, I will pop the hood and stare at the engine as if I know what I'm looking at. If another man shows up, one of us will say to the other, "I used to be able to fix these things, but now with all these computers and everything, I wouldn't know where to start."
Because I'm a man, when one of our appliances stops working I will insist on taking it apart, despite evidence that this will just cost me twice as much once the repair person gets here and has to put it back together.
Because I'm a man, I must hold the television remote control in my hand while I watch TV. If the thing has been misplaced, I may miss a whole show looking for it (though one time I was able to survive by holding a calculator).
Because I'm a man, I don't think we're all that lost, and no, I don't think we should stop and ask someone. Why would you listen to a complete stranger -- I mean, how could he know where we're going?
--Author Unknown
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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THE FATHERHOOD CYCLE
4 years: "My Daddy can do anything."
7 years: "My Dad knows a lot, a whole lot."
12 years: "Oh, well - naturally - Father doesn't know that either."
14 years: "Father? Hopelessly old-fashioned."
21 years: "Oh, that man is so out-of-date. What did you expect?"
25 years: "He knows a little bit about it - but not much."
30 years: "Maybe we ought to find out what Dad thinks."
35 years: "Let's ask Dad what he would do before we make a decision."
40 years: "I wonder what Dad would have thought about that? He was pretty smart."
50 years: "My Dad knew absolutely everything."
60 years: "I'd give anything if Dad were here so I could talk this over with him. I really miss that man."
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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INFLUENCE ON CHILDREN
THE HAND YOU HOLD
When a boy or girl thrusts his or her small hand in yours, it may be smeared with chocolate ice cream, or grimy from petting a dog, and there may be a wart under the right thumb and a bandage on the little finger.
But the most important thing about his hands is that they are the hands of the future. These are the hands that someday may hold a Bible, or a Colt revolver; they may play the church piano, or spin a gambling wheel; may gently dress a leper’s wound, or tremble wretchedly uncontrolled by an alcoholic mind.
Right now the hand is in yours. It asks for help and guidance. It represents a full-fledged personality in miniature, to be respected as a separate individual whose day-by-day growth into Christian adulthood is your responsibility.
--Author Unknown
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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A PARENT’S PRAYER
Dear Lord,
Help us as parents to be what we want our children to be. To see Christ in us, especially when we are tired and rushed. Help us never to be too busy to stop and listen to them with all our attention.
Lord, guide us so that we will have no habits that we would not want them to have. Give us the courage to withhold a privilege which we think would not be best for them. Lord, let them see that the Christian life is the greatest life on earth.
Lord, what we want more than anything else is to love them and care for them as you love and care for us. Thank you for being my loving Father. Help us to be their loving parents.
Amen.
--Author Unknown
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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HUMOR
Heredity is what makes the mother and father of a teenager wonder a little bit about each other.
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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TEN THINGS YOU'LL WISH YOU'D DONE WHEN THE KIDS ARE GONE
10. Been more supportive of their dreams.
9. Kept a better baby book.
8. Gone barefoot in the rain with them and splashed through some puddles, or camped out in the backyard with them and did some stargazing.
7. Took more pictures. And labeled them.
6. Talked more about your values, ethics, and the importance of eternal things, like faith and hope and love.
5. Taught them more about money.
4. Played more games with them, or wrestled with them more.
3. Taught them more about laundry.
2. Prayed with them more often.
AND THE NUMBER ONE THING YOU'LL WISH YOU'D DONE WHEN THE KIDS ARE GONE?
1. Said "I love you" and hugged them more often.
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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EXAMPLE
Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
--Matthew Henry
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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HATRED, BITTERNESS
A rattlesnake, if cornered, will sometimes become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think that we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
--Eli E. Stanley
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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WHAT A GREAT STATEMENT OF FAITH!
"Lord, I am willing to receive what you give; to lack what you withhold; to relinquish what you take; to suffer what you inflict; to be what you require. And, Lord, if others are to be your messengers to me, I am willing to hear and heed what they have to say. Amen."
--Charles Swindoll
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Nearly every time Jesus is mentioned in the Scriptures as being at the right hand of God, He is sitting. Nearly every time. But there is one instance, and only one that I can find, where Jesus is seen standing on the right hand of God. What significance is that, and how can it encourage and comfort us when a loved one has died?
Always on the search for another story or illustration? Ever hesitate to use any particular story because you've used it too many times already?
Here's a solution! "Funeral Ideas and Illustrations" contains more than 100 stories, poems, and quotations for use in funerals or in Bible studies or sermons on death.
The items found in this collection come from a wide variety of sources. There may be some stories and/or poems you've used for years, and there are some you've never seen before. Some of the sermon outlines and messages are original material. And it's only $5.
In this collection, you will find:
--A sermon specifically designed for the Thanksgiving Season
--A poem written by a wife and son of a relatively young man who passed away.
--What a man wrote after losing three children to death
--Which hymn encouraged Daniel Webster in his final hours
--What Golda Meir said when asked if Israel would allow Nikita Kruschev's body to be buried in Israel
--An encouraging poem which is great to use in a funeral when a grieving spouse is left behind.
--A portion of a letter a Godly woman left behind for her family to read after she had gone on to be with the Lord.
--Mary Pickford's wonderful analogy of death
--Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's viewpoint of his own approaching death
--The word early Christians used to describe the place where they placed the bodies of loved ones when they died--a comforting, encouraging thought!
Visit http://www.timothyreport.com/funeral.html to view sample illustrations and to learn how to get your copy.
(The Timothy Report, Swan Lake Communications, www.timothyreport.com
June 7, 2004)
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