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Welcome to THE TIMOTHY REPORT for November 22, 2004
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GETTING TO GOD THIS THANKSGIVING
One Thanksgiving season a family was seated around their table, looking at the annual holiday bird. From the oldest to the youngest, they were to express their praise. When they came to the 5-year-old in the family, he began by looking at the turkey and expressing his thanks to the turkey, saying although he had not tasted it he knew it would be good. After that rather novel expression of thanksgiving, he began with a more predictable line of credits, thanking his mother for cooking the turkey and his father for buying the turkey. But then he went beyond that. He joined together a whole hidden multitude of benefactors, linking them with cause and effect.
He said, "I thank you for the checker at the grocery store who checked out the turkey. I thank you for the grocery store people who put it on the shelf. I thank you for the farmer who made it fat. I thank you for the man who made the feed. I thank you for those who brought the turkey to the store."
Using his Columbo-like little mind, he traced the turkey all the way from its origin to his plate. And then at the end he solemnly said "Did I leave anybody out?"
His 2-year-older brother, embarrassed by all those proceedings, said, "God."
Solemnly and without being flustered at all, the 5-year-old said, "I was about to get to him."
Well, isn’t that the question about which we ought to think at Thanksgiving time? Are we really going to get to him this Thanksgiving?
--Joel Gregory, "The Unlikely Thanker," Preaching Today, Tape No. 110
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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LIVE CHURCHES VS. DEAD CHURCHES
Live churches constantly change, --- dead churches resist and refuse change...
Live churches love to try, dead churches feel they don’t have to...
Live churches have youth that are noisy and can’t be still, dead churches are very quiet...
Live churches have people problems, dead churches float with the current...
Live churches need money and take many special offerings, dead churches focus on their savings...
Live churches have dirt and garbage, dead churches seem to just fight dust...
Live churches are never satisfied and dream of improvement, dead churches tell it like it used to be...
Live churches worship and praise today, dead churches praise praise ...
Live churches move in faith, dead churches have to see it first...
Live churches are filled with givers and doers, dead churches have tippers and dippers...
Live churches make mistakes and learn, dead churches have clean stalls...
Live churches have a vision and a dream, short term and long term; dead churches are asleep...
Live churches have love ventilation systems, dead churches bicker of dead bones...
Live churches are passing the dead churches that say it can’t be done...
Live churches try and try again, dead churches say we never did it that way before...
Live churches reach out to sinners and backsliders with personal evangelization, dead churches are paralyzed and fossilized.
Live churches are better, dead churches are BITTER.
Live churches are light houses in their community, dead churches are 20 watt lightbulbs in a refrigerator.
--Author Unknown
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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THIS IS WHAT CHRISTIAN INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC SHOULD SOUND LIKE!!
“A Christmas Eventide,” by Discovery House Music. This is what Christian instrumental music is supposed to sound like! This collection of timeless Christmas classics will help you celebrate the season in a soothing, worshipful way. Eleven songs on this CD include "O Holy NIght," "It Came Upon the
Midnight Clear" and "Joy to the World," among others.
Visit http://timothyreport.com/music.html, where you will find other great Christmas music which honors Christ!
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THE NECESSITY OF TROUBLE FOR THE CHRISTIAN
As the weights of the clock, or the ballast in the vessel, are necessary for their right ordering, so is trouble in the soul-life. The sweetest scents are only obtained by tremendous pressure; the fairest flowers grow amid Alpine show-solitudes; the fairest gems have suffered longest from the lapidary's wheel; the noblest statues have borne most blows of the chisel. All, however, are under law. Nothing happens that has not been appointed with consummate care and foresight.
--F. B. Meyer
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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CRITICISM
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
--Oswald Chambers
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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JUST FOR FUN
Ten Ways You Know Your Internet Connection is A Little Slow
1. Text on Web pages displays as Morse Code.
2. Graphics arrive via FedEx.
3. You believe a heavier string might improve your connection.
4. You post a message to your favorite newsgroup and it displays a week later.
5. Your credit card expires while ordering online.
6. The ESPN Web site exhibits "Heisman Trophy Winner"...for 1989.
7. You're still in the middle of downloading that popular new game, "PacMan".
8. Everyone you talk to on the 'net phone' sounds like Forrest Gump.
9. You receive e-mails with stamps on them.
10. When you click the "Send" button, a little door opens on the side of your monitor and a pigeon flies out.
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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TEN THOUSAND TRUTHS
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us noting, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
--Henry Ward Beecher
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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THE OTHERNESS OF God
I have recently been introduced to a wonderful little book (approximately 100 pages) by Matt Redman. It is called “Facedown,” and is a refreshing viewpoint of what worship is, without getting into too much theological jargon. It will help you to focus on God when you worship. I recommend this book for anyone who leads in worship, or anyone who worships!
--Rocky Henriques
The following excerpt is from Chapter 2, “The Otherness of God” (pp.23-24):
Worship thrives on wonder. We can admire, appreciate and perhaps even adore someone without a sense of wonder. But we cannot worship without wonder. For worship to be worship, it must contain something of the otherness of God. I’ve come to love that word—“otherness.” It’s such a great worship word. A sense that God is so pure, matchless and unique that no one else and nothing else even comes close. He is altogether glorious—unequalled in splendor and unrivalled in power. He is beyond the grasp of human reason—far above the reach of even the loftiest scientific mind. Inexhaustible, immeasurable and unfathomable—eternal, immoral and invisible. The highest mountain peaks and the deepest canyon depths are just tiny echoes of His proclaimed greatness. And the blazing stars above, the faintest emblems of the full measure of His glory.
--Matt Redman
This book is available for purchase through the TimothyReport.com website. Here is the link: http://timothyreport.com/books.html
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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HMMM….MAYBE ALL THAT CRITICISM ISN’T UNJUSTIFIED
If one man calls you a donkey, pay him no mind. If two men call you a donkey, look for hoofprints. If three call you a donkey, get a saddle.
--Unknown
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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MUSIC WE HEAR TOGETHER
Sometimes I think it is music that binds us together with harmonies that are part of all the galaxies and all the stars in their courses. Music heals, music releases emotions. Music we hear with each other is indeed more than music. … Music defies time and separation. It gives love a melody, memory a tune. Yes, the music we hear together is more than music.
--Madeleine L'Engle
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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GOD MEETS US
God meets us in high and holy ways. He meets us in lowly and meek ways. He meets us in thunderously glorious ways; he meets us in quiet, intimate ways. He meets us in complex ways and simple ways, furious ways and merciful ways.
--John Piper
(The Timothy Report, www.timothyreport.com, November 22, 2004)
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