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March Message of the Month
Peace
Like a River
Sorrow billowed over the soul of Horatio G.
Spafford and his wife, Anna, in 1870 Chicago.
Spafford supported D. L. Moody and was a successful lawyer, but things turned unbelievably bad. The Spaffords'
only son died of scarlet fever at the age of four. A year later, their real estate holdings were wiped out by the
great Chicago fire of 1871. Then in late 1873, D. L. Moody was traveling around Britain as an evangelist, so Horatio
decided to take his family to England. Just before setting sail on the French steamer "Ville du Havre,"
Horatio had a last-minute business development that caused him to stay back and send his family on their way without
him.
From New York, Horatio went west to Chicago and his family went east to England. But nine days later, he received
a telegram from Anna, "Saved alone." The French steamer had collided with an English vessel, sinking
in 12 minutes and claiming the lives of 226 people, including the Spaffords' four daughters. Only a plank floating
beneath Anna's unconscious body kept her. Anna is said to have heard a voice, "You were spared for a purpose."
She is said to have thought, "It is easy to be grateful and good when you have so much, but take care that
you are not a fair-weather friend to God."....more
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March 2010  The Five Love Languages
Maybe you’ve heard of the five love languages,
the five ways in which love is communicated.
I have put them into “T” words to remember them better: Talk (words of affirmation); Time; Tokens (gifts); Tender
Loving Care (acts of service); and Touch.
What to you communicates love? Maybe you want to hear “I love you,” and someone else wants to see a little “tender
loving care” in acts of service. Someone else might respond to a hug while another wants to taste that chocolate
or smell the fragrance of “love.” We speak and show love with our physical senses as well as with our minds. So
we may respond with: “Sounds good.” “Feels good.” “Looks good.” “I smell love in the air.” “I can’t stomach that.
Can you?”....more 50k
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Words Received
March 12, 2010 Suffering, Compromise and Truth
Do not fear for the days ahead, but hold fast
to sound, healthy, correct doctrine, to truth, for those with itching ears are being deceived and led astray by
the lust of their eyes, the lust of their flesh, and the pride of life.
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Remember the charge to Timothy. Be a Timothy-God honoring.
Honor Me and I will honor you. I will care for you and fight your battles.
The people suffer and there is much suffering.
This suffering will increase and come in many forms. People will find offense and nurse their wounds instead of
joining their wounds to the wounds, to the woundedness of Jesus. Therefore they will carry offense and unforgiveness
in their hearts that will fester and rise up to defile many in the Church. Churches will split and Satan will have
a field day and wreck havoc.
Those that say, "Peace and love" will find that their compromises have brought them to the altars of
demons because they forsook the truth....more
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The Barnabas Project
Jesus Christ and the Relativity
of Gratitude
by David Patten 12/5/09
An influential man named Simon was hosting
Jesus, but did not treat him as an honored guest.
In fact, Simon thought it most amusing that this man they called the Christ allowed his feet to be washed by a
fallen woman’s tears (Luke 7:37]. If Jesus were really a prophet, the Pharisee thought, he would never allow this
woman to touch him.
Oh, but Jesus knew all about her sin … Indeed, He knew every failing in the woman’s life … just as He knows every
failing in mine, and yours. Yet He never stopped caring for her, and never joined the rest of society in condemning
her. In fact, so moved was Jesus by the brokenness in her heart, He forgave her sins.
As Jesus explained to Simon: “Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much; but to whom little is
forgiven, the same loveth little.”... more (127k pdf)
Reach out with us. We are collecting right now for our next Barnabas Project distribution.
Join us as we encourage the hurting and forgotten with a little lift. We especially need:
- School supplies, school paper, dictionaries,
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Spiritual Guidance for Hurricanes
and Disasters
Some Helpful Articles
Call 91:1 Twenty Four / Seven Dec. 2001
What is our comfort with terror striking
its targets daily? What can we do when
we find ourselves falling into worry and fear and anxiety and even panic?...
Storms: Spiritual Torrents Sept. 2004
With Frances and Charley over and Ivan on
the way, I am reminded of storms and how we handle them emotionally.
Some people panic, others are anxious but try to hide it, others are in a buying frenzy right now, some have a
plan and are putting it into place and others have no plan and ride out the storms by default. Some Christians
pray and others plead and beg. Some use platitudes to carry them through and others find their roots deep enough
in Christ to keep them unshakeable during the times of turbulence and spiritual torrents....
The Comfort of the
Scriptures Jan. 2005
My children have asked me, "Do you believe
God now?" When Charlie the white
cat was struck down in the road purposely by a teenage driver, "Do you believe God now?" When Grandpa
had a full-scale stroke that left him paralyzed for ten years, "Do you believe God now?" When six animals
died in one year, "Do you believe God now?" When two grandmothers died in one year, "Do you believe
God now?" When their daddy lost his job, "Do you believe God now?" When the hurricanes came and
earthquakes and floods left a path of annihilation unparalleled in human history, "Do you believe God now?"...
In Everything Give Thanks Nov. 2005
Well, folks, we thought the hurricanes had
passed, but Wilma breezed by October 24th with 110-120 mph winds leaving the Florida peninsula south of Lake Okeechobee
(about ½ of the state) in devastation.
Electricity is lost at 8:00 a.m. as transformers pop and a large olive tree falls to block the street, barely missing
the neighbor’s living room. Water is out. Phone lines are down. Tree limbs and leaves cover the ground on every
street. Downed fences reveal whatever they were meant to hide, or protect, or conceal. Power lines dangle as streetlights
crash to the roadways....
Giving Thanks When Adversity
Strikes Nov. 2006
When a heavily armed outsider violated the
peace and security of a small one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community and shot execution-style 10 girls but let teachers, aides, and boys go free, the
nation was shocked and outraged at the evil. Five girls aged 7-13 died, and the shooter killed himself; yet the
Amish community found it within their hearts to minister the grace and forgiveness of Christ before the watching
world by forgiving the assailant and extending forgiveness and financial help to his family. How?...
Psalm 93
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with
majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that
it cannot be moved.
Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
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