I witness to a Nez Percé Indian on TTU Campus

(Thanks Toby!)

The Nez Percé Indians are from Idaho and their most well known leader was Chief Joseph pictured here:

Click Here to listen to the interview (12 mins.)

Comic Relief: Church Bulletin misprints

(from LeAnne)

THE CHURCH BULLETIN

Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa will be speaking tonight at Calvary Memorial Church in Racine. Come tonight and hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

Announcement in the church bulletin for a National PRAYER & FASTING Conference: "The cost for attending the Fasting and Prayer conference includes meals."

Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King.

Miss Charlene Mason sang, "I will not pass this way again," giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

"Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands."

Next Sunday is the family hayride and bonfire at the Fowlers'. Bring your own hot dogs and guns. Friends are welcome! Everyone come for a fun time.

The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict.

The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus"

Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.

Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.

The Rector will preach his farewell message after which the choir will sing "Break Forth into Joy."

Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say "hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you.

Don't let worry kill you - let the Church help.

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.

At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.

Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

The senior choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning to join the choir.

Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles, and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

The Lutheran men's group will meet at 6 PM. Steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread and dessert will be served for a nominal feel.

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person(s) you want remembered.

Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.

The church will host an evening of fine dining, superb entertainment, and gracious hostility.

Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 P.M.-prayer and medication to follow.

The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

This evening at 7 P.M. there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.

Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done.

The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday morning.

Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.

The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The Congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double doors at the side entrance.

Mrs. Johnson will be entering the hospital this week for testes.

The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours.

How Radio Ministries are destroying the Local Church: The Celebrated Orator Epidemic

Check out this blog entry from Black and Reformed Ministries

It's pretty right on.

The Cost of Anointing by David Wilkerson

Part 1


Part 2


Some Ideas to listen for:
- You know it when you hear it. There's a weightiness to it
- God doesn't give the anointing to lazy preachers (referred to as "Light Men")
- You've become too busy. There's no hunger brokenness, and no cry.
- You can get so involved in studying how to understand the Bible that you can get away from the Word of God.

Notes: This message has some Assemblies of God/Pentecostal terminology and themes (espescially at the very end of part 2), but the overall message definitely transcends denominational divides. I would highly recommend David Wilkerson's preaching. Also check out A Call to Anguish by David Wilkerson (on sermonindex.net)

New Favorite Website: Challies.com

About Tim Challies

The internet is unique in that a person can write every day and yet remain completely anonymous. People may read what another person writes on a daily basis, yet not know the first thing about him. I've never enjoyed that aspect of it, so allow me to introduce myself.

If you've gotten to this site you already know one thing about me, and that's my last name. Tack on the first name of Tim, and suddenly I'm not so anonymous anymore.

You still want to know more? How about this, my "official" biography from my forthcoming book, The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment: Tim Challies is a leading evangelical blogger and editor of Discerning Reader (www.discerningreader.com), a site dedicated to discerning reviews of books that are of interest to Christians. A self-employed web designer, Tim lives in the outskirts of Toronto, Ontario with his wife and three children.

Still looking for more? Try this then:

I am...

• Christian - I affirm that Jesus is my Lord and Saviour.
• Protestant - I affirm the five "solas" of the Reformation.
• Reformed - I affirm the doctrines of grace - principles known to some as Calvinism.
• Evangelical - I believe the gospel (which is the original and truest meaning of "evangelical").
• Conservative - I am generally traditional and restrained in my beliefs and cautious towards change, especially when it seems to be change merely for the sake of change.
• Unfinished - Though I find great beauty in traditional Protestantism, I realize that in some areas traditions may not be fully Scriptural. Where that is the case I am eager to change as the Spirit convicts me through the Word.

Other Questions:

• How Is "Challies" pronounced?

It's quite simple, I assure you. CHALL-eez. Just like that. There is no trick to it. It's not CHALL-is, it's not Charles and it sure isn't Chall-EES. Just pronounce it the way it looks like it should be pronounced and don't overthink it. CHALL-eez. It's that easy.

• How Do I Get In Touch With You?

All that info is here. If you write me I'll almost definitely write back.

• Why Challies.com?

This started as a site where I posted pictures of my children for the benefit of my family. Eventually I began to write articles and post them here, also for the benefit of my family. But then other people began showing up and reading them and before I knew it, I had a blog. The site has since evolved into what you see today. I have not gotten around to changing to a new domain name and at this point I suppose I never will.

• What Is a Challies?

Challies is a surname with a long and mysterious past. It seems that no one is really sure of the name's history. What we do know is that it is French in origin and at some point a group of Challies' left France for Scotland, presumably as Huguenots. They then, trying to blend in with the local population, changed the name to Mac A' Challies and became part of the MacDonald clan. I only wish I were making that up. There are now very few Challies left in the world. It seems the remaining concentrations are in Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The ones I am related to live almost entirely in Canada or in Georgia. My uncle also reports meeting an elderly Challies gentleman in a small town in France, though I do not believe he is a direct relation. As far as I know, my son is the sole male heir to the Challies name in this part of the world.

• Will You Review My Book?

Maybe. While I generally prefer to receive books from publishers, I do accept some books directly from authors. Feel free to contact me and I'll let you know if I am interested in reviewing your book.

• What Do You Do?

I am a Web designer by trade. Though I graduated from McMaster University with a degree in history I quickly found that there was not much work for an aspiring but not-very-motivated historian. I worked my way into the computer world and after being laid off one time too many I started Websonix. So now I spend my days sitting in a home office creating Web pages. And writing. I can hardly think of a better life.

Luther was into Graphic Design!

From Wikipedia:

The Luther seal or Luther rose is a widely-recognized symbol for Lutheranism. It was the seal that was designed for Martin Luther at the behest of Prince John Frederick, in 1530, while Luther was staying at the Coburg Fortress during the Diet of Augsburg. Lazarus Spengler, to whom Luther wrote his interpretation below, sent Luther a drawing of this seal. Luther saw it as a compendium or expression of his theology and faith, which he used to authorize his correspondence. Luther informed Philipp Melanchthon on September 15, 1530 that the Prince had personally visited him in the Coburg fortress and presented him with a signet ring, presumably displaying the seal.^[1]

Luther's interpretation of his seal

In a July 8, 1530 letter to Lazarus Spengler, Luther interprets his seal:

Grace and peace from the Lord. As you desire to know whether my painted seal, which you sent to me, has hit the mark, I shall answer most amiably and tell you my original thoughts and reason about why my seal is a symbol of my theology. The first should be a black cross in a heart, which retains its natural color, so that I myself would be reminded that faith in the Crucified saves us. "For one who believes from the heart will be justified" (Rom. 10:10^[2]). Although it is indeed a black cross, which mortifies and which should also cause pain, it leaves the heart in its natural color. It does not corrupt nature, that is, it does not kill but keeps alive. "The just shall live by faith" (Rom. 1:17^[3]) but by faith in the crucified. Such a heart should stand in the middle of a white rose, to show that faith gives joy, comfort, and peace. In other words, it places the believer into a white, joyous rose, for this faith does not give peace and joy like the world gives (John 14:27^[4]). That is why the rose should be white and not red, for white is the color of the spirits and the angels (cf. Matt. 28:3^[5]; John 20:12^[6]). Such a rose should stand in a sky-blue field, symbolizing that such joy in spirit and faith is a beginning of the heavenly future joy, which begins already, but is grasped in hope, not yet revealed. And around this field is a golden ring, symbolizing that such blessedness in Heaven lasts forever and has no end. Such blessedness is exquisite, beyond all joy and goods, just as gold is the most valuable, most precious and best metal.This is my compendium theoligae [summary of theology]. I have wanted to show it to you in good friendship, hoping for your appreciation. May Christ, our beloved Lord, be with your spirit until the life hereafter. Amen. blahbobby. ^[7][1]

CreativeMYK.com

Here's a great web resource for ministries...
It features loads of free images, files, etc. for graphic design. Enjoy.

Why Trust the Bible as God's Word?

Why Are We Students?

Read this doc on Scribd: Why Are We Students?

Saturday Cartoon!

Care of WOTM Radio.

Sin in the Camp

http://www.brookhills.org/