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Comparing church activities to the game of football

2020 was an unbelievably bad season for the Chicago Bears. They found themselves losing in the wild card round of the playoffs into which they had inadvertently backed through many losses. All this tragedy happened even though coach Matt Nagy made the difficult decision earlier in the season of laying…

In 1947 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists from Chicago began sounding an alarm about the amount of time the world has left on their representative 24-hour “Doomsday Clock.” In January of 2020 they changed their estimate of the time left from using minutes as the measurement to seconds. Mary Robinson,…

Piers Steel, a Canadian industrial psychologist, and professor from the University of Calgary concluded a ten-year study on procrastination that he published in the Bulletin of the American Psychological Association. According to Steel, procrastination “makes people poorer, fatter and unhappier.” Financially,…

Great Blessings from a Generous Gift *God wants us to be givers, because HE is a giver. He wants us to generously give our time, our talents, our tithes and our offerings. In short, God wants us to give our lives and our love to other people, every way we can. They will be blessed, and so will we. *Sometimes…

When Denise was only four, her father took her along on an errand to repair an elderly widow’s screen door. It only took a few minutes, but the impact of the trip remains with her to today. After he made the repairs, her father packed up his tools, grabbed Denise’s hand and began to leave. “But Daddy,”…

So like people dying of thirst in the desert, we stagger exhausted and aimless through our days. Preaching, teaching, training, counseling, and administrating become intolerably burdensome because we have somehow forgotten why we are doing them. This weariness comes close to what medieval theologians…

Many of you in this church serve so consistently and quietly that you rarely get any praise. It touches my heart every time I see some of our faithful ladies arriving early to work in the nursery or coming out during the work to clean toys, put up bulletin boards and set up their rooms. The other week…

The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. ---------------------------------------------------------- The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on Water.' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.' ---------------------------------------------------------- Our youth basketball team is back in action…

EVENTS WITH A PURPOSE Church Picnic Old-Fashioned Sunday Mother's Day Father's Day Homecoming Independence Sunday Thanksgiving Christmas Easter Ice Cream Social Sweetheart Banquet Talent – Un-talent Show Church Anniversary Dessert-A-Rama Find A Parade Renewing Your Vows CHURCH PICNIC Go to a local park,…

CHURCH BULLETIN BLOOPERS Part 1 ~ 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…

THOUGHTS “Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” grandma used to say. She may have been closer to correct than we supposed. Psychological Science is publishing a study in which Katie Liljenquist, an assistant professor at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management claims they have proved you…

The test of a good church bulletin, like a restaurant’s menu, is whether or not the establishment can deliver what is listed in the contents. - Arkansas Baptist Quote, April 30, 1967, page 343

GOD'S KINGDOM Belgian television recently broke into their regular programming with an urgent bulletin stating the nation had come to an end. The news flash informed viewers that the Dutch-speaking half of the nation had declared independence and the king and queen had fled. The bulletin was highlighted…

LITTLE THINGS Rev. Andrew Jensen's first Sunday at his new church coincided with an appeal to the membership to give to a fund to aid the victims of a hurricane. Due to a clerical error, the center page of the bulletin was missing, so those in attendance reading from the bottom of the second page to…

SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION for PENTECOSTAL PASTORS Joseph S. Girdler District Superintendent, KYAG August 26, 2008 *Some people have said, “I’d rather have wild fire, than no fire.” … Or, would we? *What do you do when someone gives a message in tongues and there’s no interpretation? Music worshipfully,…

Louis Cozolino, professor of psychology at Pepperdine University in California says it is possible that researchers could develop a drug to make people have the impulse and the desire to move closer to one another. The research, conducted on prairie vols, is incomplete. Cozolino warns that more researchers…

STRESS From 1992 – 2002 Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm tracked more than 3000 men, rating them and their perceptions about their bosses. By the end of the study, 74 of the men had suffered heart attacks or other serious cardiac events. The lower an employer’s leadership…

The following statemetns actually apepared in various church bulletins: This afternoon, there will be a baptismal in the south and north ends of the church. Children will be baptized on both ends. Tuesday at 4pm, there will be an ice cream social. All ladies giving milk, please come early. Wednesday,…

At the beginning of a New Year, a high school principal decided to post his teachers' New Year's resolutions on the bulletin board. As the teachers gathered around the bulletin board, a great commotion started. One of the teachers was complaining. "Why weren't my resolutions posted?" She was throwing…

It has been estimated that in one lifetime the average citizen will consume 150 head of cattle, 2,400 chickens, 225 lambs, 26 sheep, 310 pigs, 26 acres of grain, and 50 acres of fruits and vegetables. That’s a lot of food. How much of the Word of God are you consuming? An outdoor bulletin board at a…

A therapist told his patient that she would have inner peace if she would learn to finish things she had begun. The patient went home, finished two bags of potato chips and a chocolate cake, and announced, “I feel better already.” - Sara Whitten, “60 Minute Report” Hillsboro Bulletin, October 14, 20…

I’d had enough of my employees’ abusing their allotted break time. In an effort to clarify my position, I posted a sign on the bulletin board: “Starting immediately, your 15-minute breaks are being cut from a half-hour to 20 minutes.” - Don Snyder, “All in a Day’s Work” Readers Digest, February 2004,…

Here is a list of "Murphy's Laws for Churches" (author unknown): Video projectors always work before the class meeting begins. The probability of the preacher tripping over the mike cord is greater on "Bring A Friend" Sunday than any other week. The largest Bible Class will show up when the teacher feels…

Rumblings "But as the believers rapidly multiplied, there were rumblings of discontent. . ." (Acts 6:1a NLT) After the church I was pastoring completed a building program in 1985, our attendance began to pick up and we became effective at reaching people in our community. That didn't surprise me. I knew…