Prayer doesn’t make the morning come faster, but it sure makes the night seem shorter!

Children brought up in church are
seldom brought up in court.

Today we come together to receive the body and blood of our Savior Jesus Christ. As the apostle Paul taught his church, whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 11:17-34)

“God has provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone willing to believe, yet he has also left some ambiguity so as not to compel the unwilling.”
-Dr. Frank Turek

Life doesn’t get better by chance; It gets better by change.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:17

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and
only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and
only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. John 3:16

What is good about Good Friday? Why isn’t it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.

~ Randy Alcorn

“Shame is a basic emotion that all people experience. Yet shame is the issue that drives almost every compulsive, self-defeating behavior
known to man. Shame is at the root of all addictions. Most people are ashamed to admit shame.” ~Minirth-Meier Life Encyclopedia

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not
consumed, for his compassions never fail.

Lamentations 3:22

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
-William James

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it. -Thomas Jefferson.

Always remember the future comes one day at a time.

Proverbs 11:24 One person gives freely, yet gains more;
another withholds what is right, only to become poor

People travel to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
-Saint Augustine

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this
dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the
heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12

Proverbs 11:24 One person gives freely, yet gains more;
another withholds what is right, only to become poor

And those who know Your name will put their
trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken
those who seek You. Psalm 9:10

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name
under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
Acts 4:12

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24

But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.
1 Samuel 12:24

I Have Hidden Your Word Psalm 119:11
But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all
your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.
1 Samuel 12:24

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” -G. Michael Hopf

“Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch
your actions, for they’ll become… habits. Watch your habits
for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it
will make your destiny.” -MARGARET THATCHER

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“Within the character of the citizen, lies the
welfare of the nation.” -Cicero

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” -Peter Drucker

God cannot be rejected without putting something else in his place. The history of philosophy is largely a history of setting up God surrogates. It is a history of idol-making. One of the most effective ways to understand history, then, is to identify the prevailing idols. -Nancy Pearcey: Finding Truth

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” -Andrew Carnegie

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all
is a kind and gentle spirit.” -Anne Frank

It’s okay to ask God, “Why?” There comes a time, however, for us to trust Him. How come? Because God said so. -Dr. R. Reed Lessing

“Heart” in Hebrew refers to our innermost self….the will, mind, moral character, and spiritual commitment.” ‘Man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7.
“Idols of the heart are the convictions that engage us most deeply and drive our behavior.”
-Finding Truth by Nancy Pearcey What is you god?

“It is time that we all began to live for eternity- not time, and for Christ – not ourselves. We must realize that our public effectiveness is largely based on our private relationship with God.”
-Erwin W. Lutzer, When a Nation Forgets God

The Constitution specifically sets aside Sunday from any governmental work; Christianity is the only major
religion in the world with a Sunday Sabbath.
-The American Story, the Beginnings

Motto of the American Revolution:
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God” -John Adams

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights;
you can no more call them back than ignore the mess
they leave when they fall. -Jodi Picoult

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence. -Helen Keller

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is
also what it takes to sit down and listen. -Winston Churchill

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.” -Theodore Roosevelt

We must have the courage to both engage the culture and stand against it. -Erwin W. Lutzer

Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

What is good about Good Friday? Why isn’t it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.
~ Randy Alcorn

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” -Eleanor Roosevelt

Never laugh at your wife’s choices.
You are one of them.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” -Confucius

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.” – Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. -JFK

“Ownership is the thing that makes dying hard. I think of Barb, the dogs, the house, and my very life as mine, and it feels like they’re being taken from me. But if I willingly let go, surrendering them all to the God whose they are in the first place, I’m not stepping back from love. I can love all the more because my heart is not clogged with a desperate greed.” -Andrew Budek-Schmeisser

“Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.”

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.” -Plato

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.” -Plato

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford

May you be filled with the wonder of Mary, the obedience of Joseph, the joy of the angels, the eagerness of the shepherds, the determination of the Magi, and the peace of the Christ child. Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit bless you now and forever. Amen

We either shape our environment with truth and light, or we allow
our environment to shape us with darkness and lies.

Children want their parent’s presence
more than their parent’s presents.

I Have Hidden Your Word Psalm 119:11

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12

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“It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.”
-George Washington

Living a life of peace and contentment requires an acceptance of life’s uncertainties.

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“God is never finished. He is never
out of plans. He is never not able. Even in times of judgment, even in the most hopeless of times and darkest of ages he still has a purpose and a way. Therefore, no matter what happens in the world, his people must always take hope, always press on and never give up.” –
Jonathan Cahn

Think About It! Shame says that because I am flawed, I am unacceptable. Grace says that though I am flawed I am cherished.

Think about it: Ask God to empower you through His Spirit to not use worry as a coping strategy. Meditate on 2 Corinthians 12:9 “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

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Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength-
carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead
of time. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it
empties today of its strength. -Corrie ten Boom

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”-Oscar Wilde

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“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way
that will lead others to join you.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.” –
Elisabeth Elliot

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“Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” -Plato

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“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep. I am afraid of sheep led by a lion.” -Alexander the Great

Think About It: “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
Confucius

Think About It – “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.” —G.K. Chesterton

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“Hear me very carefully on this point. Nobody can take your
peace from you. If you have lost your peace, you have lost it for
one main reason—you have surrendered it.” Charles F. Stanley

Think About It :”As you go through life, don’t let your feelings—real as they are—invalidate your need to let the truth of God’s words guide
your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.”
— Randy Alcorn

Think About It: “The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph”
-so don’t be afraid of a tough fight. G. Washington

Think About It – “The dearest idol I have known, whate’re that idol be, Help me to tear it from Thy throne and worship only Thee.” Hymn: “Walking with God” by William Cowper

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“There are two classes of travel—
first class and with children.”—Robert Benchley

Think About It

“It seems I have spent a lifetime of mouthing mechanically, ‘Say thank you. Sit up straight. Use your napkin. Close your mouth when you chew. Don’t lean back in your chair.’ Just when I finally got my husband squared away, the kids came along.”

—Erma Bombeck

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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Choose a job you love, and you will
never have to work a day in your life.

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To the soldiers of the Continental Army: “Every officer and man
will endeavor so as to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier,
defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
-George Washington July 9, 1776

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Rev. John P. G. Muhlenberg reminded his parishioners at the close of the service: “If you do not become personally involved with
protecting your liberties, you will have no liberties left to protect.
January 21, 1776

Think About it with Humor

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” 

—Nora Ephron

Worship God and proclaim His Word so people will experience salvation through Jesus, mature in the faith and equip all to serve in the church and world.

Think About It: The key to sound government is not how good our documents or laws are, but rather how good our leaders are.

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“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.” James Madison

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson

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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” ~Anne Bradstreet

Think About It:
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” ~Mark Twain

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There is hope for the world. I am not doomed. What is right and just and true will win. -Dr. Jeff Meyers.

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I have an incredible calling. My life has meaning. I bear God’s image.

- Dr. Jeff Meyers

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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
Judge everything and everyone for yourself. ~Henry James

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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

-Walt Disney

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Think About It 

Live life so you don’t have to hide your diary. 

I Have Hidden Your Word
Psalm 119:11

The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

2 Chronicles 16:9

I Have Hidden Your Word Psalm 119:11

“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. 1 Chronicles 28:9

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God the Word was made man for this reason: that that very nature which had sinned, fallen, and become corrupt should conquer the tyrant who had deceived it.
(John of

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“The people never give up their liberties
but under some delusion.”
Edmund Burke, Speech at Country Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

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“Is life so dear, or peaceful so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

-Patrick Henry, Speech at the Virginia Convention

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The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. 

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“…leaving all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading; I will rather say more necessary, because health is worth more than learning.”

-Thomas Jefferson to John Jefferson, 1790

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“A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times

becomes the truth.” -Dr. Joseph Goebbles

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“Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.”

-James Madison

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“As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.” – Tench Coxe

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“When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man – who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.” -George Mason

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“The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people…that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.” -Thomas Jefferson

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“Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin

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“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” – Thomas Paine

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“You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve YOUR freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.” -John Adams

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To make a mistake is human; to stumble is commonplace; to
be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

Think About It“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” -Augustine of Hippo

Think About It “Avoid suspicion: when you’re walking through your neighbor’s melon patch, don’t tie your shoe.”

Think About It – If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Pilot Knob’s Purpose Statement Worship God and proclaim His Word so people will experience salvation through Jesus, mature in the faith and equip all to

Think About It: It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the

Think About It: Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Think About It: If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. -George

Think About It: What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.

Think About It“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts:therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notionsunsuitable to

Think About ItThe biggest reason people under 35 leave the church is they see a disconnect between the words and thebehavior of those they look

Think About It “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.” -Albert Schweitzer

Think About It Prayer does not move God to do things he is disinclined todo. Prayer is God’s way of bringing our priorities into line

Think About It Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Ben Franklin

Think About It Evil is powerless if good people are not afraid to speak up. Ronald Reagan

Think About It Gossip is what no one claims to like, but nearly everyone enjoys.

Think About It: I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.

Think About It Jesus comes not with a list of things for you to do but with a list of things he has already done

May you be filled with the wonder of Mary, the obedience of Joseph, the joy of the angels, the eagerness of the shepherds, the determination

Think About It “The story of Christmas is the story of God’s relentless love for us. When Christ was born, so was our hope.” -Max

Think About It Doctors often prescribe purifying the body of toxins. The Bible tells us how to cleanse the mind of corruption:  meditate on things

Think About ItEducation is what remains after one has forgotten whatone has learned in school. -Albert Einstein

Think About ItWhatever you choose to think about will either produce ordismiss feelings of anxiety and worry. -Dr. H. Norman Wright

Think About It: Knowing what is right and condemning what is wrong does not take the place of doing what is right. (1 Samuel 28:3-8)

Think About It“In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test.In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” -Tom Bodett

Think About It: You don’t have to force your way into God’s plan; you just need to move in His direction when He opens a

Think About It Instead of constantly wishing and striving and grasping for “just a little more,” we should make it our goal to rely on

Think About It. Knowing what is right and condemning what is wrong does not take the place of doing what is right.

Think About It “Idolatry is worshipping the gifts in place of the giver himself.” -John Calvin “The way to uncover idols in our life is

Think About It “Records come and go but the glory of God is eternal. I no longer run for self-recognition but to reflect His perfect

Think About It“When we go online, we enter an environment that promotescursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficiallearning. Even as the Internet grants us

Think About It Do your friends build up your faith, or do they tear it down? 

Think About It God chose a unique dream just for you and shaped you with the exact experiences, skills, and abilities you need to accomplish

Think About It You’re only as good as your private standards. When was the last time you gave a task your absolute best even though

Think About It “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”  -Henry Ford