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We all could use a good laugh or two. I find laughter is therapy. I LOVE to laugh. So I thought I would share a joke or two with you. Some are old, some are new. But I am sure one or two of them will make you smile. Enjoy:

Know what God Looks Like?

A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they drew.
She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s artwork.
As she came to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, “I’m drawing God.”

The teacher paused and said, “But no one knows what God looks like.”

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing the girl replied,. . . .
“They will in a minute.”

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to
swallow a human because even though they were a very
large mammal their throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

The teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was impossible.

The little girl said, “When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah”

The teacher asked, “What if Jonah went to hell?”

The little girl replied, “Then you ask him.”

Two income tax collectors died and arrived at the pearly gates.

Just ahead of them were two clergy, but St. Peter motioned them aside
and took the internal revenue into heaven at once.

“Why them ahead of us?” the surprised religious leaders asked.

“Haven’t we done everything possible to spread the good word?”

“Yes,” said St. Peter,
“but those two IRS agents scared the Hell out of more people than you ever did!”

Higher Power

A Sunday school teacher said to her children,
“We have been learning how powerful kings and queens were in Bible times.
But, there is a higher power.
Can anybody tell me what it is?”

One child blurted out, “Aces!”

The Red Wagon

It was the day after Christmas at a church in San Francisco.
The pastor of the church was looking over the naivety when
he noticed the baby Jesus was missing from among the figures.

Immediately he turned and went outside where he saw a little
boy with a red wagon and in the wagon was the figure of the infant of Jesus.

So he walked up the the little boy and said,
“Well, where’d you get Him, my fine friend?”

The little boy replied , “I got him from the church.”

“And why did you take him?”

The little boy replied,
“Well about a week before Christmas I prayed to the little Lord Jesus and I told him if
he would bring me a red wagon for Christmas I would give him a ride around the block in it.”

When a woman decided to send the old family Bible to her brother in another state,
the postal worker asked her if there was anything breakable in the package.

“Only the Ten Commandments”, she replied.

One bright, beautiful Sunday morning, everyone in the tiny Midwest town got up early
and went to the local church.
Before the services started, the townspeople were sitting in their pews.
Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church.
Everyone started screaming and running for the entrance, trampling each other in
a frantic effort to get away from an evil incarnate.

Soon everyone was evacuated from the church, except for one elderly gentleman who
sat calmly in his pew, not moving…..seemingly oblivious to the fact that God’s ultimate
enemy was in his presence.

Now this confused and irritated the Devil a bit, so he walked up to the man and said,
“Don’t you know who I am?”

“Yep, sure do,” the elderly man said.

Satan asked, “Aren’t you afraid of me?”

This time the man said, “Nope, sure ain’t!”

Satan, a little more perturbed at this, asked, “Why aren’t you afraid of me?”

The man calmly replied, “Been married to your sister for 56 years.”

Money for the Preacher

After the church service a little boy told the pastor, “When I grow up, I’m going to give you some money.”

“Well, thank you,” the pastor replied, “but why?”
“Because my daddy says you’re one of the poorest preachers we’ve ever had.”

What Fell from the Bible?

A little boy opened the big family Bible.
He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages.
Suddenly something fell out of the Bible.
He picked up the object and looked at it closely.
What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.

“Momma, look what I found,” the boy called out.

“What have you got there, dear?” his mother asked.

With astonishment in the young boy’s voice, he answered: “I think it’s Adam’s underwear!”

Out of Luck

A guy named Joe finds himself in dire trouble.
His business has gone bust and he’s in serious financial trouble.
He’s so desperate that he decides to ask God for help.

He begins to pray… “God, please help me.
I’ve lost my business and if I don’t get some money, I’m going to lose my house as well.
Please let me win the lotto.”

Lotto night comes and somebody else wins it.

Joe again prays… “God, please let me win the lotto!
I’ve lost my business, my house and I’m going to lose my car as well“.

Lotto night comes and Joe still has no luck.

Once again, he prays… “My God, why have you forsaken me??
I’ve lost my business, my house, and my car.
My wife and children are starving.
I don’t often ask you for help and I have always been a good servant to you.
PLEASE just let me win the lotto this one time so I can get my life back in order.”

Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the heavens open and Joe is confronted by the voice of God Himself:

“Joe, meet Me halfway on this. Buy a ticket.”

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As businesses face tough economic times and tighter budgets there is still the push to be competitive. Now is the time to do more with less.

And since technology is so intertwined in our lives, faith based organization need to stay up to date with the trends of society as a whole and find ways to leverage those trends to reach people who are not in the church.

Both entities (businesses and Christian churches/organizations) whether they realize it or not, directly and indirectly need each other. Businesses constantly need to test out ideas and initiatives and provide case studies of their successes. One way businesses can do this is to donate their services to Christian churches. These churches who lag behind in leveraging technology to run more efficiently, to provide greater transparency, and availability could use the services of businesses.

And businesses need to establish and maintain brand awareness as well. Aren’t some of the same consumers of their services in churches? Has any business out there done any type of business intelligence to find correlations of church membership and consumers of their products or services?

And as businesses donate or provide their offerings to churches and faith based organizations, they are in fact empowering the church to reach the masses. The same masses that are or could become consumers of a business’s products.

For example, if a business provides to a church the tools, training, support representatives for a church to have the appropriate infrastructure to setup the appropriate servers, networks, databases, applications, web servers, etc…. then that business can use that church as a case study, or a testimonial or other forms of advertising. There may be tax deductions/writeoffs that the business can apply. And also it shows the business’s commitment to the community. This also helps brand awareness.

Another benefit to businesses that donate their services and time to Christian churches is that the business will gain a platform of users that can help them test out new services or upgrades to existing services. The church could be used as an external testing or focus group. This can help a business iron out problems or issues that they didn’t see or catch in doing internal testing. It may help a business better understand the workflow or real world business use of the product or service. The benefits to a business are many.

The church benefits in that it receives the very necessary tools to efficiently run a church like a business which will ultimately help the church establish and maintain integrity. The church will be empowered to do more with less. The church will be able to use modern technology to reach the masses (most of which can not imagine life without computers, cell phones, and other hand held devices).

For example, it would be great for a church to launch an email campaign and have the right tools to track the efficacy of that campaign. It would be great for a church to have the servers, databases, and applications in place to really capture trends in services they offer. Do the churches backup their file servers, databases, or even the content of their website? Do the churches have several applications scattered in their network or do the larger churches have enterprise solutions and the right infrastructure in place for their enterprise? What about licensing issues? What software do the churches have in their environment? Are they in compliance to any licensing policies?

Businesses, the churches can use your products and your services. And businesses you can use the churches’ services, personnel for testing your products and services, feedback on your product offering, and membership to promote brand awareness.

It’s time for businesses to partner with Christian churches and organizations and embrace the partnership not as charity but as truly a vehicle to benefit the business from brand awareness to product testing and case study analysis.

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Just as my kids receive progress reports and report cards so I can check how they are really doing in school and correct any problems that they may be having, I need to do the same check on myself.

I’d say I’m doing okay. My heart is filled with kindness. But I need to be more consistent with my faith walk.

If you had to grade yourself in regards to life and Christianity, how would you fare?

I found a song on youtube song by some young ladies. It speaks to how we need to try out best not to keep backsliding. But I do thank God for his grace and mercy. And I thank Jesus for paying the price for our sins. And even though we sin, God still loves us and we still have access to Him (as long as we are saved).

But I like the song because it reminds us that we should not be “Luke Warm” in our faith walk.

Check it out:

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News flash… We all experience disappointments in life. I’m sure you are no stranger to that idea. But have you checked the way you handle disappointments lately?

Being one who has gone through unemployment on more than one occasion, a divorce, heartbreak, and they many challenges life brings I certainly can offer at least 2 cents on disappointments. But through it all I remain positive, I laugh, smile, and continue to love on God.

I mean as bad as it may get, it can truly be worse. I am blessed that I woke up this morning, that I have all my senses, that I can move my body, that I’m in my right mind (even though left handed). Oh I could go on and on. I make sure (usually on the way to dropping the kids off to school) that I let my children hear me verbally thank God for the many, many blessings that He has given me, my kids, our family, and so on…. I want them to know that nothing is guaranteed and that we need to take time to love on God and just tell Him “Thank you”. I thank God just for Him being who He is. Everything else is gravy. I’ve thanked God through tears. And through it all He knows I love Him and I continue to be blessed.

Take a listen to a classic song by Regina Belle by clicking on the link below. I think it sums up the fact that God Is Good:
“God Is Good” by Regina Belle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4dwdJKiy4

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