[Faith-talk] Quotes for Sunday, July 10 2016 and a Question

[Paul Smith]

Hello and greetings to you all on this Lord's Day.  Hope your day is, 
will or was a good one for you as you read this message.

Before I give you the two quotes, I have a question.  Did you by any 
chance last Tuesday, I think, receive the Baffling Bible Questions 
Answered column dealing with the book of Joel? I know I sent it, but 
can't remember if you all got it.  Thanks for any responses here, as I 
don't necessarily want to send you anything that you have already received.

And now for today's quotes for your consideration, pondering and reflection.

Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong, 
where truth is poisoned at its source, one in which the skill of the 
shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.  Walter 
Lippmann, 1889-1974 (quote compiler's comment:  I like what Mr. 
Lippmann said here.  I mean, how do we really know that what we hear or 
read in the news is actually true or misleading? I know that we 
Christians have the Holy Spirit as our guide, but as we know the devil 
and his minions have ways to confuse us, Holy Spirit or no).

Find joy in everything you choose to do, every job, relationship, home. 
It is your responsibility to love it or change it.  Chuck Palahniuk

And that will do it for today.  To those of you who are Christians like 
I am, if you read this message before you depart for your respective 
houses of worship today, I pray that we and our fellow congregants will 
receive a good word from the Lord as imparted to us by our pastors 
and/or Sunday School teachers, and with that knowledge firmly implanted 
in our hearts, minds and souls, that we will apply the same to our 
individual lives as the gracious Holy Spirit enables.  Don't forget 
that, later on in this space will be the weekly Bible trivia game poem, 
then from the New Testament.  Until then or until we give you more 
quotes tomorrow, I am your obedient servant of the One who lived an 
earthly existence, died to pay for your sins and mine, and now lives 
forever to bring us His salvation and peace, Oil of Gladness.