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An Idea for your Church’s Orchestra & Choir
Opera Company Of Philadelphia – Speakers On On Saturday, April 24th (2010), over 30 members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and principal cast members from their upcoming production of La Traviata converged on the Reading Terminal Market Italian Festival in Philly. Wearing street clothes and blending in with the crowd, the artists swung […]
Thought for today: FRIENDS
I WENT OUT TO FIND A FRIEND BUT COULD NOT FIND ONE THERE. I WENT OUT TO BE A FRIEND AND FRIENDS WERE EVERYWHERE! ***** (avagooddayeveryoneunlessyou’vemadeotherarrangements) 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
The Way Home: memories of a railroad to the city
By Harry T. Cook 7/9/10 For a considerable term of years, home was a small village (pop. 150 in the 1940 census) in the lake region of northwestern Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. It was there that my father, mother, two sisters and I began to weave a fabric of traditions into a history. Yet I could […]
THE DIGNITY OF EACH DAY
How would you like to have a dollar for each time you have sung, “This is the day that the Lord has made…”? You could probably retire with a beach house, a convertible and a healthy parcel of shares. Hopefully there will also have been some high level rejoicing and gladness (if the actual words […]
The Most Insidious Cult of Them All
Forget the Sunday afternoon door knockers with their magazines, or the mantra chanters who leap up and down in Swanston Street, or the duo cyclists in their suits and ties. When it comes to the cults, they are small fry. We have already been sucked in, comprehensively seduced by a cult that has wrought enormous […]
Let’s Turn Our Differences Into New Directions!
In case you had not realised it, we do not have the greatest of track records when it comes to sorting out differences within our congregations. We come to blows too fast; we play for sheep stations often over issues which are hardly worth the time of day. Or, we prefer peace at any price. […]
Love and self-esteem
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com Today’s daily reading from Richard Rohr is another classic. It looks at the question of why Jesus commands us to love and tells us to look beyond ourselves for our own good. Here is some more of what Rohr says: We must learn to move beyond ourselves, to set limits […]
Living in Australia on a $2-a-day diet
Man lives on $2-a-day diet Grant McArthur From: Herald Sun June 30, 2010 Anti-poverty crusader Richard Fleming is up to 52 days of a 90 day diet living on $2 dollars of food a day. Picture: David Caird Source: Herald Sun A MELBOURNE man is living on a diet costing just $2 a day to […]
Australians and creativity
“There are cultural reasons why innovations in church life are welcome in Australia. Australians place a high cultural value on innovation and ingenuity. A British general commented in World War I, ‘If the world fell apart tomorrow, an Australian would put it back together … with three bits of string and a length of fencing […]
The Owl and the Grasshopper
This is an old parable about the grasshopper who decided to consult the hoary consultant of the animal kingdom, the owl, about a personal problem. The problem concerned the fact that the grasshopper suffered each winter from severe pains due to the savage temperature. After a number of these painful winters, in which all of […]
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