Ecclesiastes 12:10

         If you come to the building early enough on Monday (you have to be early, things get cleaned up around here pretty fast.) you will notice that there are most always little handprints on the front door.  The young ones are not tall enough to reach the push bar, and leave behind the marks.  You may think that they are a stain but I come to understand that those smudges are prints of a living church.           Children at times may seem like a hindrance to worship. They fidget, they fuss, they might make a mess.  You may think that baby’s cry is an annoyance but it really is the heartbeat of the church.  Without those cries, a church is beginning to die.  Show me a church with no sounds of children, no marks of little hands and I will show you a church that will soon be fighting for it’s very life. In those children are the faith of the future, the love of the pres...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes was a notorious practical joker.  He once sent out fake invitations to the mayor’s ball resulting in numerous unwanted guests.  Many suspect that he may have been responsible for Piltdown man, a hoax that claimed to be the so called “missing link” in evolution.  One of his most talked about pranks is when he once sent an anonymous telegram to twelve friends, all men of great prestige and importance, saying, “ All has been discovered, flee at once ”.  Within 48 hours, all of them had left town. It goes to show us that everyone, either great or small, has something they don’t people to find out. Dirt swept under the rug while we pretend everything is clean. Things we try to hide from our friend, our family, and even ourselves. We foolishly think that if we bury them deep enough, they will never come to light or if we ignore them long enough, they will go away.  But Jesus tells us in Luke 12:2  " But ther...

In 1989, Microsoft was set to release its new Windows 3.0 operating system.  They were worried that many wouldn’t adjust to the new graphical interface and wouldn’t understand how to use the mouse to “drag & drop” files and icons.  It was decided to create a game as a way of training people to these new methods.  It wasn’t a top notch assignment so it was given to an intern, Wes Cherry, to create.  He did even bother to work out a deal for royalties for his work.  No one at the time realized how popular the game would become. Solitaire is now considered the most played video game in the world. It has gone well beyond a training game to a national pastime.  Lost business productivity by employees playing Solitaire has become a common concern since it became standard on Microsoft Windows.  Hundreds of thousands of hours are wasted by office workers all over the world chained to their computers, trying to make those cards bounce. I find this...

It looks OK to me. –Eve                            One look won’t hurt. –Lot’s Wife          No one will ever find out. – Bathsheba                                            It’s just one little lie. –Ananias After all I’ve done God will make an exception for me- Moses                   She looks good to me. –Samson           I’m smart enough to handle them- Solomon                                                 Even if everybody el...

This the weekly Radio program for the Hope Church of Christ for April 29th,   2012 If you can't run with the Footman...