Soli Deo Gloria!

Hebrews 12:1-2

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

 ¹Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ²looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Do any of you think about death, and if you do, does it affect the way you live?

Please comment.  Thanks.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/boondoggle :

boon⋅dog⋅gle

[boon-dog-uhl, -daw-guhl] Show IPA Pronunciation
noun, verb, -gled, -gling.

–noun

1.	a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.

2.	work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy.

3.	a project funded by the federal government out of political favoritism that is of no real value to the community or the nation.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to deceive or attempt to deceive: to boondoggle investors into a low-interest scheme.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to do work of little or no practical value merely to keep or look busy.

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Origin:
1930–35, Americanism; said to have been coined by R. H. Link, American scoutmaster, as name for def. 1

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boon·dog·gle (bōōn’dô’gəl, -dŏg’əl)  Pronunciation Key n.   An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity. A braided leather cord worn as a decoration especially by Boy Scouts. A cord of braided leather, fabric, or plastic strips made by a child as a project to keep busy. intr.v.   boon·dog·gled, boon·dog·gling, boon·dog·gles To waste time or money on a boondoggle. [Coined by Robert H. Link (died 1957), American scoutmaster.] boon’dog’gler n.

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boondoggle
noun
1.	work of little or no value done merely to look busy
verb
1.	do useless, wasteful, or trivial work

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I am lacking in both time and money.

I could use any one of these:

Amazing Pictures of Money

It looked brutal.

A new study done on the effects of Splenda on rats revealed three effects:

1.  reduced beneficial bacteria content in the intenstines by 50%

2.  increased pH levels in the intenstines

3.  enhanced the expression levels of glycoprotein that are known to limit the bioavailability of orally administered drugs

Click here for more information on the dangers of Splenda.

God is sovereign over all finances. Any economic recession—global or personal—is never less than recession-by-divine-design.

When the economy plummets, God has his purposes—perhaps thousands uponthousands of purposes. Some of these purposes he has made known in his Book.

At least 5 of them are:

1. To expose hidden sin and so bring us to repentance and cleansing.
2. To wake us up to the constant and desperate condition of the developing world where there is always and only recession of the worst kind.
3. To relocate the roots of our joy in his grace rather than in our goods—in his mercy rather than our money, in his worth rather than our wealth.
4. To advance his saving mission in the world—the spread of the gospel and the growth of his church—precisely at a time when human resources are least able to support it. This is how he guards his glory.
5. To bring his church to care for its hurting members and to grow in the gift of love.

2 Corinthians 8:1 2 might be the clearest “recession text” in the Bible. Itdescribes the roots of the joy of the Macedonian believers in their”recession.” In their “severe test of affliction” and “extreme poverty,”their abundant joy “overflowed in a wealth of generosity.”

Their generosity didn’t come from prosperity but from God’s grace—and thisgrace rooted in “our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet foryour sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich” (2Corinthians 8:9).

- What Is the Recession For?

I watched Bill Gates’ recent appearance at their latest conference.

You should watch it too:

http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html

http://blog.ted.com/2009/02/bill_gates_qa_w.php