Let's Praise Him!

Let us abide in Christ and find shelter in him. And, let us choose our companions wisely. We must not emulate or admire those who are self-centered, or we will become like them. Model your life after those who rejoice in the Lord and do what is right.

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Our Father in heaven,we praise you. We rejoice in you and find shelter in your arms.

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Rabbit Resurrection!

Ken Davis, Lighten Up!, Great Stories From One of America's Favorite Storytellers, 2000, Zondervan Publishing House, p.69.
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"A woman happened to be looking out the window of her home one day. She was horrified to see her German Shepherd shaking the life out of the neighbor's rabbit. Her family had been quarreling with these neighbors; this was certainly going to make matters worse. She grabbed a broom and ran outside, pummeling the pooch until he dropped a rabbit now covered with dog spit--and extremely dead.

After a moments consideration, the woman lifted the rabbit with the end of the broom and brought it into the house. She dumped its lifeless body into the bathtub and turned on the shower. When the water running off the rabbit was clean, she rolled him over and rinsed the other side.

Now she had a plan. She found her hairdryer and blew the rabbit dry. Using an old comb, she groomed the rabbit until he looked pretty good. Then, when the neighbor wasn't looking, she hopped over the fence, snuck across the backyard, and propped him up in his cage. No way she was taking the blame for this thing.

About an hour later, she heard screams coming from the neighbor's yard. She ran outside, pretending she didn't know what was going on. 'What's happened?' she asked innocently.

Her neighbor came running to the fence. All the blood had drained from her face. 'Our rabbit, our rabbit!' she blubbered. 'He died two weeks ago, we buried him--and now he's back!' "

SoAmazing Review: Ken Davis utilizes humor to focus attention on important life behaviors and spiritual truths.

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"Useful" Marriages

C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters, Harper San Francisco, Harper Collins Edition 2001, pp. 102, 103.
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My dear Wormwood,

"It would be quite a good thing to make the patient decide that 'Love' is 'good' or 'bad.' If he is an arrogant man with a contempt for the body really based on delicacy but mistaken by him for purity--and one who takes pleasure in flouting what most of his fellows approve--by all means let him decide against love. Instill into him an overweening asceticism and then, when you have separated his sexuality from all that might humanize it, weigh in on him with it in some much more brutal and cynical form. If on the other hand, he is an emotional, gullible man, feed him on minor poets and fifth-rate novelists of the old school until you have made him believe that 'Love' is both irresistible and somehow intrinsically meritorious. This belief is not much help, I grant you, in producing casual unchastity; but it is an incomparable recipe for prolonged, 'noble', romantic, tragic adulteries, ending, if all goes well, in murders and suicides. Failing that, it can be used to steer the patient into a useful marriage. For marriage, though the enemy's invention, has it uses. There must be several young women in your patient's neighborhood who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them. Please send me a report on this when you next write.

Your affection uncle,

SCREWTAPE

SoAmazing Review: If you are interest in seriously examing ethics and morality read The Screwtape Letters.

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