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Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. Janice Maeditere
Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart. --THE POLAR EXPRESS
Christmas is weird. What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O!'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); American statesman and scientist
Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words. Harlan Miller
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. --THOMAS TUSSER
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. --CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day. --HELEN STEINER RICE
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. --Charles Dickens
Merry Christmas! When you think of Christmas, you think of gifts. We give and receive gifts with one another. If you give a toy, it will be lost or forgotten. What isn't forgotten is memories! Continue to create new memories, for those will last forever.
Luke 2:8 ESV And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
Matthew 2:11 ESV And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Generosity is a quality that many men admire. But if a prince develops a reputation for generosity, he will ruin his state. A reputation for generosity requires outward lavishness, which eventually depletes all of the prince’s resources. In the end, the prince will be forced to burden his people with excessive taxes in order to raise the money to maintain his reputation for generosity. Ultimately, the prince’s liberality will make the people despise and resent him. ~Niccolò Machiavelli
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. --PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. --Khalil Gibran
Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet. --Wayne Dyer
Generosity is doing something for someone else and expecting nothing in return.
Give Others What You Value = There is no higher level of living than giving without expecting anything in return. People who embody generosity experience incredible freedom and happiness. Comparison kills generosity. The measure of your generosity is based on what you have, not what you give. Don’t let possessions take charge of your mind. If you are enslaved to greed, you cannot lead.
A Person Who Gives is a Person Who’s Fulfilled
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Be Happy, Be Generous! = The happiest people in the world are generous. People who give are fulfilled. We were created to help one another and to share. When we act out who we are supposed to be, it gives us a sense of fulfillment in following that purpose. Give more to the people you see today!
Be Generous, Give Back What You Earn = Be generous with your money. As you are building your life and businesses, always strive to have three sources of income. And then give back what you can financially to others. Being generous with your money allows you to serve others and help those you otherwise wouldn't have been able to help. You can't give what you don't have, and once you earn more, pass it on.
Generosity Gives Back To All = By living a generous life, you set aside time and resources to give to others. This practice will not only benefit others, but also benefit you. Based on the practice of tithing, you give 10% of what you have back to God. You need to have an open hand in life in order to give more and accept more in life, giving what you have where it is needed most.
Generosity is an attitude = Generosity doesn’t have anything to do with blessings or money, it is an attitude. There are people who have very little, but are always sharing what they have with others. There are others who have a lot, but hold on tightly to what is theirs. What kind of person are you? Are you a generous person, opening yourself to receive more?
A person that owns their money, instead of their money owning them. No matter how much you have, pass along a little bit of wisdom or wealth to help others succeed.
Acts 2:46 NLT - 46 They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord's Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity--
2 Corinthians 8:2NLT - 2 They are being tested by many troubles, and they are very poor. But they are also filled with abundant joy, which has overflowed in rich generosity.
2 Corinthians 9:10, 13 NLT - 10 For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you. ... 13 As a result of your ministry, they will give glory to God. For your generosity to them and to all believers will prove that you are obedient to the Good News of Christ.
Ephesians 4:7 NLT - 7 However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ.
Philemon 1:6 NLT - 6 And I am praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from your faith as you understand and experience all the good things we have in Christ.
Isaiah 32:8 (NLT) But generous people plan to do what is generous, and they stand firm in their generosity.
Romans 12:8 The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Matthew 20:15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption [that is, our deliverance and salvation] through His blood, [which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in] the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin, in accordance with the riches of His grace
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you are recognizing [more clearly] the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [His astonishing kindness, His generosity, His gracious favor], that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich (abundantly blessed).
2 Corinthians 9:11 You will be enriched in every way for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
Romans 5:15 But God's free gift immeasurably outweighs the transgression. For if through the transgression of the one individual the mass of mankind have died, infinitely greater is the generosity with which God's grace, and the gift given in His grace which found expression in the one man Jesus Christ, have been bestowed on the mass of mankind.
2 Corinthians 9:13 They will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with others through the proof provided by this service.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. --Oliver Stone
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. --Jim Rohn
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. --William Penn
Envy is an insult to oneself. --Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. --Josh Billings
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. --Marilyn Monroe
Proverbs 3:31 NLT - 31 Don't envy violent people or copy their ways.
Proverbs 24:1 NLT - 1 Don't envy evil people or desire their company.
Proverbs 24:19 Don’t fret because of evildoers; don’t envy the wicked.
Mark 7:22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
Proverbs 23:17 Don’t envy sinners, but always continue to fear the Lord.
Proverbs 14:30 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
Proverbs 23:17 ESV / --Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.
Matthew 27:18 NLT - 18 (He knew very well that the religious leaders had arrested Jesus out of envy.)
Mark 7:22 NLT - 22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind.Love does not envy,is not boastful, is not conceited,
Romans 1:29 NLT - 29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.
Galatians 5:21 NLT - 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Titus 3:3 NLT - 3 Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other.
James 4:5 NLT - 5 What do you think the Scriptures mean when they say that the spirit God has placed within us is filled with envy?
1 Peter 2:1 - So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
Titus 3:3 - For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
1 Timothy 6:4- he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
Philippians 1:15 - Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.
Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! --THOMAS JEFFERSON
Independence is not strength but unrealized weakness and is the very essence of sin. There was no independence in our Lord, the great characteristic of his life was submission to his Father.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. --THOMAS A. EDISON
No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.
Of all the different purposes set before mankind, the most disastrous is surely "the pursuit of happiness," slipped into the American Declaration of Independence along with "life and liberty" as an unalienable right, almost accidentally, at the last moment. Happiness is like a young deer, fleet and beautiful. Hunt him, and he becomes a poor frantic quarry; after the kill, a piece of stinking flesh.
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand. Happy Independence Day!
Sin is not wrongdoing; it is wrong being, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. Woodrow Wilson
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine
To all of my friends. I wish you a Happy 4th of July! Have a safe blessed day. May almighty God bless the United States of America! Amen!
As John Maxwell says in today’s lesson, “The more we grow, the more we know we need to grow.” As we develop ourselves, our awareness of the areas in which we need to improve expands. So, in today’s episode, John teaches something that author Ken Blanchard calls “the four development levels that move people from dependence to independence.”
In other words, these are the stages through which we become less dependent on what got us here and more focused on what will take us there. After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss their own journeys from dependence to independence and how they are applying these principles at Maxwell Leadership.
1 Peter 2:16 ESV Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Galatians 5:1 ESV For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:13 ESV For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
John 8:36 ESV So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
2 Peter 1:5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
2 Peter 1:5-8 ESV For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Philippians 4:8 ESV Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Proverbs 10:9 ESV Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
A company held a contest for kids with the theme: "The nicest thing My Father Ever Did For Me." One kid answered "He married my mother."
A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. Charles Wadsworth
For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet. --Robert Orben
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
I have a Father's Day every day. --Dennis Banks
If you are a child of God and you marry a child of the Devil, you're going to have trouble with your father-in-law. Max Lucado
It is much easier to become a father than to be one. Kent Nerburn
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. Johann Schiller
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. Robert Orben
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." Harmon Killebrew
My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency...become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it. Rudolph Giuliani Former Mayor of New York City
The moment you were born again you were born into the greatest love relationship ever known- the love between Father and Son. Tammie Head
To complain is to not take responsibility for your life. Donald Miller, Father Fiction
Unbelievers = the people the Father misses the most - Luke 15
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. Abraham Lincoln
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. Irish Proverb
I don’t know what’s more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early or the acting like you know what you are doing. --Jim Gaffigan, father of five
Somewhere along the line, I figured out, the only thing really, I think, eventually a parent can do is say I love you, there’s nothing you can do wrong, you cannot hurt my feelings, I hope you will forgive me on occasion, and what do you need me to do? You offer up that to them. I will do anything I can possibly do in order to keep you safe. That’s it. Offer that up and then just love them. --Tom Hanks, father of four
The good part of having six kids is, there’s always one who wants to hug you and say, ‘Daddy, I love you. --John McEnroe
F-fantastic,
A-awesome,
T-terrific,
H-honorable,
E-excellent,
R-remarkable This sums up my dad...Happy Father's Day to all you wonderful dads out there!
God as Father Quotes
Our Father dwells in tents as well as in temples, but His favorite abiding-place is in the hearts of mankind. J. Fred Jones
Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you -- in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be. Anne Ortlund
Attitude is Everything = Attitude is everything. It is important to have a great attitude about yourself, other people, and life. If you can find the bright side of things in tough situations, you will continually have a great attitude.
Happy Father's Day! Today, our host Dave Stotts takes us through the history of this wonderful holiday. You'll see the first Father's Day, a reminiscing of 20 years of Drive Thru History cars, and even some dad jokes! We've got all this and more on today's episode!
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
Ephesians 6:2 Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Psalm 103:13 ESV As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
Proverbs 14:26 (MSG) The Fear-of- God builds up confidence, and makes a world safe for your children.
Colossians 3:21 (MSG) Parents, don’t come down too hard on your children or you’ll crush their spirits.
Ephesians 6:4 (MSG) Fathers, don’t frustrate your children with no-win scenarios. Take them by the hand and lead them in the way of the Master.
Colossians 3:19 (MSG) Husbands, go all out in love for your wives. Don’t take advantage of them.
Colossians 3:20 (MSG) Children, do what your parents tell you. This delights the Master no end.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." ~ Joseph Campbell
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. --Nathan Hale
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. --Mark Twain
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. --William J. Clinton
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. --John F. Kennedy
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. --John F. Kennedy
A Brief History of Memorial Day Traditions | Memorial Day | Drive Thru History
Why do we celebrate Memorial Day? Why has cooking BBQ become such a tradition on Memorial Day? Join Dave Stotts as he explains where some of these traditions came from.
Joshua 4:6 We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’
Proverbs 10:7 (MSG) A good and honest life is a blessed memorial; a wicked life leaves a rotten stench.
Acts 10:4 Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.
Luke 21:5 Some of his disciples began talking about the majestic stonework of the Temple and the memorial decorations on the walls. But Jesus said,
John 15:13 ESV Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Exodus 12:14 ESV “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
