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A Test From God?

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Yesterday was Father’s Day and I was thinking about how often the blame for bad things gets put on our heavenly Father.

People talk about God testing them, or God having a reason for this and for that.  It all adds up to blaming God.

In this short podcast (3:52) discover if God is really testing you.

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Today Is Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day!

I wanted to wish all the Dad’s  a very Happy Father’s Day.  I love being a dad; I love my kids; and, I think it’s real special being a dad, for a million reasons.

Did you know that this year is the centennial celebration of Father’s Day?  100 years of recognizing dear ‘ol dad.

Father’s Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother’s Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. It is also celebrated to honor and commemorate our forefathers.

Father’s Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities.

100 Years Ago

The first observance of Father’s Day is believed to have been held on June 19, 1910 through the efforts of Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington. After listening to a church sermon at Spokane’s Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 1909 about the newly recognized Mother’s Day, Dodd felt strongly that fatherhood needed recognition, as well.

She wanted a celebration that honored fathers like her own father, William Smart, a Civil War veteran who was left to raise his family alone when his wife died giving birth to their sixth child when Sonora was 16 years old.

The following year with the assistance of Reverend Dr. Conrad Bluhm, her pastor at Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian Church), Sonora took the idea to the Spokane YMCA. The Spokane YMCA, along with the Ministerial Alliance, endorsed Dodd’s idea and helped it spread by celebrating the first Father’s Day in 1910.

Red Roses And White Roses

Sonora suggested her father’s birthday, June 5th, be established as the day to honor all Father’s. However, the pastors wanted more time to prepare, so on June 19, 1910, young members of the YMCA went to church wearing roses: a red rose to honor a living father, and a white rose to honor a deceased one.

It took many years to make the holiday official. In spite of support from the YWCA, and churches, Father’s Day ran the risk of disappearing from the calendar. Where Mother’s Day was met with enthusiasm, Father’s Day was often met with laughter. The holiday was gathering attention slowly, but for the wrong reasons.

It was the target of much satire, parody and derision, including jokes from the local newspaper Spokesman-Review. Many people saw it as the first step in filling the calendar with mindless promotions.

The US Congress Was Not Helpful

A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father’s Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized.

President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress.

In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus “singling out just one of our two parents.” In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day.

Congress finally got on boaad six years later; the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.

This year, 2010, is the Father’s Day Centennial. Spokane Washington has events scheduled all month long. Celebration occurs in Spokane with a month of events commemorating the day.

Mike

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Why Give?

I read the following article on line about a year ago. It seems that they have done some research on this great principle of “giving.”  I thought you might enjoy it.

The Bible counsels misers that it’s better to give than to receive. Science agrees. People who made gifts to others or to charities reported they were happier than folks who didn’t share, according to a report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.

While previous studies have shown that having more money can increase happiness, the researchers at the University of British Columbia and Harvard University wondered if the way people spent their money made any difference.

Turns out, it does.

Not Surprised

Lead researcher Elizabeth W. Dunn, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, said she wasn’t surprised that doing something for others made people happy.

But she was struck by how big the effect was and that how people spent money was more important than how much money they had.

“This work suggests that even making small alterations in how we spend money on a daily basis can make a difference in happiness,” Dunn said in a telephone interview.

“That doesn’t mean go get a high paying job so you can spend tons of money on others. The message is, given what you have, how can you make little alterations to do something for others,” she said.

And, she added, “there’s nothing special about money,” giving can involve time or special skills to help other people.

No Surprises Here Either

The report didn’t surprise Sue Citro, senior digital membership manager for the Nature Conservancy:

“We do hear from our members and our supporters that the do get a real feeling of satisfaction from knowing their giving is doing good,” she said.

Andrea Koslow, director of advertising at the American Red Cross, said: “The act of helping has its own profound effect.”

“People need a humanitarian outlet … feeling that they make a difference … that’s very motivating,” Koslow said.

The good feeling associated with giving is why workplace charity opportunities can engage employees and lift morale, added Kristine Templin, director of corporate partnerships at the American Red Cross.

The Research

The researchers started by asking a sample of 632 Americans, 55 percent of whom were women, to rate their happiness on a scale of 1 to 5, the higher the number the happier.

Then they asked the participants to report their annual income and estimate how much they spent on paying bills, buying gifts for themselves, buying gifts for others and giving to charity.

The first two were considered personal spending and averaged $1,714-a-month, the second two were termed “prosocial” spending and averaged $146-a-month.

“Personal spending was unrelated to happiness,” said the researchers. “But higher prosocial spending was associated with significantly greater happiness,” they found.

Not content with that, they then studied 16 employees of a company in Boston, asking about their happiness one month before and six to eight weeks after each received a profit-sharing bonus from their employer.

In the second interview they also asked about personal and prosocial spending and once again those who spent more on others were happier.

“The manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the amount of the bonus itself,” the researchers found.

And In Canada

Finally, 46 Canadian students were asked to rate their happiness and then each was given a random envelope containing money, ranging from $5 to $20. Some were instructed to spend it on themselves, others were told to buy a gift for someone else.

At 5 p.m. that day, they were called together again and asked to rate their happiness.

The amount of money had no impact on happiness, but those assigned to buy something for another person reported greater happiness than those told to get something for themselves, the researchers said.

A separate study published in 2006 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that the same parts of the brain that produce the good feeling when a person receives a reward also respond when they give to someone else.

Indeed, researchers led by Jordan Grafman at the National Institutes of Health found the reward areas were more active when giving a gift than when receiving one.

It’s an interesting article, don’t you think?

If you’re a fan of the Bible then you know that God set up something very wonderful called, The Law of Giving and Receiving.

II Corinthians 9:6-11:
But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: his righteousness remains for ever.

Luke 6:38:
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

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Very Inspiring

I have on occasion made mention of George Muller (Mueller).  I thought you might enjoy reading a couple of incidents.  More than enjoying, I thought they would inspire you.  They certainly inspire me.

So here are two incidents.  I will add nothing at the end; instead I will add this at the beginning:  Our God is still on the throne.

Dr. A. T. Pierson was the guest of George Mueller at his orphanage. He says: “One night when all the household had retired he [Mueller] asked Pierson to join him in prayer. He told him that there was absolutely nothing in the house for next morning’s breakfast.

My friend tried to remonstrate with him and to remind him that all the stores were closed. Mueller knew all that. He had prayed as he always prayed, and he never told anyone of his needs but God. They prayed – at least Mueller did, and Pierson tried to.

They went to bed and slept, and breakfast for two thousand children was there in abundance at the usual breakfast hour. Neither Mueller nor Pierson ever knew how the answer came. The story was told next morning to Simon Short of Bristol, under pledge of secrecy until the benefactor died.

The details of it are thrilling, but all that need be told here is that the Lord called him out of bed in the middle of the night to send breakfast to Mueller’s orphanage, and knowing nothing of the need, or of the two men at prayer, he sent provisions that would feed them a month.

Charles Inglis, the well-known evangelist, relates the following remarkable incident:

“When I first came to America 31 years ago, I crossed the Atlantic with the captain of a steamer who was one of the most devoted men I ever knew; and when we were off the banks of Newfoundland he said to me, “Mr. Inglis, the last time I crossed here, 5 weeks ago, one of the most extraordinary things happened that has completely revolutionalized the whole of my Christian life.

Up to that time I was one of your ordinary Christians. We had a man of God on board, George Mueller, of Bristol. I had been on that bridge for 22 hours and never left it. I was startled by someone tapping me on the shoulder. It was George Mueller.

“‘Captain,’ said he, ‘I have come to tell you that I must be in Quebec on Saturday afternoon.’ This was Wednesday.

“‘It is impossible,’ I said.

“‘Very well, if your ship can’t take me, God will find some other means of locomotion to take me. I have never broken an engagement in 57 years.’

“‘I would willingly help you, but how can I? I am helpless.’

“‘Let us go down to the chart room and pray,’ he said.

“I look at this man and thought to myself, ‘What lunatic asylum could the man have come from? I never heard of such a thing.’

“‘Mr. Mueller,’ I said, ‘do you know how dense this fog is?’

“‘No,’ he replied, ‘my eye is not on the density of the fog, but on the living God, Who controls every circumstance of my life.’

“He went down on his knees, and he prayed one of the most simple prayers. I thought to myself, ‘That would suit a children’s class, where the children were not more than 8 or 9 years of age.’ The burden of his prayer was something like this. “O Lord, if it is consistent with Thy will, please remove this fog in 5 minutes. You know the engagement You made for me in Quebec for Saturday. I believe it is Your will.’

“When he had finished, I was going to pray, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me not to pray.

“‘First,’ he said, ‘you do not believe God will do it; and, second, I believe He has done it. And there is no need whatever for you to pray about it.’

“I looked at him, and George Mueller said this, ‘Captain, I have known my Lord for 57 years and there has never been a single day that I have failed to gain an audience with the King. Get up, Captain, and open the door, and you will find the fog is gone.’ I got up, and the fog was gone. On Saturday afternoon George Mueller was in Quebec.”

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It Was More Than Just Graduating

We enjoyed some very happy times over the past few days.  Family and friends celebrated a very special young lady’s high school graduation.  Our niece graduated Thursday evening.

On Wednesday evening we enjoyed an informal family supper at my sister’s house.  Then Friday night there was party our house.

I know lots and lots of kids graduate every year.  But this was a special occasion for more reasons than it just being our niece.  It was more than her having an “A” average, or being the editor of the school yearbook.

Why It Was So Special

It was special for all those reasons, of course.  But it was even more special because of God’s great help and deliverance on her life.  She missed months of school in her junior year.  But, determined, and with God’s help, she regained her strength and finished her junior year the day before her senior year began.

So, obviously we are all very proud of her academic accomplishments and achieving this milestone of graduating high school.  But we are all so very thankful and inspired by her determination, perseverance, and her unwavering trust in our loving God.

Congratulations, Leah!  Continue to put your trust in God.

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The Lost Message

What Is Pentecost All About?

This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday on the Church calendar.  What exactly do we celebrate? We are told that the celebration is all about commemorating the descent of the holy spirit upon the Apostles.

But could Pentecost be of even greater importance and significance than the birth of Christ?

I don’t normally do this, but for this occasion, I am posting yesterday’s article from The Pep Letter, my weekly newsletter.  I thought it would be some really good information for those who don’t subscribe to The Pep Letter.

What Is The Significance?

In the article below, you will discover the significance of the day of Pentecost spoken of in Acts  2. I believe that the message of Pentecost has been lost. Read and see what you think.

When it comes to Christmas, people understand they are celebrating the birth of Christ.  But when it comes to Pentecost, there are many who wonder what it is really all about.

The Lost Message of Pentecost

When it comes to Pentecost, what exactly do we celebrate? We are told that the celebration is all about commemorating the descent of the holy spirit upon the Apostles.  That event was recorded with a number of details in the book of Acts. But is Pentecost of even greater importance and significance than the birth of Christ?

There are a number of popular celebrations on the Church calendar.  The biggest and most popular is Christmas.  People understand they are celebrating the birth of Christ.  But when it comes to Pentecost, there are many who wonder what it is really all about.

What is the real significance of what occurred to those twelve apostles?  Is it possible that it was the greatest event to date in the history of mankind?  Has the great message of Pentecost been lost?

Ever since the book of Genesis, when man first came on the scene, having body, soul and spirit, there have been a number of events that have affected all of mankind.  Through the centuries there have been hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and volcanoes.  But what happened in the Garden when Adam sinned was the worst disaster for human beings that has ever happened.

Even though there were only two people immediately affected, the consequences would be felt by billions and billions; the consequences would affect every single human being ever born, with the exception of Jesus Christ.

It is because of not understanding what happened when Adam sinned that results in not understanding what happened on the original day of Pentecost.  Adam was told that if he ate of the tree in the midst of the garden he would surely die.  If you are familiar with the record then you know that both Adam and Eve ate of that fruit.

Yet, if you continue reading in the Bible, they both lived for many, many years.  But God had said, “In the day you eat, you will die,” meaning that very day. By taking a closer look one can see that Adam and Eve were formed made and created with two life forms: soul and spirit.

The absence of life is indicated by the word, “death.”  What died that day for Adam and Eve was the spirit life that God intended for all human beings to have.  It is very significant to note that it was the spirit life that enabled them to have a close personal relationship with God.

When they lost spirit life, they still had body and soul life. But they had lost their connection with the Creator.  And, this loss was passed on to all men and women. This was a cataclysmic event, with devastating consequences on all of mankind.

Since very few understand what happened back in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, they fail to see its connection to Pentecost.  But it was after the fall of mankind that God set in motion a plan to redeem mankind.  Because of Adam’s sin, human beings were now incomplete; they were lacking the spirit of God.

During the process of God’s plan, you can read about how God gave certain individuals His spirit on a temporary basis.  But it was not available to any and all human beings.  It took the completed work of Jesus Christ, the savior of mankind, to fulfill all that was necessary.

On that first day of Pentecost, Peter delivered quite a sermon.  It contained a number of references to God’s gift of holy spirit.  He concluded his message by exhorting those listening to change their minds, get baptized, and told them that they too would receive the gift holy spirit.   About 3,000 accepted the invitation.

Jesus taught his followers on many occasions about the coming of holy spirit. It was a major topic at the last Supper.  And after he was resurrected, the first time he got together with his disciples he talks to them about receiving the holy spirit.

On the day of the ascension, right before he left, the very last thing he talked about was about receiving the holy spirit.

If you look closely at Peter’s message on the day of Pentecost, it is filled with information about the spirit of God.

The lost message of Pentecost is the beginning of holy spirit for all of mankind.  That was the day when God officially made His holy spirit available to anyone and everyone.  The reason God wants everyone to have His spirit is so that He can have a close personal relationship just like He had with Adam and Eve in the Garden before the fall.

And while Adam and Eve could and did, lose the spirit of God, this time around, God made it permanent.  He has given us all eternal life which means you cannot lose it.

What a great day in the history of mankind Pentecost was!  God has opened the door for anyone and everyone to receive His gift of holy spirit.  No wonder Peter later referred to that day as, “the beginning.”  Now it is up to us to learn how to utilize and operate this gift of holy spirit that God has freely given us.

Mike Verdicchio
2010

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We Are Reminded Every Day

sad-faceWhen was the last time you watched or listened to a news report and there was nothing reported about the economy?  Not only do we hear about the economy in every newscast, but in almost every conversation.  We are consistently reminded of how lousy the situation is.

Now if you choose to only focus on that information, you will be pretty discouraged, upset, afraid, angry, etc.  How can you stay positive and trust God when that’s all you hear every single day?

But, on the other hand, we all spend money on a regular basis, don’t we?  And there is a nice little reminder on every piece of currency that we have.  Most of the time we don’t even look at it or think about it.   We just pay the transaction and go on our merry way.

But why not stop and think about it for a moment or two?  “In God We Trust.”  Even if you are writing a check or using a debit card, those things represent money.  We can stop and remind ourselves that our trust is in our God.

Some may choose to continue to put their trust in the in-god-2government.  They will look to Uncle Sam to provide for them.  Everyone makes their own choices.

I would much rather put my trust in my Father, God, than in my Uncle San.  God has a proven track record that is impeccable.  Uncle Sam, well……

Mike

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Happy Mother’s Day!

I wanted to wish all the Moms a very Happy Mother’s day!  heart bouquet

The way God set it all up, we all have a Mom!  I told my daughter the other day, “Aren’t you glad we don’t come from eggs?”  She said, “Yeah, that would be awful for a mom to have to sit on an egg until it hatched!”

Some of us still have our Mom around, and I am thankful I get to call my Mom today to wish her a Happy Mother’s Day.  Our kids will be contacting Kathy just as people all over recognize their Moms today.

By The Way, Are You…?

By the way, I think it is very cool to be a Mom.  And, I’ve said this for years; “I love pregnant women!” I always have.  So, if I ever meet you, and you’re pregnant, then I am going to give you a big hug!

Happy Mother’s day!

Mike

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It’s Our Day

heartThe wedding took place in a very small Justice of the Peace office in El Paso, Texas.  It was a Saturday afternoon.  The official performing the ceremony was wearing black slacks and a T-shirt.   We were in our jeans.

I’ve often told young people who are planning their wedding that it doesn’t matter where you get married, who attends the ceremony, or who does the service.

Don’t get me wrong.  Weddings, big and small, with all the things that go with them, and there can be many, are wonderful.  They can be expensive, even smaller ones, but, if that’s what the couple wants, and they can afford it, more power to them.

I have officiated at many, many weddings, in sizes from less than 10 to over 500.  I’ve performed weddings in living rooms, hotel ballrooms, and even on the beach.  All of them, in their own way, have been very special.

Here’s The Point

heartThe point I want to make is that regardless of who performs the wedding ceremony, where the location is, and how many attend, none of that is any guarantee that the marriage will last.  For a marriage to last it is going to take the love and commitment of both the bride and the groom.

On that Saturday afternoon in El Paso, Texas, Kathy and I made a commitment; it was a lifetime commitment.  Four years after we got married, we began to study the Bible.  We have tried to base our marriage on biblical principles ever since.

Love is a choice; you choose to love.  Thankfulness is a choice; you choose to be grateful.  Forgiveness is a choice; you choose to forgive.  I think those three are all very important keys in a successful marriage.

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Today, our wedding anniversary again falls on a Saturday.  I am filled with memories of the drive in our VW van from Carlsbad, New Mexico (where we lived) to El Paso, Texas. We had supper that night at McDonald’s, and spent the night in a Motel 6. We drove back to Carlsbad the next day as happy newlyweds.

I’m thankful to God for the most wonderful woman I know, a woman full of love, thankfulness and forgiveness.  She is still the girl of my dreams and the love of my life.

And while we don’t have a wedding album of pictures to look at, or a piece of frozen wedding cake in the freezer, or a wedding dress packed away in a box, we have each other!   So, on this, our 39th anniversary, I just wanted to say, “Happy Anniversary, Kathy, I love you!”

Mike

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Something Personal

Two Quick Items Today

Tomorrow I will post something very special to me.  I don’t want to give it away right now, so you’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning.

But even though it will be a personal post, I’ll still share something very practical for you.  Feel free to leave a comment about it too if you like.  And that brings me to my second point.

Are You Shy?

I am beginning to think that the readers of this blog are some of the shyest people on earth.  I’m not trying to be critical; I just want you to feel free to express yourself.  And I’m not saying this because I am looking for compliments; I appreciate them, but that’s not at all the purpose of the ccomment section.

So feel free to express your own opinion whenever you want to, and feel free to comment on what others have to say too.

Have a super weekend, and be sure to stop by tomorrow.

Mike

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