Ted Camp - Silent Word Ministries As missionaries to the Deaf, we have a tradition in our ministry. Thanksgiving means “giving thanks.” It is a time to think and thank. In Sign Language you use your left hand to point to your head (think). To make the sign for thank, bring an open, flat right hand from your mouth forward. Now try signing think and thank at the same time. As you think, it will make you thank. Here are twelve guidelines to help us as we think and thank. 1. Think about and give thanks for what you have instead of thinking about what you do not have (Eph. 1:16). 2. Think about being content with what things you have (Phil. 4:11). 3. Think of your family and friends. Pray for the
Just this week I overheard a conversation in which a small business owner was boasting out loud, “I’m my own boss.” As I pondered his braggadocio, I said to myself, Sounds like good work if you can get it. On another occasion I remember hearing a fellow with a rebel’s heart rail out, “Nobody’s going to boss me around.” I’m guessing somebody was doing exactly that or he would not have been so angry and so loud. I remember hearing Dr. Clyde Box tell the humorous story of one of his granddaughters who, at age three, announced to him, “I’m the boss of me.” We chuckled with him and enjoyed the story. Some of our Sword staff will sometimes introduce me as ‘their boss.’ I’m not especially fond of t
Dr. John R. Rice (Archives) “Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me.” —Exod. 32:26. Exodus 32 tells the sad story of the backsliding of the children of Israel while Moses was on the mount receiving the Ten Commandments from the Lord. Except for the intercession of Moses on behalf of the people, God would have destroyed all of them immediately. Then read how Moses stood in the gate of the camp and called to all those on the Lord’s side to come to him and take their stand publicly. He then commanded those who did take a stand to buckle on their swords and go through the midst of the camp dealing in judgment on the Lord’s behalf. The
“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; “Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. “If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. “If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” —I Cor. 3:11–15. The phrase “yet so as by fire” is pulled from a paragraph in I Corinthians 3 that gives us details about the Judgment Seat of Christ. The Judgment S
