Remember last year's bulletin when I had a "garage sale" and emptied out a lot of almost bulletins on you, too short for their own article but a good idea for the most part? Well, I have a lot of "bulletin bits" that folks have sent me, what I think are worthy of repeating here but not something I wanted to expand on. So I am cleaning out my "garage" of ideas and you get to pick over what's set out!

Some of these are from "liberal" sources. So what? You can find a lot of truth even here, it's usually how it's applied that's the difference.

Randy

Imagine that I am handing you a new, crisp one-hundred-dollar bill. Would you want it? Suppose I crumpled it up and it wasn't quite as good-looking as it was the day it came from the mint. Would you still want it? Sure! But wait, what if I took it out in the parking lot, threw it on the ground, stomped on it until the picture on the bill was barely perceptible. It's now dirty, stained, and soiled. Do you still want it? Of course.

That's the way God sees each one of us. We all go through challenges and struggles. Sometimes we feel like that hundred-dollar bill, all crumpled and soiled. But just as the hundred-dollar bill still has value, you will never, ever lose your value. Your value has been placed in you by the Creator of the universe, and nobody can take it away from you.

- Don't let worry get control of you, remember Moses started out as a basket case.

- Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisors.

- When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God already there waiting for you.

- People are funny; they want the front of the bus. the middle of the road, and the back of the church.

- Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.

- Quit griping about the membership; if it was perfect, you couldn't belong.

- Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.

- Be ye fishers of men. You catch `em - He'll clean `em.

- Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.

- Don't wait for 6 strong men to take you to church.

- Forbidden fruits create many jams.

- If God is your co-pilot - maybe you should swap seats!