From: R & S Scarcella & Family [inbox@webpastor.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2000 3:09 PM
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Subject: CoGS Weekly Hits! 2000 Vol.6 No. 4

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Dear Netsters,
I was just observing our pet cat, Carina. Have you ever
considered that cats could be the rulers of the universe?
I mean, who else lies around all day, is largely incapable
of serving any useful purpose, resists all offers of affection
under any terms but their own, and yet gets fed!(hey, no spouse
jokes, please! LOL)

READING FROM THE WORD OF GOD
This, then, is how you should pray:
"Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be your name
Your kingdom come
Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from the evil one."
Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV)

We think we know the Lord's Prayer when we
we can parrot the words in a Sunday School
class, but do we really know it? Do we realise
that Jesus must have said it many times with
his disciples, because it is recorded twice in
the New Testament. So what is its importance?
Do we really need to learn how to pray? Doesn't
everyone know how to call out to God? And therein
lies the crux of the matter: most people call out
to God only when they want something. Jesus teaches
us to call on God on a daily basis (hence "daily
bread" )and that prayer ought not be us-centred, but
God-centred. So the prayer begins with God, and who
he is, and a call for HIS kingdom to come and HIS
will to be done. Only after we have accorded Him
his due honour, can we rightfully move on to express
our needs and the needs of others. The Lord's Prayer
runs right against the grain of every other prayer
system ever taught to humans. That's what makes it
special. It was given by God's Son Himself.

TESTIMONY
Here is a testimony out of the streets of Belfast:
"Born in N. Ireland, I went to church every Sunday,
but never really knew Jesus until I nearly lost my
life in a shooting accident. I spent my young life
as a thief, vandal, and alcoholic. I was arrested
twice, and suspended for bringing alcohol and weapons
to school. At fifteen, my friend and I found a gun.
Thinking it was empty, my friend pointed it at me and
pulled the trigger. The injury left me paralysed from
the shoulders down, like Christopher Reeve. Months
later, a man came to see me in the hospital and on that
day I was born again. Christ accepted me and I accepted
Him. I regret that I didn't get to know God sooner. Jesus
said that He would never leave us or forsake us. (Hebrews
13:5.) This is true. Please do not waste time as I did."
John.

PRAYER POINTS
** Thank God for sending His Son to teach us about Him.
Thank Him for teaching us to pray.
** Thank God for new lives, both physical births (David Eli C.)
and spiritual rebirths.
** Keep praying for unity in obedience in our churches and for
the continued appreciation of God's grace.
** Pray for those who have had to take on extra burdens in
congregations, that they may find their refreshment in Jesus.
Pray also that God will raise up his children to serve where needed.
** Keep praying for Lynn D and Gina L in their last weeks of pregancy.
** Keep those with physical problems in your prayers, and those
who have shared that they are under financial strain. Pray that
God will supply their needs.
** The situations in Fiji and the Solomon Islands are still
unresolved. Pray for the people in these nations, expecially
our brothers and sisters in Christ.
** Warfare is still continuing in the hotspots of Indonesia,
Ambon in particular. Pray for peace.
**Keep the Scarcellas in your prayers as they travel to Bali
in Indonesia. It is quiet there at present. Pray it stays that
way. Thank God that all obstacles in relation to the extra baggage
allowance requested have just been cleared!

HAHAHA CORNER
**A man walked out into the street in New York, and managed to
flag down a taxi just driving by. He got into the taxi, and the
cabbie said," Perfect timing.You're just like Dave."
The passenger said,"Who?"
The cabbie said, "Dave Bronson. Now there's a guy who did
everything right.Like my coming along just when you needed
a cab.It would have happened like that to Dave."
The rider said,"Well,nobody's perfect."
The cabbie said, "Dave was. He was a terrific athlete. He
could have gone on the pro tour in golf. He could have played
tennis with the best pros. He sang like an opera baritone,
and danced like a Broadway star. He had a memory like a trap.
Could remember everybody's birthday. He could fix anything,
not like me. If I change even a fuse,I black out the whole
neighborhood."
The rider said,"No wonder you remember him."
The cabbie said,"Well, no I never actually met Dave."
The rider asked,"Then how do you know so much about him?"
The cabbie exclaimed,"I married his widow!"
-Submitted by Ian Shlasko

**While handing a 25 cent-off coupon to the supermarket
clerk at the checkout counter, a woman inadvertently
missed her hand, and the coupon slipped beneath the
scale and was gone.
The checker looked distressed, so the woman said,
"That's okay, it's in coupon heaven now."
"Coupon heaven?", the checker said.
"Yes", the woman said, "That's where coupons go when
they die."
"Only the redeemed ones!", said the checker.
-submitted by Pat C

**He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
He's not dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged.
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be
misquoted, then used against you.
I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
Honk if you love peace and quiet.
Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains
so popular?
Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the
world's population.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things
left by those who got there first.
Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.
It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end
to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.
and finally:
Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.
-submitted by Paul D
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In "The Briefing", an Australian Evangelical magazine, the editor
recently had a jibe at the titles on some christian books. He
found some how-to ones with slightly amusing titles. He challenged
readers to write some titles. Here are some submissions.

-1) Press On To The End: How to Programme Your Video Recorder with a
Spiritual Touch.
-2) The Mark Of The Beast: A Christian Guide to Pet Care
-3) Winds of Change: Trends in Christian flute playing.

and Dan Di Cristo submits:
-"And Then There Was Light" A Spiritual Guide to Lighting the BBQ.

Do you have any suggestions for potential book titles?
We'll give you two weeks to think about it, while we are away,
so you can make up some that are REALLY good! Please remember us
in your prayers!
Until then,
Rocco and Sue.
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