From: R & S Scarcella & Family [inbox@webpastor.com] Sent: Saturday, 7 October 2000 12:02 AM To: Susan Scarcella Subject: CoGS Weekly Hits! 2000 Vol. 10 No. 2 =================================================== YOUR CoGS WEEKLY HITS! - FREE NETMAGAZINE =================================================== distributed by Rev. Rocco & Mrs. Susan Scarcella from Church of the Good Shepherd Bossley Park NSW Australia WEBSITE: www.webpastor.com ITEMS, JOKES ETC TO: hits@webpastor.com SUBSCRIBE: subscribe@webpastor.com UNSUBSCRIBE: unsubscribe@webpastor.com (Please write "no hits" in the subject frame) WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY?: Go to... http://www.christianity.net.au HELP BLIMBINGSARI ORPHANAGE?: Go to... http://www.webpastor.com/miss&supp.htm LIKE YOUR OWN FREE EMAIL ADDRESS & MORE? Go to... http://www.webpastor.com/free-mail.htm *************************************************** Dear NetFamily, Running a bit late this week! Sorry for that! As the proverb says: Better late than never! Although , as ex-teachers, we can assure you that some things we have read would have been better never than late! Hope this isn't one of them! READING FROM THE WORD OF GOD The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. 2 Samuel 22:1-3 (NIV) With the invention of concrete, many of us can no longer imagine how important rock was to ancient builders. With so much sand in the Middle East, it was essential to find bedrock if you were to construct anything that would last. Small wonder that the Bible writers call God their Rock over and over again. As the hymn says: On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is shifting sand. There is so much that is uncertain in this world that building on the Rock who is the Lord of Lords is the only logical thing to do. TESTIMONY "As a rejected child, I started following in the footsteps of my atheist father. But I thought, "what if there really is a God, a heaven or a hell?" Then I attended the funeral of someone younger than me. I couldn't shake the thoughts about hell. I started going to church and even pretended to be a Christian, but my heart really had not changed. A radio preacher announced a revival. I was determined to go. I got to the church five hours early. That night,I poured out my heart, letting God know how badly I needed Him and wanted Him. God GLORIOUSLY delivered me and today more than 32 years later, I am still serving the Lord and have been preaching the Gospel for about twenty years." Robert. "Seek the Lord while He is near, Call upon Him while He is near." Isaiah 53:6. Robert PRAYER POINTS **Thank God for the assurance that we have in Christ, that He will never leave His children. **Thank Him He is a solid rock and that He can be trusted. **Praise God that the Olympics were such a success and that there were no problems with security. Thank Him for the numbers of people reached by faithful Christians and for those who have accepted Him as Lord and Saviour as a result of their work. **Keep the athletes and volunteers associated with the Paralympics in your prayers, and those who are taking Jesus to them. **Pray for little Amelia D who will be operated on Tuesday week for a heart defect. Pray for Lynn, Mark and sister Astrid as they grow together as a family. **Pray for Sue's mum as she stays with them. The cancer is back and the prognosis is not good. Pray for all of them as they deal with the situation. **Pray for Serbia, in turmoil after the elections. It seems that the President has lost power. Pray for a new government that will deal fairly with all people within the borders of Serbia. **Keep praying for trouble spots in the world: Israel, East Timor, the Maluku Islands and areas where there have been natural disasters especially India and Bangladesh and the Caribbean. **Thank God for the safe birth of Declan Paul Symes to Juliet and Wayne. He came a little bit earlier than expected but was 7lb 8oz and 50cm long. **Patti thanks you for your prayers for her friend Roger. Continue to pray. We hope to have news soon. HAHAHA CORNER ***Higher Education: More or Less There once was an old man from Esser Whosw knowledge grew lesser and lesser, It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And now he's a college professor. --submitted by Pat Loria ***The tribal wisdom of the Indians, passed on from one generation to the next, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in Modern Business, because of the heavy investment factors to be taken into consideration, often other strategies have to be tried with dead horses, including the following: 1. Buying a stronger whip. 2. Changing riders. 3. Threatening the horse with termination. 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse. 5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses. 6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. 7. Appointing an intervention team to reanimate the dead horse. 8. Creating a training session to increase the rider's load share. 9. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired. 10. Change the form so that it reads: "This horse is not dead." 11. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse. 12. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed. 13. Donate the dead horse to a recognized charity, thereby deducting its full original cost. 14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance. 15. Do a time management study to see if lighter riders would improve productivity. 16. Purchase an after-market product to make dead horses run faster. 17. Declare that a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better. 18. Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses. 19. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for horses. 20. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position. ---submitted by Paul Dugas ***The tough businessman was feeling very ill and went to the doctor. The doc examined him and backed away, saying, "I'm sorry to tell you this, but you have an advanced case of highly infectious rabies. You must have had it for some time. It will almost certainly be fatal." "Could you give me a pen and paper?" said the businessman. "Do you want to write your will?" "No, I want to make a list of all the people I want to bite." --anon. ***TOP 10 SIGNS YOU'RE IN FOR A LONG SUNDAY SERMON 10. There's a case of bottled water beside the pulpit in a cooler. 9. The pews have camper hookups. 8. You overhear the pastor telling the sound man to have a few (dozen!) extra tapes on hand to record today's sermon. 7. The preacher has brought a snack to the pulpit. 6. The preacher breaks for an intermission. 5. The bulletins have pizza delivery menus. 4. When the preacher asks the deacon to bring in his notes, he rolls in a filing cabinet. 3. The choir loft is furnished with La-Z-Boys. 2. Instead of taking off his watch and laying it on the pulpit, the preacher turns up a four-foot hour-glass. AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU'RE IN FOR A LONG SUNDAY SERMON 1. The minister says, "You'll be out in time to watch the super bowl" but it's only July. ---submitted by Pat Croisant =================================== Rocco: Hey, Sue did you know the temperature hit over 40 deg celsius today? Sue: (looking decidedly hot) No, Rocco I didn't notice! Rocco: Oh! She's melting! She's melting. Oh, what a world! Speak to you next week from the land of OZ. Rocco and Sue +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++