Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Fun, Fatherhood, Family, Friends, Fitness, Finance and Faith July 2013




Fun: Fun is the prefix of fundamental. When is the last time you had a fall off the chair laugh by yourself? Laugh…it’s good for your health…There is comfort in laughing at yourself

Dad, what are you playing with your child? Immaturity is not encouraged but fun is. Spend some time in their world to build trust and relationship, not to revert or retrogress to childishness. You’d be the surprised the lessons in maturity that can be taught and received while playing a video game or board game or catch…

Funny Sermon by Christian Comedian John Gray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haJYtIsKyjY

  1. The first book of the Bible is Guinness's.  In the book of Guinness Adam and Eve were created from an apple.
    (Hmm could they mean Genesis?)
  2. Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. Noah's wife was Joan of the Ark. Noah built the ark and the animals came on in pears.
  3. Moses went to the top of Mount Cyanide to get the 10 Commandments.
  4. The first commandment was when Eve told Adam to eat the apple.
  5. The seventh commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery.
  6. Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day and a ball of fire by night.
  7. Samson slayed the Philistines with the axe of the apostles.
  8. The greatest miracle in the bible is when Joshua told his son to stand still and he actually obeyed him.
  9. Unleavened bread is bread made with no ingredients.
  10. A Christian should have only one wife. This is called monotony.
  11. Joshua led the Hebrews in the battle of Geritol.
  12. Solomon had 100 wives and 700 porcupines.
  13. The epistles were the wives of the apostles.
  14. When Mary heard she was the mother of Jesus, she sang the Magna Carta.
  15. When the three wise guys from the east side arrived they found Jesus sacked in the manager.
  16. The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 decibels.
  17. St. Paul cavorted to Christianity. He preached holy acrimony, which is another name for marriage.


Fatherhood:
Here is an awesome collection of reunions of military men and their families:

Family: My brother in CHRIST has an awesome thing going on Facebook. He created a group for his whole family to connect together. There are many good uses for technology to enhance the family experience. A technological reunion could be the basis for a face to face reunion in the future. Go ahead and start your private family page…any opportunity to connect and love on family is good, no matter the medium

Here are some things you may want to know about Facebook groups:

Friends: One of the best ways for a dad to model friendship to his children is to allow your children to see you interact with your friends, hear you speaking highly of, lifting up, strengthening the integrity of, looking beyond the faults of and sharing with your friends

Friendship Quotes:
 “Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”  - C. S. Lewis

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”  - Bob Marley

Fitness:
One of our most vital organs is our liver. Our livers work as an infiltration system that help us remove toxins from our blood stream and helps in the processing of food. We need to take care of them as environment and diet tend to weaken our overworked livers…

Here is are some tips on keeping our liver healthy:

Finance:
A great book to read with or play the audio for your children to help the understand how money works, along with the Bible, is Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad

This book is a quick easy read and is eye opening…

Faith

Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
(Mark 1:16-18)


Our ordered steps are relationships. Once captured by CHRIST, we are called to be captivating through the good news, so captives are captured unto freedom. To be caught by CHRIST is to be set free - Brother Jeremy A. Maynard