Cybersalt News
Sunday greetings everyone!
One of the pastors that Cybersalt works with overseas emailed the other day, letting me know his wife and their youngest of 3 children have the flu. While he did not say it was COVID-19, she does work as a nurse in a hospital and it is most likely the pandemic has reached their home. Their country is currently #12 in the world for total cases and in 2019 was #5 in persecuting Christians. In fact, in many parts of their country Christian nurses and doctors are being used on the front lines because other staff who belong to the oppressive national religion do not want to catch COVID-19.
As the West continues to struggle with the pandemic, let's also remember to pray for the vulnerable and persecuted people of the world for whom much misery has been added to their already hard lives..
This Sunday's video is a performance of "Baba Yetu" (Our Father). This song has a very interesting history you can read a: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yetu
Rev. James Snyder recently experienced a week where it seemed like everything was "shot to pieces." You can read "It Was A Week That Was Shot To Pieces" at:
www.cybersalt.org/gods-penman/it-was-a-week-that-was-shot-to-pieces
Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!
~ Pastor Tim
Today's CleanLaugh
Needled
At a naval barracks the enlisted men were being given their shots prior to going overseas. One lad, having received his whole series of injections, asked for a glass of water.
"What's the matter, Mate?" asked the sick bay attendant. "Do you feel light-headed?"
"No, just checking to see if I'm still watertight."
Today's One Liner
One-Liner #1495
Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
Today's Clean Pun
Two Hundred Cows
"I have 200 cows."
"Yesterday, you said you had 199 cows."
"That was before I rounded them up."
- Richard Lederer and James Ertner
Today's Quote
Quote #1933
"When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him."
- Elisabeth Elliot
Today's Illustration
Church Health
A new Pastor in a small Oklahoma town spent the first four days making personal visits to each of the members, inviting them to come to his first services.
The following Sabbath the church was all but empty.
Accordingly, the Pastor placed a notice in the local newspapers, stating that, because the church was dead, it was everyone's duty to give it a decent Christian burial.
The funeral would be held the following Sabbath afternoon, the notice said.
Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In front of the pulpit, they saw a closed coffin, smothered in flowers. After the Pastor delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited his congregation to come forward and pay their final respects to their dead church.
Filled with curiosity as to what would represent the corpse of a "dead church," all the people eagerly lined up to look in the coffin. Each "mourner" peeped into the coffin then quickly turned away with a guilty, sheepish look.
In the coffin, tilted at just the right angle was a large mirror.
Featured Illustrations are items well suited for illustrating or inspiring a point in a sermon, speech, or devotional. Funny, moving, or perhaps even graphic, the point of them is the point you make with them.
The Cybersalt Digest is a ministry of Pastor Tim and Cybersalt.