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Sunday greetings everyone.

We got to spend some time with our son this past week as he installed some baseboards at Cybersalt World Headquarters. You may remember that back in the fall he also did the flooring upstairs. Grandma Cybersalt and I thought we could do the baseboards ourselves, but we let wisdom prevail and asked him to do it.

He did a really great job! He really won the day in some tricky areas with some precise craftsmanship that I would never have been able to pull off. Susan is thrilled, which means I am doubly happy with the results!

Today's video share is about some workers who have an incredibly hard and dangerous job. It really puts many of life's hardships and trials in perspective - which is always an opportunity for gratefulness. Surviving day to day life is such a hard thing for so many people!
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Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!

~ Pastor Tim

7. His first words to the congregation on Sunday morning are "All right, listen up you heathens..."

6. He falls asleep during his own sermon.

5. He shows up for Sunday service wearing Bermuda Shorts and a Tank Top.

4. Every time his smartphone notifications ding, he shouts, "Why can't they just leave me alone?!"

3. Announces baptismal services will be at the Grand Canyon.

2. You go to his office for counseling and pour your heart out to him and he says, "Sounds like a personal problem to me."

AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOUR PASTOR NEEDS A VACATION

1. For the past two months he has preached the same sermon every Sunday.

When I was a kid I wanted to be older ... this is not what I expected.

"Be a Billionaire!"

and Help

Refugees and

Persecuted Christians

"I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but he turned out to be an optical Aleutian."

"Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair."

- Timothy Keller

An engineer, a psychologist, and a theologian were hunting in the wilderness of northern Canada.

Suddenly, the temperature dropped and a furious snowstorm was upon them. They came across an isolated cabin, far removed from any town. The hunters had heard that the locals in the area were quite hospitable, so they knocked on the door to ask permission to rest.

No one answered their knocks, but they discovered the cabin was unlocked and they entered. It was a simple place ... 2 rooms with a minimum of furniture and household equipment. Nothing was unusual about the cabin except the stove. It was large, pot-bellied, and made of cast-iron. What was strange about it was its location ... it was suspended in midair by wires attached to the ceiling beams.

"Fascinating," said the psychologist. "It is obvious that this lonely trapper, isolated from humanity, has elevated this stove so that he can curl up under it and vicariously experience a return to the womb."

"Nonsense!" replied the engineer. "The man is practicing the laws of thermodynamics. By elevating his stove, he has discovered a way to distribute heat more evenly throughout the cabin."

"With all due respect," interrupted the theologian, "I'm sure that hanging his stove from the ceiling has religious meaning. Fire LIFTED UP has been a religious symbol for centuries."

The three debated the point for several hours without resolving the issue. When the trapper finally returned, they immediately asked him why he had hung his heavy pot-bellied stove from the ceiling.

His answer was succinct. "Had plenty of wire, not much stove pipe."

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.

Rev. James Snyder, God's Penman, writes . . . . 

When it comes to vegetables, I am no connoisseur at all. The only vegetable I really like is carrot cake. According to The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage, that is not a vegetable.

We often discuss vegetables, and she has brought to me a lot of proof that carrot cake is not a vegetable.

"Why then," I argue, "do they use the word carrot when they talk about this particular cake."

She will then stare at me, one of her vicious stares by which I get the message.

The Cybersalt Digest is a ministry of Pastor Tim and Cybersalt.