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Sunday greetings, everyone!

Grandma Cybersalt and I had a great time at the www.jdayusa.com conference last week in Austin, Texas, and we super enjoyed the extra days we spent there - including the unexpected add-on day after the airline neglected to tell us they had changed our flight home. We found out when we arrived at the airport after it had left!

The is a new devotional from Pastor Suneel Barkat. I admire Suneel because English is not his first language, but he is really putting an effort into writing (and getting good help from Cybersaltine, Walter M.) This month's article is written in a new style for him and I think he's done a great job. Please keep praying for Pastor Barkat and his family. We are "oh so close" to raising the amount needed to bring them to Canada for church planting ministry.

Today's video share shows a musical instrument I have heard of but have never heard nor seen before. Having now seen it, I must say, "Hurdy-Gurdy" is a very apropos name for it! 
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Enjoy the rest of today's mailing.

~ Pastor Tim 

When the U.S. Mint reissued two-dollar bills, I thought they might someday become collectors' items. I went to the bank and picked up a hundred, serially numbered and still in their original band. On my next trip to my parents' house, I gave the $200 to my mother and said, "Take good care of these. They might be worth something someday."

Just recently, I asked Mom if she was keeping the two-dollar bills safe.

"Oh, yes!" she replied. "I deposited them in the bank the day after you gave them to me."

One day you'll be thankful things didn't work out the way you want them to.

"Be a Billionaire!"

and Help

Refugees and

Persecuted Christians

After a heavy day's digging at the archeological site in Norway, researchers uncovered a priceless statue of the ancient Norse thunder god. He had bulging muscles and imposing stance, and his famous giant hammer. But most important of all, the eyes in his fierce-looking face were made of two giant rubies that glittered with a brilliant red color.

Of course, the two leading archeologists on the dig were both determined that they should be the one to have their name listed on the discovery. Pretty soon, a big argument was underway. The two provided the others with a great source of amusement for the evening. By the time they finally gave up and called a truce, everyone else was feeling quite refreshed by the entertainment.

As the crowd dispersed, one junior digger turned to his friend, and said, "Well, that was a fight for Thor eyes."

"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."

- Will Durant

A pastor had had a bad week. On Sunday he was very frustrated and he began his sermon, "Everyone in this parish is going to hell if they don't change their ways."

One man in the back began to laugh.

So the pastor said it again louder.

The man continued to laugh.

The pastor went back to him and asked him why he was laughing.

He answered, "Because I don't belong to this parish!"

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 . . . . 

Our family's Christmas this year was the best one yet. But, of course, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage says that every year. I completely agree with her this year.

Our great-granddaughter served as the focal point of our Christmas this year. She assumed that position because she was born two weeks before Christmas. What a gift.

Rev. Suneel Barkat writes . . . . 

When we look at the nature of God, we come to know that He is a loving God and always keeps his fellowship with human beings because He created them in His own image. Man has the skill to speak, listen, and time to adopt silence.

What will happen when God is silent in your life?

Today, I want to share my anguish in my experience of God’s silence in my life at various times.

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