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Sunday greetings, everyone.

A month tonight will be Christmas Eve, so it's time to kick off the holiday season at Cybersalt World Headquarters. Grandma Cybersalt and I are going to start decorating today and I am looking forward to breaking out all my favorite music for the season. Our Christmas calendar has filled up to the point where we are already saying, "No" to more. It's the only way to avoid getting exhausted and saying at the end of December, "next year we aren't going to get exhausted." We're not going to get exhausted this year!

Today's video share shows the impressive process of making impossibly thin and almost invisible cuts in metal.
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~ Pastor Tim 

The youth group has raised almost $500 for drug abuse.

"Correction: The following typo appeared in our last bulletin: 'Lunch will be gin at 12:15.' Please correct to read '12 noon.' "

Any church member over the age of 18 is invited to participate in this lay ministry program. It requires a minimal amount of training and time. The orientation will include six weekly classes of about 200 hours each Tuesday night.

The Seniors group will have a picnic Saturday. Each person is asked to bring a friend, a vegetable, or dessert in a covered dish. Meat and drinks will be furnished.

The last day of Vacation Bible School will include a field trip to the state game farm. We could use some additional volunteers to help preparing the lunch of sandwiches, potato chips, cheese, crack, and cool aid that morning.

Remember the youth department rummage sale for Summer Camp. We have a Gents three-speed bicycle, also two ladies for sale, in good running order.

When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?"

"Be a Billionaire!"

and Help

Refugees and

Persecuted Christians

Bob: My friend opened a petting zoo with just one bull, but nobody went.

Mike: Why?

Bob: He was charging too much.

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”

- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

The royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool,
Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!"

The jester doffed his cap and bells,
And stood the mocking court before;
They could not see the bitter smile
Behind the painted grin he wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the monarch's silken stool;
His pleading voice arose; "O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!"

"No pity, Lord, could change the heart
From red with wrong to white as wool;
The rod must heal the sin: but, Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!

"'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep
Of Truth and right, O Lord, we stay;
'Tis by our follies that so long
We hold earth from heaven away.

"These clumsy feet, still in the mire,
Go crushing blossoms without end;
These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust
Among the heart-strings of a friend.

"The ill-timed truth we might have kept -
Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung?
The word we had not sense to say -
Who knows how grandly it had rung?

"Our faults no tenderness should ask,
The chastening stripes must cleanse them all;
But for our blunders - oh in shame
Before the eyes of heaven we fall.

"Earth bears no balsam for mistakes;
Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool
That did his will; but Thou, O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!"

The room was hushed; in silence rose
The King, and sought his gardens cool,
And walked apart, and murmured low,
"Be merciful to me, a fool!"

- Edward R. Sill

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

My life has been bombarded with questions from the beginning of the day until I fall asleep at night.

For the most part, I don’t prioritize questions. Usually, when people ask me a question, there is something behind that question. If I don’t see what’s behind the question, I could answer it in such a way as to get myself in trouble—and believe me, I’ve been in trouble many times before.

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