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I'm currently reading a book about a couple of insects who fall in love in an Italian city.

It's a Rome ants novel.

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Oh look, Chicken Thursday - 12d260!

Last Sunday's news did not appear due to another error between my seat and my keyboard. So here it what I meant to report - still news, but just a few days staler.

The brake warning light has been on in my truck for many months and for some reason I simply assumed it was a sensor in my emergency brake pedal once released. However, the other day I realized it was more than that when I drove to the end of my driveway, stepped on the brake pedal and thought "this might get exciting" as the pedal went almost to the floor. I did manage to stop before entering the road. I then checked the brake fluid reservoir and found it empty. After filling it up, the brake warning light went out and I sheepishly realized that would have been an easy fix months ago. Now I just have to get the air out of my brake lines: Gilligan!

Today's video share is a look at how AI is helping medical specialists deal with the rate of the doubling of medical knowledge. In 1950, that rate was every 50 years. In 2025, it is every 73 days!
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Enjoy the rest of today's Digest. 

~ Pastor Tim 

Hi. This is John: If you are the phone company, I already sent the money. If you are my parents, please send money. If you are my Financial aid institution, you didn't lend me enough money. If you are my friends, you owe me money. If you are a female, don't worry I have plenty of money.

Hi. John's answering machine is broken. This is the refrigerator. Please speak very slowly, and I'll stick your message to myself with one of these magnets.

Hello, you are talking to a machine. I am capable of receiving messages. My owners do not need siding, windows, or a hot tub, and their carpets are clean. They give to charity through their office and do not need their picture taken. If you're still with me, leave your name and number and they will get back to you.

This is not an answering machine this is a telepathic thought recording device. After the tone, think about your name, your reason for calling and a number where I can reach you, and I'll think about returning your call.

Hi. I am probably home. I'm just avoiding someone I don't like. Leave me a message, and if I don't call back, it's you.

Hi, this is George. I'm sorry I can't answer the phone right now. Leave a message, and then wait by your phone until I call you back.

If you are a burglar, then we're probably home cleaning our weapons right now and can't come to the phone. Otherwise, we probably aren't home and it's safe to leave a message.

Please leave a message. However, you have the right to remain silent. Everything you say will be recorded and will be used by us.

Been renovating my place ... and when I knocked down a wall, I found a secret, fully furnished room!! Then I remembered ... we live in a duplex.

Smaller babies may be delivered by stork, but the heavier ones need a crane.

"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody."

- Mark Twain

We yell for the Government to balance the budget, then take the last dime we have to make the down payment on a car that will take 5 years to pay off.

We demand speed laws that will stop fast driving, then won't buy a car if it can't go over 100 miles an hour.

We know the line-up of every baseball team in the American and National Leagues but mumble through half the words our national anthems.

We'll spend half a day looking for vitamin pills to make us live longer, then drive 90 miles an hour on slick pavement to make up for lost time.

We tie up our dog while letting our sixteen year old son run wild.

We will work hard on a farm so we can move into town where we can make more money so we can move back to the farm.

We get upset we're spending over a billion dollars for education, but spend three billion dollars a year for cigarettes.

In the office we talk about baseball, shopping or fishing, but when we are out at the game, the mall or on the lake, we talk about business.

We're supposed to be the most civilized Christian place on earth, but we still can't deliver payrolls without an armored car.

We have more experts on marriage than any other country in the world and still have more divorces.

We have more food to eat than anywhere in the world and more diets to keep us from eating it.

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.

Susan Page writes . . . . 

Have you ever experienced a time when challenges and trials caused a deep restlessness within your soul? When we wrestle with unanswered prayers or dreams that have become nightmares, we often increase the pace of our activities to avoid the pain and doubt.

An activity that both inspires and calms me is reading inspirational biographies of people who have faced their own dark nights of the soul.

One such biography is The God I Love by Joni Eareckson Tada.

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

Mitchell, a kindergartener, practiced spelling with magnetic letters on the refrigerator: "cat," "dog," "dad," and "mom" had been proudly displayed for all to see.

One morning while getting ready for the day, Mitchell bounded into the room with his arms outstretched.  In his hands were three magnetic letters: G-O-D. 

"Look what I spelled, Mom!" Mitch exclaimed, a proud smile on his face.

"That's wonderful!" she said.  "Now go put them on the fridge so Dad can see when he gets home tonight." That Christian education is certainly having an impact, she thought, happily.

Just then, a little voice called from the kitchen.

"Mom? How do you spell 'zilla?'"

Hi. This is John: If you are the phone company, I already sent the money. If you are my parents, please send money. If you are my Financial aid institution, you didn't lend me enough money. If you are my friends, you owe me money. If you are a female, don't worry I have plenty of money.

Hi. John's answering machine is broken. This is the refrigerator. Please speak very slowly, and I'll stick your message to myself with one of these magnets.