• October 4, 2025 - Mills Trade Day, Mills, TX.
• The bus will leave at 8:30am from the GMBC Education entrance. Lunch will be in Mills, Tx, and will return midafternoon.

do you know your hymns?

Dentist's Hymn - Crown Him with Many Crowns

Weatherman's Hymn - There Shall Be Showers of Blessings

Contractor's Hymn - The Church's One Foundation

Tailor's Hymn - Holy, Holy, Holy

Golfer's Hymn - There's a Green Hill Far Away

Politician's Hymn - Standing on the Promises

Optometrist's Hymn - Open My Eyes That I Might See

IRS Agent's Hymn - I Surrender All

Gossip's Hymn - Pass It On

Electrician's Hymn - Send the Light

Shopper's Hymn - Sweet Bye and Bye

Realtor's Hymn - I've Got a Mansion, Just Over the Hilltop

Massage Therapist's Hymn - He Touched Me

And for those who speed on the highway - a few hymns

55 mph - God Will Take Care of You

75 mph - Nearer My God to Thee

85 mph - This World is Not My Home

95 mph - Lord, I'm Coming Home

100 mph - Precious Memories

Faith, Fun, and a few laughs

Give me a sense of humor, Lord, Give me the grace to see a joke, To get some humor out of life, and pass it on to other folks.

Mother of a small boy to her friend:” Well I don’t know whether he feels insecure, but everybody else in the neighborhood does.”

Sending a kid to college is sort of like a do-it-yourself recession

Two movers were struggling with a big crate in a doorway. They pushed and tugged until they were exhausted, but it wouldn’t move. Finally, the man on the outside said, “We’d better give up. We’ll never get this in.” The man on the inside said, "What do you mean get it in? I thought we were trying to get it out?”

Grandma and Grandpa had a busy day with well wishers for their 75th wedding anniversary. Finally they were settled in their recliners, thinking it all over, when Grandpa said, “Mother, I’m proud of you. ”What’s that you say?” she asked. “You know I can’t hear you without my hearing aid.”  “I said, I’m proud of you.” “That’s all right,” she murmured. “I’m tired of you, too.”

A little boy returned home from Sunday School very excited about the story of the Creation. A few days later, he come home from school apparently distressed about something. When his mother asked what was bothering him, he said, “My side hurts. I think I’m going to have a wife.”

Parents should be more concerned about what they leave in their children than what they leave to their children.

At every baseball game there are always a few who can play every single position superbly without ever making a single error. Now, if we can just get them to put down their hot dogs and climb down from the bleachers.

A friend is the first to come in when the whole world goes out.

Turn loose and let God

There are times in our lives when God takes us to places, we had rather not go. It may be a physical place that has brought us pain in the past. It may be a situation that we are uncomfortable in. It may be a physical condition that causes a fear of the unknown. Whatever it is, God is in control and knows the outcome.

Dan 3:7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Dan 3:20 and he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. (KJV)

These three men probably never wanted to be placed in this situation; however they trusted God. They knew that he was powerful enough to bring them through this, and even if he didn’t save them from death. They knew that he would be there to greet them on the other side.

Daniel, a close friend of the three men listed above, faced certain death a bit later for not worshiping the earthly king, but continuing to pray to the God that he knew was Almighty.

Paul faced difficult situations during his ministry, and always trusted God to provide the strength and power to get through.

Are we any different than these mortal men, do we serve a God any less powerful. No, we serve the same God. God is able to deliver us from, or through, any circumstance that he brings us to. He is never going to put us in a position that he can’t get us out of or walk us beyond.

Every place God puts us in was planned out before we were ever born and the problems we face every day, God had worked out the solution to before time began.

Let God have control and “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”

If coal can turn to diamonds, and sand can turn to pearls, if a worm can turn into a butterfly, then love can turn the world.



James Lively

computers

1. When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
2. When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it’s probably obsolete.
3. The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you least expect to find it.
4. When the going gets tough, upgrade.
5. For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
6. To err is human… to blame your computer for your mistakes is even more human, it is downright natural.
7. He who laughs last probably made a back-up.
8. If at first you do not succeed, blame your computer.
9. A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
10. The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
11. A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want it to do.