ENTOURAGES MANTLE Weekly Newsletter from Barbara's Entourage by Barbara Sanders Volume 2 Issue No. 29 - July 21, 2001 Like This Internet Resource? Click to Recommend-It (r) Please rate this Ezine at the Cumuli Ezine Finder. AOL Users Click Here NOTE: Entourages Mantle is being changed from Listbot.com, due to their shutting that site down in August. However, this will not stop you from receiving all copies of the newsletter. Disregard any email you may receive saying you have been removed from this mailing. Thanks! **You are free to pass along a copy of Entourage Mantle to your friends. <((< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< TOP OF THE MANTLE Hello from Barbara's Entourage This past week, I've had such encouraging notes from wonderful people receiving this newsletter. Some of you have been encouraged to go on. Others can identify with how hard it is to get out a newsletter on time, with all the things that come up in our lives. And, then, another sweet lady wrote me immediately and told me that something in the newsletter was an answer to pray! God is diversified, folks! He knows, even when we don't, what we need and when we need it. It may seem to come at the wrong time for us, but, listen! God is never early, and He is never late - He is always ON TIME! So, when you are impressed to write in a guestbook or send a note about something you've received in your email, do so immediately. You never know the impression you will make with that someone, or the blessings it will bring to both you and the receiver. God has a plan for each of our lives, and part of it includes being an encourager. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Annie's "Email Encourager Welcome" page <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< SCRIPTURE MANTLE... Devotionals at Barbara's Entourage this week! Master's Table Weekly Devotional Knowing And Doing Weekly Archives Devotions can be found at Master Archives. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Miss a day of Daily Dose this week? Daily Dose of God's Word July 16-20, 2001 Playing 'The Numbers' Game Adultery In God's Eyes He Feels Our Pain Hard of Hearing? At The End of Your Rope? Visit Daily Dose archives to read past devotions at Barbara's Entourage. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* SPECIAL FEATURE DEVOTIONAL Words That Work <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< CHURCH Newspaper Clippings The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict. <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< WEEKLY MANTLE... Featured links found in the many pages of Barbara's Entourage! FAMILY - Family-related links, Family Values <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< QUOTE OF THE WEEK Again, "The difference between predestination and free will is: predestination is the hand we were dealt ... free will is what we do with that hand." Daily Encounter by Dick Innes ACTS International Subscribe/Unsubscribe or change address <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< TRAVELING MANTLE... Christian friends sharing their faith on the Net! Perkins Family Homepage Lots of information at the Perkins, including online bible study for children, Christian resources, and homeschooling information. Also enjoy holidays with the Perkins', from a Christian perspective. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* All About Families This is an online newsletter, to which you can subscribe. Read the current and back issues of the newsletter online. You will find articles pertaining to the family from a Biblical perspective. <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< WEEKLY RECIPES From Around The Web Zucchini Bread · 2 cups shredded raw zucchini · 3 eggs · 1 3/4 cups sugar · 1 cup vegetable oil · 2 cups flour · 1/4 teaspoon baking powder · 2 teaspoons baking soda · 2 teaspoons cinnamon · 1 teaspoon salt · 2 teaspoons vanilla · 1 cup chopped walnuts Put zucchini in strainer and press or squeeze with hands to get excess liquid out. Beat eggs, sugar, and oil together. Add flour, baking powder, soda, cinnamon, salt, vanilla, and walnuts. Mix together by hand. Add drained zucchini. Mix well. Pour into 2 greased and floured loaf pans. Bake 1 hour at 350° F. From Southern US Cuisine <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< "May God give us faith to fully trust His Word though everything else witness the other way." --C.H.P Streams In The Desert <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< 'THIS AND THAT' ... Joy, Humor, and Faith on the net! Monday - Wash Day Lord, help me to wash away all my selfishness and vanity, so I may serve you with perfect humility through the week ahead. Tuesday - Ironing Day Dear Lord, help me to iron out all the wrinkles of prejudice I have collected through the years so that I may see the beauty in others. Wednesday - Mending Day O God, help me to mend my ways so I will not set bad example for others. Thursday - Cleaning Day Lord Jesus, help me to dust out all the many faults I have been hiding in the secret corners of my heart. Friday - Shopping Day O God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase eternal happiness for myself and all others in need of love. Saturday - Cooking Day Help me, my Savior, to brew a big kettle of brotherly love and serve it with clean, sweet bread of human kindness. Sunday - The Lord's Day O God, I have prepared my house for you. Please come into my heart as my honored guest so I may spend the day and the rest of my life in your presence. Received in email - Author unknown. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* A Pumpkin A lady had recently been baptized. One of her co-workers asked her what it was like to be a Christian. She was caught off guard and didn't know how to answer, but when she looked up she saw a jack-o'-lantern on the desk and answered: "It's like being a pumpkin." The worker asked her to explain that one. "Well, God picks you from the patch and brings you in and washes off all the dirt on the outside that you got from being around all the other pumpkins. Then he cuts off the top and takes all the yucky stuff out from inside. He removes all those seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc., Then he carves you a new smiling face and puts his light inside of you to shine for all to see. It is our choice to either stay outside and rot on the vine or come inside and be something new and bright." Author Unknown - circulating in Email <((< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< SNIPPET FROM THE MANTLE A word or two from... Christianity Today For evangelicals there are generally two equal and opposite errors made regarding God's Big Ten: We either emphasize them with fundamentalist zeal to the exclusion of grace, or we use Jesus' New Covenant as an escape clause for not having to deal with them at all. Neither approach is a good idea. Read the rest of Edward Gilbreath's review of 'Written Upon The Heart: The Ten Commandments for Todays Christian by Anthony J. Tomasino <((< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< "GOLD DUST" ON THE MANTLE JESUS Hast thou no favors to ask of Me? Give Me, if thou wilt, a list of all thy desires, all the wants of thy soul. Tell Me, simply, of all thy pride, sensuality, self-love, sloth; and ask for My help in thy struggles to overcome them. Poor child! be not abashed; many that had the same faults to contend against are now saints in heaven. They cried to Me for help, and by degrees they conquered. Do not hesitate to ask for temporal blessings,--health,intellect,success. I can bestow them, and never fail to do so, where they tend to make the soul more holy. What wouldst thou this day, My child? . . . If thou didst but know how I long to bless thee! . . . By Charlotte M. Yonge - 1880 <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< ULTIMATE! That's a Roundup from Barbara's Entourage for this week. "Head knowledge makes you smart; heart knowledge makes you HIS!" *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* HIS ENCOURAGING WORD... Psalms 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. <((< -- <((< -- <(< -- <((< -- <((< -- <((< ENTOURAGES MANTLE is a weekly newsletter published by Barbara Sanders and webmaster of Barbara's Entourage , "my humble abode". Permission is given to copy or forward this newsletter, in whole or in part, with the following copyright and subscription lines: "Entourages Mantle" is online at: http://www.entourages.com/barbs/emnewsletter.htm To subscribe by email, mailto:Subscribe_EntouragesMantle To unsubscribe by email, mailto:Unsubscribe_EntouragesMantle Newsletter 2001 ARCHIVES At the moment, all archives can be found at Listbot.com. But, as of August 20, 2001, this will all be removed, and the 2001 archives will be on my site. I may put up the 2000 archives at a later date. NOTE: Entourages Mantle is sent out as a complimentary issue to those featured in each newsletter. IF you signed up for the newsletter, and you aren't receiving it, try signing up again. Your email address is probably wrong. I have one person signed up that gets bounced back as person unknown at that address. Copyright ©2001 by Barbara Sanders, Alabama. All rights reserved.