Included on this page are the thoughts for calendar year 1996 only. I used the image above (I created it myself with Windows' Paintbrush/Paint) for the cover of each week's leaflet, which was printed on a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" sheet of paper using the landscape orientation and folded in half. Where you find gaps in the dates below, I missed preparing a leaflet for those weeks.
Word of the Week
for 15-21 December 1996
"Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work."
2 Corinthians 9:7, 8
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 15-21 December 1996
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
Word of the Week
for 8-14 December 1996
"Simply let your "Yes" be "Yes," and your "No," "No"; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
Matthew 5:37
(New International Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 8-14 December 1996
"If you always tell the truth, you don't have to remember what you say."
Unknown
Word of the Week
for 2-7 December 1996
"Avoid profane chatter, for it will lead people into more and more impiety, and their talk will spread like gangrene."
2 Timothy 2:16, 17a
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 2-7 December 1996
"The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretefore little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men [and women of today's Army] will reflect, that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly. Added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it."
From a General Order issued by General George Washington in New York, July 1776.
Word of the Week
for 24 November - 1 December 1996
"...give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."
1 Thessalonians 5:18
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 24 November - 1 December 1996
"For the Christian, thanksgiving is not just a day but a way of life."
From Our Daily Bread, 27 November 1996, published by Radio Bible Class Ministries
Word of the Week
for 17-23 November 1996
"...for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline."
1 Timothy 1:7
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 17-23 November 1996
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Word of the Week
for 10-16 November 1996
"Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.... Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.... Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
Ephesians 5:21, 22, 25, & 6:1
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 10-16 November 1996
"The only way to stress family values is to be a family of values."
H. B. London (Staff Member of Focus on the Family)
Word of the Week
for 3-9 November 1996
"...The Lord is with you, while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you."
2 Chronicles 15:2c
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 3-9 November 1996
"Do not ask whether God is on our side, but ask whether we are on God's side."
Ronald Reagan (Quoted from Abraham Lincoln)
Word of the Week
for 27 October - 2 November 1996
"Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!"
Isaiah 30:18
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 27 October - 2 November 1996
"Patience is a virtue that carries a lot of wait!"
(Taken from Our Daily Bread, 23 October 1996, published by Radio Bible Class Ministries)
Word of the Week
for 20-26 October 1996
"Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor."
Ephesians 4:25
(New King James Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 20-26 October 1996
"The ability to lie is a liability."
(Taken from Our Daily Bread, 21 October 1996, published by Radio Bible Class Ministries)
Word of the Week
for 29 September - 5 October 1996
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved by him, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly explaining the word of truth."
2 Timothy 2:15
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 29 September - 5 October 1996
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend six hours sharpening my axe."
Abraham Lincoln
Word of the Week
for 22-28 September 1996
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
Proverbs 3:5, 6
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)
Quote of the Week
for 22-28 September 1996
"The insight of men and women is short-sighted to God."
Chaplain (CPT) Michael L. White