God created the endless stars in the sky. God created the world and all it's wonders. God created you. God became human and suffered excruciating pain and death for *your* sins. If this Person is not worthy of your worship, who or what possibly could be worthy?

Money:
If you work hard, you will have money.

Wisdom:
Get wisdom above any other possession.
Store up wisdom and knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Love:
Love makes things go smoothly.
He who loves wisdom loves his own soul.
He who loves his wife loves himself.

Your Words:
Your words have the power of life and death.
Don't tell all you know.
Speak with grace, good manners and wisdom.
Guard your mouth and save your life.
Don't argue with fools.
Wise words spoken at the right time are beautiful.
Gentle words can be unbelievably powerful.
Rebuke your friend.

Your Friends:
Choose your friends wisely--they can help or destroy your life.
Have wise people as friends.

Miscellaneous:
Humility gets you much further than pride.
Trust in God over yourself.
Happy is the man who is always reverent.
Humility brings honor.

Women:
A *good* woman is worth more than a truckload of gold bricks.
Living with a contentious woman is somewhat like living in Hell while yet on Earth.
Getting involved with an unfaithful woman will drag your soul into Hell.
You are blessed if you can SAFELY trust your wife.
A good woman is a long-lasting treasure.

Your Brain. The nerve cells that your brain is made of. Are they "you"? How can a piece of physical material be "conscious"? Do you believe that your ~conscious self-aware *non-material* thoughts~ are carried by *physical* nerves? If a surgeon cut your brain open, he could find the nerve cells of your brain, but could he find, (even if he used an electron microscope), could he find *and watch* that memory of yours of that time down by the lake?) No? Why not? Answer: Because your thoughts are ~not physical~, and you, (not your body) in essence, are not physical, either. You are a soul, with a spirit. The ghost in the machine. That's you. By the way, this why atheism (which presupposes by faith "naturalism," a purely physical universe), *cannot* be true. Thought content is NOT physical, or we would be able to see memories through a cable hooked up from brain cells to a TV screen, like in the movie MINORITY REPORT. But that is *impossible*, now and forever. The inside content of your thoughts cannot be looked at by external physical means, because they are NOT physical. Only *you* can watch your thoughts, from the inside. There is more than just the physical and material in our world.

"The Secret" is a small, vastly overpriced $24.00 hardcover book by Rhonda Byrnes and many other New Age and human potential movement authors that says, basically, and over and over, "your thoughts and beliefs have the power to change your life."

Solomon said this thousands of years ago: "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."

And, also quoted prominently in this book are the words of Jesus:

"And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

The problem with the book is that it neglects to tell you that the prayer must be in Jesus' Name, and as such can only be prayed by believers in Him.

God always was there first, on whatever grand insight unbelieving people think they have discovered.

If you were going to buy this book, please consider, instead, sending the $24.00 to a worthy biblical and grace-filled Christian ministry like Chuck Swindoll's "Insight for Living" radio broadcast.

THE SIMPSONS show last night had a sketch that blatantly mocked Jesus Christ.

Homer went to a fortune teller who put a curse on him. When he was trying to figure out how to get back at the fortune teller so she would remove the curse, the options included a fairy, a leprechaun, and Jesus. Jesus was discarded in favor of the leprechaun.

In other words, the writers were saying that Jesus is just as ridiculous of an idea as an imaginary figure like a fairy or a leprechaun. How funny--NOT. This is blasphemy against God.

Today, this kind of thing hardly gets noticed by most viewers. The network should be notified that individual shows whose point of view sides with blaspheming cartoon characters will not be tolerated by the American audience, over 85% of which claims to be "Christian" in national polls.