Lotto Texas Lottery Pool - Game Eleven - 8th Update

Lotto Texas Lottery Pool - Game Eleven

Date: 02/07/2008

To: Juanita L. Brown, Jared N. Moore, Libra/Goat (Anonymous), Mac Almond, Anthony W. Bolton, Gerald R. Snow, Linda L. Roberts, Tambra L. Crow, Charles W. Rutherford, Aaron Montgomery, Kevin S. Redelsperger, Johnnine M. Dodson, Sheila J. McGriff, Cindy F. Fernanez and Michael E. Porter

Membership List: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddn3r8c7_116g9tbczg2

From: Michael E. Porter

RE: 8^th Newsletter

This week's promise: God will conquer death

What is real?

"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” - 1 Corinthians 15:55 NLT

Redemptive Reality

"Roberto Benigni, who wrote, directed, and starred in Life is Beautiful, is a comic genius who has been called the Italian Charlie Chaplin. But the subject of his 1997 film, the Holocaust, is anything but funny.

Benigni's character, a sad-sack waiter named Guido, courts the affections of a local schoolteacher and through various hilarious adventures wins her heart. They marry and have a son.

Then things take a dark turn: Father and son, who are Jewish, are sent to a concentration camp. To shield his son from the horrors they're going through, Guido concocts a wild story, telling the boy that the whole experience is really just an elaborate game.

How did Benigni dare to use humor in a film about a great moral evil? He did it by expressing the Christian idea that there's more to life than what we see. In the scene in which the father is being led away to be killed, he spots his son and makes a funny face. The message is that there is something that triumphs over even death, some transcendent reality that, even in this ultimate moment of gravity, enables Guido to make his son laugh.

Most of our cultural leaders operate from a purely naturalistic perspective, but Scripture teaches that there are eternal things. Life is Beautiful is not the gospel story, but it does point to the gospel because it's about how God's redemptive reality trumps the very worst this world has to offer.

adapted from How Now Shall We Live? Devotional by Charles Colson (Tyndale) pp 581-82 "

Content is derived from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale Publishing House

Mac’s spreadsheet for Lotto Texas Lottery Pool – Game Eleven:

http://tinyurl.com/29pjok

I am bummed we didn’t even win $2.00 in the nine draws we have played.

We are down to only one more drawing. Our last drawing is on Saturday, February 9th, 2008.

The Jack Pot is worth $22 Million. The Cash Option is set at $14,000,000.00. I was able to sell 16 shares in this game. Here is what you could win, before any attorney fee’s, taxes or tithes:

Shares Purchased	Amount you could win.
.5	$ 437,500.00
1	$ 875,000.00
2.5	$ 2,187,500.00

Well guys Saturday is our last drawing. I have sold 11 shares in Lotto Texas – Game Twelve. This game had 16 shares sold in it. I have four people who have NOT paid for this next game.

Unless, I can find 4 people who are willing to play in this game, I will be buying new numbers for this next game. We have played this numbers for almost 20 draws, and I was hoping to play them again in this next game.

You only have until Saturday to get into this game.

Game Announcements

1. Lotto Texas Lottery Pool – Game Twelve – Cost is $10.00 per share. This game starts on Wednesday February 13^th, 2008. You need to have your money to me Saturday February 9^th, 2008.

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2. Mega Millions Lottery Pool – Game 40 – Cost is $10.00 per share. This game starts on Tuesday February 19^th, 2008. You need to have your money to me Saturday February 16^th, 2008.

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The Sin

Two elderly, excited Southern women were sitting together in the front pew of church listening to a fiery preacher.

When this preacher condemned the sin of stealing, these two ladies cried out at the tops of their lungs, "AMEN, BROTHER!

"When the preacher condemned the sin of lust, they yelled again, "PREACH IT, REVEREND!"

And when the preacher condemned the sin of lying, they jumped to their feet and screamed, "RIGHT ON, BROTHER! TELL IT LIKE IT IS... AMEN!"

But when the preacher condemned the sin of gossip, the two got very quiet. One turned to the other and said, "He's quit preaching and now he's meddlin'."