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Are You Friend Or Enemy?
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Aug 13, 2010 12:29 pm
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HIS frineds are my friends.
HIS enemies are my enemies.
Friends of my frineds are my friends.
Friends of my enemies are my enemies.
Enemies of my enemies are my friends.
I can not be friends with everyone, nor can everyone be friends with me.
It all depends on who HIS friends are and who His enemies are.
So, where do we stand?
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Anne Rice Leaves Christians But Not Christ
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Jul 30, 2010 2:53 pm
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Imagine that? This legendary author who converted from atheism to Christianity is now leaving us Christians, but staying with Jesus. In her own words, "It's simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group."
I admit it is difficult at time, sometimes much of the time, to be in Christian groups who are dealing with character faults, conscience problems, etc. We really need good teachers who will explain that Love is the main thing. Sin has been dealt with and we need to let Jesus live in our daily life. Respect is the main thing now, not who is right and who is wrong, as no one is right about everything, and everyone is wrong about something. We have been called to peace. Still we must watch. There are wolves in sheep clothing. Ultimately people show who they are by their behavior in time.
Still I love the Church and will stay.
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Love Is A Gift To Ourself
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Jul 24, 2010 3:39 am
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This thought from a song is a reminder that to love our self, to know our self, it begins with giving our self to other people. This is so counter intuitive. Its not easy to believe that giving away is really a gift to our self. But, it is true. Since we can only experience life, because we don't own life or anything really, its in the event of giving love that we experience it. The more we experience it, the better our life and relationships.
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Quallity Of Life
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Jul 24, 2010 1:41 am
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Jesus said that He came to give us a more abundant life. For Him life is about quality. He means better and better personal relationships. His emphasis is above the physical. He is trying to tell us, and show us I believe, that the high of life is how good are our friendships, and how good a friend we are.
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Married For Better Or Worse?
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Jul 21, 2010 3:34 pm
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So many people, Christian and not, are divorced. We married for better but found it worse. And, then worse got too bad. Why did this happen?
My opinion is before marriage we were proactive. This means we put our best foot forward. After marriage we lowered ourself to being reactive. To be proactive takes some maturity, and work. It is real character development. Its too bad we don't know how to read character in others very well.
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Why We Are Created
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Jul 17, 2010 12:43 pm
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As a human being, I eat, grow, move, reproduce, use my intellect to decide between this and that, and finally reach the why of life. For me this is the freedom to choose to love or not.
I believe that He made a world as a stage for me, a body as a shelter and life experiences to decide if I will choose love or not. This is really the point of life. Will I decide to be an self centered person or altruistic? Will I decide to be like God or like evil?
Proof is in receiving the truth, and that is further amplified by life experiences. Being a proactive person, rather than a reactive person, is a choice. It is a choice between my animal nature and human being nature.
It looks like He went to a great amount of design, time, energy, and resources to create beings with two possibilities before them. This love choice must be the most valuable accomplishment in His eyes. Thinking of Jesus on the cross, every lash of the whip, every agony was a proactive love choice, the greatest by far this world has ever seen. This made Jesus indeed the Master of Love. This is why no one can ever stand before Jesus, unless He invites them to rise and stand.
My trivial experiences like being cut off in traffic, and being disrespected in comparatively small ways, are yet still prized by Him who gave me this life to decide my own destiny as a love choosing person, or a self choosing person. This perspective of life is to me the closest to the truth of it I can see so far.
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The Best Gift You Ever Received?
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Jul 15, 2010 2:59 pm
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Billionaires have everything, but, if not this gift they have nothing. They can buy anything in this world but this prize gift is not in this world and not of this world.
Some will say this priceless gift is Jesus. But, what if we could not believe in Jesus? The power to believe He is what He said of Himself and said by others is most remarkable. This power is what makes the matchless gift of Jesus work for us. He saved us, but what good is that if we don't believe it.
What makes me so sad is to hear brilliant, highly educated, extremely wealthy people say they see no evidence for God. What is so interesting to me is How the gift to believe in Jesus is not based on worldly evidence.
Jesus plainly told Peter that the Holy Spirit made Peter able to see who Jesus was. He said to Peter that this power is not of the world, or flesh and blood. And further, blessed are those who believe and have not seen. Well off are people who can believe without any physical evidence.
I have always believed. I do not know how, but I cherish this now most. This belief is the best coffin in which to be buried. Hope you have this belief and hope you cherish it. It can not be bought, and it can not be manufactured. It can only be recognized and respected. If this gift is not accepted, it is simply taken back. Woe unto those. But, those who take it and keep it is peace and wealth untold. Our story is just beginning.
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His Morning Whispers & Evening Kisses
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Jun 26, 2010 6:45 am
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His special day of reflection and delight, day seven, had always been. It was hard to feel special or that anything was special for one family couple, and their three kids, but they had survived the worst calamity of the world. But, the seventh day had and would always be special, and they could delight in life, the life they still had. God was not mad at them.
Years later, their children's children were slaves to sin and degradation. Still the Lord whispered in their mornings sweet things to them. It would be alright. He was still coming. From slavery and death He would now save them and make them alone in the world, His special called out people. To escape death, mark your doors with sheep blood. Fifty days later at a mountain, He gathered them and spoke His instructions, the family coat of arms, and legend has it that sparks flew from the mountain and rested on each of them. He kept whispering, trust Me. Show me first in your life. Bring me the first of your harvests. Later He said His Son rising again was the meaning of this first fruit gift.
Keep remembering my deliverance from slavery and death, which He whispered now, is the truest meaning in the special meal began by My Son. Again, fifty days after you remember this deliverance, He whispered, I spoke to the world again in many languages, and my Spirit rested as fiery flames on each of my 12 ambassadors. Everyone heard Me through them, and in their own native language.
Whispering again, even now though it is quiet and a rather long time, remember I am still coming. Listen for the sounds of the trumpet as in days of old that announced the beginning of the new year, and the day of cleansing of sin, which you now know was the work of my Son's blood for you. These same trumpets are announcing His coming again. Listen, He said, listen. Hear them?
Just as I lived in the tent in times past with you, and now within you as my temple, He whispered, I will soon enough be again living with you when I return visibly, and then I will no longer whisper, but kiss you, and kiss you, and kiss you. You will be happy then. I promise, He whispered.
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Billionaires Big Smile
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Jun 18, 2010 5:08 am
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Never have I seen Bill Gates and Warren Buffet smiling so big and very happy, relaxed and in the best of humor. It was on TV last night with an interview by Charlie Rose. These Billionaires and others as well have made a pledge of at least half of their fortunes for charity projects. They want to channel their enormous wealth back into society for the benefit of people. They are interested in projects like education, health, and environments, among others.
Now they are off the hook. The Lord holds us accountable for our gifts. Making large sums of money is one of the gifts. These people, in showing extraordinary responsibility, are feeling the results of what Jesus meant when He stated that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Mr. Gates even admitted during the hour long interview that he got as much a thrill giving it away as he did making it. I was happy for them, as the other billionaires who are getting into philanthropy in major ways. In times past Andrew Carnegie built public libraries, and the Rockefeller family foundation has invested in education to remedy the injustices in the South. There are websites now where you can see what is going on and give as well.
During the interview Mr Buffet said he asked each of the seven billionaire couples, a simple question, who met for dinner and discussion of the pledge of half their wealth to join the group. What has been the evolution of your thinking over the years regarding philanthropy? Mr Buffet said the group individuals were so interested in telling their story, that it took three hours for them all to tell their personal account of how their thinking had changed and grown over the years regarding giving their wealth back to society in meaningful ways.
My personal gift is not making this kind of money, nor am I responsible for it. My gift however is spiritual communication, and for that I am responsible. It likewise has been a joy to write posts and do other things that communicate spiritual applications, of today's issues and events that are profoundly affecting our world of people. I am also gifted administratively, and sometimes I get a word of wisdom message for someone. These gifts are a burden and also a liberating experience.
Because of these gifts, I see people in a new way. Each person, especially born again persons, are vessels or living depositories of gifts. I sometimes wonder what is a persons gift. Its easy for me to recognize people who have my gifts, and also persons who have some gifts I do not have such as teaching. People with this teaching gift are in a world of their own. I hope more Christians can unburden themselves and smile the big smile of their gift exercised well done.
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Free Christians..Ha Ha
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Jun 12, 2010 2:23 am
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Christians unencumbered by guilt, by shackles of stressed out religion, by addictions, by self consuming ego trips, but living in the light of truth, and love, and faith, and hope, are free. Jesus was free of it all, and in time frees us to enjoy His freedom with Him.
I am a sabbath keeper, not to be right, but because it is good for me. I am a moon watcher, not because I am a lunatic although some would challenge that, but because God measures time by the moon, not the sun. The beginning of the month, in God's view, is the hint of the crescent moon, the middle of His month is the full moon, the end of His month is the new moon. I am a love shaker. Love rocks the world still, and when truly seen makes all the difference. Love opens doors, heals, and blesses, fills the air and is stronger than hate. Love melts, while hate freezes.
Only the free are born again, and only the born again can be free. As our world spins through space to our ultimate destiny, Christians are the free, can enjoy the ride the most and have the most to expect in the future. Our generous God is not short in sharing His full bounty with His free family.
Those who are free change dark to light, overcome evil with good, bless and not curse. The law shows the seriousness of God, the cross shows His justice, and the resurrection makes free love possible.
The hippies knew something was wrong with the stilted world, and looked for freedom. They looked into flowers, they looked into drugs, and they looked into communal living. Only those who looked to Jesus found it. In some ways, our world is still looking for elusive freedom. We have experienced numerous wars since, gone to apace, made computers whose power doubles every 13 months which means in 10 years the power of computers will be 500 times today. Yet, the siren of freedom sings of something better. Freedom is inside, not outside.
The world is starving for more than food, peace, justice, and health. It is starving for freedom from which all blessings flow.
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