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Las Vegas Churches accept gambling chips
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Jul 18, 2010 11:59 am
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THIS MAY COME AS A SURPRISE TO THOSE OF YOU NOT LIVING IN
LAS VEGAS , BUT THERE ARE MORE CATHOLIC CHURCHES THAN CASINOS.
NOT SURPRISINGLY, SOME WORSHIPERS AT SUNDAY SERVICES WILL GIVE CASINO CHIPS RATHER THAN CASH WHEN THE BASKET IS PASSED.
SINCE THEY GET CHIPS FROM MANY DIFFERENT CASINOS, THE CHURCHES HAVE DEVISED A METHOD TO COLLECT THE OFFERINGS.
THE CHURCHES SEND ALL THEIR COLLECTED CHIPS TO A NEARBY FRANCISCAN MONASTERY FOR SORTING AND THEN THE CHIPS ARE TAKEN TO THE CASINOS OF ORIGIN AND CASHED IN. AND WHO DOES THIS SORTING YOU ASK ...
...THIS IS DONE BY THE CHIP MONKS.
YOU DIDN'T EVEN SEE IT COMING DID YOU?
GOTCHA! 
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Being motivated by what we ought to do rather than what we ought not to do.
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Jul 9, 2010 9:36 am
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James 4:17
"Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then do it not".
Our attitude should be not to sin, therefore next time we say, "I ought to have ... helped the neighbors out, spent more time with the kids/spouse, worked harder on finishing what I started... ", we just may find ourselves more motivated to do the right thing.
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Going Outside the Camp
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Jul 7, 2010 8:47 am
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Modern self-help authors might call this 'going out side your comfort zone'. Its a place where you leave familiar surroundings and venture to places, while maybe uncomfortable for awhile, brings new opportunities.
In Hebrews 13, going outside the camp meant leaving Judaism - with all its rituals and rules behind, and also making sacrifices from the old ways to the new ways - things that have become comfortable to the uncomfortable. While the context of Hebrews 13:10-14 is that Jesus set the example of going outside the camp and making the ultimate sacrifice, we can take this concept into our every day lives.
We become use to our life that has made us comfortable, whether it be a job, friends or where we live. But sooner or later circumstances in our comfort zone, the "Judaism" of Hebrews 13 will make it necessary for us to move outside the camp, and start a new life that were not use to.
The success of that adventure was prescribed to the early Christians, v.13-21, "So let us go out to him outside the camp ... Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep by an everlasting covenant, signed by his blood. To him be the glory forever".
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July 3rd, 1863, one day before Independence Day
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Jul 3, 2010 11:21 am
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At 1 pm July 3rd started a 2 hour Confederate bombardment on the outskirts of a small Pennsylvania town. It would be fallowed by a nearlly 14.000 man Confederate attack across a mile of open field to heavily armed Union held position. By the end of the day the combine casualties of both sides of the 3 day battle would be some 51.000 men.
At least 618,000 Americans died in the American Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.
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Santa's delivery of presents, they say, have been delayed ......
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Dec 25, 2009 6:55 am
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After Santa returned from a well deserved break, from delivering great gifts to all the great kids. He walked back to the sleigh, and what did he see, but a missing rain deer -- oh where, oh where could he be?
He looked at the others one by one, but he knew no answers would ever be found. He knew they were hiding something deep down, but what could it ever be?
He did a shout out ... Oh Dasher, Oh Dasher where can you be?
We all know the story how Santa delivered his presents that Christmas eve night , but where oh where did that rain deer slip off for just a little bit that Christmas eve night?
With smiles on their faces, the rain deer all knew ... and now all of you know too.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
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Jesus w/o Religion
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Oct 18, 2009 8:42 am
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Religion is something we can do that gives us a sense we are doing something that pleases God so to assure our entrance into heaven.
Jesus came to free humanity from religion of its false gods and false idols. He wasn't just a founder of a "new" religion called, Christianity.
As the disciples were passing through a corn field on the Sabbath they stopped picked and ate. The Pharisees, took it upon themselves to interpret what could be done and not done on the Sabbath, questioned Jesus why his disciples were breaking the Sabbath. Jesus reminded them how David entered the House of God and ate what was unlawful. If God didn't get angry with David, why would he angry with his disciples? (Mark 2:23-26)
When Jesus went to do good on the Sabbath, healing a man, the Pharisees once again complained. They would of rather seen the man go unhealed than to break the Sabbath. (Mark 3:1-6)
Jesus didn't get angry with the woman at the well. He didn't get angry with the women caught in adultery, or the soldiers who nailed him to the cross, or even Levi, the tax collector, but he did get angry with the Pharisees who were deeply embedded into RELIGION.
(notes from Ken Armstrong, pastor from Medford,OR.)
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Your Favorite National Park
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Oct 3, 2009 4:55 pm
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Have you been watching Ken Burns series on the National Parks?
I have been blessed, I feel, to have been to most of them in the west, except in Alaska. Its hard to say which one is my favorite. Two of my favorites are Yellowstone and Zion.
While watching the series, I was surprised to hear how many people described it as a spiritual experience. Where do you feel the presence of God the most, at church, praying? There is something about standing at awe, breathless at the foot of a mountain range with a roaring river winding through. Or a canyon painted with brilliant colors. Huge monuments, unmade and unspoiled by human hands, testify to a creator who can bring them into existence by simply his spoken word.
Have you ever wondered, with all the wonderful things we see here, how wonderful will be the things to come?
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Yom Kippur -- The Day of Atonement -- An annual Sabbath
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Sep 28, 2009 1:42 pm
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Today is Yom Kippur. One of the most holiest day of the year for Jews. It is a day of fasting and it is also an annual Sabbath day.
Leviticus 23: 31-32
"You must not do any work at all! This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live. This will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and on that day you must deny yourselves"
A question for those of you who keep the weekly sabbath, as I once did. If you keep the weekly sabbath by commandment, do you also keep the annual sabbath? Note above -- This is a permanent law...
The command says its permanent. If the weekly sabbath is permanent shouldn't the annual sabbath days be permanent as well and kept?
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