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Tell Me A Story, Please!
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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 I was eavesdropping on the other passengers’ conversation as we waited for more passengers to fill that small jitney at Market-Market Mall at around 10 o’clock PM giving me a glimpse of their lives. It’s no big deal, however, for these are no private but only casual conversations of salesperson’s experiences of the day; besides, there are no other things to catch my attention.
We love stories like Peter Pan, Cinderella, Snow White, and more. We love watching good movies and in every good movie is a good story.
Have you read the latest adventure of Harry Potter or the best-selling novel The DaVinci Code?
These stories entertain and even give us their own brand of reality.
(Could it be that a person’s search for meaning leads him to search even on novels? What if novels tell the truth, you know? Could it be that our search for truth leads us to search anywhere just to find it?)
I know of another story – the story of Jesus. It is the never ending story for after reading about the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ, you are now faced with the decision of either receiving a brand-new life or continuing in your unredeemed old life leading to death.
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Holy! Holy! Holy! (…holy?)
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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| Holy Cow! Can we just go back to basics now?
What does holy mean?
To be holy means to be perfect or nearly perfect, right? It means piety, righteousness, uprightness. It means not sinning.
Actually, that is not accurate.
To be holy means to be separate!
Separate from what?
Let's consider a soldier and a boxer for a moment. They are trained to be good at their field by adhering to a rigorous set of discipline. A soldier doesn't behave like an ordinary citizen. His hair is kept short that when battle comes, he will not bother combing his hair before taking up his gun. In the same light, a boxer is physically trained for fights and doesn't smoke cigarettes or take intoxicating drinks.
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Prayer Remembers the Truth
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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| Prayer is what you do when you’re done struggling.
When you hear the word "prayer," you may have memories of being bored to sleep as you squirmed next to your parents in church. Or maybe you have images of pleading with a deity to grant your wishes while you wring your hands. Do you call it prayer when you stay up all night obsessing over your finances or the safety of a loved one?
None of these activities are prayer: These are all symptoms of wrestling with problems. Prayer is what you do when you’re done struggling with a problem, and you’re ready to call forth its solution. As Eric Butterworth says again and again in his book, The Universe is Calling, prayer is not about trying to get God to do something to you or give something to you. It’s about allowing God to do something through you.
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Release Him And He Can Release To You!
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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| A good father wants to provide for his children. He wants to insure that they are prosperous and their needs are met. This is what God wants to do for you and me. He wants to provide an over abundance the same way as your father here on earth should be providing for you, but at a higher level. God wants us to be happy, blessed and filled with his spirit and love. This is a spirit of peace and love for one another, but sometimes we have shackles or restraints on him that hinders and prevent him from blessing us. An example of this could be if you had fallen off on the edge of a cliff, but you were still hanging on waiting for help.
Let’s say the person that wants to help you had a rope and other tools needed to help you from your fall that would result in you getting seriously hurt or dying. But, the person has shackles on their feet, which slows or prevent their movement. They also have handcuffs on their hands which limits them from hoisting a rope to you. Now take a moment and visualize yourself on this cliff hanging on for your life. Now then, imagine that person with those shackles and handcuffs on them. Do you think this person could help you in your predicament? Surely not, nor can God. You have just put the same restraints on God when you do not believe him or lean on his word when you are in trouble, and please note we should be studying and leaning on his word before trouble comes. This way we know we are covered by his word. Learn to remove those shackles and handcuffs so that God can help you from your potential falls in life.
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Amazing Faith
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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| Several months ago, I sat at my computer and watched the MSN video clip that recapped Ashley Smith's encounter with Brian Nichols. As I watched in awe, I was amazed by her amazing faith in God. I asked myself, "If I were in that situation, would I have the courage to speak out about my faith?" Would I have enough love in my heart for this man who just killed 4 people?
I could really relate to this story because my church was just finishing up a "40 Days of Purpose" series, based on Rick Warren's book, The Purpose-Driven Life. One of the purposes of our life is to speak out about our faith in God to anyone who may need to hear it. Since I believe spirituality is such an important part of living a peaceful, balanced and fulfilling life, I am going to take on that challenge and speak to you.
When I think about why we need God in our life, several important reasons come to mind.
We need to understand our Creator. God made each one of us, and there are no two people alike in this world. If we think about it, that is pretty amazing. Many of us can sometimes be very hard on ourselves. We complain about the way we look. We feel we don't have enough intelligence, creativity, or athletic ability. But we need to remember that God didn't make a mistake when He made us. He made us exactly the way we are for a reason and He loves us completely. So why shouldn't we start loving ourselves?
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Why Would You Want To Be Enlightened?
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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| Yesterday, a marketing guru asked me a question that left me speechless.
I had retained Bob to review the copy on my Mystic Warrior website from a sales perspective. He asked about reader reactions. As we talked, I told him how some readers felt compelled, while in the midst of my book, to put it down and meditate. In several cases, they described tingling sensations on the crown of their head and of receiving "downloads of energy and information." I told Bob they were "attuning with God" and how this is a step towards enlightenment.
That's when he asked me the question that left me speechless.
He asked, "Why would you want to be enlightened?"
Bob wasn't trying to be funny and he wasn't questioning whether this would benefit people. He asked me this to force me to think about the question in a more fundamental way. (You might say he was acting as a "devil's advocate.")
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The Blessing of the Lord Makes One Rich
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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| Have you ever found yourself being super frustrated trying to do something and not getting anywhere? It seems no matter how hard you try it doesn't seem to work.
Wherever there is an anointing on something for you to do, there should be an "ease" about it. I don't mean it should be easy, but there should be a sense of "simpleness."
Here's a good example; a person may be in a job situation that they may not particularly care for. In fact, they may absolutely hate what they are doing and maybe even feel sick before they go into work. Maybe he or she is "settling for."
It is noble to do what you need to do, but you don't have to dread it. Many people are in a job or in a relationship where they have no joy, peace, or sense of ease. It could be that God did not instruct them to take that particular job or to be in that particular relationship.
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Liberia's Woman President
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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| Commander in Chief, the new ABC television drama chronicling the fictional presidency of the first woman President of the United States, has not presented us with a pretty picture of politics as usual in Washington, D.C. Suspecting that we are still seeing a less brutal version of what people will do to make their own political will known, I am at once startled by what we have been able to accomplish as a country under such internal adversity, and saddened by the amount of energy and resources wasted on undermining other people's success.
Not so in Liberia.
Ellen Johnson-Sirlenf is Liberia's new president, and the first woman president in African history. Although her opponent, former soccer star George Weah, claimed election fraud and demanded a rerun of the poll, the United Nations mission in Liberia saw the elections as free and fair, as did other international observers. With 97 percent of the vote in as of this past Sunday, Johnson-Sirlenf, a Harvard-educated economist, who served as finance minister and with the World Bank, Citibank and the United Nations, had earned 59.4 percent, Weah, 40.6 percent. The basis for her victory can be traced back to a campaign earlier in the year to get women to register to vote. Johnson-Sirlenf also encouraged women, on her travels through the country, to go to the polls to make history by having a hand in electing a woman leader. Apparently this made sense to a lot of women.
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Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon's Temple Revealed
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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| If you seek the material Temple of Solomon then you are reading the wrong article. If you instead seek the Inner Self and wish to understand the secret teachings of the ancients, then you are in the right place and time. For this tale I am about to tell is one learned from ancient sources. This is a truth revealed, a truth held sacred for many generations and clouded in the literal ramblings of biased criticism.
In our search for the Holy Grail [1] we discovered an ancient universal serpent cult. Known variously as Ophites, Adders and even Gnositics, these ancient peoples, from before the time of Christ, worshipped the serpent on many levels. We traced the origins of this cult right back through time and into ancient Sumeria where the traditions of it emerged as a symbol of the much discussed enlightenment experience. From Osiris and Isis to Abraham and Sarah, from Christ and Mary to Arthur and Guinevere - we discovered deep-rooted links to the serpent worship of wisdom.
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The Bride of Christ
Published : November 07, 2007 | Author : newssrc | Unrated |
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| Every person longs to be noticed, pursued, appreciated, chosen and special. Every person longs to know that they are valuable, attractive, and worth being "known" just for who they are and not for what they can "do".
God designed us with these longings and desires. It is no mistake that we desire to feel loved. It is not weird to want to feel wanted. It is God's devine design. It is a right and good thing. God designed several means to accomplish these things. In marriage, we ahve the relationship between a husband and wife. We ahve the relationships between a mother and father and their children. In the church, we have the relationships among the community of saints (the family of God). The Bible also describes that the church makes up the body of Christ. God will use other types of relationships in our lives ... those between: teachers and students; friend and friend; boss and worker.
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I know this Mom. She homeschools her 5 children, plus she tutors several other children that are dropped off at her house. AND she's a Pastor's wife. AND she's working on fixing up the fixer-upper they just moved into. Whenever I've been in her house, it's been immaculate. Her children all have perfect manners. They all seem to be way ahead of their grade level. She's definitely gotta be a Homeschool Super Mom.
You're probably thinking of someone like this too, right? Someone that made you think, "Man, my son isn't reading as well as hers." or "My house isn't as clean as hers." Or a million other things.
And you probably discovered her when you were new to homeschooling. When you were already feeling uncertain in your new endeavors. You were already putting high expectations on yourself. You were constantly analyzing to be sure you were doing everything right. And as a result, you tend to be a little over-sensitive about what other's are accomplishing around you without giving enough credit to yourself. |
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