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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What i?m giving up for lent?
- Don't worry I'm not going off into religious rantings. ?Having recovered from my trials and tribulations of January I headed into February with a revived passionate verve. I was finally over the lingering cold and ready for action. I broke into the workout regime, gently not expecting too much of myself after an almost 3 week hiatus. The passion was glowing, a light ember within. As the wee...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Facing our fears
- "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." John 14: 27, NIVOur Sunday paper gets the insert magazine, Parade. Today right on the cover was "Let's Stop Scaring Ourselves" by Michael Crichton. Funny because he wrote Jurassic Park and some other "scary" books. The very message we received in c...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Early spring cleaning
- Has anyone noticed how fast 2004 is going? Hey, we are in December already. I really like December not only because people are nicer to each other and all the pretty decorations are around, but people stop and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas.Did you get that gift you wanted last year from your husband or wife or are you wishing for it again this year? I encourage you to go for it a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bible and kabbalah: the hardening of pharoahs heart
- There is continuous creation, out of the new ideas discovered in the Torah.Zohar, Genesis, Introduction, 52OUR PURPOSE FOR THE STUDYStudents of Kabbalah understand the Torah (Hebrew Bible) as a mystical book wherein the Kabbalistic system is embodied in allegories and symbols. Thus, the Torah and the Kabbalah are dependent on and complete each other. . The illumination emanati...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is your life significant?
- "I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it." - Matthew 16:18 (NASU)The words of Jesus above spoken to Peter conveyed many meanings. They were not only an utterance of prophecy. They were meant also to build up and to give Peter a life of significance. Peter was a man given to impulse, a characteristic that b...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to avoid deception!
- GREAT PROPHECY TIPSHOW TO UNMASK DECEPTION"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20. The people of God are directed to the Scriptures as their safeguard against the influence of false teachers and the delusive power of spirits of darkness. Satan employs every possible device to prevent m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Isnt there but one god?
- I heard a pastor say, regarding people of the Muslim faith, "Too bad they are praying to the wrong God!" This was during a Sunday morning sermon. I flinched. Doesn't the Bible say that there is only one God? I believe it does. I found at least six scripture references:Mal 2:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man ag...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of thankfulness and vice versa
- We are soon to celebrate once again the National Holiday known as "Thanksgiving."We do this every year. Every year we gather together with friends and family for a feast of plenty and, hopefully pause to give thanks for all our bountiful blessings. But thanksgiving should not be relegated to only one day a year. In Psalm 107, it says over and over again, "Oh that men would give praise the L...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top ten religion quotations
- Review your religious beliefs with these revealing quotations all about religion..."Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."-- Felix Adler (1851-1933)American educator"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality to...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Finding god in the clouds
- It was a cool August night during the Summer before my Junior year in high school. I was just getting off work on what seemed to be the worst day of my life. I was having a mental break-down, nothing was going right, and every negative thing in my life seemed to hit me at once.The clock in my truck read 2:13am as I pulled into my high school parking lot that I do so often to take time to th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The christmas victory
- As the Chritmas season approaches, I figured it's a good time to submit the following article:THE CHRISTMAS VICTORYA logical and practical interpretation of Is.7:14 in the light of context and language.As you celebrate Christmas, sending out cards, putting up the tree with bright lights and decorations and getting caught up in the hustle and bustle of gift-buying, do you stop ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - We must be ready. but how?
- Revelation 19:7 states, "Let us rejoice and give honor unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready."Our salvation is not accomplished by anything we can do, or be. Our redemption is through the blood of the Lamb, shed for our sins. Our only responsibility in regard to our salvation is to admit our own sinfulness, realize our total lack of a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Harry potter to christians: its not good to hear voices
- That is the popular and, thank God (if you'll pardon the use of the G name) the politically correct feeling among most Christians today. You will recall that in the second book of the Potter series, The Chamber Of Secrets, Harry Potter alone heard the voice of the basilisk. When he confided in his two friends about it, one told him that even in the wizarding world, hearing voices is not a good thi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Meaning and marketing - the will
- You are now inside one of the top theological schools in the world and you are sitting in Dr. John Hobbs' Class on Theology with first year Freshman students. The seminary is reformed, protestant, Christian and is located in the south of the USA. Do you know where you are now? Do you like being here? If not, you know what to do. Dr. Hobbs is a phenomenon in himself. You don't have t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your mission field at work
- One point many Christian Working Moms who have been interviewed have made is that they are a shining light in their work place. Whether or not you can speak openly about your faith at work, your co-workers are watching. Are they seeing Jesus in you? Do they see you handle ethical issues in a different manner than other co-workers? Do they see a peace in you amidst all of the stress of the job? Do ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Here?s help for the ?i can?t say ?no? blues?
- I hear it all the time. Cries from Christian women who want desperately to serve the Lord, but who feel overwhelmed. "I almost dread going to PTO meetings or church services anymore because I just know somebody else is going to ask me to help with something," they say. "Don't get me wrong. I want to help, but there are only so many hours in my day. I feel like I'm just going to expl...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Popping the balloon of belief
- I'm really excited. I just got a bigger soapbox, and I wanted to invite the rest of you to get up here on it with me.You may remember I was recently talking about how beliefs are at the core of our conflicts, yet those beliefs are built upon less-than-complete information. What is known is not all there is ? there's always something more. Yet we try to explain what we think we know by const...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - About the spiritual world of madonna
- Pop singer Madonna came this week to Tel Aviv to take part in a congress of Kabbala studies. According to press releases, she is going to stay in Israel until Sunday night and will have on the last day of her visit, the opportunity to visit the graves of Jewish Tzaddikim (righteous holy people) near Safed, a small town in northern Israel.Why Safed? What does Kabbala mean? (Literally it mean...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why more priests need to train as fighters (and why we dont see many boxers in church)
- "Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize." -- (1cCorinthiansc9:26-27) St Paul was a fighter. I don't think he ever competed in the ring, but that wasn't because he lacked the discipli...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What jesus expects of you and me
- Sometimes it is hard to know where to start even if you know what your talents are. Jesus has something to say about what we can do and what he expects us to do. Until you can find the specific purpose God has for you there is still work we can do.In Matthew 25:31-46 we find Jesus giving His disciples a discourse on what to expect when He comes back. (Also read Matthew 25: 14 ? 30 Parable o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What about the 4400?
- Murders are so frequent in our country that a single homicide seldom grabs national attention unless the perpetrator or the victim is already a celebrity. Even a double murder is not national news. It takes multiple murders to make the headlines, CNN, and the network evening news.The Oklahoma bombing of April 19, 1995, which monopolized the news for days, claimed 167 lives and wounded nearl...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What if? -- musings on the tsunami
- Thumbing through Isaiah recently I was startled to find this: after a passage (in Isaiah 19) in which the prophet describes horrors that caused the hearts of the Egyptians to "melt within them," he predicts that "the people will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them." The next lines describe how three bitter enemies-Egypt, Assyria, and Israel-will "worship together" an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The greatest love and self-image
- The Greek language had three words for "Love" First there was "eros," from which we get "erotic.. This was, of course a purely selfish love. Then there was "Phileo" (Philadelphia), or "brotherly love" This is the love of one family member for another. But the Bible added a new one--"agape" "Agape is a giving love, entirely unselfish. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - No ishmaels please
- I want to say a word about faith. Recent events in my own life have driven home just how easy it is to loose sight of what we say we believe. Just like Abraham of old, we often try to bring about results through our own efforts. For those of you not familiar with narrative found in the book of Genesis, let me summarize. Abraham had been given the promise by God of having a son in his old age. God,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Animal to animal telepathy
- There has been much study on Telepathy in the animal kingdom. Many have experienced telepathy from human to human. Some have experienced telepathy from pets, both sending and even on rare occasion receiving. There are so many studies that show it is not coincidence or explainable by probability. In fact the statistics are so strong that after reading only a few studies and pitting that against you...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Nature vs nurture - theories of personality in 21st century
- Nature vs Nurture theories have wasted a lot of energy of human beings. Plato is considered first to realize that you are made of not only flesh but also an intellectual soul.The issue may be much older...In Greek Mythology, when gods created man, they endowed him with divinity. However, the man started challenging them. They feared his potentials and decided to deprive him of the mi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dogs use psycho-cybernetics to accomplish goals
- Dogs picture in their minds an event of an activity they wish to perform whether it hunting a rodent, greeting their human companions at the door or retrieving a stick. This helps them set goals similar to psycho-cybernetic human intent goal oriented human endeavors. We know dogs do this for two reasons. One, when they sleep their paws move as if they are running. Some might say that this is nervo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Robotic bonding thru human first love memory replication
- Many Science Fiction authors have discussed in many works the issues with robotic assistants and companions. Today we see DARPA awarding a contract to a group of artificial intelligence software gurus to put together a computer assistant, which can read any manual and then explain in human terms what it says. This assistant would be near a human during equipment repairs or preventative maintenance...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Emotion is a reaction to the influence
- Each one of us is linked to the emotions whether by protecting self values or deep affectionate involvement to the objective. The "sense" is a gift to us to analyze the values of the personality and behave in accordance. Sense creates sentiment that helps to avoid harm to the values possessed deep in the personality. We avoid action or reaction to what is not related to our values. Our E...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Balancing brain lobes - mutras
- When does consciousness exist? Will the sentient robots being created with nanotechnology and the dumping of human memory such as was done to a computer chip by Stanford in 1999 have a soul of their own? I do not believe our soul is dumped in this process. But the issue of soul can be debated until the cows come home by observers of natural phenomena. Modern science has no greater insight than the...