The Power of The Children's Bible Stories In The Lives of Yo

Given a scenario in which the federal government ordered a law to prohibit using bibles, how would you find ways to pass on the words of God to your kids?There are actually Children's Bible Stories that can be used as a way to share the words of God to your children.Your children, based on the experts have young minds, is at the phase in which they learn almost everything they pick up and see. This is when they could be guided to judge from what is good from what is bad.Because it is our responsibility to instill the young minds of our children the words of God, story-telling is a wonderful... (more)

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New Teen Bible Study on Peter's Life by Sherree Funk

If you could imagine the New Testament as a musical, then Peter would be one of the stars. Peter: Rock Star from Galilee is a guided teen Bible study by Sherree Funk that blends music, Bible learning, historical details, and applications for daily Christian living.

Each week starts off with a playlist of modern Christian music and traditional hymns. This is followed by a study of various aspects of Peter's life: from the day Jesus called Simon to follow him, to the miracles he performed in the name of Jesus Christ, to his escape from prison, and his legacy. Also included are historical... (more)

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The Bible Is Not A Smorgasbord

Christians believe in the Bible.  America, whether you like it or not, was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.  But there is something non-Christians need to know about the Bible before you start using it to contradict that for which we stand.

The Bible is an all or nothing proposition.

Either you believe everything that is in it, or you believe none of it. You have to take all of it.  You cannot pick and choose parts of the Bible to guide your life and then leave the rest alone.  And that decision has some very, very serious consequences.

Anti-Christians love... (more)

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Jesus Camp the Movie “What Bible Are They Reading?"

...to fight and be one of "God's soldiers." These methods of fear and guilt are the same scars that prevent many adults today from being capable of giving and receiving love. Pastor Becky Fischer fails to show me that she is a responsible source for Christ's word for two major reasons. In the bible, Christ warns us about the material world and the seduction of consumption. Clearly, Fischer has not faced her issues of consumption. Her issues are the same issues that make obesity a global epidemic where children, the same ones she claims to love are paying the price for the unhealthy eating ... (more)

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How to Get Your Loved One Off of Drugs or Cigarettes

...of drugs or narcotics, he needs to feed himself with something of the light. One source of energy has been extracted. A new source of energy has to be put in its place. Pick something that appeals to you. Recommendations could be: Going to daily Mass, saying the Rosary, Adoration, reading the bible, going to prayer meetings, reading spiritual books, going on a pilgrimage, having family prayer. A great spiritual devotional book that I recommend is God Calling by two listeners under, publisher, A.J. Russel. The point is to continue to feed your personhood with information and knowledge... (more)

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If You Build It, They Will Come

...Good part is, if we have let Him in the car, He will guide it gently to the ditch for us, saving our hides, even if we are in the middle of a full blown tantrum. After which we complain mightily that He didn't deliver the car undented. And He keeps loving us anyway, because God is love. The Bible and Leonard say so, and they are right.

Dents are part of the ride, I'm afraid. That's how we learn to relinquish the wheel. Leonard knows this too.

I hope you will visit Leonard at http://www.salvationmountain.us/bio.html. You can see pictures of his mountain there, and find... (more)

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What Should We Do About Doubt?

...gone for a while. It does not yield its place to darkness in God's creative balance. Through grace, the light comes back around to overwhelm the darkness . . . lest anyone doubt. We strive hard to resist letting our sexual sin define us; let's not let our doubt do it either. You've read the Bible. Yes, people wander, but they are never beyond the gaze of God. But what of those who doubt us or the sincerity of our quest for freedom? I say, let each doubter bear his own. Sometimes we expend so much energy trying to dispel the doubts of others that we have too little energy left to... (more)

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American Superman

...to knock away the cosy nostrums of American life. The strong only grow stronger by despising the weak and, so far as Mencken was concerned, by despising Christian morality. The Scopes trial was an ideal opportunity to pour scorn on “booboisie”, the backward ignoramuses of the Southern Bible Belt.

That’s one American perspective on Nietzsche. Interestingly a totally different one was to come from another participant in the Scopes trial - William Jennings Bryant, a former presidential candidate, who acted for the prosecution. The year before he appeared at the trial of... (more)

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England, My England

...into the world sometimes with uncertain - and unhappy - returns! But I would continue to look for Englishness, Englishness expressed through words, in what I like to call the original ‘mines’ of our language, our poetry and our literature. There they are before me: Langland and Chaucer; the Bible, both in William Tyndale’s translation and in the King James’ version; the Book of Common Prayer; the plays and poetry of Shakespeare, the Jacobean poets and more.

I’ve been working my way through The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. He’s a super writer, ... (more)

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Spiritual Abuse: Darkness You Can Feel

... themes. However, though some pastors and church leaders clearly perform this important role very poorly, the church is still the greatest hope we have for helping our loved ones find freedom.

In the past few weeks, I have been participating with others in an effort to read the entire Holy Bible in 90 days. I was struck by the stubbornness of just about everyone in Exodus. Pharaoh and the Egyptians for not letting go and the Israelites for not letting God. A verse inspired the title for this blog post because I found myself envisioning what the Egyptians must have felt in the plague of ... (more)

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