Omniscient part 2
Sarah-Grace was walking to the car today. She said "I'm omniscient." / Susan replied, "You don't know everything" / "Mommy's omniscient" / "No" /"The Commissioner's omniscient..."
CFOT part 2
The video of me is up on the website again. You can see it if you can use iTunes. I can't quite get it to work but give it a try: www.cfot.ca
if, as Christians, our battles are to be with powers and principalities rather than with flesh and blood,
and we fight in a manmade war,
and in so doing kill a fellow Christian (thus removing them from the REAL fight against the principalities)
are not we, in this situation, by fighting man's wars, working against the Kingdom of God?
Just some thoughts...I'm still not a pacifist, but this has given me some pause for thought.
Do you have any thoughts to add? blog@sheepspeak.com
Also interesting: http://www.igloo.org/disarmingconflict/mythmaki
The above link is an article from www.poughshares.ca about fighting for self-interest. (Project Ploughshares is an ecumenical agency of the Canadian Council of Churches established in 1976 to implement the churches' call to be peacemakers and to work for a world in which justice will flourish and peace abound.)
Susan sent me this link: http://www.catholic.org.sg/reflect.php?archive=1
Saturday, April 21, 2007 St. Anselm / Acts 6:1-7 / Psalm 33 / John 6:16-21
ENORMITY
'The word of God continued to spread, while at the same time the number of the disciples in Jerusalem enormously increased.' Acts 6:7
How many new converts entered your church this Easter? Did the number of disciples enormously increase? Very few churches in the USA would be able to make this claim: 'Day by day the Lord added to their number' (Acts 2:47). Why don't we see this today in our country? Why does it happen in Africa, China, Russia, Korea, and the Philippines, but not here?
First of all, the early Church was committed to spreading the word of God. The apostles called forth deacons and stepped back from administrative duties 'to concentrate on prayer and the ministry of the word' (Acts 6:4). How many of our priests and ministers spend most of their time in prayer and the ministry of the word?
Secondly, the early Church was committed to spreading the word of God. They filled Jerusalem and the world with the name of Jesus (Acts 5:28ff). They sowed bountifully and reaped bountifully (2 Cor 9:6).
Finally, the early Church was committed to spreading the word of God. They proclaimed Jesus boldly, risked their lives, and even died to spread the gospel. They considered it a privilege to be martyred for Jesus (Phil 1:29). When we seriously sow the seed of God's word, we'll reap a harvest of new disciples.
Praise: St. Anselm prayed: 'Let me at least make some progress every day, until at last that knowledge, love and joy [in You] come to me.'
Prayer: Jesus, may I want people to be saved as much as You do.
Promise: 'They were frightened, but He told them, 'It is I; do not be afraid.' They wanted to take Him into the boat, but suddenly it came aground on the shore they had been approaching.' Jn 6:19-21
Reflections courtesy of Presentation Ministries / Bible Reading Links are to oremus Bible Browser / No Archive / Copyright © 2002-2007 Veritas! All rights reserved.
Police have detained five more suspects in the deaths of three men who were
found with their throats slit in a publishing house that prints Bibles, the
latest in a string of attacks targeting Christians in the __country.
Read more from CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/20/bible-turkey-070420.html
Pierre Trudeau wore flowers in his lapel and Sir Mackenzie Bowell favoured a thick white beard, but Stephen Harper is the first prime minister to have a personal stylist paid for by taxpayers.Michelle Muntean, a former stylist for CTV News, fusses over Harper's hair, selects his clothes, and even accompanies him on official trips...all at the expense of the taxpayer
(Another issue: She's also been known to give her clients spiritual advice, leaving some critics wondering if Harper is getting more than fashion advice. "What is wrong is the use of public dollars to pay for a stylist or a psychic," said New Democrat MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis.)
read more from CTV.ca :
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20070419%2fharper_style_070419&showbyline=True
So then, if the TSA decides to get rid of the uniform, we wouldn't want to risk looking embarrassingly inappropriate and therefore, as Canadians are paying for someone to tell the PM what to wear, I imagine that each corps (or even THQ) should hire each of us fashion consultants...I think, personally, though, I'd prefer the taxpayer-funded maid that the PM gets... (-:
You can tell its exam time. I procrastinated studying for the last three quarters of an hour to read some of 'The Expository Times' and 'Word and Deed'. Did you know Major Ian has an article in 'Word and Deed' (May 2006)? Anyway what caught my attention was a segment of Angela Shier-Jones' article about 'The Church and the World'.As we all know Wesley was no friend of Democracy and for good reason, given his historical proximity to the horrors of the American Revolution as well as his understanding of the nature and character of God.
"His belief in God's providential ordering of society led him to support the monarchy, and write scathingly of those who fought for 'liberty' in America. _Wesley not only believed in, but actively campaigned for [true] liberty for the African slaves. He abhorred the slave trade and risked life and limb to proclaim his conviction that the trade was anti-Christian and should be abolished."
"The Wesleyan perspective on government and law considers human laws that are contrary to divine law as not being a part of God's providential plan for humanity. Freedom for heart and mind are essential to the pursuit of Christian perfection. God does not compel. God's grace is free for all, and all must be free to respond to it. The freedoms sought by the war of independence for America was not, in Wesley's opinion, however, a Godly liberty. he did not believe that freedom was being sought in order to do good or further the work of God. The people desired this liberty from their rulers in order to choose for themselves what authority should rule over them. This, to Wesley, seemed like a rejection of God's authority."
Given that the pornography industry in America today generates more revenue than all the money involved in professional sports, that there are more people imprisoned in the USA than in any other country on the face of this earth, and that it spends more money on producing weapons of mass destruction than the next four or five countries expenditures combined, etc...was he so wrong? And are we much better?
Okay back to Amos and Hosea...(whose message isn't entirely dissimilar btw)
How's this for faithful perserverence?
"You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em. Know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you're sitting at the table. There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done. Now, every gambler knows the secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away, knowing what to keep..." - Kenny Rogers
"Where there's a need, there's The Salvation Army." - Winston Churchill
The number of people in the world who suffer from malnutrition as a result of hunger: greater than 1.2 billion
The number of people in the world who suffer from malnutrition as a result of over consumption: greater than 1.2 billion
BTW, have you read the new JAC yet? http://www.armybarmy.com/jac.html
"I have no intention to depart in the smallest degree from the main principles on which I have acted in the past. My only hope for the permanent deliverance of mankind from misery, either in this world or the next, is the regeneration or remaking of the individual by the power of the Holy Ghost through Jesus Christ. But in providing for the relief of temporal misery I reckon that I am only making it easy where it is now difficult, and possible where it is now all but impossible, for men and women to find their way to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" (William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out, preface).
Armybarmy has a bunch of Easter Messages: you can check out the General's and others' Easter messages (April 7) at http://www.armybarmy.com/blog.html
Here are a couple of other Easter messages from the Pope: http://www.vatican.va/liturgical_year/holy-week/2007/index_en.htm and the
Primate of Nigeria: http://www.anglican-nig.org/easter2007message.htm .
You might also be interested in this article on Jesus' resurrection and Christian origins by the Bishop of Durham. N.T. Wright:
http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Jesus_Resurrection.htm
2007 Federal Budget Analysis
There is little or nothing in the Conservative's 2007 Budget that will help to make poverty history.
Several measures that appear to address poverty, on closer examination turn out to be inferior versions of previous Liberal initiatives or actually deliver more benefit to rich families and less or nothing to poor children who need assistance the most.
read more: http://makepovertyhistory.ca/e/media/news.php?WEBYEP_DI=47
Hunger and water shortages, massive flood and avalanches predicted unless nations agree to fight global warming together; angry scientist complain of diluted conclusions
The Pope will risk upsetting many of the Roman Catholic faithful tonight after recasting a central ritual of the Easter ceremonies.
Benedict XVI has revised radically the traditional Good Friday Stations of the Cross procession that marks Christ's progress from prison to the Crucifixion. A reference to St Veronica, who wiped Christ's face with a veil, has been dropped and Judas and Pontius Pilate have been introduced.
read more from the London Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1620672.ece
These last couple of weeks have been tough for me. I think it is because we are getting close. We've (all of us Heralds) worked very hard, I think, towards our goal of commissioning. It is getting close and psychologically this can take its toll at times. Michael ( ramsay@sheepspeak.com )
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the keystone doctrine of the Church and of The Salvation Army. Without it, every other doctrine collapses. Our preaching is useless; our faith is vain and our witness is to be pitied (1 Cor. 15:14,19). (Read more) - from Salvationist.ca
“Friends, are you more concerned about relieving temporal distress than you are about feeding famished souls? If you are, you may know where you Charity comes from – hell” (Papers on Godliness, p 27-28).
