With the light of God illuminating our very lives, shouldn’t we possess clarity about what is right and wrong?
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February 26, 2009
by Major Fred Waters
Is there another television program that’s made flashlights more popular than CSI? This “whodunit” program frequently features the detective sleuths at a murder scene with their flashlights in hand searching for clues. No matter the time of day or night, these men and women need no great beams of lights─they only require a flashlight!
read more from salvationist.ca: http://salvationist.ca/2009/02/csi-flashlights/
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Bake Sale
"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." - University of Toronto Students Union button (Hat Tip Megan Smith)
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Battle Belongs to the LORD
I played a bit of sports growing up. I won a few soccer trophies. I tried baseball – my team won a trophy in that once for winning the season. I tried curling – my family won some competitions in curling: I never played on any of their teams. I tried basketball too. Now given my great height and size in general (5’7”), one would think that by rights I really shouldn’t be any good at basketball. But you know what? … I’m not. I tried out however for the grade six team…and I was one of ONLY two kids in my whole class - NOT to make the team (and that was my best ever year at basketball). Not only can I not block shots with my height, I also have difficulties making them. My basketball skills never improved.
One day when I was in university, we went down to the park to play some basketball. Now my friends – they were really good at basketball. Some of them actually made the teams growing up. Now because they were all good sports and had a certain degree of patience, they would actually take the time to explain to me that hip checks, slide checks and nose tweaking were not acceptable defensive manoeuvres. Who knew?
After most of the guys had gone home, I was left with a few of the more serious players and they decided to have a bit of a competition to see who was the best shot. So how this would work was that one player would try to pick a tricky shot and if he could make it, all the rest of us would have to make it too – or we would be knocked out of the competition. So they would be doing these reverse lay-ups, shots from the three-point line and the like and due to the grace of God, I was actually able to keep up but then came my turn…
So for my turn - I clarified that I could do any shot that I wanted – I clarified that if I made the shot that they would have to do exactly the same thing – so I would make up the most elaborate shooting routine that I could think of: I would do things like roll on the ground eight times, while singing a children’s song and then throw the ball with my back to the net. Or at one point I think I bounced the ball in off another player after tripping and falling over myself. And – guess what - by the grace of God, the ball actually found the net; so here were all these too serious, too skilled players trying to concentrate on these shots while laughing and not being able to concentrate at all and - at the end of the competition - I was indeed the last man standing. It was weird but in life there are times when we can’t really rely on our own skills and abilities to carry us through.
After all is said and done we must confess that the battle is not to the strong and the race is not to the swift (Eccl. 9:11). The battle -as 1Samuel 17:47 says- the battle belongs to the Lord.
Read more on 1Samuel 17:46-47: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/07/1-samuel-1746-47-battle-belongs-to-lord.html
One day when I was in university, we went down to the park to play some basketball. Now my friends – they were really good at basketball. Some of them actually made the teams growing up. Now because they were all good sports and had a certain degree of patience, they would actually take the time to explain to me that hip checks, slide checks and nose tweaking were not acceptable defensive manoeuvres. Who knew?
After most of the guys had gone home, I was left with a few of the more serious players and they decided to have a bit of a competition to see who was the best shot. So how this would work was that one player would try to pick a tricky shot and if he could make it, all the rest of us would have to make it too – or we would be knocked out of the competition. So they would be doing these reverse lay-ups, shots from the three-point line and the like and due to the grace of God, I was actually able to keep up but then came my turn…
So for my turn - I clarified that I could do any shot that I wanted – I clarified that if I made the shot that they would have to do exactly the same thing – so I would make up the most elaborate shooting routine that I could think of: I would do things like roll on the ground eight times, while singing a children’s song and then throw the ball with my back to the net. Or at one point I think I bounced the ball in off another player after tripping and falling over myself. And – guess what - by the grace of God, the ball actually found the net; so here were all these too serious, too skilled players trying to concentrate on these shots while laughing and not being able to concentrate at all and - at the end of the competition - I was indeed the last man standing. It was weird but in life there are times when we can’t really rely on our own skills and abilities to carry us through.
After all is said and done we must confess that the battle is not to the strong and the race is not to the swift (Eccl. 9:11). The battle -as 1Samuel 17:47 says- the battle belongs to the Lord.
Read more on 1Samuel 17:46-47: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/07/1-samuel-1746-47-battle-belongs-to-lord.html
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
John 21:15-23: "We're Back!"
Click here to read the sermon: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/02/john-2115-23-were-back.html
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
What is an Angel?
By Captain Michael Ramsay
The Salvation Army
The Nipawin Journal
March 04, 2009
This is a good question. It is one that does come up in the scriptures; one such time is when Gabriel visits Mary to announce that she is going to have a son. The Greek for ‘angel’ (aggelos) simply means messenger. We know from elsewhere in the scriptures that there are times when people –like Gideon (Judges 6); Manoah and his wife, Samson’s mother (Judges 13); possibly like Jacob at Jabbok (Gen. 32), and even Abraham (Gen. 13) did not realize that they were entertaining heavenly messengers. They didn’t know that they were dealing with angels. It is possible that Mary did not recognise Gabriel as a heavenly messenger from God when he first arrived. After all she was greatly troubled when he appeared (Luke 1:29).
Mind you she could have been troubled because she did recognise Gabriel as an angel too. In our day and age we often think of angels as nice spirit-beings (usually in the form of a woman with wings and a halo over her head) and just about incapable of deviating from the perfect will of God. This is not how people saw angels in Mary’s time. Angels were seen as free moral agents who would just as likely do you harm, as do you good.The Apostle Paul, a later contemporary of Mary, writes about angels a few times in his letters. None of these accounts is necessarily flattering (Romans 8:38-39; Galatians 3:19-20; Colossians 2:18-19). At best he portrays angels as these free creatures who can either uphold or oppose the work of God. There is also a story of Tobit, in the Apocrypha, with which Mary was likely familiar. This story is about an angel who shows up on a bride’s wedding night and kills her husband. Angels were certainly not always seen as nice. Today most of us are familiar with the idea of the ‘fallen angel’.
Now Mary received the good news that she was about to have a child (albeit conceived out of wedlock) from Gabriel, the same angel who told her cousin Elisabeth’s husband that she was going to have a child. He did not believe Gabriel and was struck mute for a time.
Angels are interesting. Angels are real. Angels are active in our world today. Angels were not always immediately recognised in the Bible and they are not always readily recognised today. I know that I have had positive encounters with them on at least two occasions but those are different stories for a different time.
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The Salvation Army
The Nipawin Journal
March 04, 2009
This is a good question. It is one that does come up in the scriptures; one such time is when Gabriel visits Mary to announce that she is going to have a son. The Greek for ‘angel’ (aggelos) simply means messenger. We know from elsewhere in the scriptures that there are times when people –like Gideon (Judges 6); Manoah and his wife, Samson’s mother (Judges 13); possibly like Jacob at Jabbok (Gen. 32), and even Abraham (Gen. 13) did not realize that they were entertaining heavenly messengers. They didn’t know that they were dealing with angels. It is possible that Mary did not recognise Gabriel as a heavenly messenger from God when he first arrived. After all she was greatly troubled when he appeared (Luke 1:29).
Mind you she could have been troubled because she did recognise Gabriel as an angel too. In our day and age we often think of angels as nice spirit-beings (usually in the form of a woman with wings and a halo over her head) and just about incapable of deviating from the perfect will of God. This is not how people saw angels in Mary’s time. Angels were seen as free moral agents who would just as likely do you harm, as do you good.The Apostle Paul, a later contemporary of Mary, writes about angels a few times in his letters. None of these accounts is necessarily flattering (Romans 8:38-39; Galatians 3:19-20; Colossians 2:18-19). At best he portrays angels as these free creatures who can either uphold or oppose the work of God. There is also a story of Tobit, in the Apocrypha, with which Mary was likely familiar. This story is about an angel who shows up on a bride’s wedding night and kills her husband. Angels were certainly not always seen as nice. Today most of us are familiar with the idea of the ‘fallen angel’.
Now Mary received the good news that she was about to have a child (albeit conceived out of wedlock) from Gabriel, the same angel who told her cousin Elisabeth’s husband that she was going to have a child. He did not believe Gabriel and was struck mute for a time.
Angels are interesting. Angels are real. Angels are active in our world today. Angels were not always immediately recognised in the Bible and they are not always readily recognised today. I know that I have had positive encounters with them on at least two occasions but those are different stories for a different time.
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We're off on a road trip with the Youth Group.
NT Wright on hell (hat tip armybarmy):
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D966D6224EA97F83
One quote: "Hell is, if you like, I was going to say its where God isnt. Even that isnt true, cause ultimately God will be all in all. But it is as though within Gods all in all-ness, there will be an absence, a loss, the possibility of there being creatures who were once human, but now are not. I dont know what the word where would mean at that point. Cause, I dont know what location is like at that point. And I fail to see why we should speculate about it. I just think its a state of being, of creatures that once were human, once did reflect the image of God, but have chosen to do so no more. And I have to say, people often ask me about this, and I dont like talking about it, partly because I know a great many people and love a great many people, some of whom, as far as I can see are saying precisely that to God. And I shudder to think, of those people saying, I truly dont want to be human. Thank you very much... because they are lovely human beings at the moment, and you can see glimmers of God in them, but how that works out is up to them. So this is not something I talk about readily or happily. I know some Christians who, ah, theres heaven and theres hell. And those guys are going to get it. Thats not what Im saying at all. This is a matter of really a terrifying possibility. And every so often you look in the mirror, and say, hmm. Are you worshipping idols as well. Is that where youre going. Christians have to ask themselves that. It doesnt destroy your assurance, but its a question you need to ask."
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Prime ministers and presidents
From frosty to friendly, the relationships have changed with the times
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:45 AM ET
CBC News
Quotes from teh article:
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker on President John F. Kennedy: "He's a hothead. He's a fool – too young, too brash, too inexperienced and a boastful son of a b***h!" (1962)
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson gave a scathing speech one night about the war, then appeared at the White House the next day to confront a livid Johnson. As Martin describes it, LBJ grabbed Pearson by the shirt collar, lifted the prime minister off the floor and shouted, "You p**sed on my rug!" (1965)
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau told the National Press Club in Ottawa that living next to the U.S. "is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly or temperate the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." (1969)
When it was revealed that President Richard Nixon called Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau "an a**hole" in his private tapes, Trudeau responded with, "I've been called worse things by better people." (1971)
read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/05/f-pms-presidents.html
Canada does welcome Obama - really.
The important thing in this - of course - is that people often mistakenly put our hope in Charismatic leaders such as Trudeau was in Canada and Obama in the US or in brilliant politicians like Chretien north of the line and Clinton south of it. The truth is there is no democratically elected official who can save us from all the world's problems; no matter what the spin doctors tell us there is only one in whom we should place are trust. That one is Jesus. Let us not be led astray and put our hope somewhere else instead.
VOTE FOR JESUS!
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Last Updated: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:45 AM ET
CBC News
Quotes from teh article:
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker on President John F. Kennedy: "He's a hothead. He's a fool – too young, too brash, too inexperienced and a boastful son of a b***h!" (1962)
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson gave a scathing speech one night about the war, then appeared at the White House the next day to confront a livid Johnson. As Martin describes it, LBJ grabbed Pearson by the shirt collar, lifted the prime minister off the floor and shouted, "You p**sed on my rug!" (1965)
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau told the National Press Club in Ottawa that living next to the U.S. "is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly or temperate the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." (1969)
When it was revealed that President Richard Nixon called Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau "an a**hole" in his private tapes, Trudeau responded with, "I've been called worse things by better people." (1971)
read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/05/f-pms-presidents.html
Canada does welcome Obama - really.
The important thing in this - of course - is that people often mistakenly put our hope in Charismatic leaders such as Trudeau was in Canada and Obama in the US or in brilliant politicians like Chretien north of the line and Clinton south of it. The truth is there is no democratically elected official who can save us from all the world's problems; no matter what the spin doctors tell us there is only one in whom we should place are trust. That one is Jesus. Let us not be led astray and put our hope somewhere else instead.
VOTE FOR JESUS!
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http://www.sheepspeak.com/
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Capitalism's Messiah
Capitalism has its own Messiah - the lottery.
disenfranchised capitalists seem to pin their hopes on the advent of a lottery win.
- ramsay@sheepspeak.com
disenfranchised capitalists seem to pin their hopes on the advent of a lottery win.
- ramsay@sheepspeak.com
Poverty
In our world, one in four children is in need of feeding - 5.6 million children under five die every year and as one Bloc MP said, in this county, ‘The problem of poverty is not God’s fault; it's man's, the resources are here. The economy is here. We just need to share what there already is.’
sources:Unicef, Christian Week.
sources:Unicef, Christian Week.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Miracles
From the General of The Salvation Army
Dear Fellow Salvationists,
Greetings in Christ from London!
As this is the first Pastoral Letter of the New Year, Commissioner Helen Clifton joins me in wishing you all a very happy and blessed 2009. May it be a year when God draws very near to you, and you to him.Do you believe in miracles? I most definitely do. Miracles take place all the time, but often we miss them or fail to recognise them. ...
read more: http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/www_ihq_general.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/5B337CE5AA947B638025755B005D1973?Opendocument
Dear Fellow Salvationists,
Greetings in Christ from London!
As this is the first Pastoral Letter of the New Year, Commissioner Helen Clifton joins me in wishing you all a very happy and blessed 2009. May it be a year when God draws very near to you, and you to him.Do you believe in miracles? I most definitely do. Miracles take place all the time, but often we miss them or fail to recognise them. ...
read more: http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/www_ihq_general.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/5B337CE5AA947B638025755B005D1973?Opendocument
Monday, February 16, 2009
Lewis says...
- A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C.S. Lewis
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- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C.S. Lewis
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
From Chávez's Lines
My spirit was always conquered by the whipping and flamenco verb of Jesus, the redeemer Christ of the oppressed peoples, since the time I was an altar boy in the humble church of Sabaneta, when the stormy decade of the 60s started last century. Since then; the Sermon on the Mount and its justice promise for the poor people seemed really exiting to me.
- President Hugo Chavez
Caracas, Feb 12 ABN
- President Hugo Chavez
Caracas, Feb 12 ABN
Sunday's Sermon (John 20:1-9)
read the sermon: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/02/john-201-9-hes-alive.html
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Happy Valentine's Day
Susan did a great job tonight speaking at the Whitefox Valentine's dinner. The kids all had a great time at the Nipawin lunch we hosted too. We had a lot of fun.
St. Valentine (X3)
At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city. In William of Malmesbury's time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. The name seems to have been taken from a small church dedicated to the saint which was in the immediate neighborhood. Of both these St. Valentines some sort of Acta are preserved but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known.
read more from the Catholic Encyclopedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm
St. Valentine (X3)
At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city. In William of Malmesbury's time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. The name seems to have been taken from a small church dedicated to the saint which was in the immediate neighborhood. Of both these St. Valentines some sort of Acta are preserved but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known.
read more from the Catholic Encyclopedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm
Friday, February 13, 2009
Missions = Self-Denial
Above: a boy shows his tongue after eating a mud cookie. Due to rising prices and food shortages in Haiti, mud cookies - made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening - are one of the very few options the country's poorest people have to ward off hunger.Below: They are children of the West. Pedicure parties are growing increasingly popular with girls under ten. Oblivious to hunger, oblivious to war, they are children of the West.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Food for thought...
"With Terullian in particular, we start to find questions about what precisely bodily resurrection will involve...Suppose a cannibal eats a Christian, and suppose the cannibal in then himself converted. The Christian's body has become part of the cannibal's body; who will have which bits at the resurection?
Terullian gives a brusque answer. It's God's business, he says: he's the creator, so he can and will sort it out. Origen, faced with similar questions, replies more subtly. Our bodies, he points out, are in a state of flux. It isn't just that hair and fingernails grow and are cut off; our entire physical substance is slowly changing...I am physically a totally different person now from the person I was ten years ago...Dust we are, and to dust we return. But God can do new things with dust"
NT Wright, Bishop of Durham
Surprised by Hope
(2008, p. 157-158)
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Terullian gives a brusque answer. It's God's business, he says: he's the creator, so he can and will sort it out. Origen, faced with similar questions, replies more subtly. Our bodies, he points out, are in a state of flux. It isn't just that hair and fingernails grow and are cut off; our entire physical substance is slowly changing...I am physically a totally different person now from the person I was ten years ago...Dust we are, and to dust we return. But God can do new things with dust"
NT Wright, Bishop of Durham
Surprised by Hope
(2008, p. 157-158)
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Marx and the Bible
While Marx certainly does not agree with the Apostle Paul about Salvation, Christ, or God, “Marx and Paul coincide in their intuition of the totality of evil: Sin and injustice form an all-comprehensive and all-pervasive organic structure. Paul calls this totality kosmos. Marx calls it capitalism.”
- Jose Miranda
- Jose Miranda
The Resurrection
The Christian hope in life after death depends upon belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Belief in the resurrection asserts that death does not have the last word over human destiny: God does. Jesus conquered death, and so death does not finally separate us from God. He was raised from death to a new order of life, an eternal life given by God. The Christian hope is that as God raised Jesus Christ from death, so God will raise us from death to an eternal life with him.
For the Christian, belief in the resurrection is radical trust in the one, eternal God. The God of the beginning is also the God of the end.
Salvation Story
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For the Christian, belief in the resurrection is radical trust in the one, eternal God. The God of the beginning is also the God of the end.
Salvation Story
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
from armybarmy
www.armybarmy.com
There are several countries lining up for The Salvation Army to invade. Keep praying for the advance of the Salvation War. MMCCXX is a network aimed to see new outposts in 2,000 cities in 200 countries, in 20 years.
God help us.
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I heard recently a terrible story of a dozen soldiers who recanted their faith to spare their lives and those of their families. Terrible.We Salvationist are meant to be ready to preach, pray, or die at a moment's notice. They passed up martyrdom and faith in Christ and eternal life for physical life.That said, so many others recant for so much less - often for nothing - all over the place, all the time.I don't know what is more tragic.
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Holy. now.
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There are several countries lining up for The Salvation Army to invade. Keep praying for the advance of the Salvation War. MMCCXX is a network aimed to see new outposts in 2,000 cities in 200 countries, in 20 years.
God help us.
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I heard recently a terrible story of a dozen soldiers who recanted their faith to spare their lives and those of their families. Terrible.We Salvationist are meant to be ready to preach, pray, or die at a moment's notice. They passed up martyrdom and faith in Christ and eternal life for physical life.That said, so many others recant for so much less - often for nothing - all over the place, all the time.I don't know what is more tragic.
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Holy. now.
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Monday, February 09, 2009
Dr Was
Dr Was
February 10th, 2009
Leviticus 13-14 and Acts 17
February 10th, 2009
Leviticus 13-14 and Acts 17
Moses and the Bull rushes
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The world's first on-line comic liturgy.
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Friday, February 06, 2009
Listen to this...
JUST Salvos introduces a new PODCAST
- hear a commentary on the new movie Revolutionary Road.
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and JAC http://www.armybarmy.com/jac.html
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- hear a commentary on the new movie Revolutionary Road.
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and armybarmy REMIX: http://armybarmyremix.blogspot.com/
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and JAC http://www.armybarmy.com/jac.html
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Thursday, February 05, 2009
Atheism
"...atheism is walking into a dark room, and instead of turning on the light of Jesus, putting on a blindfold and complaining that you can't see anything."
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
From JAC 59
Editorial Introduction
by Captain Stephen Court
Welcome to JAC59. It's almost old enough for Senior's discounts! How the time flies. Anyway, once again contributors from around the world outdo themselves and produce a great edition, worthy of its place among the best of JAC.
Overstated? We always say that, you accuse? And, yet, look at the line-up. We kick things off with Jephthah's Parachute. Get a load of that! Captain Michael Ramsay, who is quickly establishing himself as a Salvo covenant authority, weighs in once again with solid Biblical teaching on the subject. If you love this, you'll want to search archives for his early articles on the subject.
How do you follow up deep, meaty stuff? How about the leading living Salvo author? With 28 books and counting Colonel Henry Gariepy contributes his piece called Holistic Ministry. He maintains a heavy writing schedule, and has a couple of titles queued up for 2009 release. But this article will whet your appetite.
Tom Aitken, who contributed a couple of instant classic primary source analyses on the Booths (search recent issues, really – they are fantastic), pitches in his review of the New Zealand book, TE OPE WHAKAORA, edited by Major Harold Hill.
And the hits just keep on coming.
Captain Danielle Strickland gives us a combo attack. She leads off with a Justice Decree, biblical truth on God's heart for Justice. This is a great resource to proclaim in your warfighting. But then she follows up her controversial Married Women's Ghetto Rant (which first appeared here in JAC41 – see archives on the table of contents page - before zipping around the salvosphere and searing consciences and General Change bulletins), with a sequel, The Orphan Syndrome, and other barriers to women in leadership. Bookmark it, link to it, blog on it, share it, pray about it, and apply it.
You see! We're not exaggerating. This thing has oil all over it. And we're not done! Youth In A Changing World is the next one. Recently, Captain Rowan Castle contributed research on this topic, and here Lieut-Colonel Karl Westergaard pitches in his two-cents' worth. It was from the General's essay Competition in 1951, but see if most of it doesn't apply today.
Mark Selke follows with the second book review of the issue, this one on Catherine Booth's collection of preaching lectures, updated and edited by Cory Harrison, Aggressive Christianity. If you have not read the book yet, this review should push you over the edge.
And stop in your tracks right now – thank God for the blessing that is Journal of Aggressive Christianity. The next article, like the other hundreds of articles from the previous 58 issues, is free. We are here to present to you a rare written word by that legendary leader, that renowned Recruiting Sergeant, the Grand Dame of The Salvation Army, the People's General – GenEva – General Eva Burrows! This article, The Supremacy of Christ, is excerpted from the great new book by Lieutenant Kim Haworth called FAMOUS LAST WORDS, and Salvationists everywhere are going to want to pick it up from the nearest TRADE (if your Trade doesn't carry it yet, get them to order scores of it).
Whew! How much blessing can you take? We've got more. So hold on to your uniform caps.
How do you follow General Burrows? How about with General Bramwell Booth. This is his rarely seen article from the 1925 international training principal councils called Cadets and the Love Souls.
If Gariepy is the biggest-selling living SA author, we're also confident that Commissioner Wesley Harris is second. And the Commissioner, a regular contributor to the pages of JAC, shows up again, this time with Will The Real Salvationist Please Stand Up?
And, finally, from the 1913 Australian War Cry, an anonymous contribution, with a hat tip to Candidate Xander Coleman for digging it up, Pray For The Burden For Souls. JAC59 – instant history. Read it, enjoy it, be transformed by it, share it with heaps of people. If you finish early, read the previous 58 issues…
read it today: http://www.armybarmy.com/jac.html
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by Captain Stephen Court
Welcome to JAC59. It's almost old enough for Senior's discounts! How the time flies. Anyway, once again contributors from around the world outdo themselves and produce a great edition, worthy of its place among the best of JAC.
Overstated? We always say that, you accuse? And, yet, look at the line-up. We kick things off with Jephthah's Parachute. Get a load of that! Captain Michael Ramsay, who is quickly establishing himself as a Salvo covenant authority, weighs in once again with solid Biblical teaching on the subject. If you love this, you'll want to search archives for his early articles on the subject.
How do you follow up deep, meaty stuff? How about the leading living Salvo author? With 28 books and counting Colonel Henry Gariepy contributes his piece called Holistic Ministry. He maintains a heavy writing schedule, and has a couple of titles queued up for 2009 release. But this article will whet your appetite.
Tom Aitken, who contributed a couple of instant classic primary source analyses on the Booths (search recent issues, really – they are fantastic), pitches in his review of the New Zealand book, TE OPE WHAKAORA, edited by Major Harold Hill.
And the hits just keep on coming.
Captain Danielle Strickland gives us a combo attack. She leads off with a Justice Decree, biblical truth on God's heart for Justice. This is a great resource to proclaim in your warfighting. But then she follows up her controversial Married Women's Ghetto Rant (which first appeared here in JAC41 – see archives on the table of contents page - before zipping around the salvosphere and searing consciences and General Change bulletins), with a sequel, The Orphan Syndrome, and other barriers to women in leadership. Bookmark it, link to it, blog on it, share it, pray about it, and apply it.
You see! We're not exaggerating. This thing has oil all over it. And we're not done! Youth In A Changing World is the next one. Recently, Captain Rowan Castle contributed research on this topic, and here Lieut-Colonel Karl Westergaard pitches in his two-cents' worth. It was from the General's essay Competition in 1951, but see if most of it doesn't apply today.
Mark Selke follows with the second book review of the issue, this one on Catherine Booth's collection of preaching lectures, updated and edited by Cory Harrison, Aggressive Christianity. If you have not read the book yet, this review should push you over the edge.
And stop in your tracks right now – thank God for the blessing that is Journal of Aggressive Christianity. The next article, like the other hundreds of articles from the previous 58 issues, is free. We are here to present to you a rare written word by that legendary leader, that renowned Recruiting Sergeant, the Grand Dame of The Salvation Army, the People's General – GenEva – General Eva Burrows! This article, The Supremacy of Christ, is excerpted from the great new book by Lieutenant Kim Haworth called FAMOUS LAST WORDS, and Salvationists everywhere are going to want to pick it up from the nearest TRADE (if your Trade doesn't carry it yet, get them to order scores of it).
Whew! How much blessing can you take? We've got more. So hold on to your uniform caps.
How do you follow General Burrows? How about with General Bramwell Booth. This is his rarely seen article from the 1925 international training principal councils called Cadets and the Love Souls.
If Gariepy is the biggest-selling living SA author, we're also confident that Commissioner Wesley Harris is second. And the Commissioner, a regular contributor to the pages of JAC, shows up again, this time with Will The Real Salvationist Please Stand Up?
And, finally, from the 1913 Australian War Cry, an anonymous contribution, with a hat tip to Candidate Xander Coleman for digging it up, Pray For The Burden For Souls. JAC59 – instant history. Read it, enjoy it, be transformed by it, share it with heaps of people. If you finish early, read the previous 58 issues…
read it today: http://www.armybarmy.com/jac.html
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www.sheepspeak.com
Welcome to the 21st Century
I signed up for facebook today...I don't think that I know what I have gotten myself into...
Monday, February 02, 2009
Happy Groundhog Day!
THE CANADIAN PRESS
WIARTON, Ont. – Canada's foremost furry forecaster, Wiarton Willie, saw his shadow this morning as he emerged from his den.
According to tradition, Willie's glimpsing of his shadow means there will be another six weeks of winter.
Not seen his shadow would have meant an early spring.
For the last four years in a row, the groundhog in the community northwest of Owen Sound, Ont. failed to see his shadow.
In the last 20 years, he's only seen his shadow seven times on Groundhog Day.
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from http://www.southbrucepeninsula.com/index.cfm?member=willie
His Shadow Did Appear
There was a shadow on the ground
Which means that spring will not come round.
Six more weeks of winter fun.
Hopefully we’ll see some sun.
Children laugh as they ride on their sleds
Blankets warm us while we curl up in bed
Fires will roar while the tea kettle steams
Arenas awake as hockey fans scream
Snowflakes fall from the sky up above
Valentine’s Day it’s the season of love.
Soup, casseroles, chili, homemade bread
Perhaps you prefer a restaurant instead
We have lots of great one’s from which you can choose
So get in your car you’ve got nothing to lose.
Head for the North, South, East, or West
Which ever direction will bring you the best.
Four seasons of fun is what you get here.
With plenty to do throughout the whole year.
There are just two things that you really must do
Visit our Willie and bring a camera too.
C. Wyonch
Hi Jim and Deb!
WIARTON, Ont. – Canada's foremost furry forecaster, Wiarton Willie, saw his shadow this morning as he emerged from his den.
According to tradition, Willie's glimpsing of his shadow means there will be another six weeks of winter.
Not seen his shadow would have meant an early spring.
For the last four years in a row, the groundhog in the community northwest of Owen Sound, Ont. failed to see his shadow.
In the last 20 years, he's only seen his shadow seven times on Groundhog Day.
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from http://www.southbrucepeninsula.com/index.cfm?member=willie
His Shadow Did Appear
There was a shadow on the ground
Which means that spring will not come round.
Six more weeks of winter fun.
Hopefully we’ll see some sun.
Children laugh as they ride on their sleds
Blankets warm us while we curl up in bed
Fires will roar while the tea kettle steams
Arenas awake as hockey fans scream
Snowflakes fall from the sky up above
Valentine’s Day it’s the season of love.
Soup, casseroles, chili, homemade bread
Perhaps you prefer a restaurant instead
We have lots of great one’s from which you can choose
So get in your car you’ve got nothing to lose.
Head for the North, South, East, or West
Which ever direction will bring you the best.
Four seasons of fun is what you get here.
With plenty to do throughout the whole year.
There are just two things that you really must do
Visit our Willie and bring a camera too.
C. Wyonch
Hi Jim and Deb!
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Atheist evangelists
The atheist evangelists (with the full support of Big Name Anti-Christians, Dawkins and Hitchens) have put billboards up in London that say:
“There's probably no God.
Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
The crusade is coming to Toronto, other parts of Canada, and the US.
This is a great chance to share the truth with an atheist.
Hey - they brought it up - bring them to Jesus...
A friend of mine suggested that we run the following ad:
The fool says in his heart,
"There is no God."
(Psalm 14:1, 53:1)
“There's probably no God.
Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
The crusade is coming to Toronto, other parts of Canada, and the US.
This is a great chance to share the truth with an atheist.
Hey - they brought it up - bring them to Jesus...
A friend of mine suggested that we run the following ad:
The fool says in his heart,
"There is no God."
(Psalm 14:1, 53:1)
Russian Orthodox Church installs new patriarch
Last Updated: Sunday, February 1, 2009 8:08 PM ET
CBC News
The Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow has installed a new patriarch who will take over the world's largest Orthodox church with at least 100 million followers.
Metropolitan Kirill, 62, who is the first leader to be elected since the fall of the Soviet Union, replaced Patriarch Aleksy II at a solemn ceremony on Sunday at Christ the Savior Church in Moscow. Kirill pledged to keep the church united, recruit more youths and have talks with churches outside of Russia, including the Roman Catholic Church. He has been a prominent figure in trying to reconcile with the Catholic Church.
The new patriarch, who addressed a large congregation in Moscow, including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, is expected to seek a more muscular role for the church, which has served the state for much of its 1,000-year history.
Kirill, a longtime Aleksy deputy, has been critical of tolerance of homosexuality, abortion, multiparty democracy and the division of secular and religious authority.
He adheres to nationalist ideas about Russia's role in the world and supports the idea that Russian civilization is fundamentally different and opposed to Western concepts. An unusually public and outspoken religious figure in the church known for its traditionalism, he has long pushed for introduction of Orthodox religious classes in schools.
Kirill appears on television shows and frequently
CBC News
The Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow has installed a new patriarch who will take over the world's largest Orthodox church with at least 100 million followers.
Metropolitan Kirill, 62, who is the first leader to be elected since the fall of the Soviet Union, replaced Patriarch Aleksy II at a solemn ceremony on Sunday at Christ the Savior Church in Moscow. Kirill pledged to keep the church united, recruit more youths and have talks with churches outside of Russia, including the Roman Catholic Church. He has been a prominent figure in trying to reconcile with the Catholic Church.
The new patriarch, who addressed a large congregation in Moscow, including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, is expected to seek a more muscular role for the church, which has served the state for much of its 1,000-year history.
Kirill, a longtime Aleksy deputy, has been critical of tolerance of homosexuality, abortion, multiparty democracy and the division of secular and religious authority.
He adheres to nationalist ideas about Russia's role in the world and supports the idea that Russian civilization is fundamentally different and opposed to Western concepts. An unusually public and outspoken religious figure in the church known for its traditionalism, he has long pushed for introduction of Orthodox religious classes in schools.
Kirill appears on television shows and frequently
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