2 Timothy 2:3-4 (NLT)
"3Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4And as Christ's soldier, do not let yourself become tied up in the affairs of this life, for then you cannot satisfy the one who has enlisted you in his army."
This is important for me to remember...It is so easy and tempting to worry about business, or politics, or name your distraction...
(originally posted May 29, 2005)
ILO:
The elimination of child labour is a global cause which must be embraced by all actors in society. It is only through an integrated and combined approach that child labour can be permanently eradicated and working children and their families provided with viable alternatives. Education and social mobilization are important to achieve this goal, for it is only by informing people and spurring them to action that real and lasting change can be brought about.
Read more: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/themes/education/exl.htm
BBC:
An Indian government ban on children working as domestic servants or in roadside food stalls comes into effect on 10 October.
A senior official in the Labour Ministry, SK Srivastava, says, "Children under 14 are vulnerable to physical, mental and even sexual abuse. Their exploitation goes unreported and unnoticed inside the closed confines of homes and food stalls."
Mr Srivastava says anyone found violating the ban will be penalised under the Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act of 1986 and punishment can range from a fine to imprisonment.
According to the ministry, the ban will affect 185,000 children working as domestic help and 70,000 who work in roadside food stalls
Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6034203.stm
Under Turkish law, the penalty for possession of child pornography is a prison term of five to 10 years.
Are you doing what he demands of you who has sent you into the world, and to whom you will soon return? Are you doing what be wills? Are you doing his will, when as landowner or manufacturer you rob the poor of the fruits of
their toil, basing your life on this plunder of - the workers, or when, as judge or governor, you ill treat men, sentence them to execution, or when as soldiers you prepare for war, kill and plunder?
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From 'Repent ye for the Kingdom of Heaven is near' by Leo Tolstoy
I don't usually read film reviews, but click the picture to read one on Empire by Warhol - mr
So, our Christian walk - is it more like Empire Strikes Back or Empire - Think about it...
Maybe, I'll show something like this for chapel...(-:
PS - Don't forget to your daily rations: http://www.drwas.blogspot.com/
I stumbled across this again on armybarmy. Thanks very much for re-running it!
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Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated 43 years before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts!
Canadian Parliament: Thanksgiving would be "a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed."
http://www.kidzworld.com/site/p2614.htm
Canadian Thanksgiving:
The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more closely connected to the traditions of Europe than of the United States. Long before Europeans settled in North America, festivals of thanks and celebrations of harvest took place in Europe in the month of October. The very first Thanksgiving celebration in North America took place in Canada when Martin Frobisher, an explorer from England, arrived in Newfoundland in 1578. He wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival to the New World. That means the first Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated 43 years before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts!
For a few hundred years, Thanksgiving was celebrated in either late October or early November, before it was declared a national holiday in 1879. It was then, that November 6th was set aside as the official Thanksgiving holiday. But then on January 31, 1957, Canadian Parliament announced that on the second Monday in October, Thanksgiving would be "a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed." Thanksgiving was moved to the second Monday in October because after the World Wars, Remembrance Day (November 11th) and Thanksgiving kept falling in the same week.
Another reason for Canadian Thanksgiving arriving earlier than its American counterpart is that Canada is geographically further north than the United States, causing the Canadian harvest season to arrive earlier than the American harvest season. And since Thanksgiving for Canadians is more about giving thanks for the harvest season than the arrival of pilgrims, it makes sense to celebrate the holiday in October.
Please remember to offer thanksgiving to almighty God this weekend for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.
I was reading a little bit about the Korean War today, the US provocation of China in this matter, its threat to 'nuke everybody' and all the people who died there....I wonder why N. Korea wants nuclear weapons? With US presidents invoking the name of God in their crimes, I wonder why Christianity 'never took' north of the line? Is this similar to the current mid-east struggles?
Closer to home, in our personal lives, do we represent ourselves - and Christ - any better than a reckless superpower? Just asking, that's all...
(The opinions expressed in this blog are at most - but not always necessarily - the opinions of Michael Ramsay. Blame me alone. - MR)
