Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Perceived Insult To Islam Turns To Assault on Reason
Sudan: Officials seize a British teacher's approval of students 'Muhammad' teddy bear to play the culture card
This Week’s Top Scrooge - November 30, 2007
By ALEXANDER
I suppose there are worse atrocities in the world.
Sure, the Sudanese government's imprisonment of a kindly-looking teacher for the "hate crime" of allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad may not seem like a big deal to some.
After all, her sentence is only 15 days (five of which she has already served) and the maximum 6-month sentence and 40 lashes were not dished out by the Sudanese judge. I guess to prison veterans (and Muslim jailers), this is just a walk in the park. But for a teacher?
In finding that British primary school teacher, Gillian Gibbons, is guilty of insulting Islam by allowing her seven-year-old pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad, Sudanese officials have deliberately assaulted reason.
The Sudanese leaders have attempted to use Gibbons and Teddy 'Muhammad' Bear to call the rest of the non-Muslim world ignorant for not bowing to them. They are saying that all of us must walk on egg shells, careful to not accidently be offensive or we will be lashed, imprisoned, or killed...
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
2,000-plus Scrooges Nix Nativity Scene at Berkley City Hall
By a 55 to 45 percent margin, residents voted no on allowing a nativity scene to return to the lawn outside their City Hall Tuesday.
Church and State
They just wanted to take our nativity away. - Georgia Halloran
This from FOX News:
Voters in Berkley, Mich., turned down an amendment to the city charter on Tuesday that would have allowed a nativity scene to return to the lawn outside their City Hall.
The charter amendment failed by a 55 to 45 percent margin with 4,136 votes cast in total, according to unofficial results from the city clerk’s office.
Some residents of the town of more than 15,000 were outraged that the city and a local clergy association cut a deal with the American Civil Liberties Union to move a crèche, which had been displayed on public property for about 25 years, away from government grounds and onto a patch of grass outside a church.
The display spent its first Christmas at its new location last year, but those who want to return the nativity scene to public property petitioned to get the measure on Tuesday’s general election ballot.
"They didn't try to resolve it; they just wanted to take our nativity away," said Georgia Halloran, 62, who has led the drive to return the crèche to its former location. "People are very upset that the ACLU came in and told us to get rid of our nativity and the city capitulated to them."
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Online Dating: New Site Asks For a Statement of Faith
In the spiritual realm of things, being equally yoked is huge! And no, it’s not about egg yokes, it’s about equating the yoke used in harnessing the power of two farming animals together in plowing or towing, to hitching up with someone “yoked”, as yourself, to Jesus.
Although you may find your future mate on a less stringent web site…the clearer and sooner it becomes known that the person you are interested in is walking with Jesus or not, the better! At least that’s my 2 bits!
Read about Cache Connections and its founders approach to courting Christian singles.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Alexander: Photo, URLs, and Go Visit
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Monday, August 27, 2007
Housing Crisis? What Crisis?
Increasing mortgage and loan problems will not effect mansions in heaven
Awakenings by Alexander
I heard Pastor Chuck Smith, of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, say on the radio today that when he dies, reports of his death will actually be a misnomer.
"They will say, 'Pastor Chuck Smith died today', but actually that is wrong. The more accurate reporting will be, 'Pastor Chuck Smith moved'," Smith said, during his morning message on Christian radio.
What Smith was referring to was that for those that have accepted the Lord, their soul, their conscious self, will have a new dwelling place after physical death. They will have a mansion in heaven.
I was thinking about the recent housing crisis, and yes, I call it a crisis despite whatever financial reports you read these days. I see all the foreclosures, the debt problems, and people moving out of homes they can't afford anymore, and I believe it either is a crisis or will become one. I think about that and realize that for those that know their mansion awaits them in heaven, coping with housing in today's world is no big whoop.
Sure, it stings, it hurts to have to struggle to pay mortgages and loans, but if you as a Christian take a deep breath, know that you have a relationship with Him and that He will be providing you a dwelling place...a most magnificent dwelling place...it's easier to cope.
However, it does take a proper outlook to put our earthly dwellings, which in this case means our bodies, in proper perspective, but it can be done. There are even some who look forward to "moving day". Can you imagine that!?
Many will continue to struggle with housing...the physical building kind and the existing mortgage crisis. Who knows how long the crunch will go on?
Meanwhile, with our focus on all things eternal, we can say "Crisis? What crisis?"
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. - Matthew 6:20
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. - II Corinthians 5:1
In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. - John 14:2
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Mother Teresa: Just Your Typical Saint or a Woman Crying to God?
This report by Time.com that reveals material from a new book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), wants to paint Mother Teresa as a conflicted person…even stating that for her “the deity had disappeared.” They use her letters to confidants to illustrate their point. However, even the most Godly are “conflicted”…read just one example.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Jesus Cartoon: A Headline You Will Not Be Seeing In Today’s News
Thousands of Christians Riot, Protest Cartoon of Jesus Smoking Cigarette
SARCASM ALERT: Make-up headline shows contrasting belief systems. The “cartoon” is actually an altered “Sacred Heart of Jesus” image.
By ALEXANDER
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Today’s story about an irreverent depiction of Jesus in a newspaper makes me wonder…if a tree branch snaps in the woods and no one heard it, did it really make a noise?
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
CNN's 'God's Warriors' Series Online Reports: Albright Interview
Albright: Ignore religion 'at our own peril'
In order to effectively conduct foreign policy today, you have to understand the role of God and religion. ... My sense is that we don't fully understand, because one, it's pretty complicated, and two, everyone in the U.S. believes in a separation of church and state, so you think, "Well, if we don't believe in the convergence of church and state, then perhaps we shouldn't worry about the role of religion." I think we do that now at our own peril. Religion is instrumental in shaping ideas and policies. It's an essential part of everyday life in a whole host of countries. And obviously it plays a role in how these countries behave, so we need to know what the religious influence is.
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Monday, August 20, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
CNN: 'God's Warriors'
Just wanted to give you a heads up on some very good programming on CNN and CNN.com.
Here's a CNN Editor's Note: ...a series of reports CNN.com is featuring from an upcoming, six-hour television event, "God's Warriors," hosted by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
You can watch and read awesome stuff right now even though the series is Aug. 21-23.
Go to http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/gods.warriors/
and for the first report headlined "Rejecting radical Islam -- one man's journey" go to http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/15/daveed.godswarriors/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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