Head-dibs

(ht: Shelly Grant) The part about "End of Life Counseling" reminds me of "Logan's Run." Raise your hand if you remember that movie! Obamacare called 'euthanasia bill' Shared via AddThis

According to a Greek legend in ancient Athens, a man noticed the great storyteller Aesop playing childish games with some little boys. He laughed and jeered at Aesop asking him why he was wasting his time in such frivolous activity. Aesop responded by picking up a bow, loosening its string, and placing it on the ground. Then he said to the critical Athenian, “Now answer the riddle if you can. Tell us what the unstrung bow implies.” The man looked at it for several moments but had no idea what point Aesop was trying to make. Aesop explained, “If you keep a bow always bent, it will break eventually; but, if you let it go slack, it will be more fit for use when you want it.” People are also like that. That’s why we all need to take time to rest. Jesus prescribed time off for His wearied disciples after they had returned from a prolonged period of ministry. God set a pattern in the Old Testament for us when He “rested from all His work.” (Genesis 2:3) Keep the 4th Command...

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My shining feet will never run on early morning lawn; My feet were crushed before they had a chance to greet the dawn. My fingers now will never stretch to touch the winning tape; My race was done before I learned the smallest steps to take. My growing height will never be recorded on the wall; My growth was stopped when I was still unseen, and very small. My lips and tongue will never taste the good fruits of the earth; For I myself was judged to be a fruit of little worth. My eyes will never scan the sky for my high—flying kite; For when still blind, destroyed were they in the black womb of night. I’ll never stand upon a hill, Spring’s winds in my hair; Aborted winds of thought closed in on Motherhood’s despair. I’ll never walk the shores of life or know the tides of time; For I was coming but unloved, and that my only crime. Nameless am I, a grain of sand, one of the countless dead; But the deed that made me ashen grey floats on seas of red. (Fay Clayton, Christian Crusade Weekly, J...

Ray Stedman shared this amazing insight into the lesson of the fig tree. He wrote: “When I came to California, I planted a fig tree just to see what it would do and to learn from it. I learned the answer to this riddle from the fig tree in my yard. The first spring, I watched with interest as the barren limbs of that tree began to swell, the buds began to fill out, and the leaves began to appear. And to my astonishment (I did not know this about a fig tree) little figs appeared right along with the leaves. I thought, ‘Well, that’s strange: the fruit comes right along with the leaf. Fig trees must be very unusual that way.’ So I watched these little figs grow and turn from green to yellow, and begin to look as if they were ripe. One day I sampled one. To my amazement, instead of being full of juice and pulp as a normal fig would be, it was dry and withered inside, with no juice at all. I opened another, and another, and found the same thing. I thought, ‘Oh, my fig tree is a lem...

New Testament scholar Paul S. Minear noted: "[Composer Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther’s Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God’s word in man’s own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto . . . For the word 'German' he would gladly have substituted the word 'human' because he was concerned to comment on 'the primary text of human existence' finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy."

"Our starting point is Scripture, which we accept as God’s unique and trustworthy revelation. Yet, in seeking with loyalty to conserve this truth from God, we attribute no infallibility to our own evangelical traditions. We desire, rather, to re-examine them radically -- that is to say, with a thoroughness which digs down even to their roots. If we seem to the reader to be always sure about the truthfulness of Scripture but sometimes less than sure in our understanding of how to apply it to complex contemporary questions, then he has accurately grasped our mood." John R. W. Stott (1921-), “Obeying Christ in a Changing World”

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that in 1728, potatoes were outlawed in Scotland because they were not mentioned in the Bible?

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"We cannot attain to the understanding of scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other intepreter of the Word of God than the Author of His Word, as He Himself has said, 'They shall be taught of God' (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience." Martin Luther (1483-1546)

If Carl Sagan was right about the crab and natural selection . . . Then these crab had better get busy making faces uglier than certain Dutch Harbor captains . . . oops! Too late. Sorry. Natural selection is not micro-evolution.

Scant, but tantilizing evidence that humans helped to kill off Neanderthals? Key words and phrases: "probable," "any number of scenarios could explain it," "we think," "implies," "scientists are continuing to refine their understanding," "conflicting evidence," "likely," "may have been," "one recent study suggested." Yet, Genesis 4 is a myth? Stone Age Murder: Spear Wound Shows Human Killed Neanderthal - Science News Science & Technology Technology News - FOXNews.com Posted using ShareThis