Having A Heart For God
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Did You Know?
Why Christianity?
Millions of people become Christians each year. Scientists, farmers, historians, and clerks — people from all walks of life — become Christians. Why? Look to the source to find out. Don't judge a book by its cover. Read the Bible and find out for yourself
Marriage stats
- Never assume.
- Compliment more than you criticize.
- Remember that it is ok to do things differently
- Always make time for the two of you.
- Remember that marriage is sometimes a bed of roses and sometimes there are thorns.
- Remember that the best gift that you can give your children is to love their mother/father.
- If You Cheat on your spouse, you are cheating on your children.
- Remember that people do fight. It's how you do it that matters. Try holding hands next time you are arguing and see the difference
- Before starting an argument, consider if it's really worth it.
- Agree to disagree.
- Do you want to be right or do you want to be married?
- Respect each other's privacy.
- Marriage is not 50/50, it's two people giving 100/100 all of the time.
- Enjoy your marriage, make the time to have some FUN!
Do We Forgive?
Forgiveness is something virtually all Americans aspire to - 94% surveyed in a nationwide Gallup poll said it was important to forgive. However in reality, we are not living up to our own ideals. It turns out forgiveness is something we don’t offer frequently. (In the same survey, only 48% said they actually tried to forgive others.)
Biblical View of Excellence
The Greek word translated "excellent" in the New Testament come from diaphero, which literally means "transport" or "differ". The Hebrew word translated "excel" is alah which means to ascend. Both of these words are used to encourage us and ascend us above the norm - to differ through the qualities of virtue and goodness.
National Day of Prayer
The National Day of Prayer is a day designated by the United States Congress when people are asked "to turn to God in prayer and meditation". The law formalizing its observance was enacted in 1952. This year it is Thursday May 6th.
Jesus Boat was Discovered
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom, a Christian woman who survived a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, said, "Forgiveness is to set a prisoner free, and to realize the prisoner was you."
Date of Easter
The method for determining the date of Easter is complex and has been a matter of controversy (see History of Easter, below). Put as simply as possible, the Western churches (Catholic and Protestant) celebrate Easter on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Fruits of the Spirit
The Fruit of the Spirit is a concept from the Christian New Testament of The Bible, specifically the Epistle to the Galatians chapter 5. 'Fruit' is used to mean 'end product' or 'harvest', and hence the passage describes what the writer expects to observe in someone in whom the Holy Spirit has been working. The relevant passage reads:
Lent
Lent, in Christian tradition, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial — for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
America and the 10 Commandments
Although most American believe that the 10 Commandments are the foundation of morals and ethics in our Country, A gallop poll suggests that most of us cannot name even 6 of the 10 commandments. Can you? Go ahead and give it a try or ask a friend to try.
The same survey concluded that Americans don't know the first book of the Bible. (Genesis) or know who gave the Sermon on the Mount. (Jesus Christ)
The #1 answer was Billy Graham. When asked who was Noah's wife, people responded Joan of "Ark".
Now that is something to think about!
Olympic Creed
The 2010 Winter Olympic Creed is "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well."
Calvery
Calvary or Golgotha are the English language/Western Christian names given to the site, outside of ancient Jerusalem’s early 1st century walls, ascribed to the crucifixion of Jesus. The name Golgotha is the Greek transcription given by the New Testament, of an Aramaic name, which has traditionally been presumed to be Gûlgaltâ - the Bible glosses it as place of the skull - Κρανίου Τόπος (Kraniou Topos) in Greek, and Calvariae Locus in Latin, from which we get Calvary.
John Calvin wrote
John Calvin wrote this about prayer - “Believers do not pray with the view to inform God about things unknown to Him or of exciting Him to do his duty, or of urging Him as though he were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on his promises, that they may relieve themselves from anxieties by pouring them into his bosom; in a word that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others all good things”
january 14, 2010
About one third of Jesus Christ's recorded teachings are in the form of parables. The good Samaritan. The pearl of great price. Counting the cost. The good shepherd. New wine in old wineskins. The prodigal son. Sheep and goats. Who hasn't heard of at least a couple of these? Jesus' New Testament parables are among the most powerful ideas in Western civilization!.
Interpreter C.H. Dodd, in his 1935 classic Parables of the Kingdom, defined a parable as "a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness, and leaving the mind in sufficient doubt about its precise application to tease it into active thought". The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia states that parables are "almost always formulated to reveal and illustrate the kingdom of God"
December 18, 2009
An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and see 28 eight cards return in their place.
According to the National Christmas Tree Association, Americans buy 37.1 million real Christmas trees each year; 25 percent of them are from the nation's 5,000 choose-and-cut farms.
Franklin Pierce was the first United States' president to decorate an official White House Christmas tree.
The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ's Mass.
In 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens in just six weeks.
November 17, 2009
The word psalms is derived from the Greek ψαλμοί (psalmoi), originally meaning "songs sung to a harp", from psallein "play on a stringed instrument".
The Book of Psalms consists of 150 psalms, each of which constitutes a religious song, though one or two are atypically long and may constitute a set of related chants.