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Name: Jonathan
Birthday: 7/26/1985
Interests: Jesus Christ, my family, my friends-yea Licking County, Trying to write music, trying to play the guitar, Alive Music Festival, reading certain books especially the Bible
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Member Since:
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| You see the world crumbling
There are wars and rumors of wars
When the church has turned pagan
It seems that all is lost
When the body and bride is concerned about the way she looks more than the truth she brings
What is there to do?
We are more concerned about the presentation than the Word of God
What happened to the verse that says God destroys human wisdom and the wisdom of this dying world---
This dying world
Secret Societies that bring death instead of peace—
WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS-----DON’T YOU SEE THE RAVEN?
Do we long for Your coming or do we long for the lost to see or do we long for both….For the only life is Christ in you and Christ in me the hope of glory. BRING LIFE TO THOSE PEOPLE QUICKLY,
THAT WE MAY SEE OUR HOPE OF GLORY……Please
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| Our hearts are read like books
But does anybody listen?
The word of His heart falls
It falls among the thorns
I’m swallowed up
Swallowed by love that was torn
You love me torn
Where, where can I go?
I can’t escape
Where will this love
Finally meet it’s fate
Love everlasting
Hope never ending
Our minds are spoken like time
But does anybody feel?
The heart of his call runs
It runs among the blind
We’re welcomed in
Were welcomed by love we didn’t have to find
You love me in this crime
Where, where can I go?
I can’t escape
Where will this love
Finally meet it’s fate
Love everlasting
Hope never ending
Dry your tears
Speak because some will hear
And some will give you the cold deaf ear
From everlasting to everlasting
You will hear
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| JERUSALEM (Oct. 8) - A confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert said Monday that his government would support a division of
Jerusalem, which is reportedly a key component of an
Israeli-Palestinian declaration to be made at a U.S.-sponsored
Mideast peace conference next month.
As part of recent negotiations between the sides, Deputy Vice
Prime Minister Haim Ramon has proposed turning over many of the
Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem to the Palestinians. Ramon
said the Palestinians could establish the capital of a future state
in the sector of the city, which Israel captured from Jordan in the
1967 Mideast war.
In return, Israel would receive the recognition of the
international community, including Arab states, of its sovereignty
over Jewish neighborhoods and the existence of its capital there,
Ramon said.
On Monday Ramon said even hawkish elements of Olmert's
coalition, like Cabinet Minister Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael
Beiteinu Party, would back such an Israeli concession. The centrist
Labor Party would also support the proposal, Ramon said.
"There are two central parties that agree to this," Ramon told
Army Radio. "The most important thing is to preserve the state of
Israel Jewish and democratic."
Under his proposal, neighborhoods in east Jerusalem where about
170,000 Palestinians live would be transferred to Palestinian
sovereignty, Ramon said.
But Israel would not transfer control of the Holy City and
neighborhoods around it to the Palestinians, he said. He did not
elaborate but media reports have said that he has proposed Israel
relinquish some sovereignty in the area that contains the most
contentious sites in the 60-year-conflict.
AND THE BIBLE ISN'T REAL? LISTEN TO GOD THE FATHER.....PLEASE
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| "Christ likened His followers to children and sheep and pointed to
birds and lilies as having valuable lessons for us. These four little
creatures differ widely from each other, but have one thing in common:
their complete freedom from worry. They have no financial troubles.
They live spontaneously, simply, without strain, and God takes care of
them. This is what our Lord wants us to learn to do as individual
Christians, and the same spirit should characterize every church and
every Christian institution of whatever sort it may be.
We in
the churches seem unable to rise above the fiscal philosophy which
rules the business world; so we introduce into our church finances the
psychology of the great secular institutions so familiar to us all and
judge a church by its financial report much as we judge a bank or a
department store.
A look into history will quickly convince any
interested person that the true church ahs almost always suffered more
from prosperity than from poverty. her times of greates spiritual power
have usually coincided with her periods of indigence and rejection;
with wealth came weakness and backsliding. If this cannot be explained,
neither apparently can it be escaped. People simply run true to their
nature; and after all teh church is composed of people.
It is
a well-known fact that authority requires money to maintain itself in
power, and it is not otherwise when that authority is ecclesiastical.
The economic squeeze is not unknown in religious circles and has always
been the devil's own device whether used by a church board to bring a
bold pastor to time or by denominational leaders to force a local
church into line. Such abuses are possible only because we have
allowed ourselves to get entangled in un-scriptural methods of church
financing. The point I am trying to make here is that while money has a
proper place int eh total life of the church militant, the tendency is
to attach to it an importance that is far greater than in biblically
sound or morally right. The average church has so established itself
organizationally and financially that God is simply not necessary to
it. So entrenched is its authority and so stable are the religious
habits of its members that God could withdraw Himself completely from
it as it could run on for years on its own momentum. And the same is
true of schools, Bible conferences and missionary societies.
It
is particularly regrettable that the activities of churches and
societies must be cut back to agree with actual or anticipated income.
Think back to the roots of this practice and you will see that it makes
the power of the Spirit of God depend upon the state of the national
economy or the varying wage levels in different localities. Should the
members of a local church withhold their tithes and offerings that
church will accomplish less statistically, it is true, but always its
accomplishments will depend upon its spiritual condition and not upon
its treasury. The treasury will be full if the people are holy; or if
the people are generous but poor, then the Holy Spirit will give them
fruit out of all proportion to their financial report. The fruit of the
church agrees with its basic spirituality, never upon the state of its
exchequer.
The history of churches and denominations follows
pretty closely a rather uniform pattern: It is to begin in poverty and
power; get established to a degree that removes all hazard and gives
financial security; become accepted by society; outgrow the need for
divine intervention; keep Christ as a figurehead, ignore his Lordship
and carry on afer the traditions of the elders; offer the clergy a
reward for staying in line in the form of an old age pension; put
enough persons in places of power who profit financially by the
prosperity of the group. After that it's requisite at in pace, and the
tragic thing about it all is that no one knows he is dead.
NO
church or denomination need go that way if the members detect the trend
before it is too late. But I wonder. So bound are we to the treasurer's
report that we habitually forget who we are and what we are called to
do. Anyone can do the possible; add a bit of courage and zeal and some
may do the phenomenal; only Christians are obliged to do the
impossible. If we could rise in faith like Samson and break the ropes
that bind us we might see again that a church's outgo can be greater
than its income, as much greater as God is greater than circumstances.
We might have demonstrated before our eyes how God works wonders when
His people leave a margin for miracles."
A.W. Tozer: The Warfare of the Spirit
Religious Ritual Versus the Presence of the Indwelling Christ. | | |
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