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Maybe this is why you don't Hear God?
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Mar 31, 2007 8:54 am
Mood: contemplative,
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Everyday I watch TV and listen to music. Every where I go there is something that stimulates my senses of hearing and vision. It can be as simple as a billboard trying to sell me something. We are overwhelmed with visual and audio stimuli--let me refer to this as NOISE. Most of our waking hour, we are enveloped in noise. It changes the focus of our concentration and steers our thought life. All of the noise around us interferes with our ability to hear and discern what God is telling us.
I have been playing my CDs and the radio less and less and enjoying the SILENCE more and more. For the last few years I find myself thinking, this NOISE is interrupting my quiet time and I want to escape from the interferences. Even on long trips I enjoy the quiet times more and more. Last summer I drove through the East side of Nevada, from Las Vegas to Jackpot (Just south of Twin Falls, Idaho) without listening to any music. The whole drive is high plains desert with mountains that are over 8000' tall on both sides. There were only 5 cars total that were in front of me during the 500 miles I drove on this road. It was a time to clear out my head and meditate.
There were some very profound things I learned during this 500 miles of road without any music or distractions. It provided me the time to get the noise out of my life. I feel confident that God taught me things during this drive. Before I started reducing the amount of NOISE in my life I found myself thinking, "Why doesn't God talk to me?" Now I know that He was talking to me, but my life was so filled with NOISE that I did not discern Him speaking to me. I think this is why so many of the early Church leaders like Martin Luther practiced this forgotten discipline. Yes, the SILENCE is better than the noise!
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Martin Luther said, ”….
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Mar 30, 2007 11:28 am
Mood: contemplative,
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"What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow."
"Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels of perfection while ordinary Christians fulfill only the commands; but there simply is no special religious vocation since the call of God comes to each at the common tasks."
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C. S. Lewis: How we are like Eggs
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Mar 28, 2007 8:17 am
Mood: contemplative,
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" It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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RIDDLE: Which Road leads to Heaven?
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Mar 28, 2007 8:10 am
Mood: confused,
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I was impressed at how smart you guys are with the last riddle I posted. This one is interesting and I hope it is fun for those who choose to try and solve it!
You stand at a fork in the road. Next to each of the two forks, there stands a guard. You know the following things:
1. One road leads to Heaven, the other to Death. From where you stand, you cannot distinguish between the two paths. Worse, once you start down a road, you cannot turn back.
2. One of the two guards always tells the truth. The other guard always lies. Unfortunately, it is impossible for you to distinguish between the two guards.
You have permission to ask one guard one question to ascertain which road leads to heaven. Remember that you do not know which guard you're asking -- the truth-teller or the liar -- and that this single question determines whether your destiny (for this game only!). The question is: What one question asked of one guard guarantees that you are led onto the road to Heaven, regardless of which guard you happen to ask?
If you are ready to know the answer to the riddle, checkout ANSWER to RIDDLE: Which Road leads to Heaven?
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Oneliners
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Mar 26, 2007 8:38 pm
Mood: silly,
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Here are some funny and corny one lines to hopefully lighten up your day.
Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir cumference.
To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.
Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.
We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.
When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U C L A.
The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.
The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway)
A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
A backward poet writes inverse.
In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A -flat miner.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully covered.
A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France; the result: Linoleum Blownapart.
You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
A calendar's days are numbered.
A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.
A boiled egg is hard to beat.
A plateau is a high form of flattery.
Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
Acupuncture: a jab well done.
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My Volleyball Team made it to the Playoffs today
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Mar 25, 2007 5:19 pm
Mood: jubilant,
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We made it to the championship Playoff game for our COED volleyball league today. There were 20 teams in the league. Our team had won 25 games and lost 2 during the season. Only two people came from the team we were supposed to play for the championship today. So those two men went out and recruited 3 of the best young men players from other teams. Their whole team was in their 20s and nobody on our team was under 40. I was thinking it should be a forfeit, but they did not agree. We played a best 2 out of 3 game championship series for first place with this team. Our team played excellent and we won the first game 21 to 11. We were behind by 8 points in the second game and came back to win 21 to 19. It felt good to beat this team and win the championship. Our prize is the bragging rights for being the champions this year, plus they took our picture and are going to put it on the church website. We had a great time!
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Can You Solve the Male/Female Riddle?
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Mar 24, 2007 5:59 pm
Mood: hopeful,
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Figure out what the seven letter word is based on the following clues.
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1. The first two letters represent a male.
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2. The first three letters represent a female.
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3. The first four letters stand for a brave person.
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4. All 7 letters stand for a brave female.
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What word is this?
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