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Seventh Day Adventist Experience	Dec 17, 2008 3:24 am 424 Views
It's been a long journey from where I began. To preface this story, I am not a Seventh Day Adventist. Quite the contrary, in fact. I am a Christian (Saved! Saved, wonderfully saved), raised in a southern Baptist church. My first encounter with Seventh Day Adventism was with a friend from my college. I didn't understand why she would prefer to not go to church at all, rather than to go to church on Sunday with the rest of my friends. I remember that summer trying to read up on Adventism, but it was all very confusing. I took my friend at face value, and thought nothing more, nothing less. cont......
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Twist shake and shout	Dec 16, 2008 6:20 am 111 Views
In cults, and this will be short, they always change a word or two in a scripture. One of the most liberating scriptures is found in Col Chapter 2. Its says In the KJV for those that like that: 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,(the law) which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
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Friends & Lovers	Dec 16, 2008 6:06 am 117 Views
How we broke out of our rut and rejuvenated our marriage. Alicia Bruxvoort "Some anniversary," I muttered, curled on the edge of the couch, tears falling. Our evening had begun with a celebratory dinner, but had ended with a poorly timed argument. My husband, Rob, and I had gone to bed frustrated. We'd rolled over without even a kiss—a far cry from our wedding night nine years earlier. Suddenly overwhelmed by the realization I was nearly a decade into my marriage and I'd never felt lonelier, I got out of bed and padded into our living room to cry and think, instead of snuggling in bed beside my husband. The truth was, when I vowed to spend my life with Rob, I believed God would use our marriage as an encouragement to many. But lately we didn't even know how to encourage each other. Our laughter had diminished to criticism, dreams had been traded for duties, and play had been replaced with practicality. Over the years, we'd talked frequently about needing more time together, but allowed busy schedules and slim babysitting funds to justify our failure to change. Rob's complaints about my "long-lost lingerie" gradually evolved into sheer apathy over our diminishing intimacy; my concerns over our waning emotional connection emerged as a critical spirit. A journal entry I penned in our eighth year of marriage warned of the chasm growing between us: "I feel as though Rob and I live in two different worlds. We no longer share a common vision or a common ministry. What's happening to us? cont..
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Sex Trafficing	Dec 16, 2008 5:53 am 108 Views
Todays Christian Woman Magazine(online) You want to make a difference in the world. But where do you start? In our global society, Christian women are more aware than ever before of the world's problems—war, hunger, natural disaster, AIDS. But tucked away in our individual homes, we can feel far from the frontlines of difficulty—and powerless in the face of devastation. Knowing this, TCW has decided to take on one topic this year: sex trafficking. We'll educate you about the startling statistics as well as the courageous women combating this evil. And through our partnership with FAAST, the Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking, you can help fund Rapid Response Kits for women rescued from trafficking's snare. Because together, drawing strength from our Heavenly Father, we can make a difference. —the Editors
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Looking Up...widow Lisa Beamer of 9-11 Hero Todd Beamer

Dec 16, 2008 5:15 am
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How Lisa Beamer, widowed wife of 9-11's United Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer, finds strength in her faith.
Jane Johnson Struck

On September 10, 2001, Lisa Beamer, 32, was an anonymous New Jersey homemaker and mom of two toddlers, David, 3, and Andrew, 18 months. Happily married since 1994, she and her husband, Todd, a successful software salesman, had just returned home from a business-related vacation. Their schedules were about to jump into full swing with Todd's frequent business travel, their many church involvements, the start of David's first year of preschool, and the upcoming birth of their third child, due in January. Life was busy, full, and good. Then—September 11 happened.

That sunny Tuesday morning, as three terrorist-controlled planes transformed into the fiery missiles that plunged into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a life-and-death struggle ensued on United Flight 93, which had departed from Newark to San Francisco. Some speculate the hijacked plane was headed for the U.S. Capitol; no one will ever know. Whatever the terrorists' intent, their plot was foiled by the 40 passengers aboard who'd been alerted to the other terrorist attacks through cell-phone calls to loved ones. Faced with the probability of their own deaths, passengers sought to overtake the hijackers of Flight 93. That struggle, captured on a 30-minute cockpit recording, ultimately ended in a violent crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Everyone aboard the flight perished, including Todd, traveling for business. Todd's final phone conversation with GTE Airfone operator Lisa Jefferson vividly displayed his faith and courage as he prayed The Lord's Prayer with her, then issued the rallying cry to fellow passengers: "Let's roll!"

Todd's heroic words and actions thrust a grieving Lisa, five months pregnant, into the national spotlight with interviews on Larry King Live, PrimeTime Live, and Good Morning America, among others. Her photo appeared in magazines ranging from People to the National Enquirer. And President George W. Bush even introduced Lisa to a devastated nation during his address before Congress on September 20. Lisa quickly became a symbol of dignity and grace—a grace she readily admits came from the faith in Jesus Christ she and Todd have had since early childhood.

Lisa's Christian faith also led her to create The Todd M. Beamer Foundation, whose goal is to assist children dealing with a family trauma, whether 9-11 related or otherwise, to make heroic choices despite their difficult circumstances, as Todd did on Flight 93. Lisa also wrote a book scheduled to release this September entitled Let's Roll (Tyndale), the proceeds of which will assist the foundation. In it she shares details of her childhood, her father's sudden death when she was a teen, her courtship and marriage to Todd, and how their faith impacted their lives up until September 11—and beyond.

TCW visited Lisa in her New Jersey home just one day after she and the other families of Flight 93 victims met for an unprecedented listen to the cockpit flight recording of the final violent moments of Flight 93. While she contently nursed baby daughter Morgan, born January 9, Lisa shared in this exclusive interview her grief and her hope in Jesus Christ.

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tis a season alright	Dec 15, 2008 8:22 pm 99 Views
To some of us, this season is one that we can not wait to be over. Many reasons I suppose. Cory and I like to spend it alone because we know we can ount on each other. But each year its a time when I miss my mom and dad. I miss some friends I have lost and some that have just moved away and I lost contact with. Its also one more that I miss Mercy. Its not easy. But I believe I am closer. I didnt think I could give my heart to one person again because I enjoyed the companionship of many friends. It would have been hard to settle on one person. But my heart is so given that it can never be anyone elses.
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The Meaning of Mumbai	Dec 15, 2008 3:04 pm 122 Views
Will the horrors unleashed by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai cause any second thoughts by those who are so anxious to start weakening the American security systems currently in place, including government interceptions of international phone calls and the holding of terrorists at Guantanamo? Maybe. But never underestimate partisan blindness in Washington or in the mainstream media where, if the Bush administration did it, then it must be wrong. Contrary to some of the more mawkish notions of what a government is supposed to be, its top job is the protection of the people. Nobody on 9/11 would have thought that we would see nothing comparable again in this country for seven long years. Many people seem to have forgotten how, in the wake of 9/11, every great national event-- the World Series, Christmas, New Year's, the Super Bowl-- was under the shadow of a fear that this was when the terrorists would strike again. They didn't strike again here, even though they have struck in Spain, Indonesia, England and India, among other places. Does anyone imagine that this was because they didn't want to hit America again? Could this have had anything to do with all the security precautions that liberals have been complaining about so bitterly, from the interception of international phone calls to forcing information out of captured terrorists? Too many people refuse to acknowledge that benefits have costs, even if that cost means only having no more secrecy when making international phone calls than you have when sending e-mails, in a world where computer hackers abound. There are people who refuse to give up anything, even to save their own lives. A very shrewd observer of the deterioration of Western societies, British writer Theodore Dalrymple, said: "This mental flabbiness is decadence, and at the same time a manifestation of the arrogant assumption that nothing can destroy us." There are growing numbers of things that can destroy us. The Roman Empire lasted a lot longer than the United States has lasted, and yet it too was destroyed. Millions of lives were blighted for centuries thereafter, because the barbarians who destroyed Rome were incapable of replacing it with anything at all comparable. Neither are those who threaten to destroy the United States today. The destruction of the United States will not require enough nuclear bombs to annihilate cities and towns across America. After all, the nuclear destruction of just two cities was enough to force Japan to surrender-- and the Japanese had far more willingness to fight and die than most Americans have today. How many Americans are willing to see New York, Chicago and Los Angeles all disappear in nuclear mushroom clouds, rather than surrender to whatever outrageous demands the terrorists make? Neither Barack Obama nor those with whom he will be surrounded in Washington show any signs of being serious about forestalling such a terrible choice by taking any action with any realistic chance of preventing a nuclear Iran. Once suicidal fanatics have nuclear bombs, that is the point of no return. We, our children and our grandchildren will live at the mercy of the merciless, who have a track record of sadism. There are no concessions we can make that will buy off hate-filled terrorists. What they want-- what they must have for their own self-respect, in a world where they suffer the humiliation of being visibly centuries behind the West in so many ways-- is our being brought down in humiliation, including self-humiliation. Even killing us will not be enough, just as killing Jews was not enough for the Nazis, who first had to subject them to soul-scarring humiliations and dehumanization in their death camps. This kind of hatred may not be familiar to most Americans but what happened on 9/11 should give us a clue-- and a warning. The people who flew those planes into the World Trade Center buildings could not have been bought off by any concessions, not even the hundreds of billions of dollars we are spending in bailout money today. They want our soul-- and if they are willing to die and we are not, they will get it. Thomas Sowell
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The Meaning of Mumbai	Dec 15, 2008 10:06 am 101 Views
Will the horrors unleashed by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai cause any second thoughts by those who are so anxious to start weakening the American security systems currently in place, including government interceptions of international phone calls and the holding of terrorists at Guantanamo? Maybe. But never underestimate partisan blindness in Washington or in the mainstream media where, if the Bush administration did it, then it must be wrong. Contrary to some of the more mawkish notions of what a government is supposed to be, its top job is the protection of the people. Nobody on 9/11 would have thought that we would see nothing comparable again in this country for seven long years. Many people seem to have forgotten how, in the wake of 9/11, every great national event-- the World Series, Christmas, New Year's, the Super Bowl-- was under the shadow of a fear that this was when the terrorists would strike again. They didn't strike again here, even though they have struck in Spain, Indonesia, England and India, among other places. Does anyone imagine that this was because they didn't want to hit America again? Could this have had anything to do with all the security precautions that liberals have been complaining about so bitterly, from the interception of international phone calls to forcing information out of captured terrorists? Too many people refuse to acknowledge that benefits have costs, even if that cost means only having no more secrecy when making international phone calls than you have when sending e-mails, in a world where computer hackers abound. There are people who refuse to give up anything, even to save their own lives. A very shrewd observer of the deterioration of Western societies, British writer Theodore Dalrymple, said: "This mental flabbiness is decadence, and at the same time a manifestation of the arrogant assumption that nothing can destroy us." There are growing numbers of things that can destroy us. The Roman Empire lasted a lot longer than the United States has lasted, and yet it too was destroyed. Millions of lives were blighted for centuries thereafter, because the barbarians who destroyed Rome were incapable of replacing it with anything at all comparable. Neither are those who threaten to destroy the United States today. The destruction of the United States will not require enough nuclear bombs to annihilate cities and towns across America. After all, the nuclear destruction of just two cities was enough to force Japan to surrender-- and the Japanese had far more willingness to fight and die than most Americans have today. How many Americans are willing to see New York, Chicago and Los Angeles all disappear in nuclear mushroom clouds, rather than surrender to whatever outrageous demands the terrorists make? Neither Barack Obama nor those with whom he will be surrounded in Washington show any signs of being serious about forestalling such a terrible choice by taking any action with any realistic chance of preventing a nuclear Iran. Once suicidal fanatics have nuclear bombs, that is the point of no return. We, our children and our grandchildren will live at the mercy of the merciless, who have a track record of sadism. There are no concessions we can make that will buy off hate-filled terrorists. What they want-- what they must have for their own self-respect, in a world where they suffer the humiliation of being visibly centuries behind the West in so many ways-- is our being brought down in humiliation, including self-humiliation. Even killing us will not be enough, just as killing Jews was not enough for the Nazis, who first had to subject them to soul-scarring humiliations and dehumanization in their death camps. This kind of hatred may not be familiar to most Americans but what happened on 9/11 should give us a clue-- and a warning. The people who flew those planes into the World Trade Center buildings could not have been bought off by any concessions, not even the hundreds of billions of dollars we are spending in bailout money today. They want our soul-- and if they are willing to die and we are not, they will get it. Thomas Sowell
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Weeweechu Romance

Dec 15, 2008 7:36 am
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It's a romantic full moon, when Pedro said, "Hey, mamacita, let's do Weeweechu."

Oh no, not now, let's look at the moon!" said Rosita.

Oh, c'mon baby, let's you and I do Weeweechu. I love you and it's the perfect time," Pedro begged.

"But I wanna just hold your hand and watch the moon." replied Rosita.

"Please, corazoncito, just once, do Weeweechu with me."

Rosita looked at Pedro and said, "OK, one time, we'll do Weeweechu."

Pedro grabbed his guitar and they both sang.....

"Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year."

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Dayna's Blog

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25 thousand	Dec 15, 2008 2:18 am 117 Views
at the end of WW2 25,000 American POW's with technology training were kept by Russia. They never got to see their families again.Its what started the cold war. After the drain of the war, we could not afford another war with Russia.
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