Saturday, June 26, 2004
HOW FAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO TO SAVE SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE?
When tragedy strikes, people are able to perform all kinds of feats of strength. They can move heavy objects, often risking their own lives to save others. How far do you think you'd go to save a life? What about eternal life? If we truly believe this life is but a passing vapor, something compared...
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Friday, June 25, 2004
WHEN EVERYTHING FALLS APART AROUND YOU AND IN YOUR LIFE, THEN WHAT?
Just like there are some mornings that seem like it was best to stay in bed, there are also some nights that might as well have not come. Have you ever looked forward to an event or activity only to have it cancelled, or to have it not meet your expectations? Life is full of such things. When it...
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
DOES WHAT YOU BELIEVE AFFECT HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE?
All of us believe in something, whether that's a God, goddess, self, angels, etc. Our beliefs affect how we live our lives and the choices we make. At least, they should. When you hold a belief that produces no internal change, or external change in lifestyle, that belief is not based on a strong...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
OUTREACH CAN BE DONE IN NUMEROUS WAYS, BUT MOSTLY VIA FRIENDSHIP
Christians believe in the Great Commission. Jesus commanded that we go into all the world teaching people about the "gospel" or good news and baptizing them. Most of us are stuck in a city or rural areas and will never travel to the ends of the world where the primitive cultures are that have never...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004
A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO PRAYER AND THOUGHT CONCENTRATION
I know most people here don't believe it when I say that I'm a skeptic, because of my religious blogs, but I am. I arrived at my faith through my upbringing, yes, but mostly because of my life experience and through my study of science. I've always been interested in seeing proof, and this has led...
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Monday, June 21, 2004
GOODIE TWO SHOES-TYPES JUST MAKE ME WANNA TAKE MY CLOTHES OFF & RUN NAKED
There's something sexy about seducing someone who seems like a goodie-two-shoes. In my experience, however, I found that the goodie-two-shoes are often more wild and crazy than the bad boys! Bad boys are fun to seduce, too...oh heck, all men are fun to seduce. Not that I've ever seduced anyone, mind...
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HOW TO GIVE UP FALSE CONCEPTS OF GOD
All of us have false concepts of God. Some of these concepts and myths come from childhood, some from movies and books, and others from listening to bad sermons created to scare us with hell fire and brimstone. There is only one concept of God that should be our foundation for all other concepts....
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Sunday, June 20, 2004
HEAVEN'S NOT SO FAR AWAY...A TALE OF MERLIN, DREAM & HEAVEN (repost)
It was deep into the night when I finally found the gentle peace of sleep. I had just been thinking about life and how our lives, our breath and our beings are not in our control, as we so often believe. Life is a passing thing. We really don’t grasp what life is, and sometimes what living is all...
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RITUALS PROMOTE SUPERSTITION, PRAYER PROMOTES FREEDOM
This post is inspired by Odysseus' most recent post. I was raised Catholic and taught the importance of rituals. I believed in these primitive forms, but they only led to superstition. The only rituals I follow today are those taught by Christ, not "the church." Christ taught that we should continue...
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Saturday, June 19, 2004
MERLIN SPEAKS: WHICH RIDGE IN SEVEN SHOULD I CHOOSE?
A repost... I went up to the highest point of the ridge to look out across God’s country. What an awesome view indeed. There were seven natural ridges, and each one was distinct against the horizon. Merlin told me to meet him on the seventh ridge. It was slightly higher than all the others, and it...
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