Archive for May 1, 2012
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Posted: May 1, 2012 in OneNewsNow.com, Pro-LifeSunday night replacement exposes networks’ ‘lie’ #OneNewsNow.com#
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Posted: May 1, 2012 in OneNewsNow.com, Pro-LifeFrom the Inside Out by Joe Stowell
Posted: May 1, 2012 in Joe StowellTags: Christianity, God, Jesus, Jonah, Nineveh, Recreation, Specialty Travel, Travel
Listen in as Joe Stowell reviews the story of Jonah and the whale. Although Jonah eventually conceded to God’s plan, his heart was still cold toward the people of Nineveh. When God invades our lives, He goes right to work on our hearts and motives—transforming us from the inside out.
Click link below;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ur9xmd1jrzw
Whom Will You Serve?
Posted: May 1, 2012 in Holy Land MomentsTags: Amorite, Euphrates, God, Israel, Jew, Joshua, Masada, World War II
“Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” —Joshua 24:14–15
Next to Jerusalem, the ruins of Masada are one of the most popular destinations of Jewish tourists visiting Israel. Why? Because the events that took place atop this high rocky mountain have become a modern-day symbol of Jewish resistance and faith, and their desire to serve the one true God.
The courageous and tragic story of the 960 Jews who killed themselves rather than submit to Roman capture and enslavement in the first century has inspired Jews for hundreds of years. Historians have credited this story as retold in a poem by Isaac Lamdan in the 1920s with inspiring the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Masada is also where Israeli soldiers even today pledge their loyalty to the defense of Israel, reciting this oath: “Masada shall not fall again.”
They are the final words of the Masada leader, Elazar ben Yair, that resonates the most with people of faith: “Since we long ago resolved never to be servants to the Romans, nor to any other than to God Himself, Who alone is the true and just Lord of mankind, the time is now come that obliges us to make that resolution true in practice.”
Throughout the Bible, men and women of faith have given voice to their determination to choose God over idols, over foreign rule, over the culture. We hear it echoed in the words of Joshua: “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve . . . But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:14–15).
We hear it in Ruth’s beautiful declaration of loyalty, “Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God” (Ruth 1:16). Having met the God of Israel through her mother-in-law, Naomi, Ruth chose to leave her homeland, Moab, and her family to go where she could worship the Lord.
We hear it in Elijah’s challenge to the people of Israel on Mount Carmel as he prepared to battle the prophets of Baal: “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him” (1 Kings 18:21).
We may never face the same circumstances as the Jews living atop Masada, or as Joshua, Ruth or Elijah, but we each must make a choice daily who we will serve. And that choice will become evident in so many ways in our lives — how we manage our money, how we handle the pressures of our culture, whom we choose to marry, what we do with our free time, whom we spend time with, and so much more.
http://www.holylandmoments.org/devotionals/whom-will-you-serve-3
Without the camp, in the midst whereof I dwell. Num 5:3
Posted: May 1, 2012 in O Christian.comTags: Church, Galilee, God, holyspirit, Israel, Jesus, Judea, Samaria
What a sublime conception! – God dwelt with His people. The Tabernacle was His tent amongst theirs; the cloudy pillar was His ensign. To attack them was to come into collision with Him. All the expense and anxiety of the march rested on His shoulders, as the care of a family of young children on a father. How needful it was that nothing should be permitted which could grieve or offend Him!
What the camp of Israel was in those long-ago days, the Church is now. It is the host of the redeemed, the representative of God, the pilgrimage of the saints. Amongst His people God still walks, and dwells, and tabernacles. Their griefs, conflicts, and experiences, are shared by their ever-present Almighty Friend.
The presence of God in the Church is by the Holy Spirit. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1Co 3:16). He is with her and in her as the Body of which the risen Lord is Head. When the one Advocate went up, the other came down; when the Second Person in the Holy Trinity ascended to His throne, the Third Person came down to perpetuate His work in the world, through the Church. “He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”
How careful should we be in the ordering of our church-life, as well as of our individual lives, so that there may be nothing to offend Him! “What will the Holy Spirit think of this?” should be always our first inquiry. We must walk in the paracletism of the Holy Ghost, if we would be edified and multiplied, as were the churches throughout Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria (Act 9:31).
http://devotionals.ochristian.com/f-b-meyer-devotional.shtml
