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He Is Risen Indeed.
Wishing you a blessed Easter.
Posted on 03/31/2011 9:31:17 PM PDT by JustAmy
Thank you, Meg! I’ll try to get back with you all later. (Busy day ahead!) HAPPY and BLESSED Easter!
AMEN
HAPPY EASTER
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OF YOU.
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Side Effects of a Life in Comedy
* Recurring nightmare: as your “Harpo Meets Teller” routine is bombing, you realize you’re doing a radio show.
* Your social status is one small notch above mimes and rodeo clowns.
* People are always asking, “Ooh, do you know Adam Sandler?”
* Wisenheimer’s Syndrome.
* You laugh on the outside, but inside you harbor a bitter resentment toward people who have enough money for food.
* Instead of crow’s feet, you get punchlines.
* You have to start the day with a couple of quick knock-knock jokes to get rid of “the shakes.”
* The grandkids keep breaking your dentures trying to wind them up.
* Mom was right: your face *does* freeze that way, after a couple of decades.
* Everything tastes funny.
(((HUGS))) Enjoy your Easter Day. Thank you.
Thank you, Dubya
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He Is Risen, Indeed!
Have a Blessed Resurrection Day!
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Twenty Minutes a Day
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you. PHILIPPIANS 1:3
Bill Eyster told about a friend of his who had received a new guitar as a gift. It was something this man had always wanted he had hoped he could learn to play the guitar at some point in his life. So with the encouragement of his wife and children, he started spending about 20 minutes each evening learning chords and picking out notes.
Funny what 20 minutes a night can do. Before long, he had worked up to playing a few simple songs. His family was getting a big kick out of it, singing along as he began playing things they could actually recognize. How fun! A new, learned skill was bringing music (and sometimes laughter) into his home and the joy of accomplishment into his heart.
This resulted in Bill wondering: Everybody has at least a little free time, prinkled here and there through the day or in the evening. Some spend it on the Internet. Some spend it watching TV or movies. Some spend it shopping or reading or scrapbooking. But what if we invested 20 minutes, spending concentrated time and effort on our most important earthly relationship, our marriage?
What if, instead of using our free time to get better at golf or photography or Cajun cooking, we used it to become a godly wife or husband? What if we used that same amount of time to take a walk together? What if we used it just to deliberately think about how to invest in our spouse, to plan a romantic evening, to choose a certain chore we could take off our spouse’s hands? It takes focus for a marriage relationship to grow. And focus takes time.
PRAY
Ask God to help you see your marriage as a daily adventure.
(((((((Hugs to All FRiends)))))))
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But now, as to whether there will be a resurrection of the dead haven't you ever read about this in the Scriptures? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' So He is the God of the living, not the dead.
Matthew 22:31–32
There is an old church custom that is still in practice today. On Easter morning, pastors will often greet their congregations with the happy declaration,
"He is risen!"
and the people will answer back,
"He is risen indeed!"
I like that. Because, really, that's what it all boils down to, doesn't it? All of the doctrine, all of the prophecy, all of the teachings, tenets, and traditions of Christianity hinge on the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
As Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:14,
"If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty"
(NKJV).
Despite what our culture would have you believe, there is life after death. As Jesus told the Sadducees, "As to whether there will be a resurrection of the dead haven't you ever read about this in the Scriptures? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said,
'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
So He is the God of the living, not the dead."
Not only did Jesus affirm with His words that death is not the end, He proved it by rising from the dead Himself that first Easter morning!
So however you celebrate Easter today, think about the fact that Jesus conquered death. And though death can cause sadness and separation for a time, the Christian has nothing to fear from death. Our God is the God of the living, not the dead.
He is risen!
He is risen indeed!
He Is Risen Indeed!
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A poem from the Carpenter that made the cross:
A Carpenters Lament
If I had known, oh Lord
If I had only known..
I would have suffered not
To build that rugged cross
Up on that hill
It held you in its pain
I counted it for loss
You counted it for gain
My day was dark, oh Lord,
My guilt more than I'd bear
It cut me like a knife
And in my grief
I never was aware
That bloody cross
Was not of death, but life!
As I reflect back on
That fateful day
When you arose
And conquered death and sin
Not only did I find the way
But now, oh Lord,
I'd build that cross again.
by Fish Hawk 03
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