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Mornin', everybody ! Happy Wednesday !
Absolutely wonderful thread and layout! Not that I'm predjudiced or anything, lol, well, okay, I'll admit it. I am place proud. Being a Charlestonian is the next best thing to heaven and if you are a history buff, this is the place to be.
Thank you Mama Bear.
Read: Luke 3:1-20
While Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. —Luke 3:2
Bible In One Year: Job 34-35; Acts 15:1-21
Seven men are mentioned in Luke 3, who had political, economic, and religious control over Israel: Roman Emperor Tiberias Caesar, Governor Pontius Pilate, the tetrarchs Herod, Philip, and Lysanias, along with high priests Annas and Caiaphas. While they were in power,“The word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins”(vv.2-3).
What possible difference could it make for a person with no money and power to respond to God’s word when it seemed that others were so firmly in control? How could the actions of one insignificant person change anything? The answer is revealed in John the Baptist’s message of repentance, his announcement of the coming Messiah (vv.16-17), and his bold confronting of Herod (v.19). John’s role was to prepare the way for Jesus the Messiah, and the world was blessed by his obedience.
Today our task as Christians is to reflect the crucified and risen Savior in everything we do, and to tell others about Him. God calls each of us to live according to His instructions in the Bible. And our response will make all the difference in the world. —David McCasland
How was your Independance Day holiday!?
I had a great weekend!
I went with my sister and her husband and daughter to East Tennessee for my cousin's annual 4th of July cookout. I got to meet his first two grandsons for the first time. I didn't get to see him though because he was delivering a car to the West Coast.
But we visited with his wife and sons and his wife's family from (guess where?)
INDIANA!
I was disappointed in one thing, though, here I was boasting about the area I was in being very conservative Republican and all that. and I was really looking forward to "escaping" liberals and Bush haters for a while>
Only to run into them in Knoxville of all places!
I think I'll never get away from DEMOCRATS!
Oh! Well!
I still wore my Bush pin and everyone better beware 'cause this is WAR! LOL!
But to leave off with the whining like a liberal
I wanna tell you that it was a wonderful trip as we drove from Baltimore to Jonesborough (took us about 11 hours)
My back suffered from the long drive, but it was worth it!
All the time I was thinking what a beautiful country we live in and what a pity that not enough folks take time out to see it and drink in the magnificants and the splender of God's creating beauty.
The mountiand and the farmlands and the over all peacefulness of the place makes you relax and wonder why you are so worried and tense about anything.
I beleave God resides in those mountians and the countryside of Virginia, West Virginia, Southwestern Maryland and East Tennessee!
And the folks in Greeneville and Knoxville as well as Johnson City in Tennessee as well as those we met in Virginia are just about the most hospitable and wonderful folks you ever hope to meet. Kinda made going back to Baltimore such a downer!
I really enjoyed it there!
Happy Wednesday everybody.
Wonderful tribute to the 'Hunley Crew'.
Your good morning graphic is TOPS! : )
When the Hunley was discovered underwater a few years ago naturally there was alot of stories on the news about it here in the South. You did a really good job on your Post telling about the confederate submarine today. As you've probably heard me tell in the past, my great grandfather from Charleston was a Lieutenant in the Confederate Army. The story about the Hunley causes me to wonder if he knew those men and how that event may have effected him.
My other great great granfather at that time was a yankee who lived in Illinios, he disowned his daughter (my great grandmother) for marrying a Southerner in Missouri. Wonder what that makes me, a Disowned Daughter of the Confederacy? lol
Like dixie, even though I grew up in Florida, my mother was a South Carolinian and I was 'properly educated' about my forebears and their history and that of this vital Original State.
(I qualify to be both a Daughter of The Revolution and a Daughter of The Confederency.)
As Miss Cuzzin Dixie points out, at the time of the War of Northern Agression, we were not the only state comtemplating secession!
It was masked as "about slavery," but there was that in the North, too - but more importantly, the South had more actual wealth, and was being heavily and unfairly taxed on its productivity to benefit the Nawth...
What did it therefore gain South Carolina to be part of the Union, the North intent upon in effect "redistribute the wealth of South Carolina?"
(Heard of that before??!!)
Far better to "go it alone" to those bearing the unfairly borne financial burdens of heavy taxes only on Southern goods....think about it...
Was out of town until after 3 p.m. - then had to shop and cook dinner, read the thread, and now am settling in to learn how to operate a "newfangled electronic computerized Gizmo" that I must initiate in another hour - - gotta do intensive 'homework.'
{{{{{ Hugs to everyone }}}}}
