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Hi, dixie - it was cold here today - hope it's the last 'spell' - time for Spring! :)
I didn't do any of the portraits of our fallen heroes - thank you for thinking of me - where could I see them? I didn't know about them.
Time for dinner here - stopped in for a few minutes and see it's been very quiet today. Hope you have a really wonderful day tomorrow.
Well, I am late getting here, but I scrolled down to the "toon" of Terri with the cross and immediately started crying. God give Terri comfort, hold her hand and guide her home to you! Thank you, Dolly, for posting it!
Thanks so much, Meg. Same to you.
Amen!
Love Eleanor
Good Easter morning everyone. Jesus is risen, glory be to GOD!
Love & Happy Easter FRiends !
"Dubyuh's Got Faith!!"
(To be sung to Eric Clapton's "Running On Faith"
One...two...three...four...
Lately Right's been running on Faith...
Searchin' fer Justice and Truth.
But our World will be Right...
When Dubyuh sings our tune.
Lately, I've been wond'rin' why I FReep...
Shrinkin' government's that fer which I pray.
Protect the World from Left's slime...
Please Dubyuh, join the fray!!
Right's always been...
Willin' to help thru taxes that we pay.
Seems like by now...
Right'd find a Prez who cares...fer Liberty!!
Then we'd go running on faith
All of Right's dreams shall come true!!
All the world will be Right...
When Dubyuh loathes Big Guv'ment, too!!
(Sweet guitar pickin' by the BigMan)
Right's always been...
One to fight fer that fer which we pray!!
Seems like by now...
We'd find a Prez who cares...fer Liberty!!
Won't believe Pubbies on faith...
All of Right's dreams shall come true!!
Lead the world 'cuz we're Right...
George Dubyuh, you can join US, too!!
Yes, you can...
And Rush shall support you...
Then Sean shall support you...
And MUD shall support you...
All of Right's dreams shall come true...
The Right shall support you...
Truth shall see you thru...
Mudboy Slim (05/21/2004)
A century ago, a group of lawyers met in England to discuss the biblical accounts of Jesus' resurrection. They wanted to see if enough information was available to make a case that would hold up in a court of law. They concluded that Christ's resurrection was one of the most well-established facts of history. In his book Countdown, G. B. Hardy offers some thought-provoking questions about the resurrection: "There are but two essential requirements: (1) Has anyone cheated death and proved it? (2) Is it available to me?" Hardy goes on to declare that only the tomb of Jesus is empty. And because Jesus conquered sin and death, we who put our faith in Him will share in His resurrection. "If Christ is not risen, your faith is futile," Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:17. Historical evidence and countless changed lives testify that the resurrection of Jesus is a fact. Have you put your hope in the risen Christ? -Dave Egner
Has come forth from the grave; He breaks the chains of death for you And now has power to save. -Woodruff Christ's resurrection is more than a fact of history-it's the proof of our salvation.
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Happy Easter to everyone!
Christ is Risen!
Some great news- my two children were brought into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church last night at the Easter Vigil. They were welcomed into the Church by our pastor, and took their First Communion as Catholics.
My kids' story is a little different than most, in that they were baptized Greek Orthodox, which does Baptism, Confirmation, and First Communion all at the same time when you're a baby. So all they really needed to do was make a Profession of Faith.
Happy Easter, Billie. :)
Congratulations, Visualops.
That is wonderful.
Happy Easter to you and yours.
Joyous Easter friends!
Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at their
church, the Pastor and his eleven year old son would go out
into their town and hand out Gospel Tracts.
This particular Sunday afternoon, as it came time for the
Pastor and his son to go to the streets with their tracts,
it was very cold outside as well as pouring down rain. The
boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said,
"OK dad, I'm ready." His Pastor dad asked, "Ready for what?"
Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out."
Dad responded, "Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring down rain."
The boy gave his dad a surprised look, asking "But, Dad,
aren't people still going to Hell, even though it's raining?"
Dad answered, "Son, I am not going out in this weather."
Despondently, the boy asked, "Dad, can I go? Please?"
His father hesitated for a moment then said, "Son, you can
go. Here are the tracts; be careful, son."
Thanks, Dad!" And with that, he was off and out into the rain.
This eleven year old boy walked the streets of the town
going door to door and handing everybody he met in the street a Gospel Tract.
After two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking,
bone-chilled wet and down to his VERY LAST TRACT. He
stopped on a corner and looked for someone to hand a tract to,
but the streets were totally deserted.
Then he turned toward the first home he saw - and started
up the sidewalk to the front door and rang the door bell.
He rang the bell, but nobody answered. He rang it again and again,
but still no one answered. He waited but still no answer.
Finally, this eleven year old trooper turned to leave, but
something stopped him. Again, he turned to the door and
rang the bell and knocked loudly on the door with his fist.
He waited, something holding him there on the front porch.
He rang again, and this time the door slowly opened.
Standing in the doorway was a very sad-looking elderly lady.
She softly asked, "What can I do for you, son?"
With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, this
little boy said, "Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but
I just want to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU, and
I came to give you my very last Gospel Tract which will
tell you all about JESUS and His great LOVE."
With that, he handed her his last tract, and turned to leave.
She called to him as he departed. "Thank you, son! And God Bless You!"
Well, the following Sunday morning in church Pastor Dad was
in the pulpit. As the service began, he asked, "Does
anybody have a testimony or want to say anything?"
Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly lady
stood to her feet. As she began to speak, a look of
glorious radiance came from her face as she, "No one in this
church knows me. I've never been here before. You see,
before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband
passed on some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this
world.
Last Sunday, being a particularly cold and rainy
day, it was even more so in my heart that I came to the end
of the line where I no longer had any hope or will live.
So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into
the attic of my home. I fastened the rope securely to a
rafter in the roof, then stood on the chair and fastened
the other end of the rope around my neck. Standing on that
chair, so lonely and brokenhearted, I was about to leap
off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell down-
stairs startled me.
I thought, "I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go
away." I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell seemed
to get louder and more insistent, and then the person
ringing also started knocking loudly. I thought to myself
again, "Who on earth could this be?! Nobody ever rings my
bell or comes to see me." I loosened the rope from my neck
and started for the front door, all the while the bell rang
louder and louder.
When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my
eyes, for there on my front porch was the most radiant and
angelic little boy I had ever seen in my life.
His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you! And the
words that came from his mouth caused my heart, that had
long been dead, TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a
cherub-like voice, 'Ma'am, I just came to tell you that
JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU.'
Then he gave me this Gospel Tract that I now hold in my
hand. As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold
and rain, I closed my door and read slowly every word of
this Gospel Tract. Then I went up to my attic to get my
rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more. You
see, I am now a Happy Child of the KING and since the
address of your church was on the back of this Gospel
Tract, I have come here to personally say 'THANK YOU' to
God's little angel who came just in the nick of time and,
by so doing, spared my soul from eternity in hell."
There was not a dry eye in the church. And as shouts of
praise and honor to THE KING resounded off the very rafters
of the building, Pastor Dad descended from the pulpit to
the front pew where the little angel was seated. He took his son
in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably.
Probably no church has had a more glorious moment, and
probably this universe has never seen a Papa that was more
filled with love & honor for his son...
Except for One. This Father also allowed His Son to go out
into a cold and dark world. He received His Son back with
joy unspeakable, and as all of heaven shouted praises and
honor to The King, The Father so His beloved Son on a
throne far above all principality and power and every name
that is named.
~Author Unknown~
Happy Easter to all of the Finest, may God's blessings and love be with you today and every day!!
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Without it we have no hope for this life nor the life to come. That's why it is important to recognize that our belief in Christ's resurrection is not based on a religious feeling or unfounded rumor, but on historical fact with solid evidence to support it.