FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel Thread ~ HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! ~ July 4, 2010

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE
(John 13:14-15)

"If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do." (John 13:14-15) "Surely, what I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far away. It is not heaven. Neither is it beyond the sea. It is very near to you . . . in your mouth . . . in your heart." (Deuteronomy 30:11-14)

Jesus commands us "to wash one another's feet" in other words he wants us to lead a life of loving service. Jesus saw alienation, ingratitude, betrayal, hatred, and prejudice all around him. He saw that the only way that humankind would learn to live in peace, to treat each other with love and respect, was for him to give us the example of service to each other by the washing of the feet.

Have things gotten better almost two thousand years after the death of Jesus? Is humankind living in peace and harmony? Are we treating each other with respect and love? The answer is a big, "NO!" There is still alienation, ingratitude, hatred, and prejudice. What legacy are we adults leaving to these younger than us? We keep passing on our hatreds, prejudices, and low self- esteem. There appears to be a general feeling among us of "you are not part of my group, race, kind and clique." Due to these distinctions, humankind is setting itself up for extinction. Today's mass media is full of fresh reminders of the ways humans brutalize each other, seeking a scapegoat for the miseries of life. They set us against each other instead of mobilizing us to overcome the forces which oppress and divide all of us.

We all need to keep in mind the words of the German Pastor Niemoller: "First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out, because I was not a communist . . . Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." Niemoller could have added, with equal historical truth and even more current relevance, the following, "They came for the handicapped . . . Then they came for the homeless . . . Then they came for the old . . . Then they came for the unborn".  What I have just described is not someone else's world. It's our world, the kind of world we keep making the kind of world we will leave behind. What is there to rescue us from our petty human distinctions of self and clan, of myself and my kind, except service to all to humbly kneel before each other, taking the other's bare foot in our hands, washing it with the clean, refreshing water of forgiveness, love, and mutual respect.

LT Gabriel Mensah, CHC, USNR

 

[SandRat]

*hugs*

[Kathy in Alaska]

BEAUTIFUL, left....stunning. Good Lord's Day to you.

And Happy Independence Day!!

[left that other site]

Happy Independence Day
God Bless Our Troops

(((HUGS)))
And To You Too, Dear Kathy!
Time for Sleep Soon!
Love,
ML/LTOS

[Kathy in Alaska]

Shavua Tov.
Wishing all our Jewish troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
a peaceful and prosperous week.

[SevenofNine]

OH LUVVV the Chinese are celebrate fourth of July way too early LOL!

BreakingNews Update: 42 bodies recovered week after southern Chinese village landslide, 57 unaccounted for - Xinhua http://bit.ly/aIPeGC

[luvie]

Oh, my goodness! Those Chinese even use “mother nature” to do
their evil bidding in population control!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mac....Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound.

[HiJinx]

Evening, Dave.
God Bless you and yours.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, David....Good Lord's Day to you
and we thank you for your service to our country.

Happy Independence Day!

[HiJinx]

Thank you, teenie! Happy 4th to you, too.
And a blessed Sunday...

[pollywog]

Amen.

May they never get discouraged because of their lack of a commander and chief,( yes I purposely didn't capitalize that title)

............but rather resolve to stand fast and wait until the Country once again has turned to conservative values and moral integrity with a President that leads with Honor!!!... Thanks for your support of our wonderful Men and Women in uniform Conor!

[ConorMacNessa]

Well said, Polly!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Kathy in Alaska]

A Blessed Lord's Day to you and yours, HJ. ((HUGS))

And Happy Independence Day!

[Jeff Head]

“While we celebrate Independence Day, let’s not forget our ‘dependence’ upon God.” - Preacher Joe Paluch

Here’s my latest quote, by me, prominently displayed on my front/main page at:

http://www.jeffhead.com

“Barack Hussein Obama, hear us, loyal Americans whose bloodlines run deep in this land, back to the founding & beyond, who have watered the ground of this nation & foreign soils to maintain our liberty & constitution: Molon Labe-Sic Semper Tyranus-De Oppresso Liber. Your Marxism shall not stand in this land, so help us God!” - Jeff Head, July 3, 2010

[Kathy in Alaska]

Prayers for all those lost in the mudslide, and for those still unaccounted for, as well as their families.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thanks, Ladies!!! Star for putting together this BEAUTIFUL table. And Kathy, for putting up the thread in my absence.

Have a Blessed Lord’s Day everyone!

[pollywog]

Beautiful graphic Kathy!!!!!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, teen...*HUGS*...thank you.

A good Lord's Day to you and yours, as well.

Happy Independence Day!

[The Mayor]

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True Freedom

July 4, 2010

In 1776, the 13 British colonies in North America protested the limitations placed on them by the king of England and engaged in a struggle that gave birth to a brand-new republic. The infant nation soon adopted that now-famous document known as the Declaration of Independence.

Almost 2,000 years ago, the Lord Jesus cried out on the cross, “It is finished,” proclaiming the believer’s “declaration of independence.” All of humanity was under the tyranny of sin and death. But Christ, the sinless One, took our place on Calvary and died for our sins. Having satisfied God’s righteous demands, He now sets free for eternity all who trust in Him.

Paul wrote, “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us” (Gal. 3:13). Romans 8 assures us, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus . . . . For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death” (vv.1-2). Galatians 5:1 urges all who have been redeemed to “stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free.”

We are thankful to God for any freedom we enjoy in a nation. But above all, believers everywhere can praise Him for the freedom that is found in Christ!

Now are we free—there’s no condemnation!
Jesus provides a perfect salvation;
“Come unto Me,” O hear His sweet call!
Come—and He saves us once for all. —Bliss

Our greatest freedom is freedom from sin.

Read: Galatians 4:21–5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free. —Galatians 5:1

Bible in a year:
Job 28-29 & Acts 13:1-25

[Kathy in Alaska]

Beautiful graphic, Nana Hope....