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ORIGINAL: Romans16_20

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ORIGINAL: magdaleine

I agreed to go to a wedding this summer where I won't know anyone, not even the bride and groom. I'm going to have to force myself to go, I think.

A friend asked me to go to a 'joining ceremony' of her supervisor to her same sex partner. Then she said it was going to be performed by a wiccan priestess. I just looked at her and she said, " I didnt think so"
Come to think of it, it might have been interesting, a spirit filled, tongue talking charismatic, going to a bunch of witches.....

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ORIGINAL: kimberlysfrog

Rick was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary and his wife was
really angry. She told him, "Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift
in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in less than six seconds, AND IT
BETTER BE THERE!!"


The next morning Rick got up early and left for work. When his wife woke
up she looked out the window, and sure enough there was a box
gift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway. She put on her robe, ran out
to the driveway and brought the box into the house. She opened it and
found a brand new bathroom scale.



Rick has been missing since Friday. Please pray for him.

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Blessings arrive in unexpected packages—in my case, cancer.

Those of us with potentially fatal diseases—and there are millions in America today—find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God's will.

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I don't know why I have cancer, and I don't much care. It is what it is—a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out.

But despite this—because of it—God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don't know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.

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'You Have Been Called'

Picture yourself in a hospital bed. The fog of anesthesia has begun to wear away. A doctor stands at your feet; a loved one holds your hand at the side. "It's cancer," the healer announces.

The natural reaction is to turn to God and ask him to serve as a cosmic Santa. "Dear God, make it all go away. Make everything simpler." But another voice whispers: "You have been called." Your quandary has drawn you closer to God, closer to those you love, closer to the issues that matter—and has dragged into insignificance the banal concerns that occupy our "normal time."

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The first is that we shouldn't spend too much time trying to answer the why questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can't someone else get sick? We can't answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer.

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We want lives of simple, predictable ease—smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see—but God likes to go off-road. He provokes us with twists and turns. He places us in predicaments that seem to defy our endurance and comprehension—and yet don't. By his love and grace, we persevere. The challenges that make our hearts leap and stomachs churn invariably strengthen our faith and grant measures of wisdom and joy we would not experience otherwise.

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Through such trials, God bids us to choose: Do we believe, or do we not? Will we be bold enough to love, daring enough to serve, humble enough to submit, and strong enough to acknowledge our limitations? Can we surrender our concern in things that don't matter so that we might devote our remaining days to things that do?

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I walked out a full time college student with out ANY OUT OF POCKET FEES!!!!

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A gay man is suing two heavyweight Christian publishers, claiming their versions of the Bible that refer to homosexuality as a sin violate his constitutional rights and have caused him emotional pain and mental instability.