Friday, February 28, 2014

If earth's Population were... A circular Email

If Earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people with all  the human ratios existing in the world still remaining -- what would this  tiny, diverse village look like? That's exactly what Phillip M. Harter, a  medical doctor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found:
   
   57 would be Asian.
   
   21 would be European.
   
   14 would be from the Western Hemisphere.
   
   8 would be African.
   
   52 would be female.

THE ATHANASIAN CREED - 5th Century

THE ATHANASIAN CREED
EARLY FIFTH CENTURY
Whoever wills to be in a state of salvation, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic [apostolic/universal] faith, which except everyone shall have kept whole and undefiled without doubt he will perish eternally. 

DEFINITION OF CHALCEDON - 451 AD -


DEFINITION OF CHALCEDON
451 A.D.
Following, then, the holy fathers, 
we unite in teaching all men to confess the one and only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

This selfsame one is perfect both in deity and in humanness; this selfsame one is also actually God and actually man, with a rational soul [i.e., human soul] and a body.

Nicene Creed - Ancient & Modern

THE NICENE CREED
325 A.D.
E
NGLISH VERSION 1549
(
WITH A FEW MINOR UPDATES)
We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God,
begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light,
Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And we believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.


MODERN WORDING
(The Interdenominational Committee on Liturgical Texts)


 We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.

For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father [and the Son].
With the Father and the Son
he is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. AMEN. 

Apostles Creed - MODERN ENGLISH VERSION


Apostles Creed
MODERN ENGLISH VERSION
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God
ΚΌs only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. AMEN. 

Apostles Creed


I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of Heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, Our Lord,
who was concieved by the power of the Holy Spirit


Abbreviated Apostles' Creed


The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in god almighty [the Father Almighty]
And in Christ Jesus , His only Son, Our Lord
Who was born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary Who was crucified under Pontius Pilate and was buried And the third day rose from the dead

Early Baptist Creed


Early Baptismal Creed
“I believe in Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who was born by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate , and rose again the third day, alive from the dead, and ascended into heaven, and sat at the right hand of the father, and will come to judge the living and the dead?” 

Nicene Creed(book of Common Prayer


The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God, The Father, The Almighty maker of heaven and earth, of all that is,
seen and unseen

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, The only Son of God,
Eternally begotten of the Father
God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God

begotten not made,

Nicene Creed (older Version)


The Nicene Creed
We(I) believe in one God,
the Father All-sovereign(Almighty), maker of heaven and earth,
and of all things visible and invisible:


The Westminster Confession of Faith

The Westminster Confession of Faith
The Form of Presbyterial Church-Government
The Directory for the Public Worship of God
Directions for Family-Worship
The Sum of Saving Knowledge etc.

THE LARGER CATECHISM.

QUEST. 1. WHAT is the chief and highest end of .man? Ans. Man's chief and
highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him for ever.

The Westminster Confession of Faith - The Shorter Catechism


The Westminster Confession of Faith
                 The Form of Presbyterial Church-Government
The Directory for the Public Worship of God Directions for Family-Worship

                The Sum of Saving Knowledge etc.
                             
       THE SHORTER CATECHISM.

 QUEST. 1. WHAT is the chief end of man ? Ans. Man's chief end is to
glorify Goda, and to enjoy him for everb.

a 1 Cor. 10:31; Rom 11:36 b Ps.73:25-28

Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy
him ? A. The word of God, which is contained in the scriptures of the Old
and New Testamentsc, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and
enjoy himd.

c 2 Tim. 3:16 d 1 John 1:3,4

The Athanasian Creed

The Athanasian Creed
Whoever wills to be in a state of salvation, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith, which except everyone shall have kept whole and undefiled without doubt he will perish eternally.
Now the catholic faith is that we worship One God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Spirit. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is One, the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.

Anabaptists Declaration 1659

                                Declaration

                      Of several of the People called

                                ANABAPTISTS,

                      In and about the CITY of LONDON.
______________________________________________________________________________________________

We being mis-represented to the Nation,
1. As such, as are opposite to Magistracy.
2. That we would destroy the Publick Ministry of the Nation, who differ
from us in some things about Religion.
3. That we do countenance the people called Quakers, in their irregular
practise.
4. That we endeavour a Toleration of miscarriages in things Ecclesiastical
and Civil, under pretence of Liberty of Conscience,
5. That we design to murder and destroy those who differ from us in matters
of Religion, thereby endeavouring to make us odious to some people fearing
God, And also to incense the rude Multitude against us, to provoke them (if
possible) to destroy us.

Monday, February 24, 2014

I wasn't mentally tough before I met Coach Lombardi

 I wasn't mentally tough before I met Coach Lombardi. I hadn't reached the point where I refused to accept second best he taught me that you must have a flaming desire to win. It's got to dominate all your working hours. It can't ever wane. It's got to glow in you all the time.

Brat Starr(green bay Quarterback)
Pg 235 When Men think Silent thoughts.

Natural Selection Herbert Spencer


Progress is not an accident But a necessity. Surely must evil and immorality disappear sure must man become perfect.
 Herbert Spencer



-Natural Selection, evolution, Naturalism,

Seven from Steve Camps


August 11th 2005 - which one are we known for in America today?

Taking some license with Stephen Covey's best selling tome, "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", here are three very different, but apt descriptions of church models that exist today. These lists are not exhaustive... and they were written with a broad brush strokes, intentionally, to include a wide variety of church "experiences" in each category. In fact, I would like to know what would your lists comprise of? Read Ephesians 4:11-16 to get a glimpse into the church that glorifies God.

Seven highly effective habits of the Contemporary Church that almost always guarantee church growth with very little spiritual impact:
1. Go political, not biblical
2. Go pragmatic, not theological
3. Go psychological, not discipleship
4. Go anthropocentric, not Christocentric
5. Go postmodern, not transcendent
6. Go “share your story”, not “all for His glory”
7. Go sickness, not sin; go disease not, disobedience

Seven highly effective habits of the Traditional Church that almost always guarantee church stagnation with very little spiritual impact:
1. Go traditional, not spiritual
2. Go legalistic, not grace
3. Go corporate, not community
4. Go “count converts”, not “make disciples”
5. Go pastoral/elder ruler, not shepherd/servant leader
6. Go more information, not Christlikeness
7. Go programs, not prayer

Seven highly effective habits of the Biblical Church that almost always guarantee God’s blessing and spiritual impact:
1. Go supremacy of God and His glory in worship
2. Go sola fide, sola scriptura, sola gratia, solus Christus, Soli Deo Gloria
3. Go The Great Commission and the Two Great Commandments
4. Go take care of the poor, the widow and the orphan
5. Go discipline of sin
6. Go pray without ceasing
7. Go equip the saints for the work of the ministry 

Friday, February 21, 2014

Author: St Patrick- Source: St Patricks Breastplate 3rd to 4th Century

Christ Be with Me,
Christ within me,
Christ behind me,
Christ before me,
Christ besides me
Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ in Quiet,
Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,

Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

St Patricks Breast Plate

Finishing Strong - Farrar

"If we leave the devil with even one small peg in our life, he will return to hang his rotting garbage on it."  (Haitian pastor, 49)

As quoted in
      FINISHING STRONG
      Finding the Power to Go the Distance            Steve Farrar

      Multnomah Books, 1995, ISBN 1576730239       FarFini

- Purity, Life, Hope, Living,

Finding the Power to go the distance

"Moses was wounded, Churchill was wounded, and perhaps you are wounded." "The God who oversees and controls the events of history is overseeing your life as well. And He knows exactly what He is doing. You may have lost control of your circumstances, but He has not. He has enrolled you in a course you didn't sign up for. And if you remain teachable, He'll make sure you finish strong."(1623)

"God was far from finished with Moses. Although Moses felt God had removed His hand from him, nothing was further from the truth. God's hand was as firmly on Moses in the desert as it had been when he was a babe in the bulrushes. God was signing Moses up for a master's degree with a major in character development. While he was in the desert over the next forty years, Moses took four core courses: unemployment 101, advanced obscurity, remedial waiting, and intermediate loneliness." (163)


FINISHING STRONG 
Finding the Power to Go the Distance Steve Farrar

Multnomah Books, 1995, ISBN 1576730239

Die Daily by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ah, Darinka, to die would be a simple thing." He opened the curtains and the window. "But to die daily this is another thing."

                Tell Me who? Bonhoeffer?

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Mens Rules

  • Men are not mind readers.
  • Learn to Work the toilet seat. You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down. we need it up. You need it down. You don’t hear us complain when you leave it down.
  • Crying is blackmail
  • As for what you want. Let us be clear on this on.  
  • Subtle hints do not work!
  • Strong Hints do not work!
  • Obvious hinds to do not work!

Rain Poem

Rain Poem

Dirty days have september
     April June and november
From January up to may,
     the rain it raineth every day
From may again up to july,
     there’s not a dry cloud in the sky
All the rest have thirty one,
     without a blessed ray of sun
And if any of them had two and thirty
they would be just as wet and twice as dirty

Rosemary Parks
Found in album dated Aug 1871
 - Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell 16 Feb 2014


- Weather, Poem, Poetry, Year,

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Four types of Retirees

There are Four Types of Retirees

Ageless Explorers
Make up 27% of the older adult population
Described as youthful, working, and happy, this group loves freedom, seeks personal growth and are often active volunteers. Of the four groups, they spent preparing for their retirement, maxed out their 401(k)'s, had financial planners and have the highest net worth. When asked, "When will you feel elderly inside?" they responded, "Never".

ADVISE ABOUT SEXUAL TEMPTATIONS - Facts of the matter

The FACTS OF THE MATTER May 28 , 2002

ADVISE ABOUT SEXUAL TEMPTATIONS

Dear Andy,  

I don't know how I could be more proud of you.  You really have your act together.  You know where you are going career-wise, have a quality marriage, and are growing spiritually.  But here is a sobering fact: Better men than you, certainly better men than me, today are living diminished lives of grave disappointment.  In my wildest imagination I would not have guessed that they would have fallen.  I am talking here about sexual temptation.  I pray for myself - and for you that this will never happen; that we will remain pure.  Not a common feat in today's unimaginably permissive and undisciplined society.

I would like to make a few observations and comments to you - and reminders to myself on this subject:

#1  Women love powerful, successful men who know where they are going.  They are also attracted to gentle, sensitive, and caring men.  Because you possess these qualities, you can be sure you will encounter attractive women who will want intimacy with you.  (See Gen. 39:5-7; Pro. 7:13-18)

Song For Josiah - Keith Green

Song for Josiah
Oh my son, you were born in a world that hates you,
And I swear I will never forsake you.
But there was a father centuries ago,
Who watched his beloved son die. Oh, die.

Oh my son, I am weak and I'm trembling,
For the Lord I am always remembering.
Oh what a strong shepherd holds you in His arms.
He'll break you and make you His own.
And then take you home.


Well if I could I would protect you from what you will see.
This world will promise love and beauty, but it lied to me.
And I will show you, if you will listen.
And I will promise, to listen too.


Imhoff''s law

Imhoff's Law
The Organization Of Any Bureaucracy May Be Likened To A Septic Tank; The Biggest Pieces Always Rise To The Top.

"Imhoff's Law"

- Honesty, Republicans, Democrats, Government, Politics, Integrity,

The five points of Calvinism by WJ Seaton

Author: WJ Seaton
Date: 1970
Source: The Five Points of Calvinism
Publisher: Banner of Truth Trust
City: London

1. Free will, or human ability. This taught that man, although affected by the fall, was not totally incapable of choosing spiritual good, and was able to exercise faith in God in order to receive the gospel and thus bring himself into possession of salvation.

Theology Acronyms

1. Cognitive
a.(ATGT)- Related to Knowing, thence to what is true or False

2. Deduction
a.(ATGT)- A form of reasoning that infers conclusions from premises, as e.g. in a geometrical proof.

3. Empirical-
a.(ATGT)- dependent on experience, such as sense observations

Charles Colson February 22, 1999 from Breakpoint on Black History Month

Author: Charles Colson
Date: February 25, 1999
Source: Breakpoint

At New York's Shea Stadium, two years ago, baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced that number 42 would be retired by the major leagues forever. It was a mark of honor for the man who had worn that number-the man who broke baseball's color barrier in 1947:
Jackie Robinson.
February is Black History Month, and our kids have been hearing a lot about Robinson's quiet dignity in the face of racial bigotry on the ball field. But what many of them are not hearing is the source of Robinson's ability to turn the other cheek: It was his faith in Jesus Christ.

Robinson was born in 1919 into a culture steeped in racism. And from early childhood it drove Robinson mad. Historian Jackson Lears, writing in the New Republic, says Robinson had "a reputation as a mad brawler, always ready to smash in the teeth of any white man who insulted him." Later, at UCLA, he gained a reputation as a thug.

THE CHICAGO STATEMENT ON BIBLICAL INERRANCY

THE CHICAGO STATEMENT ON BIBLICAL INERRANCY

Copyright 1978, ICBI. All rights reserved. Published with permission from the
Dallas Theological Seminary Archives, Repository of ICBI Archives

 PREFACE
The authority of Scripture is a key issue for the Christian Church in this and every age. Those who profess faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are called to show the reality of their discipleship by humbly and faithfully obeying God's written Word. To stray from Scripture in faith or conduct is disloyalty to our Master. Recognition of the total truth and trustworthiness of Holy Scripture is essential to a full grasp and adequate confession of its authority.

Robert Frost - The Brain

" ROBERT FROST"
          THE BRAIN IS A WONDERFUL ORGAN,
          IT STARTS THE MINUTE YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING,
          AND DOES NOT STOP UNTIL YOU GET TO THE OFFICE.


                     "ROBERT FROST"   

Calvin and Hobb's - Its Hard to Know What's Important in Life


Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The Resonate Series Sampler IVP

An Introduction to the Resonate Series
“The last thing the world needs,” we hear every now and then from our readers, Is another commentary series.” 
They may have a point. The world has a seemingly limitless supply of commentaries on the sixty-six books of the Bible, and the nuances between them are often so fine that they could strain out a gnat.
So what, we are left to wonder, does the world need?

The Resonate Series Sampler IVP
Paul Louis Metzger

Monday, February 17, 2014

Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back,
the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields,
and until we meet again

may God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

James O. Fraser on Praying for Missionaries

James O. Fraser on Praying for Missionaries
(Beyond The Range- by Mrs. Howard Taylor pg 57 & 58 

It seems to be a big responsibility to be the only preacher of the Gospel within a radius of about 150 miles. I feel my weakness very much, yet the Lord seems to delight in making His power perfect in weakness, May I ask you then to remember me specially in prayer, asking God to use me to the salvation of many precious souls.
I am feeling more and more that it is, after all, just the prayers of Gods people that call down blessing upon the work, whether they are directly engaged in it or not.
Paul may plant and Apollos water, but it is God who gives the increase; and this increase can be brought down from heaven by believing prayer, whether offered in China or in the homeland. We are, as it were, God’s agents – used by Him to do His work not ours. We do our part and then can only look to Him, with others, for His blessing.
If this is so, Christians at home can do as much for foreign missions as those actually on the field. I believe it will be know only on the last day how much has been accomplished in missionary  work by the prayers of earnest believers at home. And this, surely, is the heart of the problem. Such work does not consist in curio tables, showing of slides, and the giving of reports. Good as this may be, they are only the fringe and not the root of the matter, solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees. What I count more than anything else is earnest, believing prayer, and I write to ask you to continue to put up much prayer for me and work here in Tengyueh.


An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity - Jonathan Edwards

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/trinity/files/trinity.html
JONATHAN EDWARDS
IT IS COMMON when speaking of the Divine happiness to say that God is infinitely happy in the enjoyment of Himself, in perfectly beholding and infinitely loving, and rejoicing in, His own essence and perfection, and accordingly it must be supposed that God perpetually and eternally has a most perfect idea of Himself, as it were an exact image and representation of Himself ever before Him and in actual view, and from hence arises a most pure and perfect act or energy in the Godhead, which is the Divine love, complacence and joy. The knowledge or view which God has of Himself must necessarily be conceived to be something distinct from His mere direct existence. There must be something that answers to our reflection. The reflection as we reflect on our own minds carries something of imperfection in it. However, if God beholds Himself so as thence to have delight and joy in Himself He must become his own object. There must be a duplicity. There is God and the idea of God, if it be proper to call a conception of that that is purely spiritual an idea. 

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