No pun intended…. but very well put!

L A U G H   A L L   T H E    W A Y   H O M E ! ! !

 

The Three Little Pigs  by   Chonda Pierce

Baby I can see you’re Halo…..

In the very beginning I asked you sincere….
Can I call you Angel, my sweet friend so dear?

You looked at me with humility and grace,
as if you had not heard.
But in the pits of my hell
you just showed me God’s word,

I continued to ask you again and again…
Can I call you Angel, for you‘re more than a friend?

Then you started to love all my deep pain away,
You helped clear my mind of what the world had to say,
You showed me the path of a love greater than yours,
You said to let go of the pain and the wars,

through the battles I fought,
and yet asked again…
“Can I call you Angel, my lover, my friend?”

Not once have you answered this question of mine,
But I hope that you see through this journey of time,
That God sent you to me, to love and to care
to help lighten my load when it was too hard to bare.
And though you can’t see your own wings so bright,
I see them each day and Christ’s glorious light.

So this time… I say, I don’t ask – yet I know,
that I carry your love and the light that you’ve showed,
God knows each man’s heart and I know yours is true.

So I call you My Angel
and I will always love you.

 

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A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. – James Dent

At my house, “Dust” is a noun, not a verb. – Anonymous

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. – Phyllis Diller

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? – Phyllis Diller

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. – C.E. Cowman

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. – Phyllis Diller

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy. – Shirley Conran

I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner. – Roseanne Barr

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. – Anonymous

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it. – Dottie Archibald

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. – Anonymous

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. – Erma Bombeck

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? – Erma Bombeck

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. – Anne Gibbons

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duck tape to make them stop. – G.M. Weilacher

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they’d never clean anything. – Dave Barry

This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, “Honey, do this,” and “Honey, do that” around the house. – Jim Lemon

Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. – Chuck Clark

The world seems to be going so fast in the wrong direction. I don’t know if any of you have ever listened to any of Bishop Jakes sermons – but they are pretty powerful. I work for several different churches and faith based ministries and I can’t tell you how tiring it is to try and figure out what each one truly believes.

Traditional churches are dying. I’m not saying that to be confrontational, I wouldn’t work for so many religious organizations if I didn’t believe that there was something in them worth saving. I’m sure many people would disagree with me very passionately on that issue as well, especially with all of the media exposure regarding different “Churches” in the news right now.

This link to T. D. Jakes sermon (7 Steps to a Turn Around) is about exposure. Exposure is a good thing but we have to remember that “pain is not prejudice”. We can’t judge all of the people within a church based on one or two worshippers that have chosen greed and fleshly desires over Christ. Satan’s mission is to destroy the actual body of Christ – which is made up of many wonderful Christians that exist in all churches, denominations and walks of life.

The persecution of the churches is beginning.
Don’t be so blind that you don’t see what’s coming.
People need to really start feeling what is going on
in their own homes, their schools and their communities.

Call it whatever you want to – but if you are in a church where there is no Spirit – you need to have faith and move on;
and if you are in a church that is being persecuted but full of Spirit – you need to have faith and stand strong;
and if you are in no church at all but know the Lord – you need to have faith and step outside the box;
and whatever you do – remember that the word of God is the supreme authority – NOT the words of man.

Nobody has the power to judge you or what you believe, that will always be between you and God alone.
It’s time to test all spirits and expose them for what they are – as painful as it may be on us all.

People need to step outside the box – get out of the closet – do something – walk the walk – make a difference in whatever walk of life God has placed you – there is a reason!

This is a snippet of a CNN commentary given by TD Jakes on behalf of the Potter’s House.  It just really hit me hard. The oppression of this world is getting heavier each day – we all need as much hope as we can find.

 ”…..Many people can talk the talk of King and his messages, but there are many who choose to focus on walking the walk. We walk the walk……”

“…In light of Alan Greenspan confirming what many of us have already suspected — that we are in the midst of a recession, I would ask all churches as well as the media to help guide and encourage us through the storm of fuel bills, lost homes, lost jobs and the untold effects of this recession.

I see this article as providing a battle cry to churches of all ethnicities and denominations to not allow the perceptions of the few to distract us and prejudice us from the needs of the many.

On behalf of the 30,000 members of our church and the 4,000 volunteers who work in our various programs, not to mention the staff and our countless supporters around the world who love our church and its work, please do not malign our identity or castigate our mission.

In the final analysis of why people attend church or why they select this church over another one, or follow this minister over that minister, the answer is simple; people go to a church where they feel comfortable, where they feel their needs are being met and where they feel that they are getting assistance with the many issues that confront them in these troubled times.”

If you have been struggling with sickness, anxiety or depression,
I guarantee you will feel better after listening to this series by Joyce Meyer!

The Celebration of Life – Part 1     Listen to the broadcast

The Celebration of Life – Part 2     Listen to the broadcast

The Celebration of Life – Part 3     Listen to the broadcast

http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/Broadcast/Radio/Archive/

 

Lebanese shouting ‘Death to Israel’ get a fright.
Ground opens on Temple Mount. 

An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale originated in southern Lebanon shortly after midday Friday as tens of thousands of Lebanese were marching through the streets of Lebanon calling for Israel’s destruction.

The quake was felt throughout Israel, rocking buildings along the coastal plain, but causing no damage or injury.

According to one report, a hole six foot wide opened on the Temple Mount as a result of the seismic event. 

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EARTHQUAKES AND THE BIBLE by Lambert Dolphin  
Article in its entirety located at: http://www.ldolphin.org/quakes.html

Scripture is clear that God fully controls nature, through the rule of certain angels (Heb. 2:5). There are no accidents in His universe. When Jesus died on the cross, the end of his life was punctuated by a severe earthquake on April 11, 32 AD, (Ref 4) following a strange three-hour darkness covering the land,

“…Jesus cried again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth shook, and the rocks were split; the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe, and said, ‘Truly this was the Son of God!’” (Matt. 27:50-54)

A second great earthquake occurred on Easter morning according to Matt. 28:2 at the time of the resurrection. Evidently these two earthquakes have not yet been noted in any archaeological site damage thus far excavated.

Another “providential” earthquake recorded in the Bible was the Lord’s means of releasing Paul and Silas from jail in Philippi. The terrified jailer and his family fled for refuge not out of the city, but into the kingdom of God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, (Acts 16:11-40).

The giving of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai was accompanied by a frightening earthquake (Exodus 19:16-18). Earthquakes symbolize judgment not grace—so it is not surprising that great world-wide earthquakes will characterize the end of the age in which we live. This is indicated by the imagery of Rev. 4:5 (the rainbow is the corresponding symbol of grace, Rev. 4:3, Gen. 9:11-17). The writer of Hebrews quoting Haggai 2:6,7 tells us that the coming shaking of creation will affect not only the earth but also the heavenly places and the host of heaven, i.e., the angels,

“See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. His voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, ‘Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.’ This phrase, ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of what is shaken, as of what has been made, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.” (Heb. 12:25-29)

There can be no doubt (according to the Bible) that severe world-wide earthquakes will break out during the approaching great tribulation period. A major earthquake in the end-time is mentioned in Rev. 6:12, at the opening of the Sixth seal. Since “the sun will be darkened and the full moon become like blood,” and the “stars will fall from heaven” it seems that this earthquake may be associated with some cataclysmic disturbance such as the near approach of some previously undetected object from space. Isaiah predicted this event,

“And men shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. In that day men will cast forth their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.” (Is. 2:19-21, cp. Rev. 6:15-17)

Bible scholars are divided as to the timing of the Northern invasion of Israel. Some see this as occurring prior to the rapture, others place this event in the first half of the tribulation period. Those scholars who prefer to view the coming invasion of Gog and Magog as part of the campaign of Armageddon (also Joel 2, Isaiah 24 and Daniel 11) call attention to the great earthquake described by Ezekiel,

“For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. I will summon every kind of terror against Gog, says the Lord GOD; every man’s sword will be against his brother. With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples that are with him, torrential rains and hailstones, fire and brimstone. So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” (Ezek. 38:19-23)

The third group of scholars, just referred to, place this earthquake as identical with one of the events described in Rev. 8:5, 11:19 (comp. Luke 21:25-27) or 16:18. The seven bowls of wrath seem to cascade out of the seventh trumpet, and the seven trumpets out of the seventh seal, therefore these three linked earthquakes of increasing intensity seem to be closely linked or could possibly be a single event (Ref 5). Revelation 16 adds further information about this greatest-of-all earthquakes which follows immediately after the martyrdom of God’s two witnesses on the Temple Mount:

“The seventh angel poured his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, ‘It is done!’ And there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as had never been since men were on the earth, so great was that earthquake. The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered great Babylon, to make her drain the cup of the fury of his wrath. And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found; and great hailstones, heavy as a hundred-weight, dropped on men from heaven, till men cursed God for the plague of the hail, so fearful was that plague.” (Rev. 16:17-21).

Not only is Jerusalem severely shaken at this time but the cities of the nations also. Evidently the topography of Eretz Israel will be drastically altered at this time as well. Islands “flee away” and mountains disappear , apparently around the globe.

Jesus was last seen departing this earth from atop the Mt. of Olives 40 days after the resurrection, promising through two angels to return “in like manner.” A known East-West earthquake fault transects the Mt. of Olives in Jerusalem. Tourists today often stand at the very spot overlooking the Temple Mount to the West and the Wilderness of Judea and the Dead Sea to the East. It is there that Jesus, the Lord, will stand in the not-too-distant future to trigger earth’s last terrible earthquake and the dawning of the long-awaited golden age of peace on earth.

“…On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half southward. And the valley of my mountains shall be stopped up, for the valley of the mountains shall touch the side of it; and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD your God will come, and all the holy ones with him. On that day there shall be neither cold nor frost. And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the LORD), not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light. On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it shall continue in summer as in winter (Ref 6). And the LORD will become king over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be one and his name one. The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem.” (Zech. 14:2-10)

Haggai’s words quoted in Hebrews 12 were written originally to encourage the remnant of the Jews who returned to Jerusalem from Babylon to build the Second Temple. Old timers who remembered the Temple of Solomon were discouraged at their modest capabilities to build a temple worthy of the Lord. In challenging them to continue, Haggai spoke prophetically of two distant, future events. First, the Second Temple (enlarged by Herod) would in fact be visited by the Messiah. Yeshua indeed brought the glory of God into God’s house, a glory much greater than the gold and silver of Solomon. Haggai’s word also looks ahead to a final temple during Messiah’s rule from Jerusalem. The coming of Messiah will be ushered in by a great shaking of all creation:

“For thus says the LORD of hosts; ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, says the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace,’ says the LORD of hosts.”

FOOTNOTES

* I will revise this paragraph shortly in view of the ambiguities in various methods of reporting earthquake magnitudes and the newer standards coming into use. See National Geographic, Vol. 187, No. 4, April 1995.

1. Frank Press and Raymond Siever, Earth,W.H. Freeman Co., San Francisco, 1974. Special thanks also to Geologist Steve Connelly for inputs and suggestions.

2. The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Earthquakes in the Holy Land, documentary video by Prof. Amos Nur, Stanford University. Available from ESI Productions, PO Box 2365, Stanford, CA 94309. For more on the great earthquake in the Days of Uzziah see Gordon Franz, Institute of Holy Land Studies, Jerusalem, and Steve Austin, Institute of Creation Research, San Diego, The “Big One” Hits the Mediterranean: An Archaeological Appraisal of the Earthquake in the Days on King Uzziah. Available from the authors.

3. Sodom and Gomorrah,by Dr. Bryant Wood, video documentary of recent archaeological research. Associates of Biblical Research, PO Box 125, Ephrata, PA 17522. Tar pits in the area are mentioned in Gen. 14:10.

4. See Chuck Missler, The Unexpected King, March 1992 Personal Update. Available from Koinonia House, PO Box D. Couer d’Alene, Idaho 83816-0347.

5. God’s Final Word, Understanding Revelation,Ray C. Stedman, Discovery House, Grand Rapids, 1991, page 341.

6. See also Ezek. 47:1-12 and Joel 3:18.

The eagle soars because it’s not afraid. Born with nothing but the sky to look at, its aspirations could be no higher. From a hatchling the eagle strives to grow, craving nourishment, attacking its own kind to survive, pushing itself and others to make way for the world it wishes to see. The eagle doesn’t fail because of high expectations. The drop from the nest is a long one, but the longer the fall – the more time the eagle has to learn how to fly. The young eagle has no direction, only the wide open blue sky. Where there is no sky, they learn not to fly. When eagles tire, they return to the shelter of the wings and rest. They won’t ever get discouraged of leaving the comfort of the nest because they know what lies beyond is much greater and more fulfilling. How could they not jump from the safety of their cliffs when they know the freedom that lies outside? Nobody told them they could fly; they simply tried and realized they could. Eagles deserve to soar because they believe they can fly before they can.

I’m sure that in our human stupidity we are probably contributing to the heating of the planet in many ways, but for the most part, the dramatic changes in weather and climate are caused by the natural rotation of the earth around its oblong axis. Surely everyone was paying attention in high school science, right? Didn’t your mother ever teach you that you would need that education some day?

The earth rotates around the sun in an elliptical pattern rather than a circular one. When the orbit is highly elliptical, one hemisphere will have hot summers and cold winters; the other hemisphere will have warm summers and cool winters. Many different things affect the motion of the earth as it rotates on its axis. Let’s face the truth here, this is Science 101.

Nutation is a slight irregular motion in the axis of rotation of earth (and other planets in our solar system). The process is slow, but cumulative. If the Earth were a perfect sphere, there would be no precession. Nutation occurs because the tidal forces which cause the precession of the equinoxes vary over time, so that the speed of precession is not constant. This leads to periodic climate changes known as the Milankovitch cycle. The Milankovitch cycle equals about a 1 degree change every 71.6 years. Another disturbance of the Earth’s rotation is called polar motion. Polar motion is influenced by various unpredictable things such as ocean currents, wind systems, and motions in the Earth’s core. Changes in these factors can cause radiation levels to rise all the way to 15% at high latitudes… so in simple terms, the ice plates start melting, the ocean temperatures change, wild weather starts occurring and we all become warmer.

If you study the patterns of earth, it is very simple to understand that over the next 10,000 years, northern hemisphere winters will gradually become longer and northern hemisphere summers will become shorter. The closer we tilt toward the sun, the hotter we get, the further we tilt away, the colder it gets (as in the ice age). This is just the nature of our planet.

In other words…. the earth is only going through its own self-healing process (imagine that) and there is nothing we can do to slow it down or stop it, at least nothing that will make a huge impact as some people imply.

God is in control and always has been!

SO there Al Gore