Matthew 11 28-30 "Come to Me,All who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, AND YOU WILL FIND REST WITH YOUR SOULS.For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Y2K10
I. Expect Apostasy
II. Expect Hostility
II. Expect to be Used
Apostasy-Falling away from the truth of scripture.It
will engulf the earth before Jesus returns.True
believers will be safe in His hands.They shall never
perish.Be vigilant-study well.
The world is not going to become more friendly to
christians.
Do not modify the church for the world.
John 15:20 2 Corinthians 4:7-10
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Sufficiency of Scripture Conference -Free Give Away
From Perry
Your probably asking yourself what in the world do all three of the above have to do with one another. Let me illuminate you.
1.I needed to write this post yesterday
2.It's about the NCFIC.org "Sufficiency of Scripture Conference" and I REALLY wish I were there.
3.They are selling the audio messages from the conference @ a presale discount until the conference ends (in a few hours) so the "supplies" of discounted audio sets are very limited. Hurry up and you can still get yours for a 22% discount -- FOR A LIMITED TIME!!!
But wait there's more! (no really there is )
Giveaway----http://inashoe.com/2009/12/ncfic_giveaway/?awesm=fbshare.me_MSu9
Due to my high level connections at the NCFIC I have been able to arrange to give away 3 sets of the full conference audio! Now I'm having the giveaway for the sole purpose of helping to spread the word about all the hard word the men over at the NCFIC are doing, specifically the "2009 Sufficiency of Scripture Conference". So if you will help me to spread the word I will enter you in a drawing for one of three audio sets from the 2009 SOS conference.
Here is how I'd like you to help.
Blog, Facebook, or Twitter links to the NCFIC.org blog and conference audio sale. Then comeback here and leave a comment to let me know where and how you helped get the word out by leaving a comment and a link to your post.
Link to any or all of the following
Conference Page: http://www.ncfic.org/national-conference
NCFIC Blog: http://ncfic.org/conferenceaudiopreorder
NCFIC Conference Audio sale page: http://ncfic.org/conferenceaudiopreorder
I will leave the giveaway open until Wed the 16th of December.
(one last link: NCFIC.org facebook page http://www.facebook.com/NCFIC?ref=ts )
UPDATE: Link back to the giveaway for an extra entry in the drawing
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Your probably asking yourself what in the world do all three of the above have to do with one another. Let me illuminate you.
1.I needed to write this post yesterday
2.It's about the NCFIC.org "Sufficiency of Scripture Conference" and I REALLY wish I were there.
3.They are selling the audio messages from the conference @ a presale discount until the conference ends (in a few hours) so the "supplies" of discounted audio sets are very limited. Hurry up and you can still get yours for a 22% discount -- FOR A LIMITED TIME!!!
But wait there's more! (no really there is )
Giveaway----http://inashoe.com/2009/12/ncfic_giveaway/?awesm=fbshare.me_MSu9
Due to my high level connections at the NCFIC I have been able to arrange to give away 3 sets of the full conference audio! Now I'm having the giveaway for the sole purpose of helping to spread the word about all the hard word the men over at the NCFIC are doing, specifically the "2009 Sufficiency of Scripture Conference". So if you will help me to spread the word I will enter you in a drawing for one of three audio sets from the 2009 SOS conference.
Here is how I'd like you to help.
Blog, Facebook, or Twitter links to the NCFIC.org blog and conference audio sale. Then comeback here and leave a comment to let me know where and how you helped get the word out by leaving a comment and a link to your post.
Link to any or all of the following
Conference Page: http://www.ncfic.org/national-conference
NCFIC Blog: http://ncfic.org/conferenceaudiopreorder
NCFIC Conference Audio sale page: http://ncfic.org/conferenceaudiopreorder
I will leave the giveaway open until Wed the 16th of December.
(one last link: NCFIC.org facebook page http://www.facebook.com/NCFIC?ref=ts )
UPDATE: Link back to the giveaway for an extra entry in the drawing
ShareThis
Related posts:
1.Pajama School giveaways
2.Christian Families at the Crossroads: giveaway
3.A fast contest….
4.Charlie’s Soap giveaway
5.2 quick things of interest
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Filed under: Dad's corner, Huh? Category?, giveaways & deals
Friday, December 4, 2009
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Monday, November 23, 2009
An Article about Tatoos at church-Not Kidding -Leave us speechless!!
Tattoos at Mill Creek church pierce skin, soul
A Mill Creek church invited its members to be tattooed during Sunday services.
By Nick Perry
Seattle Times staff reporter
ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Above: Matt Sawdon covers Erica Armendariz's tattoo with plastic after working on her religious iconography at Sunday's 10:30 a.m. service at the Gold Creek Community Church in Mill Creek. Below left: Armendariz started her tattoo with religious images a year ago.
ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Erica Armendariz, 24, a hairdresser and member of the church, started her tattoo with religious images about a year ago. She wants to share what she believes in- faith and family- through art. On one arm, there is a guardian angel, a sacred heart, a cross and a ribbon with the words.
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The sight of a woman being tattooed live on the altar accompanied by the sound of a buzzing ink gun provided a startling backdrop to Sunday's evangelical sermon.
Your parent's church service this was not. In the drive to stay relevant, the Gold Creek Community Church has been hosting a series called "Permanent Ink" that featured Sunday's live-tattoo finale.
The Mill Creek church is not exactly staid — booming 20-minute rock sets launch regular sermons — yet the pastors acknowledge this series was pushing societal norms.
"We've said from the start that we are not advocating tattoos — nor discouraging them," said pastor Larry Ehoff.
"We think of it as amoral. It's neither immoral nor moral, it's just the choice of a person."
Ehoff said the church is telling the same story of Jesus as always, it's just finding different ways to tell it.
Sharon Snell was one of several congregants who volunteered to be tattooed Sunday. At the noon service, she got on stage and faced away from about 150 parishioners while tattoo artist Matt Sawdon worked on the image of a police shield on her lower back.
It was Snell's third tattoo and represents her husband's work as an Everett police officer. Snell said last month's shooting death of Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton forced her to confront the fragility of life and the dangers inherent in her husband's job.
"Anything can happen at any time," Snell said. "Him being an officer is a big part of my life and of who I am."
As Snell's tattoo took shape, pastor Dan Kellogg told the congregation that permanent markings, both good and evil, are mentioned in the Bible. The most famous symbol, he said, is "666," the sign of the devil.
But there's also mention in the Bible of markings on Jesus, saying he is the king of kings and lord of lords, Kellogg said.
Another congregant who volunteered was Erica Armendariz, who was getting work done on an arm tattoo she calls her "faith sleeve."
A Mill Creek church invited its members to be tattooed during Sunday services.
By Nick Perry
Seattle Times staff reporter
ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Above: Matt Sawdon covers Erica Armendariz's tattoo with plastic after working on her religious iconography at Sunday's 10:30 a.m. service at the Gold Creek Community Church in Mill Creek. Below left: Armendariz started her tattoo with religious images a year ago.
ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Erica Armendariz, 24, a hairdresser and member of the church, started her tattoo with religious images about a year ago. She wants to share what she believes in- faith and family- through art. On one arm, there is a guardian angel, a sacred heart, a cross and a ribbon with the words.
Related
Gallery | Gold Creek Community Church tattoo service
See more mapped stories
The sight of a woman being tattooed live on the altar accompanied by the sound of a buzzing ink gun provided a startling backdrop to Sunday's evangelical sermon.
Your parent's church service this was not. In the drive to stay relevant, the Gold Creek Community Church has been hosting a series called "Permanent Ink" that featured Sunday's live-tattoo finale.
The Mill Creek church is not exactly staid — booming 20-minute rock sets launch regular sermons — yet the pastors acknowledge this series was pushing societal norms.
"We've said from the start that we are not advocating tattoos — nor discouraging them," said pastor Larry Ehoff.
"We think of it as amoral. It's neither immoral nor moral, it's just the choice of a person."
Ehoff said the church is telling the same story of Jesus as always, it's just finding different ways to tell it.
Sharon Snell was one of several congregants who volunteered to be tattooed Sunday. At the noon service, she got on stage and faced away from about 150 parishioners while tattoo artist Matt Sawdon worked on the image of a police shield on her lower back.
It was Snell's third tattoo and represents her husband's work as an Everett police officer. Snell said last month's shooting death of Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton forced her to confront the fragility of life and the dangers inherent in her husband's job.
"Anything can happen at any time," Snell said. "Him being an officer is a big part of my life and of who I am."
As Snell's tattoo took shape, pastor Dan Kellogg told the congregation that permanent markings, both good and evil, are mentioned in the Bible. The most famous symbol, he said, is "666," the sign of the devil.
But there's also mention in the Bible of markings on Jesus, saying he is the king of kings and lord of lords, Kellogg said.
Another congregant who volunteered was Erica Armendariz, who was getting work done on an arm tattoo she calls her "faith sleeve."
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The Loneliness of the Christian
by A. W. Tozer
The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone.
The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.
The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens.
He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.
It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else."
The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone.
The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.
The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens.
He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.
It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else."