tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437964542052755799.post2553653392438786292..comments2024-02-13T08:49:07.287-04:00Comments on 'Thought & Humor!': Humor Cartoons!Professor Howdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12189934292678757335noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437964542052755799.post-82336944198976125452010-06-15T09:33:07.877-03:002010-06-15T09:33:07.877-03:00'Thought & Humor' has been read in al...'Thought & Humor' has been read in all 50 States,<br />all 230 Countries, 7 Continents, Oxford, Cambridge,<br />every Ivy League School & all major American<br />Universities including UNC!!! <br /> <br />===============<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />The Roman emperor Diocletian, following an edict in 303 A.D.,<br />failed to stamp the Bible out. The French Revolution could not<br />crush it with secular philosophy (Rousseau, one of its heroes,<br />converted to Christianity). The Communists failed to stamp it<br />out with atheism and political ideology. One might well ask why<br />this book has been banned, burned, and bludgeoned with such<br />animosity and scorn. The great Reformation hero John Calvin<br />responds in this way: "Whenever people slander God's word.<br />they show they feel within its power, however unwillingly or<br />reluctantly." - Joe Boot<br /><br /> <br />===============<br /><br /><br />To find out how you can begin a personal <br />relationship with Jesus Christ, please call:<br /><br />1-888-NEED HIM.<br /><br /><br /><br />===============<br /> <br /> <br />Wist u dat de God van u houdt?<br />Avez-vous su que Dieu vous aime ?<br />Wußten Sie, daß Gott Sie liebt?<br />Avete saputo che il dio li ama?<br />Você soube que o deus o ama?<br />¿Usted sabía que el dios le ama?<br /><br />http://everystudent.com/menus/intl.html<br />http://www.yoursforlife.net/alpha/<br />http://www.needhim.org/<br />http://www.everystudent.com/videoroom.php<br /> <br /> <br />===============<br /> <br /><br />Your very own library:<br /> <br />http://bible.crosswalk.com/<br /> <br />(Not amalgamated with 'Thought & Humor') <br /><br /><br />===============<br /><br />Dr. Howdy says: "FORWARD TO FRIENDS & YOUR MAMA!"<br />First Published In Last Century - July 26,1997 <br />Thought For The OPEN Mind - Humor From American Culture<br /><br />===============<br /><br />If you stop believing what your professor told you had to be true<br />and if you start thinking for yourself you may come to some<br />conclusions you hadn't expected. You may find the Bible makes<br />more sense than you thought or were told to think. Allow yourself<br />to be ruined, ruined with regard to what you always thought could<br />be true. Can you believe what you don't understand? You and I<br />believe everyday what we don't understand unless it comes to<br />the issue of salvation. - - - Dr. Woodrow Kroll<br /><br /> <br />===============<br /><br />There is simply no historic foundation for the position that the<br />Framers intended to build the 'wall of separation' that was<br />constitutionalized in Everson. The 'wall of separation be-<br />tween church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history,<br />a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging.<br />It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. <br /> - - - Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, William Rehnquist<br /> <br /><br />===============<br /><br /> <br />In 1796 the US Supreme Court issued this ruling, "By our form<br />of government, the Christian religion is the established religion,<br />and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed on<br />equal footing." Some 57 years later, after Congress was<br />petitioned to separate Christian principles from government,<br />in 1853 the House Judiciary Committee issued their formal<br />report, including these words: "In this age there is no substitute<br />for Christianity. This was the religion of the founders of the republic,<br />and they expected it to be the religion of their dependents. The<br />great vital, conservative elements in our system is the belief of<br />our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the gospel<br />of Jesus Christ." - - - Dr. Gerald BeavanProfessor Howdyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189934292678757335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-437964542052755799.post-70360617686668828412009-06-25T13:09:23.478-03:002009-06-25T13:09:23.478-03:00Sorting Things Out
“Do not love the world, nor th...Sorting Things Out<br /><br />“Do not love the world, nor the things in the world” (1 John 2:15). These are strong words, and when I first heard them as a young Christian they were given more weight than they might be in certain quarters today. As a new believer, I sought guidance on how I should then live, and was duly rewarded with an appropriate set of prohibitions. The instruction was largely of the “don’t do this” or “avoid that” variety. I quickly grasped that the main agenda was to avoid contamination. This is what Dallas Willard describes as “the gospel of sin management.”<br />Armed with my first burst of enthusiasm and zeal for my newly born faith, I took to the “not doing” and “avoidance” with a missionary zeal that would have put William Booth to shame. I read books on the exchanged life; I was stirred to ask why revival tarries. I was sure that the sloppy, half-hearted, and mediocre life I was living was a denial of true Christianity and a mockery of the real thing. Yet my focus<br />on withdrawal, personal holiness, and “my” purity became, however subtly, a distraction. I was more occupied with me and less with Christ. My internal state, feelings, and spiritual condition (as I saw it), totally filled my horizons.<br /><br />The great reformer Martin Luther suffered similar preoccupations in his time. He obsessed about sins, he feared God’s wrath, he longed for a divine welcome. His awakening to what he called an “alien righteousness” (something provided by another for him) shattered his self indulgent illusions and opened up a world rooted in God’s amazing grace and mercy. Luther learned what so many have had to learn since; namely, that salvation is the gift of God’s grace. We can’t earn it, work for it, wrestle it to the ground, or fight for it. It is God’s gracious, merciful gift (cf. Ephesians 2:8-9).<br /><br /><br />MORE:<br />http://inaij.notlong.comRavi Zachariashttp://www.rzim.org/slice/slice.phpnoreply@blogger.com