For those who gave !

Let us not forget !

Sad :-[

"An elderly couple who authorities described as hoarders were found buried under mounds of trash in their South Side two-flat Monday night and may have been there for as long as three weeks, authorities said."

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An elderly couple who authorities described as hoarders were found buried under mounds of trash in their South Side two-flat Monday night and may have been there for as long as three weeks, authorities said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/

Lap Top !

Here is one more futurist lap top.

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Hope you enjoy;

Mervi

Tey walk amoung us ! !

When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for.. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly.. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer... $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?]

When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach , California would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

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Have a few days ago I left a comment on the subject of imitating Christ. There was a comment that left me a little troubled. In that event here are my thoughts on being one who would seek to imitate our King and Redeemer.

And we have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. (Col 3:10)

Where fore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. (1 Cor 4:6)

Be ye followers of me, even as I am also of Christ. (1 Cor 11:1)

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; (Eph 5:1)


Note the word follower has the Strong’s number of 3402. Here is what Strong’s comment, “NT:3402
NT:3402
mimhth/$
mimetes (mim-ay-tace'); from NT:3401; an imitator:
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

Amplified Bible:
1 Cor 4:16
16 So I urge and implore you, be imitators of me.

1 Cor 11:1
1 PATTERN YOURSELVES after me [follow my example], as I imitate and follow Christ (the Messiah).


Just my thought today:
Mervi

What a picture !!

Following Jesus!

Why should Christians imitate Christ? They should do it for their own sakes. If they desire to be in a healthy state of soul--if they would escape the sickness of sin, and enjoy the vigour of growing grace, let Jesus be their model. For their own happiness' sake, if they would drink wine on the lees, well refined; if they would enjoy holy and happy communion with Jesus; if they would be lifted up above the cares and troubles of this world, let them walk even as He walked. There is nothing which can so assist you to walk towards heaven with good speed, as wearing the image of Jesus on your heart to rule all its motions. It is when, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you are enabled to walk with Jesus in His very footsteps, that you are most happy, and most known to be the sons of God.

Thought take from Spurgeon.

Ever had a day like this??

One neat photo !

Hark Mother’s Day commeth!!

This morning I am thinking of my mother and just one incident in my life with mom. Mother was a small woman; the most she ever weighed was about 113 when she was pregnant with my little sister. We had marks on the kitchen door jam her height and mine. She caught me one morning checking my height and sure enough I was just a tad taller. This to an early teen boy caught me funny and I started to laugh and taunt mother about me be bigger than she was. She just took the ruler I was using and had me stand back against the jam, “sure enough you are taller than me.” End of conversation, breakfast and off to play. Monday evening when she came home from work she came in with a bag in her hand and straight to the kitchen and behind the stove it went. Nothing was said. Saturday morning my curiosity was going mad, “Mom what did you put behind the stove?” “Glad you asked,” she went behind the stove and pulled out the bag. In the bag was a hard wood dowel about one inch in diameter and about three feet long, she just stood there and waved it back and forth like a ball bat. “Now that you are bigger than I am that means I can use any method I want to get your attention!” Take my word for it she did have my undivided attention!

Sodium BEWARE (?)

A MINORITY VIEW
BY WALTER WILLIAMS


America's tyrants have now turned their attention to salt, as reported in the Washington Post's article "FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons" (April 19, 2010). Why do food processors put a certain quantity of salt in their products? The answer is the people who buy their product like it and they earn profits by pleasing customers. The FDA has taken the position that what the American buying public wants is irrelevant. They know what's best and if you disagree, they will fine, jail or put you out of business.

Tyranny knows no bounds. Let's say that the FDA orders Stouffer's to no longer put 970 mg of sodium in their roasted turkey dinner; they mandate a maximum of 400 mg. Suppose Stouffer's customers, assuming they continue buying the product, add more salt -- what will the FDA do? The answer is easy. They will copy the successful anti-tobacco zealot template.

The above was lifted from:
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/10/SaltTyrants.htm

Just my thought for the day;

Mervi

With all the pollution that we have read about, listened to reports of and seen. My questions is this, who, what or how with the climate change people find to place heave fines upon for all of the pollutants which have been introduced into our atmosphere. These pollutants can do nothing less than hasten the affects of climate change.

Just my thoughts this afternoon;
Mervi

Should we keep a "line of demarcation?"

Josephus the Jewish historian wrote about the warning signs that were on the barrier that separated the court of the Gentiles from the other courts in the Temple. Orthodox Jews were serious about this line of demarcation. There was no proof of this barrier until recent times when archaeologists discovered one. Its seven-line inscription read as follows:

NO FOREIGNER
IS TO GO BEYOND THE BALUSTRADE
AND THE PLAZA OF THE TEMPLE ZONE
WHOEVER IS CAUGHT DOING SO
WILL HAVE HIMSELF TO BLAME
FOR HIS DEATH
WHICH WILL FOLLOW

Barrowed from Bro JR Ensey's blog.

To put it bluntly, is it possible to honor the image of God in a human being if there is no God?

Saint Augustine’s phrase, “deafened by the clanking chains of mortality.”


When God rebuked the Israelite's for their idolatry, He was not condemning their urge to worship. Rather, he condemned them for seeking those things from senseless hunks of wood and iron instead of from Himself.


What is the cost of God’s self –restraint?


The book of Exodus mentions the names of the two midwifes but neglects to identify the Pharaoh.

Some random thoughts lifted from, Finding God in unexpected places, author Philip Yancey.