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Tag: Jesus

Advent

By JGillman, Section Multimedia
Posted on Sat Dec 07, 2013 at 09:54:23 AM EST
Tags: Advent, Christmas, Hope, Waiting, Jesus (all tags)

A few days late if one was to say this post should be at the START, (Advent began Sunday, December 1, 2013, and ends Tuesday, December 24, 2013.) but KG's post inspired this.

Originally pulled from here, this is a great way to spread the word of hope quickly.

Here's to the reason for the season!

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We Do Need God.

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Thu Sep 01, 2011 at 09:58:40 AM EST
Tags: God, Jesus, Christ, King of Kings, Yahweh, Holy Spirit, Infinite Spirit, Jah, Jehovah, Almighty, Creator, Divine Being, Father (all tags)

Grand Rapids has a new look. And it is ugly.

In the largely Dutch Christian part of the state, a group calling themselves the "Center For Inquiry" is blowing $2.700.00 a month for a billboard that declares "you don't need God." WZZM 13 in Grand Rapids' story has the spokesperson (at about 1:10 ) declaring:

"we're good people we have morals, we have good ethics, we give back to our communities. ..."

One must ask first "WHY would anyone spend that kind of cash to advance a negative goal?" Secondly, who (or what) should we believe in? as a common decider of fate? Walmart? Them? The government?

Perhaps that is the problem we face.

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Happy Easter

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 09:40:03 AM EST
Tags: Jesus, Easter, Renewal (all tags)

The theological comparison to our country's trials should not be missed. The gift given to us by God, of a country, and a system, so nearly perfect, should be appreciated so much more even now as we overlook the ruins of its torturous demise.

It too shall rise again.

Rebirth, hope, and the promise of life again.
Happy Easter

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A pro-life question on Christmas Day

By Theblogprof, Section News
Posted on Fri Dec 25, 2009 at 05:17:56 PM EST
Tags: Bible, Christmas, Jesus, abortion (all tags)

Today is the day we celebrate the birth of the savior of all mankind. But there is a story with a strong pro-life message in the days before Jesus birth. God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth to Mary to inform her of the high honor of bearing Jesus, after which Mary, who at the time was a young teenager about 13 years of age and unmarried, fled to Judea for obvious reasons. She visited her relative Elizabeth who was 6 months pregnant with John the Baptist. From Luke 1 (NIV):

39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 In a loud voice she exclaimed: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! 43 But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45 Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!"

A few things in this segment. First, Mary was so early into the pregancy that Jesus couldn't have been more than what we refer to these days as a zygote. Note however that Elizabeth refers to Mary as a mother, way before she was to give birth. She even refers to her own unborn baby as a baby. Not a fetus or a lump of cells but a conscious baby no different in personhood than one born. And John the Baptists already had a special sensory perception that he recognized being in the presence of Jesus, who again was little more than a zygote at the time. In the biblical view, a zygote is no different than a fetus that is no different than a born baby. All are identified with the exact same greek word that translates into "baby." It is a lesson that we in the pro-life community know all too well, and one that the pro-abort community tries to bury at every chance.

But here's the chilling part of Mary's story in the context of today's pop culture, and one that should leave a shudder down the spine of any pro-abort that calls themselves Christian: if abortion were legal 2000 years ago, and Mary went on to have an abortion in Judea, what would she have aborted?