Rev. Cynthia Holder Rich
Cynthia Holder Rich is a Presbyterian pastor and educator. She has served several congregations, most recently in Findlay, Ohio. For the past four years, she has served on the faculty of theology at Tumaini University Makumira, near Arusha, Tanzania.
Cynthia comes from a family of pastors. Her dad, a great uncle, a great-great-grandfather, and two siblings were/are pastors—and Cynthia is also married to a pastor, Mark Rich. Cynthia’s mother was a musician and music teacher. Both of Cynthia’s parents completed graduate degrees when Cynthia was young. Growing up in this family instilled in Cynthia a deep love of music, which led to college study of the subject, and of learning. Cynthia is an avid reader, generally reading multiple books at any moment, and is always up for discussion of what different authors have to say.
Cynthia is a lifelong Presbyterian and has been deeply engaged in ministries at all levels of the church. She has a significant network of friends and colleagues across the Presbyterian (Church) USA and in corresponding denominations. Cynthia looks forward to working with the Session to inviting guests to Corinth to resource our ministries.
Throughout her pastoral career, Cynthia has worked with believers in ministries that strive to build up people and communities, bringing life and healing and giving glory to the God of life. Cynthia is impressed with what she has read and heard about the life and ministry of Corinth Presbyterian Church. She is grateful for the nomination of the Session to become Pastor and is excited about learning more about the congregation and its ministries.


One of the greatest joys that I have in the ministry is to see people make decisions for the Lord. As our church has grown, and many have made decisions, we felt that it was time to look at organizing our new church. This entails a lot of preparation since many of the people were new and some had just recently trusted Christ as their Savior. We started out having membership classes where we explain everything from what it means to be a member to why we are a Baptist Church. We also cover some of the basics of what we believe, with the goal of making sure that each person understands these things before becoming a member. In the past we just accepted people as members without going over any of these details and found out that many were becoming members, but really didn’t believe the doctrines and philosophy that we have as a church. At the end of eight to ten weeks of classes, and answering many of their questions and doubts, we had a good group that was interested in becoming members. In preparation for the service we also planned to have baptisms since several had never been baptized. This was what we covered in the first lesson on membership, that each person must be saved and baptized to be a member. On that Sunday we had the baptistry (a small pool) ready in the churches yard for those who were going to take this step of obedience. We were very excite that there were eight in total that were baptized including Titus our son. For the organization service we had a legal book with our constitution and statement in the front with a place to sign afterwards. So far we have had close to twenty that signed the book as founding members of the church. We will leave it open for a couple of months for anyone else that makes the decision to be a member. We praise the Lord that this new church has been established and we pray that the Lord will use it greatly.


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Women Organizing Women, Inc. is a non-profit Christian-based, community-oriented organization that collaborates with partners and non-profit community leaders to provide support, resources and tools that will educate, empower, inspire and assist them in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ through evangelistic outreach efforts, thereby building and impacting their local communities. The mission of WOW is to provide the tools, training and other resources to nonprofit community leaders who are called to impact the lives of God’s people.The President of the WOW Board of Directors is expected to review and understand the organization's articles of incorporation and by-laws, policies and procedures, financial and legal situation, and strategic plan. As the board ambassador, the President acts as a spokesperson for the organization to the community. She speaks in public on behalf of the organization and advocates for the cause and mission of WOW. By modeling appropriate behavior, the President sets high standards for board conduct and intervenes if conflicts of interest or confidentiality issues arise. The president should also feel comfortable delegating tasks to other board members.
- Working with the board's governance committee, the President recruits new board members whose vision aligns with the organization.
- The President appoints committee chairs and serves ex officio on committees.
- The President is in charge of the Executive Director and board member performance evaluations and succession planning, and plays a crucial role in new board member orientation.
- The President works with the Executive Director to make sure board resolutions are carried out. Together, they set the agendas which are focused on key strategic issues.
- The President is also expected to take the lead in raising funds by making personal contributions and asking board members to do the same.
- President role is to help to organize social functions to raise funds and maintain visibility in the community.
- Bachelor’s degree (Masters preferred)
- 5+ years of experience of demonstrated community leadership and the ability to lead the board in handling difficult issues.
- Strong group dynamic skills are required to keep meetings running smoothly and to deal with any conflicts that may arise.
- Solid, hands-on, budget management skills, and decision-making skills.
- Strong organizational skills including planning, delegating, program development and task facilitation.
- Ability to convey the vision and mission of WOW’s strategic future to staff, board, volunteers and donors.
- Knowledge of fundraising strategies and donor relations unique to the nonprofit sector.
- Strong written and oral communication skills including public speaking.
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Ida is a native of Arkansas, and the wife of Marvin Bell, (42 yrs) a mother of four with four grandchildren. She has been a member of The View Church for 12 years, and currently holds the position of Co-chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior, she held the position of Corporate secretary for three years. She was a Chartered member of True Fellowship Baptist Church in Los Angeles California where she held the position of Chief Financial Officer for 36 years.
She attended Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City Oklahoma where she majored in psychology with a minor in sociology and biblical teaching. Ida has been a member of Bible Study Fellowship an international and-international.
Bible study for the past 25 years where she has had the privilege of teaching God's word, training leaders, leading group members and shepherding.
Ida loves to cook, bake, preserve different foods, entertain, decorate her home and care for those in need. But most importantly she loves the Lord and her goal is to become more like Jesus as she journeys through this life.
Get to know a little more about Ida as she shares her thoughts on WOW and how we can be better citizens in God's Kingdom here:
Western Division SecretaryCEO and founder of Free Spirit Financial and Once Upon a Lullaby, Teresa Phelps is a certified life coach who created each company with a vision of providing support, education, and encouragement for parents to help build strong, healthy families.
When she's not coaching families, you can find her reading her Bible (and other self development books), indoor rock climbing, or spending time with her husband and three kids.


|Series||A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, anterior to the division of the East and West|
|Contributions||Pusey, E. B. 1800-1882.|
|LC Classifications||BR65 A6 E5 1876|
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|Number of Pages||363|
The Confessions series began publication in with ‘Confessions of a Murder Suspect’. The book introduced readers to Tandy Angel, a sixteen-year-old girl with a problem on her hands. Her parents, Malcolm and Maud, have been murdered. Any other child would be too busy mourning such a tragedy to worry about much else. He advances to puberty, and indeed to the early part of the sixteenth year of his age, in which, having abandoned his studies, he indulged in lustful pleasures, and, with his companions, committed theft. Dec 22, · The Confessions of Saint Augustine (Image Classics) [St. Augustine, John K. Ryan] on lfcmalta.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. Retelling the story of his long struggle with faith and ultimate conversion -- the first such spiritual memoir ever recorded /5(84). Jun 29, · Confessions will drop your jaw right to the floor. The most delightfully evil book you'll read this year. A gut-wrenching thrill-ride with clean, high-impact language."―Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times "Kanae Minato is a brilliant storyteller, and CONFESSIONS is a superb and haunting work/5().
The Confession is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham, his second novel to be published in (the previous was Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer).The novel is about the murder of a high school cheerleader and how an innocent man is arrested for it. This was Grisham's first novel to be released simultaneously in digital and hardcopy lfcmalta.com: John Grisham. AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS Newly translated and edited by ALBERT C. OUTLER, Ph.D., D.D. Professor of Theology Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas First published MCMLV Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: This book is in the public domain. It was scanned from an uncopyrighted edition. Harry Plantinga. "Confessions" is the type of book with a heavy dynamic caliber that it should be read slow, thoughtfully, and with a highlighter. Saint Augustine doe not hold back in his shortcomings. He paints a black, very personal, wicked youth/5. For with You is wisdom. In Greek the love of wisdom is called philosophy, with which that book inflamed me. There be some who seduce through philosophy, under a great, and alluring, and honourable name coloring and adorning their own errors. And almost all who in that and former times were such, are in that book censured and pointed out.
Confessions Summary and Analysis of Book XIII -- Finding the Church in Genesis I. Buy Study Guide. Summary. Book XIII is the most prayerful of Books in a work that . BOOK ONE. In God's searching presence, Augustine undertakes to plumb the depths of his memory to trace the mysterious pilgrimage of grace which his life has been -- and to praise God for his constant and omnipotent grace. AUGUSTINE’S TESTIMONY ON CONFESSIONS. BOOK ONE – Pilgrimage of Grace. BOOK TWO – Adolescent Mischief. BOOK THREE – Student Days at Carthage. BOOK FOUR – Among the Manicheans. BOOK FIVE – With Ambrose at Milan. BOOK SIX – Fruitless Search for “Truth” BOOK SEVEN – Conversion to Neo-Platonism. BOOK EIGHT – Song of True Conversion. Book I I HAVE begun on a work which is without precedent, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I propose to set before my fellow-mortals a man in all the truth of nature; and this man shall be myself.


Jeff Canfield’s background and experience includes six years in the Army National Guard, eight years in municipal law enforcement, and seven years working directly with delinquent youth. Jeff has served faithfully in pastoral ministry since 1999. He earned a Doctorate in Ministry from Logos University and serves as part of the adjunct faculty for distance education.
Jeff is the author of: A Call to Honor, Life Isn’t Rocket Science, the Somerset Elm series (historical Christian fiction in three novellas), Somerset Elm-Joshua’s Journey (all three novellas in one novel), The End of the Lane (Christian fiction), El final de la calle (Spanish Edition of The End of the Lane), When Church and Government Collide (nonfiction), several volumes of Reproducible Bible Studies, Men’s and Women’s Discipleship Journals, The Promise of the Father, Satan’s Origin, Activity, and Fate, and he’s the coauthor of What Left Behind Left Out-The Truth (nonfiction).
Jeff has been married since 1989 and has two children.


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Kevin is the Director of Operations and Environmental Sustainability at Imani Collective. He also is a freelance environmental consultant and waste management consultant. He is a father to an amazing daughter, a husband and to the most beautiful (ninja) wife and a lover of Jesus Christ. He is passionate about living though the word of God, family and leadership. He enjoys drawing, music, sports and travelling.
In this episode Jenny and Kevin talk about his journey to faith and how it has made him to the man he is today. Kevin is honest, transparent and God fearing giving us a beautiful testimony of what it looks like to truly listen to God and tune in to Him daily. my hope for you is that you are encouraged by his story and reminded to just show up , be present and begin to open your ears to hear what God is trying to tell you.
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On October 4, 1535, the Coverdale Bible, the first English-language translation of Christianity’s sacred text, was printed.
The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale and published in 1535, was the first complete Modern English translation of the Bible (not just the Old Testament or New Testament), and the first complete printed translation into English (cf. Wycliffe’s Bible in manuscript).
The later editions (folio and quarto) published in 1539 were the first complete Bibles printed in England. The 1539 folio edition carried the royal licence and was therefore the first officially approved Bible translation in English.
The place of publication of the 1535 edition was long disputed.
The printer was assumed to be either Froschover in Zurich or Cervicornus and Soter (in Cologne or Marburg). Since the discovery of Guido Latré, in 1997, the printer has been identified as Merten de Keyser, in Antwerp. Although Coverdale was also involved in the preparation of the Great Bible of 1539, the Coverdale Bible continued to be reprinted.
The last of over 20 editions of the whole Bible, or its New Testament, appeared in 1553.
Coverdale based his New Testament on Tyndale’s translation. For the Old Testament, Coverdale used Tyndale’s published Pentateuch and possibly his published Jonah.
He apparently did not make use of any of Tyndale’s Old Testament material, which was unublished. Instead, Coverdale himself translated the remaining books of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.
Coverdale used his working intermediate knowledge of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, not being a Hebrew or Greek scholar, he worked primarily from German Bibles and some other sources.


Red and green are the traditional colours of Christmas. Green represents the continuance of life through the winter and the Christian belief in eternal life through Jesus. Red symbolizes the blood that Jesus shed at His Crucifixion.
In the weeks leading up to and during Christmas, people hang decorations in their homes. These decorations are made of coloured paper and foil. People will also hang greenery around the house, such as holly and ivy. The needle like points of holly leaves are thought to resemble the crown of thorns that Jesus wore when He was crucified. The red berries symbolize the drops of blood Jesus shed.


“We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul
Beauty – deep in the core of our frame is the desire to be accepted, found beautiful, wanted and worth being pursued. In our teen years the spirit of pursuit awakes, but at that time so does the enemy, seeking to destroy our thoughts of beauty. He comes in subtle ways “oh you can stand to loose weight” “your nose is bigger than anyone on the planet”, and a thousand thoughts subtly assault our beauty, our image, our core.
But these assaults are lies. Lies designed to trip us up from being who we are made to be… princesses, daughters of the most high, set in high places in Christ Jesus. If the enemy can undermine our mind, make us to feel that we are not worthy to be pursued, not worthy to be viewed as beautiful, then he will win.
The battle is on. Thoughts are prisoners, and King Jesus can give us victory over these horrendous attacks. Daughters of Adam, choose what you will listen to. Select each thought and weigh it carefully – is it good, peacable, kind, uplifting? Know that our great god will only speak truth to you. He will never speak in ways that belittle you. For you are a holy nation, a chosen people, a royal priesthood, called, chosen, blessed, and he sings over you. He loves you so much that he pursues you with all the powers of heaven. For you are beautiful, and captivating to him.
“The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. “To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful.” No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.”
― John Eldredge
I am learning that i must let go of everything and passionately pursue Jesus, and love him above all else. When this happens, Jesus corrects the wants and needs, and adjusts the disparities. Our fears, our needs, our hopes melt in the presence of our Savior. Not a fearsome warrior that sits a far off, but the lover of our soul, seeking to be a part of our every moment, of our every hour.
For he holds our lives in his hands… ordering our steps, calling us to deep waters, calling us to abandon all that the world would ask of us, and yield our very dreams to his tender care.
Last night I was in an amazing place of strength in my spirit. Call it stubborn Russian character, or call it exhaustion to react to the challenges of life. Quietly it is an internal work even I cannot understand in myself. For the entire existence on the earth I have panicked, spent huge amounts of energy striving, challenging, attempting to make a way or fix the problem. Not this time. Hopefully not again ever.
With 2014 I committed to a daily blog of a name or title of God. Comforter, deliverer, redeemer, the beginning. Yes, spent a good deal of time focusing on these unchangable qualities of God. And then I sensed a question. Nothing audible, but clear on my thoughts, and demanding in answer. “Do you trust me? Do you believe what you have been writing? Well, do you?”
Do I trust the same God that ordered the universe to order our very lives? Am I willing to trust his character, believe he does not change, and he loves me? Oh you bet your boots. Absolute trust, absolute willingness to yield to his plan.
Is my life still totally impossible and shattered from our financial/unemployment oddest? You bet your boots. 3 years of extremely low income, unemployment and the challenges of keeping ahead of the wolf remind me He has met our every need. Our utilities remained on, our house was saved,and everything else was gone. But we always had food, gas for the car, money for bills and a peace we would make it through.
So what changed? A car died. Our only car. So how big is my god? How possible is it that he has an answer but just wishes us to ask, believe, trust.
The difference this round is that our God is holding us through our new trial. He has answers that we don’t understand.
So today I will answer that question with “yes, I will trust you. I relinquish the striving. You will come through.”
There is a Jamie Grace song “Beautiful” that was playing on my headphones when the text message came in..
On the way to work – car died
Car wont turn over
roadside assistance here now
roadside left, waiting tow truck
towed to garage, waiting on the mechanic
head gasket blown, oil and radiator fluid everywhere – too costly to repair
Words fell like bullets into my gut. And yet the song continued to play and the lyrics jumped into my consciousness:
When trouble seems to rain on my dreams
It’s not a big, not a big deal
Let it wash all the bugs off my windshield
Cause You’re showing me in You I’m free
And You’re still the refuge
That I’ve just got to get to
So I won’t let a day go, won’t let a day go by
So put the drop top down, turn it up,
I’m ready to fly. – Beautiful, Jamie Grace
By faith i will not focus on the trauma of the loss of our only vehicle. By faith i will let this rain storm wash all the bugs off my windshield, and trust this is working toward a greater goal.
Its strange to say I have a deep peace in this decision. I will trust God for the provision of a vehicle, which will be functional, and which we can afford. He has provided our every need in the past, and he changes not… so
“Lord, this is your strength. You own the cattle on a thousand hills, and your wealth is beyond what we might understand. You have told us that you are our loving father, and that if a child would ask his father for a fish would he give a snake instead (no, absolutely not), or would he give a stone for bread. No, you are good, and even before we were aware of the need you knew. You hold everything in your control. Please lead us and guide us to the vehicle you wish us to find, and provide the means to purchase it. Today, unwaveringly i will trust you for this. You are indeed worthy to be trusted, and i thank you now in advance knowing that an answer is at hand. Amen”
“She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.”
― John Eldredge, Captivating
How often have we thought of women as the second class, made from parts of a man, the afterthought. Boy were we dead wrong on that one… we were the final crowning touch of his creation…. not an afterthought but the perfection and completion of all that was good. Can you wrap your brain around that?
“A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.”
― John Eldredge from the book Captivating
We all have been wounded, injured, damaged by someone, or by our own perceptions of life. I totally agree that it is important to acknowledge and grieve the wound before it can be healed. And we all want healing.


The Oasis Cafe has become a bit of a landmark on Connaught Avenue, with church members and local people using it to catch up and enjoy a coffee. Refreshments are free, and we only ask for a small donation towards costs if possible.
The cafe is run by the church for the benefit of the whole community, not just our congregation, and not just for Christians. Everyone is welcome to join us, and if you fancy a good discussion there’s usually always someone to oblige!
Monday, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays: 9.30am – 11.30am
Sundays: 10am onwards


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Monday Healing 6.00 - 7.00pm
Divine Service 7.30 -8.45pm
Wednesday Development Class 6.45 - 8.00pm
Wednesday Lyceum 7.00 - 8.00pm
(first Wednesday of month)
(You don't need to be a member of our Church to attend the Lyceum)
Thursday Healing 6.00 - 7.00pm
Open Circle 7.30 - 8.45pm
Saturday Specials as advertised on webpage
The church has disable access to our Healing Room.
Our Church is Licensed for the Solemnization of Weddings and has a Resident Minister to conduct all official services and following recent legislation we are now registered to solemnize marriages of same sex couples
Wedding Blessing (same sex) (£50)
Wedding Blessing (married couple) (£50)
Memorial Services (£50)
Naming Services (£25)
(Minister fees will be added to the above stated fees which are for hire of Church only, flowers extra)
Please contact ;-
Minister W Fiddes DSNU
5 Leyburn Place
Tel 0191 4106703.
Other additional costs are Ministent Fees, Organist Fees, Flowers
The policy of the church is that a Minister, Officiant or Trainee Officiant of the Spiritualist National Union may conduct these services only within the church. For any further information please contact the church secretary as shown below.


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Welcome to the parish of Fårö
The parish of Fårö is the most northern parish on Gotland and it consists of the islands Fårö and Gotska Sandön.
On this homepage we would like to present our work, our church and the facilities in it and the various activities that we offer. Our summermusic program is very comprehensive and you can read about it under the tab "Evenemang".
The texts are in Swedish but here below you'll find a short description about Fårö Church in English.
This tab updated 2015-01-19


All analogies are imperfect. But they can help point to truths that are not always clear. This is an attempt to that end - what Jesus did for me.
I am one who is grievously in debt. I come from a family of debtors. I am a chronic debtor, in a word, a debtor by nature. And the debt that I have accumulated has been acquired foolishly and irresponsibly. I owe immense sums of money and my debt continues to grow. Payment is long overdue. The Law Court, in fact, has already judged me in violation of its Law because of my debt. And the Court has issued a verdict that demands my punishment, entailing life imprisonment or until such time as all the debt, interest, and penalties have been paid in full - something I would never be able to do in a million lifetimes. Despite that reality, I have continued to irresponsibly and habitually add to my large debt. And deep inside I know there is no way of evading the judgment of the Law Court. Hopelessly, I can only wish that someone would take my place before the Law and save me from my punishment and pay off my debt. But that seems only a dream.
Yet Someone, a Person completely just and debt-free before the Law, has indeed stepped forward. Unbeknownst to me, long before I was born, this Person had arranged with the Law Court to be my Surety for all the debt and penalties I would accumulate - past, present, future. Even more, He had also contracted to make me a joint-heir to His family fortune, to be put into force upon taking my place. Without my involvement, the Law Court had ruled and accepted Him as my Surety and as a result all judgments upon me were to be accounted legally in His name. My Surety's benevolence towards me had preceded my predicament.
The Law Court thus imputed all my debt and punishment to Him. All my guilt was now His. He, not me, now legally owed the debt even though He was not by nature a debtor and had never incurred any debt and certainly not mine. He now legally owed what I owed. He, not me, was now liable before the Law for penalties that He had not incurred. In effect, the Law Court considered Him to be the debtor, even though I am the one who went into debt. And the Law Court assigned the judgment of imprisonment to be on His head, not mine. And in prison He would remain until every last penny was paid off.
The day of judgment comes. He is declared a guilty debtor. He is stripped of his freedom, put in chains and thrown into prison. And there He sits under my condemnation. But then from the bounty of His immense storehouse of wealth, He pays off my debt in full, including all penalties. In addition, according to the Court ruling, He executes the legal agreement making me a joint heir to all His wealth. Now wealthy in the eyes of the Law, the Court can never again judge me to be a debtor.
At the moment of my sentencing, the Law Court's official Emissary then brought me the good news that a Surety had set me free from my sentence and that I was absolved of all wrong doing! Believing against disbelief... yet something about the Emissary's message causes me to in fact believe. I joyously accept what has been done for me and go free. I am no longer liable to the Law Court because of the completed transaction enacted between the Court and my Surety. As in a dream - but it’s not a dream - Another has willingly been judged in my place. And because He legally took my place, the Law Court accounts me debt free. All my debt (past, present, and future) is blotted out and taken away. This, my Surety, freely did for me.
And, since this Person, standing in my place, has paid all my debts and penalties, the Law Court then no longer has any legal basis to continue his incarceration! Prison cannot hold Him. He has no debt in His Name. My debt is paid. The Law is satisfied. The justice of the Law requires that He be released. He served my sentence. He went to prison and paid my debt in full. He satisfied every judgment and demand of the Law Court. As to His own person, my Surety was not a debtor and never had been. Even though for a time the Law Court legally considered Him a debtor it no longer does. Once my debt was paid, He was vindicated to be what He had always been - without debt and just before the Law. And based on His substitution-sentence-serving, I am now declared just and without debt in the eyes of the Law Court. The Court is satisfied regarding all its demands for the Law to be upheld. It therefore no longer has any legal interest in me or my Surety. His perfect satisfaction of the Law is accounted [imputed] to me. Justice demanded by the Law and Mercy shown towards me have fully met in my gracious Surety.
I am no longer under the Law’s judgment. Rather, as pertaining to my debt and punishment I am now under the favor [grace] of the One who executed the office of Surety for me. And, little did I know until I was given the good news of my freedom from the Law’s condemnation, that the Surety who took my place was actually the One to whom all my debts were owed. And not only that, but He was also the very Judge who was presiding over my case. He paid for me that which I owed to His Court. He bore the sentence that His Court had passed on me. It is this One who took my debt and gave me his wealth. Sweet exchange, indeed.
"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace" (Rom 6:14). All my debt (sin) has been remitted - paid by Another. Debt no longer can put me under the judgment of the Law. The Law is no longer hanging over my head because of my sin. All my debt - past, present, future - has been paid. How? - by the riches of His grace. I am no longer under Law but under Grace. Sin/Debt cannot reign over me ever again even though at times I do still sin/incur debt. Yet all those debts have been reckoned by the Law Court to be paid. Amazing grace. So now I consider myself a debtor not to the Law, but only to grace and to the Surety who forever stands between me and the Law's penalty.
“For the death that he died, he died unto sin [my debt] once: but the life that he lives, he lives unto God. Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin [my debt is as far from me as life is from death because the Law is satisfied with Christ's penalty payment], but alive unto God in Christ Jesus” [if you are dead to sin, you are alive to God] (Romans 6:10-11).
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life [by grace and favor] in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin [debt] and of death [punishment for debt]. For what the law could not do [it only demands, it doesn’t fulfill], in that it was weak through the flesh [my propensity to accrue debt], God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh [appearing as a debtor, though not one] and for sin [for my debt payment], condemned sin in the flesh [punished Jesus for my debt]]: that the ordinance of the law [its just sentence for debt and its demand for debt-freeness] might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh [i.e. my efforts to remove my own debt and earn freedom], but after the Spirit [Who creates in me the the eyes of faith to trust in the Surety given for me, for it is the Spirit who brings us the good news of Christ’s death on our behalf]” (Romans 8:1-4).
"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation." (Romans 5:1-11)


Bethany Christian Bible College is an accredited Bible College through the Association of Christian Schools International Accrediting Agency. The college is authorized to issue a certificate at this time and is moving toward the issuance of a Bachelor Degree. Bethany Christian Bible College serves as the Christian education arm of Bethany Baptist Church and is open to the community at large. There is neither any tuition nor registration fee for matriculation at BCBC. The college is a ministry of Bethany Baptist Church of West Los Angeles. For more information on how to register as a student please call (323) 298-5396.


Recently demolished church in Baghdad to be replaced with commercial development
The Syriac Catholic Church in Shorja, a large marketplace in Baghdad, has just been demolished and will be replaced with a commercial development, according to local academics and activists in Iraq’s capital city.
The move, speculatively approved by the Baghdad Mayorality and the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH), comes amid a years-long violent marginalisation of the capital – and the country’s – Christian population, which began decreasing in the mid-2000s.
In 2017 alone, eight churches in Baghdad were forced to close their doors due to low attendance, as reported by the Christianity Daily.
“This church was the first Syriac Catholic church in Baghdad,” said Dr Ghada Al-Silq, professor at the University of Baghdad’s Department of Architecture, to Middle East Architect. “It was built in 1841, and was known as the Church of the Virgin Mary Immaculate.”
“The Christian community in Iraq has decreased noticeably since 2003, and among those leaving are the Syriac Catholics who left Iraq in a large wave in 2010 after [the attack on] the Church of our Lady of Salvation in Karada,” she added.
Once listed as a heritage site, the abandoned Syriac Catholic Church in Shorja had slowly deteriorated over time, with its dome collapsing in the summer of 2018. Its arches and columns, though, have remained in good condition.
The construction plans, obtained by Al-Silq, highlight the new commercial development's layout, which consists of two floors and a basement. According to Al-Silq, the lower level could be used as a church in the future, “when needed”.
“The Christians are being pushed out of Iraq, and now so are their traces.” - Dr Ghada Al-Silq
“There are three other churches that were also listed as heritage sites: one is in Midan and it caters to the Armenian Orthodox, the Latin church in Shorja which is near the Syriac Catholic Church, and the Chaldean Umm Al Ahzan, or ‘The Mother of Sorrows’,” said Al-Silq.
“Demolishing this church and building a basement will definitely cause damage to both of the churches nearby,” she added. “The Christians are being pushed out of Iraq, and now so are their traces.”
The plans further reveal the project’s traditional elevation, which is intended to suit its urban context. Despite featuring Christian symbols on its front façade, the interior scheme shows more than 15 spaces intended for shops.
Al-Silq, along with other activists and academics including Dr Caecilia Pieri, associate researcher at the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo) and Dr Geraldine Chatelard, associate researcher also at Ifpo, have started an online petition to save the church and advocate for its reconstruction following its original design. The petition can be found in English here and in Arabic here.
“We are very concerned about this development,” added Chatelard. “There are very few churches in Baghdad, and what is planned for this one will likely affect others in the neighbourhood.”
According to Al Arabiya, along with the Syriac Catholic Church, the Church of Divine Wisdom in Adhamiya, which was founded in 1932, and the monastery of Catholic monks in the Dora area were also up for sale to be converted into residential or commercial properties.


Welcome to St. Paul’s Church of England Primary School website.
St Paul’s is a one form entry voluntary aided Church of England Primary School, maintained by the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames and the Diocese of Southwark. The Christian ethos and community surrounding St Paul’s generates a village atmosphere with a total focus on every child.
“Everyone is extremely caring – like a second family.”
St. Paul’s has been serving the local community since 1859 and is a unique school in the heart of a unique community. In 2012 OFSTED graded our school as ‘Good’ and we are continuing to build on the excellent progress which the school has made in the past few years. Pupil progress, enjoyment and engagement are closely monitored and pupil voice is highly valued.
“Staff model that school is a happy place and that learning is a fun thing to do.”
Our mission statement focuses on working in partnership to promote a love of learning and celebrating success in all we do. Our school values are kindness, honesty, forgiveness, being thankful, celebration, fairness, patience and love for all. We are all incredibly proud of our children and the contribution each of them brings to make school life special.
“St. Paul’s embeds good Christian values and provides a happy and fun environment for the children.”
Learning really is fun at St. Paul’s. We strive not only to embed the basic skills, but also to develop the whole child with a wide range of sporting and non-sporting clubs. Children at St. Paul’s enjoy a rich curriculum and benefit from being taught by our excellent specialist music and PE teachers. Learning is also enhanced through theme days, exciting trips and visiting speakers.
“Learning is exciting and inspiring.”
We believe that a close partnership between home and school is key to a child’s success and this website is just one link in the relationship. Parents, carers, relatives and visitors are welcomed into school and we value their views, ideas and expertise. We have an active School Council, Parent Representative Group and PSA (Parent Staff Association), all of which are involved in the decision making processes. Our staff and governors are committed to continuous improvement and providing a high quality education for every child.
We look forward to welcoming you to our school.
Mrs Kathryn Hemming


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Now through the end of the year, Regions Beyond churches all over the world are contributing to the Regions Beyond global offering. Our togetherness in giving will allow us to press on by sharing our resources across five continents, to many different people groups, and hopefully seeing each of the planned 29 church plants come to life! The offering will also resource ministries among the poor, gatherings around the globe, and Regions Beyond’s efforts to bring new churches to maturity through leadership development, apostolic ministry, theological training, and more. Watch the video below for more info on what Regions Beyond has achieved in 2017 and what is planned for 2018!
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Christianity was established in the Ethiopian highlands as early as the 4th century. For over 1600 years Christian Ethiopians have worn neck crosses as a symbol of faith. The cross was suspended around the neck by a cotton blue cord called a “mateb” which was received at baptism. Jewellery wise, the cross is the most prized personal possession and most valued to collectors of all highland selections. The crosses are usually named from the region that they originate. The crosses feature various design styling from the simplistic Greek or Latin crucifix to the more elaborate with flared arms, trefoils, decorative projections, complicated openwork designing and patterns of interwoven lines symbolizing eternity. Hinges and crowns show the later influence of 19th century European medals. They are hand cast and made from a silver/nickel alloy.
Please note as these crosses are hand made they are all unique and may differ slightly from the depicted photo.


Our Heavenly Father has similar goals for our lives. He wants the flame of our life to be visible to those around us and He wants us to burn up for Him, not burn out.
Your are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; ~Matthew 5:14, 16
Originally, the whole purpose of candles was to illuminate the darkness. We're to be doing that, too, but we can't be effective if our flame is obscured by walls of unused wax. That's when the paring knife needs to come out to trim down the wax. Sure it changes the candle's appearance, many times leaving it much less appealing, but if the end goal is to illuminate the darkness, that's what needs to happen.
Too many times we're so concerned with having a visually appealing candle that we don't worry about how long the wicks last. If they get a little too long and start to smoke, we just trim the wick, without thinking about the burn time we're losing. God goes about it differently. He trims the wax and drops the shavings into the melted wax pool to raise the wax level, not worrying about the outward appearance. He wants the wick to burn all the wax.
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all. ~Philippians 2:17
I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls...
~2 Corinthians 12:15
Have you ever noticed that the unburned wax of the candle ends up being an empty shell that hides the flame? What's the whole point of the candle? The wax or the flame? If it's the wax, then we're right to worry about the shell that's left unburned. If it's the flame, then we need to allow the work of the paring knife and feed the wax to the wick, making sure the wax burns so it doesn't obstruct the light of the flame.
For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. ~Philippians 2:13
Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. ~Matthew 5:16
Heavenly Father, help us to burn up for You, not burn out...


Trevor Paul Jones
On March 18, 1979, I was born to John Paul and Petrita Maria Jones, two years after my sister Jennifer. We lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where we had family. We moved around a lot as I grew up, but ended up in Aurora, Colorado in early 1987, where we pretty much stayed until I was incarcerated in 1996.
While I always enjoyed sports, fitness and physical activity, and a p.m.a. (positive mental attitude), around 1994, after a series of bad years and events, I sort of dropped any really positive endeavors and above all into a criminal lifestyle with serious drug and alcohol abuse. That ended when I killed 16 year old Matthew Foley. That part of the story can be found elsewhere (e.g on PBS's "Frontline: When Kids Get Life").
During my week in juvenile detention, before being transferred to Denver County Jail, a staff member there changed my life forever. While letting me in my cell, he asked if I wanted a Bible. Growing up I was very secular and never knew or thought much of Christianity, but I answered him "yes". He got me two, told me the gospel of sins forgiven through Christ and gave me some direction on Christian discipleship (having simply read the Book of Psalms and memorize the first one) which I promptly followed. I am eternally grateful to him, and his influence has directed and defined my life since then.
The original guys of Redemption Road Fitness started meeting each other in the mid-to-late 2000's at Limon Correctional Facility. We all got along well, but had different approaches to our goals for fitness, rehabilitation, and whatever manners of restitution we could achieve. As time went by however, we started to align on these things, including Brandin and Damian's dream of Redemption Road Fitness. It became a reality in the spring of 2017 and has been a powerful force. I was privileged and honored to be one of the original five athlete-trainers.
When we received our CF-L1's in April 2018, I was ecstatic. To be received into the CrossFit community in that way is such a remarkable joy for me. I hope to continue to plug into the lives of others with the astonishing methods of CrossFit, for the help and development of individuals first, and with them, the world.
Other Notes of Interest-
- The Best friends I've ever had are almost all in Redemption Road Fitness.
- I've had profound support from my family, friends, and advocates throughout my incarceration.
- Theology, Christian Apologetics, and Philosophy have been a large part of my life, both in a moderate academic sense, but especially in an experiential one.
- My Pastor Jerry Briggs and other volunteers (including my best friend Hoppy) have given me more than I ever could recount.
- I'm super motivated by the elite CrossFit athletes who are so amazing. The broader CrossFit community is where I see such beauty and triumph. I love our sport, our community, and all that comes with it!
- Music drives me so powerfully. I'm especially into straight-edge hardcore, especially of the Christian type.
- Please see my apology letter to those who I've hurt so bad.


KINGDOM LIVING OUTREACH MINISTRIES WELCOMES YOU
We are anointed to make a difference!
To become a supernatural Army of believers connected with Jesus Christ, who live as citizens of the Kingdom of GOD, to learn the working of the cross, whereas, to destroy the forces of darkness; to release believers into the world who are focused, fearless, and passionate, while exhibiting a servant's heart; to be used a a transforming instrument in communities which results in salvation, healing, and deliverance through the power of the One True, Sovereign, and Living GOD; and to cloth and feed communities; specifically, the homeless, sick, elderly, youth, children, and veterans.
A Bit of Background
Hello and Welcome to Kingdom Living Outreach Ministries. I am Prophet Donald Thomas and with the co-labor of my wife, Evangelist Pamela Thomas, we are the pastors of this amazing ministry. We believe and teach the biblical principles as lead by the Word of God and by His Holy Spirit in the Lord Jesus Christ. Come experience what God has for us as we grow in love and power.
BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP
We built our house on sound ground. The Lord Jesus.
We have labored in the Lord Jesus and have been called to serve HIS people.
SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL FEEDING
We believe in feeding the both the spiritual body as well as the physical body. This is a mandate from the Lord Jesus!
John 21:17 "A third time He asked him, Simon, son of John, do you love me? , Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question the third time. He said, Lord, thou knowest everything. You know that I love you. Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep."
MAKING FISHERS OF MEN
Lead us Holy Spirit
Teaching the principles of the Lord Jesus from "In the beginning to Amen!"
EXPERIENCING THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN OUR LORD JESUS!
We are committed to experiencing the presence of GOD like never before. We can't live without HIS presence!


Hurricane Jesus: 3
My reply to Annabel's list of reasons for suffering. Labels: HurricaneJesus
Annabel - thank-you for your reply.
With regards your list of possible reasons offered to account for suffering and evil in the world.
I propose an example of euffering and see if the reasons offered measure up. I'll stick with the hurricane analogy since that was were this all started.
A hurricane tears through a coastal village. A palm tree crashes through the roof of a fisherman's house and smashes into the cot where his youngest daughter, aged 6 months, is sleeping. The tree crushes the infant, but the poor child does not die immidiatly. With broken ribs and punctured lungs the infant takes half an hour of terrified agonised suffering, alone and cold before she dies.
Now, hold that image in your mind as we go through the 11 points you propose.
1. Free will. Nope, free will does not explain why the innocent child died so painfully. Nor should this child suffer so because of Adam's sin
2. God is powerless. Well it might seem that way, mighten't it. interestingly the only argument you offer aginst God's seeming powerlessness is that "does not != cannot" Because the other things you offer here are:
discipline people (Prov. 3: 11)
teach them (Prov. 15: 32).
Evidently, in the example of the baby killed in the hirricane, there is nothing to teach and no reason to punish.You offer at the end of the paragraph "It means that He simply has chosen not to do so." We come around to "mysterious ways"
3. How much evil should be stopped? I'd be satisfied with the stopping of the kinds of death and suffering we are discussing here, innocent lives through natural disaster. Lets get God to simply start there. No need to split hairs over murderers, theives, or thought crime. Lets just start with the inoocent babies OK?
4. Prevention of further evil. You admit yourself that this is a bit circular. In this paragraph you also invoke "mysterious ways"
5. For the greater plan. Since we cannot know the graeter plan, or understand how the death of a baby in a storm works towards that plan, I guess we are left with "mysterious ways" again.
6. For discipline and instruction. You touched on this already with point 2. We have already seen that a six month old child has no need for God's instruction or discipline through the media of agonising death.
7. It is the result of sin. Again, I find it morally questionable to hold an infant responsable for its parent's sins, or its ancestors' sins.
8. To serve as a warning. Ah! At last, a valid point. To serve as a warning: evidently in our example God would not be trying to warn the baby? So it would be to serve as a warning to her parents? Or perhaps to the rest of the world. So God will cause anguish and suffering and death of an infant to warn me of something? Can you see how I might view that proposition? Can you see that I might think God a little callous? A little heavy handed perhaps? He has to hurt babies to make us notice?
9. To make a point. This is a bit close to item 8, No? But in point 9, you again discuss Free Will, which we have already seen is not relevant in our example, and you suggest that often God let's us have what we deserve. If you are pressing towards the idea that it is our fault that the infant died, why did the baby have to suffer? Why torture the baby?
10. To serve as a means to bring the Son. As I read through this paragraph I couldn't believe the twisted logic: In order for us to be saved by Jesus, Jesus had to die. Without sin and suffering Jesus would not have been able to die. BUT DON'T YOU SEE? Without sin and suffering he wouldn't have had to die in the first place!
11. We don't know. And here we have it. All we end up with at the end is God's mysterious ways.
You can see Annabel, that in this 1 example, a baby dying a painful lonely death during a hurricane, there is no logical, undertandable means of understanding why the God you describe as being so full of love would let such things happen. I am made in his image, and yet none of my god-like emotions or god-given intellect can rationalise these things. God lets the innocent suffer. Regards


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What is dancing for God?
Dancing With God is an exploration of the divine gifts of courage and grace in the face of evil. Moreover, it is a doctrine of God as the source of that courage.
What the Bible Says About praise dancing?
Psalms 149:3-4 Let them praise His name with the dance. Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp. For the Lord takes pleasure in His people. He will beautify the humble with Salvation.
Is smoking a sin?
First, recognize that smoking is a sin that will keep you out of the Kingdom of God. Paul said, “For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God” (Ephesians 5:5).
What is the significance of dance in the Bible?
At Long Reach Church of God, dance is used to praise God. “It tells you in the Bible, you can praise the Lord through dancing,” said the church’s director of dance ministry Jacqueline Martin, referring to Psalms 149:3. “David praised the Lord through dancing.”
Is dancing allowed in the Bible?
By the 12th century, Christian theologians would look to the Bible to obtain evidence that dance was permitted. For example, in Exodus 15:20, Miriam, the sister of Moses, dances with other Israelite women to praise God. For medieval Christians, Miriam’s dancing signified Christian worship and rituals.
What is the purpose of praise dance?
Praise dance, as a ministry grace, is simply an expression of movement used to communicate with God and to communicate God’s heart to His people. It is the sight of God’s message. It communicates the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a way that may not be received or understood through the hearing of the Gospel.
Where did praise dancing come from?
PRAISE dancing began in Baptist churches in the late 19th century, a descendant of the ring shout, a religious dance of West African origin. Traditional praise dances are performed in a circle or as processions, sometimes accompanied by bugles and drums, with the performers carrying flags and banners.
Is it a sin to party?
The fact is that the Bible does not prohibit celebration. Neither does it make a wholesale prohibition of wine or other strong drink (see as examples Deut.
What does the Bible say about tattoos?
But in the ancient Middle East, the writers of the Hebrew Bible forbade tattooing. Per Leviticus 19:28, “You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves.” Historically, scholars have often understood this as a warning against pagan practices of mourning.
Is drinking a sin?
Drinking as a Christian. The Bible makes it clear that drinking in moderation is not a sin. Yet, you must be careful to avoid the temptation of drunkenness, drinking to excess, and addiction. Alcohol is tempting and it can lead you into sin.
What does Psalms 100 mean in the Bible?
Psalm 100 is an exhortation to PRAISE – to lay everything aside that hinders us and make a joyful noise unto the Lord. God doesn’t care if we sing or squeak as long as we are opening our mouths and giving him praise with a cheerful and glad heart.
How do you praise dance?
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What is a timbrel in the Bible?
The timbrel or tabret (also known as the tof of the ancient Hebrews, the deff of Islam, the adufe of the Moors of Spain) was the principal percussion instrument of the ancient Israelites. It resembled either a frame drum or a modern tambourine.
Did Jesus say I am the Lord of the Dance?
Here is the definitive authorised version of the words: – I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be, And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he. And they wouldn’t follow me.
What does the Bible say about drinking?
Galatians 5:19–21: “The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Ephesians 5:18: “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery.
Why do we need to pray?
Prayer helps you find direction in your life – God always listens and often provides the specific answers and guidance we seek. Even when He chooses not to answer immediately or in the way we might have hoped, prayer itself is a way to find peace.
What does the Bible say about dating?
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” The Good News: We must always remember to love each other just as much as God loves us, which is unconditionally.
What is spiritual dancing?
Updated on 05/08/19. Praise dancing is a liturgical or spiritual dance that incorporates music and movement as a form of worship rather than as an expression of art or as entertainment. Praise dancers use their bodies to express the word and spirit of God.
How do you dance in the spirit?
1 Dancing in the Spirit – The dance is unchoreographed. The dancer closes his or her eyes, yet does not bump into any other person or object thanks to the guidance of the spirit. Worshipers are encouraged to keep their attention on God and ignore the physical manifestations of other worshipers during the service.
What is the example of religious dance?
Indian classical dances such as Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Odissi, and Mohiniattam can be traced to the Sanskrit text Natya Shastra. They are a traditional drama-dance expression of religion, related to Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, pan-Hindu epics and the Vedic literature.
Why is dancing so powerful?
Dance is one of the most powerful forms of human expression, and therefore it is a powerful means of communication. Through movements of the human body, dance conveys the whole range of human emotions; tells stories; and strengthens, disciplines, and refreshes the whole person.
What is prophetic dance worship?
Prophetic dance is a ritual dance in which the purpose is to obtain a communication from or to God (gods) spirits in order to receive a favorable response (rain and good harvests, for example).
How can dance be used to enhance worship?
The Psalms offer a positive view of dancing to worship God by encouraging the use of dancing to worship God. In light of how dancing is described in the Bible, we come to realize that dancing is in relation to singing and to celebration in worship.
Who is the God of dance in the world?
Nataraja, (Sanskrit: “Lord of the Dance”) the Hindu god Shiva in his form as the cosmic dancer, represented in metal or stone in many Shaivite temples, particularly in South India.
How does dance affect spiritual health?
When we dance for ourselves we invite positive energy into our space and our being, we are able to slip into the present moment where our ‘problems’ do not exist and we break negative thought patterns whilst releasing pent up stress and worry.
What does it mean to see yourself dancing?
As mentioned above, dance is an expression of happiness, joy, freedom and liberation. When you see yourself dancing in a dream, then it means that you are expressing yourself to the fullest. If for some reason, you feel restrained in real life, you may want to express yourself in some way or the other.
What is dancing meditation?
Dance As A Form Of Meditation – As normal human beings, we infuse mind body, soul to move in life. Dancing is like meditation which gets the body moving rhythmically. Through meditative dancing, hormones that bring us the feel good factor suddenly start moving rapidly and give life to each and every cell in the body.
What did Jesus say about dancing?
Ch. 96 Jesus calls them to dance: “Now answer thou unto my dancing” and addresses his followers as “thou that dancest”. This episode is closed in ch. 97 with the words of John: “Thus, my beloved, having danced with us the Lord went forth”; the disciples fly away and Jesus suffers.
Is dancing a sin in Islam?
Other scholars said dancing is forbidden only if it leads to indecent touching or movements. “It’s not dancing that’s unacceptable, it’s the way of dancing,” said Imam Talal Eid, the Islamic chaplain at Brandeis University near Boston and a former member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
How do I stop listening to secular music?
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Is dancing a good workout?
Dancing is a whole-body workout that’s actually fun. It’s good for your heart, it makes you stronger, and it can help with balance and coordination. A 30-minute dance class burns between 130 and 250 calories, about the same as jogging. Sign up for a class.
Is dancing a sport?
Dance is not just an art form — it is a sport. The definition of a sport, according to dictionary.com, is “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.”
What is a good Bible verse for love?
Love as you want to be loved – John 15:12: My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Luke 6:31: Do to others as you would have them do to you. Corinthians 16:14: Do everything in love. Proverbs 17:17: A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Who did Salome dance for?
Salome is known in the Christian Gospels for her role in the execution of John the Baptist. When Herod Antipas offered to fulfill a request after she danced for him, Herodias, Salome’s mother, urged her to ask for the head of John the Baptist, who had opposed Herodias’s marriage to Herod. Herod obliged.
What is a linen ephod?
Definition of ephod – 1 : a linen apron worn in ancient Hebrew rites especially : a vestment for the high priest. 2 : an ancient Hebrew instrument of priestly divination.
What is the Ephod in Exodus?
A passage in the Book of Exodus describes the Ephod as an elaborate garment worn by the high priest, and upon which the Hoshen, or breastplate containing Urim and Thummim, rested.
Do all cultures dance?
Dance occupies an important place in the social structure of all human cultures throughout history. Dance is most commonly defined as a way of human expression through movement. But dance simply cannot be reduced merely to movement.
How can dancing be a form of prayer?
Dance offers a medium of refiection that opens the soul to insight and strength. If we believe that prayer is the central core of life, then dance, which becomes prayer, also expresses our relationship to God, to others, and to all the world of matter and spirit. This prayer must originate from our deepest selves.
What is gospel dance called?
Liturgical dance is simply a Christian form of prayer and worship through bodily movement.
What is praise dance called?
Worship dance or liturgical dance take on several forms of sacred dance in Christianity and Messianic Judaism, and is usually incorporated into liturgies or worship services.
What are church dances called?
Liturgical dancing, widely spread in pagan cults, was not practiced in the early church, but in the latter part of the 20th century liturgical dances were reintroduced in some churches in a limited fashion. Among the many other gestures of devotion and veneration practiced in…
What is the meaning of liturgical dance?
Liturgical dance has been widely defined as “A form of movement which serves as an expression of worship, which typically occurs within the platform of a church, or worship service.”  Although the definition remains straightforward, at its core the depth and meaning of Liturgical dance holds great purpose, and
Why do Nazarenes not dance?
Dancing has not been explicitly banned to date, but many thought it was because the college followed the Church of the Nazarene Manual, which forbids “all forms of dancing that detract from spiritual growth and break down proper moral inhibitions and reserve.” The college has now adopted a policy that dancing is
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1.Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
2.Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
3.Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
4.Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5.Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6.Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
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With Easter now over, and copious amounts of ham and potatoes consumed across the nation (including my wife's Aunt Carol's house), I can turn to a question I've been mulling over in my head: what would Jesus eat? Quite a lot has been written on the subject (including the books What Would Jesus Eat?: The Ultimate Program for Eating Well, Feeling Great, and Living Longer and The What Would Jesus Eat Cookbook, both by Dr. Don Colbert). Quoting the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:
Because Jesus was a Jew, Colbert says, he would have followed Old Testament dietary laws - for instance, laws governing clean and unclean animals and fish. These laws were specific: cattle, sheep and goats were allowed; hogs were not. Fish with fins and scales were allowed; catfish, crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, shrimp), mollusks (clams, mussels) and others were not. As Colbert says, Jesus would not have eaten an Easter ham.
Colbert also assesses Jesus' culture and decides what he would have eaten based on what was available. Fish was widely available; beef was saved for special occasions, such as the prodigal son's return. So, Colbert says, Jesus probably ate fish on a daily basis but beef not more than once a month. Other staples in Jesus' diet, according to Colbert's assessment of the culture, would have been bread and other whole grains, vegetables, fruits and olive oil.
It's intuitively correct, of course - we don't need Dr. Colbert to tell us that Jesus would have eaten what he could get. But it's worth noting, particularly at this time of rebirth and growth for both Jews and Christians, that our ancestors ate the food that was readily available, and avoided foods that were perceived as "dangerous," the ones that were most likely to cause salmonella and other unpleasant ailments. The word organic didn't likely exist at the time, but neither did the number and variety of chemicals that industrial farmers currently use in the fields. Local, sustainable, and organic food was pretty much all there was.
I'm reminded once again of Michael Pollan and of his current project, collecting the food rules of our ancestors. Pollan's goal is to collect traditional recipes, menus, and ways to prepare food to make us healthier and happier as a culture. Thinking about what Jesus - and Moses, for that matter - ate is not a bad way to get started.


Welcome to Cross Lutheran Church
We welcome you to Cross Lutheran Church's place on the web. We are still building this site and ask you to be patient while we make progress. We intend this site to be interesting, sometimes provocative, and always helpful. If you can't find the info you need feel free to contact us: 715-749-3551. Please join us for worship Sunday mornings at 9am with coffee and treats following the service.
On Saturday, July 20th youth & families from Cross Lutheran Church spent the day canoeing down the Red Cedar River in Menomonie. Like the outdoors? Consider joining us for a weekend of camping at Clear Lake Park in Clear Lake, WI Friday and Saturday, August 16th and 17th. Take a look at their website http://www.clearlake-wi.gov/?q=node/15. For reservations call, 715-263-2157. Any questions please contact Doug or Jan Bakken, 715-749-3964. Hope to see you there!


Master of Divinity Specialization in Stewardship (Dissertation)
Critics and research indicate that inadequate leadership in stewardship education has led to inaccurate teaching, wrong attitudes, and a lack of generosity in the Christian church and parachurch ministries. This teaching has led many churches and parachurch organizations to emphasize fundraising rather than the steward’s spiritual journey and relationship with God. The dissertation addresses the need for a new look at stewardship, the theology of stewardship,4 and how stewardship is presented to the local church and parachurch.
The thesis of this project is that in order to improve stewardship in the Christian church, leadership must teach comprehensive, biblical stewardship with a new and more comprehensive approach. The process of re-examining the theology and life practice of stewardship must begin in seminaries, in order to have the most significant impact on local churches and parachurch organizations.
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“Why did you come?” the voice accused, its owner’s head angled like a canon toward the audience, eyes raised to the top of their sockets, no white visible, only the dark irises, seeming to point at us.
I waited for what I was sure he would say–something about sustaining Irena and her mother in their time of grief, and then, maybe, an acknowledgement of how hard it is to accept God’s will and the suggestion of a different way of thinking about death couched in some soothing words. I had come to support Irena. I had come because I imagined that, if a loved one of mine had died, I would have taken comfort in the presence of friends. I had met Irena for coffee two weeks earlier, and I knew that her father, Massimo, who had had heart problems for years, had been declining, and that for the past few months he had been in the hospital, dementia bearing down on his already fragile health and worrying Irena and her mother constantly. I was glad to be able to attend the funeral, to be supportive in a small way; I wished I could have done more.
The church—a large, modern one with a nave in the shape of a fan spreading out from the altar—was full, and there were people clustered in the back, too, just as they were, I remembered, at Italian weddings, when the younger people would stand near the door, unwilling to commit to hearing the whole mass, and duck out occasionally to smoke a cigarette or to chat.
Although I am not Catholic, the Catholic liturgy, even in Italian, is familiar to me, not only from when I went to church at a monastery near Siena, but from childhood, its words being almost verbatim those of the Episcopal liturgy, and its cadences, even in a foreign language, singularly recognisable. I love the beauty of old church interiors with their dark, mottled light and their odor of incense and stone. I love the watery sound of the organ, the lyrics and rhythms of the hymns, the gorgeous language of the Bible. The discipline and pace and familiarity of the rite itself leave me feeling, not coincidentally of course, relieved and pacified. I had come, in part, for all of that, too.
“You came for two reasons,” the priest growled, his head still butting forward, “to save your soul”—here he paused, head cocked, looking over the congregation–“and Massimo’s! You heard the call today—the call to save your souls.”
I hadn’t thought of saving my soul as I had gotten ready that morning, nor, frankly, had I thought of it on any other morning, either. In fact, my soul had rarely been on my radar screen. When I am at my deepest, I think about the difference between what does or does not give a sense of meaning to my day or week or year. In those moments, I promise myself I’ll prioritise those things—time with my daughters or my sister, honing my wine project, walking the fields with the dogs—such that the sense of meaning will grow and solidify, until some day, I fantasize, it will displace all fears, all doubt.
“And thank God you heard that call!” the priest continued, “Because time is running out. You are alive, unlike Massimo, because God decided to let you breathe for a little longer, today. But you are running out of time.”
It was strange to think of Massimo’s death–or of my being alive, for that matter–as the result of someone’s deliberate choice, rather than as an inexplicable circumstance. And hadn’t I been trying to slow down for as long as I could remember? To stop thinking of life as a race? What harsh, old fashioned notions this man was preaching, I thought. I looked at Irena a few pews in front of me to see how she was reacting to the dire phrases. I saw her turn around and look beyond me at the crowd in the back; she might have been looking for someone while taking note, also, of who was there. Then she faced the altar again, twisting some strands of hair in her lefthand fingers, as I had often seen her do in her office or over coffee. From time to time, she leaned over and murmured something to her mother.
The sermon continued: we should be as the Saints, and the sooner we started, the less time we and Massimo would suffer in Purgatory. The invective struck me, suddenly, as funny—made me think of the sing-song voice and empty grin my mother used when imitating the nuns who had been her childhood teachers. She had told us a hundred times about being made to walk the rounds of the classrooms with her forbidden chewing gum stuck to her nose, how her illegible handwriting was the consequence of the nuns’ too rigid penmanship demands. The priest took himself so seriously; my mother would have laughed him off. I looked beyond the priest at the artwork hung over the altar—a colored bas-relief of Jesus, flanked by two female figures who must have been saints, though, after the modern fashion bore no halos or other identifying signs. All three of them were looking down, admiring a source of light around which Jesus’s hands were cupped, a light emanating from his groin. I stifled a wicked giggle and looked away, but the sight of the bored congregation made for a funny contrast, and I had to bow my head while I shook for a moment with mirth.
It was all so very Italian—the fire and brimstone priest, the lackadaisical congregation, the macho Jesus and his admiring cohorts. In the Protestant churches of my youth, everyone attending the service adopted the carefully-groomed look, the prissy demeanor and the painful earnestness of the pastor—but not here! The priest raged and threatened, the congregation smoked, flirted and ignored him. Italians believe in God, but it’s not as if they doubt themselves. Whereas, Stateside, we’re all constantly trying to change.
The Eucharistic prayer was said, and some people got up to take communion—ostensibly only those who had been to confession, for the priest had warned us about that, too: “Communion without confession: those of you who are doing that now are sinners!” After the mass ended, Irena stood up and explained that she had wanted to say a few words about her father but that only the briefest of thank-yous was permitted, which she said, getting in, under the priest’s glare, that she remembered her father with a smile on his face and that she hoped we would remember him that way, too.
And then we all stood up, and Irena stepped down from the lectern. She went to the head of the aisle and, smiling through tears, started to walk back up it, greeting one person at a time, taking him or her in her arms, thanking us for our support.