I just realized I had not been updating…
so… I’ll do a few chapters now for you.
Day five and six seemed to say the same thing. Life is not permanent. We are here temporarily. And we need to remember this is a trial and just a brief moment in our existance.
I did like in Day five where it said that we do not own anything here. We are merely borrowing it. SUch as the earth. We should care for what we borrow. No joke! I wholeheartedly agree. In fact he says something to the effect of “Society teaches us that when we don’t own something we don’t take care of it.” Just why is this true now? I’m only 28 and growing up I had it HAMMERED into me… you can trash your own stuff if you want but if it is not yours you take extreme good care of it and return it in as new condition. You don’t trash it. THat’s how I have always lived my life. So as a renter for the first 8 years of our marriage? I treated the homes as our own and took great pains to make sure it was always nice and well cared for. But then I moved here to Columbus and people are like ‘Renters just trash everything.” What? Since when? But that’s what happens here. Renters come in and put holes in walls, ruin carpet, burn down houses (actually yes that happened up the street!), and just show no regard for the owner’s property! Of course I also saw the owner of my rental townhome show no regard for his property when the drywall tape popped and formed a crack that became a hole that became huge. For six months I tried to get them to fix it and they refused. Finally my FATHER fixed it. Give me a break. This is the same place that told me I would not have to pay a lease break fee and then reported me for 1700 bucks to an evil creditor. *SIGH*
So it seems to me that we are even starting to see the loaner of such goods showing no regard for lent items. What the heck? What happened to common human decency?
Day six also stressed the “Be in the world, but not of the world.” That’s so hard. How do you live in this world of depravity but keep yourself true? I think we probably all struggle with this each day.
Day seven was like a final “catch you up” dealio. It did talk about the five ways we can “Bring Glory To God”. These are 1. worshipping him 2. loving other believers 3. becoming like Christ 4. serving others with our gifts 5. telling others of him.
Which if you ask me boils down to two of the three principals of the Bible. The three are “Love God, Love yourself, love others.” Well this list of five does not talk about yourself… but the other two. Unless you want to count becoming like Christ as loving yourself.
It ends with asking everyone to convert to Christianity by a prayer. Kind of like in the Left Behind books. Now of course, there’s a heck of a lot more to joining the Lord’s church than just a prayer, but that is definately the first step on a road that will hopefully bring much happiness!
That’s the end of the first week. After this we actually get into the purposes of life. We had to cover that “get everyone up to speed” stuff. Which of course for most Christians will be a little bit of overview of the truths they already know. But it is a wonderful resource for those who are new or not yet in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I’m going to leave at that… I’ve still a few days to catch you guys up on and I’m about a day behind in reading. I have to finish week 2 by this Thursday though! That’s our next meeting. And just to remind you guys, we are actually doing the weeks over two weeks. Why? Because I want to confuse the heck out of you! No, really… we are meeting on opposite weeks of MOPS so we lose weeks that way. But a slow read might be good. Of course these chapters are so short… it is almost silly to think you can’t squeeze it into your day. But then real life rears its head and we are all mums of little ones. And goodness knows just as soon as we sit on the john even… kids do something horribly traumatizing that leaves us running for them all thoughts of anything else flying from our minds! So even a couple pages can be hard to read in a day!! Some days are good… but some days… things just can’t get done!
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Anonymous said:
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Hey ladyozma, i sometimes listen to : as well… is a new cd coming out soon?The Passion of The Christ is in theaters soon – this week on Wednesday.. what do you think about this movie? I’m going to see it for sure – the trailers were enough to convince me. I read somewhere that it’s the widest opening ever for a subtitled movie; I have a feeling subtitles won’t detract from the full effect of this movie though. After looking at the trailers which have no subtitles or english at all, it was reinforced for me that lack of spoken english in this film won’t hurt one bit. To sum up my impression of The Passion: it’s a work of art.
Good Website
Another fascinating aspect to this movie is all the controversy that has been generated about it.
Some people, not really representative of Jewish people, but rather self appointed Jewish spokespeople, such as Abraham Foxman from the Anti-Defamation League, seem to have been attempting to denounce this film for months as being anti-Semitic. The news reported that they even stole the script last year! But here’s what some Jews say (Jews who don’t make it their job to tear apart other people): Protesting Gibson’s Passion Lacks Moral Legitimacy by Rabbi Daniel Lapin.
Nice to see some people speaking rationally.
So what do you think of all this?
*** Kyle
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: hey ladyozma. what’s up? : is one of my favs
I’ve heard a lot of controversy over this movie. Seems to have devided everything. “Oh it is so spiritually great we are getting another movie about Christ” and at the same time “This movie is horrible and a poor representation.”
We need to remember that everyone has a different picture of what happened. But none of us were alive then so who are we to say what did and did not really happen. Especially when there are so many different translations of the bible floating around out there. Each translation gives its own slant. But that matters not, for you and I could read the same verse out of the same book and because we are spiritually in different places we might see totally different things!
We need to remember this is just a visualization of what might have happened. As far as I can see, if it brings just one person closer to the Lord, then it served its purpose!
As for the anti semite argument. Historically we are looking at a dusty old book that simply says a bunch of jews voted for Christ to be put to death. Well, OK. So we had a group of people… did not say where these people came from. We do know that the jewish leaders did not like Christ and were constantly trying to slip him up. Catch him so they could defraud him. You can’t tell me that these leaders had no sway with those who looked up to them and convinced them of Jesus’s guilt? And so isn’t it conceivable that they were intragal in pulling together followers to denouce Christ? Sure. But does this mean that all jews must be then “Christ-killers”? No way. And it is a shame that there are people who would judge the actions of just a few of a group and condemn all of a group and future generations. You cannot tell me that a jewish man who lives now 2000 years later is at fault.
But you cannot forget that yes… thew gathered jews did want Jesus punished. How on earth can you cover this up? And of course there will be those who look at it as wrong that they put the man to death. THey will forget that in fact, he NEEDED to die in order to overcome death. So while yes… what they did was wrong… it was also necessary and therefor good. After all, where would be if Christ had not died for our sins and then overcome death? So sure, blame the jews all you want but you need to thank them. Thank you for our Salvation.
So it boils down to… when the movie hits DVD I’ll watch it. I’m interested to see this portrayal. 🙂 I don’t think that it will be anti-jew but of course there will be people who see it that way. But you can’t get around history. I happen to think that like in everything else… the vocal people are the minority. They just happen to shout louder. Which of course makes you think they are a good representation when really they are not. Such it was with the jews asking for Christ’s death.
This is lengthy and I’ve tried to edit it. I hope it makes sense!
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withoutanet said:
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hey, that is soo a troll. it was kinda messed up, cause i listed as my music (pardon me) loud ASS tv in other room, and got this same reply to my post, saying they listened to loud ASS tv in other room too, and were any cds coming out. it was so bizarre, i wanted to vie not to watch the movie, rofl. on a side note: i read somewhere that mel gibson and or family discount the holocaust, and etc. now, imma go back and read yer response. lol
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withoutanet said:
Day six also stressed the “Be in the world, but not of the world.” That’s so hard. How do you live in this world of depravity but keep yourself true? I think we probably all struggle with this each day.
— this idea, i think, is the most helpful. all of this is temporary. and living outside of it, to some extent, sets you free.
Which if you ask me boils down to two of the three principals of the Bible. The three are “Love God, Love yourself, love others.”
—amen!
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: hey ladyozma. what’s up? : is one of my favs
Hmmm interesting troll then. weirdness.
I heard Mel Gibson’s father blew off the holocaust. was it Mel? I heard something recently with him where he was talking about how he was like really getting back into faith or something. That that was why he wanted to make this movie. It had nothing to do with jewish anything. I don’t know… I read it a while back. I’m probably not remembering it right.
So what do you think? You gonna watch the movie?
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Lady Ozma said:
Glad you can agree. 🙂
Three most principal things to anyone… no matter what religion!!
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withoutanet said:
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i’ll watch most anything when it hits the movie channels 🙂 it is not worth the drive to drive two hours and sit in an uncomfortable theater for another two hours to see a movie. that’s one of the reasons i was so pleased when we re-ordered them
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Lady Ozma said:
I do the same sort of thing
There are some movies I’ll pay to go to the theatre for. But generally I wait for DVD. I mean it has to be like Star Wars for me to go to the theatre. But it costs eight bucks a person to go. something like that. What the frell? Wait and buy the dvd for crying out loud. Or better yet for some movies, wait till they come on TV. Like this weekend. Mega movie blitze thanks to HBO free preview. 🙂
Our theatre is not that bad… nor is the drive. It is the farking COST!
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