Friend, do you know the good news about Jesus Christ ?

The good news is that about 2000 years ago Jesus Christ(God the Son) paid for our past, present and future sins(wrongdoing) on the cross.

The Word of God says, "That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God(The Father) raised Jesus Christ from the dead, you will be saved." {Holy Bible - Romans 10:9}

You should not wait until later to get saved because you may die before you get another chance and you will miss Heaven.

Heaven is described as a beautiful place where people live forever with no death, sorrow, sickness and pain. {Holy Bible - Revelation 21:4}

Hell is described as a place of suffering forever for all those who are not saved. {Holy Bible - Matthew 13:50}

If you want to be sure you will go to Heaven after this life is over just pray a meaningful prayer right now from your heart to God like the one below and you will be saved.

Dear God I want to be saved. Dear Jesus Christ Son of God I want to make you my personal Lord and Savior. Please forgive me of my sins or things I have done wrong in my life. Thanks Jesus Christ for taking my punishment for my sins by shedding your sinless blood on the cross and dying for my sins. Jesus Christ I now confess you as my Lord and believe in my heart that God(The Father) raised you from the dead. Amen.

If you just allowed God to save you then welcome to the family of God because you are now a Christian on your way to Heaven.

You can learn more about Jesus Christ if you read the Holy Bible and a good place to start reading is the book of John.


Have a great day!
Ronald L. Grossi
www.alreadypaid.blogspot.com




08 December 2006

 

ugh.

 

You're too late.

The Satanists posted their preachings here a full two days ago, and we already converted. Well, everybody who wasn't a pagan.

 

Well thank GAWD, 'cause now I don't have to worry about all those sperm I killed.

arty:

 

Jc is muh dawwggg! we skizzmoke maddd blizzuntz, yo!

 

hahahaha




well at least he's preaching jesus instead of scientology ...
although, a religion made up by a science fiction writer does have it's own creditability....maybe i should devote myself to scientology

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemons

and thats ill im gunna say aboot this thread

 

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade...




If life gives you limes....


Make margaritas.


I actually just got back from the x-mas show at my church. I'm on stage crew and partial organ duty. I'm also trying to get a larger band going and hoping to help overhaul the music programs by next Summer sometime.

What can I say. Yeah, I do agree that it gets to be Hawaiian porkloaf when televangelists resort to the internet.

But all I can say is that I'm thankful we're allowed to do so. If you lived in Sudan, you'd be crucified for your beliefs.

 

porkloaf?

 

oh..

 

thank u very much....but i dont beleive in god but a high power & enlightemant...
i do not beleive in hell either.....but i'm more buddisum than anything....

but if god , church and all that jazz work 4 u...right on..
keep on...keepin on....

 

Well... that's my dispute. I believe in Buddhism too... but, why shouldn't I--it's a philosophy, not a religion.

 

the asians here cook spam all the time and it stinks like hell...

 

man, i had this dvd of short films, one was called spamku... a guy wrote a haiku about spam that won him a contest, and a "lifetime of spam". and he was so excited, and waited and waited, but the spam never came. then one day he woke up, and he was spam. i wish i could remember the haiku.

i don't adopt religions or practices that use fear to convince you to do something and don't make any sense. i love jesus. i just think all this duality bullshit, good and bad, sinner and saint, heaven and hell, is absolutely ridiculous and illogical... if god wanted people to "go to heaven", "he" wouldn't allow "hell" to exist. if hell exists, it's either because god doesn't really love us, or because god is not omnipotent, and so isn't really god. and if he's not god, and doesn't love us, but we're worshipping him... what are we doing??

i propose we turn this thread into a haiku thread.

 

haha this is entirely unrelated to the dvd... i think. weird.

http://web.mit.edu/jync/www/spam/

 

SPAM!

Jesus was an awesome guy, but I'd rather fallow someone I choose.

 

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That's really the problem...

Instead of trying to prove it right and trying to make it work/compromising with it, people tend to have this utmost stamina in trying to prove things wrong.

But it's much like a conversation I had with an 80 year old lady, last night (I was having to watch a few seniors from the rehabilitation center my mom works at, in between helping manage the stage). She told me that even she never truly believes and looks at all religions, sometimes, but there are always little things to remind her that somebody is listening. Sometimes you need things to remind you that you're not alone. It's just that.. I really don't think alot of people have felt a calling, in this day and age, it can be a little confusing, to say the least. It's not about what always sounds right, but that burning you have in your soul when the music is playing and everything is going great. Church has always been more of a... family thing. I may be distantly related to a good quarter of the people at my church, since my great-grandfather is from here, but I really don't know them all. I really have no family, other than a third-cousin. Anyway... it's the feeling that you have family that loves you and people that you don't even know who are willing to give you a hand or a frickin hug anytime you need it--I didn't get that solely when I was studying Buddhism.

That's why I do it. Sometimes, I feel... a little disgruntled with my life, you know. I get angry and have to remind myself those things-- what better way to do it than in the house of the lord. Besides that, it also goes over well on my job resume, since I've been a member for over ten years. To me... it's not just about faith, it's about this burning sensation I get that feels almost like I just smoked a spliff in one gigantic puff. My youth pastor recently felt a calling to pack up all of his things, pick up, and move, after living here for a dozen odd years. He moved to a smaller church with a smaller salary in a town I've never heard of, in Alabama, after a trip to help with Katrina efforts on the gulf coast.

I'm sure alot of people won't understand that, but for some reason, I'm not sure if I care. It's just my groove. I mean, even Johnny and Edgar Winter volunteered at a church. It's what got them started in music. To be honest, I'm not out to prove things wrong or right. That's what gets our government in trouble... trying to place the blame while not doing anything to correct the situation. We tend to forget the past, and we should all know that those who forget the past and its history are deemed to repeat it, even though nobody is perfect and should be accepted as they are. Despite being a Southern Baptist and our conservative reputation as a whole, I'm just trying to remind people that not all religious people are out to get you... and that having any political affiliation while in the house of the lord is just disrespectful.

All in all, we forget that blame is much too messy, much like my own savior on the cross 2007 years ago. We also forget that the basis of all religions is love and that love can often breed disputes which lead to.. well, blind hate, call it that.

Two song-things.

Was he thinkin' about my country
Or the color of my skin?
Was he thinkin' 'bout my religion
And the way I worshipped him?
Did he create just me in his image
Or every living thing?
When God made me
When God made me
Was he planning only for believers
Or for those who just have faith?
Did he envision all the wars
That were fought in his name?
Did he say there was only one way
To be close to him?
When God made me
When God made me
Did he give me the gift of love
To say who I could choose?
When God made me
When God made me
When God made me
When God made me
Did he give me the gift of voice
So some could silence me?
Did he give me the gift of vision
Not knowing what I might see?
Did he give me the gift of compassion
To help my fellow man?
When God made me

- Neil Young

Love is my religion, Love is my religion, Love is my religion
I'll take you to the temple tonight

All my days I've been searching, to find out what this life is worth
through the books and bibles of time I've made up my mind
I don't condemn, I don't convert, this is a calling have you heard
bring all the lovers to the fold, cause no one is gonna lose their soul

Love is my religion, Love is my religion, Love is my religion
hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it

I don't want to fight, hey let's go fly a kite
there's nothing that we can't cure, and I'll keep you in my arms for sure
so don't let nobody stop us, free spirits have to soar
with you I share the gift, the gift that we now know oh oh oh

( Chorus )

Well I'm done searching now, I found out what this life is worth
not in the books that I find, but by searching my mind
I don't condemn, I don't convert
this is the calling have you heard, bring all the lovers to the fold
no one is gonna lose their soul

( Chorus )


Even bob finally accepted Christianity on his deathbed... even though he first believed his imperial majesty Haile Selassie I was him.

People don't think about it, but being an atheist is a difficult task to complete when you're on your deathbed... and I thought I was on my deathbed last thursday, though I've never been an atheist. I've recieved more love than anyone here could ever imagine from my church.

 

I have a hard time believing God has a due date for salvation, I have an even harder time believing that we need saving at all.

 

That's the thing.... people tend to put the little things on the extreme side. Being saved has nothing to do about it.

I don't see it as being saved but finding a stronger meaning and prospective on life. All people are saved wether they like it or not... it doesn't matter if you go and burn down the empire state building and shoot the Bush Administration, people have already forgiven you.. you just don't know it. There are alot of things taken literally that I don't believe should be taken that way.