Posted on 09-10-2008

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

‘Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare .

We have killed our unborn and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.

We have abused power and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.

Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent to direct us to the center of your will. I ask it in the Name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ.  Amen!’

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Posted on 09-10-2008
Filed Under (Istorisiri ce inspira, Meditatii) by Ted

M-am gândit la ceea ce spunea Isus: Matei 5:30 Dacă mâna ta cea dreaptă te face să cazi în păcat, taie-o şi leapăd-o de la tine; căci este spre folosul tău să piară unul din mădularele tale, şi să nu-ţi fie aruncat tot trupul în gheenă.  Greu de făcut aşa ceva!  Nouă nu ne vine să ne tăiem mână!  Sperăm să o reformăm, să o aducem al calea dreaptă!  poate mai îmbătrânim şi mâna nu va mai fi la fel de sprinţară către rău!  Poate se va întâmpla vreo minune şi obiceiul rău va pleca ca de la sine.  Şi aşa, aşteptăm cu mâna atârnată de noi, dar nu ca un obiect inert, nefolositor, ci ca unul activ, care ne împinge sau atrage mereu către păcat. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted on 09-10-2008
Filed Under (Biblia intr-un an) by Ted

Astăzi citim Isaia capitolele 32 şi 33, Coloseni 1

Isaia 32

1  „Atunci împăratul va împărăţi cu dreptate, şi voievozii vor cârmui cu nepărtinire.
2  Fiecare va fi ca un adăpost împotriva vântului, şi ca un loc de scăpare împotriva furtunii, ca nişte râuri de apă într-un loc uscat, ca umbra unei stânci mari într-un pământ ars de sete. Read the rest of this entry »

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