Look below. Look at it real good. This is professional fighting. It's weird. Where's the love here?
Let me tell you. Sometimes, there's a lot of hate between these people and their opponent. Sometimes respect. Even friendship and brotherhood. Rivalries are born. They're not forgotten easily. Truth is people are powerful beings. We are powerful beings but we can also be weak. Beaten. Bruised. Scared. Lost. Knocked out by one or two punches. Finished in an instant. We can win alright but we will never know the true power with in us unless we accept the fact that there is an even more powerful being. That can be our coach, our friend, our father, our opponent..... they encourage us to be stronger more flexible and more agile.
In the same way, our lives can be weak or strong. It just depends on your attitude. It's never easy to be strong but it's never easier to be weak. God is givng you the chance to be stronger. how? I'm a Christian and GOd is God. God is my strength and when he became my God. He actually lent me his strength. He's offering you that same strength. That same power that many desire. He loves us so much that he's giving us this power. He loves us so much that he died on the cross as Jesus Christ to set us free from the bondage of sin so that he could give us strength to live our lives. My friends , God is calling you home. Not just home but a power so great that it created the universe , changed so many lives , and changed History. You can have that amazing change is life. Just trust God. He's the only way. "For God so loved the World that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have Eternal Life" John 3:16. He offers Eternal Life. "But to those who believed in Him, He gave them the right to become the Children of GOd" John 1:12 He will Carry Me....and He will be with You always.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Tears of the Sun
So, let's talk movies......
Tears of the Sun
Why did these marines who didn't have a reason to stay, stay and help 30 refugees who never needed help even after ordered off the mission?
Many would have gone home but they stayed. They stayed on till death and the final mission. When they saw the carnage of the militants, they just couldn't stand by and do nothing. They had to do something to save all these people and give the country hope. Was this love? They gave time and sacrifice, indeed there was love.
Like the marines, God couldn't just stand by and do nothing. He loved us. He wanted to be reconciled with us. Jesus Christ was sent in the form of God's son to earth and stayed on till death. Before His sacrifice; He was taken as a criminal, politician, revolutionist, and hero. The pressures were on Him yet because He loves us so much, He allowed it to happen. He resisted from fighting back, He refused to strike the men who accused Him down, He wanted to keep us safe from something. He wanted to save us from a punishment we really deserved, but He took that punishment for us instead to cleanse us from sin which made us guilty. He just couldn't stand by and do nothing. He had to give up His status as God to Sacrifice for the sins of man. He made us innocent by His blood and rose from the dead to give us life everlasting.
Tears of the Sun
Why did these marines who didn't have a reason to stay, stay and help 30 refugees who never needed help even after ordered off the mission?
Many would have gone home but they stayed. They stayed on till death and the final mission. When they saw the carnage of the militants, they just couldn't stand by and do nothing. They had to do something to save all these people and give the country hope. Was this love? They gave time and sacrifice, indeed there was love.
Like the marines, God couldn't just stand by and do nothing. He loved us. He wanted to be reconciled with us. Jesus Christ was sent in the form of God's son to earth and stayed on till death. Before His sacrifice; He was taken as a criminal, politician, revolutionist, and hero. The pressures were on Him yet because He loves us so much, He allowed it to happen. He resisted from fighting back, He refused to strike the men who accused Him down, He wanted to keep us safe from something. He wanted to save us from a punishment we really deserved, but He took that punishment for us instead to cleanse us from sin which made us guilty. He just couldn't stand by and do nothing. He had to give up His status as God to Sacrifice for the sins of man. He made us innocent by His blood and rose from the dead to give us life everlasting.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
What's this about?
Love? A controversial topic. Many people use it. For the love of our country, the love for family, the love for friends.....
The passion for a sport
Love the sport or the love of your career. Your dream job. This blog is to show how a group of people see love as Christians.
Love. Nobody can really ever describe it. You care for someone, you love them. You spend a day with someone means you love them. Some people over exaggerate it; some people undermind it. Love can go from a girlfriend or boyfriend to someone you simply know to a family member. Wouldn't you guys want to know what else love can be? What's it's story? how does it drive a person? How does it motivate the common man to push for something further? Where did it all start? although this is a CHristian perspective, this is entirely different.
I never made too many friends in the beginning. I always thought you couldn't say I love you unless that person did something for you. Yet why are there people who love even though there's nothing in it for them? Why would someone donate a Million dollars to charity? Because they can? Charity. Love. People. Why would someone commit their whole lives to live with tribes who are unreachable or unlovable? Have you ever heard of such?
David Livingstone was a Scotish Doctor. He was born of poverty in Scotland and later became a lover of Africa. He heard of people in Africa. He heard of slave traders and he also heard about people trying to stop them. He also saw something else. He saw smoke. He saw a dying generaion of unreached people. He saw that there were people who were dying of starvation and malaraia. He also saw the cruelty of the slave traders and the destructive traditions of human scarifice. Livingstone went to Africa in 1840. His arrival, a Scotish doctor that was thrown into the fire of politics and trade, when this man simply wanted to reach out to the natives and help bring medicine. What he wrote in his journal was a description of his first days in Africa, he told the story of while he was in a small village of a man and his servant girl. The young girl had come to Livingstone's hut for food. He gave her and she kept coming back 5 times in a row. The master who was rich claimed to have no food and later the little girl disappeared. When Livingstone asked the master a few hours later about where the girl was, the master only sneered and said that she probably had gone to the fields where many were straving. Livingstone's heart became heavy. Also, despite his personal travels and improved medical methods, he couldn't completely reach out the people's hearts. Most were hardened by tradition or the discrimination of some of the British traders or cruel slave masters, and sometimes, didn;t trust Livingstone. He simply continued to love them until one of his servants finally responded. He fell sick but went one to try and open new trade routes for his suppliers while making contact and love to these people. Why was he so determined that he refused to give up and even cameback after retiring? Why was he so persistent to the point of death? Slowly but surely, people began to follow Livingstone's mission. They didn't come only to trade but to also love these people. And Africa responded by loving them back. You see, Livingstone was a missionary. He was a Christian. He had exprienced God's saving grace and wanted to spread the Christian news to the Africans. Many Africans were saved that time of Livingstone, and his heart never really left Africa. After suffering from Malaria for his months of travel, Livingstone went in peace with the Lord on April 27, 1874. Over Thrity years of ministry, had changed the lives of so many. What was this love and drive? Why was this Christian so determined? His work was published by a reporter from New York before his last days and took his journal to let the world know of a doctor who brought more than medicine to Africa
Just to love them.....
The passion for a sport
Love the sport or the love of your career. Your dream job. This blog is to show how a group of people see love as Christians.
Love. Nobody can really ever describe it. You care for someone, you love them. You spend a day with someone means you love them. Some people over exaggerate it; some people undermind it. Love can go from a girlfriend or boyfriend to someone you simply know to a family member. Wouldn't you guys want to know what else love can be? What's it's story? how does it drive a person? How does it motivate the common man to push for something further? Where did it all start? although this is a CHristian perspective, this is entirely different.
I never made too many friends in the beginning. I always thought you couldn't say I love you unless that person did something for you. Yet why are there people who love even though there's nothing in it for them? Why would someone donate a Million dollars to charity? Because they can? Charity. Love. People. Why would someone commit their whole lives to live with tribes who are unreachable or unlovable? Have you ever heard of such?
David Livingstone was a Scotish Doctor. He was born of poverty in Scotland and later became a lover of Africa. He heard of people in Africa. He heard of slave traders and he also heard about people trying to stop them. He also saw something else. He saw smoke. He saw a dying generaion of unreached people. He saw that there were people who were dying of starvation and malaraia. He also saw the cruelty of the slave traders and the destructive traditions of human scarifice. Livingstone went to Africa in 1840. His arrival, a Scotish doctor that was thrown into the fire of politics and trade, when this man simply wanted to reach out to the natives and help bring medicine. What he wrote in his journal was a description of his first days in Africa, he told the story of while he was in a small village of a man and his servant girl. The young girl had come to Livingstone's hut for food. He gave her and she kept coming back 5 times in a row. The master who was rich claimed to have no food and later the little girl disappeared. When Livingstone asked the master a few hours later about where the girl was, the master only sneered and said that she probably had gone to the fields where many were straving. Livingstone's heart became heavy. Also, despite his personal travels and improved medical methods, he couldn't completely reach out the people's hearts. Most were hardened by tradition or the discrimination of some of the British traders or cruel slave masters, and sometimes, didn;t trust Livingstone. He simply continued to love them until one of his servants finally responded. He fell sick but went one to try and open new trade routes for his suppliers while making contact and love to these people. Why was he so determined that he refused to give up and even cameback after retiring? Why was he so persistent to the point of death? Slowly but surely, people began to follow Livingstone's mission. They didn't come only to trade but to also love these people. And Africa responded by loving them back. You see, Livingstone was a missionary. He was a Christian. He had exprienced God's saving grace and wanted to spread the Christian news to the Africans. Many Africans were saved that time of Livingstone, and his heart never really left Africa. After suffering from Malaria for his months of travel, Livingstone went in peace with the Lord on April 27, 1874. Over Thrity years of ministry, had changed the lives of so many. What was this love and drive? Why was this Christian so determined? His work was published by a reporter from New York before his last days and took his journal to let the world know of a doctor who brought more than medicine to Africa
Just to love them.....
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