Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.
Shannon L. AlderTags: life inspirational faith church spirituality commandments beliefs christians religions self-righteous righteous-living
On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut, and there was only one boat. But the few devoted members kept a constant watch over the sea, and with no thought for themselves went out day and night tirelessly searching for the lost. Some of those who were saved, and various others in the surrounding area, wanted to become associated with the station and give their time and money and effort for the support of its work. New boats were bought and new crews trained. The little life-saving station grew.
Some of the members of the life-saving were unhappy that the building was so crude and poorly equipped. They felt that a more comfortable place should be provided as the first refuge of those saved from the sea. They replaced the emergency cots with beds and put better furniture in the enlarged building.
Now the life-saving station became a popular gathering place for its members, and they decorated it as sort of a club. Fewer members were now interested in going to sea on life-saving missions, so they hired lifeboat crews to do this work. The life-saving motif still prevailed in this club`s decoration, and there was a liturgical lifeboat in the room where the club initiations were held.
About this time a large ship was wrecked off the coast, and the hired crews brought in boatloads of cold, wet and half-drowned people. They were dirty and sick and some had black skin and some had yellow skin. The beautiful new club was in chaos. So the property committee immediately had a shower house built outside the club where victims of shipwrecks could be cleaned up before coming inside.
At the next meeting, there was a split in the club membership. Most of the members wanted to stop the club`s life-saving activities as being unpleasant and a hindrance to the normal social life of the club. Some members insisted upon life-saving as their primary purpose and pointed out that they were still called a life-saving station. But they were finally voted down and told that if they wanted to save lives of all the various kinds of people who were shipwrecked in those waters, they could begin their own life-saving station down the coast. So they did just that.
As the years went by, the new station experienced the same changes that had occurred in the old. It evolved into a club, and yet another `spin-off` life saving station was founded. History continued to repeat itself, and if you visit the sea coast today, you will find a number of exclusive clubs along the shore. Shipwrecks are frequent in those waters, but most of the people drown.
Tags: purpose church commandments missions
God gave us free agency, and then gave us the commandments to keep us free.
Cecil B. DeMilleTags: commandments agency feedom
The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.
Israelmore AyivorTags: devil arrogance suicide satan foolishness commandments kill sermon craft deceit obedience obedient disobedience old-testament holy-bible obey satanic preaching scriptures god-s-word trap arrogant crafty whore craftiness prostitute deceiving delilah woman-power obey-the-law disobedient disobey god-s-laws philistines sampson take-instructions the-laws-of-god
Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.
Criss JamiTags: love compassion peace god self-sacrifice selflessness humility bible selfishness subjectivity rules conflict fighting commandments sacrifice laws apologetics consideration dispute objectivity
When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.
Israelmore AyivorTags: fear liberty man god church bible salvation jesus commandments food-for-thought jesus-christ christ close pastor prophesy saviour intimate don-t-be-afraid intimidate israelmore-ayivor the-word-of-god never-fear never-be-afraid be-saved congregation enclose enclosed fear-not god-speaks intimidated love-christ
Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: society morals civilization sex religion control commandments monogamy polygamy tame beast instincts libido sex-drive
Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: christianity religion internet rules commandments social-networking twitter tweet social-networks the-ten-commandments
Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: christianity religion internet rules commandments social-networking twitter tweet social-networks the-ten-commandments
Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: christianity religion internet rules commandments social-networking twitter tweet social-networks the-ten-commandments ettiquete
« first previous
Page 2 of 3.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.