Who is Jesus?

Jesus is God. He said so. John 8: 58 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am." What could be plainer? He said He was God in so many different ways. So that means The Almighty Lord of the Universe stepped down from all his majesty and power to be come a helpless little baby, so He could be like one of us. What better way for God to get to know us, and us Him, than to be one of us? To prove He was God He performed many miracles. The best one was for Him to die and then be raised from the dead. So He has a right to say that (John 14: 6) "I am ^(A)the way, and ^(B)the truth, and ^(C)the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."
And so this is Christmas. What have you done about the Christ child, born to bring you second life? Don't let this Christmas slip by without accepting the free gift of eternal life, held out to you as a parent holds out a Christmas gift to his child. Jesus is the greatest gift of all.

Strike in Hollywood

I say, more power to the writers in Hollywood! Stay on strike for a loooong time. Maybe the garbage TV shows will go off the air. Desparate Housewives? Sex In The City? David Letterman? Mindless drivel! Your not on strike to improve the quality of TV shows, that's for sure.

Evil

This goes along with the hell topic. Read Dr. Mohler's blog. It's about evil. Evil exists. Don't poke your head in the ground and ignore it or you might find your head still there when evil visits you.

Hell

Todays subject in Sunday School class was Hell. Did you know Hell was topic that Christ talked about alot? I know a man who says he can't wait to go to Hell because he says that there will be a big party there and he wants to be there. I suppose he doesn't know it will be difficult to party there because it is very dark there. And hot, yet cold, like a fever. It will be full of all the things he hates. Everyone there will hate him. He will be tormented forever, and will be on fire. He can't stand his district representative, so I imagine she'll be right there with him. Matthew 13:42: They will through them into the fire and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. That doesn't sound like a party.
Dear reader, be aware. There is a hell. It is an awful place. It is where you are going unless you know Jesus. The Bible says it, Jesus says it. That's the way it is. Now, What are you going to do about it?

Music musings

A few grim musical milestones, folks that I really like their music:
Rich Mullins died 10 years ago September 19, 1997.
Jaco Pastorius died 20 years ago September 21, 1987.
Joe Zawinul died about a month ago September 11, 2007.

Feb 16, 2007 Iraq vote-A Letter To My Representative

Mr. Larsen,
The people that have voted to oppose the troop increase have made a grave mistake. You are one of them. You do not understand the nature of true, intense, teeth gritting evil. That is what we are fighting over there. It is radical Islam, like a swarm of insane bees, each member willing to die for their god, Allah. If we pull out of Iraq, which this is the first step, they will smell blood. They will know we are weak and unwilling to fight for what is right. They already think that because of Viet Nam, where the left in America fought and protested in the streets for Communism, until we pulled out of there and abandoned the South Vietnamese. Communism quickly swept across all of southern Asia and millions were exterminated under Pol Pot and the communist Vietnamese Government.

Now radical Islam is the dragon waiting for America to cave in and abandon Iraq so it can sweep across the Middle East, because it is poised to do so. Then it will have a choking grip on the worlds oil supply. Notice radial Islam breathing down our necks in Venezuela. Evil will join evil. Gone is Teddy Roosevelt! Gone is Franklin Roosevelt! Gone is Harry Truman! Gone is Winston Churchill! Gone is Ronald Reagan!

If America won’t stand up to evil, who will? I see a dark day coming when America is no longer a superpower, and a new, evil empire takes over the world. And there you are voting on some stupid measure that tells the world we don’t have any stomach for fighting evil. God help America!

Bruce Lapham

Beauty Cannot Be Tamed

Beauty cannot be tamed, if it is a wild beauty. When you walk through a forest, you can see the trees growing in every direction, the thickets full of hidden life, secreted away from the human eye but not from the ear. The sun pours down through the trees with such intensity one could never think to cage it. The rains come whenever they see fit, bringing life to every living thing in its path. This is such a beauty that cannot be tamed.

Even if you clear away the trees, the thickets, chase away those who call the forest their home, you never quite succeed in quenching ALL life. The ground still breathes as a forest, no matter if there are houses now resting upon it. The trees still grow, quietly planning and plotting to take back what was once theirs, and still is. The thickets grow in hiding; someday they'll burst throw the metro chaos and join the trees in their revolution. The sun still comes, the rain still drenches, and if you listen carefully, you can hear the voices of the life that made the forest so sacred.

Yet humans can never understand this untamable beauty. We believe that we can rule the world if we so wish, that the universe is our playground. What are we, though, compared to the wonders of the Milky Way, or the amazing act of a doe giving birth to her fawn? We cannot compare ourselves to the sacred acts of nature, or our intelligence to that of the animals. In contrast, humans are self-destructive, uncaring, with no remorse of their hate. But it's not just the hating, the fighting, the loss of life we see on the news every waking hour that sets us apart from nature. It's the wear and tear of the human heart, the pain of losing a loved one, or failing at a goal you hoped to accomplish. Nature knows no failure - only the will and perseverance to survive in a world gone mad. Between the two, which would you rather be a part of: the chaos and noise, or the quiet peacefulness? This you shall only find in nature, and only if you care.

Do not destroy the precious beauty God gave to us. For one, you can never destroy that which creates life, and two, this wild, wild beauty can never be tamed.

Melanie Lapham Jan 17, 2007

Christmas

7And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
8In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.
9And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened.
10But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people;
11for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
12"This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."
13And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, 14"Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased."
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In The Beginning.

Genesis timeline:
Overview:
CREATION TO THE FLOOD
In the beginning was the Word (Jesus). He existed before He created. (John 1:1)
God created the Heavens (This He created first.)
God created the Earth
These refer to space, as in width, height, depth. Time was created later.
Genesis timeline:Overview:CREATION TO THE FLOODIn the beginning was the Word. He existed before He created. (John 1:1) God created the Heavens (This He created first.)God created the Earth These refer to space, as in width, height, depth. Time was created later.At first, time did not exist. Therefore, in eternity past:
• the Earth was formless, void, dark
• yet the Spirit of the Lord hovered over the Earth
• He created light and separated the light from the darkness. Notice it does not say He created darkness. That is because darkness is not a thing to behold; it is the absence of light, just as evil is the absence of God.
Timeline Begins:
God called the light “day” and the darkness “night”. Thusly time began, the first day.
Creation, including 7 days. Created Man and Woman on the sixth day.
The Fall. Adam and Eve sin and God evicts them from Eden.
Cain kills his brother Able and the Lord curses Cain.
Seth, brother of Cain and Able was born.
The family of Man grew. In those days they lived a long time. Methuselah lived to be 969 years old.
FLOOD TO ABRAHAM
Noah was born
ABRAHAM TO JOSEPH
JOSEPH IN EGYPT
DEATH OF JOSEPH

Here come the Liberals

May the Lord save the United States! Since the big win for the Democrats, you're now going to see what barely restrained liberalism will do. Sell you big pickup trucks and Escalades now while you can still get a good price. Hold on to your wallet and kids. No Nativity scenes this "holiday season" (Christmas). You thought the Republicans were spending too much? How do you spell illegal alien amnesty?

News Flash: A storm swept through election day which changed the course of a river in Washington State. The river took a distinct turn to the Left.


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da vinci code-A Big Lie

Read the Bible. That is the truth. The da vinci code is in the Fiction section. It is a lie.
Be deceived at your perile!
http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses2/glimpses190.shtml

Iraq-getting closer to victory

We are getting closer to victory in Iraq. Of course the main stream media are not reporting it, but bloggers are:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/006943.php

The Afghan Christian

I appreciate the Western World raising an outcry over this poor man who became a Christian 15 years ago. I hope all you Christians out there are praying for him. However, this stuff happens all the time. All Christians in the Western World need to be praying for the Persecuted Church http://persecution.com/ and raising an outcry over the horrendous treatment of Christians in the Islamic world. A story in the Voice of the Martyrs magazine tells of a man who had his arm chopped off by two men, had a picture of him, for speaking about Jesus. Please go to their web site mentioned above and pray specifically for those in China, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, and other countries. You can not imagine. Pray for them. They are part of the same Church as we are.

Brian Cody Lapham-my brother

Brian was born today, February 20, 1957. He died when he was 40 in 1997, from an anuerism bursting in his heart. He would be 49 years old now. I love and miss my brother. We were close yet far apart.

I will write more about him later.

Iran

From the Islamic Republic News Agency, Jan 21, 2006:
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Friday night that the culture ingrained in pure Islam can only be spread and promoted through kindness and benevolence.
President Ahmadinejad remarks were made during a meeting with Syrian elite Shiites and members of Damascus charity organizations.
"Today, humanity thirsts for the culture ingrained in pure Islam.
Muslims and Shiites, in particular, shoulder a heavy responsibility of promoting this culture," he said.
He, morover, said that irreproachable conduct would be the best way to introduce and promote Islamic culture, saying, "Kindness and service to people are two major pillars of conduct beyond reproach."

Nice guy? Okay, same day, same news service:

"President Ahmadinejad said Friday Palestine is the center of the final stages of the battle between Islam and arrogance, saying the Palestinian Intifada is progressing.
The plots hatched by enemies against Palestine should not be overlooked even for a moment, Ahmadinejad noted in a meeting with leaders of the Palestinian resistance movements in Damascus, Syria.
Ahmadinejad arrived in Damascus on Thursday upon the official invitation of his Syrian counterpart -- President Bashar al-Assad.
He spoke of the importance of the Palestinian cause and stressed the cause will not come be materialized if occupiers continue to occupy even a tiny part of Palestine's territories.
He stressed that unity, coordination and sympathy among resistance groups for the Palestinian cause is the only guarantee for Palestine's liberation.
The Islamic Republic of Iran supports the Palestinian cause of statehood and liberation of Islamic territories from occupiers, he added.
Elsewhere, he noted that one of the reasons westerners were lined up against Iran's undeniable right to gain peaceful nuclear technology was because of Iran's uncompromising support for Palestine.
The visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Syria is considered another gesture of political support to Damascus and the Islamic resistance, said Hamas political leader Khaled Mishaal.
The Hamas official extended his thanks to the Iranian president for his firm stance on the Palestinian issue, saying the resistance group, Hamas, considers resistance the only way to resolve the Palestinians' rights and success of their avowed goals."

Note. The "occupiers" are the Jewish people. In other words, they want to destroy Isreal. All I did was copy and paste. Nice guy?

Christmas Day

It's Christmas Day and all is quiet. Or maybe it's noisy where you are. What a consumer fest. Or feast. What is it all about? Who came up with this "Christmas" thing, anyway? Why have it? It costs a lot of money.

In order to have a personal relationship with us, His Creation, God came to this planet as one of us. The Almighty God, Creator of all that there is, shed His diety, His glory, His Godliness, like a royal robe, and took on humanity, like an old coat in a second hand store. He was born as a vulnerable baby in a nasty environment to humble parents, one natural, one adopted. He lived with His creation as a man like any other. He claimed to be who He was, God, and so was murdered by those who did not understand. But, He allowed Himself to be murdered. The God of the Universe could have climbed down and zapped all who stood there and jeered. But, hung there until the life from His battered body left. There, on that cross, He paid for all our sins, and we have plenty. He paid for all everywhere and for all time. That's a lot. Then, to prove all He said about His being God, He rose up alive from the dead. No other has done what Christ did. To be with Him we must receive the free gift of Christmas. This is what Christmas is all about. "For God so loved the World that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him will not die forever, but will live forever!" John 3:16.
Open up the free gift from God, today, and start living forever today!

http://christiananswers.net/christmas/home.html

Christmas

AAAhh! Christmas! Jesus the King of the Universe is born of Mary in a very lowly place in a nasty place now known as Isreal. It was probably a warm day. I am sure that neither Mary nor Joseph understood what was happening. Most of the world even now do not understand what what happened when Jesus was born.
God has a plan for the world, of which you are a part of, so therefore God has a wonderful plan for your life. But, the bad stuff you do, sin, keeps you apart from God, and keeps you from realizing His plan. And, without God in your life you can never know the true meaning of Christmas. Now, that little baby, Jesus, is God's only provision for the sin in you life. He is the bridge across that gulf of sin. See John 3, Jesus' conversation with Nicodemous. But, it is not enough to just know this. You must receive Jesus as your savior. You need to accept it as truth, just like you believe the chair you are sitting on is going to hold you up. Or that the earth isn't going to suddenly open up and swallow you. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Then you will truly enjoy Christmas in all its true meaning!

Torture

You know, we can produce the tortured bodies from the Iraqi Hussein regime, yet some wish that we had left him in power. Now those same on the left cannot produce bodies tortured by the Bush administration, yet they want to boot him out of power. Where is the logic?

Bush told the truth

Look, everyone (George Tenant, Hans Blix, the intellegence agencies of France, Germany, Russia, China, Isreal) agreed at the time that Iraq had weapons. Iraq acted like they had them by breaking the UN resolutions for 12 years. There are dead Kurd bodies that were gassed by the Iraqies. Did they gas them or not? The Hussein regime, it is widely agreed, was one of the most evil dictatorship, and as such acted like any other totalitarian regime. So, it only makes sense that He was searching for the most evil weapons, just like Hitler was.
By the way, just GOOGLE this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=clinton+iraq+1998

A New Facism

Remind you of Germany in the late 1930's?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4384264.stm