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Heart of Worship by Sarah Hernandez (my lil sister)

​​Heart of Worship week 1  by Sarah Hernandez ​ ​If you know me, you know that I love the ocean. It is a very special place for me and I feel a certain peace and closeness with God when I am there. I also surf, so I am very familiar with how the waves work, how the tide ebbs and flows, and the rhythms of the water. One day, while sitting on my surfboard, God gave me a vision of what kind of worship He wants from me, and he used the very thing I love, to illustrate it. I saw myself wading into the water, at first only knee deep, still standing on shore. I was completely content standing on the shore and feeling the water rushing back and forth, gently hitting my knees and back again. But there was a longing for more inside of my soul, to go deeper. I heard the Lord quietly beckon me out further, reminding me that He has everything under control, and to surrender the pre-conceived notions I have about Him and what my worship to Him may look like. Suddenly, I saw my...
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Advent 2015 Weekly Reflections, Annual Posada, Dec. 18 & more ...

As I'm reflecting during Advent, I am really drawn to this idea of an Annual Posada. I'm thinking of setting something like this up next year. There are a lot of traditions that I want to collect from the past, and also new ones that my friends and family can appreciate moving forward. Check this out How to Celebrate a Mexican Posada: A Packet for Lay Leaders, Musicians, and Clergy by Hugo Olaiz Keeping Advent I am thinking about how we as Christians fail to bring the Love of Jesus, and instead bring about hate and American frustrations out on the people who are struggling through this world beside us. In People magazine I read about two Muslim Mosques that were vandalized with the word “Jesus” written on the walls. This made the news, it made my radio broadcast on KFI that I listen to, and it really got me thinking. I don’t believe this is THE WAY that Jesus set our for us. Jesus would NOT have done this. This goes back to a major point that I am starting to...
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RE: San Bernardino Shooters Confirmed As Islamic Terrorists

This is in response to this Funker530.com article, and the statement made by ZH below. At this point, our president and his team want this anti gun agenda to happen so bad that he's gonna brush this under the rug. This was terrorist attack. I had a hard time sleeping last night because I have a heavy heart. This event was too close to home. Yeah we can pray for the victims but faith without works is dead. We need to take action as well as praying. We want peace, we have to be the first ones to take the steps towards it. War has been waged on American soil. Prepare for what may come. Have a plan with your loved ones in case of a emergency. Get a gun, bat, knife, machete, some type of protection for your household and educate yourselves and your loved ones about your protection. One love fam. - ZH What is terror exactly? And by that definition is the US Government a terrorist organization? At any rate, while discouraging you of thinking all Muslims are barbaric warmon...
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What Does it Say About Christians that On the Whole, We Don't Tithe

What Does it Say About Christians that On the Whole, We Don't Tithe May 2, 2015,   0  Comments   Edit post I'm part of the 92% of Christians that don't tithe. I want to. I just tell myself I don't make enough to tithe.  Then I read a Study: Christians Who Tithe Have Healthier Finances Than Those Who Don't: http://bit.ly/HealthyTithe .  And I compared it to an article about Why I Don't Believe in Tithing: http://bit.ly/tithingdifferently What did I find out? The church of today is not great at at giving.   This isn’t exactly news. But it is a statistical fact:  Tithers  make up only 10-25 percent of a normal congregation.  Only 5 percent  of the U.S. tithes, with 80 percent of Americans only giving 2 percent of their income.  Christians are only giving at  2.5 percent  per capita,  while during the Great Depression they gave at a 3.3 percent rate. ...
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Would Someone Mention the Khalafah or Sharia Law in this Back and Forth?

Reza Aslan wrote a book he titled, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - A book many Christians including myself feel is blasphemous.  Aslan comes off as an intellectual, while criticizing comedian Bill Maher and CNN Hosts, but he misses some pretty easy facts. First off, nobody mentioned the Caliphate (Khalafah) in this back and forth. Sharia law was brought up briefly, but easily ignored with this argument of individuality, political forces which have nothing to do with religion or geographical dissimilarities between religious practices. What Reza Aslan fails to realize is that many of the countries we are talking about are theocracies, and controlled by an Imam or a religious autocracy. He uses feminism as a way to dissuade the hosts from thinking negatively about Islamic Countries, and he tries to suggest that countries are not Muslim, people are . . . but doesn't concede that people are acting together with their governments and within radical Islam...
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The Truth About Israel and Palestine & 10 Misconceptions Preventing Peace

The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: 10 Myths Preventing Peace i love it when people try and make complicated issues more easily understood through bite size chunks of oversimplified information (sarcasm and total lack of sarcasm included). I'd rather they not be bite size chunks of propaganda, but people are biased.  i rather liked Richard Fecteau3's link to Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio: 'An excellent historical primer on the situation "The truth about Israel and Palestine I usually don't like listening to Atheists talk about religion, mostly because they admittedly don't get it. It's not their bag. Nevertheless, this video is artistic and worth a gander, and the video below is an interesting listen, if anything, just for perspective. 
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Why Can't She Have A Great Big Manly Heart? A Look at Misogyny, Men, Women, and Society

Why Can't She Have A Great Big Manly Heart? A Look at Misogyny, Men, Women, and Society Original Post can be found here:  http://scrip.ly/!249 I'm looking at men and women, at dating, and I'm hearing all these things that women hate about men. Men do this to them, and that to them, and men don't allow women to do this, or that. They try and tell them WHAT THEY SHOULD DO WITH THEIR BODIES, not readily accepting that YES, women in turn tell men WHAT THEY SHOULD DO WITH THEIR BODIES. There is this built up expectation on what it is to be a man, and yet a women is supposed to be able to be anything, anything her little heart desires. And even calling her heart little is demeaning to some, because why can't she have a big heart, a great BIG MANLY heart? What I wanted to analyse initially was how women reconcile being a woman in Christianity with the different cultural mores and belief systems at play between women's lib and growing up in a society where t...
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