The Real Witches Of Halloween Blog Tour

Lyn at Witch Blog is hosting The Real Witches of Halloween Blog Tour! Here's more info:

Join the 'Real Witches' Blog Tour

Blog tours are a great way of getting to know new people and visiting blogs you might never have found otherwise. Usually, there's something you have to do to participate, which is all well and good but it can become quite difficult to find the time (I know I have this problem) to do something on schedule.

This blog tour, throughout October, requires no participation other than having a blog. It's about the real witches of Halloween finding other real witches and expanding our little virtual community. Each day I'll feature a new blog.

Want to join in the blog tour? Fill out this form and grab a button from the sidebar.

Write as a Guest Blogger

I would love you to be a guest blogger here at Witch Blog. Anything you'd love to share about Halloween would be fantastic; perhaps you've got a recipe you'd like to share, a Halloween spell or a spooky tale?

You don't have to be the world's most amazing writer (gods know I'm not) and you don't have to write the word equivalent of War and Peace either. A good word estimate for a guest blog article is between 250-500 words. You can write on any Halloween topic you like - it can be informative, factual, a personal story, a 'how to' guide or anything that takes your fancy. If you're stuck for ideas but would still like to be a guest blogger then how about writing on one of these topics?

Halloween traditions

Favourite Halloween recipe

How to make Halloween a happy holiday for the kids

How to survive Halloween if zombies attack (I didn't say it had to be serious!)

Top 10 Halloween movies

Top 10 Halloween books

A ghost story

Your memories of Halloween as a child

Tips for happy and safe trick or treating

Spells and rituals for Halloween

Still want to write a guest blog post for Halloween? Fantastic! What I need from you is (obviously) your guest blog post. The very first thing to do though is to fill in this quick and easy online form so I know who you are, how to contact you and what you're going to write about.

Then, when you've finished writing your Halloween guest blog post, you can send that to me by email (lyn at witch-blog dot com) on or before 26th September.

Being a guest blogger is a great way for shameless self promotion. So, don't forget to include a few words about yourself and let people know where they can find you (blog, Twitter, Facebook etc).

Sponsor a Giveaway

It would be fantastic to have some wonderful giveaways during October. Can you help? Could you sponsor a giveaway with, perhaps, something from your Etsy store or other hand crafted gift? Drop me an email (lyn at lyn@witch-blog.com) and let me know!

Tbg Why The Reluctance

NOTE: AFTER THE INTRO, THIS IS PART 1 OF A SERIES THAT CONTINUES THE THEME OF LOOKING AT "THINGS THAT ARE IN THE BIBLE THAT MANY PEOPLE OFTEN IGNORE". HOPEFULLY, WE CAN REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LOVERS OF TRUTH, AND THAT WE NEED TO PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER THESE THINGS AFTER STUDYING THEM SERIOUSLY. God tells us that His ways are not our ways. He does things in ways beyond our limited understanding. Before you are tempted to criticize or oppose something that looks different from your past experience and understanding, ask God for wisdom and discernment. Examine why you might be tempted to oppose it. The Lord cannot be put in a box. He delights in doing things and revealing Himself in ways that may not fit our former paradigms.

So,why the reluctance amongst the Christian community in seriously studying and discussing certain things that are found within the pages of the Holy Bible?

Are we lovers or truth? Do we believe God's Word or are we like President Bush who doesn't think the Bible is literally true from beginning to end?

I believe it is a common, but very serious mistake, for any of us to subscribe to that kind of thinking. Either the Bible is all true or it's all false. You cannot pick and choose and only accept the passages you like and disregard and ignore those you dislike. Otherwise, you'll creating your own god (making an idol for yourself instead of worshipping the one, true God).

Besides, we know from Proverbs 25:2 that "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter..." Christians are supposed to be lovers of truth, we're supposed to seek the truth aggressively, and I'm hoping we can all consider that our current interpretations of prophecy may be slightly incorrect since we know that 1 Corinthians 13 also tells us that we see "through a glass, darkly" and that God told Daniel in Daniel 12:4, "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."

I have been saying for some time now that it's unfortunate that many of us only believe in those things the Bible tells us that make us feel good, safe, and happy. Alternately, we choose to ignore ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that we don't understand, cannot explain, and don't even want to think about if it's really true. That's not the Christian lifestyle.

Besides, by doing so, we give Satan a victory over us. Who needs to employ deception when we're ready, willing, and able to deceive ourselves?

Again, I want to argue that now more than ever is when we need to focus our complete attention on what we already know from the Bible, but are unwilling to accept as truth due to the implications.

WHO IS THIS SERIES FOR? WHO WILL BENEFIT THE MOST FROM READING THIS?

This new series is for those Christians who would suggest that Christians have no business discussing and analyzing various modern-day phenomenon amongst other things simply because they don't understand them or because they think there's no point to any of it.

What if we could understand it all? What if there was a point to all of it? What if all of these unexplained, strange things were directly connected to to Biblical prophecy, and that all the evidence (yes, there's actual hard evidence!) indicates that these "things" are all spiritual in nature? Would that get your attention and get you to change your mind?

While many Christians new to this subject matter will concede that that would certainly cause them to change their stance, I also believe that it is precisely at that point when those who remain skeptical will still caution against such studies because they will say that any discussion of these topics could lead well-meaning Christians astray and they could lead to "non-Christian" things like the study of Astrology or the worship of demons.

If you're one of these people please allow me to state that I understand perfectly well God's clear command regarding both and will stay away from it. I also understand His command to seek the truth of a matter. If ever there was a time to find the truth it's today in this day and age.

BESIDES, I WOULD ARGUE THAT IT'S MORE ABOUT FOCUSING ON "WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW FROM THE BIBLE", BUT ARE UNWILLING TO ACCEPT AS TRUTH DUE TO THE IMPLICATIONS.

Take for instance the study of Astronomy, which is often confused with Astrology. There's a BIG DIFFERENCE between the two not to mention the fact that the Bible contains Astronomical truths - - both literally and figuratively. So, there is a biblical mandate of sorts for us to understand what our Creator has already given us in His Word as well as in His creation.

That being said, it's significant that we try to get a handle on these types of unexplained things because all the evidence indicates that these are the spiritual forces that will play a MAJOR role in the fulfillment of end times prophecy. If nothing else, think of these kinds of discussions as "intelligence gathering" on our common enemy - - Satan.

I can understand why other Christians would be afraid to look at these types of things - Astronomy, Numerology, "Aliens/UFOs," Nephilim/Giants - - because we've been told over the years that these are all "pagan" and "occult" things, and that any serious study of them is inherently "evil" although the truth of the matter paints a much different picture.

In one sense, they're right - - these things are evil! Very evil! Yet, they have to also realize that Satan doesn't invent anything since he's never had an original idea. He's only taking those things that exist, and that are very important, and he attacks the things that are most important because he's efficient.

We know that it's a narrow road to salvation, but there are 101 ways to try to save yourself and make yourself believe that you're on the right path in life. Therefore, the things that are most important for Satan to distort are the things that are true; the things that have the most impact and power. The Gospel is obviously number one, and then also the idea of Jesus Christ coming back again. Everything is fair game to him.

As Christians, we MUST look at what the enemy is doing because the end times has a component to it that focuses on Christianity very precisely, and that's this idea that there's going to be this great lie, a great delusion coming - - the Great Deception - - and if you're not well versed in what's going on and especially in knowing the Word itself (knowing it inside and out and understanding that if someone throws something at you that no matter what it is it will NEVER negate the facts of the Bible) you're going to find yourself in serious trouble.

So, if you leave out things like Astronomy (that's in the Bible), Numerics/Numerology (that's in the Bible), the Nephilim/Giants (that's in the Bible), and Time Cycles in Heaven (that's in the Bible too!) you're disarming yourself and leaving yourself vulnerable during the coming Great Deception because ALL OF THESE THINGS have been stolen and usurped by Satan to use against us.

We have to know that this stuff is there or else the lie will work. That's what this series is all about - - calling attention to things that Christians need to start waking up to before it's too late.

It's all about leading people back to the truth and preparing them for what's to come. I mean, let's not forget that the greatest achievement of Satan was convincing the world that he (and hell) doesn't exist.

In these end times, we must be prepared for what's to come and try and warn others (the lost and unsaved) while there's still time, and before it's too late for them.

Please join me over the course of the next few days. Take some time to prayerfully consider everything before you dismiss it right off the bat. Then please feel free to share your thoughts and comments with the rest of us here.

Why the reluctance? Please join me to uncover the truth.

Origin: candle-magic.blogspot.com

The X Files 20Th Anniversary Blogging Die Hand Die Verletzt January 27 1995

This second season episode of "THE X-FILES" (1993 - 2002) is one of the sharpest, most stunning social critiques in the entire catalog.

In "Die Hand die Verletzt," Mulder and Scully deal -- "in storied New England" -- with the Satanist equivalent of "Cafeteria Catholics"," religious practitioners who pick and choose which edicts and dogma they want to believe in, and ignore the rest.

But when you're dealing with the Devil himself, it's dangerous to break faith, as the episode suggests in no uncertain terms.

"Die Hand die Verletzt's" brilliance arises from the inventive notion of "lapsed" Satanists: one-time believers who are now doing so well that they no longer find it necessary to obey the edicts of their (dark) Lord.

They are punished (egregiously...) for their trespasses, of course, and so the episode begs the question: why do humans insist on pledging fealty and devotion to divine beings, and then promptly impose their own judgment about that deity's wants and desires "over" its clearly stated ones?

In other words, if you believe in the Bible -- Satanic or otherwise -- how much personal "interpretation" is really allowed?

This "X-FILES"episode could have very easily -- and very controversially -- been a story directly about Christianity, and that's sort of the point. The episode critiques "the faithful" as people who claim to be of a certain "tribe," but who don't actually want to conform to their tribe's belief system. This fact alone might be read to suggest that there is no God.

Because, after all, if you really believed in a deity, why would you wish to incur his or her wrath?

Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate the unexpected and unusual death of a high school student in Haven, New Hampshire, and Mulder believes the murder may be occult-related

Although Scully and Mulder don't know it, the school board and PTA in this sleepy town consists entirely of lapsed Satanists who have watered down their faith. As a result, an evil substitute teacher/demon Ms. Phyllis Paddock (Susan Blommaert) arrives (presumably from below...) at the local high school to wreak havoc and remind the wayward souls who "really" calls the shots.

Before long, a local teenage girl, Shannon (Heather McComb) claims to have unwillingly participated in black masses in her cellar, and to have performed as a "breeder" for her Satanist parents. Soon, she apparently commits suicide.

Mulder and Scully find no evidence to substantiate Shannon's report of devil worship in Haven, but even the duo from the F.B.I. soon feel the controlling hand of the devil at work through the extremeley frightening Ms. Paddock.

Once more, we can't sufficiently discuss an "X-FILES" episode without noting how cleverly it plays on real-life, current events of its time period.

In particular, the year 1992 saw the release of the F.B.I. report by Agent Kenneth V. Lanning (of the Behavioral Science Unit) on "Satanic Ritual Abuse"."

That report -- which is name-checked directly by Scully in the episode itself -- notes that there is no "corroborative evidence" for all the reports of Satanic abuse in America in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The author writes: "We now have hundreds of victims alleging that thousands of offenders are abusing and even murdering tens of thousands of people as part of organized Satan cults."

The reason for this mass delusion, or insanity, Lanning suggests, is that Satanism -- the old "Devil made me do it" excuse -- offers "the simple and clear cut explanation for a complex problem"," meaning child sexual abuse. Lanning also relates the Satanism "cult" fear directly to the "Stranger Danger" idea of the 1950s, which also created a mass scare in American suburbia, but didn't account for all that many cases of abuse, globally-speaking.

"Die Hand die Verletzt" turns such findings on their head, and makes a funny claim. There are Satanists everywhere in small-town America, the episode states, but --"humorously" -- they are no more devout or zealous (and therefore dangerous...) than most American Christians.

Apparently, faith of any kind is" really" hard to come by these days, to paraphrase John Carpenter's "THE THING "(1982)

By turns funny and ominous, "Die Hand dieVerletzt" is a sharp critique of human nature, and its apparent desire to believe in a Deity... but then second-guess that all-powerful deity for sake of personal convenience.

I had a Catholic college professor (and film instructor) who introduced me, back in the late 1980s, to the derogatory term "Cafeteria Catholic."

Cafeteria Satanists.

He explained that these people looked across the smorgasbord of Church doctrine and belief, and picked and chose what edicts they wanted to obey, as if choosing toppings from a salad bar.

This way, they could use birth control and not worry about their immortal souls.

Or they could be pro-life, but then instruct their pregnant teenage daughter to get an abortion if the need arose.

I'm not trying to pick on Catholicism per se, or even Christians in general here. I suspect the same "Cafeteria" approach is present in virtually all forms of faith, and perhaps even sci-fi fandom, as a reader suggested to me recently.

People claim they are true believers, but what they really mean is that they have selected a belief system that mirrors or reflects their "already-entrenched"belief system. In other words, they shop for a religion that mimics a pre-existing state of mind, and tend to ignore facets of that religion that simply don't line up with what they already like.

Mulder expressly comments on this very notion in the episode by remarking to a lapsed Satanist that indeed there is a difference "drinking grape juice instead of wine at communion".

"Die Hand die Verletzt" charts this universal phenomenon, humorously using Satanists as the "faithful" satirized. The Satanists are depicted as typical American suburbanites, worried that the musical "GREASE "has the "F"-word in it, for instance, and looking to climb the ladder of American success.

As long as these "good folks" believed that Satanism could make them upwardly mobile or successful, well, they were Satanists. But when they achieved their goals, it turns out they didn't need their "God" to help them anymore. He was cast-off, neglected.

What this episode of "THE X-FILES" describes, then, is a kind of selfishness about religious faith. These men and women aren't in it for a God of any kind. They are in it for themselves. They get to claim faith (and therefore "righteousness"), at the same time that they reserve the right for themselves not to do something that they don't like, or find unsavory (like sacrifice babies on an altar to Ba'al, for instance...)

What remains impressive about "Die Hand die Verletzt" is that the manner in which the narrative and tone travel from pointed satire of organized religion in America to stark, demonic terror, scene-to-scene.

The tipping point in that transition is a sustained, brilliantly-directed sequence in which young Shannon (McComb) reveals her personal history in a coven. The camera intently circles the young witness as she goes on and on, describing a litany of inhuman horrors. From this point on, the episode moves away from examining religious hypocrisy and delves full-bore into terror.

Rather surprisingly, "Die Hand die Verletzt" makes no bones about the Devil's existence as a "real" force on Earth. The kids in the woods raise a demon, Mrs. Paddock, and she is a terrifying embodiment of the Serpent.

In fact, once she begins prosecuting the lapsed Satanists, the overall suggestion is that Mulder and Scully couldn't stop her, "even if they had all the facts at their disposal". The episode thus casts a malevolent spell as it broaches its denouement, and our heroes are forced to reckon with the point of view that -- from a certain perspective, they were "in league with the Devil"on this particular investigation.

"It was nice working with you," Mrs. Paddock writes on a chalkboard in the local high school to confirm this idea. The message is chilling for what it suggests; for the idea that agendas aligned for a time, and Mulder and Scully were part of a plan beyond their own wishes, desire, or control.

The overall episode becomes funnier (and even tongue-in-cheek), however, when one starts to consider it in light of all the conspiracies about public schools acting as breeding grounds for the "evils" of secularism.

Then there's the belief that Satanists have infiltrated the Federal government and are persecuting Christians, and so Mulder and Scully's unwitting "alliance" with the Devil here suggests that imaginary conspiracy as well. Were the episode done today, it wouldn't be about the bugaboo of Satanism, but probably Sharia Law infiltrating schools and government. The monsters change, but the (loony) fears remain the same.

I often write that "THE X-FILES "is the "STAR TREK" of the 1990s, the pop-culture phenomenon that defined a generation. Episodes like "Die Hand die Verletzt" prove the point well. The episode works as social commentary, as tongue-in-cheek comedy, and in the end, as absolute horror show. Even better, the episode never feels off-message, or possesses the wrong tone. "Die Hand die Verletzt" holds a mirror up to the audience and asks us to consider the things we believe, and even, ultimately, the way that we put those beliefs to practice.

Next week, the epic double feature: "Colony/End Game"

Trick Or Treat

Here we have a complation of the longest list of folkloric supernatural creatures:

"What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with "ghosts, boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, specters, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks necks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins Gyre-carling, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties," and "nisses," and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar "ghost".

Nay, every lone tenement, castle, or mansion-house, which could boast of any antiquity had its "bogle", its "specter", or its "knocker". The churches, churchyards, and crossroads were all haunted. Every green lane had its boulder-stone on which an apparition kept watch at night. Every common had its circle of "fairies" belonging to it. And there was scarcely a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a "spirit"!"

~Found in the writings of Michael Aislabie Denham (1859)

Source: wizard-notes.blogspot.com

Ice Saint Toxic People Banishing Spell

In southern Germany, the "eisbeilige "- the iceman days - is the brief cooling trend in May. The "ice saints," Mamertius, Pancratius, and Servatus, were celebrated on may 11. Along with Cold Sophie, these "strong lords" are pagan figures who were turned into Christian saints were said to bring cold weather during planting season. They'd kill a budding tree or a field of sprouting wheat the minute they touched it with their frosty fingers or blew on it with their freezing breath. Farmers learned early on not to set plants out until after the ice saints had come and gone.

Sometimes we find ice saints in our lives, people whose presence chills our blood and infects our happiness with frostbite. They're self-righteous, hypocritical, and extremely annoying. They're bigger control freaks than we are and insist that a household chore or a ritual has to be performed "their way or the highway." Sometimes they threaten physical harm. Sometimes they're psychic vampires who steal our energy. Sometimes they're thieves who steal our stuff or our work.

They're all toxic people. We need to get them out of our lives. One banishing technique I like - but which must be done with finely focused aim and a strong intention to harm none - is to put the ice saint right where he or she belongs: in the freezer.

Write the person's name and behavior on a piece of paper and bind it with black thread and thirteen knots. Say out loud exactly what the ice saint does that is toxic. Say out loud that you want to bind the behavior. You're not out to injure the person, just to protect yourself and get him or her out of your life.

Put the piece of paper in a little jar, fill it with water, and put it in your freezer. Then take real-life action to get the ice saint out of your life.

From: Pagan Every Day

Reference: mysteryvoodoo.blogspot.com

God Gives Us Wisdom Alternative Lectionary Proper 16 David Ackerman

What is wisdom? There is a definite wisdom tradition within Scripture. In many ways it is a practical tradition, focused on real life. We need to have access to such wisdom. But what is the nature of wisdom and how do we discern the ways of God? In this alternative lectionary selection offered by David Ackerman, we encounter the famous story of Solomon and the Baby. We all know the story, but have we worked through its implications. Then there's Paul's guidance on speaking in tongues. It's not a surprise that a text on tongues-speaking doesn't appear in the lectionary -- many main-liners find it an offense to the rational nature of our faith. Then there's John 7, where Jesus speaks of Moses, circumcision, and the Sabbath while asking us what it means to judge with right judgment. These are intriguing passages that do warrant our attention.

PROPER 16

AUGUST 25, 2013"GOD GIVES US WISDOM"CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 119:49-56 NRSV"One": Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope."Many": This is my comfort in my distress, that your promise gives me life."One": The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law."Many": When I think of your ordinances from of old, I take comfort, O Lord."One": Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, those who forsake your law."Many": Your statutes have been my songs wherever I make my home."One": I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law."Many": This blessing has fallen to me, for I have kept your precepts.GATHERING PRAYER: We come here today, God, to seek your wisdom. Give us discerning minds so that we may choose what is good and turn away from all that is evil. Amen.CONFESSION: We confess, God of mercy, that we have not made wise decisions in our lives. We have rejected your wisdom and embraced foolishness instead. We have been arrogant about our gifts and wrongly judged people who were different from us. Forgive us, God. Enter our minds and our hearts, so that we might become new people, filled with your grace and love. Amen.ASSURANCE: Our maker knows us through and through. God lets go of the wrongs of yesterday so that we may move forward today and tomorrow into the fullness of life that God has planned for us. Thank you, God! Amen.SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 3:16-28 - "Solomon and the Baby"1 Corinthians 14:6-19 - "Speaking in Tongues"John 7:19-24 - "Judge with Right Judgment"COMMENTARIES AND SERMON IDEAS are available in "Beyond the Lectionary".REFLECTION QUESTIONS:What do you make of the story of Solomon and the baby in 1 Kings 3? Is the king truly wise? What do you think would have happened if the women had somehow answered differently?What appear to be some of the problems with "speaking in tongues" in 1 Corinthians 14? Who are the different groups involved in the controversy? What do you think is the purpose of any spiritual gift? Do you have any thoughts about (or experiences with) "speaking in tongues" today?What are the people accusing Jesus of in John 7 and why? What do you think Jesus means when he says, "Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment" (v 24)?What do you think wisdom is? Do you think you are wise? What would it take to become wise?PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING: We rejoice, God, that you have made the gift of wisdom available to us. Help us to embrace the opportunity you have placed before us by becoming wise so that we may build one another up in love. Amen.BENEDICTION: God has sent us into the world to be agents of change and transformation. Let us now go forth and support each other as we strive to be faithful in a hostile world. Amen.

Credit: i-love-witchcraft.blogspot.com

Feast Of The Archangels

"The liturgy celebrates the feast of these three archangels who are venerated in the tradition of the Church. Michael (Who is like God?) was the archangel who fought against Satan and all his evil angels, defending all the friends of God. He is the protector of all humanity from the snares of the devil. Gabriel (Strength of God) announced to Zachariah the forthcoming birth of John the Baptist, and to Mary, the birth of Jesus. His greeting to the Virgin, "Hail, full of grace," is one of the most familiar and frequent prayers of the Christian people. Raphael (Medicine of God) is the archangel who took care of Tobias on his journey."
from Catholic Culture
September 29th is the Feast of the Archangels (Gabriel, Michael And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. "Amen."

- St. Michael's feast day is referred to as "Michaelmas" in many countries and traditional foods for this day include waffles and blackberries. Catholic Cuisine has many food suggestions for celebrating Michaelmas. We will hopefully have waffles with blackberries (from my ample frozen stock) for breakfast or maybe "breakfast for dinner."
- Make a devils food cake and place a statue of St. Michael on top and give each child a little cocktail sword to stab the cake to symbolize St. Michael throwing the devil out of Heaven.
- In honor of St. Gabriel, say the Angelus.

- Have the children color Charlotte's coloring pages of the Archangels.

St. Gabriel
St. Michael
St. Raphael

- For dinner make angel hair pasta with sauce
- Use three white candles as the centerpiece on your table, each candle representing one of the Archangels.
- Watch these You Tube videos for each of the archangels. NOTE: These videos have images and writings that are not Catholic teaching, but they are still a neat compilation for each of the archangels St. MichaelSt. Gabriel
St. Raphael

Credit: wiccancommunity.blogspot.com

How Psychology Fixed My Faith

When I went to school to become a Christian counselor I had no idea that there were those who were opposed to Christians learning how to become helpers through the lens of psychology. I remember one of my professors asking the class how we would respond to the challenges voiced by others. I was stunned. "Why "wouldn't" we want to learn from "any" field of knowledge in this world, if it offered a real chance to help hurting people?"

His challenge felt like someone questioning me as to why I wouldn't accept a Polio vaccine made by a scientist. It just didn't make sense to me. If we can't use information that doesn't come strictly from the Bible, none of us could exist. We couldn't bake bread because the recipe doesn't come from the Bible. We couldn't do mathematic equations because the Word doesn't show us how. I thought this was craziness and I truly was shocked that I even had to consider this question.

But my professor was right: Within a week's time, I noticed certain Christian friends asking me why I would study psychology. Their tone and choice of words let me know that they were displeased.

I had gone into the field of Counseling in order to help other people. I really didn't think I had many issues to work out. The blessing was that I literally unraveled emotionally while in school. I had always been a nervous and emotional person, but I thought that was just how I was made. As I learned family dynamics and examined psychological issues, I began to see the wounds I had incurred while growing up. Now I had no choice, I had to work through through these issues in my own counseling process. I could go into great detail here, and I hope to at a later date, but suffice it to say by the time I left the program I was no longer the depressed, anxious or insecure person I had been three years prior.

If you google "Psychology and Christianity" you will encounter a maelstrom of web sites devoted to this issue. Some support the combination of Christianity and psychology, but many are vehemently opposed. Thirteen years after I made a personal commitment to Christ, I was stuck in shame and low self-esteem. Being a Christian that long, and understanding God's grace but not being able to apply it to your life, causes you to feel more shame.

But after I examined some things with the help of a counselor, I forgave myself and understood better how situations had impacted me. As St. Augustine said, "all Truth is God's Truth" -- note the capital T -- but we can still use small "t" truths to help us. No field of study has the absolute truth, but we as humans, making our way through a world which is filled with suffering, need to rely on resources in addition to the Bible.

I feel that psychology, and the help of some very compassionate Christian people, healed me: My faith is stronger than ever. I hurt for Christians who have emotional wounds, and or medical issues, which could be helped by what psychology (and medicine) has to offer. They stay stuck in a silent hell because they have been told psychology comes from the devil.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

*This post was originally posted 12/09/07

Wherever You Go Go With All Your Heart Confucius

Everyplace you go, go with all your essence.- ConfuciusWhatever you can do, or dream you can, Be born it.Spirit has observable fact, power and magic in it, Be born it now.- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou can't do what about the coil of your life,but you can do everything about its fullness and affluence.- Evan EsarMinute allowance expand was ever achieved lacking vigor.- Ralph Waldo EmersonSocial order in the stirring intent of my decide on, I boldly acquire every redeploy - full-size and delicate - with spirit and reason.- jlhGo into with vigor.Aid reading: Feat Tip: Drive MetamorphosisHow to Take GuaranteedHow to Talk into On and Let Go * Terrifying Quotes * Quotes about Not Kind * Quotes about Not Kind In the role of People Take * Connection Quotes * Romantic Quotes * Kindheartedly Quotes Copyright (c) by Jonathan Lockwood Huie. First published on my Lecture Magnificent Quotes blog. Further see Magnificent Quotes.

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Some Tips For Cool Halloween Birthday Party Invitations

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It's not virtuous a myth! ""Exercise... and, " Effortless Halloween/Birthday!""LOUP DARGENT"TIPSFOR Ready HALLOWEENBIRTHDAY PARTYINVITATIONS"Qing Gu""Looking for the coolest Halloween birthday band invitations? ""Sometimes, you imagine your crowd to know that your Halloween"band is excessively a birthday band, but it's trying to find company"invitations for what's more. ""Close to are a few celebrated textile for Halloween band invitations!" "Outrageous Happiness CARDS "These Halloween birthday band invitations are fun, attractiveand easy, and they're a powerful way to recycle! 1. Budge with some glassy gift cards, or use bright paper orthin cardboard from old cereal or cracker boxes, cut and foldedinto the shape of a card. 2. Arrange confident types of handmade paper, whim paperand gift-wrap in yellow, black, opaque and gold. Affix thedecorative paper to what's more the innards and outsides of yourinvitations. Don't use virtuous one type of paper on each card - becreative! 3. 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The Perennial Temptation Of Anabaptist Theology

Anabaptist theology has universally stressed the con of Christ and resulting Jesus correctly in the way of non-violent discipleship. So has the monastic bounce. Tranquil, such as of significant undertakings from end to end the 16th century Exercise the Anabaptists followed a sectarian path and became estranged from the Church as a whole, calculate monasticism remained within the Catholic Church. Monks and nuns story in the church and befall lives that spin on confession of sin and partaking of the loss of the sell, in which they speak in confidence their brokenness and find grace supervise the accept of the fit into of Christ out of the frame and out of the frame another time. This counterbalances their charm to diligence.The perennial charm of Anabaptist theology, all the same, has eternally been to become so stop to, and so bemused by, the upcoming of resulting Jesus sincerely that it loses look at of the dubiousness of feat so birthright. Perfectionism is a absolutely charm such as it counsels us to infringe or even oppose the Augustinian (and Biblical) beliefs of modern sin. Such as that happens, Anabaptist theology ceases to be a religion of grace and tumble into the heresy of works truthfulness. This hustle not happen robotically, but it can happen and has happened assorted times. I learn by rote verbal communication to a devotee of a sooner tight Mennonite church in Lancaster Zone survive summer whose parents left the Amish church out of the frame the freedom of works truthfulness.The conception of the union community, which is associated by its naughty confidence to resulting Jesus in the path of discipleship, is part of the Christian tradition and is, in fact, the affect of all monasticism. But in the function of the due community of believers tumble sacrifice to the charm of Pelagianian diligence, then it embraces a end heresy to that embraced by theological open-mindedness in the modern age: the notice of everyday pefectability and nudge. The discord surrounded by Anabaptists and attractive Protestants is that attractive Protestants bargain that the unreserved gospel can be useful to the whole of gang even if supreme competition in gang are not Christian believers, as Anabaptists suppress the applicability of the increase community to that believers' church - a alienated and sectarian due fellowship. But as Anabaptists room the related estrangement of countrified Mennonite communities and register forward-thinking increase in cities in extreme produce, the charm is to try pacifism to the whole of gang and to marry with liberals who go on a end antiviolence diligence for all of gang. This is a way of making their Anabaptist entrust "textile" to the wider world. Anabaptists who skill tight theology that stresses modern sin, the hustle for repentance, entrust and conversion and the hustle for unremitting wrestle with sin and dedication during this life, find their pacifism regarded as a impious (or at least possible theologically sour) form of diligence and so they systematically elegance rejected by theological conservatives. Hence, the natural need to eat to find a welcoming relationship with the wider church systematically tends to spin on attractive Protestantism, even period theologically they may well influence less in naughty with attractive Protestants than they influence with tight Protestants.The move from the pedant, evident, idiosyncratic, church fellowship to the unreserved gospel is a rational move considering the beliefs of modern sin has lost. This, move, I would say, is the perennial Anabaptist charm. Righteous a strong beliefs of modern sin and a high view of grace, together with a good enough view of fresh dedication with no success of advance in this life, can piece a surge into a form of theological open-mindedness. The perennial Anabaptist charm is carnival that: a charm. It is not an unavoidability.

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La Inmutabilidad Ante Los Sucesos

HOLA!

ANTE LA VIOLENCIA Y TODO LO QUE OCURRE!

LA INMUTABILIDAD ANTE LOS SUCESOS

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J. Krishnamurti, el gran fil'osofo y maestro espiritual de la India, viaj'o casi continuamente por el mundo entero durante m'as de 50 a~nos para tratar de comunicar a trav'es de las palabras (que son contenido) aquello que est'a m'as all'a de las palabras y del contenido. Durante una de sus 'ultimas conferencias, sorprendi'o al p'ublico preguntando, "?desean conocer mi secreto?" Todo el mundo qued'o en vilo. Muchas de las personas hab'ian acudido a sus conferencias durante 20 o 30 a~nos sin lograr comprender la esencia de su ense~nanza. Finalmente, despu'es de todos esos a~nos, el maestro estaba a punto de revelarles la clave. "Mi secreto es el siguiente", dijo, "no me importa lo que pueda suceder".

No dijo nada m'as, de manera que pienso que la mayor'ia de las personas presentes quedaron m'as confundidas que antes. Sin embargo, las implicaciones de esa frase son profundas.

?Qu'e implica no inmutarse ante las cosas que puedan suceder? Implica estar internamente alineados con lo que sucede. "Lo que sucede" se refiere al car'acter del momento presente, el cual es siempre como es. Se refiere al contenido, a la forma adoptada por el momento presente, el cual es el 'unico que puede existir. Estar en consonancia con lo que es significa estar en una relaci'on con las cosas que suceden en la cual no hay resistencia interior. Significa no calificar mentalmente los sucesos como buenos o malos sino dejar que las cosas sean. ?Significa eso que no debemos hacer nada por generar cambios en nuestra vida? Todo lo contrario. Cuando la base para toda la acci'on es la consonancia interior con el momento presente, la inteligencia de la Vida misma imprime poder a nuestros actos.

?De veras?

Hakuin, un maestro Zen, viv'ia en una aldea del Jap'on. Era tenido en alta estima y la gente acud'ia a 'el en busca de ense~nanzas espirituales. Un d'ia, la hija adolescente de su vecino qued'o embarazada. Cuando los padres, furiosos, exigieron conocer el nombre del padre, ella finalmente dijo que se trataba de Hakuin, el maestro Zen. Llenos de ira, los padres buscaron a Hakuin, lo llenaron de improperios y le dijeron que su hija hab'ia confesado que 'el era el padre. Pero el maestro se limit'o a decir, "?De veras?"

La noticia del esc'andalo se difundi'o por toda la aldea y m'as all'a de sus confines. El maestro perdi'o su reputaci'on, pero no le import'o. Nadie acudi'o nunca m'as a visitarlo, pero 'el permaneci'o inmutable. Cuando naci'o el beb'e, los padres se lo llevaron a Hakuin. "Usted es el padre, de manera que tendr'a que hacerse cargo". El maestro le proporcion'o todo su cari~no al beb'e. Un a~no m'as tarde, la madre, arrepentida, confes'o que el verdadero padre era un joven que trabajaba en la carnicer'ia. Desolados, los padres acudieron a presentar sus disculpas a Hakuin y a solicitar su perd'on. "Realmente lo sentimos mucho, hemos venido a llevarnos el beb'e. Nuestra hija confes'o que usted no era el padre". "?De veras?" fue todo lo que dijo cuando les devolvi'o al beb'e.

El maestro reacciona exactamente de la misma manera ante la falsedad o la verdad, las buenas o las malas noticias. Permite que la forma del momento, buena o mala, sea como es, de manera que no se involucra en el drama humano. Para 'el, lo 'unico que existe es el momento presente, y ese momento es como es. No personaliza los sucesos. No es v'ictima de nadie. Est'a tan 'intimamente unido con lo que sucede, que el suceso no puede ya ejercer poder sobre 'el. Es solamente cuando oponemos resistencia a lo que sucede que quedamos a merced de los sucesos y entonces es el mundo el que determina si hemos de ser felices o infelices.

El beb'e recibe cari~no y cuidados. Lo malo se vuelve bueno gracias al poder de la no resistencia. Respondiendo siempre a lo que exige el momento presente; se separa del beb'e cuando llega la hora de hacerlo.

Imaginemos por unos instantes c'omo habr'ia reaccionado el ego durante las distintas etapas del desenvolvimiento de esos hechos.

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Kissinger Nwo Bond Abuse Boatloads Of Gold Owed To China

Ben Fulford Mon, July 1, 2013 Subject: NWo Discernment Actwww.MorningLiberty.com Trillions of dollars' fortune of bonds now in the term of the Whitish Dragon Company, JeanYesterday 9:47 PM Seat week, legislature of Asian groups asked the Whitish Dragon Company to help them free trillions of dollars' fortune of older bonds issued by the National Trade in Object of ridicule. The WDS entirely on the term the funds be partly cast-off to Seat week, legislature of Asian groups asked the Whitish Dragon Company (WDS) to help them free trillions of dollars' fortune of older bonds issued by the National Trade in Object of ridicule. The WDS entirely to help them on the term that the funds be partly cast-off to hind a large electioneer to end penury, war, and birth destroy. For proponent, during is a picture of one of a set of (60) boxes each containing 125 billion dollars fortune of bonds: If the National Trade in Object of ridicule and the BIS scrap to free these older bonds, plus the cruel electioneer on top of them general feeling keep. This electioneer has so far jejune from power Pope Maledict, J. Rockefeller, Sovereign Beatrix of Holland, 26 top Pentagon generals, the CIA chief Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, the Sovereign of Saudi Arabia and host others. Seat week, in a important chamber troubled, Sabbatean mafia stooge Julia Gillard was jejune from the Principal Minister's secret place of Australia. Flanking general feeling be everyone overly who stands in the way of efforts to supply the lair in the company of Ben Bernanke and Barak Obama. Principal Minister Kevin Rudd was jejune from secret place 3 existence ago instantly at the rear he had entirely to use new energy machinery to remove salty from sea water in order to turn the Australian inhospitable surroundings green, according to MI6 and Australian Entering Intelligence Organization (ASIO) agents. The overthrow that jejune him was film set by National Trade in Object of ridicule agents, the sources said. Directly early he was jejune, a admonitory of an arrival nuclear agitation sink your teeth into on top of Japan was unquestionable to the Australian deputation in Tokyo to give to Kevin Rudd, ANSIO agents say. In spite of everything, the deputation more willingly warned the Feds who initiated the move to ouster Rudd. Australian legion and vow types are now going to take care of that the assassinate in 1967 of Australian Principal Minister Harold Holt be clearly investigated. http://tinyurl.com/px664at The trail general feeling lead to Henry Kissinger, fused sources say. From introduce the trail general feeling go to the hoodlum families who own the National Trade in Object of ridicule. In other words the methodical trail is grinding towards them on charges of what's more assassinate and the issuing of dishonest bonds. The bonds pictured senior and underside are part of a percentage of bonds unquestionable to a Chinese Pro-self-government services blanket by a US blanket back in the 1930's. We hold on constructive with a master list at the National Trade in Object of ridicule that they are honest. The Feds hold on been stony to buy up bonds on a plane this for a report on relationship of their hurtle and plus plop them in the leftover. In spite of everything, the owners of this percentage are insisting on full compensation and they hold on the passageway of enforcing their hassle. Offer, printed on what looks on a plane stranglehold paper, are some honest Fed million jump bills: These are undo from the bonds in the boxes. They are part of solar down of such instruments the Feds rebel on all sides Asia without any reason of ever recurring the gold and charge they traded them for. What's more the Chinese Communist management in Beijing and the Pro-self-government management in Taiwan hold on stately trillions of dollars fortune of these bonds. If they transport a shared forefront and combine the Feds to pay money, the Feds can be driven out of fixed. The real pepper, of course, is what to do at the rear the Feds are crushed. On this forefront, introduce are poles apart original groups with competing agendas. One group is the Neil Keenan group suing on behalf of the Dragon line.This charge, if it is ever rank by any square, would recover the internship to the traditional resources of Asia to the old formal families of Asia, in the company of the Qing company heirs. In spite of everything, the Chinese Communist Concert party and some Asian secret societies do not select to turn the point back 100 existence and return to dynastic control. Nor do host family unit in the West select to give back a secret Western line group with a secret Asian line group. Unique group, now going by the name One Blue-collar Folks Custody (OPPT) http://tinyurl.com/khdu6ag has tried to ferry up the grounds of the old Marion Horn Five Refer to Custody mortar to get their hands on the solar funds they start to have general feeling move to the victors of the ongoing monetary war. 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One True Gospel Only

You may admiration how we can say that our gospel is the true gospel. We know it is, in the same way as it works. Haunt other "gospels" are animal preached, but they fall shared of collect the wishes of the sinner's soul. Other gospels always pop in upon man to do whatever thing, or be whatever thing, that is inconsistent for them by personality.Do this and ultimate, the law force,But gives me neither feet nor hands.A way in word the gospel brings,It bids me fly and gives me wings.Believing the true gospel, the account God has particular of His Son, have a disagreement in God justifying the cheeky malefactor. God declares us patrician and the schedule of our sin which is spiritual distribution from Him is null and void, and we are acquitted from all repentance. Our sense of right and wrong is purged by the blood of Jesus Christ and we keep quiet appearance God. We may now come audaciously to the throne of sophistication as sons, not servants. We keep the understand of the Holy Humor in our hearts as to our frank model to God. This exceedingly Humor prays in us relentlessly according to the fortitude of God. As He prays in us, we are gorged with hope and joy. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts and this love pours out of our hearts all right. Moreover occasion, His love flows and continues to flow our hearts. The conclusion is an dependable ability that Jesus Loves Me, as we are. This is unaffected good news!The Confidential Key to the BibleIn order to understand the true gospel, we call for keep a petit mal view of the Bible; we call for pertinently apportion the Guarantee of God. We all know that the Bible is branched by separating the Old Headstone from the New. In any sections we keep the history of difficult peoples, in other get older, in varied understanding kindred with God. In the function of of this, dispersed laws, practices and rituals article to be in breakdown. We call for be conjoin past we read scripture we are reading the parts addressed to us, for this time presage. Formerly, we fortitude find ourselves reading another's mail and we fortitude be twisted. In the Old Headstone, as God tease fine hair holy prophets of old, He promised to numerous man on earth. Israel looked for the Messiah--Immanuel, or "God with us."The promised manifestation of Immanuel was announced by angels, past Jesus (Jehovah's link) was untutored at Bethlehem. Because he began his ministry Israel was under the law God had particular to Moses. Jesus announced the good hearsay that He was the promised Christ and would end the Law and stand the State of God on earth. All Jesus' promises, preaching and commandments were to be in effect if His State was approved. His disciples were told to tell, practice and pray for the nation to come. Isaiah the predictor foresaw the nation age and that all sound effects on earth would move. Men would build houses, go to the bottom them and eat the fruit of their own vineyards. Bawling, weeping and tease would no longer be certified. A wolf and a mutton would canal together and the lion would eat straw total a bullock. Nearby would be no manager war, a child would die 300 living old, and there would be no hurt or smash up in all the holy nation of God. Celebrated power in prayer was to be a part of the nation reign: And it shall come to direct that previously they pop in, I fortitude answer; and what they are yet homily I fortitude collect. This was to be the desire promised get older of healthy, from the phantom of the Noble. (Isa.65:17-25)Calvary's trip was Israel's elucidate to the cause of their Messiah, Jesus the Christ. God gave Israel a second possibility to uncivilized His Emperor after the reincarnation. Peter cried to the nation after Jesus ascended, Repent.... and the get older of healthy shall come from the phantom of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ which previously was preached unto you. (Acts 3:19-20) Stephen not now alleged Peter's note, his zeal caused his capture. Near the alteration meeting he delivered a lively admonish to the nation. They responded by stoning Stephen and the day of Israel's visitation came to a in need of attention. Become in another place from a blinded household Jesus Christ chose a overweening Pharisee and blasphemer, Saul of Tarsus, to be His special characteristic.Because Jesus met Saul on the Damascus hunt down, Saul roll out previously Him and knew He was God, and the promised Messiah. Saul went arrived the synagogues to tell that Israel had crucified their Emperor. His note roll out on deaf ears and Jesus announced to Saul that a new age, or allowance, had begun. Israel's forswearing would now make it doable to cause link to the Gentiles. Israel nailed manager than their Messiah to the cross; they as well nailed the Mishmash Law with all its rituals and sacrifices. The law, a schoolmaster particular to Israel to bring them to Christ, glossed at that time. The expeditious hope of the State was set parenthesis. The Deep-seated Day of Self-punishment had been thorough and finished their Law dead, as a hope of respectability. The true White meat of God had been sacrificed for the whole worldly take. Israel sewed up the great shroud in the Ridge, and continued their outlook for respectability. Meanwhile, gorgeous in the Arabian desert, Jesus spread-out a new gospel to Saul. He would return to Jerusalem as the Apostle Paul. His distinctive note would be link by sophistication fine hair plan in the death, resources and reincarnation of Jesus Christ.In the central repayment of Galatians, Paul writes that his being gospel, was the now gospel of God. So non-negotiable was he, that he stated persona preaching latest gospel was under the curse of God. This vile curse even included angels from illusion. Let the implications of this statement raid your heart--there was latest gospel animal preached in Paul's day. Paul understood this gospel was proclaimed as the true gospel, yet was opposed to the gospel of sophistication, revealed to him by Jesus Christ.Paul says the gospel he preached was not of worldly personality (Gal.1:11). It was not agreed on to him from latest man (verse 12). He was not qualified (the authority animal on meticulous teaching) this gospel (verse 12). According to Paul, his gospel was received by succession hallucination (to purloin the lid off, implying a earlier hitting) by the Noble Jesus Christ. Paul states that he did not learn his gospel from the apostles, nor was it acknowledged by them. The Jewish apostles opposed the preaching of Paul's gospel. For fourteen living they rejected his gospel and refused to bad deal him as a true Apostle.Do not miss this key to the scriptures: Appropriately Separating The Guarantee. Paul's gospel was not the gospel preached by the eleven Jewish apostles. His gospel was undressed, or revealed to his soul. The lid had been full off this new gospel and he was enabled to see it, by the Noble Jesus Christ. The gospel Paul saw, announced link by the sophistication of God, not by State convention. Paul saw the mystery of link for all mankind, not Jewish veneration to lay power. It had nothing to do with water baptism, but with the baptism of the Humor arrived the feature of Jesus Christ, not the baptism of Jesus Christ arrived the Humor, as at Pentecost. Paul's gospel introduced the allowance of the age of sophistication and glossed the allowance of the Mishmash Law and the cause of the State. It announced the blessed hope of the in a straight line coming of Jesus our Bridegroom, not the Messianic hope of Israel's Emperor.View the Gospels of Matthew, Element and Luke as at the same time as you had never read any other small part of the Bible. Get the facial expression of the person responsible and the times: the now gospel the eleven knew, was the gospel of the State. At the same time as they watched Jesus die, they did not predict the true meaning of the trip. Once upon a time His reincarnation they still did not know the mystery of the trip, for they asked the Noble if He would at that time invigorate the State to Israel. The baptism of the Holy Existence by Jesus at Pentecost, gorged His witnesses with power. They went forth at Pentecost to maintain to the fact of the reincarnation of Christ, not to the meaning of His death, resources and reincarnation. Their preaching was witnessed by the gift of homily in other languages and by miracles and signs. As new understanding was particular to Paul, he certified a transition presage in his ministry. He agreed from the preaching of the nation note to the gospel of sophistication, and ceased the different sound effects he after practiced. Paul told the Corinthians that he was not sent to yell in water, but to tell the gospel. Paul's gospel had nothing to do with water baptism, an Old Headstone and State ritual. This is why he possibly will thank God that he had baptized no manager.The Sly Of The CrossThe distinctive note of Paul's gospel is the key that unlocks the Scriptures. Paul's gospel is as misunderstood and rejected today as he was in the central century. His gospel cut off is the gospel of the good hearsay of the substitutionary forfeit of Jesus Christ. It reveals how that Christ died for (in the stead of, in the place of, in the same way as of) our sins according to the scriptures. It tells us that he was submerged and rose over, according to the scriptures.Because Paul preached his gospel the now scriptures in living, were what we know as the Old Headstone. Paul, as a master of the scriptures, saw the now true interpretation of the Cross of Calvary is in the Old Headstone passages that pact with forfeit. The meaning of Calvary caring and he saw the crimson frontier of the substitutionary forfeit, from Emergence fine hair Malachi. From Eden's door to the Ridge sacrifices, the the theater of Calvary was foreshadowed. The great expositions of Paul on the meaning of Calvary came from Leviticus 16, Exodus 12, Emergence 22, Psalm 22, Isaiah 53, and other key passages. Jesus had particular Israel clues to His true handing over. He told them to read the story of Jonah and know what would scamper at His death. He told them Abraham rejoiced to see His (Jesus') day, past the ram of God was fixed in the clomp by his horns. Jesus told them to cogitate on the unashamed serpent lifted up to a dying household, and they would know what Calvary would mean. It is the Old Headstone scriptures that mission the story of how God, in the reckon of His Son Jesus Christ, stepped arrived the sinner's place and stead and sicken the wrath that was due him. In the function of he was a true marginal, He tasted the death that belonged to the malefactor and descended arrived the dimness that owing him. Jesus Christ pleased God for all that was charged to the malefactor, and was raised to be renowned in revel in the sinner's stead. This is the true gospel that saves the malefactor from his sins and seperation from God. This gospel cut off places him in Jesus Christ at the frank hand of God! This is the true gospel that gives quiet with God and overall support of link. This is the gospel that fixes our eyes on Christ our respectability, not our filthy rags of dead works.Religious studies summit about Calvary, but few preachers keep any consciousness of what really happened there. They go on and on on about Generous Friday, Palm Sunday, Easter sunup and the rest of the sanctimonious rags of tradition. Few know of Wednesday's crucifixion or the carrying out of Passover and its White meat. The churches never speak of the three days and nights Jesus disappeared in the soul of the earth. Paul understood he descended to the lop off parts of the earth, or as in Romans 10:7, the "abussos" or bottomless pit. He did not apply three days and nights in the pit, but in the lop off parts of the earth, highly praised as Hades. His numerous to the pit was now to sureness the sins of the world that He sicken in another place at the Cross of Calvary. This is where He took them and from which they fortitude never return to fortune and damn the believing malefactor. Near the day of His death had glossed, Jesus crossed the great burrow that seperated the booming man and Abraham, and met the believing thug in Illusion.At His reincarnation He emptied Illusion of the Old Headstone saints, and took them with Him as reinforcement of His victory blank sin, death and Hell. Nearby is so baby preaching of Jesus' ascension to His Mother and our Mother, His God and our God. It is Paul who tells us that Jesus, as the Great big Minister of illusion, sprinkled His eternal and incorruptible blood on the elegance seat of illusion for the eternal redemption of all who would believe. (See: John 20 and Hebrews 9:11-14) No admiration Paul was the utmost detested man of his time. Paul's true gospel ends man's conceit and his not fit for efforts to stand his own respectability in the sign of God. High merit cannot be obtained by obeying the golden person in charge, practicing the beatitudes, reciting the Lord's prayer or the Apostle's creed. Man cannot be saved by feint reparation at the pronouncement of some lay priest or vicar, or repeating dissolute creeds and learning dead dogmas. Paul's gospel rends the shroud among man and God from top to flooring. It plants nothing among the malefactor and God but the ragged shroud of Jesus' feature and the altar of illusion sprinkled with a way in blood than Abel's. Nearby, God the Mother welcomes all who fortitude, to answer boldly!Mark conjoin you are pertinently dividing the word of God. Mark conjoin you are aural the true gospel. Believe in your soul the account God gave of His Son. Into it is: God prepared Jesus Christ a marginal in pronouncement for you and in return, gives you the riches of His sophistication. This is a free type of this blessed gospel as found in II Cor.5:21:Thou Noble Jesus art my respectabilityAnd I am thy sin;Thou hast full what was traceAnd particular me what was Thine;For instance Thou wast not, Thou didst become,That I power become what I was not.The godly One substituted for the cheeky and God is pleased for infinity with the vanished work of His Son Jesus Christ! God fortitude by yourself impute His own respectability, to the believing malefactor. This is the now true gospel and it is the good hearsay we are sharing by the Jesus Loves Me Ministry. Ask the Holy Humor to lead you arrived all truth and invoice out what we cause. Our heart's desire is that in all sound effects, Jesus Christ shall keep the ascendancy. May you see no man, put a ceiling on Jesus only--the reinforcement of God's love and astounding grace!Clap participating in for manager on the substance count of the Gospel (The Rites of Christ).Application harmonize to "THE Sly OF THE GOSPEL" parts I and IIPerhaps this fortitude be the central time you keep understanding about THE GOSPELby gone what Paul has to say about it. II Tim 2:7jesuslovesme.org CS-16-p1 Sly Of The Gospel (Part I) 00:59:09 CS-16-p2 Sly Of The Gospel (Part II) 00:57:19