Coffee

[manape]

Apr 14, 2008 4:27:31 GMT -4 sometimeman said:

Turn Paris out Ape and I might attend.

Sorry, sometimeman, I can't help you there. It is for the people who vote to decide.

Regardless of who gets elected, sometimeman; let God take care of it and be happy. I repeat the words of bb...

The happiest people don't have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have. So please remember:

Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.

Leave the rest to God.

[manape]

Shorty quote...

That's a great couple of verses ape. I like the next chapter even better.

Well, OK...Chapter 4 is a great chapter, but what's up the smiley face? What's funny?

[manape]

Apr 7, 2008 20:01:16 GMT -4 country said:

I have posted on the other board that I find a big difference between locals/country folk and outsiders/city folk. I have gotten in a lot of trouble for saying what I said. But really, all I've ever been meaning to say is that I'm glad I don't want for much and I'm regularly astounded at how many people complain that we don't have more stores here rahter than trying to look within themselves and figure out why they need so much of that stuff in the first place. It just so happens most of those people are not country people.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Henry David Thoreau

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You have a PM ape, believe it or not you and I agree on religion ALOT more than we do on politics.

[bb]

Ape, as much as I would love to take credit for those words, I merely copied and pasted from an email that was sent to me.

[queenbee]

I probably study the Bible more so than most of my friends. When I go to church I am with the church. I concentrate on what I am being told. My Bible has been underlined in so many times, that it will probably be a keepsake for my kids.

I also have the Quest Parallel, NIV/KJV Parallel, The Message and several others. Which I have read, studies and still reading. i also have a spiral bound notebook with notes from my studies.

I am almost finished with a book called "Misquoting Jesus" which was written by a biblical scholar who has studied in religious colleges and studied most of the foreign languages. Very interesting. Explaining how the Greek and then Hebrew translation have been misinterpreted and scribes have changed the text due to their views when they were establishing the Gospels.

I started a topic awhile back on here about a CNN special called God's Warriors, a very frightening but true special.

Don't have time to list them all, but I am not ashamed for folks to know I go to church. I try to be spiritual person, but it's hard. It is so much harder in this day and time for anyone.

I try to treat people like I want to be treated. I am not as ignorant as some folks on here like to pretend I am. I try to be good to everyone, helpful, volunteering, offering help. But I am not perfect.

I also like biblegateway. I just discovered beliefnet which is really a good website.

When I go to bed at night I try to think if I had done anything that would have disappointed God, then I pray. I ask myself, "If God came back today have you done anything that would keep you from leaving this earth?"

Will post more tomorrow on why I believe the bible is missing the history of Jesus as a child other than talking with the priests in the temple about the age of 12.

[manape]

Our message to the world is not that they need to “accept” Jesus Christ or they will suffer the consequences of “eternal” torment. We are to go forth and tell the world that they have been conciliated to God through Christ and that God is not charging their sins to them. We are to exhort them to be conciliated back to God. This is the message of ambassadorship that we are to carry to the world.

[sometimeman]

Where is the fire?

[queenbee]

1 Timothy 6

NIV

3 If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching,

4 he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions

5 and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.

8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.

9 People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

[queenbee]

1 Timothy 6

KJV

3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

[queenbee]

Manape, what you post is correct.

However, if you use the words to a lot of people that you are using in your text they will nod their heads and go on.

You have to talk and discuss in terms that people understand and can relate to .

This is not personal, just my opinion; the way you worded your post makes me think of the big churches in town.

Ones I would never attend.

The ones who look down their noses at the poor as they are standing in line to feed them. The ones who discuss more "who is wearing what" then actually coming to listen to the message.

I have also attended churches where the preachers try to "scare you into heaven; with their stomping and screaming and hahing and spit flying everywhere, it never impressed me and I usually spent the entire time trying to keep my eyes open.

I attend a church now where my preacher talks to us. He uses his past life experiences as examples and he is just as country as we are. he loves to fish.

He told my son and daughter in law last week that we don't have a nursery, because he believes that children should learn in church by observing their parents and others. Let the children enjoy the service and sing and clap if they want to. Eventually they see how they should act in church and that it is not play time. They also share in the loving experience of the church and participate as members.

Son and daughter in law said they had visited churches all over Atlanta and were never comfortable with them. They couldn't agree on which one church they liked. She is Catholic and he is "experiencing religion". They both loved our church and planned on making a trip back to attend it one more time before they move to Canada. Even thought she is Catholic she said that she wished they could have attended more often.

I love my country church. They don't care how you dress, if you have money or not, they are just glad to see you.

We don't use big words, not that we can't, but big words sometimes don't convey the message that you are trying to spread.

[ana]

Apr 6, 2008 21:53:05 GMT -4 bb said:

A group of alumni, all highly established in their respective careers, got together for a visit with their old university professor. The conversation soon turned to complaints about the endless stress of work and life in general.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went into the kitchen and soon returned with a large pot of coffee and an eclectic assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal - some plain, some expensive, some quite exquisite. Quietly he told them to help themselves to some fresh coffee.

When each of his former students had a cup of coffee in hand, the old professor quietly cleared his throat and began to patiently address the small gathering.

"You may have noticed that all of the nicer looking cups were taken up first, leaving behind the plainer and cheaper ones. While it is only natural for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is actually the source of much of your stress-related problems."

He continued, "Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In fact, the cup merely disguises or dresses up what we drink. What each of you really wanted was coffee, not a cup, but you instinctively went for the best cups. Then you began eyeing each other's
cups. Now consider this:

Life is coffee. Jobs, money, and position in society are merely cups. They are just tools to shape and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not truly define nor change the quality of the Life we live. Often, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee
that God has provided us. God brews the coffee, but he does not supply the cups. Enjoy your coffee!"

The happiest people don't have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have. So please remember:

Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.

Leave the rest to God. And remember - the richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who
needs the least.

This is profound. Words we would all do well to live by.