Welcome Agnes!!!!!!!

This is our new baby Agnes, born 2/16/09.

She was named after Saint Agnes, a pure and
wonderful girl. Precious in God's eye's as well as ours.

oh, yea....

HOW ABOUT THEM STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The good thing is winning another superbowl.
The bad thing was the owners of the team thanking and praising Obama. I don't mind the fact
that they are big on affirmative action, but, their lack of seeing the whole picture of what the
Obama administation is about is saddening. Even they are blinded by the darkness.....

This is a picture of the youngest saint that I know of.

This is 8 week old Francis/Frances, our baby that was lost due to an ectopic pregnancy 2/15/08.

Our saint is known in some circles (family and friends) as

"Saint Francis Grace of Henry County" and has interceded in

several ways for people, most of note in helping my missing wedding ring to be found. It had been missing for over a month and I thought it was gone for sure. It was found smashed into the mud outside of my place of employment. It was a miracle that it was found, and it never leaves my finger now.

We are now expecting a new baby in February 2009 and kind of hope the baby arrives on 2/15/09...that would be cool!

Feel free to ask for Francis' intercession and see what even the littlest of God's saints can do.

The fake world we live in

The devil is a liar. Jesus is truth.
Anyone I’ve ever known, hates to be lied to, but when they are presented with the truth, they don’t want to accept it. The whole situation reminds me of Pontius Pilate interrogating Jesus, wanting to know the truth, but would not accept the truth as it was staring him right in the face.

So why then, has our world bought into the lies? It seems that we are sheep just
blindly following the sheep in front of us into a pasture made of artificial turf.
We can have fake cheeks, lips, stomachs and other body parts. I’m not talking about the
necessary kind of surgery for injuries or diseases, I am talking about superficial replacements, a fake image.
We have fake friendships on television based on who can survive the stay the longest and
we call it “reality TV”.
We now have fake exercise helped by the Wi-mote.
We have fake musicians thanks to the “Guitar Hero” toys.
We have a fake sense of being thanks to relativism and materialism.

People want to get by in life without the Cross, without working for something, without suffering, without paying your dues. Those people can expect to continue to be falsely led
down the wide road where all the other sheep are following each other.

GET REAL PEOPLE!!!!!!

Entertainment or worship?

After attending a Christmas carol event at a local Christian
mega-church, it got me to thinking, why do people actually go
to church in the first place?
I have been to several protestant churches in my time but this
was my first trip to a mega church. It had the big screens,
the multi-colored lights, the theater style seating and stage.
While the musicians were doing their thing, I took time to look
around and noticed that people were actually watching the
screens more than they were looking at the actual entertainers.
I wondered if it was the same way on Sundays when the pastor
was up preaching, if people focused more on the image on the
big screen or on the actual person. We are so used to being
entertained by movies and television, that we tend to ignore
the “personal touch” (so to say).
At the end of the show, the pastor came up and talked for a
while, mixing the Gospel in with real life stories and humor.
People laughed, people listened, we prayed, and we went home.
So, what is it that keeps these mega churches filled?
I think that people are truly searching for God, but they don’t
want to walk through the desert to find Him, they don’t want
to incur soul-searching, sacrificial, painful reflection.
They want some fuzzy, feel good, love everyone except for
those who bring the truth, much like Pontius Pilate did when
the Truth was staring him right in the face.
How can we worship God when there is so much focus on what’s
on the big screen?
We should look at how the early Christians worshipped, how they
prayed, how they fellowshipped, how they loved.
Break the bread and see Jesus, drink the cup of His blood and let
Him teach you true worship.

living like there's no tomorrow

I believe that if we "live life like there's no tomorrow", we would be living differently. We would be trying to live good and holy lives, because if there wasn't a tomorrow, we would be face to face with God when we woke up in the morning. How do you think you would fare in the judgement of God at this moment?

What do you believe in?

What brings people to faith?
That seems to be a question of immense proportions. It seems that everyone comes to faith in a different way.
I was not a big fan of going to church or of “churchy” people when growing up. Thank God my mom made me go to Mass about every week, at least till I was old enough to move out on my own. Then I would be one of those “once or twice a year” Christians: the kind that go at Easter and/or Christmas.
Twenty years later, here I am defending the faith, dressing up to go to Mass, and occasionally standing outside of the abortion mill praying for an end to the merciless killing of innocent babies.
How did all this happen?
My main reason was that I could see all that God had been doing in my life and the realization that there is a God.
Not all people are fortunate enough to come to that realization, and they need “real proof”.
I was also on that precarious slope….which God to believe in; what church to go to; what things should I be doing or not doing; what bible to read….the questions were endless, and I knew that I had a lot of work ahead of me. Not all of us can be theologians; I know I don’t have the time or the smarts for that. So, can you really find out what to believe?
Here’s a kind of formulation that I went by to come a more faithful and informed Christian. Not everything came quickly or easily, but you have to never give up.
What happens to us when we die IS the most important question that everyone should
try to find the answer to. Your eternity depends on it!

This is only a formulation for evidence of the Judeo-Christian God of the bible (my God);

1) Where did belief in God come from?
2) Where did the bible come from?
3) How did the bible get in the form it is in now?
4) Why should I trust the bible? Is the bible accurate in it’s information?
5) Can I interpret the bible by myself?
6) Should I go to a certain church? What church should I put my trust in?
7) Are my church’s doctrines in line with Jesus’s teachings?
8) Am I going to believe all the church’s doctrines or go to a church that has the
same beliefs as I want them to have?
9) Should I even go to a church at all?

Above all, start with prayer!! Prayer and fasting is good, but you definitely must pray about everything in your journey. Pray, go to worship, learn, pray, listen, ask God specific questions….you may be surprised at the answers you get if you have an open mind.
I actually started back unto the road to faith through Protestant/evangelical preachers.
I finally went to church (Catholic) with my mom, just to spend some time with her, and with a little prompting from God and a whole lot of specific questions answered each week during Mass, I found the one true Church that Christ established upon the earth.
I didn’t buy into all Catholic doctrines at once, but by a long process of learning and
being open in mind and prayer about the questionable teachings. I didn’t just give up whenever something sounded wrong and leave the Church. I found out WHERE the belief came from and why I should believe it.
Don’t give up on God. Don’t give up on faith. Learn all you can even if you have little time. We only have a little bit of time on this earth, and most people don’t know the most important thing to find out.
God Bless

Excellent verse from Romans

The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. --RomansChapter 1; 18-21

What is the History of Your Church?

Church Year Established Founder Where Established Catholic 33 Jesus Christ Jerusalem Orthodox 1054 Schismatic Catholic Bishops Constantinople Lutheran 1517 Martin Luther Germany Anabaptist 1521 Nicholas Storch & Thomas Munzer Germany Anglican 1534 Henry VIII England Mennonites 1536 Menno Simons Switzerland Calvinist 1555 John Calvin Switzerland Presbyterian 1560 John Knox Scotland Congregational 1582 Robert Brown Holland Baptist 1609 John Smyth Amsterdam Dutch Reformed 1628 Michaelis Jones New York Congregationalist 1648 Pilgrims and Puritans Massachusetts Quakers 1649 George Fox England Amish 1693 Jacob Amman France Freemasons 1717 Masons from four lodges London Methodist 1739 John & Charles Wesley England Unitarian 1774 Theophilus Lindey London Methodist Episcopal 1784 60 Preachers Baltimore, MD Episcopalian 1789 Samuel Seabury American Colonies United Brethren 1800 Philip Otterbein & Martin Boehn Maryland Disciples of Christ 1827 Thomas & Alexander Campbell Kentucky Mormon 1830 Joseph Smith New York Methodist Protestant 1830 Methodist United States Church of Christ 1836 Warren Stone & Alexander Campbell Kentucky Seventh Day Adventist 1844 Ellen White Washington, NH Christadelphian (Brethren of Christ 1844 John Thomas Richmond, VA Salvation Army 1865 William Booth London Holiness 1867 Methodist United States Jehovah's Witnesses 1874 Charles Taze Russell Pennsylvania Christian Science 1879 Mary Baker Eddy Boston Church of God in Christ 1895 Various churches of God Arkansas Church of Nazarene c. 1850-1900 Various religious bodies Pilot Point, TX Pentecstal 1901 Charles F. Parkham Topeka, KS Aglipayan 1902 Gregorio Aglipay Philippines Assemblies of God 1914 Pentecostalism Hot Springs, AZ Iglesia ni Christo 1914 Felix Manalo Philippines Four-square Gospel 1917 Aimee Semple McPherson Los Angeles, CA United Church of Christ 1961 Reformed and Congregationalist Philadelphia, PA Calvary Chapel 1965 Chuck Smith Costa Mesa, CA United Methodist 1968 Methodist and United Brethren Dallas, TX Born-again c. 1970s Various religious bodies United States Harvest Christian 1972 Greg Laurie Riverside, CA Saddleback 1982 Rick Warren California Non-denominational c. 1990s various United States Top

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