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Just before Christmas, Daniel Berrigan and I spent an evening with Franciscan priest and teacher Richard Rohr at the new Catholic Worker house in Albuquerque, N.M. A blizzard swirled outside, and the conversation inside swirled nearly as briskly. Dan and I had spent the day touring Los Alamos. And we came away shocked by business as usual, an entire culture, a worldview, a way of being, built around the Bomb. A culture of peace, on the other hand, rises from the Catholic Worker, and the conversation soon turned to the non-violent Jesus and the God of peace. Richard said he now thinks the church's ancient teaching of a theology of sacrifice has helped bring about our culture of violence. For eons, we've been told that God, out of some vague need, variously explained over the centuries, required Jesus to be killed in order to save us. The time has arrived, Richard said, for a new theology of non-violent atonement, a theology that upholds the non-violence of God and Jesus. Richa

Hi my dear Friends, This is not jack, However, it's really a good question through which am able to talk with you. Many Christians (and other theists) would say that they are not afraid of death, and maybe even look forward to it, because they know that they are going to Heaven for all eternity etc. etc. This leads them to the conclusion that atheists are mortally afraid of death, as they do not know what awaits them (or, rather stupidly, think that atheists believe they are going to HELL instead). Well, I like being alive. I enjoy life, I enjoy learning about the wonderful world we live in and I have lots of good friends. I do not particularly want to die. The actual event of dying is something I would rather not have to endure. I would even say that I am afraid of dying, either of old age, disease, accident or injury. I don't necessarily want to live forever, but I would rather not experience dying, thank you very much. Not wanting to die is perfectly natural. I can&#

A lot of people take "being in love for granted," because they don’t really know what it means. A lot of times people have abused their gift of being in love. Being in love is much talked about but not fully understood. Also the people that are in love don’t fully understand their responsibilities. Many people assume that just saying ‘I love you’ to someone is enough. These words ‘I love you’ are often said not out of true meaning but just for the sake of it. They have become like the words ‘how are you?’ where people asking are not truly concerned about the other person’s welfare but just say the words as a reflex whenever the meet someone. The words ‘I love you’ nowadays mean that ‘I still want to continue being with you’. It’s more of an assurance to someone to show that you not planning to leave them (though this is not always the case). In order to understand what being in love is, you must understand what love is. What is love? Love is simply being nice

India is a land of culture and tradition. Culture is the way one trains one’s mind and manners. And no culture is inferior to another as long as it does not cause detritions in one’s thinking and deficiency in one’s manner. And there being no such flows in our culture, it cannot be termed as imperfect or secondary to any culture. Our culture strengthens human values and relationships like no other culture. In the west, marriage is a very simple phenomenon and divorce, a simpler one. But in India it is not so. Marriage is a very big episode for an Indian. In testing times, we learn to adjust and harmonize our lives. Coming to the Indian dress code, we have to admit that this Indian Sari is the most elegant and exquisite formal and informal wear. Various Indian arts like the Kuchipidi, the Bharatnatyam, and the Karnatic music are being appreciated all over the world. The shame here is, though all the other cultures respect the Indian culture, we Indians ourselves do not seem t

Sex and beauty, help create happiness in a love environment, but they do not constitute being in love. It takes more than sex and beauty to be in love. And people can fall in love without sex and beauty. These are physical things. Being in love is a deeper inner feeling of security, trust and loyalty, which basically means you have someone to be there for you and support you all the time. This assurance is far much greater than sex and beauty. Because sex and beauty is temporary but being in love lasts ‘forever’. The love will always keep flowing and the feeling will always be there, while beauty and sex fades away. Note: Being in love is easy; staying in love is hard. It takes commitment, tolerance and a lot of genuine apologies to stay in love. Unknown Author...

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God our Father, we thank you that out of love for us, you gave us Jesus, your Son, for the salvation of the world. In a special way, we thank you for giving to your Church Father Jules Chevalier, so that he could provide a means of healing for the ills of his time. Standing with Mary at the foot of the cross, he wished to make known and loved everywhere the merciful love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We ask you, Lord, that Jules Chevalier be proposed to the Church of today as an example of Jesus’ love for us. May he be an intercessor with you on our behalf as we strive to make your justice, your peace and your love known everywhere. Amen.

A couple, WH had two little boys, ages 8 and 10, who were excessively mischievous. They were always getting into trouble and their parents knew that, if any mischief occurred in their town, their sons were probably involved. They boys' mother heard that a clergyman in town had been successful in disciplining children,  so  she asked if he would speak with her boys. The clergyman agreed, but asked to see them individually. So the mother sent her 8-year-old first, in the morning, with the older boy to see the clergyman in the afternoon. The clergyman, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him sternly, "Where is God?” They boy's mouth dropped open, but he made no response, sitting there with his mouth hanging open, wide-eyed. So the clergyman repeated the question in an even sterner tone,  “Where is God!!?" Again the boy made no attempt to answer. So the clergyman raised his voice even more and shook his finger in t

For Unity of Faiths O God, we are one with you. You have made us one with you. You have taught us that if we are open to one another, you dwell in us. Help us to preserve this openness and to fight for it with all our hearts. Help us to realize that there can be no understanding where there is mutual rejection. O God, in accepting one another wholeheartedly, fully, completely, we accept you, and we thank you, and we adore you, and we love you with our whole being, because our being is your being, our spirit is rooted in your spirit. Fill us then with love, and let us be bound together with love as we go our diverse ways, united in this one spirit which makes you present in the world, and which makes you witness to the ultimate reality that is love. Love has overcome. Love is victorious. Thomas Merton 1915-1968 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May He Who is the Father in Heaven of the Christians, Holy One of the Jews, Allah of t

It has been a powerful time in the Spirit here at the New Life Center. So excited to see what God is doing in my life and in the lives of all the people. I'm also looking forward to seeing all of the fruit of what God is doing in people, as we are revived and renewed by the Holy Spirit to carry the Gospel to the world in power. Look out Ford City and Kittanning! I wanted to share some thoughts that have been on my heart. They deal with who we are and what we do as Christians. Here is a quote by Francis Chan, pg. 32-33, from his book "Forgotten God":"Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again and say that were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the chu

Hi Friends, Today many people are afraid when we speak about success. Really what is the meaning of success? What do we have to do to become a successful person? I want to approach success from two angles. First define success from the world’s point of view, and then from a Christian perspective. The best way to define success from the world’s stand point is its power to get what you want without stepping on other people. World of success equals power. But a Christian definition of success has to include more than that. It is choosing to enter into the arena of action determined to give yourself to that cause which will better mankind and that which last for eternity. Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others. It is in the service of contributing to the betterment of others. Now let’s take each letter of the word success and make an acrostic. S-Select Your Goal The first letter S stands for select your goal. The reason most people don’t succeed is

The world today offers different ways of understanding the essence of God’s being. But how is He presented throughout the Bible? According to the Bible and Torah, the Uncreated One decided to create. From nothing, only through the power of His Word, God created the whole Universe, crowning the creation with His masterpiece: the man. After He gave life to Adam and then to Eve, He spent every day with them, making the communion between men and God a normality but everything changed when the first couple decided to disobey their Father and gave credit to Satan-the great angel who rebelled against God. From this moment man committed sin and had to be cast out from the presence of the Holy God and since, the whole Universe was and still is affected by the battle between good and evil. The Bible says that the Creator knew all this was going to happen and before He even started to create He had made a plan of salvation. Therefore, after the great fall He started to repair the broken r

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Kavitha and Kanthan were childhood best friends, but now that they’re both teenagers, they have drifted apart, each with their own circle of friends who are as different as day and night. One day, Muthu, best friend of Kanthan, asked Kavitha out, and she agreed. And one date led to another that, pretty soon, Muthu and Kavitha were now considered a couple.Kanthan never thought anything about his childhood best friend going out with his new best friend. He was, in fact, glad that Muthu found a real lady for a girlfriend. And anyway, he and Kavitha no longer have anything in common, save for some childhood memories that were forgotten already.          It was during the prom night though that his opinion about the two changed. Kavitha was dressed exquisitely in a lovely gown the color of the softest pink, her curly hair up with wavy tendrils cascading down the sides of her face and nape. It was then that Kanthan realized how much Kavitha has grown. She has no longer the girl in pigt

The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell; It goes beyond the highest star, And reaches to the lowest hell; The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; His erring child He reconciled, And pardoned from his sin. Refrain O love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure The saints’ and angels’ song. When years of time shall pass away, And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall, When men, who here refuse to pray, On rocks and hills and mountains call, God’s love so sure, shall still endure, All measureless and strong; Redeeming grace to Adam’s race— The saints’ and angels’ song. Refrain Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, Would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky. Refrain

I always seem to have something to say, but I never sit down to type it out. Not that you all need to hear what I have to say, especially since you get to hear me Wednesday night and Sunday morning. God is doing amazing things here at the New Life Center. This past Sunday we started our new sermon series (pictured above) to a great response from the people. What great expectation that everyone had for this series and what great things God began to do in the NLC. This series has been a while in the making and finally came into being for such a time as this. To help me in this series, I've read a couple books. First, "Living in the Spirit," by George O. Wood. Second, "Forgotten God," by Francis Chan. Third, was a book written by a few different authors on how to help others recieve the baptism in the Holy Spirit. I've listened to some CD's from Tim Enloe on the baptism in the Spirit. Plus, reading and studying the scriptures. I'm looking for