Choose Your Religion Flowchart: Infographic

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I never knew it could be so simple to choose the best religion for you! But religion can’t save your soul. Only God can do that.

Jesus Came to Kill Religion

Well said piece. I like this. Too many people think religion (man’s attempt to define God) is the authority… it’s not. Jesus is, because God made it so.

From the same mouth comes blessings and curses

It’s a vivid reminder that we are to emulate our hero, who was loving to everyone He met.

Murmuration, Massive Flock of Starlings

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

He alone is the Creator, we only borrow to design. Incredible!

These starlings flying in formation are performing as they were designed. Beautiful to watch.

Warning: Don’t Put Words in God’s Mouth… He Doesn’t Like It

Great piece here, Larry Moyer: 5 Things God Never Said. It’s sad that many of us may not accurately understand God’s position.

Incredible Time Lapse Photography

The Mountain from

The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

When I look into the painted sky
I see so many colors
They’re all a part of your design
It’s such a brilliant display

I love the way the stars shine for you
And every single mountain bows down
I love the way the universe is singing your song
So I’ll try to sing along

Not sure how anyone can see this video and thing that our world happened by accident.

First Hand Account of Heaven from a 3 Year Old

3-year-old boy visits heaven during an appendectomy and comes back to tell his parents things he couldn’t possibly have know. This short book is full of surprises but more importantly hope, something we all could use more of. I highly recommend.

Newsboys Still Rocking with Born Again

newsboys “Born Again” *Official Music Video* from newsboys on Vimeo.

The best part is that they’re using their fame, their money, their everything to help people who are in dire need. There is hope and these guys are pointing in the right direction. Bravo!

A Cup of Water in My Name

Jars of Clay completes 1,000 wells project. Great job guys!

Francis Chan Thinks Church Has It All Wrong

You have to admire a man who when told he’s great says, “It’s not about me.” Churches today, if they’re to be more like the true body of Christ, need to be more about helping others.

Former Korn Member Shares Life Changing Message

Is your world crashing down around you? Is it more than you can handle?

I’ve been there. Sometimes I think I’m still there. The only solution is to find someone more powerful than I… that can help you get through.

Walk a Mile in Arthur Blessitt’s Shoes

My Mom told me about this man, Arthur Blessitt. Can you believe he’s carried a large, wooden cross more than 38,000 miles? Here’s more information from his site.

Arthur Blessitt: A world traveler, world record holder, and a follower of Jesus Christ has accomplished the following with the help of God and the love he has for all the people of the world.

• Walked around the world since Christmas Day, December 25, 1969 carrying a 12 foot cross for Jesus.
• Now 38,102 miles (61,319 k.m.).
• 315 countries, Island Groups and Territories.
• Walked on all seven Continents including Antarctica.
• Been through 52 countries at war.
• Arrested or jailed 24 times (Not for Crimes)
• Listed in the Guinness World Records for the ‘World’s longest walk’.
• Arthur says, “I Love God, I love people, I try to keep it simple”.
• Of the journey he says, “Jesus did it, I give Him all the glory”.
• He has traveled constantly with his wife, Denise, since their marriage in 1990.

Read more, it’s an amazing story.

Born To Die

The baby in this picture is not dead. He was just born into a very tough life.

Another baby arrived on planet Earth some 2000 years ago with a heart-breaking mission—to die for humanity. Literally Jesus was born to die.

On this Christmas morning, take a second and remember that without his death and resurrection, Christ’s birth would be meaningless.

The greatest of all possible Christmas gifts has always been offered to you… have you received it?

Was Christmas Even Necessary?

This is for anyone who ever thought the idea of God becoming a man ridiculous. It was originally read on the air by Paul Harvey. Cheers!

The Man and the Birds

The man to whom I’m going to introduce you was not a scrooge, he was a kind decent, mostly good man. Generous to his family, upright in his dealings with other men. But he just didn’t believe all that incarnation stuff which the churches proclaim at Christmas Time. It just didn’t make sense and he was too honest to pretend otherwise. He just couldn’t swallow the Jesus Story, about God coming to Earth as a man.

“I’m truly sorry to distress you,” he told his wife, “but I’m not going with you to church this Christmas Eve.” He said he’d feel like a hypocrite. That he’d much rather just stay at home, but that he would wait up for them. And so he stayed and they went to the midnight service.

Shortly after the family drove away in the car, snow began to fall. He went to the window to watch the flurries getting heavier and heavier and then went back to his fireside chair and began to read his newspaper. Minutes later he was startled by a thudding sound… Then another, and then another. Sort of a thump or a thud… At first he thought someone must be throwing snowballs against his living room window. But when he went to the front door to investigate he found a flock of birds huddled miserably in the snow. They’d been caught in the storm and, in a desperate search for shelter, had tried to fly through his large landscape window.

Well, he couldn’t let the poor creatures lie there and freeze, so he remembered the barn where his children stabled their pony. That would provide a warm shelter, if he could direct the birds to it. Quickly he put on a coat, galoshes, tramped through the deepening snow to the barn. He opened the doors wide and turned on a light, but the birds did not come in. He figured food would entice them in. So he hurried back to the house, fetched bread crumbs, sprinkled them on the snow, making a trail to the yellow-lighted wide open doorway of the stable. But to his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs, and continued to flap around helplessly in the snow. He tried catching them… He tried shooing them into the barn by walking around them waving his arms… Instead, they scattered in every direction, except into the warm, lighted barn.

And then, he realized that they were afraid of him. To them, he reasoned, I am a strange and terrifying creature. If only I could think of some way to let them know that they can trust me…That I am not trying to hurt them, but to help them. But how? Because any move he made tended to frighten them, confuse them. They just would not follow. They would not be led or shooed because they feared him.

“If only I could be a bird,” he thought to himself, “and mingle with them and speak their language. Then I could tell them not to be afraid. Then I could show them the way to safe, warm…to the safe warm barn. But I would have to be one of them so they could see, and hear and understand.” At that moment the church bells began to ring. The sound reached his ears above the sounds of the wind. And he stood there listening to the bells – Adeste Fidelis – listening to the bells pealing the glad tidings of Christmas. And he sank to his knees in the snow.

Republicans Point the Finger, Need to Get a Grip

Tony Perkins runs a tight ship over at the FRC. I might as well just post his dailies here. Anyway, a little background:

1. I vote for whoever most closely matches my values.
2. I get my values from the Bible.
3. These values are considered by today’s standards extremely Conservative.
4. Republicans are more Conservative than Democrats, in most cases.
5. I hate most politicians, regardless of Party, because they seldom tell the truth for more than 120 seconds.

Ok, with that said, a large number of Republicans are just as bad as the Democrats in my book. Here they show their true colors.

“To listen to some Republicans… you would think that traditional conservatives, the defenders of the unborn and the integrity of marriage… were responsible for two wars gone sour, over-spending at a level to embarrass Lyndon Johnson, the largest expansion of entitlement spending since the Great Society, numerous cases of GOP corruption, betrayal of the public trust… and the miserable results in the presidential and congressional elections…”

Like us, Tracy Mehan of the American Spectator is fed up with the Republicans’ post-election finger-pointing. In his op-ed “Social Conservative as Scapegoats,” he lashes out at the GOP’s centrists for blaming November 4 on “the solid and most loyal” wing of the Reaganite coalition.

To those of us in the pro-family movement, the Establishment’s diatribe is a familiar one. When the GOP succeeds because of social conservatives, our importance is ignored. When the party fails for overlooking us, values voters are somehow to blame. With the exception of Gov. Sarah Palin and some hollow overtures by the Democratic Party, the 20 percent of voters who cited “moral values” as their first or second priority in this election had no real horse in this race.

Maybe that explains why believers were less active in this election cycle. More than four million Americans who go to church more than once a week and voted in 2004 stayed home on November 4. Those voters would have made up half the difference between McCain and Obama. As the members of the Republican party jockey for position in this brave new Congress and sort out their internal leadership, a commitment to life and marriage is non-negotiable.

Without it, the prospects of a Republican revival are bleak. As Karl Rove rightly points out, “These values are often more popular than the GOP itself.”