48 aBe ye therefore bperfect, even as your cFather which is in heaven is dperfect. Matt: 5:48 

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus charged the people to be perfect.  Not only perfect, but "as your Father which is in heaven is perfect".  Notice he didn't say, "be good", or even, "do your best"... he said be perfect.

We know that we can't be perfect in and of ourselves.  We also know that we can't make ourselves perfect in this life, or the next.  The only way we can b...

Gotta love those crazy Floridians.

It seems as though there's a motion being put forward to make a new specialty license plate that you can purchase in the 'great' state of Florida.  Yes, that's right - rather than plastering another in your fleet of Jesus fish on the back of your car, you can slap a cross on your actual license plate.

Wanna see what they're considering?  It's just glorious, let me tell you.



Wow.  That's just . . . special.

My issue with...

I believe that God created the world with an infinite depth. We can go back 4M+ years with "science", but God gave us free will to allow an total world. Also, I do not believe that the world is necessarily terribly young. I don't know how old it is, but I do believe that it's probably older than the 6K some suggest. Though, I'm not ruling it out, I'm merely saying that God could've let us develop a long time. Also, in accordance with free will, I believe that God made plenty of evidence. I do b...

With palms together,

Good Morning Everyone,

 

Yesterday I spent the afternoon at Temple Beth El.  I teach three classes in a row: Jewish Spirituality, Jewish History, and Advanced Jewish Spirituality.  By the end of the day I am swimming in Judaism. Not a bad thing, really. but cause for a period of rest.  I was reading a book by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi the other day and he presented me with a wonderful tool. He calls it "making a ten minute Shabbot (S...

Bismil'lahir^rahmanir'rahim

es-selamu alejkum we rahmetullahi we berakatuhu

Hamdi i takon vetem Allahut te Lartësuar dhe të Madhëruar , pershendetje,selame dergojm për me te mirin e njerzimit Muhammedin alejhiselam për familjen e tij të dashur si dhe përshokët e tij të zgjedhur dhe për të gjith bsimtarët nga të gjitha kohrat dhe të gjitha vendet.

Juve që e lexoni këtë shkrim ju thërras të pran...

With palms together,Good Morning Everyone, If you want to live an authentic life, you must be willing to live completely.  This means living with your mind, heart, body, and environment so thoroughly integrated that there is only one. By environment, I include Big Mind, the Absolute, i.e., God. In Judaism we practice Hitbodedut in order to experience Ruach HaKodesh, the spirit of God, which, like Big Mind, is everything.  In order to experience this we must open our...

Evil is any time man walks away from God, the Creator. This is anything from murder to "trivial" sins, such as gossip, or breaking the sabbath.

Man is born evil, and has no hope of salvation without Jesus Christ. The payment for accepting Christ is that we are allowed into heaven with God, and the evil in us is taken away by judgement. Then those who follow Jesus are allowed into Heaven, and given wonderful perfect life in a wonderful perfect world as the Earth was originally intended to be...

With palms together,

Good Morning Everyone,

 

Waking up in the morning, I am aware of just how precious a new day is: it should not be taken for granted.

 

We can chose to just get through it, doing what we do to take care of ourselves.  We can chose to do something for the world, to make it a better place . We can chose to live as if each moment were a blessing in itself.  

 

So, what will I do with this day?  What will you do wi...

There will be no comments.  This is my last one on the subject.

 

A certain blogger seems to think that everything I say is Mormon Doctrine.

This is not so.

Some things I do not know about the doctrine of my church. Scratch that, many things. This is because I am nineteen, have a life, and simply don't have an answer for everything.  I know I can never win a Bible-bashing game, as fun as it may be.  You know the Bible better than I do, I'll admit that.

I chose ...

In light of the recent religious revival in the forums, I'm asking you to kindly not comment on this, unless it is a compliment.  Why?  Because not only do I like an ego boost, but I'm sick of getting into arguments about it.


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I went to Institute today, and I love it.  It's like getting a spiritual high whenever I go, I can get out of the world, and go learn a...

After long and careful thought I have come to a mind altering conclusion!, Liberals for the most part do not believe in G-D and want his name stricken from all public mention. I kept wondering why, what is it about G-d that seems to upset Liberals so much? Why would they go as far as wanting even our money changed?

What is it about the pledge of allegiance that strikes suck hatred in their hearts? The words "under G-d" seems to offend so many liberals. They have attacked cities that have a cr...

You know, I've been checking out this Flying Spaghetti Monster stuff.  It's awesome.  

If you haven't seen them before, these are The Eight "I Really Rather You Didn'ts"  and I have to say, the FSM makes some good points.

 

1. I'd really rather you didn't act like a sanctimonious holier-than-thou ass when describing my noodly goodness. If some people don't believe in me, that's okay. Really, I'm not that vain. Besides, this isn't about them so don't change the s...

With palms together,

Good Morning Everyone,

 

This morning I plan to go for a run of sorts with my friend, Katie.  It will be a desert trail run and I'm looking forward to it.  I have not been training as hard as I should of late, so maybe today I'll be able to kick it a bit. Maybe a few hill repeats are in order.

 

Consistency is vital. Habit energy is the strongest sort of human energy, I think. Like the proverbial ball rolling is hard to stop, so too, its ha...

I know, I know, I know.  You're saying to yourself - What if Jesus what?  What if he wasn't the Son of God?  What if he didn't exist?

No, my friends.  It's something far more sinister.

What if Jesus had turned to the dark side of the force?

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I'll just let that sink in for a minute there.

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Okay?  Properly sunk in?

Here's what I think would've happened.  He would have become like Caesar's right-hand man, you know?  Like, al...

"What?  You didn't think about it at all?"

 

"Well, no.  I mean, I did...but it seemed like everything was already written out.  I was told we just had to believe and everything would be cool."




"Well it is, in a way.  I mean I don't mind you believing in me, but do you have any idea *how* cool life is?  I know I saw a lot of people try to describe it to you..."

 

"But it sounded like they were trying to discount you, sir, and since I believ...