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ANIMAL PICTURES OF THE WEEK: ....their pregnant cat had given birth to two kittens with markings in the shape of crosses on their backs.

BIRTH VERSE: Did you know that the Bible has a special verse for  everyone's birthday?  Look up your verse by the day and month you were born.

Web Building Tips: Automate Copyright Updates on Web Pages: Many web pages carry copyright notice that reflects the creation date of some or all of the content – Copyright 2003-2009 for example. You can have the "to" date change automatically each year.

AROUND THE WORLD
EVANGELISTS CLAIM NOAH'S ARK FOUND: Mount Ararat explorers: 'We think it is 99.9 percent that this is it'.

BLIND BOY LEARNS HOW TO 'SEE' USING DOLPHIN TECHNIQUE: A blind boy has learnt how to "see" again after being taught a technique used by dolphins to detect where objects are.


NATIONAL
OUTRAGE BUILDS OVER GRAHAM'S REJECTION AT PENTAGON: The reason for the "dis-invite"? Graham's earlier comments about Islam were "not appropriate," said the Army.


SCHOOLS
YOU HEARD IT RIGHT... CLASS CREDIT FOR KEEPING QUIET: A high school in New Hampshire recently awarded credits toward graduation for students who participated in a national school-based observance for homosexual rights.

SCHOOL BLOCKS FLYER, LAWSUIT FOLLOWS: "And it's simply unconstitutional to say 'Okay, all community groups are permitted in this forum, but no religious groups or no church-related groups,'" the attorney argues.

COURT: SCHOOL WRONGED PRO-LIFE STUDENT: A federal court has ruled that school officials in New Jersey were wrong to silence a pro-life student who wanted to express her biblical point of view at a student-led event occurring outside of instructional time.


THE LAW
SUPREME COURT BLOCKS REMOVAL OF CROSS IN MOJAVE DESERT: In a divided ruling, the justices rule that the 1st Amendment calls for ‘accommodation’ of religious displays on public land rather than strict separation of church and state.

REP'S KIND WORDS ENCOURAGE FAMILY ADVOCATE: A congressman has extended encouraging words to initiators of a federal lawsuit against the "hate crimes" law.

LAW SCHOOL POLICY LABELED 'CRAZY': ....during arguments, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was reported as saying: "To require the Christian Society to allow atheists not just to join, but to conduct Bible classes -- that's crazy."

GOV'T TO APPEAL PRAYER RULING: The Obama administration will appeal a court decision that found government proclamation of the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional.

NORTH DAKOTA HOPES TO LIFT RELIGIOUS 'BURDENS':  ....a person's right to "act or refuse to act in a manner motivated by a sincerely held religious belief may not be burdened unless the government proves it has a compelling governmental interest" in regulating the behavior.


ABORTION
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN'S TIES TO ABORTION CLINIC QUESTIONED: "The statutes of the state of Wisconsin clearly state, 'No funds of this state or any agency of this state should be authorized for or paid to a physician or surgeon or a hospital, clinic or other medical facility for the performance of an abortion,'"

UNDERCOVER PROBE REVEALS KENTUCKY CLINIC'S VIOLATIONS: A staff member is recorded in the video saying the clinic had assisted many underage girls in terminating a pregnancy, as well as acquiring a judicial bypass so parents would not know.


POLITICS
LAWMAKERS ACCUSE GM, ADMINISTRATION OF MISLEADING PUBLIC OVER LOAN REPAYMENT: Grassley wrote a letter last week to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressing his concerns and asking for more information about why the company was allowed to use bailout money to repay bailout money.

HOW MEXICO TREATS ILLEGAL ALIENS: Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years' imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years' imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless bites at the litigation apple that illegal aliens are afforded in our country...

Source: One News Now / WorldNetDaily

Unloved

We seem to think that unless we are doing something, that it won’t get done.
Can you not see that this is nothing more than fear in action?

I’m afraid that God will not come through for me, so I’ve got to
do it, even if I don’t have a clue what to do.
That’s fear, not faith.

And sometimes we have the attitude that if we are being still
and quiet before God, that we are not actually doing anything.

In reality, being still before God is sometimes not only the only
thing we can do, it is quiet often the best thing we can do.

~ Rocky Henriques ~

Source: Timothy Report

Sarah Kay was studying the origin of foods in her elementary school. One day she and her
mother were strolling through the grocery store, discussing what ingredients went into the
various products.

As they wandered through the meat department, Sarah Kay said, "Momma, I know that pork
comes from pigs and beef comes from cows, but how do they get the pork OUT of the pig,
Momma?"

Her mother felt that the truth was the only way to go, so she explained that the pig had to be
killed in order to get at the pork.

Horrified, Sarah Kay walked past the rest of the shelves saying, "They KILLED a cow to get
THIS?!" She could not believe it, and her little heart was broken.

Shortly, they entered the bakery section of the store where Sarah Kay noticed a beautiful
white cake and asked her mother, "Momma, what is this cake called?"
 
"We call that an angel food cake, honey," her mother replied.

Immediately Sarah Kay's eyes filled with tears.
"You mean they killed an ANGEL to make this?!"

ONE INTERPRETATION, BUT AN INTERESTING ONE.

Notice the word *fruit* is singular, yet it lists nine.
So there is only one fruit of the Spirit. That fruit is LOVE.

The others...

Source: The Timothy Report

A golfer set up his ball on the first tee and took a mighty swing. To
his chagrin, he saw that his drive landed in the midst of a clump
of trees.

After he located his ball, he spied a small opening between two of
the trees with a clear view of the green. Confident he could hit his
ball squarely and accurately, he took out his 3-wood and took another
mighty swing.

The ball, sadly, hit the tree squarely and came screaming back at
the golfer, striking him right on the forehead and killing him instantly.

As the man approached the Gates of Heaven, 3-wood still in hand,
Saint Peter says, "You must be a good golfer."

Proudly, the man exclaims, "Got here in two, didn't I ?!"

We humans experience two kinds of limitations: physical and mental.

I had a remarkable conversation with a woman about physical limitations.
Nancy was a sufferer of M.S. She could no longer walk and spent her
waking hours in a wheelchair.

"I'm not 'confined' to a wheelchair," she insisted one day. "It doesn't
confine me. It sets me free."

She asked me, "Do you want to know my reason for living?"

"What is it?" I wondered.

"To liberate people. To set them free. Before I got my wheelchair," she
explained, "I had trouble getting around. Now I can go places! However
I can free people, I want to do it."

"People speak of being 'shut in,'" she continued. "People who are
confined to a room or a house or a bed are not 'shut in.' They're 'shut out',
shut out of activities and shut out of people's lives. So my mission is to
liberate people, to set them free, however I can."

Because of her disease, Nancy now helps people find ways of gaining
more physical freedom. But we humans suffer from other kinds of
limitations, too. We need liberation from enslaving beliefs and attitudes.

"Almost everybody walks around with a vast burden of imaginary limitations
inside his head," says J. H. Brennan. "While the burden remains, personal
success is as difficult to achieve as the conquest of Everest with a sack of
rocks tied to your back."

What burden of limiting beliefs and attitudes are you walking around with?
Do you ever say, "I can't do that" or "I can't change this or that"? Do you ever
think that you'll never be able to pursue your passion or achieve a cherished
dream? Do you believe that other people can experience the good things of
life, or simply be happy, but not you? These patterns of thinking are as much
of a burden as a sack of rocks tied to your back.

Listen to these words from Darwin P. Kingsley: "You have powers you never
dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no
limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind."

Okay, certain limitations are a part of life. You may be more able to see those
that are physical. After all, "stinkin' thinkin'" can be easily hidden. But, as
Kingsley says, when you get rid of limiting attitudes and beliefs, those rocks
tied to your back, you'll discover powers you never dreamed of. You'll do things
you never thought you could do! And you'll be truly free.

Besides an unhealthy mental outlook, what have you got to lose?

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