A Man - A Cross - A Movie

A movie has been released that chronicles the 38,000-mile, 40-year journey of one man who carried a cross around the world.



The Cross: The Arthur Blessitt Story documents Blessitt's walk through more than 300 nations. Blessitt left Hollywood on Christmas Day in 1969 on a nationwide walk with his 12-foot wooden cross. The following year, Blessitt says he felt led to carry the cross in war-torn Northern Ireland. That was followed by a nation-by-nation walk around the entire world. He says his journey allowed him to share the gospel with countless people.


-- for more information go to http://www.thecrossfilm.com/

-- this article taken from One News Now @ http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=475422

Be Someone

Be Someone

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard.
Be someone who cares, and you will be loved.
Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed.
Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand, and you will be wise.
Be someone kind, someone considerate, and you will be admired.
Be someone who values truth, and you will be respected.
Be someone who takes action, and you will move life forward.

Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich.
Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which you'll be thankful.

Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines.
Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.

Contemplations and Goals

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
- Edward Gibbon

Can you believe that Christmas is almost here.. with New Years fast approaching!? With the holidays surrounding me, I have found myself contemplating on what God has planned for me in the coming year. In order to know where I am going, I often find myself looking back on the past to see where I have come from. In the past I look for God moments. Moments in which God was trying to tell me something. Moments in which He hinted for me to say something to a certain person I wouldn't normally talk to, to participate in an activity I didn’t want to, or to do something nice for someone who had been cruel to me. It was in these moments that God was leading me on another path; His path. Instead of following His path, I ignored it either out of fear, self-pride or complete ignorance that there was another path! Instead I followed the path that I thought was best for me. The purpose of me looking back on my past is not only to find out what I missed, but to see in what direction God wanted me to head and how I can change today to become who God wants me to be tomorrow.


“If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NAB

I think one of the most important things that I learned this year was all about love. A four letter word, love is a very simple theory yet it confuses a multitude of people. So many other emotions masquerade as love nowadays, that it is difficult to know what true love is. I read this passage from Corinthians and realize that without love, I am nothing. I try so hard to be a good Christian that I forgot what it means to truly love another who I may not like or get along with. I get stuck doing the motions and forget to put my heart into it. And this type of thing is exactly what the Apostle Paul warned me against when he wrote Corinthians, that works without love is fruitless. (Yes, I did just mangle James 2:20.) I think that I have been getting it backwards. I am first supposed to love and then do, not do and then love. Instead of performing works with the hope of making myself feel better, I am called to love and then perform the work. Through learning to love the way God asks of me, I think I will learn what it means to become a Christian in all aspects of the word. I plan on working on this love concept during the new year. = ]

True Joy of Life
This is the true joy of life.
The being used for a purpose
Recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
The being a force of nature
Instead of a feverish, selfish
Little clod of ailments and grievances
Complaining that the world will not
Devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life
Belongs to the whole community
And as long as I live,
It is my privilege to do for it
Whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly
Used up when I die,
For the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
Which I've got hold of
For the moment
And I want to make it burn
As brightly as possible before
Handling it on to future generations.

I am slowly realizing, with His help, what His dreams are for me and I am making the decision today to follow them. I want to live for today and love with all of my being. I want to do things that fear constantly drives me away and learn to enjoy doing them. I have decided to make my Bucket List, which is a compilation of things I want to do before I die, and as I complete my dreams on my list I plan to continue to create new dreams. The final thought that I leave you with is how will you use your past to change your future?

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

--Timothy

A Woman's Beauty

This video shows how Hollywood distorts a woman's natural beauty and gives us a look at what is "true beauty" in their eyes.

Here is how to be a christian woman of beauty:

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
- Written by Sam Levinson and followed by Audrey Hepburn

New Movie: House by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti

Thank you Lisa for letting me know that a Ted Dekker movie was coming out. I didn't realize that the movie was coming out today, until I saw the ad for it in the newspaper this morning.

When a new Christian movie comes out, I spread the news to my friends and family, but they usually react by asking if it is going to be as cheesy/preachy/low budget as the last Christian movie I dragged them to. From what I have read on the internet, House does not seem to be your typical "cheesy and preachy" Christian movie. It is the story of four souls entering their own Hell, mistaking their one hope of rescue as something evil, and in the end, they must choose life or death. With an R rating, this movie has no foul language, no sexual scenes, and very little blood, but received the rating do to the disturbing themes.. ... and how could a movie about Hell not be disturbing?


To see if the movie plays in your town:
http://www.teddekker.com/client_images/teddekker/1225915441_HOUSEPlaylist110708.pdf

To go to Ted Dekker's webiste:
http://www.teddekker.com/site.php?content=home