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

The Catholic Vote

I, like so many other young adults, will be voting for the first time this year. With so many important issues at stake, it is vital for all of us to do our research. A great website that will help you is catholicvote.com. One of my friends, who just happens to be Mormon, sent me the link to this site, so please do not think that it only pertains to Catholics. In the election, I will be voting for McCain-Palin. I based this decision, first and foremost, on the fact that they are both pro-life, with Palin chosing to raise, rather than abort, her down syndrome infant. Obama is very pro-choice. Here is an article that the National Catholic Register wrote about Obama's stance on abortion. You can also read it here: http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/14928

"It’s important for Americans to know exactly where Barack Obama stands on abortion, because abortion is more than just a "Catholic issue." It's one of the fundamental issues Americans should be most concerned about.
The United States was founded on the rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and Americans have spent the two centuries since trying to live up to those founding principles. First came disagreements over the pursuit of happiness — religious and economic liberty. Then, over slavery. Today’s big battle is over the most important right: the right to life.
Obama’s votes and official positions deny the right to life to three categories of human beings: the unborn, the “accidentally” born and, at least in one case, the adult “unfit.” Let’s look at each.
The Unborn
Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., understood how the right to life is fundamental. “I and my deceased children are victims of abortion,” she has said. “The Roe v. Wade decision has adversely affected the lives of my entire family. I pray often for deliverance from the pain caused by my decision to abort my baby.”
Obama's position on the question rejects her view.
When the Supreme Court, citing experiences like King’s, decided that a federal ban on partial-birth abortion would not violate the Constitution, Obama said he “strongly disagreed” with the court. Partial-birth abortion is the barbaric procedure in which a doctor kills a child with scissors while the child is being born. Obama vows to keep the practice legal.
Obama once described why he thinks abortion should be legal through all nine months of a woman’s pregnancy.
“Whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a child, a 9-month old child that was delivered to term,” he said. “That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place.”
How could Obama be so opposed to the right to life? He may have let slip one reason at a March Town Hall meeting in Pennsylvania.
“Look, I’ve got two daughters, 9 years old and 6 years old,” Obama said. “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
He thinks “unwanted” children, by their very existence, are an unacceptable imposition.
‘Accidental’ Infants
This brings us to the next category of human being Obama says has no intrinsic right to life: Babies born “accidentally” while a doctor attempts to kill them by abortion.
This is a necessary consequence of Obama’s embrace of abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Most of us know parents who have cared for preemies — premature babies, born too soon. With the abortion industry’s wide-scale attempts to kill American premies and nearly due children, some will be born alive accidentally.
Whistleblower Jill Stanek, a Chicago nurse, described the practice of killing babies in what is now known as “live-birth abortion.” Illinois tried to stop the practice. But in 2002, as state legislator there, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies who were “accidentally” born alive during attempts to abort them.
“I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone in a soiled utility room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived,” Stanek told the U.S. Congress, describing one such case. “He was too weak to move very much, expending any energy he had trying to breathe. Toward the end he was so quiet that I couldn’t tell if he was still alive unless I held him up to the light to see if his heart was still beating through his chest wall.”
After Stanek’s testimony even N.Y. Democrat Jerrold Nadler, who says he is “as pro-choice as anybody on earth” supported and spoke in favor of the bill.
But for the abortion industry and Obama, opposing the right to life has meant uncompromising dedication to a counter-principle. For Obama, protecting the unstated principle “unwanted children do not have the right to life” is the only way abortion can remain legal. That has led him to exclude another category of human being from the right to life: the unfit.
Terri Schiavo
In a recent debate, Obama said the vote he most regrets was his vote to save Terri Schiavo’s life. Her husband, Michael, wanted Terri dead, even though she was alert and responsive to nurses and family members. He had a new child with a new woman, and he wanted Terri dead.
When a judge granted his request, Congress and President Bush attempted to intervene to save her life, and not just to save her life, but to stop the dangerous precedent. They failed. Now Obama says they shouldn’t have tried.
Thus, he started by rejecting the right to life of unwanted children and now rejects the right to life of an unwanted woman.
Obama not only opposes the right to life, his opposition is his highest priority. “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” he told Planned Parenthood last July. That would make America more friendly to the abortion industry than any other country in the world.
America's Creed
The idea that there is a creed at the heart of America was best expressed by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address. “Four score and seven years ago,” he said, “our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” He called the Civil War a test as to whether “any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
America is still undergoing that test.
But, like a reverse Lincoln, a new man from Illinois seeks the presidency, one who is engaged in a battle against the proposition that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with the right to life."

Fireproof: Support Christian Movies

Starring Kirk Cameron, Fireproof was produced by Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. Sherwood Church makes Christian movies in order to bring Jesus to the world; making movies is their ministry. Their most known movie, Facing the Giants, raked in about 10 million dollars at the box office two years ago when it first opened. Fireproof is their third and newest movie. Starting with a $500,000 budget and a volunteer cast, the movie is about a firefighter named Caleb, played by Cameron, whose mantra is "Never leave your partner behind." Though Caleb never leaves his partner behind at work, he plans to do just that with his wife and divorce her. As the couple prepares to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb's father challenges his son to commit to a 40-day experiment: "The Love Dare." Doubtful that it would work, Caleb agrees to the idea more for his father's sake. When he finds out that "the Love Dare" has religious ties, his interest becomes even more dampened. While trying to stay true to his promise, Caleb becomes frustrated time and again when his wife continues to reject his efforts to love her. He finally asks his father, "How am I supposed to show love to somebody who constantly rejects me?" His father explains to him that this is the love that Christ shows us. Although Christ gave His life for us, we continue to reject him, looking to the world to fill our God-shaped hole. With this realization of what love means, Caleb makes a life-changing commitment to love God and his wife.

Though the movie begins with amateurish acting and seems a little hokey, it does get better. All around it is a great Christian movie. It has a few scenes that will leave you laughing hysterically, “Tomato Juice!!!”, and it brings to light modern issues of today, such as internet pornography. As Christians, we all need to go and support this movie and Sherwood Baptist Church so that they continue to make God-centered movies, in a world that is anything but God-centered.

With divorce rates so high, this movie can do nothing but help save American marriages by showing that with God, anything is possible, including fixing a marriage that may seem, through our flawed, human eyes, to be already lost. As a matter of fact, it has saved marriages. If you go to Fireproof’s website, you can read story after story about how marriages have been saved after watching this movie: http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/stories/

Even if you are a teenager, you need to see this movie. It will show you that marriages aren’t as easy as Hollywood makes us think they are. The fact is, and you can ask any married person, that being married isn’t easy. As a matter of fact, marriage is probably more hard than it will ever be easy, but that does not mean we should just give up on marriage all together. It can be a beautiful thing when both people die to their own desires and live for the other person, basing their marriage on God.

I dare you to go and see this movie.
When you do, leave a comment and let me know what you think.

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Wow, this past week and a half has been really hectic! I am sorry that I have not been posting as much. Balancing full-time hours as a college student with a part-time job has proven to be quite a hard task to do, and I can't image how students who hold full-time jobs do it.

In the following weeks I promise to return my posting average to about every other day. *crosses fingers* :]

Also, if there is anyone out there who enjoys writing, please e-mail me at Timothy412@ymail.com! I would love for you to submit an article describing how you met your favorite band, what you think of [insert band's name here] latest CD, your volunteering experience and why you thing our generation should volunteer more, or anything else that would fit in with my blog. I don't want this blog just about my Christian experiences/views, I wanna get everybody's. Please, don't hesitate to e-mail.


- God Bless -