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Einer dieser Unterschiede zwischen Christentum und Islam

Wullenwever — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:43:46 +0000

Ben Becker hat in diesem Interview auf einen Song hingewiesen, den ich vorher noch gar nicht kannte: "He's alive" von Dolly Parton. Very moving.

Ich bin vor allem deshalb kein begeisterter Kirchgänger, weil ich jeder emotionalen Gemeinschaftshandlung zunächst kritisch gegenüberstehe. (Trotzdem ich bei manch diesbezüglich herausragenden PR-Aktivitäten durchaus ins Wanken gerate.) Der Schalter steht auf Religion = Privatsache.

Und das macht mich noch um so kritischer gegenüber all diesen mit MG-Schüssen und Judenhass gespickten Allahu-Akbar-Veranstaltungen im arabischen Raum, bei denen religiöse Schlachtrufe dazu genutzt werden jede Vernunft auszuschalten.

Wenn aber in den USA bei einer Entertainment-Veranstaltung (mit einer auch ganz sicher völlig abgewichst-professionell agierenden Dolly Parton) alle in einem völlig positiven Zusammenhang ihren gemeinsamen Glauben zelebrieren, dann lässt das auch hier kein Auge trocken. Wirklich sehenswert (Text unter dem Video):

The gates and doors were barred
And all the windows fastened down
I spent the night in sleeplessness
And rose at every sound
Half in hopeless sorrow
And half in fear the day
Would find the soldiers breaking through
To drag us all away

And just before the sunrise
I heard something at the wall
The gate began to rattle
And a voice began to call
So I hurried to the window
Looked down into the street
Expecting swords and torches
And the sound of soldiers' feet

But there was no one there but Mary
So I went down to let her in
John stood there beside me
As she told me where she'd been
She said, "They've moved Him in the night
And none of us know where!
The stone's been rolled away
And now His body isn't there!"

We both ran towards the garden
Then John ran on ahead
We found the stone and empty tomb
Just the way that Mary said
But the winding sheet they wrapped Him in
Was just an empty shell
And how or where they'd taken Him
Was more than I could tell

Oh, something strange had happened there
Just what I did not know
John believed a miracle
But I just turned to go
Circumstance and speculation
Couldn't lift me very high
'Cause I'd seen them crucify Him
Then I saw Him die

Back inside the house again
The guilt and anguish came
Everything I'd promised Him
Just added to my shame
When at last it came to choices
I denied I knew His name
And even if He was alive
It wouldn't be the same

But suddenly the air was filled
With a strange and sweet perfume
Light that came from everywhere
Drove shadows from the room
And Jesus stood before me
With His arms held open wide
And I fell down on my knees
And I just clung to Him and cried

Then He raised me to my feet
And as I looked into His eyes
The love was shining out from Him
Like sunlight from the skies
Guilt and my confusion
Disappeared in sweet release
And every fear I ever had
Just melted into peace

He's alive! Yes, He's alive!
Yes, He's alive and I'm forgiven
Heaven's gates are open wide
He's alive! Yes, He's alive!
Oh, He's alive and I'm forgiven
Heaven's gates are open wide
He's alive! He's alive!
Hallelujah, He's alive!
He's alive and I'm forgiven
Heaven's gates are open wide
He's alive! He's alive! He's alive!
I believe it, He's alive!
Sweet Jesus!

Jesus-He's Alive! by Don Francisco (Music Video)

peacefulone — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:58:39 +0000

This is so powerful! CHRISTIAN RECORDING ARTIST DON FRANCISCO

Father's Will Completed

faithcatalyst — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:32:53 +0000

     And so we come to climax of this incredible part of history.   He is risen!   This day we celebrate the most wonderful event in all of history – the risen Son of God makes himself known to us – he is alive!

Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.    Luke 23:46

Consider:

Mary and the others go to the tomb.   It is empty.   The stone is rolled back. There are angels present.   And then – there he is!   He is alive!    Yes, He's alive!   He's alive! He's alive!    He's alive.   Let's never stop saying it, “He's alive! This is the risen Son of God!”

Now let's go to the last of these seven ‘words' of Jesus on the Cross.   Yesterday we noted that Jesus “gave up” his spirit as he ended his life in complete control.   Different Gospel writers would have recorded different things that were remembered by their sources.   John, who had been standing there watching, was struck by the finality of those words, “It is finished.”   Luke, as he perhaps later talked with Mary, catches the relational aspects of Jesus' last words.   Women pick up relational things better than men, and doctors (which of course is what Luke was) pick up personal things better than most men. Thus in Luke's record we have what are probably the words that immediately followed, “It is finished".   What do we see here?

The first thing is Jesus awareness now of the Father.    A few minutes earlier he had been crying out for God's presence. Now he addresses the Father directly. Now whether that is because the burden bearing and resisting the enemy opposition has come to an end is not clear. When we refer back to Psalm 22, that messianic, prophetic psalm of the Cross, the latter third of it is a declaration of faith that starts in verse 22, “I WILL declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I WILL praise you.”

Again and again in the psalms there comes a turning point where the psalmist speaks out in faith, while the situation is still unchanged, and praises the Lord. Whether Jesus is now aware of the Father's presence as he approaches death, or whether he determines to make a faith statement despite the circumstances, is irrelevant.   The key thing is that the Son, at the end, addresses the Father. This has been a plan executed now, but planned before the world began, a plan formulated within the Godhead.    Within the Godhead the Son is always subservient to the Father, and so even here, now, right on the edge of death, the Son's last words remind us of his relationship with the Father.   It is as if his final act is to direct us to the Father, as had been his aim throughout his years of ministry.

It is as if the Son is saying, “Father, I've done my part so now I hand over to you for you to do what only you can do at this moment.” We noted yesterday, verses from Acts that acclaim the resurrection as the work of the Father. Very well, says Jesus, I leave this body and leave it up to you Father, how and when the resurrection will occur.

If Jesus did descend into hell (Eph 4:9) as we suppose, is it, that in going down to eternal punishment, he will stay there until the Father retrieves him and gives him back a body on this Easter Day? Is that the extent of the Son's submission to the Father's will, to go into the utmost depths of eternal punishment and to stay there until the Father raises up the body, three earth days later?   If this is so, it just further adds to the wonder of the work of the Son of God who died for us. Total and absolute submission to justice, to the will of the Father, on our behalf!   There he stays until, on this morning in earth time, the body rises up, unwinds the grave clothes and the Son is back on the earth with a body through which to communicate to his followers for the next weeks.   He is alive!   He is alive!!   He is alive!!!   He has conquered!!!!    And now, God has “exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Phil 2:9-11) Praise His Name!

Prayer:

Father, I worship and adore you!   Lord Jesus, I exalt and praise you!   Thank you Lord for this wonderful thing that you have done – for me!


He's Alive by Dolly Parton (Music Video) (Tuesday, February 12, 2008)

peacefulone — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:26:21 +0000

*A rare Video indeed!

RECORDING ARTIST DOLLY PARTON

Rockhopper arived + reminder!

1234nich aka clay aichen — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:46:04 +0000

Rockhopper is back! But he has no pirate ship! He has a row boat. heres a pic:

He also brought life jackets!

Also heres a reminder of the 2nd 10,000 hits party because the 1st didn't go so good:

Day: Wednesday

Time: 3:00 cp time, 6:00 eastern time

Where: My igloo to all over

Server: frozen

Why: Because the first party didn’t go so good.

I hope you can come and this one will be a lot better! Also Comment if I missed anything!

~Clay~Aichen~