Congratulations! to those readers who have resolutely continued with the
Daily Reading for the last six months. For they have now read half the Old
Testament, and ALL of the New.
May God bless your continued effort and dedication.

Bible Readings for Today
1 Samuel 17
Isaiah. 61
Matthew 6

For those who want to go directly to the source of this study guide,
it can be found at http://www.antipas.org/readings/readings.html

It takes normally between 20-30 mins per day depending on one's reading
speed.
It will be found many unanswered questions which may have seemed puzzling
and "Hard to be understood" are slowly and precisely answered as the Bible
is methodically read through day after day.

Here is a helpful link for anyone who either does not have a Bible to
hand, or might prefer reading from their computer, or might want to compare
different translations, or even read non-English versions:
http://www.biblegateway.com/

Apparently there's a fellow called Mat Staver who is claiming that Barack
Obama will "decimate moral values", and that therefore Christians should
support John McCain for US president.

http://methodius.blogspot.com/2008/07/decimating-moral-values.html

But hasn't George Bush already decimated moral values? What about "Thou shalt
not covet thy neighbour's oil"?

Friday, July 4, 2008
Collect for Independence Day

Lord God Almighty, in whose Name the founders of this country won
liberty for themselves and for us, and lit the torch of freedom for
nations then unborn: Grant that we and all the people of this land may
have grace to maintain our liberties in righteousness and peace;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the
Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The Book of Common Prayer, p. 242

http://creedalchristian.blogspot.com/

Jackie Bruchi
The Declaration Of Independence
Friday, July 4, 2008 • 8:26 am

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(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)

The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with
another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness...

In honour of the day.

To get really political and alienate everyone, the question the song
poses is still valid. We talk about being free and we mostly are, but
very few of us are committed to maintaining and defending that
freedom. All too many of my fellow citizens are perfectly willing to
sell their freedom for the chimera of security.

The lack of outrage over the Human Rights Tribunals in Canada has been
disheartening. The news from England is even more depressing. That's
not to say there isn't hope. Even as the ACLU has abandoned its core
commitments to the Bill of Rights in favour of a leftie agenda, the
Internet has provided an extremely valuable tool for organizing
freedom lovers from all nations in ad hoc, issue by issue groups.
Youtube has proven a huge asset in shining the light of publicity on
authoritarian asshats all over the globe.

The last 232 years have been a pretty good run for our country. I hope
and pray that our commitment to remaining free does not flag. With
some luck, the world may grow more free rather than less. We certainly
can try to make it so.

http://billyockham.blogspot.com/

OREMUS for Saturday, July 5, 2008

O Lord, open our lips.
And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Blessed are you, Sovereign God,
ruler of all hearts,
you call us to obey you
and favor us with true freedom.
Your Son calls us to leave behind all that hinders us,
that we may fix our eyes on him
and steadfastly follow in the paths of your kingdom.
For these and all your mercies, we praise you,
Blessed be God for ever!

An opening canticle may be sung.

Thank GOD I own no Telstra shares , this will cost them hundreds of
millions AGAIN , 24 /7 protection and moving costs for everybody in
the area

Pity everybody who lives in Pheifer court Mount barker, Kanga has
never ever lived any where near it or ever even enterered any house in
the area or street, and never ever made one call from the phone number
he is listing , clearly the halfwit white christian terrorist is only
got half a brain , if that, a real psychopath if ever there was one

Seems white christians are permitted to post bomb threats on Telstra
in Australia

Any Muslim posting bomb threats would be arrested in minutes and get
25 years jail

This white christian uses Telstra and has made hundreds of threats
with
complete immunity

Clearly the system is biased , police wont touch the white christians
no
matter what they do

Pity Telstra shareholders get to pay AGAIN

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Review: Taking God to Heart, by Brian Gallagher MSC, St Pauls 2008.

When our family returned home in 1983 after a couple of years in North
America, I had two important questions to ask my friends: 'Who is
reputed to be the most discerning Spiritual Director in Melbourne? And
who's the best teacher of Spiritual Direction here?' A name for each
emerged, and (cheekily) I asked one to be my Director, and audited a
course by the other!

The course was taught by Brian Gallagher at the Catholic Yarra
Theological Union. He had just set up the Heart of Life Spirituality
Centre, and he impressed me as someone who had his feet firmly on the
ground, while being an authentic person, and pray-er, and a keen student
about how humans relate to God.

'Taking God to Heart', writes Father Gallagher is not primarily about
Spiritual Direction, though a lot of Brian's approach to this classical
discipline is here. It's also not about prayer as such, but about
authentic living - including being 'truly present' for others. So the
most-repeated 'mantra' is Dom John Chapman's well-known advice 'Pray as
you can, not as you can't' (see the Wikipedia article on Chapman for more).