The Olympic Creed

Who was the American football coach who said: 'Winning or losing is not
just a matter of life and death: it's more important than that'?
Addiction to winning is not only a capitalist phenomenon, either.
Remember past East German and Chinese drug scandals?

The Olympic Creed says: 'The most important thing in the Olympic Games
is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life
is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have
conquered but to have fought well.' Google tells me Pierre de Coubertin
got the idea from a speech given by the Bishop of Pennsylvania,
Ethelbert Talbot, at a service for Olympic champions during the 1908
London Games.

It's a variant on the ancient Chinese proverb, 'The journey is the
reward'. And it's related to the beautiful notion of serendipity ('Look
for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found
is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for'
- Lawrence Block).

Myers Briggs Prayers

* ENFJ: God, help me to do only what I can and trust you for the rest.
Do you mind putting that in Writing?

* ENFP: God, help me to keep my mind on one th-Look a bird!-ing at a time.

* ENTJ: Lord, help me slow downandnotrushthroughwhatIdoAmen.

* ENTP: Lord, help me follow established procedures today. On second
thought, I'll settle for a few minutes.

* ESFJ: God, help me have patience, and I mean right NOW!

* ESFP: God help me to take things more seriously, especially parties
and dancing.

* ESTJ: God, help me to not try to RUN everything. But, if you need some
help, just ask!

* ESTP: God, help me to take responsibility for my own actions, even
though they're usually NOT my fault.

* INFJ: Lord, help me to not be a perfectionist. (Did I spell that
correctly?)

* INFP: God, help me to finish everything I sta

* INTJ: Lord, keep me open to other's ideas, WRONG though they may be.

* INTP: Lord, help me be less independent, but let me do it my way.

Date: Friday 27 June 2008

Subj: Zimbabwe: "We are being persecuted."

To: World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty News & Analysis

From: WEA RLC Principal Researcher and Writer, Elizabeth Kendal

ZIMBABWE: "WE ARE BEING PERSECUTED"

"Religious freedom" that is conditional on being a member of the State
religion is clearly not religious freedom. "Religious freedom" that does
not permit conversion is not religious freedom. Likewise, "religious
freedom" that is conditional on political allegiance is not religious
freedom.

What began in 2001 as government interference in Anglican affairs has
developed into religious liberty abuse so severe and violent that
"dissident" Anglicans -- that is most Anglicans -- in the capital,
Harare, now risk death to meet together. And there is no reason to
believe that Mugabe's religious repression and persecution will end with
the Anglicans of Harare. If Mugabe manages to steal the election and
take control of the Anglican churches of Harare he will doubtless move
to control all churches of all denominations nationwide.

Packed with extensive information, full explanations and tools mixing the
old with the new and the practical with the philosophical, "Spirituality and
Meditation" will become the spiritual seeker's bible.

Dan Barkye

** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

June 17, 2008

Kingdom come
The public meaning of the Gospels

by N. T. Wright

In his new book, The Great Awakening, Jim Wallis describes how as a
young man growing up in an evangelical church, he never heard a sermon
on the Sermon on the Mount. That telling personal observation reflects a
phenomenon about which I have been increasingly concerned: that much
evangelical Christianity on both sides of the Atlantic has based itself
on the epistles rather than the Gospels, though often misunderstanding
the epistles themselves.

Indeed, in this respect evangelicalism has simply mirrored a much larger
problem: the entire Western church, both Catholic and Protestant,
evangelical and liberal, charismatic and social activist, has not
actually known what the Gospels are there for.

"1X2Willows" wrote in message
news:g2h7s8$qbj$1@news.albasani.net...

blabla? Oh, Dan, you're naughty. Not nice.

Of course they do need 'bibles'.

One can advance on his own, or he can do it guided, a great advantage if one
wants to be a more accomplished Seeker, a more rounded one.

Packed with extensive information, full explanations and tools mixing the
old with the new and the practical with the philosophical, "Spirituality and
Meditation" will become the spiritual seeker's bible.

** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Christian preachers face arrest in Birmingham
By David Harrison

Last Updated: 7:56AM BST 02/06/2008

A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to
stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of
Birmingham.

The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a
"hate crime" and were told they risked being beaten up if they returned.
The incident will fuel fears that "no-go areas" for Christians are
emerging in British towns and cities, as the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali,
the Bishop of Rochester, claimed in The Sunday Telegraph this year.

Arthur Cunningham, 48, and Joseph Abraham, 65, both full-time
evangelical ministers, have launched legal action against West Midlands
Police, claiming the officer infringed their right to profess their
religion.

Eight Responses:

http://sites.google.com/site/johnmarkministries/suffering

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More on the various types of sinners: Antinomians – those ‘against the
law’ – are sinners who do not want to change; Pharisees do not know
they’re sinners – and also do not want to change; Saints know they’re
sinners and do want to change. I see vestiges of all three attitudes in
myself...

Remember saints are not proud of what they’ve ‘achieved’ – they are/have
nothing not already given. Pharisees tend towards hubris: their
cleverness (they think) is mainly of their own making...

Saints sincerely believe ‘God hasn’t finished with me yet’. Pharisees
are stuck where they were: they find it difficult to say (of an idea,
for example): ‘Hey, that’s interesting... I must do more thinking about
that. Maybe God is in this new thought.’