I’ve had a few ask me how you “subscribe to a blog”. First off, you need a news reader. A news reader is a client that allows you to read RSS feeds in the same way that your email program is a client that allows you to read email.
Think of it this way. When you turn on your computer, you don’t go ask all of your friends if they have anything new to say to you. That would take forever! You just open your email client and look for new messages. News readers work the same way.
When I hear people talk about eternal life, it puzzles me. They talk with a far-off look in their eye. The same kind of longing that Lions fans used to have. They act all nostalgic. “Just you wait. It’s gonna be super!” What a bunch of maroons!
Jesus came that we might have life, but that wasn’t a distant promise. Eternal life doesn’t start when your soul leaves earth, it starts when you leave the world behind. Jesus didn’t say “you will begin eternal life when you die” – he said “he who believes has everlasting life” (Jn 6:47) When Jesus talked about us giving up our life so that we might gain eternal life, he wasn’t talking about us physically dying. That would have lead to Jonestown-like massacres everywhere Jesus went. The ending of life he talked about involved forgetting what lies behind (Phil 3:13) and becoming a new creation (2 Cor 5:17)
If you make $25,000 per year (about $12.50/hr) you are in one of the top 10% richest people in the world!
If you make $35,000 per year, that puts in in the top 5%.
If you make $45,000 per year, you are in top 1.72% richest people in the world!
Check your exact income here: http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Considering that most households have more than one income earner, it’s no wonder that the rest of the world think that American’s are (1) incredibly wealthy, and (2) whiners. And they are right on both counts.
Anyone with very much exposure to the bible has heard Jesus’ apparent instruction to cut off your hand or gouge out your eye if it causes you to sin. Jesus was a master of hyperbole. He would often make an extreme exaggeration to get his point across. His point was that we should “cut off” or eliminate anything from our lives that separates us from God. He went so far as to suggest that we cut off parts of our body to make his point – and I’ll bet people listened and remembered!
You and I might say that something weighed a ton, or that you were hungry enough to eat a horse. Neither is true, but it makes the point.
