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Name: Kaitlin
Country: United States
State: New Hampshire
Birthday: 5/30/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Praising the Lord =) And living my life for His glory - (although I am not always successful ... it is my life goal!) whatever that looks like... whatever it takes. I will live my life right before my Lord and King!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
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AIM:  NewInChristDaily
MSN: KateBarry3@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  KrazyKaitie84@yahoo.com
Member Since:
4/25/2003
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| In his powerful study, When Nations Die, Jim Nelson Black identifies ten factors that have appeared in great civilizations of the past and led to their decline and fall. In some cultures, Black observes, as few as three or four of these symptoms of social, cultural, and moral decline would be enough to bring a society to the point of imminent collapse. The list includes:
1. Increase in lawlessness
2. Loss of economic discipline
3. Rising bureaucracy
4. Decline in education
5. Weakening of cultural foundations
6. Loss of respect for traditions
7. Increase in materialism
8. Rise in immorality
9. Decay of religious belief
10. Devaluing of human life
Tragically, according to Dr. Black, the United States is the first nation in history where all ten symptoms are present in one society at one time!
In his assessment of the risks to any society that tries to live without God, Charles Colson states: "You smell the decay, you smell the rotting flesh of Western civilization today, much like you would have smelled the decay in fourth- and fifth-century Rome."
Dr. Charles Stanley remarks, "Unless there is a revival, this nation is going to get worse and worse and worse."
This is echoed by Pastor John Hagee, who gives this warning, "America is history. It's over unless there is a broad, sweeping revival of righteousness."
God says, "They have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. On this account the anger of the Lord has burned against His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this His anger is not spent, but His hand is still stretched out" (Isaiah 5:24,25, NASB).
Notice God's warning of judgment, but also notice that because of His desire for mercy, "His hand is still stretched out."
What must we do to reach His outstretched had of mercy? | | |
| For those who care to continue to read, you can find me at http://faithfulsojourner.blogspot.com/ Press On. He is worth it! Kaitie | | |
| It's still not perfect... but it does reflect the autumn I miss so much! And I need to eat my lunch so I can get back to work. | | |
| I should write a country song. At least I still have my job. (Praise the Lord!) | | |
| An Amusing Anecdote... (ok, well its actually a joke, but that would ruin the alliteration... so an anecdote: compliments of my mom!) This is for all the Italians out there, and those who are lucky
enough to be married to an Italian, and even to all the friends of
Italians.
An elderly Italian man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the
agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his
favorite Italian anisette sprinkle cookies wafting up the stairs.
Gathering his remaining strength, he lifted himself from the bed.
Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom,
and with even greater effort, gripping the railing with both hands he
crawled downstairs. With labored breath, he leaned against the door frame,
gazing into the kitchen where, if not for death's agony, he would have
thought himself already in heaven. For there, spread out upon waxed paper
on the kitchen table, were literally hundreds of his favorite anisette
sprinkled cookies.
Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of heroic love from his
devoted Italian wife of sixty years, seeing to it that he left this
world a happy man?
Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table,
landing on his knees in a crumpled posture. His parched lips parted,
the wondrous taste of the cookie was already in his mouth, seemingly
bringing him back to life. His aged and withered hand trembled on its
way to a cookie at the edge of the table, when it was suddenly smacked
with a spatula by his wife. "Get outta here!" she shouted, "They're for the
funeral!" | | |
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