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As I prepare for worship today, I came across this article by Henry Blackaby
“He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the
sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silver, That they may offer to
the Lord
An offering in righteousness.”
MALACHI 3:3
“The quality of our worship is not based on our activities but on our character. Churches can mistakenly assume that the better the music, the more impressive the building, and the more eloquent the preaching, the more worshipful the experience will be. Genuine worship, however, originates from within our hearts. If our relationship with God is not healthy, all these things are nothing more than religious pageantry.
The Levites were the worship leaders of their day. Their task was to offer sacrifices on behalf of the people. God declared that before they could worship Him in righteousness, He would first refine them with His refiner’s fire, purging them of any impurities. Merely being members of the religious profession, having official responsibilities in the temple, and going through the rituals of worship, did not guarantee that their religious activities would be acceptable to holy God.
Today, we tend to look to external things to enhance our worship. The true quality of our worship, however, rests within us. If we have not allowed God to purify us first, our worship will be void of His presence. If we do not have a pure heart, we may give offerings, but they will be unacceptable to God. Attending a religious service will not automatically ensure an encounter with God.
If you are not satisfied with the quality of your worship, don’t be too quick to blame your environment. Look first to your own heart. Allow God to refine your heart until it is pleasing to Him, and you will be free to worship God as He intends.”
Great weekend at church...
DO NOT SWALLOW CHEWING-GUM!!!
WAS IT BUBBLICIOUS, HUBBA BUBBA, OR BAZOOKA???
Despite the cold, Brandi and Eli can't resist riding the Red Bull in Southlake.
Until recently, cellphone novels — composed on phone keypads by young
women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens
— had been dismissed in Japan
as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first
novel, “The Tale of Genji,” a millennium ago. Then last month, the
year-end best-seller tally showed that cellphone novels, republished in
book form, have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to
dominate it.
Of last year’s 10 best-selling novels, five were originally cellphone novels, mostly love stories written in the short sentences characteristic of text messaging but containing little of the plotting or character development found in traditional novels. What is more, the top three spots were occupied by first-time cellphone novelists, touching off debates in the news media and blogosphere.
“Will cellphone novels kill ‘the author’?” a famous literary journal, Bungaku-kai, asked on the cover of its January issue. Fans praised the novels as a new literary genre created and consumed by a generation whose reading habits had consisted mostly of manga, or comic books. Critics said the dominance of cellphone novels, with their poor literary quality, would hasten the decline of Japanese literature.
Read more HERE.
Heath Ledger was found dead yesterday in a Manhattan apartment,
New York police said. He was 28.
Authorities said the autopsy was inconclusive and that it would take about 10 days to determine a definitive cause of death for the actor, whose fans remembered him Wednesday by leaving flowers and candles outside his Manhattan apartment.
Read More HERE.
If that is what is said about a picture, then an infinity of words can be found from the Library of Congress who now has a Flickr account. From within their vast collection of American History, many archived pictures of our past are now accessible for all.
This is a very powerful and haunting image of a worker at a Carbon Black Plant in Sunray, Texas. The picture was taken in 1944 by John Vachon. The subject is unknown.
The image leaves me a bit speechless and wanting to know the story behind the picture. How long did this man live. Did he have a son that served in WWII which was in full throttle? I am always intrigued by historic images.
LSU faithful brave chill to celebrate Champions. 
LSU fans cheer Saturday as the 2007 national championship flag is
hoisted in the northeast side of the end zone at Tiger Stadium. The crowd roared early and often, from the first introductions until
after the raising of a new national championship flag atop the north
rim of the stadium. There it will join flags from the 1958 and 2003
seasons.
LSU replaced the traditional eye of the tiger at midfield with a BCS championship logo that featured a modified eye, inside a white football, and a fleur-de-lis.
Players jogged one-by-one onto the field from the tunnel as they were introduced. Dorsey was last, carrying a purple flag with the new
championship
logo.
Gov. Bobby Jindal, holding his son behind the lectern, applauded the Tigers.
“I want to congratulate coach Miles and his players,” Jindal said. “This is a team that never gave up. They didn’t care what anybody said about them. They didn’t care if they were winning or losing. They gave their best efforts on the field and off the field. They showed the nation that Louisiana is No. 1 in the entire country.”
Read More HERE.
Watch it HERE.
Since it was purchased by the United States in 1803, Louisiana has always been a state known for it's share of controversy, corruption, and colorful characters in office.. As the history books re-tell the political stories of my home state, names like Huey P. Long and Edwin Edwards alway rise to the bottom of the glass. I, among many, have always hoped for leaders who would bring real integrity and honesty back to the good people of this Land of Louis. Today, many of us Louisianians have found hope again with the election of Bobby Jindal.
Bobby Jindal was born in Baton Rouge in 1971. His parents were in grad
school there, recent immigrants from the Punjab in northern India. He
was raised Hindu, but converted to Roman Catholicism in his teens. He
went to Louisiana public schools, then Brown University, where he was
an honors student in biology and public policy. A Rhodes Scholar, he
was admitted to the medical and law schools of both Harvard and
Yale—but chose Oxford instead.
It was 1994. He was 23 years old. The whole bright world of Europe was
open before him. He had a prestigious consulting job waiting in D.C.
But Bobby Jindal was looking back toward home.
Read more on his bio HERE.
Go to his site HERE.
History books are still to write Jindal's story. I'm confident that his leadership will fair well for the people of Louisiana if the existing political machine follows his lead.
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