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welcome 19-Dec-07 Dear friends, Please view my photo album and visit my recipe site..I will ad new things soon.. www.paulazz11.blinkz.com/ I use to be in the restaraunt business for many many years, and I retained aGREAT deal of cooking and recipe knowledge, from the time I spent doing that job..I love to cook with all of my heart, and my recipes are all delicious so please go and try some of them..You will not be disappointed, I promise you that..There are some you simply MUST try, called Black Peppered shrimp, Louisiana Gumbo, Baked potato soup, Buffalo wings, Mesquite grilled Fajitas with all the trimmingsand many many more.. Christ Is The Cure -- There is much that ails this old sinful world. The problems, sickness and destruction of man unto man can be read everyday in the newspapers. Where does it all end? What or who is the cure? The Lord Jesus Christ is our everything. He is our Creator, Commander, Controller - He is our Cure. He is the cure for a doubtful future. Look what is taking place in the world today! He is the cure for a drifting family. A wayward husband a cheating wife a rebellious son or daughter. The safest place you can put your family is in the hands of Jesus. Some parents are dependent on schools or doctors. A man once said, "You can't take anything to Heaven with you." But he was wrong. You can take your family. Is your family in? Christ is the cure for ALL family problems. Christ is the cure for a disturbed friend. Some turn to drugs, liquor, sex, and crime. "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" Phil 4:7 He is the cure for a dull existence. We can have a victorious life in Christ. HIS joy is unsurmountable and imeasurable. "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith," I John 5:4 No matter what happens to me in life - heaven is my home and the devil can't take that away from me! JESUS IS The CURE for a doomed soul. What does the world have to offer? Nothing but emptiness and eternal darkness. "COME UNTO ME ALL YOU WHO ARE WEARY AND HEAVY LADEN AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST . Love, Jesus Bible Verses to Ponder John 14:1-11 (TLB) "Let not your heart be troubled. You are trusting God, now trust in me. {2} There are many homes up there where my Father lives, and I am going to prepare them for your coming. {3} When everything is ready, then I will come and get you, so that you can always be with me where I am. If this weren't so, I would tell you plainly. {4} And you know where I am going and how to get there." {5} "No, we don't," Thomas said. "We haven't any idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?" {6} Jesus told him, "I am the Way--yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the Father except by means of me. {7} If you had known who I am, then you would have known who my Father is. From now on you know him-- and have seen him!" {8} Philip said, "Sir, show us the Father and we will be satisfied." {9} Jesus replied, "Don't you even yet know who I am, Philip, even after all this time I have been with you? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking to see him? {10} Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own but are from my Father who lives in me. And he does his work through me. {11} Just believe it--that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or else believe it because of the mighty miracles you have seen me do. Mat 28:18-20 (KJV) And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. {19} Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: {20} Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world

Welcome everyone! 13-May-05 Dear Friends I have built a better website and although it is brand new I will have more music, more recipes, more of the word of God and it will be so much better than the last one..By the end of today i will have posted everyhing from my old websire and all my pictures and much much more..Glad that you all are back to visit and thank you for coming..I loved meeting all of you and am excited about helping more hurting people find he truth in the world today..I pray for everyone so please sign my guestbook if this site helps you at all or even if it doesn't..God Bless you all and thanks for viitng..I would love to see your websites also so please give me your address when signing the guestbook..Enjoy! LOVE IS SOMETHING Love covers a multitude of sins... 13-May-05 Love is patient and kind, never envies, never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude or selfish, nor quick to take offense. Love keeps no score of wrongs, nor gloats of anothers failures or sins but delights in the truth There is nothing love cannot face There is no limit to its faith and its hope and endurance In a word there are three things that last forever faith hope and love but the greates of these is love Hello my friends..Thanks for viewing my webpage and there is a lot of good information here, and I change it periodocally so please come back.. My hope is to help hurting people everywhere, and give good sound advice, for those who seek it..I am helped daily through the word of God, The Bible, and I hope you will be too..It is amazing to me that so many people are hurting, but won't take the time to seek the answers, in the only book that gives them..Go to BibleGateway.com and read the Bible or buy yourself a Life Application Study bible and ask, seek and knock and God WILL answer all your prayers and happiness and joy will abound..We do not have to live lives of defeat and depression, fear and worry, sickness, addiction,and pain..There are answers for all who will let Jeus work in there lives..Many are the afflictions of man, but God delivers us OUT OF them ALL.My hope is you will read your Bible and then go back and study it, cross reference it, and really get the knowledge in there, to apply daily in your lives..God can heal you, stop depression, stop addictions, heal marriages, relationships and families torn apart by divorce, or something worse..He can do anything you ask if you will simply beleive..So many people do not think God exists because of all the bad in the world, but Man has caused the pain in the world today..Not GOD! If you blame God for anything you stop his blessing and actually line up your thinking with the wrong force of evil, who is alive and well in this world today..Blessing and cursing are in the tongue, so speak life to your situations, not words of death..Line your speech pattern up with Gods word and He will reward you..God can and will deliver us from ALL pain, sickness, affliction, depression, addictions and trouble, if we seek his face and his ways..God brings life and life more abundantly..Satan comes to steal kill and destroy..God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, and if you learn his ways, will he can make ALL crooked places straight..God did not promise us an easy life..But we can overcome anything and any disease if we simply beleive on His word and Him that gave that Word to man..I pray your faith grows stronger and you seek to find answers for your own problems..The answer IS in his WORD, every blessed page of it..I have overcome great things in my life and every day I thank God for always being there to deliver me out of my problems..You will have a great future if you find the light in this world..He has always been there waiting for you to come to Him and seek his face and his ways..There are 3 voices in our heads..Your own, Gods and the Devils..Never beleive the word of the devil and cast down those thoughts and imaginationsof fear worry defeat and failure..Those thoughts actually exalt thereself AGAINST the word of GOD! So get in your Bible and find out what God says you are..and line your thinking up with His thoughts about you..Never accept defeat and trust that He will help you grow in your thinking and your future..The fruits of the spirit are love; joy; peace; patience; kindness; goodness faithfulness; gentleness; self-control We are advised to think on these things:things that are:true; noble; just; pure; lovely; of good report; of any virtue; worthy of praise. We are tp put on hese garments also:tender mercies; kindness; humility; meekness; patience.We are instucted to:bear with one another; making allowances for each others faults, as God does fo us,forgive one another; love; let the peace of God rule their hearts; be thankful; have the Word live in them; teach and admonish one another; sing with grace in their hearts! I pray you will gain confidence and hope through my website..Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and you are more than a conqueror when you tap into the power of the Blood, and the mighty Name of Jesus..Anytime you are in fear or trouble or in a great storm, speak the name of Jesus and he will save you..There is GREAT POWER in the name of Jesus! Just saying his name, the devil trembles..You can stop bad things from happening by just saying His name, but beleiving is essential..You must beleive in Him with your whole heart and soul..After all He created the universe and the amazing human body and all good things come from God! He is all powerful, all knowing and can be where you are, and he is well able to perform anything you ask of him, especially things that are in the scriptures.The New Testament is chock full of all God can offer to the beleiver..If you have never known Christ, you can receive Him now by saying this simple prayer..Heavenly Father:..................................................................... I come to you in prayer asking for the forgiveness of my Sins. I confess with my mouth and believe with my heart that Jesus is your Son, And that he died on the Cross at Calvary that I might be forgiven and have Eternal Life in the Kingdom of Heaven. Father, I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you right now to come in to my life and be my personal Lord and Savior. I repent of my Sins and will Worship you all the day's of my Life!. Because your word is truth, I confess with my mouth that I am Born Again and Cleansed by the Blood of Jesus! In Jesus Name Amen................................................... If you said this prayer friends, you have been born again and you are saved through your faith ,and beleiving in the name of Jesus..Your name is now written in the Lambs book of life..There is one true God and Jesus is the only way to heaven..noone can come to the Father, except through the mighty name of Jesus..God bless you all and I pray you now learn His ways..Read the entire Bible, and study it out..It is a handbook for life..Love to all..praise God that many will get saved today! Don't be anxious, just take it page, by page, and daily God will belss you for it..It is amazing to me that people will read a novel or a exercise book in a matter of days or even hours, but they wil go a lifetime without reading the Bible..You will defeat the devil if you break through his lies and be diligent, and read this book! I have read it 3 times all the way through and I am reading it again..it is not meant o just sit on the coffeee table..it is needed daily..Jesus said to write the words of the Bible on your heart so that you can call upon the words when you need them..If a great storm comes, you will know what to say, because you have read it! Every time a terrible storm comes and once during a tornado that tore through my town.I spoke "Peace be still in the name of Jesus",and although that storm ripped up everything around me, I was safe, because I knew that scripture..This is not magic friends..it is power through Jesus' name..Pray without ceasing daily..Sometimes you might have to pray several times, for a thing, but it is to test your faith..pass this test friends..Praying is not something you have to do at a certain time at night before you sleep...YOu can speak it out or pray under your breath as God knows all our thoughts and hears you praying without even speaking a word..Prayer is the most useful tool God gives us and we should do it any time we feel the urge..You may be speakng o soeone whi is in great turmoil and as they tell you there story, you an pray within for them as theyare speaking..I want you all to know that I am not a fanatic, I just know the great POWER in this BOOK and Jesus' name as I have been saved from certain death many times in my life and once when my 2000 lb truck landed on top of me, and God delivered me that night with only bruised ribs.. 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Become a quick listener

· Make time to listen to the people around you – You show people how much you value them when you take time to listen. Imagine how your home or where you work might be transformed if you make an effort to be “quick to listen.”

Quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger

Quick to Hear

It seems that we have made it a virtue not to listen to others. Once we have identified someone as belonging to a certain camp or taking a certain position on a litmus-test issue—they all seem to be litmus-test issues these days—we already know what they are going to say, and we already disagree. There is no need to listen to them, except perhaps to find points from which we can launch our rebuttal. But let us beware when we set aside the express teaching of the Word of God: "Let every person be quick to hear." If this is important in everyday life, how much more important is it in rendering judgments in the courts of the church! Divine wisdom declares:

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.... The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. (Prov. 18:13, 17)

But human wisdom declares that we need not listen to those who have taken a different position from ours on an important issue. For there are some offenses so grievous that to stand accused is to stand condemned. In our secular culture, one accused of child molestation or sexual harassment is presumed guilty. In the eyes of the world, he is guilty and can never recover his reputation. In the church, one accused of heresy or doctrinal error is presumed guilty. There is no need to weigh evidence or to listen to explanations, for the man's teaching speaks for itself. Besides, if he were orthodox, why would anyone accuse him of doctrinal error or heresy?

Or is "innocent until proven guilty" one of the laxities of our secular culture? Perhaps divine law does not admit a principle so favorable to the offender. But Scripture itself says, "Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses" (2 Cor. 13:1). That means that an accusation cannot stand without evidence, which is to say that the accused is to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. There is no exception for charges of doctrinal error or heresy.

Slow to Speak

As a certain wit has expressed it, the good advocate must have "the courage to never shut up." But divine wisdom says:

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. (Prov. 10:19)

The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things. (Prov. 15:28)

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. (Prov. 17:27?28)

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him. (Prov. 29:20)

Many a dispute would be quenched by silence, many a quarrel would be stillborn, if not kept alive by our desire to have our say. And when at length we speak, many a quarrel would be ended by speaking gently, according to divine wisdom:

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Prov. 12:18)

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.... A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. (Prov. 15:1, 4)

We would all agree that such restraint and gentleness are required in personal matters. But what if momentous doctrinal issues are at stake? Must we not then speak forcefully? We may if our office allows it, and we must if the truth demands it. But no one in the OPC, we trust, claims to hold the office of apostle or prophet. Since we are not apostles or prophets, we may not assume that our pronouncements are beyond questioning. And no individual elder or minister, or group of ministers and elders not constituted as a court of the Church, can lawfully declare someone to be a heretic or to be guilty of censurable error.

Even when our office demands that we speak out against errors and heresies, it never allows us to slander anyone. The defense of the truth and the slander of our neighbor make strange bedfellows, to say the least. Significantly, when Peter exhorts us to put away sin, he tells us to "put away all malice and all deceit ... and all slander" (1 Pet. 2:1). All malice, even that which springs from the odium theologicum (theological hatred), and all slander, even slandering our theological opponents, is to be put away. James says:

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? (James 4:11?12)

Who are we indeed? We would do well to remember that revilers (slanderers) are numbered among those who will not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6:9?11). Slanderers are ranked together with thieves, adulterers, and idolaters.

When we do speak, let us bear in mind the ninth commandment. According to the Larger Catechism, the ninth commandment requires "a charitable esteem of our neighbors; loving, desiring, and rejoicing in their good name; sorrowing for, and covering of their infirmities; freely acknowledging of their gifts and graces, defending their innocency; a ready receiving of a good report, and unwillingness to admit of an evil report, concerning them; discouraging tale-bearers, flatterers, and slanderers" (LC 144). Likewise, the ninth commandment forbids "speaking the truth unseasonably, or maliciously to a wrong end, or perverting it to a wrong meaning, or in doubtful and equivocal expressions, to the prejudice of truth or justice; ... misconstructing intentions, words, and actions; ... raising false rumors, receiving and countenancing evil reports, and stopping our ears against just defense; evil suspicion; envying or grieving at the deserved credit of any, endeavoring or desiring to impair it, rejoicing in their disgrace and infamy" (LC 145).

Slow to Anger

Anger seems to accomplish much. An angry employer drives his employees to greater productivity. An angry husband and father keeps his wife and children in submission and "runs a tight ship." An angry wife and mother gets her way as the rest of the family does not dare to risk her ire. An angry pastor bullies his congregation, so that no dissension appears within his flock, and a happy uniformity of belief and opinion prevails. An angry presbyter intimidates a judicatory of the church and sways a vote his way. But against this stands divine wisdom:

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. (Prov. 14:29)

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. (Prov. 16:32)

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. (Prov. 22:24?25)

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression. (Prov. 29:22)

But is there no such thing as righteous indignation? Is there not a holy anger against the enemies of God and of his truth? No doubt there is, but we should doubt whether it really exists as often as it is professed. Most of all, anger must not be present in courts of judgment. Anger hinders deliberation and the formation of a righteous judgment. Anger has no place in the courts of the church.

Danger Zones

What then shall we do? Do not be enticed into thinking that the "ordinary" rules of godly speech and behavior do not apply to us. A neon warning sign ought to flash every time we go online or open our e-mail.

Web browsers are incapable of sorting out the value of the information in the thousands of sites that match the key words in a search. The distinctions between evidence and hearsay, between a primary source and a secondary source, are being eroded. A theological hypothesis that might in former times have been quietly discussed among friends is now posted on the Web or forwarded by e-mail to hundreds of people on a mailing list and made into a national or global controversy among people who scarcely know each other, if at all. In cyberspace, the effects of gossip and slander are greatly magnified.

I plead with you, young pastor—and old pastor, if the warning applies!—beware of the Internet, beware of e-mail. They not only tempt you to indulge in slander and gossip and magnify their effects, but can also eat your time away and thus make your ministry of praying, preaching, and counseling ineffective. What would happen over the next five years if you took the time you would have spent surfing the Web and instead prayed for the church of Jesus Christ, studied the Word that you are to preach, counseled and encouraged the weak, and visited the sick and dying?

Promises of God we can count on