Happy Easter!

[R.M.GREENMAN2]

To all my Christian friends on one of their most Holy of days! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
I gotta feel for the people that wanted to attend the "Sunrise Service" at Red Rocks this Sunday. At this moment, Denver is under a winter storm and it is worse in the foot hills. It might put a bit of a damper on the service.

As many of you know, I myself am a Pagan. But just the same, I once attended this Easter service and it was spectacular! Any other religion (Judism, Hindu, Islam, Pagan, Buddists) would be hard pressed to disagree.

Red Rocks is an incredible rock formation just west of Denver formed during the Ice Age, that over looks downtown and far points on the Eastern plains. A amplitheatre had been built between two huge megolithes and all the seats face East.

The service begins 1/2 hour before sunrise. As the sun starts to peak at the horizon..... you just gotta see it to believe it. The music and the cheers as it rises....WOW!

Something a Pagan like myself can enjoy, due to the witnessing of the most powerful force of nature we humans can actually see.

/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif You all have a great day and weekend!

[R.M.GREENMAN2]

To all my Christian friends on one of their most Holy of days! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
I gotta feel for the people that wanted to attend the "Sunrise Service" at Red Rocks this Sunday. At this moment, Denver is under a winter storm and it is worse in the foot hills. It might put a bit of a damper on the service.

As many of you know, I myself am a Pagan. But just the same, I once attended this Easter service and it was spectacular! Any other religion (Judism, Hindu, Islam, Pagan, Buddists) would be hard pressed to disagree.

Red Rocks is an incredible rock formation just west of Denver formed during the Ice Age, that over looks downtown and far points on the Eastern plains. A amplitheatre had been built between two huge megolithes and all the seats face East.

The service begins 1/2 hour before sunrise. As the sun starts to peak at the horizon..... you just gotta see it to believe it. The music and the cheers as it rises....WOW!

Something a Pagan like myself can enjoy, due to the witnessing of the most powerful force of nature we humans can actually see.

/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif You all have a great day and weekend!

[hairyhomer]

Happy Easter to All.

I had a wonderful experience at The Easter Vigil last night at the Catholic Church. During the service they baptize any adult that have been preparing to join the church they also baptize infant children at this time. They bing in a special baptismal tank so they can do full immersion (the rest of the year they just use a small font that looks like a big salad bowl)the man who was baptized had his infant daughter baptized at the same time and she was completely naked and in full view of the whole Church. She did scream very loudly with joy, /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif as the plunged her in and out not the water three times. The family was taking lots of pictures so I sure hope the had a digital camera and if not they had better not the take their film to Wal Mart to get it developed.

[sawdust]

Christians today, all over the world, are reminded of the biblical affermation of the historic resurection of Jesus Christ. With His death and resurection, mankind was set free from the bondage of sin and given a new fellowship with God, through Jesus the Son. In this recognition we can say with joy to each other, He is risen! He has risen indeed!
Happy Easter-Sawdust

AMEN!

[NuTex]

His is Risen! Amen!
NuTex
PS Thanks R.M.Greenman2

[P.J.]

Halleluja thine the Glory, Hallelujah, Amen!

We who worship Jesus and accept Him as the True Saviour, have the blessed assurance that after He suffered and died for all of our sins, He arose, also for us, and gave us another blessed assurance, and that is a ressurrection from the dead.

Those who accept His taking our punishment and in faith, accept the promises of Our Lord and Saviour are given a gift that is not only difficult to match but impossible to even get close to matching.

Only a loving and powerful God can do this.

Don't question it. Accept it!

[Vin]

Happy Easter to all who observe it!

Sunrise service here was probably a bit cool, but at least it was dry. If you're going to have any religious ritual, no matter the tradition, that's one of the most magical times of day for it.

Vin

[nudewheelchairTodd]

God is goooooooooooooooood, Aman

[Outlaw]

Let us not forget our Hebrew brothers and sisters who celebrate Passover at this time. Good Passover!

Mike Hebrew: Michael--"who is like the Lord" (Big Mac)

[Trailscout]

And of course the first incidence of what Christians call Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper occurred at a Passover Seder.

If the blood of the lamb is on the doorposts of your heart, then the death angel will pass over you and you will live to cross the Jordan to a new life in the Promised Land for the Jew and all who call on his holy name, blessed be the Holy One of Israel.
Shalom

[David77]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Big Mac:
... who celebrate Passover at this time. Good Passover!
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Good Passover? It is extreme EVIL and a heinous, atrocious crime for God to murder all those Egyption babies. God a baby killer?
Don't worship a baby killer!

Your God concept for worship needs revising, possibly as the New Testament concept of God as Love. Please totally reject the concepts of God as a baby killer when no sign on the door-post, when you worship.

[Outlaw]

Years ago, I read a sci-fi short story about a Jesuit priest who did some research regarding the star of Bethlehem and found that the star was a sun that exploded and destroyed a populated planet.

If God is responsible for what happens in the universe, what you call that?

Mike (Big Mac)

[sawdust]

I call that Fiction. Get a life! It is only a story. Sawdust

[TXK NUDE]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by David77:
Good Passover? It is extreme EVIL and a heinous, atrocious crime for God to murder all those Egyption babies. God a baby killer?
Don't worship a baby killer!

It was never God's intention to kill innocent children, but He left the choice of the final curse up to the Pharoah, and it was Pharoah's choice. He commanded that the first born of every Hebrew would be killed in the morning, so God sent the death angel to visit the Pharoah's command against his own people...and saved the Hebrew children. I recommend that you at least have some sort of basis for your bias before you make such glaringly inaccurate statements.

Your God concept for worship needs revising, possibly as the New Testament concept of God as Love. Please totally reject the concepts of God as a baby killer when no sign on the door-post, when you worship. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I'm not sure you understand the nature of the New Testament God and the Old Testament God. They are one and the same. He has been, and always shall be...unchanging and forever. He was just as loving a God in the Old Testament as He was in the New Testament and is today. He showed His love to the Hebrew people (His chosen people) by saving them from the tyranny and torment of over 400 years of slavery, and the heinous death that was planned for their first born. Should we hold a measuring stick to God and hold Him to our standard? Or does He hold us to His measuring stick and find us wanting...yet still offers us His mercy and grace? We seem to think that we automatically deserve God's love, but we really don't...we truly deserve His wrath. The fact that He doesn't wipe out the human race again is because of His love and mercy...and He gave His word--which He can never break.

[nicehund]

Happy Easter to all of you.

[melissastarr]

Let us not forget to celebrate Christ's atonement for us all year long by singing His praise, caring for His sheep, and acting in love. In this way He can live through us and bless those around us.

Melissa

[David77]

TXK Nude,
I must say, you do have an unusual take on the written word!
Exodus 11;4-6 And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, "About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharoah that sitteth upon the throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservants that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of the beasts.
And there shall be a great cry throughout the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it anymore.
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This is God's premeditated murder of Egyption babies. This is unacceptable in a humane society, and all the more hideous for a God who is worshiped. This is the same (concept of) God who killed all of humanity by drowning, except Noah and company, and then, as if he did not know his own mind, said he regretted it and would not do that again. Same concept of God who most evilly turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt! (Ethics/morals can not be derived by these biblical examples.)

You apparently do not think that the concept of God can evolve throughout the centuries, nor apparently that your concept of God could mature to some higher and more worthy plane, but as you suggest erronously, the concept remains the same throughout biblical history.

I have expresses more of my thinking than I wanted to among orthodox persons, so I now quit before my thinking irratates too much more.

[Trailscout]

The wrath of God and the holiness of God are inseparable.

The earth before the Flood was filled with murder and wickedness and had reached a point where only 8 people in the entire human race followed God. Yet all these other people had to do was believe Noah's testimony and walk onto the ark while the door was still open and the sun was shining.


Sodom and Gomorrah had descended so far into wickedness that God personally went there in human form so no one could say that he misunderstood the depths of depravity. The men of Sodom tried to rape God and his angels! Yet God had a way out for these men too. If they had believed Lot's testimony and walked out of Sodom, they would have survived. God had even agreed to spare those cities if there were 10 righteous men, but there weren't. Only God knows what was in the heart of Lot's wife, but against the command of God, she looked back, disobeying the words she heard from God's own mouth. Before Christ came to mediate for us, people disobeyed God and sometimes died instantly. God's holiness cannot abide the slightest sin. But thanks be to Jesus his Son, we have a mediator to protect us, a lawyer to plead our case before God.

In Moses' day, all the Egyptians had to do to be spared was take the branches of an herb called hyssop and dip it in lamb's blood and make the sign on the cross in essense, touching the top and sides of the doorpost. And I wouldn't weep for the dead children and babies. They have been in God's presence in heaven for some 3000 years now. God himself says that he takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but he wants them to repent and choose life.

[Vin]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Big Mac:
Years ago, I read a sci-fi short story about a Jesuit priest who did some research regarding the star of Bethlehem and found that the star was a sun that exploded and destroyed a populated planet. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Wasn't that an Asimov story? I've read it, too. It was fantastic... no pun intended. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[hairyhomer]

A pastor was speaking to a group of second-graders about the resurrection of Jesus when one student asked, "What did Jesus say right after He came out of the grave?" The pastor explained that the Gospels do not tell us what He said. The hand of one little girl shot up. "I bet I know what He said! He probably said, 'Ta-dah!'"
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[DeweyND]

Hi R.M. Greenman,

I heard they cancelled the Easter Sunrise Service at Red Rocks, due to all the SN*W on Saturday. They were afraid people would slip and fall on the ice. My family and I drove 900 miles from northern North Dakota to Denver to visit relatives for the Easter weekend. Although we still found lots of stuff to due (aquarium is AWESOME!!, and the climbing rock at R.E.I was fun for the kids) we were disappointed that we drove all that way, and couldn't do any mountain climbing. Next time, maybe will try and get there during the summer time.

Take care,

Dewey /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif