"If"

By Paul Harvey

If I were the Devil.....

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world.

I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings.

I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around.

I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue.

I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership.

Classroom of Angels

A Pastor was speaking about prayer being taken out of public schools. First he said; I get a lot of mail taking about " God being kicked out of school ". Let me tell you, if there is any kicking to be done, God will be the one doing all the kicking. When a Christian child is dropped off at school,God does not abandoned them at the front door.

Let me read you a letter from a third grade elementary school teacher. The sum of the letter was as follows;......

Counted

There's this song I know. I think you guys'll know it too. It goes like this

♬   Count your blessings, name them one by one,♬   Count your blessings, see what God hath done!♬   Count your blessings, name them one by one,♬   And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

How many times have you sung this song I wonder? I'm asking myself as i am you, this very question. You see, when you tell someone to count their blessings and see how impossible they are, they go and get you a list of all the cars they've got, lotteries that they won, clothes they bought, job promotions they've earned, you know....all the big stuff. I wonder, how often do we remember that
we also have to count the blessings of clean water? clean air?

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As a lot of you know I'm not really all that much of a regular poster on here as much as I would have loved to be, but I'm still working on it. I've got my own good reasons, but I won't be addressing those now because I'm here to talk about something else, which is much more important.

I'm here to talk about sharing the Christian faith.

Triolet 5: God is King

Triolet 5: God is King

God is King over Israel,

Ruling with justice and mercy;

The people boast, ‘Immanuel,

God is King over Israel…’

In Zion always will He dwell,

Guarding His people jealously—

God is king over Israel,

Ruling with justice and mercy.

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       By  NwachukwuOlusegun Nwachukwu.

Triolet 2 - Dear Child

Triolet 2 - Dear Child

Refrain, dear child, from ways perverse –

Reverse, recoil, retreat, recede;

With wrong doers, do not converse.

Refrain, dear child, from ways perverse:

To you, let them become averse...

Unless on shame you wish to feed,

Refrain, dear child, from ways perverse –

Reverse, recoil, retreat, recede.

 ©Nwachukwu OlusegunNwachukwu. 

How We Killed The World....

"If you could ask God one question.....what would it be?"

That's the post I saw in Nairaland one day. It's not a new question. Many people have asked the same question before. And many more people still will.

"Why did you create hell?"

(VIDEO) Still The Same

Now a lot of Christians are out in the world not knowing much about their heritage in Christ, or the power that comes along with it. Many of us just answer “Christian” by name or title, and not by our lifestyle.

We forget that Christian means “like Christ” ie, when someone beholds you, they should see Christ in YOU. You are the Jesus that they see, YOU are the bible that they read, YOU are the image of truth that they can look at right now, right here. They should be able to see the truth in YOU. Not a lie or a sham.

“You are so much more than you can imagine or believe.”

Beauty and the Beast - 2

“I was brought up to believe beauty is not worth thinking about, what's important is your soul, your mind—you don't want to be a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.”

~Garrison Keillor, We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters

Okay guys. Back on beauty again......

I wrote a article some weeks back on the issue of "beauty". I was taking a pseudo-altruistic view because I wanted to be honest in the depths of the truth of  "real beauty". The beauty that would make the world a better place.

This time we'll be looking at the nature of the beauty that we focus on - today, in the world.

Let's be honest. With these four people in the above pic, who do you think is "more beautiful" . Do you judge beauty by external appearance?

Well most of us do. Be honest, you automatically judged the older ladies as 

Beauty...and the beast.....

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

As much as I would have loved to write up a kolanut article on this i.e.  'Beauty in a kolanut' I think I'll leave it just as a simple article and give the extrapolation which I have on this only.

I'm sure most people no longer believe that beauty these days is that of the biggest butt or chest or curviest body, or the prettiest face even. Most of that is thankfully dye to the influence of the social media, thought leaders, new age thinkers, internet and yes, even the mass media as well. 

Considering the damage that the latter two have done to promote such an image it's good that they've finally tried to redeem themselves - in a way. The gross majority of those latter two still promotes and propagates that image of beauty which they sell advertise in their monetizing bids to prey on the fantasies of the public. The men who love, as well as encourage, that image of gratifying beauty and the women who are forced to believe that "Beauty" is all about "Sex Appeal" .

Corporal Punishment - The rage and the beatdown

- Corporal Punishment -

By Jamike O. M . Ekennia-Ebeh

What is this corporal punishment of a thing? Well there are several ways of looking at it.

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Wikipedia defines it as; -

"...a form of physical punishment that involves the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence, or for the purpose of disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer, or to deter attitudes or behaviour deemed unacceptable. The term usually refers to methodically striking the offender with the open hand or with an implement, whether in judicial, domestic, or educational settings."