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During the past forty years, Catholics have not been educated in their faith. Many Catholic adults have high school diplomas, bachelors, masters, and even PhD’s in business, science, medicine, etc. But, unfortunately, they have a second or third grade education in their Catholic faith! This is so sad, because when we are ignorant of our Catholic faith and the history behind it, we are vulnerable to having what faith we do have destroyed by someone of equal or greater ignorance, but perhaps greater persuasive powers. In other words, they may have more faith in their error, than we do in our truth. Remember, the Catholic faith contains the fullness of divinely revealed truth! So, what should we do? We should educate ourselves by studying all our adult lives. There are many good Catholic Audio files available on the Internet that you can download and listen to. There are many good Catholic websites available that can offer you solid Catholic teaching, such as Catholic Audio Files, where you can begin to “catch up” on all the Catholic doctrine and history you have missed out on.
Take me, for example. Until I was in my early thirties, I didn’t really know my Catholic faith that well. I thought I did, but when I actually began studying, I discovered I knew very little! In fact, even today, I realize that there is SO much to learn, that I can study all my life and never know it all. I guess that’s why the Pope has his own personal theologian to help him when he does research and study. Yes, the Pope studies the Catholic faith, too!
Some folks learn better by reading, some learn better by hearing. The Bible says that faith comes by hearing the Word of God. That’s why I think audio might be a little better than reading for this sort of thing. That’s why I recommend that you take a little time and download some of the audio (.MP3) files from the site I recommended and similar sites.
If you have an .MP3 player or an iPod, these type files would easily play on it. If you don’t, and have a PC with a CD burner, you can easily create music CD’s with the .MP3 files. You can do like I do and play the CD’s in your car’s CD player on the way to work and back. (I live approximately 67 miles from work, and this is a great time to listen to a good Catholic lecture on some topic or other.) I was especially interested in the talks on personal conversions to Christ and the Catholic Church. I was also interested in the history of the Catholic Church by Steve Kellmeyer. All these audio files are orthodox, i.e., faithful to Catholic teaching. We need to be very careful what we read and to what we listen in this day and age, because there has been a strong attack on the Catholic Church from without AND from within. To be able to discern what is truly Catholic teaching and what is not is of utmost importance. And I believe that the Catholic Audio files are as orthodox as you can find!
God bless!
Steve Bergeron
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Christmas ornament is mainly the things that mainly wanted to look for and have if December is peeping in front of us. If you are always jealous of a house with apparently vast numbers of Christmas lights and adornments in their front yard (making quite the sight at night), then you can uncomplicatedly acquire a similarly noteworthy array of Christmas ornament for your own home.
Most people collect these adornments more than a period of many years. They add to their collection little by little without spending hundreds of dollars in one buy. To become the envy of the neighborhood, you should make the decision to at last decorate your house out with numerous of Christmas ornaments.
Christmas Ornament for Your Lawn, Roof, and Interior
One of the best parts about Christmas ornaments is that there are so lots of them. Thousands of them have been created for each part of your home, from the front lawn to inside. By giving you a huge number of handy choices, Christmas ornament allow you to adorn your home how you want it to be. If you want to adorn your house out in Christmas jolliness, you will never have to cope with obtaining stuck with what’s left. You’ll always be able to figure out that amazing adornment that you simply can’t live without.
However, the quintessential Christmas ornaments can be found created for your yuletide tree. Christmas tree ornaments are a number of of the most bumper adornments (along with yard ornaments) that you will figure out. These go far beyond a simple star and strings of popcorn nowadays. Just to offer you an instance of the wide variety of ornaments you can figure out for trees, many are designed for niche markets. Star Wars figurines and spaceship models can be found hanging from branches in lots of homes. You can figure out Christmas ornaments for just about renowned brand out there.
However, you need to identify that you will not be able to figure out everything you’re searching for in just one place. Each store in your area maybe carries a particular selection of Christmas ornaments that you will not be able to figure out in the next store down. The just ornaments you will figure out in common are lights (which break the most often out of any ornaments).
As a result, shop around, and you will be able to acquire a more tempting collection of your own Christmas ornaments. If nothing else, you will not spend money just to fill up empty space in your house with ornaments that you don’t as a matter of fact care for.
At the end, you acquire what you buy and discover breathtaking Christmas ornament. As a result, shop around at diverse stores in lieu of just rushing through one or two stores. By doing so, you will take pleasure in your ornaments for years to come.
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Persistence is an absolute necessity for the person who wants to succeed. I once read, “That by persistence, the snail reached the Ark.” History is filled with examples of people who were told they could never achieve their dreams but who achieved them anyway.
Billy Graham was told by one of his Bible School professors that he would never make a preacher. Billy just kept on preaching. I’m sure that Bill Gates was probably told somewhere along the way that his concoction called a computer would never work, but he just kept on dreaming and scheming.
So dear discouraged friend, just keep on working toward your dream. The fact that it is a dream means you have already seen it. You see it in your mind before you see it in your real field of view. It’s just a matter of time till you see it in real time, if you just keep walking toward it. The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step, then the second, then the third and so forth. If you stop. It’s over. If you keep going, no matter how tough, you will make it.
As a preacher myself who posts free sermons online, I receive a lot of good advice from others who preach. I heard a preacher once deliver a great sermon. At the core of what he shared was this, “You can’t fail, if you don’t quit.” I encourage you not to quit. You may have the towel in your hand ready to toss it. Halt! Don’t do it. Take a shower, use the towel to dry off. Get a good night’s rest. Tomorrow is another day.
Each day is a new opportunity. At the dawn of each new morning, yesterday lies in the past. It is behind you. What is vital is what is before you. You have the power to determine what is before you to a large degree. Your future is shaped by the choices you make today.
Persistence means you are making the right decisions over and over again. When you miss it, admit it. Make it right. Learn to say, “I’m sorry!” Learn to learn from your stumbles, blow ups and mistakes. I share a lot of truths I have learned through my free online bible study offered on sermon seedbed. You have your own list of lessons learned, just be sure to remember those lessons. They can help add to your persistence.
If today is not going well, determine to ride it out. It’s like jumping from a plane, once you have made the jump, you have to go with it till you land. Some days are like that. Do the best you can till you get your feet back under you. Once you survive today, then you can plan for a better tomorrow. Hope is so dynamic. Hope is the gasoline that gives you the power to run the motor of persistence all the way to your dream.
Dear friend, “Do not”, let me say it again, “Do not give up!” You can make it. You can fulfill your destiny. Before you do it, you have to first decide to do it. Once you decide to do it, you keep doing it until your faith becomes sight.
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“But his delight is in the Law of The Lord and on it he meditates day and night” (Psalms1:2)What do you meditate on?What do you really like?What do you delight in?What really gets you excited?The spaces indicate a pause. Pause to really consider what is it that is really important to you. You do not need much time. If it is important [...] Continue Reading…
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I am lost and confused. I have been like this since the death of my fiancee three years ago. She died on a car crash. I was behind the wheel. I have been waking up and going to sleep with guilt all these years despite her parents and everyone around telling me that they do not blame me for anything. They say things happen for a reason, no matter how unclear the reason is. [...] Continue Reading…
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“…he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him” (Daniel 11:25). The king of the south will have a great and mighty army. However this great and mighty army will [...] Continue Reading…
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SCIENTIFIC PROOF THAT (GOD THE HOLY) SPIRIT EXISTS BY SIMON RICHARD LEE ABOUT THE BOOK Scientific Proof that (God the Holy) Spirit Exists is a brilliant mixture of both religious and scientific writing. It is developed in three parts, in a clear and discursive way.In the first part, a fascinating theory about Spiritual Energy is provided. The starting point is that Spiritual Energy =mc2, just like physical energy. Its ‘sevenfold nature’ in the [...] Continue Reading…
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Bible study Cell groups are essential part of christian community. Today, almost every church has its small groups. However, it is not at all a newly found concept. Jesus himself had his own small group of 12 people And although he had much larger community of followers, he invested majority of time and efforts in the lives of these few people.Leading small groups can be one of the most rewardingexperience of your [...] Continue Reading…
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“Calibration - a set of graduations to indicate values or positions.”“TheSpirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Romans 8:16). When Paul spoke of the Spirit with a capital “S” (in the King James) most would recognize that he is speaking of the Holy Spirit. However what did he mean by “…our spirit…” with a small “s”? He was talking about the spirit in man [...] Continue Reading…
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Contrary to the popular Hollywood formulas, God and Satan are not on a soul-collecting contest to see who can collect the most souls. If such a thing had been the case, a person might conclude that Satan is more powerful because he appears to have collected exponentially more souls than God. In order to understand this, you have to start to think outside the box. To get it right, we will [...] Continue Reading…
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