Revelation 3:15-16 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Joel Osteen, Hear the Word of The LORD

Oprah is a "NEW AGE" supporter! This pastor is a fraud! I have been getting a very strong message from God about not being deceived, and folks we are about to be able to tell who the liars are!

John 8:44 - Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Saddleback Church Senior Pastor Rick Warren, making an appearance on the OWN network's "rah's Lifeclass," assigned a "homework assignment" to the audience by telling them to open up the Bible and start reading the Book of John.

"You are a product of your past, but you are not a prisoner of your past. It has influence over you, but it's just one of the cards," Warren said on the episode that was aired on Jan. 13, adding that reading the Book of John can help people come to that realization.

While promoting the 10th anniversary of his best-selling non-fiction book, The Purpose Driven Life, Warren created an analogy between life and the card game of poker.

"The cards we are dealt are the things we don't have control over. I didn't choose where I was born, when I was born, I didn't choose my gender, my parents, my race, my natural abilities, my natural weaknesses, but a wise player can even play what seems to be a weak hand, and win the game. There are ways to take what you are given and make the most out of it," Warren continued.

Winfrey noted that many people spend their time complaining why they weren't given a different hand in life, and Warren added that people need to accept the life they are given because each and every person is unique.

Going deeper into the poker analogy, Warren identified the first card as the bodies people are given and the chemistry that makes up their physicality.

In a later "Oprah's Lifeclass" segment, a woman from the audience, Portia, asked Warren how she can learn to love herself despite her physical flaws.

The evangelical Christian pastor responded by using as an example a pair of blue jeans he bought recently on which he found a tagline that read: "These jeans are intentionally flawed to make them unique" – which Warren said can be used to apply to people as well, in terms of God's grand design.

"The issue here is the myth that 'being beautiful will make me happy.' I live in Southern California. There are many pretty people there who are miserable. So it is not 'beauty equals happiness.' Happiness is a choice. Sometimes you have to realize that your own self-rejection is turning people away," he suggested.

Addressing Portia directly, Warren added amid a chorus of applause from the audience: "You don't want friends who only like you for your looks. And you don't want a husband that only loves you for your looks." He also reminded viewers that "our looks aren't going to stay."

The other two cards in life's game of poker were then identified as connections with others, and circumstances in life. When it came to the fourth card, consciousness, Warren explained:

"Your consciousness is the story you tell yourself," The pastor then pointed to the Bible verse Proverbs 23:7 that reads: "As a man thinks in his heart, so he is."

"All of us have things we want to change in our lives. If you want to change the way you act, your start back with your thoughts. If I'm acting depressed, it's because I feel depressed. You can't change a feeling – but you can change a thought," Warren continued.

The Saddleback pastor then shared some advice for dealing with negative thinking and bad habits, saying that the key is not to resist temptation, but to replace it. "Not to resist, but to refocus. You have to renew your consciousness.

If you want to break a focus, you need to refocus."
 
Warren concluded that people have a choice to listen to God, or to the world.

"The world tells you all kinds of stuff. It says that you're not competent, you're ugly, you don't matter, you're worthless – don't listen to it. God says you're valuable, you're capable, you're forgivable, you're usable. You listen to the right thing, not the wrong thing."

After the final card was revealed as the choices people make in life, Winfrey surmised: "My hope for myself, my friends and all of you is that we become more conscious, more aware of our meaning and purpose on this Earth, and aware that transformation doesn't happen unless you are willing. It is a choice – that's the fifth card, and only you have the power to change direction of your life."

Read more at http://global.christianpost.com/news/rick-warren-tells-oprahs-lifeclass-to-listen-to-god-read-the-bible-88243/#KFkoE64OASkFXbmb.99

THIS ARTICLE SHOCKED ME! 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

This was an article I discovered from some organization called "THE CHRISTIAN LEFT"

The Bible Tells Us When A Fetus Becomes A Living Being

 

Many people think that a human being is created at the time of conception but this belief is not supported by the bible. The fact that a living sperm penetrates a living ovum resulting in the formation of a living fetus does not mean that the fetus is a living human being. According to the bible, a fetus is not a living person with a soul until after drawing its first breath.

After God formed man in Genesis 2:7, He “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and it was then that the man became a living being”. Although the man was fully formed by God in all respects, he was not a living being until after taking his first breath.

In Job 33:4, it states: “The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

Again, to quote Ezekiel 37:5&6, “Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

In Exodus 21:22 it states that if a man causes a woman to have a miscarriage, he shall be fined; however, if the woman dies then he will be put to death. It should be apparent from this that the aborted fetus is not considered a living human being since the resulting punishment for the abortion is nothing more than a fine; it is not classified by the bible as a capital offense.

According to the bible, destroying a living fetus does not equate to killing a living human being even though the fetus has the potential of becoming a human being. One can not kill something that has not been born and taken a breath. This means that a stillborn would not be considered a human being either. Of course, every living sperm has the potential of becoming a human being although not one in a million will make it; the rest are aborted. .

God has decreed, for one reason or another, that at least one-third of all pregnancies shall be terminated by a spontaneous abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy and that a number will be terminated after the first trimester. It would appear that God does not have any more regard for the loss of a fetus than he does for the loss of a placenta or a foreskin despite the fact that these were living tissue as the result of conception.

In a number of versions of the bible, one of the commandments in Exodus 20 that was spoken by God to Moses states: “You shall not kill”. According to the Mosaic text, this should read “You shall not murder” since the bible has commandments stating that people shall be put to death for a number of different offenses. Exodus 21:17 states: “Whoever curses his father or mother shall be put to death.” There are other capital offenses in Exodus 21. Of course, the commandment “You shall not kill” is not present in the commandments written by God on the stone tablets. For those who are not familiar with the commandments on the stone tablets that were placed in the Ark of the Covenant, they are enumerated in Exodus 34. The popular ten commandments that are enumerated in Exodus 20 were spoken by God to Moses who then relayed them to his people; they were never written.

There is nothing in the bible to indicate that a fetus is considered to be anything other than living tissue and, according to scripture, it does not become a living being until after it has taken a breath.

Source: "The bible tells us when a fetus becomes a living being," by Dr. Joe Schwartz

Many cite the scripture Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." God is omnipotent. He has known all of us since before creation. This scripture is irrelevant as it pertains to when a fetus becomes a living being. The same reasoning applies to Psalm 139:13-14.

Numbers 5 describes "the Lord" ordering an abortion. Many argue that this is a misinterpretation. It's clearly stated in verse 22, "May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your wombmiscarries."

Before false teachers turned the issue of reproductive choice into a political football, views on this matter were far less extreme. Read "The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal"

In 1973, Wallie Amos ‘W. A.’ Criswell, President of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1968 to 1970, said this:
“I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person, and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed."

If you don't like abortion, don't have one. But don't judge others who may be in terrible circumstances that you can't possibly understand. Especially when your judgements are based on a politically motivated and questionable interpretation of the Bible (at best).

Those who say, "If you're a Christian, you have to be against abortion, and therefore you must vote republican," are simply reciting talking points from false teachers.

In the end, if abortion was such a grievous sin Jesus would have mentioned it. He said nothing.“She heads for the clinic and she gets some static walkin' through the doors;
They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore;
God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes;
'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose.”
~ Erik Francis Schrody (Everlast), from the song, “What It’s Like.”

 

http://www.thechristianleftblog.org/1/post/2012/10/the-bible-tells-us-when-a-fetus-becomes-a-living-being.html

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