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Stress Management in the workplace can have a telling impact on employee productivity, efficiency as well as satisfaction. Stress Management for workplace change is a really daunting task. Change can affect the workplace in many ways, with the negative side of it always bringing along considerable stress to some.

Workplace change is usually inevitable in the business world. Changes in the economy and the competitiveness between businesses are some of the causes of changes in the workplace when most may least expect it. Businesses always run the risk of having to stage lay-offs, personnel downsizing and even bankruptcy. And when these changes happen, the employees of the affected businesses go through quite a stressful situation having to deal with unemployment and an uncertain future. The management even has the more stressful task to inform employees about it.

It is important for management to try to break the news of a workplace change in a less abrupt manner as possible. Communication is a crucial skill in this case. Effectiveand prompt communication may help affected employees better understand and accept such upsetting and stressful news.

One of the best ways to convey massive changes in the workplace is to involve key communicators to bring the news to the employees. While it may sound logical to have the CEO speak to the entire group of working personnel in a company-wide meeting, he or she alone may not be able to give the details more effectively on all levels. The CEO of the company alone may not be able to satisfy employee questions and concerns.

Having other people such as supervisors or team leaders to handle the job of communicating any workplace change would surely be more efficient and effective. By having the company’s front-line supervisors and maybe team leaders address employees under them and answer their questions, this helps communicating change more efficiently accessible to more employees and may take less time to make them understand and accept the unfortunate news.

But aside from having several people handling the stressful news of change to company staff. It is also as important for the management to create an effective message. And since companies are comprised of different departments and levels, the message of change should be designed to cater to the information needed of these different levels. In short, the message should cater and fit to a specific audience in order to be more effective and hence avoid possible confusion as well as additional stress.

Effective communication of change in the workplace means that information required by different levels of the company should be satisfied. Others may stop at citing the reasons why change is a good idea for the company. Other companies may only try to communicate only what the changes affect the corporate level.

Disregard for providing information that are of real concern to employees, such as how the change may influence their career in the company, can really put considerable stress and many sleepless nights to many people. That is not considered as good Stress Management for a company that is in the midst of undergoing changes.

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Some Christians question how the books found in the New Testament came to be accepted as the approved canon. Actually, it was the other way around. John, the original apostle, and his understudy, Polycarp, made sure that spurious and fraudulent books would not become part of the recommended reading material of Christians in the first and second centuries AD. For example, they rejected the Gospel of the Lord, also known as the Gospel of Marcion. There were two extremes of religious leaders seeking to distract people from the gospel of the kingdom of God. One extreme were the legalists, who believed salvation was earned by keeping the law and by being circumcised. The other extreme were the Nicoliatans, whose reasoning was: “God is glorified by forgiving sin, so sin early and sin often in order that God may be glorified that much more.” Sin is the transgression of the law (1 John 3:4). Antinomian imperatives are not something new in theology. Every era of time has had its advocates. The organized beginnings in the Christian era is documented as far back as the 140’s AD. At that point in time there was a heretic named Marcion who invented a new philosophy, which represented an unusual view of Christ.

During the second century, Marcion of Pontius (in West Asia) became associated with a professing Christian group in Rome. He was the son of the bishop of Sinope. He formulated the idea of the Bad God/Good God. His belief was a strange outgrowth of gnostic theology. He believed the Most High God was an inferior being. He believed Christ came to overturn the harsh laws of the Most-High God. He believed Christ was always spirit (never flesh). He believed Christ never really died for the sins of every one. He believed Christ to have been a phantasm. This is, of course, the spirit of the Antichrist. He thought the death of Christ was theatrical, not real. Therefore he believed Christ never suffered. He believed there was something holy about not having sex so he and his followers tried to practice celibacy. The bishops (supposedly, including his own father) excommunicated him for his odd philosophy. Ironically, years later, as the standard religion became more corrupt, the mainstream would embrace celibacy as something holy.

Marcion believed the role of Jesus was to liberate Christians from the power of the Most High God (the Father). So he thought the Father was the evil God of the Old Testament. And Christ (he thought) was the nice God of the New Testament who made the harsh God of the Old Testament unnecessary. Does this sound familiar? It certainly fits into some of modern day theology. Marcion believed that only Paul understood the teachings of Christ. So Marcion put together a Christian canon consisting of only ten letters of Paul and a modified Gospel of Luke. He rejected the Old Testament completely. He didn’t want his followers reading Matthew, Mark, John, Acts, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, James, or Jude. And he certainly didn’t want them to read Revelation. In Revelation there are the prophecies of God’s people keeping the commandments right up to the end. Of course, in the Bible, you can’t go further into the future than Revelation.

“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 12:17).

One time when Marcion encountered Polycarp (an understudy of John, the Apostle), Marcion said, “Don’t you recognize me?” Polycarp said, “I do indeed. I recognize the firstborn of Satan!”

Marcion was not the only anti-law advocate at the time. But he was one of the most well known. Marcion’s “canon” (the modified Gospel of Luke and 10 of Paul’s letters) was a thin book (scroll) to begin with. And from time to time he would modify the “canon”. He always subtracted from it. He never added to it. He removed those scriptures that encouraged obedience to God and those scriptures emphasizing works for a Christian to do. Thankfully, Polycarp, and later, Polycrates of Ephesus, made sure that contrived canons such as Marcion’s were exposed and rejected.

History of the English Bible

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Wily Elder, CBA

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Wiki Editors, Gospel of Marcion, copyright 2009 Absolute Astronomy

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Just as a camera will generally have a point of focus, the human mind will usually have a point of focus. Eastern philosophies refer to the human mind as being like a drunk monkey looking for the ultimate banana. This, of course, pre-supposes that person is grasping, practicing the way of “get”. We live in a modern world that is filled with distractions of all kinds. There are many things that are devised to capture the mind: 2012 hype, imploding economy, fear-mongering in the media, moneymaking opportunities, entertainment, game playing, politics, talk radio, movies, television, games, Internet, etc. Once a mind is captured by a distraction, it usually ignores what it was previously paying attention to. It may or may not return to what it had originally focused on.

“…where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:21).

What we treasure most will usually become the focus of our attention. This can cause us to compartmentalize our priorities. Truth from scripture may become compartmentalized to a part of our mind that contains religious thought. There is nothing wrong with that. But wouldn’t it be better to put it into a part of the mind that contains practical pragmatic wisdom?

Christ often condemned the religious leaders because of their lack of wisdom and their spirit of competition and their blindness. They failed to focus properly.

“The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she arrived from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon: and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here” (Luke 11:31).

The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon and his wisdom and went to see him to see if it was true that he was the wisest man. She found he was indeed the wisest man (1 Kings 10:1-9).

“And she said to the king, it was an accurate report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: your wisdom and prosperity exceeds the fame which I heard of. Happy are your men, happy are these, your servants, which stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom. Happy is the LORD your God, which delights in you, to set you on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king to do judgment and justice” (1 Kings 10:6-9).

The comparison made by Christ was that he (Christ) was infinitely wiser than Solomon. Yet the crowds of people, for the most part, had no real appreciation of that. And the religious leaders hated him.

The same is true today. Christ is the living Word of God (John 1:1). The Bible is the written Word of God. In the pages of the Bible we have a real wealth of knowledge that was created from wisdom that is infinite. But generally humans, for the most part, set Bible reading as a low priority. There are computer programs and internet links that can show and translate the various Greek texts on which the English New Testament is based. The same can be done with the Hebrew of the Old Testament. There are programs and concordances that show how specific original language words are used throughout scripture. There has never been an age in which this knowledge, in detail, was at the fingertips of humans until now. And yet most people have practically no appreciation of it.

There are two things that cause a major focus away from God: an evil heart of unbelief and a heart hardened through the deceitfulness of sin (Hebrews 3:12-13).

Scripture contains the knowledge we all need (2 Timothy 3:16). To convert it into wisdom, we have to ask.

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not…” (James 1:5).

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Psalms 111:10, Proverbs 9:10). The King James “fear” is from the Hebrew “yirah”, meaning fear, awe, respect. Our respect for God is extremely important. Without it we cannot even begin to have wisdom.

Wily Elder, CBA

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Picking up women successfully from the bars, clubs, parties can lead to very nice results depending on what you?re looking for. I don?t say that mastering how to pick up women will resolve all you dating questions. It will not, but if you know how to be a real women pick up master, then you will have more women to choose from for the right partner

If you want to become successful with women then you need to master how to pick up women. What you also do during interaction with many women is improving your communication skills remarkably. This is good for your overall success with people, because big part of your success depends of your communication skills level.

First thing how to pick up women and to become the guy gets girl type of man.

You need to start to look how you dress. You don?t want to go into conversation with outdated look. First, get a haircut, and think how you can rise up from other man. Does not matter how good or bad you look, do your best to look your best. We all can improve our looks. Go into details with your looks. Women are expert on details. As an example they can see if your shirt does not mach with your shoes, and this does no good for you. Remember, best pick up artist always look their best compared to ordinary man.

Secondly.

You need to feel like you know what is coming next and conditioned. Before you go to pick up women, make voice exercises, talk to different people to get into right mode and into right condition. I think you know this feeling when you?re in comfortable conversation condition and sometimes you’re not. So prepare first when you go to pick up women. Be like an actor and practice in front of the mirror.

Thirdly.

You need to spark chemistry. No women wants to talk to you if you seem tired and “try”.

What I mean is that you must feel good and confident to get that spark in your eyes. Women recognize insecurity, as well as confidence. They are experts on these things. Lots of guys never are successful because they run into barriers that women put up to them to filter real man from wuss guys. If you spark chemistry, then you cross these barriers instantly.

Fourthly.

To pick up women, you need the the right attitude. This can make you or brake you. If you can make this right then you can see “miracles” happening.

The right attitude in this case is not taking the women too serious first when you meet her, like she is the centre of the universe, because she is not. There are millions of beautiful women out there. If she is acting like a pain, just tell her that. Show that you have some c and you do not put up on her bad behaviour. The second thing is to take her as an old friend. Talk to her like you have know her for years, be fun, tease her. This will build chemistry real quick if you want to pick up women.

Look your best, always prepare before you go out to pick up women. This will make you confident and gives you some sexual chemistry women need. Have high self respect to show women that you have something valuable inside you. Practice these four things consistently and move on to learn even more to pick up women. If follow to do these easy but still powerful psychological things, you will be way ahead of 99% of other man who try to pick up women.

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Everybody desires success in life. Success is defined as the complete accomplishment of the goals that a person has long planned, like a journey where a person starts taking one single step at a time before he eventually achieves his tasks. A certain level of personal development, personal growth and self-improvement helps you to achieve goals and achieve success in your life. These ingredients enrich your relationships, career prospects, professional success and life in general. Personal development, personal growth and self-improvement techniques are inter-related and help you to improve your personal and professional management techniques. With hard work, discipline, and careful planning, being successful can easily be accomplished.

Succeeding Through Optimism

If you want to be successful in life, you don’t only need the will and determination to push through with your goal but you also need to have a positive outlook and perspective as well. Your optimism and the way you look at life’s situations will more or less affect and determine your performance. So if you want success in life, it has to start with a positive mental attitude. A negative attitude stands as a stumbling block in anything and everything you do in life. It vaporizes the much-needed energy associated with attaining your goals. Positive attitude on the other hand keeps your creative ideas flowing and makes you feel energetic to move forward towards your goals.

Rest and Relax

Stress is a defense mechanism that occurs in reaction to stimuli generated by the environment. It can occur everywhere, even in places where you least expect them to happen. It may also occur in the home or at your workplace. If that is so, why don’t they take a much needed break? If they feel tired and stressed, there’s no use in forcing themselves to become productive because for sure, with the state of mind that they are in, they won’t go near being productive and successful.

Stress challenges everyone in life. If you crumple down under stress you would not be able to achieve anything in life. If you let stress overrule you finishing even simplest tasks would pose a great challenge. There are many stress relieving techniques you could learn to overcome stress and meet life’s challenges in order to meet your goals.

Self–confidence

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Self confidence is described as a positive state of being and is very important to achieve success. Learning to trust yourself is a key element: trust in your own attributes, your strengths, and your decision-making skills. And because we don’t really get everything we want in this world, self-confidence will also help you handle failure without breaking down.

Feed Your Soul

Your body is not the only one who craves for food. Your emotions and soul also needs to be fed, and you can do it by engaging in warm-hearting activities such as doing some volunteer work, spending time with your loved ones and family, taking care of a pet, etc.

As long as you don’t deprive yourself of the simple yet priceless things in life, you can be sure that you won’t have a hard time seeing the positive side of life. Learn to cherish and appreciate the simple things in life, and make it a habit to be optimistic, yet realistic at the same time.

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Let me tell you, that there are thousands of beautiful women waiting for the right man - in your area right now. How would you feel if you could approach these hot and beautiful women with “secret weapons”, that make them want you and look up on you. And they would want the real you.

There wouldn’t be no more fear of failure, because you’d know exactly what to say and what to do with your confidence. You’d swept them off their shoes whit this right attitude. Your dating seeking game would be whole different.

You don’t need lot’s of money to get hot dates. Remember that. What you can do is to learn how to become successful on the dates and how to get more second and third dates. Creating attraction during these dates is going to bring you success instead of giving her something or buying her things, and you can learn how to create this attraction trough different programs and blogs.

Just imagine how great would that confidence feel. Not many man have it, but you can have it if you put in some of your time and effort.

The game boils down to the fact that every women has built in “autoresponders” against some specific action. As an example all the woman respond very powerfully to the jealousy, they get jealous and they just cant control the feelings when they go trough it.

What you need to do is to push these autoresponders, to make her react the way you’d like in your dating seeking game and get prepared.

And guess what, it is not manipulative, because you are giving her what she really is looking for. Girls are dating seeking to find these real gems.

Yes, women are looking for the 1% of the man on the earth, who know what to say and what to do. Dating seeking can become just a memory when you know how to approach hot women directly.

After I mastered these secret dating skills, I’ve never had to search for hot dates or do more dating seeking. I had girls flooding over my apartment every day. It sounds crazy. Of course for now I’m settled with one hot girl who fulfills my life every day with beautiful moments.

But this is my own choice, maybe you’d like to hang out with different girls every day and gain some experience first before finding that one to love.

I think this is just not fair how little part of the man don’t know anything about these dating seeking secrets. If you are serious about your life and future, you’d like to spend a little time each week and improve your dating life - for better future.

But I’m here to teach you and to be your lead in dating seeking. Maybe you don’t even know what power lies in you and how easy it is for you to pick up women.

So before you go and arrange a date, prepare and know what to do and what to say, by learning the right things and tactics.

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“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” — FDR during World War II.

There are people who have panic attacks who are so very fearful they are unable to get out of their home. They may depend on their family members to communicate with the outside world while they stay “safely” at home. Most of us may see the irrationality of such fear. However have you ever had a fear that caused you to lose your concentration, that caused you to lose sleep at night, and that caused you to be losing your peace of mind?

In the field of mental science there is an entire category of specific fears labeled as phobias.

In the 1500’s, there was the introduction of the word “hydrophobia”, the fear of water. This was a time of great religious persecution. A person could be drowned by zealous mobs or burned at the stake, for being thought of as a witch or sorcerer.

In the 1870’s Dr. Westphal introduced the word “agoraphobia”. It originally was understood to mean “the fear of squares or open places.” The fear was initially noted as evident in the setting of market places or places used for public assembly. One celebrated meeting place of the ancient world was the Agora in Athens. Hence the prefix “agora” was used to describe a fear that was originally keyed to places of assembly. Like the Forum in Rome, the Agora in Athens was a place for an assembly of people. The word “agora” comes from the Latin word “ageirein”, meaning assemble, which is related to the Latin word “grex”. The Latin word “grex” means flock from which the English word “gregarious” is configured. The word “gregarious” is descriptive of a person who likes to socialize (likes to be with a flock).

In the latter half of the 1800’s there were new configurations of many more words descriptive of fears.

In the 1870’s there was the introduction of the word “claustrophobia”, the fear of enclosed places, the opposite of agoraphobia. Agoraphobia eventually came to mean (primarily) the fear of open places, not just market places.

In the 1890’s there was the introduction of the word “acrophobia”, the fear of heights. The prefix “acro” is from the Greek “akros” meaning topmost.

Some phobias are super-specific. For example, triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number thirteen.

What are some of the ways people overcome their fears?

Passive Awareness:

In using passive awareness the individual experiencing the fear must transcend the direct effect of the fear by gaining insight into the irrationality of the fear and thereby becoming free from the fear. Obviously this method is the least likely to be used for one reason. Most people suffering from a specific fear for any length of time are not likely to have or attain insight into a fear they have become entrenched in. In other words, they are too close to the fear to free themselves from it. The time when passive awareness can be the most helpful is with individuals in which the fear has just begun to have an inordinate effect on their life.

Systematic Desensitization:

In systematic desensitization there is a gradual withdrawal from the fear by a series of small steps that are designed to desensitize a person to the experiences they consider to be negative. For example, a person who suffers from panic attacks may be unwilling to communicate with the outside world in any manner. This person will be encouraged to step outside their house two steps and turn around and go back inside the house. Next they will be encouraged to step two steps outside their house and wait for 15 seconds then return to the house. Next they will be encouraged to step all the way to their front gate and wait for 20 seconds and then return to the house. This gradual guidance, successive approximation, will continue until the individual is walking around outside and beginning to communicate with other people. This gradual re-introduction to the outside world may take days or weeks to accomplish. The important thing to remember is, in most cases, rushing the person will very likely make their fear worse.

Positive Practice:

In positive practice the fear is extinguished through the use of training which can be self-directed. A man with the fear of heights may climb five floors up and look down and continue looking down until he feels calm in spite of being up so high.

Modeling:

Watching someone else face a specific kind of fear can have a profound effect on someone who is trying to overcome the same fear.

Shaping:

When someone successfully overcomes a fear, friends and associates should offer encouragement by giving verbal praise for courage or faith.

The Greek “phobos” from which we get the word phobia can mean flight or that which causes flight. It may mean fear, dread, and terror. It can be a negative fear (as in 1 John 4:18,“…no fear in love….”). Or it can be a positive fear, a reverential fear of God (as in Romans 3:18,”…no fear of God….”). This fear of God is a healthy dread of displeasing Him, just as you might dread to displease your earthy parent.

The basic Greek “phobetron” is terrors. It is configured from “phobos”. A modified form of “phobetron” is found in Luke 21:11. “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” The word for fearful sights was “phobetra” In Old English, before the 1200’s AD, the English verb for fear was the same as in use today. However, the noun meant “sudden terrible event” and only after the 1200’s AD did the noun begin to describe the human reaction to sudden terrible events instead of the events themselves.

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).

The word here for “fear” is the Greek “deilias” from the word “deilia”, meaning fearfulness, denoting cowardice. It is not used in a positive sense.

What is the fear of the future? It is worry. How may we avoid worry?

“…seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33).

“Do not fret, then, over tomorrow…” (Matthew 6:34, The Knox Translation)“…for tomorrow will bring its own anxieties” (Matthew 6:34 Twentieth Century New Testament).

Are we willing to have a healthy fear of God?

Adam and Eve may have learned their lesson. But their son, Cain, did not have respect for God’s authority. Cain brought plants (fruit of the ground) as an offering to God (Genesis 4:3) Cain was disobedient, after knowing what God expected. The “way of Cain” is to say, in essence: “God, I’ll worship You the way I want to worship You, not the way You want me to worship You.” The way of Cain is to have no fear of God, no reverence to God. Jude warned us to avoid the way of Cain (Jude 11).

-wilyelder

Behavior Science

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References

Arndt, William F., and Gengrich, F. Wilbur, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature, London, University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Ayto, John, Dictionary of Word Origins, New York, Arcade Publishing, 1990.

Dewey, Pam, Outside The City, Charlotte, Michigan, Shelter In The Word, Vol. 1, Number 1, 1998.

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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 to you then you have been thinking about it already. We do think on, wish for, dream about, study, plan or even meditate on what is important to us. The real question is did you say Law of The Lord? Are you preoccupied with doing what God desires you to do.

We call ourselves Christians. We say we are Disciples of Christ. We claim Jesus Christ as our lord and master. Yet are we consumed day and night thinking about what he would have us do?

Have you prayed the Lord’s Prayer recently. Have you said to God; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. What has been your prayer recently? Do you pray for health, wealth, happiness, peace or what is your prayer.

Not many of us pray that we can be obedient to your word or that your will be done. Not many of us pray every day that we might decrease so that God might increase. But what ever we pray continuously about is what we meditate on.

Maybe we do not meditate on His Law day and night, but is His Law hidden within our hearts? It is important that His Law is a lamp unto our feet, guiding our path in righteousness. The truth is when His Law is hidden it does not always show itself when we need it. The only way we can be assured that we follow God’s Law and His Will is to meditate on it day and night.

Obedience is better than sacrifice. But being a Christian is more than just being obedient to the Law of God. We must have a relationship with God. To have a relationship with anyone is to know that person. One way to know God is to meditate on God.

Meditate on the great things He has done. Think about on His love, mercy, grace, patience, faithfulness,etc.

Meditate even of His justice and judgment. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.”

Then Meditate more about the benefits of having a relationship with God. Meditate on being a child of God, called, chosen, sanctified and separated.

If you ever choose to fast seeking a closer (intimate, personal relationship with God), that is an especially important time to retreat into a wilderness, ignoring all the cares of the world and meditating on God and His Law. As Jesus said, we should “seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness…” That makes meditating on God and (His Law) a first priority in our lives. Not only during a fast. But, especially during a fast. The fast is a wilderness experience where its soul purpose is to focus or meditate on God, the object of our fast and prayer.

Finally, Meditate on His Will for your lives. Know that God has a plan for you. A plan to prosper you not to harm you. His plan for you is not found in fulfilling your own selfish desires. His plan may not call for us accomplishing all that we want to accomplish. His plan for you is all about kingdom building. His plan for our lives is that His Will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. The gifts, abilities and talents God gives us are for us to share with our brothers and sisters. Our Gifts are to make disciples for Christ, baptizing them in the name of the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, and teach them to obey everything that Jesus commanded us. The head is to lead, the arm is for lifting, the eyes are for seeing, ears for hearing and feet for walking. No part greater than another. No part only serving its selfish desires. But all make a united body doing the Will of its Master.

Who is your master?

What do you meditate on Day and Night?

That is your God!

“Lord, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable to you..” (Psalms 19:14)

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The idea of God exists ever since the beginning of mankind. You go to anywhere in the world, and you will encounter some form or idea of God. And even though, their views of God may be world apart, it conveys the universal belief in the existence of God. But, is there God? Does God exist? Who is God? Now, This is a vast subject. And my goal here is not to prove the existence of God, but to demonstrate What bible say about God’s existence.

In today’s society, Popular belief is to deny the existence of God. Many of the ‘Intellectuals’ do not believe in God and discard God as a wishful thinking driven by fear of the unknown in ancient time, which has no value in today’s highly advanced society. Here is Bible’s answer to those who deny God. Now, it may sound rude to many. But this is exactly what Bible says, when it talks about Atheism! Psalm 14:1 says, “The fool says in his heart, ”There is no God.” Bible is very clear when it come to existence of God.

It is not the ignorant, illiterate, and naive who thinks there is no God, but it is ‘the Fool’. The definition of ‘Fool’ according to dictionary is the one destitute one without judgment.

It is quite interesting that the very reason used to deny the existence of God, are used in Bible to prove its existence. According to Bible, It is a matter of reason, common sense, and judgment to believe in God. Only those who lack these basic characteristics can deny God! Psalm 14 describes the consequences of “World without God”. It is interesting that Psalm 53 is identical to this Psalm. ( Probably, to prove the point!) Jesus depicted the picture of ‘Rich Fool’ who thought to, “take life easy; eat, drink and be merry. But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?” (Luke 12:18-20) Jesus reminded his audience of the grave consequences of rejecting God. Paul also illustrated the consequence of deliberate denial of God in Romans. “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools…” (Romans 1:21-22)

What are the consequences of “World without God”? (Psalm 14: 1-7, Romans 1: 18 -32, Romans 3: 9-17)

There is no one who does good! There is no absolute sense of goodness!
No one understands God.
All have turned away, know nothing.
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile.
No absolute sense of morality or justice
Depraved mind and body

These passages give us totally opposite picture of mankind, than what we think about ourselves. A Famous Indian Philisopher and Teacher, Swami Vivekananda said, ‘Man is inherently good.’ ‘It is sin to call man sinner’. We think high of ourselves. But our idea of ‘good’ fall far shorter than absolute ‘good’ which God desires . In conversation with rich ruler, Jesus brought the same issue, “No one is good except God alone. (Luke 18:19) If we take God out of equation, our standard of goodness will never reach the absolute ‘goodness of God’.

So, In the final analysis, What bible views atheism? It portrays a person of ‘Unwise position (foolish) with no sense of Good’, and that is not a very good position! This article is rather simple presentation of biblical view of [spin] Atheism. |denying existence of God. I hope that the arguments and ideas used in this article will be used in constructive and positive ways.

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Persistence is an absolute essential for the person who wants to succeed. I once read, “That by persistence, the snail made it to 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 discouraged 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 sermon outlines, I see 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. Stop! 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 involves 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 do 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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