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4/21/11 THE PROBLEM OF PORNO AT PUBLIC LIBRARIES, MAUNDY THURSDAY

4/21/11

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THE PROBLEM OF PORNO

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AT PUBLIC LIBRARIES,

...so I'm sitting here @ B Library working on a project and the table I'm at happens to be right behind a public computer and a guy looking at pic after pic of naked or near-naked women and also various sexual images.....its clear as day from where I'm sitting...

now I'm a heterosexual man  myself and like woman, but I'm also a Christian and don't like to see  women exploited for their bodies only, and am also concerned about the  effect that non-stop porno viewing has on people such as this  fellow...and what about kids in the library ? this is a serious issue..  not to say the body is bad,,,in fact the body is GOOD, God made Adam  & Eve and said it was "good"...

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The problem isn't the body, nor the  naked body, nor is the problem sexuality or sex in general (and since  he's not looking at homosexual images I don't need to discuss that  here)...the problem is just the "raw" gazing upon anonymous images,

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...one  after another, looking them up & down and all around without any  shame..and also if it takes young men away from reality..from the  healthy desire for the REAL THING Rather than pics of it.

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Of course in  liberal society today if women, as well, are afraid of the REAL THING  its a "vicious spiral"...and when I speak of the real thing I mean in a  committed relationship...

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that's what is pleasing to God..."go and  cleave" to another ( i.e. a person of the opposite sex)

"...a man shall  leave his
father and mother ...

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...and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall  become one flesh...

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and the man and his wife were both naked and they  were not ashamed" Gen 2.24-25)

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphenKVaXaq8iF2gsAFZhe6s0Ig0uxPmwUcBReae5d1qNYRukkJ00xP7eFtjputfKPFw8nbyG43bdnVnVhHotsfiadOzrKdbZbun6JfSk_Dr2sUdleHHyGoKsU_lUT0IOypVl_5PAJ5lu44/s400/BIBLE-iamyourwife .jpg...and what about Matt 5.27 and "adultery in  the heart" ?

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Of course, I don't like libraries that have internet so  obsessively triggered to block any & all websites that MIGHT contain  "adult images" (but might not; at one library they block youtube and  also a site named scribd which is mostly written documents, not a video  site, and definitely not aimed towards adult content) ..so the body is  good & sex is good, but lusting and adulterey in the heart is  bad..but what about when u r still single and searching ? is it ok then  ? I'm still not so sure its healthy. I don't even think a quality  relationship should begin based solely on physical qualities. Maybe  that's why we have a divorce problem in the USA . ..anyways, I also  posted a video of me at a library facetiously being "tempted" by adult  material on the website ("I confess..." ..with the point being to raise  this matter as an issue of concern and to talk about it, online, and to  give my theological viewpoint(s) as I also continue to grow and  learn...and still, occassionally, yearn for a committed relationship  with the right person of the opposite sex. God bless you all. Pray for  those who are afflicted with demons of addiction...

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...to porn or other material(s) (drugs, etc)...that  keeps them constanly "pumped up" but not in touch with reality ...and  not participating as citizens in trying to make this world a better  place for everybody..ultimately, the incessant viewing or pornography  (and especially those who "get off" on it, I.e. masturbate)...
http://www.howtostopmasturbating.com
STOP JERKING OFF
is simply a  problem of being SELFISH...

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STOP USING THE VIBRATOR

...and it causes other social problems..if you  are trapped in a cycle of addiction, there are ways to BREAK FREE...AND BE REAL !

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...and  of course I always talk about Jesus Christ as the Way...

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..and ultimately  the only way, but if that's not your cup of tea (coming to Christ  involves commitment and work) there are other forms of treatment for  addiction..

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MAUNDY THURSDAY

search the web, you'll find it..be brave enough to ask for  help...let us all keep growing either in faith or in citizenship or both  and keep making this world a better place for all...both men &  women..set aside your selfish habits that you may say is your "legal  right" but nonetheless is harmful in some ways to the betterment of  society..I invite you to take a new step today..for Christians...as we  approach Easter three days from now..we are at the end Of Lent... and I  hope u gave up something for a while..and if it was a selfish addiction  don't go back to it...leave it behind forever..have courage, God will  not let you down...!

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4/2/11 NOTES FROM FINAL DAY, SESSION 2, 168 FILM FEST,

4/2/11 

NOTES FROM FINAL DAY, 

SESSION 2, 

168 FILM FEST,

 
          ALEX Theatre, GLENDALE, CA

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(by the way, last year they specifically said in one of ther pubs "please take lots of pics"..now he just said for first time, "please no cams" (inside theatre) (later, he said take pics during their award ceremony and said pics during the movies don't come out anyways...well, in fact, they do turn out just fine... but i'm not taking any chances of uptight film people sending me angry messages, despite professing to be Christians (like last year when I tried to promote a few 168 films by showing clips of their vids; fortunately, most of the Christian film people did not object and seem to be sincere Christians.. but the guy who produced "In the Hands of Sinners" really came on very angry and overbearing re my posting of a clip of his film...which, ironically, in retrospect, I realize now was actually a criticism of Christianity, not pro-Christianity...thus he was an imposter in the 168 film fest...; ironically, there may be too many film makers who are overly eager to criticize the church & Christianity itself in their own re-make of what they think Christianity should be..to such film makers if you say you are Christian, then .just promote the Gospel, don't spend all your time being armchair quarterbacks re the church)  ...(surprise appearance by actor erik estrada in "Inspector Sanchez"... to the founder and employees of 168 keep up the good work ..to nellie from the netherlands..nice chatting with you... remember me ? you recognized my name as Dutch.

4/2/11 NOTES FROM FINAL SESSION 2, 168 FILM FEST, ALEX THEATRE, GLENDALE, CA 120-3pm; .good 2nd session of films...here's some of the verbatim.. [this is unedited, incuding typos..last year I posted little clips of each vid, trying to promote the faith, & advance the kingdom..but I'm noticing more "copyright" claims at the end of these films...(I never understand "Christians" who claim copyrights on "Christian" material)...so I might not be posting vid clips..even tho I want to promote the faith..some of these "industry" people can be seriously uptight about this stuff (I remember a few messages from last year)...(which is a shame b/c the true Christians who want their stuff promoted for Kingdom purposes, may get left out..its too much of a danger for me..on YouTube..getting one more strike could lead to my entire 15,000 plus video website being shutdown) (the entire verbatim won't fit here so for all of it go to http://hwblog.posterous.com/4211-notes-from-2nd-session-final-day-168-chr. ;Here's my notes & some verbatim from the 2nd session: "Rapper..quick reminder..doesn't matter..u and your career..nobody buy a gospel ..contract..ur not coming back..stupid..id kill for your life..wrong house..dj trizz..xompilation..handed kets..blamin god..scr..y hgo yhis route..didn't want just what I wanted..now how I feel..let me spin a verse..this ain't just entertainment..this is ministry..gotta know god..take some time..looks like eminem..credit card declined..sleeping on couce.demise of o child..nack at nightclub..women..ochild..slot in beat feast ..be huge..o-child new rap..won't go back..like nothin I've ever done..freedom.. ------------------ Digging w. Shovel..eery...pushups..lady..mommy..fish..cutting..sending messages..potato..eating raw..can't go back..fixing electronics....its not ok..news clips..pop control, apocalypse..pond..canteen..water from creek..snipers ..visual..dna confirmation..take her alive..chase...shot..inject self..kills self..been discovered..10 mins to repair machine ..may be last transmission..bible by transmittor....dr...know uve been receiving ..read your last article...final message his voice "if my people.." ..so scared..mot here to hurt u... ---------------- Paul ulring ...Eric waters..mill run sanctuary..sirvey of chr thought..average life cycle of ch is 50 years..brodie taphorn ..invited to youthgroup..ulring..godly grandmother ..atheist lawyer who chhallaenghed me..rob paul keith aaron....bufff delcamp..resident advisor...r.a. ..clipboard..nominal churchgoer..to be a better disciple..bill ..cool guy.woke..john stoltzenbach..was elem hi school teacher...brother at this church..came to shut him up..fund mssing piece..jesus..four years..fr heathen to seminary..explain the main thng..go make discples..mmain thing be & maje discple..wake them up..reach people..bring them to jc...no empty chairs..disciples disciples..rabbi..go do it ..sends 72 ..I'm a wounded healer..could have brken me....not so much learn in classroom..they atch master..info..skills..testimony story..brief answer ..who discpled u..all ought to say god loves u wondrfl plan..but fallen world...plenty heroes..executed..only one risen..lunch pin is ressurection.. ------------------ Inspector sanchez,..take him out back..throw him it ..bike..2nd gen health inspctr..try hand at acting..pretending to cry..sppsd to be big day..like estrada..wanted to see me ..u tried..they're gangstas..sopranos..lucianos today..have to leave early today..don't let me down..I love u maria..must not wait..mouzs..scream ...jalapeno juice....stuck in car..skrry thought I coykd be an inspector..spec appearance by erik estrada..shut lucianos down..sergio marcos, alejando edda plays julio ------------------------ Mike shields, Robert adan , elly kaye, She's in warehouse..red eyes..batman figure..its me joni....fatal flaw..bubble..fool for love...stop u cold..roll..on a roll ..blue blue blue..took my arm...enouh sleigh of hand..fiery freeak..love grown cold..now a mere mortal..blaze pad ...woeking fine ..blue blazes ..it s finished..does he seem finished to u..blue blazes trouble..tblue blazes..is he ok..let the suit fit..I got into a scrap..not me..why say my full name...beautiful like I..out of anytime minutes..people defenseless..iu can do this meet your new boss..dontgo blue.. -------------- Guide me home,,,singing...where is the pain..wha happened to feeling..rain ..ceiling.. ..sunging..to forget ..will u guide me home....clouds..sun..beach..dir clay banks, ..susan silvestri, kendal brenneman.. ------------------ Mark blitch..basex on verse re grace..so many directions..being abt 2 thieves..adam kitchen..character gets caught..convey sb who no way desrves grace..intrstng things..adam flew in from l.a. ..called me a few be

4/7/11 REMEMBERING ST. JOHN BAPTIST de la SALLE

4/7/11 

REMEMBERING ST. JOHN BAPTIST de la SALLE

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4/7/11 cblog REMEMBERING ST. JOHN BAPTIST de la SALLE; St. Martin de Tours, Brentwood, irish priest m:"Difficult passage to interp ..so instead I will speak of the saint of the day..re right to education..should be suitable to destiny of individual..in view of his final end..and good of society..st. john bap de la. Salle..in france..dedicated life to youth..today all young people go to school, but 300 yrs ago only children of wealthy go to school..private tutors..home schooling..st. john vap..from wealthy fam..saw many young people ..no educ at all..incidentally..kind good merchant man. Also wealthy..doing best to education...name adrian..friend of delasalle..formed schools..gradually curried other young men to join..the delasalle bros..hischool here in l.a. ..member of such..also one of best football concord delsalle..throughout the world lasalle bros..great schools in spirit of delsalle..innovator..novel idea of having large classrooms..by him..toward end of life illness..but encouraged teachers..great respect for teachers..good education..connecting to destiny of human..he wrote..character of a young person..someone who helps and aids..be person god intended him to be..thank god for one of the teachers..at st. Martin's christlike way of life..carry this heritage..."

Ex 32:7-14 The LORD said to Moses,“Go down at once to your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing to it and crying out,‘This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ The LORD said to Moses,“I see how stiff-necked this people is Let me alone, then that my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation.” But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying,“Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand? Why should the Egyptians say,‘With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and exterminate them from the face of the earth’? Let me alone, then that my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation.” But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying,“Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand? Why should the Egyptians say,‘With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and exterminate them from the face of the earth’? Let your blazing wrath die down; relent in punishing your people. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying,‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and all this land that I promised I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’“ So the LORD relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people. 

R. (4a) Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. Our fathers made a calf in Horeb and adored a molten image; They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bullock. R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your... to turn back his destructive wrath. 

R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. 

"Jesus said to the Jews:“If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true. But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. You sent emissaries to John, 

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...and he testified to the truth I do not accept human testimony but I say this so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. But I have testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form, and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. 
 

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...But you do not want to come to me to have life...“I do not accept human praise; moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

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DECEMBER '09 thru JANUARY '10 SLIDESHOW VID : FAITH, HOPE, LOVE

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DECEMBER '09 thru JANUARY '10 

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                                                                    FAITH, HOPE, LOVE

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2/2/11 RE CANDELMAS or FEAST of PURIFICATION

2/2/11 cblog CANDELMAS: CHRIST the LIGHT, LET US SHINE AS BRIGHT; St. Dominic m: "Todays feast..several names..also called feast of purific..she needed no purif..but she was obedient to the law,..also called presentation..also called candelmas..day when candles are blessed..wondering the roots of this day..feast of light..found...also midway betw winter & spring..also something pagan akin to groundhog day..should be....its a feast of light looking forward to a greater light of spring..more bibliclly..simeon when receives christ child says "my eyes have seen your salvation..a light for rev. To gentiles..referring to christ..a light for gentiles..glory of people of israel but also all nations..so christ is a kind of light..so when we bless these candles. Hold them in hands..saying candle reps christ..hold candle close to us as simeon held christ child in own arms..that's the bib basis for celeb of light..candelmas day..when we take hold use bless candles..we r proclaiming as simeon proclaimed that christ repd by candle is indeed light to the nations..making selves evangelists Mal 3:1-4 "Thus says the Lord God: Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; And suddenly there will come to the temple the Lord whom you seek, And the messenger of the covenant whom you desire Yes, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who will endure the day of his coming? And who can stand when he appears? For he is like the refiner’s fire, or like the fuller’s lye. He will sit refining and purifying silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, Refining them like gold or like silver that they may offer due sacrifice to the Lord Then the sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem will please the Lord, as in the days of old, as in years gone by" R. (8) Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord Heb 2.14-18 "Since the children share in blood and flesh Jesus likewise shared in them, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the Devil, and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life Surely he did not help angels but rather the descendants of Abraham; therefore, he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every way, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest before God to expiate the sins of the people. Because he himself was tested through what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested. Luke 2.22-40 "When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord He came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to perform the custom of the law in regard to him, he took him into his arms and blessed God, saying:“Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel.” The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him; and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother,“Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted Band you yourself a sword will pierceB so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer. And coming forward at that very time, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem When they had fulfilled all the prescriptions of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom and the favor of God was upon him. or When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two young...