tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22828175927630484432011-11-28T03:01:02.231+02:00Love God. Love each other - everything else is culture.Dovydashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18100111349623289598noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282817592763048443.post-8607215396085600252008-04-27T23:29:00.003+03:002008-04-29T00:10:21.564+03:00

This was a part of today's message by Phil McElhenny, pastor of Kalamazoo First, Portage, MI. The message was about the existence of God, and our needing to ask questions of people. Part of what he said dealt with outlining the various arguments for the existence of God. One of those things was the idea that we can dream.He asked us to fill in the blanks to: If I had ________ I would do _________

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While preparing to share tonight at our prayer meeting about the persistent widow and the unjust judge, I realized that God is not some tight-fisted, bitter, and angry God, from whose hand we are lucky to pull out one blessing. Rather, God is like my father (and mother) who gives all that he can to his children. If I ask him for bread he is not going to give me a stone.When I call my parents,

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Attended the funeral (part one anyway) of Juri Filipov, the director of the Teen Challenge center in Vilnius. We will finish it up tomorrow afternoon. There were seven preaches, your truly being one of them. It was in Russian (which I don't know) but at least I had an interpreter. My poor wife didn't have that and resorted to over 200 people who were in attendance. That was a lot of people and

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This morning I received news that Juri Filipovas, the director of the Teen Challenge center here in Vilnius had passed away. It seems that his poor health over the years finally caught up with him. He has had problems with his kidneys for many years and his heart and lungs had been affected in recent months.I am the National Director of Teen Challenge in Lithuania, so I feel a special connection

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I came across this on my recent trip to Turkey. Some people from Russia brought it and I took a picture of it:I was told it says: Keep away from women!Not politically correct

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Oh yeah, I have a spot on MySpace now. This way I can keep up with my girls.

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I'm Baaaack! In the words of my generation....Anyway, so much for the lines from Independence Day. Better stop while I am ahead;-)I have returned to Lithuania. We came back last Saturday and have been busy getting caught up with everything.We are sure missing our girls. I can't believe that we are actually back here alone without them. I am sure we will stay busy though.I have been an adult for

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I love it! My family and I are really enjoying our time here in the U.S.! It is wonderful to be home, though we are running like crazy from morning 'til night. Things are just very comfortable here. As much as I want Lithuania to be my home, I don't think there will be any place quite like the U.S.A.

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„Pakeliui“ Concert 27 April 2007 19:00 - 23:00 Raimondos Kirijanovienės concertRaimonda will be playing and singing some of the songs she has written. Everyone will enjoy her songs and the spirit in which she sings them. The concert will start around 8:00, but feel free to come as early as seven and relax and enjoy a cup of coffee. The concert is free!Raimonda atliks savo

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I would like to tell you about a special event we had at our church on Good Friday evening. We wanted people to experience in as personal and participative a way as possible, the suffering that Jesus went through on that great and terrible day.We had two rooms. The first room was a contemplation and music room (see picture) where people viewed images of Jesus’ suffering, the poor and homeless,

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My mom, Nancy, is in the hospital again with pneumonia. She has leukemia and this perhaps is a part of that. She can't seem to get over it. They are doing a CAT scan today (Saturday) to see what is really going on.Please pray! Thanks

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You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.- Mother Teresa

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My friend Brad pointed me to this funny video.Very creative!

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I would like to invite you to the first official "conversation" of the Emergent Village - Vilnius Cohort.The theme will be:“The Mission of the Church: ways of expressing the missional calling of the church”The location will be in Vilnius at “Katpėdėlė“ on P. Lukšio g. 34 (Across from Hyper-Rimi in Žirmūnai. The restaurant is located on the east side of the Senukai parking lot) on Saturday, March

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I have a question for readers of my blog: Should a church's core values be placed on their website? If so, why? If not, why not?I see both sides of the issue. On the one hand, interested people should be able to know what the church sees as its core values. After all, these values have been written down to serve as a public resource for the church's general direction.On the other hand, isn't that

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I just posted a lengthy comment on the Emergent Village- Vilnius Cohort blog. Check it out if you like.

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Oharaville wrote in his blog about Today at the Mission, a blog about "Daily Life in a Homeless Shelter." The author is an incredible writer and has some insights that are pretty humbling. For example, his "Following Jesus Manifesto" is a tall order and the "Irreducible Minimum" is something that I will use over and over."Love God. Love each other - everything else is culture." I have changed my

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I figured out, finally! the puzzle! You know, when you figure it out, it really isn't that complicated. I guess it is that way with a lot of things in life. Things that seem hard at first seem simple once you are on the other side and have a different perspective. It is all about perspective then isn't it.Life, and what we do with it depends a lot on our perspective. It affects our understanding

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I have made some New Years Resolutions, as I am sure most of the world has. I have decided to call them commitments. Does anyone have suggestions for ways that I might be more successful at fulfilling them?

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I want to wish all of you a Happy New Year! We stayed up really late last night. I finally went to bed at 5:30 a.m.! I didn't get up until 2:30. That is the latest I have slept in for a long time. Of course that is going to throw off tonight's sleeping schedule. Oh well, it is a holiday.We have spent the day playing games and eating. Now we are watching the last 4 hours of 24 (which Eliza hasn't

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Here is the English response I posted in Lithuanian on neformalai. I am sorry that it took so long to post in both locations!Hello! My name is David. I am the pastor of Kelyje. Thank you for you suggestions and comments. It seems that there are 47 already. I am shocked! First I want say that the coffee is not the point! Understand it is clear that our form is different but we think that

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That means Merry Christmas in Lithuanian! Sorry it is a day late, but you know I just didn't get to it yesterday.I received a puzzle, you know the wood and rope type, where the goal is to get the ring off the wood and ropes.Well, so far, I have done it twice, but I am not sure how. It just happened. It is bound to happen as many hours as I have fiddled with the stupid thing while trying to get

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I am working on a response to the post on "neformalai" about the form of church gatherings. I will post it here in English for those who would like to communicate in English with me, which is a bit easier for me obviously. I think this should elicit a good amount of discussion.

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Welcome to my new blog, dovydo. (David's in Lithuanian.) I now have all my blogger accounts under one password.Let me begin by wishing you each a very merry Christmas!

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