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Faith in the Storm 4:A life saved. (Matt Pridgen)

Faith in the Storm 4:A life saved. (Matt Pridgen)

Holy Trinity, Charleston's  2012 Lenten Series is entitled: Faith under fire...life in a Stormy world.  This is the 4th in that series.  In it, Mr. Matt Pridgen (www.mattpridgen.com) tells of how the Lord saved him when he had no idea he needed to be saved.  A powerful and moving and ....odd....story.   May it bless you and point you to Jesus.
 
Here for Audio of the talk

Here for Holy Trinity's Website 

Here for Matt's Website 

Faith in the Storm: The loss of a child. (Brenda and Brett McBride)

From Holy Trinity, Charleston's 2012 Lenten Series in entitled: Faith under fire...life in a stormy world.  This is the 3rd in that series but the first one with a working recording available.  Brenda and Brett McBride tell there heart breaking story of loss and their glorious story of healing and redemption in Christ.

Here for the audio.

Here for church website

Soon to come... Sunday sermons from Holy Trinity, Charleston SC

Keep checking back.

How To Receive Criticism Like A Champ by Mark Altrogge on March 14, 2012

I don’t love to be criticized or critiqued.  I must admit, I don’t love “input.”

I think this goes back to my Intro to Design class in college.  One day Dr. Grinchwold (named changed) walked past my desk, looked disdainfully at my project, a 3-dimensional paper fly (which was brilliant, by the way), and muttered something.  “Excuse me, what did you say?” I asked.  To which he replied for the whole class to hear, “I said, ‘Do you have a match?’  Because you should burn that thing.”  I was stunned, mortified and humiliated.  I wanted to say, “If I had a match I’d light your pants on fire,” but I didn’t.

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Heath Lambert: Gracious Candor: A Tutorial in Speaking Truth in Love

...Now of course there is Ephesians 4:15 to consider and apply: Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ. If we are to grow up in Christ in the context of our conversations, the apostle Paul commands two things about our words...  here for entire post

Links for Parent Internet Safety Workshop at Good Shepherd, Charleston SC

Timers and monitoring software.

http://www.akrontech.com/

Enuff PC

http://www.covenanteyes.com/

Covenant Eyes

http://www.x3watch.com/

XXXChurch

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/parental-controls

Windows 7 Parental Controls.

Parent Computer Safety and Internet Health sites.

www.commonsensemedia.org

Common Sense Media

http://www.thinkb4u.com/

Think Before You.

http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-privacy-settings-3-2011-08

Facebook Privacy Explanation and settings.

Mere Anglicanism Conference 2012 talks now online. (Anglican TV)

For those of us who were not able to attend the recent MERE ANGLICANISM conference, here are a number of the talks that are now on line...  Thanks to Anglicantv.com
Mere Anglicanism 2012

The New Year is here....

My prayer is for the Lord to grant you a Happy and Blessed New Year. Even though I'm a reformed and uber Protestant...I leave you with this quote from the Pope.


Yes, joy enters the hearts of those who put themselves at the service of the lowly and poor. God abides in those who love like this and their souls rejoice. If, instead, people make an idol of happiness, they lose their way and it is truly hard for them to find the joy of which Jesus speaks. Pope Benedict XVI

For those of you wondering what happened at the Province IV Bishop's meeting with Bishop Lawrence of teh Diocese of South Carolina click here for not much on the subject.  Thanks to Canon Harmon

Bishop Lawrence Writes to the Diocese of South Carolina About Disciplinary Board Decision

Find the letter here.

The Disciplinary Board for Bishops has spoken. Bishop Lawrence exonerated.

Click the link to read the letter from the Rt. Rev. Dorsey Henderson  Disciplinary Board for Bishops

Blessed are...

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled (Matthew 5:6). Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are neither “do-gooders” seeking to establish their own rightness before God and humans, nor even those who work for “social justice,” worthy as their causes may be, for both activities too often lead to further division and to the self-righteousness that destroys the integrity of human community. Hungering and thirsting for righteousness describes those who yearn for the full restoration of broken relationships, who feel the ache and frustration of aloneness in the world, and who are willing to make themselves vulnerable to those who are enemies and strangers. Jesus promises that this hope will be satisfied in God’s reign.

Saunders, Stanley P. (2011-04-13). Preaching the Gospel of Matthew (p. 33). Westminster John Knox Press. Kindle Edition.

(buy this book here)

An Urgent Message from the Bishop and Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.

Click here for the .pdf file.

It is also found at the Diocesan Website.

Pray for the Diocese of SC.  Our intent is to stay in TEC as an orthodox diocese.

Spiritual but Not Religious? Please Stop Boring Me.

Even from the UCC this is a good message... C.T.+


Matthew 16:18

"And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it."

Reflection by Lillian Daniel

On airplanes, I dread the conversation with the person who finds out I am a minister and wants to use the flight time to explain to me that he is "spiritual but not religious." Such a person will always share this as if it is some kind of daring insight, unique to him, bold in its rebellion against the religious status quo.

Next thing you know, he's telling me that he finds God in the sunsets. These people always find God in the sunsets. And in walks on the beach. Sometimes I think these people never leave the beach or the mountains, what with all the communing with God they do on hilltops, hiking trails and . . . did I mention the beach at sunset yet?

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