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*LINKING* NewsletterVolume 4, Issue #003, August 2010
From the editor:Ok, I admit it's been a while since I put together a newsletter. But I'm happy to bring you your August 2010 LINKING - howbeit a bit late, again! I've had some major changes as you have probably noticed if you have visited the web site in the last couple of months. The correspondence courses are no longer available AS I HAVE OFFERED THEM for the past several years. They will however be turned into Internet Courses. But that will take a bit of time. In the meantime though, you can go through the free e-courses available as well as the new series of Local Bible Studies which I put up weekly on the web. You can see them at this link Again, I take this opportunity to remind you that you are very much valued as a subscriber and friend of this Ministry -- you are greatly appreciated. Let us enjoy our communication in the Lord from across the miles. Oh, and on this note, a new page has been added just for that purpose of communication -- sharing your thought, question, comment or testimony... just click here for more info. May God Bless You ! I wish you all a great month and a good read... Dr.Diane P.S.: Please Vote for Link School's Web Site! Next time you visit www.linkschool21.com please don't forget to scroll down on the Home Page to the "Cross Daily VOTE NOW button" and click on it for the School! Thanks. News... On the home front: Link School of Ministries has begun a series of Local Bible Studies and is putting up the studies on the web site weekly. You can see them here. And as mentioned in my editorial above, a new page has been set-up for the specific purpose of you sharing with all of us any thought, question, testimony, etc... just click here for more info.
For the latest on current Middle East issues: Views...
It always amazes me how few people are interested in friendship anymore. Not only are we our brother's keeper, but we are also our friendship's builder. I have noticed that people have become less and less friendly. Of course this was predicted some years ago that people would become hermits. And the Internet has placed the final nail in that coffin. Some years ago I was invited to speak at a Church gathering back in Toronto. My topic for that event was all about "Cultivating Friendship". I have recently searched my papers to revive this issue for discussion but have not yet found it. I know I still have it because I saw it some time ago while cleaning up old files. However, since it's been on my mind a lot lately, I will try and summarize the content here for the time being. I meet a lot of people on a weekly basis and I cannot but observe how society has become distant, even avoiding time spent with one another so that we can't get "too close". Conversations are brisk and shallow, even to the point of avoiding it altogether, just to be on a safe side. "Don't ask me too many questions", is what many seem to be saying. It's sad. And it doesn't matter if you try to pick up the responsibility of "cultivating" or at least of trying to cultivate friendship, it seems too often to fall on deaf ears -- or deaf emotions. Being our brother's keeper is not only about helping one another in times of needs or pre-needs, but it is also about keeping friendship alive. Friendship requires cultivating, and pruning and caring, just like a garden requires it. But, today, one kind of feels weird about doing it alone -- especially without reciprocal responses. /dmh What do you think? Share your thought here. Inspiration, Motivation, Information... Obtaining Wisdom and Losing Pride There is an interesting story in "The Speaking Oak" published in the early 1900's, about Benjamin Franklin writing to a Dr. Mathes of Bostonm MA. He wrote: "The last time I saw your father was in the beginning of 1724, when I visited him after my first trip to Pennsylvania. "He received me in his library and on my taking leave, showed me a shorter way out of the house, through a narrow passage, which was crossed by a beam overhead. "We were still talking as I withdrew; he accompanying me behind, and I turning partly toward him, when he said hastily, 'Stoop! Stoop!' "I did not understand him, till I felt my head hit against the beam. "He was a man who never missed any occasion of giving instruction; and upon this, he said to me, 'You are young, and have the world before you, stoop as you go through, and you'll miss many hard thumps.' "This advice thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it when I see pride mortified, and misfortune brought upon people, by carrying their heads too high."./dmh
Proverbs 11:2 -"When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom."
A bit of History... Whatever happened to the twelve Apostles? The "Century Book of Facts, published in the early 1900's, tells us that only one of Christ's apostles escaped martyrdom -- John. "Matthew is believed to have been slain with a sword in Ethiopia. "James, son of Zebedee, was beheaded at Jerusalem. "James, the brother of our Lord, was thrown from a pinnacle of the Temple and then beaten to death with a fuller's club. "Philip was hanged up against a pillar at Hieropolis, a city of Phrygia. "Bartholomew was flayed alive at Albanapolis, in Armenia. "Andrew suffered martyrdom on a cross at Patrae, in Achaia. "Thomas was run through the body with a lance at Coromandel, in the East Indies. "Thaddeus was shot to death with arrows. "Simon Zelotes was crucified in Persia. "Peter was crucified, head downward it is said, during the Neronian persecution. "Matthias was first stoned and then beheaded at Rome by the tyrant Nero. "Judas Iscariot, after the begrayal of our Lord, hung himself.
Unlike the "hall of faith" of Hebrews 11, these Apostles truly lived by certainty rather than faith alone.
Book and Web Site Review ... Here's a great link to read about what happening in the Christian scene: click here.
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Blessings
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