You Tube

Just Discovered You Tube.

Excellent!

Had to see if it was on it – and it was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy2h5QtV0yE

Sorry, but it cracks me up every time. 

The Value Of Human Life

Interestingly enough it was into a world not that dissimilar to ours that the commandment “You shall not murder” was delivered. It too was a world that treated life as cheap – hence the gruesome tale in Exodus of the Pharoh ordering all the Jewish baby boys to be thrown into the Nile to be drowned. This was a world of human sacrifice, with Cannanite babies being thrown into the fire to appease the god Moloch. Why then did this vagabond rabble which had the audacity to call itself a nation, believe that all forms of unlawful killing of human beings were morally reprehensible? What was it made them think that they were right and all other nations wrong?It was because of three beliefs which underlie the sixth commandment and which are woven into the whole fabric of the book of Deuteronomy:

Life is a gift

Life is on loan

Life is to be redeemed

Greed

“Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed: a man’s life does not consist in abundance of his possessions.”Jesus pronounced with a tone of alarm. He went on to tell of a rich man who built bigger and bigger barns to hold his grain only to die with little to show for his life but succession of large barns. Jesus’ concern over the seductive power of greed shows in the fact that one sixth of his sayings in the gospels centre on money and it’s dangers. As the rich man demonstrated, wealth offers a glittering short-term satisfaction that obscures the real purpose of living. In consumer societies such as US and Europe, greed drives the economies. We want more and more and advertisers play on our fears that we never have enough. G.K. Chesterton said “There are two ways to get enough, one is to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less”.

Rich and Poor

“If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him how can the love of God be in him? Dear children let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. ” (1 John 3:17+18)

My Hope Is In You

(A Poem By Me!)