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What the hamsters are teaching me

1)Be content with where you are 2)It really does you no good to jam it all in your mouth. Don't hoard it, You can’t hold it

Truth is still laying in the street, and Righteousness is still standing afar off…

For the first time ever, NY Times Bestselling Author Zane and Pastor Jamal Harrison-Bryant join forces to lecture and enlighten on the topic, "How to Love a Black Man-Biblically". Now Zane is the New York Times Bestselling Author of several titles like: Addicted, The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth, Skyscraper, Nervous, Gettin’ Buck Wild: The Sex Chronicles 2, The Sisters of APF, Shame on it All, and The Heat Seekers. So this woman, the so-called ‘queen of erotica’, and a ‘Pastor’, are going to teach God’s people how to Love a Black Man-Biblically Biblically???? Jamal Bryant? ‘Mr. I am a pastor who has several children with several women including a teenage parishioner while married’??? Zane? Biblical?? Lord Have Mercy! This has all the ingredients of a first class course in filth and debauchery, with some scripture twisting thrown in… This is the equivalent of James Dobson doing a marriage enrichment seminar with Hugh Hefner. Mind you, this ‘event’ is being held in Past

The Life Cycle of the average Church?

Where in the cycle do you see yourself, or your church? I have found in my studies that we (churches, though this formula also holds true in organizations, even cults) tend to follow the same pattern. A pattern that God desires to break us out of: 1) The Revelation/Impartation It begins with a life changing encounter with God, or a vision imparted. 2) The Sharing/Telling The sharing of the vision then begins. Whether it be preaching, or in song, or however, the dissemination of the message begins 3) The Gathering The anointing of God, the lure of the vision, and the charisma/integrity of the visionary begins to draw people. Those who have caught the vision now begin to meet together, praying/praising/worshipping... It is the upper room time, leading up to the day of Pentecost 4) The Institutionalization Gradually, we come to believe that a certain formalization of the organization is necessary. We then set about the task of 'building' the church/movement 5) The Ritualization We

Oh, Flo-ri-da...I am speechless once again...

So Apparently, in Florida the size of a woman's behind is: a) Important in the Electoral Process b) Dependent upon what tribe you're from c) Part of the criteria when deciding the winner of a Presidential debate I am speechless once again...