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8 “‘These people honour me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
9 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules
These words were written so long ago, yet they still ring true to the church today. If Ablaze and Powerhouse is to ever make a change, we need to make sure our hearts and minds are engaged at EVERY Service and at EVERY life group.
Otherwise, we might as well go home and carry on with the rest of our lives.
If this had happened in the original, I might have paid more attention to my English classes on 19th Century English Literature:
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10945050
A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung.
Ron Sveden had been battling emphysema for months when his condition deteriorated.
He was steeling himself for a cancer diagnosis when X-rays revealed the growth in his lung.
Doctors believe that Mr Sveden ate the pea at some point, but it "went down the wrong way" and sprouted.
"One of the first meals I had in the hospital after the surgery had peas for the vegetable. I laughed to myself and ate them," Mr Sveden told a local Boston TV reporter.
Mr Sveden said the plant was about half an inch (1.25cm) in size.
"Whether this would have gone full-term and I’d be working for the Jolly Green Giant, I don’t know. I think the thing that finally dawned on me is that it wasn’t the cancer," Mr Sveden said.
He is currently recovering at home with his wife Nancy, who joked that God must have a sense of humour.
People’s Union for Democratic Rights and Ors v. Union of India & Others
Facts:
The People’s Union for Democratic Rights were a group commissioned three social scientists to investigate and inquire into the conditions of construction workers in the lead-up to the 1982 Asian Games held in India. Based on the report, they complained of various violations in labour laws including, among other things:
1) Workers wages were siphoned off by middle-men rather than given to the workers directly
2) The women who were working there weren’t paid an equal wage
3) Children under the age of 14 were working at these construction sites
4) Generally appalling working conditions
Awesome Quote:
The time has now come when the courts must become the courts for the poor and struggling masses of this country. They must shed their character as upholders of the established order and the status quo. They must be sensitised to the need of doing justice to the large masses of people to whom justice has been denied by a cruel and heartless society for generations. The realisation must come to them that social justice is the signature tune of our Constitution and it is their solemn duty under the Constitution to enforce the basic human rights of the poor and vulnerable sections of the community and actively help in the realisation of the constitutional goals. This new change has to come if the judicial system is to become an effective instrument of social justice for without it, it cannot survive for long.
34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
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There is a saying that goes “a means to an end”.
For us, the end is loving God and loving people.
Everything else is a means to an end. What does that mean for us?
My parents and I are in the car and getting ready to leave Market Square. Dad decides to exit via the “No Exit” side of the car park.
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Me: Dad, no exit.
Dad: I’m not exiting, I’m just reversing out
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Gotta love them 
