If you are wanting a few laughs, make sure you are comfortably seated and watch these videos! They have become our favorites in a short time!
The first is a comedian, Mark Lowry. Just hilarious! Some comedians tend to mock others to be funny and I don't appreciate that. Mark Lowry doesn't mock (that I've seen), but rather puts things as they are- using himself as an example. He absolutely loves his momma, which always puts stars for me when they love their family. :) He never married and just enjoyed being a gift of laughter to others and using his gifts for God.
Ever heard the song "Mary Did You Know"? Well, here is the author. :)
This is my favorite video of his- because it is too true! It is clean, so grab your siblings to watch. You know they will hear it and come running right at the middle anyway, so just start out with them!!!! Oh- and your mom because she will appreciate it the most! Introducing Mark Lowry in "Mommas Had Enough!"
My second video is one we just found today. We have already watched several of their videos and love them! Too cute! Again, these are very clean and your whole family will enjoy them. :)
Well, let me know what you think! My family has really enjoyed them and has to almost say "only 3" or else we are online all day long watching them!
Reading through this book by Brother Andrew has really opened my eyes to what a Passion for my Lord looks like. I want it sooo badly I ache inside. But it is an ache with the knowledge that it can be so. I too, can have a passion that will burn down forests. I pray for that! I pray for a man who is so on fire for the Lord that he will burn me. It sounds funny to say it that way, but if you will look at it like it was intended I hope you will see what I mean.
This video was just amazing. These guys are Warriors of the High King of kings. I encourage you to watch this video. Believe me, it won't be a waste of your time. I even watched it a second time to really take in what was said.
What do you think? Do you agree with what he says?
HIS Daughter,
Rebecca
I pray you have a wonderful day tomorrow and that you remember the Best Gift of all, Jesus coming down from His place in Heaven and becoming a mere man to ransom us.
I realized that although Christmas we spend it with family and eating dinner, it is really the preparation of the time before that we focus on Jesus the most. And it should be, we spend more time that way! Just as we are preparing our gifts for the ones we love, so God was preparing a gift for those He Loves. What a precious gift it was, too!!!!!
Here are a couple of things I want to share....
1) the Mark Hamby devotional that came today. Amazing how twisted things can become over time! Much like gossip we twist things around until they aren't true! Although we can't know for sure, I believe Mr. Hamby has it pretty close...
Away in a Manger
It's amazing the assumptions we make through the years--so much so that, in our minds, fiction becomes fact. Here are a few myth busters that will surprise you:
Myth #1: Mary rode to Bethlehem on a donkey. Nowhere to be found in the Scriptures.
Myth #2: The innkeeper sent Mary and Joseph out to the stable because there was no room in the inn. Nowhere in the Scriptures is an innkeeper mentioned!
Myth #3: Mary and Joseph tried to check in at an inn. The word INN is better translated guest room. Most families had a guest room attached to their homes.
Considering that generous hospitality was part of the culture, and that a few hundred people that would have comprised this Bethlehem village, it would have been most unlikely that Mary and Joseph would have been turned away.
Not sold yet? Picture this. A typical home back then consisted of one large living room, a separate but attached guest room (the inn), and one additional room, open to the living area, situated about three feet below the living quarters, like a split level. The peasants used this room to house their animals at night in order to avoid theft. A trough or manger was dug into the living room floor, which allowed the larger animals to stick their heads over the partial wall to drink and eat. Can you picture this? Jesus was born in the living room!
To turn away a pregnant woman would have been unthinkable in Middle Eastern culture. The baby Jesus was not turned away--He was welcomed into someone's home because there was no room in the guest room where Joseph had originally planned on staying!
What really happened? May we become like the Bereans of Acts 17 who received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Pretty interesting, eh?
2) I have fallen in love with this song! It is so beautiful!!! I love how the song is NOT in a minor that makes you want to cry or something. This one just makes my soul sing.
"Was anyone able to look past the stable, and not see a child but a King"
We watched this on an e-mail that passed around and LOVED it! If you have ever had cats, this is so true. They are all clean fun, so grab your kids or siblings.
It is bittersweet watching this as my loved cat, Snickers, has gone missing. If anything, these videos were thought-up by watching him. Anyway, as much as Snickers was a stinker at times, he was my favorite cat. I really have been missing him...
Did you know there is a holocaust going on in America today? We talk about it all the time. We don't use that word for it, there is another term used to make it "politically correct".
If you don't know what I am talking about, watch this video. (for age 14+ unless edited by parents. Talks about adultery, etc.)
If you haven't ever watched this guys video's, you should. He is great! He gets a good point across with his sarcasm making it hilarious! Take the time to watch a few of his video's, he is funny.
This is one that I thought was funny as well as good. Sometimes we make Jesus out to be this big sissy when He truly wasn't. I thought Mitchell makes a good point about it.
Mercy Me is one of my favorite song groups. They have some great music that gets your head moving, and yet the lyrics will make you stop and think. Here is one of them.... I added the lyrics below.
Well if I come across a little bit distant It's just because I am Things just seem to feel a little bit different You understand Believe it or not but life is not apparently About me anyways But I have met the One who really is worthy So let me say
So long, self Well, it's been fun, but I have found somebody else So long, self There's just no room for two So you are gonna have to move So long, self Don't take this wrong but you are wrong for me, farewell Oh well, goodbye, don't cry So long, self
Stop right there because I know what you're thinking But no we can't be friends And even though I know your heart is breaking This has to end And come to think of it the blame for all of this Simply falls on me For wanting something more in life than all of this Can't you see
Don't feel so bad (don't feel so bad) There'll be better days (there'll be better days) Don't go away mad (but by all means) Just go away, go away
