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Friday, January 11, 2008
My Day!!
Me and my friend from Ramstein went today to a chocolate factory in Laaber. The Seidle Confiserie is around 30 minutes drive from our house. Since my friend will be leaving tomorrow back home, she bought some chocolates as present for her family. We really had some fun during our stay there. We made some picture-taking in which some customers were looking at us. They just wondered where the flash of the camera came from. Well, we don't care as long as we can have from photos from there.
The factory sales a variety of chocolates especially with different kind of nuts. Just happened to read there that Macadamia is the King of Nuts. Well, I love nuts but I just avoid eating it all the time because I always got pimples every time I eat a lot.
I would like to share some photos for some evidence...just kidding!!...we just had a nice day today...hope you too..enjoy your weekend!!
Bible Readings
No longer slaves to sin.
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin -- because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Romans 6:6,7 NIV
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My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 John 2:1-3 KJV
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This is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead. Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.''
Acts 10:42,43 NASB
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In Christ, we are more than conquerors... Try memorizing Romans 6 - the whole chapter and ask the Lord to help you overcome sin on a daily basis!
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Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift:
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God
is the object of our faith; the only faith
that saves is faith in Him.
The Exceptions Can Kill You
Question: How many times have you been cornered by an individual who was excited about his new eating and exercise program? Did he go into great detail about how much it had improved his confidence, self-image and energy level and how wonderful he felt? Of course he did, and he probably told you far more about it than you really wanted to know.
Chances are good you didn't see that person for a few months, and when you did, you noticed he had regained the weight and that his enthusiasm had diminished, and his life was not nearly as promising for him as it had been.
Needless to say, you wondered what happened. In most cases, the answer is simple: One day, he made an "exception" to the process of eating sensibly and exercising regularly because "one time wouldn't matter." Then, a week or so later, he made the second exception, and a few days later, he made the third because he "couldn't really tell any difference." Once that old set of destructive habits had been firmly re-entrenched, the newer, better way of living was all over. It started with the first exception.
All of us have heard about people who stopped smoking for 10 years and then, one day, they made the exception with disastrous results. Or the alcoholic who had been sober for years and, one day, decided that a glass of wine or one beer couldn't really be that bad, and besides, he owed it to himself to have a little fun.
The rest of the story becomes history. The message really is very clear: Once you get on the right path, stay there. Watch those exceptions; they can be destroyers.
Think about it, and I'll see you at the top!
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Success Is a Partnership
There is an old cliche that behind every successful man, there is a surprised mother-in-law. In most, if not all, cases, success is a direct result of the efforts of the individual and the support and encouragement of others.
Like the fellow says, when you see a turtle on a fence post, you can rest assured that he did not get there by himself. When you see an individual climbing the success ladder and reaching the top, you can rest assured he did not get there entirely as a result of his own efforts. In virtually every case, each person had hope and encouragement from others.
Nathaniel Hawthorne is a good example. He was discouraged and had a broken heart when he went home to tell his wife that he was a failure because he had been fired from his job in the customs house. Upon hearing the news, she startled him with an exuberant exclamation of joy. "Now," she said triumphantly, "you can write your book!" To that, Hawthorne responded with the question, "What are we going to live on while I am writing this book?" To his surprise and delight, she opened a drawer and drew out a substantial sum of money. "Where did you get that?" he asked. Her response is classic: "I've always known you were a man of genius," she told him, "and I knew that someday you would write a masterpiece, so every week, out of the money you gave me for housekeeping, I saved part of it. Here's enough to last us for a whole year." From wife Sophia's trust, confidence, thrift and careful planning came one of the classics of American literature: "The Scarlet Letter."
This story of success can be repeated a few thousand times -- or make that a few million. It happens all the time.
If this is your story in life, I hope you're careful to give credit to those who assisted you because if you do, I will see you farther up the ladder to the top!
Wuerzburg Sightseeing
Würzburg (Wuerzburg in English spelling) is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located on the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken. The regional dialect is Franconian.
Würzburg is approximately 80 minutes train journey from Frankfurt, and almost an hour from Nuremberg. Distances to the nearest cities by motorway: Frankfurt 115 km, Nuremberg 115 km, Stuttgart 150 km, Kassel 215 km.
The city of Würzburg is not included in district of Würzburg, but is its administrative seat.
By 1000 BC a Celtic fortification stood the site of the Fortress Marienberg. It was Christianized in 686 by the Irish missionaries Kilian, Colman and Totnan. The city is first mentioned as Vurteburch in 704. The first diocese was founded by St. Bonifatius in 742. He appointed the first bishop of Würzburg, St. Burkhard. The bishops eventually created a duchy with its center in the city, which extended in the 12th century to Eastern Franconia. The city was the seat of several Imperial diets, including the one of 1180, in which Henry the Lion was banned from the Empire and his duchy was handed over to Otto of Wittelsbach.
Bible Readings
Meditation: The Bread of Life
"I Am The Bread of Life"
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."
John 6:35-40 NIV
Bible Verses
He gives us a new heart!
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Ezekiel 36:24-27 KJV
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:17,18 NIV
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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:12-14 NASB
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Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift:
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God
is the object of our faith; the only faith
that saves is faith in Him.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Trip to Trier, Germany
"Trier stood one thousand and three hundred years before Rome." An inscription on the "Red House" on the main market makes this claim. Naturally it is a Medieval invention, but the statement has a historical background. Indeed, there were settlements in the Trier valley as early as the third century B.C. and Trier was the first city north of the Alps which rightly bore the designation city.
Augusta Treverorum, later Trier, was founded around 16 B.C. by the Romans under Emperor Augustus near a tribal sanctuary of the Celtic Treveri. Towards the end of the third century A.D., Emperor Diocleatian made Trier now called Treviri, a Roman imperial residence and capital of the West Roman Empire. At about the same time, Trier developed into a centre of early Christianity. Conquered in the 5th Century by the Franks, Trier was seeded to the East Frankish/German Empire when the Carolingian Empire was divided in 870. In 958, the Market Cross was erected, making the present day Main Market the centre of the Medieval City.
In the 14th Century are Archbishops became Electoral Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. They made Trier the capital of their Electoral State, a city which experienced great flowering and profound decline up to the dissolution of the Empire at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century. Trier was briefly annexed to France and became a part of Prussia in 1815. After 1945 it became a part of the state of Rhineland/Palatinate in the Federal Republic of Germany.
TRIER TODAY
Trier is a Bishop's seat, a cultural, traffic and economic hub of the state; it is a University City with a harbor on the Mosele water way, site of well-known industrial companies, a wine cultivation and wine trading centre, a shopping, tourist and conference city. Trier has around 100,000 inhabitants.
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