Spiritual Related Discussions on Family Bible| Family Bible Study | | I am looking to organize a more structured bible study time (and possible program) for my family. I crave discussion, and my kids like projects. Do you have any suggestions? I have 4 kids ranging from 4 to 13. How did you make your family bible study successful? What kind of obstacles did you run into? How did you manage? | |
| | Family Bible | | I have just come into the possession of our family Bible. It is very old and in sort of bad shape, I suppose from not being taken care of properly and due to age. It dates back to the turn of the 20th century. I had not seen this bible in many years because I gave it to my oldest sister for safekeeping when my last great-aunt died back in the early nineties. It had been stored in their family garage until my niece came upon it after my late sister's husband went to the nursing home recently. I know that there has probably been a lot of information lost from it through the years, but I plan to start going through it later today to see if I can find any valuable information there. This just got me wondering how many of my fellow myLotters have a Family Bible, and in whose possession is it? | |
| | Focus on the Family bible narrator arrested | | This just goes to show that any religion or faith can have it's bad apples.http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12083195 and http://coloradoindependent.com/25840/focus-on-the-family-narrator-charged-with-luring-teenage-girl-for-sex-on-netThis 42 year old man thought he was hooking up with a 15 year old girl he had met on-line. Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey touts the arrests, since 2005, of more than 235 adults for attempting to meet children and teens for sex.How does it make you feel when you hear of a person who should be over all a good person, someone in the position of being looked up to, falling way down? | |
| | Do you keep up with your family history? | | I was on a thread earlier, and the woman mentioned she kept a family bible. Do you or someone you know have a family bible with the history of your family? if so, how far back does it date? what interesting facts would you like to share? me personally...we just recently lost the last copy of our family bible. i found out a couple of years back that my family was huge on blacksmithing, and we mostly immigrated from ireland, but we constantly married germans. | |
| | What is the most vaulable thing in your house tonight | | Lets leave out the money and bank cards.The most vaulable thing to me would be my family bible.It has been passed down for about 115 years.all of the deaths,childrens births,marriages,are recorded in this bible.It gives me a piece of family history.A few faded flowers are pressed in it's pages and a few long forgotten pitcures.This bible is the most precious treasure I own. | |
| | if you are trying to search your family tree | | Rules for our ancestors-OR- How to confuse your descendants
(1) Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel, Richard, Thomas, William.
(2) Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, May.
(3) Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children.
(4) Thou shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call them by strange nicknames such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sukey.---making them difficult to trace.
(5) Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or census reports, and only where necessary, you may use only initials on legal documents.
(6)Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that your surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks.
(7) Thou shalt, after no more then 3 generations, make sure that all family records are lost, misplaced, burned in a court house fire, or buried so that NO future trace of them can be found.
(8) Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors, & vague innuendo regarding your place origination.
(A) you may have come from: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales....or Iran.
(B) you... | |
| | What kind of BOOKS & MAGAZINE DoYou READ? | | As of now, we can see many kind of Books. In the bookstore you can find, books for cooking, for family, Bible in any version, books being used in school(from kinder to tertiary) and many more. As for me i am prepared to read the adventure story and pocket books. How about you my friends, what books and magazine do you READ that satisfy you? | |
| | Is A Woman A Pastor? | | I have been a born again Christian for many years and have taken care to study the bible to learn first hand what the word of God says. Moreso, as back in my university days, we were often caught up in arguments relating to how authentic those who speak in tongues were and things like that. I also took up voluntary work in church mainly as a Sunday school teacher in a Baptist church, but oftentimes, I have wondered why certain practices are allowed.
Notably, the scripture says in I Tim 2:12 'And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.' (NKJV) I get amazed at the flagrant disobedience of this scripture as women are even more in number in the Sunday school as teachers. Thanks to my electronic bible that contains so much more than a paper bible can. I get so much information from commentaries, other bible versions, dictionaries and the like.
One of the commentaries I use most, Family Bible Notes, explains it better as follows:
Nor to usurp authority meaning as she would should she undertake publicly to teach. It is the revealed will of God that public religious teachers should be men, not women. He has alloted to them different... | |
| | Fresh perspectives | | [b]I hope these children's perspectives help brighten your day![/b][em]happy[/em][u]1) NUDITY[/u]
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, 'Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!'
[u]2) OPINIONS[/u]
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, 'The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents.'
[u]3) KETCHUP[/u]
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. 'Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle.'
[u]4) MORE NUDITY[/u]A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, 'What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a little boy before?'[u]5) POLICE #... | |
| | You're making a time capsule...what are you going to put in it? | | You are making a time capsule..that won't be opened for 100 years. What are you going to put in it? For mine, I'm going to add a photo of my family, our family bible, a cd with all my favorite songs, my favorite recipe book, a copy of my favorite movie, current copies of newspapers and magazines and a note detailing all the wonderful things about this era and errors I think my generation has made in the hopes the future generation will continue with what worked for us and not make the same mistakes on what hasn't. What about you? | |
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