Christian Photographers Community

Sorry, Judy, that you didn't get them emails saying that CP was down.  Dear Jenny sent the first one out at just after 1:30 or so our time at lunch and I wasn't home but at least then the group knew.

I just went to Yahoo and you had yourself there as "Special Notices".  You won't get these emails if you are on as that.  I've just changed it to "Emails".



Anyone who isn't on our Email List at Yahoo and would like to be on it, please let me know.  We don't send emails out all the time like other Yahoo groups.  This list is just wonderful to have for times that our website is down and so that we can communicate one with the other.


Here's the URL of our CP site at Yahoo:

Christian Photographers at Yahoo

Make this site one of your "favorites" after you're registered and then you can alert the group if the site is unreachable.


Pat

It's great to see CP back up.
I had a suggestion made to me during the last day or so - go see the Passion, but don't expect it to be a great blessing to you.  Instead, try to remember as much of it as possible, and think of ways to answer unbelievers who may comment to you about it.  Once thing that was mentioned was that in Jesus' actual crucifixion the greatest pain was not physical - though physical pain was indeed terrible.  But the greatest pain was God's rejection of our Savior as our Sponsor - as though He were guilty of our sin.  It's why He said, "My God, My God, Why hast Thou forsaken Me?"  That's what we need to be able to tell unbelievers about that crucifuxion.

I come home to all these emails.  I am glad I wasn't around all day.  I think I would have had withdrawals.  hehehehe....

Glad we are back up.

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Larry and Janet,  Zachery throat is still pretty sore with white stuff all over it, but it doesn't hurt as bad.  He still talks like a Kermit the frog and his ears are plugged.

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Our church is having a gathering with other churches next Sunday and Chandraya will be singing a solo.

(She is signing the whole song by herself)

Thank you, God for making me
eyes and nose
hands and feet
ears to hear
and lips to sing
and a heart that beats for You.

Par rump pump pump
Par rump pump pump
Par rump pump pump
Par rump pump pump

And a heart that beats for You!

She sings it 2 times.  
She practiced tonight up in front of the church.  She is so tiny up there all by herself.  I am so proud of her.

I am very thankful for all my kids.

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Our new Pastor preached today.  It was an awesome serman.  I really got my toes stepped on.  I love it when that happens.  Now if I can just change my ways.  

I better head to bed.
Night all.
Soni

Goodnes., arn't we like lost sheep when CP is down!... I couldn't relax and try to sleep, without checking in to see if everything was up and running...and it is., so, many thanks to Pat, and Ian for fixing the problem.

Soni:  I'm interested... just what was the topic your new Pastor spoke on? We all need to get our toes stepped on now and then don't we.

The church I am presently attending is doing the series that many of your churches have done...the book by Rick Warren.  This was the first Sunday.

I give a lot of credit to you Mom's who are home schooling children.  I know I couldn't do it.  Judy B, nice that your Pastor lets you use the church for schooling, meals etc.  It saves you a lot of extra running back and forth with the car.  The price of gas here is very high right now.  I saw it for 73 cents a litre today.

Thanks, Larry for asking about Norm. I'm really praying that milk is the problem.  We can deal with that!

Eddie:  I am so sorry to learn of the deaths of your two friends.  I'm hoping that your dad is in good health...is he?

Well, its nearly 1:am... time to turn in.

Talk to you tomorrow...oops., I mean, later today!

Love..... Judy

Mon 23rd 10.a.m. U.K.


Praise God!

Good Morning All.

Perhaps yesterday has taught us our need of one another.........

"Bind us together Lord, bind us together,
With Cords that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together,
O bind us together with love.

There is only one God,
There is only one King.
There is only one body;
that is why we sing.

Made for the glory of God,
purchased by His Precious Son.
Born with the right to be clean,
for Jesus the victory has won.

You are the family of God.
You are the promise divine.
You are God's chosen desire.
You are the glorious new wine.

Good morning to all. I have beeen "out-of-touch" in NEM..but you have all been in my prayers.  Just trying to spend more "morning-time" in His Word and prayer.  
I saw where some of you were at the Pampered Chef party yesterday. I love these parties because we get to eat and see new recipies.  At one time I wanted to be a "Pampered Chef representative.  It sure does sound like fun!

May God bless each of you today..it's time for work.

in His love, kathy

Good morning all....sorry to see that the sight has been down...got sooooooooooo many posts had hardly the time to go through them all.

I pray that you all have a wonderful day in the Lord today and that you are used by Him to bring Him glory....
Paulette

good morning everyone,
It's cold this morning they are predicting rain today turning into snow tonight for our county i like the rain not to excited about the snow!welll i guess i bettered get ready and off to school ttyl
Sarah

Good morning.  Well, we had a good day here yesterday but of course this site was down for awhile.  I marvel that the Internet exists at all.  I don't understand how all this works.  It is amazing that we can sit at home and communicate with people all over the world.  So if we have a few hours when it doesn't work for us it is not a big thing.

I want to share a passage which I hope will bless you today.  Every day can be a day of rejoicing when we put our faith in the Lord.

Ps 5:11-12  But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you.  For surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.  (NIV)



--- Papa John    
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2.50 p.m. U.K.
Thank you Dear Papa John

That is a wonderful prayer verse. I will stand in that promise.

The sun is shining over here just now....

God Bless dear Papa John and Cornelia.Jenny.

Papa John, thank you for those verses--a wonderful thought to start my day today.  You are such a blessing to us here on CP.  I agree, I have no inkling how the internet works, but if used for God, it is such a blessing!

Lee, our pastor is preaching a series of sermons from Genesis, on the parallels of the lives of Joseph and Jesus.  It is really good, and I am learning things I never knew before.  Yesterday we were in Chapter 41, and he brought out (among other things) that when Pharoah set Joseph over the whole country of Egypt, he gave him a new name.  He said no one has been able to discern the meaning of that name.  Then he took us to Revelations where Jesus returns and has a name written on Him which no one knows except He HImself.  

The Bible is so wonderful!  No matter how much or how often you read it, it is always fresh and always new things to discover.  Praise God.

Sonja, I don't know why, but until a few years ago I didn't realize that throat pain is like other kinds of pain, and you can take aspirin or tylenol or similar stuff to help with it.  Of course, you know which meds Zachery can tolerate.  Hugs for the little guy!

I wish I could see sweet little Chandraya up there singing her song!  What a sweetheart!  It makes my heart smile to see children learning early to praise the Lord.  You and Mike are doing great with those four wonderful gifts from God.

I got finished reading the book "The Next Ressurection" last night, since CP wasn't on.  It is a good book, makes the book of Revelations very clear.  I have four other new books yet to read.

I will stop for now before this fills a whole page, but I suspect I will be back later.  We didn't get to swim this morning, for some reason the pool is closed.  

Gooood Morning!!!

I had a good night sleep.  

Troy and I are going to go work out this morning at the club.  
Somehow I pulled my back muscle so I hope I can lift correctly.  

I had mentioned last night that Chandraya was signing a song, she isn't deaf. She is just learning sign language, well our whole family is.

Not much is going on today.

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I see only a few early birds on here.  

Glad to see you posting Tenderheart and Kathy.  

Have a good day at school, Sarah.

Jenny~How is the weather there?  Are you going to ride the scooter today?  I seen some kids here rider their scooters.  They sure are loud.  Do you have electric or gas powered?

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QuoteBy Judy Mc.~ Soni:  I'm interested... just what was the topic your new Pastor spoke on? We all need to get our toes stepped on now and then don't we.

Judy Mc.~The words of his serman came from
Mark 12:28-34.  The part that really jumped out to me and landed on my toes was:
"Of all the commandments , which is the most important?"
"The most important one, " answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear , O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this:' Love your neighbor as yourself.'  Ther is not commandment great then these."

The Pastor had stated something like this.  We can not love the Lord fully if we don't love our neighbor(meaning anyone) truthfully.  Our hearts have to be clean. We need to repent and ask for forgiveness.  
God can not work through clogged (meaning sin) vessels in our body.  
If we are going to Love God fully we need to get rid of all the other little gods in our life. Like money, and anything that happens to come before God.

I love this quote he said:

"What makes a Christian  different, is we love the unlovable."

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I better get going...I spent more time on here then expected.
Have a good day, folks
Soni

3.54 in Holland

I am happy that CP is back but i have not add smilies now.

SONJA what a lovely song what Chandraya must sing in the church Sunday

Zacherey i am sorry te read that you still are sick.


JENNY a very lovely poem from you my dear.

This morning i have been to the doctor
they have been busy a long time for the bandage was away is was all dry blood. I have now a new big bandage on my toe i may the first time maybe weeks
not walk on normal shoes. Only summershoes.
Now we have first been shopping and i have buy very
tick socks the bandage is there for on this moment i
can still get and infection.

          I serve a risen Saviour,
              He's in the world today;
               I know that He is living,
            Whatever men may say.

LOVE AND PRAYERS
LOVE RIA  

Sonja, I thought you had just made a typo, and typed signing instead of singing! Ha ha ha ha!  Does she SING while she SIGNs?

QuoteBy Janet~Sonja, I don't know why, but until a few years ago I didn't realize that throat pain is like other kinds of pain, and you can take aspirin or tylenol or similar stuff to help with it.  Of course, you know which meds Zachery can tolerate.  Hugs for the little guy!

He is taking tylenal and ibruprophen for it.  Asprin would burn a is stomach since he has Cholitis (ulcers)

Thanks for the prayers. (hug)

I am glad you got that book finished.  I wonder if that is a book that my oldest son read. hmm...?
I will go look later.

NO Swimming? What are you going to do with your self? hehehe... Sorry it was closed.

Hope your day goes well.
Love you
Soni

QuoteBy Janet~I wish I could see sweet little Chandraya up there singing her song!  What a sweetheart!  It makes my heart smile to see children learning early to praise the Lord.  You and Mike are doing great with those four wonderful gifts from God.

I am going to video tape it and take some pictures so I will post them.  Maybe this summer when we plan to see each other I will have her sing it to you.  
You are a sweety. Yes she does sing and sign at the same time.  Thanks!
Soni

Hi Ria!!!

No smilies?  hmm...that is not good.  I wonder what is up with that?  Did you try to refresh the page?

I am glad your toe is better.  You say you are going shopping?  What you shopping for?  Cloths and stuff or just the normal stuff like food?  Sorry if I am being nosey.
Hope you have  a good day and thanks for praying for Zachery.


Jenny~I also  thank you for praying for Zachery!  

Love you both
Soni

SONJA you are not nosey but i i what are you saying when you are go buy socks that i don't no
Love RIA

THE SMILIES ARE NOW ALSO COMING
A LITTLE BIT SLOW BUT THEY ARE
RIA

 



Smiles and lots of love to Ria and Soni and anyone around at this time.....

A smile costs nothing and it helps to brighten someone's day.

Jenny  

Soni.

My little Rascal is a three wheeler and not noisy.She's electric battery charged.. goes upto 10 m.p.h. but most folks round here tell me they think I am faster than that...ha ha!  She is quite a fast little mover....Mind you she's American what do you expect!  

Good Morning, I haven't been on since yesterday morning, but I did try to get here after church and couldn't get in.  

I sure slept good last night after about a week of terrible sleeping patterns. Up and down several times during the night and very light sleep. This morning I enven slept until 7 which is unusual for me I am usually awake by 5:30-6.

Hello to everyone.

Jane I will be sending you an IM re: the email.

TTYL

Jane, is there any news about your two grandsons in Iraq?  I'm still praying for them.  I hope you are hearing from/about them regularly, I know how us Grandmas are!

Whew! I am so happy to CP is back and running.  Thanks for all the hard work to whom ever did the hard work to bring us back onto cyberspace.

Jerry and I were pleasantly surprised when we arrived at church.  At the duplicating booth was a note stating that starting Feb 22, we could tape and duplicate the whole service......music, prayers and the sermon.  We are now licensed!  So we used 90 minute tapes.  But that also takes 3 times longer to duplicate (4.5 minutes) than 30 minute tapes.  And yesterday was another God-praised day...both sermons were awesome.  Jerry and I duplicated at 48 tapes by both ministers.  

Judy Mc ~ I had to run the lights yesterday in the big auditorium so I didn't get to attend 'The Bridge'.  I did go in that auditorium at the last to get the audio tape and they were having a baptism.  Talk about packed like sardines.  That smaller auditorium was packed!  The teens have the overhead screen, two large monitors and two small monitors, neon lights, plus the musical instruments and the Praise Team singers....all glorifying God.  I just wish old and young could see these teens.  I know, to some it sounds like a production but these kids really love their God and want to glorify Him in their way.  And they do!!  As for Ali and Inky....well, they are Ali and Inky.  Inky is so busy when her eyes are open.  Ali never knows when she will be attacked.  But it is pleasant when Inky crashes and they can both take cat naps.

'The Passion of the Christ' ~ Did anyone or everyone see 'The Making of the Passion of the Christ' on PAX last night?  I am thinking that it is going to be on again so check your listings in your area.  I thought it was great and I know the movie is now made to honor Christ and follows the Gospels.  It was filmed in Italy.  Course, no one knew the Hebrew or Latin languages but the actors/actresses all had to speak those languages as well as do the acting.  This experience will change the world.  Does anyone besides me see something moving in this world....first...'The Purpose Driven Life' and now 'The Passion of the Christ'?  Now if we could just get the media turned around....hmmmm!
Five hundred from my church will be going to Legacy 9 (when I lived in Greenfield 2 years ago, it was Legacy 6 so they must have built on three more theaters) plus 5 other churches next Saturday morning, the 28th, at 10 a.m.  All the theaters are sold out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And this is pre-ticket sales!!!  The theaters all around have never had this happen before!!!  Isn't it great?  And all for Christ!!!!  Yes, Mel Gibson will be making some money....wouldn't it be great if his heart says to give it all to charity!  That is my opinion...I haven't heard anything to that affect.  

Larry ~ Whew! That was certainly a close call about your almost accident in Missouri.  It is comforting to know that we may leave God but he never leaves us.  Uh, Jerry can't remember when or the last movie he saw in a theater.  I don't even think he has seen 'The Titanic'.

JudyB ~ Yes, I saw where you mentioned using the cat carrier.  I have two of them in the basement but haven't brought them up yet.  I have been giving both of them 'time-out' at night by shutting them out of the bedroom.  Haha!  Last night I thought I shut both of them OUT of the bedroom but they were both IN the bedroom!  

Janet ~ How was church yesterday?  Did you say your church is going to see 'The Passion'?  When are you going?

Fast Eddie ~ My sister gave me a book of short stories.  Last night I read where a mother was having a hard time accepting her father's death.  She purchased a pair of doll's shoes, covered them with gold glitter and put them on gold parchment paper in a frame for a gift to her mother.  On the parchment paper she wrote the words "Departed to Walk on the Streets of Gold".  A reminder to her mother where her father is and that someday they would all be walking the streets of gold.

Marilyn ~ Isn't it pleasing to come to CP and read about all the church activities throughout CP?

Ria ~ I am praying that your church will realize that the future of the church is their young ones.  Some churches can't wait until the young have a change of heart.  Some churches need to change some for the young.

Heather ~ My father wasn't a truck driver but he taught me to follow a truck in bad weather as well....at a distance.  Heavy rains or snow, I follow big semi's!!!

Pat ~ Were you a 'pampered chef' yesterday?  Was that a party?  We have Pampered Chef home parties here similar to Tupperware parties.

Papa John ~ Don't you just love dinner with church friends?  

Lee ~ Next to Jesus, my favorite person in the Bible is Joseph.  But never thought of camparing the two.  

Karma ~

QuoteThink I'll join Procrastinator's Anon.  Nah, on second thought, maybe next week.

Too funny!!!!!

Ruthie ~ I see you answered my question to Pat about the Pampered Chef party.  They are fun, aren't they?

Al ~ I am looking forward to seeing 'the experience'.  I am not going to say how I will feel afterwards until afterwards.  May not be capable of saying until I purchase it on VHS/DVD and see it several times.

Soni ~ I would love to see and hear Chandraya sing.  She sure must not be shy to perform before so many people.  I could never do it!!!  Edit:  I, too, thought it was a typo.  Would still love to see and hear and watch Chandrays sing/sign her song!!!

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"A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours."

Hi everyone.  I am also happy to see that the CP site is once again functioning properly.  This really has been a very stable site and we shouldn't worry if there is an occasional outage.  I think these usually relate to work that he ISP may be doing on the servers or sometimes relates to problems not at the ISP but with the Internet backbone.

I have had a busy morning and just got home a little bit ago.  I also didn't get up quite as early as usual so had to go do my walking after I had coffee.  Then I had to stop at our Aldi store for a couple of items and then go to Wal-Mart for a few things.  I really dislike going to Wal-Mart as the store is just too big and what I needed today was on opposite sides of the store.

Yesterday morning one of our Friday men's coffee members passed away.  He was in his mid-80s and had been quite ill for several months.  Before that he had experienced burns on his lower extremenities when he backed into a heater in his workshop and caught his clothes on fire.  He was hospitalized in a burn unit for weeks and weeks.  He did recover enough to return a few times to our group but then started suffering respiratory problems and had been in and out of the hospital.  His wife has asked that our coffee group sit together at the service tomorrow morning and we will certainly do that.  

We also had another death of an 84 year old lady, who was born and lived all her life in our community.  She usually was able to attend our monthly luncheons at our senior center.  She was in a wheelchair and had a full-time nurse or aid that brought her and helped her.  So sadness in our community today.

We are suppose to have rain later this afternoon.  This evening I had a Worship  committee meeting to attend at the church.  

Etta Sue, I saw last week the program was going to be on PAX and then I totally forgot to watch it.  I had also planned to watch the Super Millionaire program and thought it was going to come on at 10 pm and when I tuned in it was over.  It is going to be on 4 more nights this week so surely will remember to watch it a time or two.  I always enjoyed the program and they have some new twists with this one.

I am going to put a link to a great speech that was given on February 12th in the Senate by one of our US Senators, Zell Miller.  It is entitled  "'Deficit of Decency' in America" and really hits the nail on the head, in my opinion.  It is worth taking a few minutes to read.  


This has gotten long already so will not try to address individuals today.  I have a lot I need to do and it is lunch time.  However, it was good to read all the fine postings.

Hi all!  I'm at work, so this needs to be brief.

Hope everyone is having an awesome day.  

love youns
karmat

Etta Sue, I told about yesterday's service in my post before yours.  I expect you were composing your post at the same time.  Our church will be attending the Passion at 4:00 next Sunday, the 29th.  My sister in Nebraska called last night, and their church has bought out an entire showing of The Passion at that same time, so she and also my foster brother and we will all be watching the movie at the same time.

Larry..........Pax announced they will rebroadcast the Making of the Passion on Tuesday night.  I think the time is 7 PM central, but you will want to check on that.  It is a great program; shows Mel Gibson's heart, I think, and also tells how the making of the movie impacted the lives of all those involved.  I was interrupted in my watching of it by telephone calls, so plan to watch it again Tuesday.

WE NEVER GET DIZZY FROM DOING GOOD TURNS.

Hello Everyone!

This will be short as I have a friend dropping in in a few minutes.

It's good to read all your posts.

I can't get your link, Larry.  Wonder why?  Can anyone else?

Oh, dog's barking so my friend must be here.

Talk at you all later!  

I heard an interview this morning with Gibson on James Dobson's show.  When asked why he did it, I was very interested in Gibson's answer.

(not an exact quote, but I am trying to get as close as possible)

I am a believer.  And I think that when something is as deep in you as it is in me, then eventually, it will come out in what you do best.  What I do best is making films, and not much else, so it was only natural that eventually it would come out.  

Again, that is NOT a quote, but it does give the general gist of what he was saying.  I thought it was interesting because there are a lot of people out there (musicians, artists, photographers, <insert any profession here>) who try to separate their spirituality from their career.  If Christ is to us what Christ is to be to us, eventually it will show in what we produce.

February 23    

The Holy Spirit: Ungifted Hands

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good
pleasure.  
--Philippians 2:13

The important thing is that the Holy Spirit desires to take us and
control us and use us as instruments and organs through whom He can
express Himself in the body of Christ. Perhaps I can use my hands
as a further illustration of this truth.

My hands are about average, I suppose--perhaps a little large for
the size of my body, probably because I had to do a lot of farm
work when I was a boy. But there is something I must tell you
about these hands. They cannot play a violin. They cannot play
the organ or the piano. They cannot paint a picture. They can
barely hold a screwdriver to do a small repair job to keep things
from falling apart at home. I have ungifted hands....

You will agree that it would be foolish for me to try to bring
forth any delightful organ music using such ungifted hands. Is it
not appalling, then, to think that we allow this very thing to
happen in the body of Christ? We enlist people and tell them to
get busy doing God's work, failing to realize the necessity of
the Spirit's control and functioning if there is to be a
spiritual result.  Tragedy in the Church: The Missing Gifts,
30-31.

"Lord, maybe the reason we enlist ungifted people is that the
gifted people aren't functioning properly, aren't using the gifts
you gifted them with. Move in our midst, Holy Spirit, that
everyone in the Body might actively serve, each one using the
gift He's been given for Your service. Amen."

AW TOZER...

Sorry the above link didn't work (I couldn't get to the speech either although that was the link for the page I was viewing that had the speech).  Fortunately there is more than one way to overcome the problem so I put the speech up on my homepage site and changed the above link and it now works.  Here it is again so you need not scroll back: