10 Lame Excuses for Not Praying

1. “I’m too busy!” (Jesus had a packed ministry schedule but he made time to pray.)

2. “I don’t know how to do it right.” (How about just try talking to God like you would a friend?)

3. “It doesn’t work anyway.” (That’s not how Jesus or the early church treated it.)

4. “Prayer just changes us, not situations.” (Who told you that, the providence fairy? It changes both!)

5. “I don’t sound good when I pray.” (True prayer is a heart utterance, not a speech competition.)

6. “I’d rather read the Bible than pray.” (Without both it’s just a one way conversation.)

7. “God won’t take me seriously.” (Yeah, especially if you never talk to him. Start now!)

8. “It feels weird.” (So does the skin of a pineapple but it tastes great underneath.)

9. “People may mock me if they see me praying.” (Good! Persecution toughens you up! Matthew 5:11,12)

10.”I wouldn’t know where to begin.” (How about using the Lord’s prayer as a way to grease the tracks?)

Source

HT:  eChurch Blog

 

Don’t Give Up!

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(Catholic) Liam Neeson: I May Become a Muslim

Hollywood star Liam Neeson is considering giving up his Catholic belief and becoming a Muslim.

The Sun reports:

He said: “The Call to Prayer happens five times a day and for the first week it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit and it’s the most beautiful, beautiful thing.

“There are 4,000 mosques in the city. Some are just stunning and it really makes me think about becoming a Muslim.”

Liam was raised in Northern Ireland as a devout Catholic and altar boy and was named after the local priest.

But the star — whose wife Natasha Richardson died aged 45 in a skiing accident in 2009 — has spoken about challenges to his faith.

He said: “I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What’s it all about?

“I’m constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.”

Liam was criticised in 2010 after claiming Narnia lion Aslan — voiced by him in the movies — is not based on Christ as CS Lewis had claimed but in fact all spiritual leaders including Mohammed.

His latest film The Grey, about an oil drilling team who crash in freezing Alaska, is released in the UK on Friday.

Very sad.

 

The Marriage Killer

It’s more common than adultery and potentially as toxic.

Any guesses as to what it could be?

You can find out in the Wall Street Journal.

 

Movie Heroes

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On Broken Eggs

A paragraph I almost missed – or would have if a kindred soul hadn’t pointed it out – over at the English Catholic:

… I had a chat with the ever-resourceful Archbishop Hepworth today. The conversation was encouraging, but I won’t say anything. There are no great secrets, but he does want to wake us all up and get the broken egg back together again. That is most praiseworthy, and he is still our Primate and my Ordinary. We’ll see what time brings.

Would someone… anyone… please   remind   me   of   how   the   egg   got   broken   in   the   first   place?

Or, as asks the Mad Hatter, ‘Am I going mad?’

 

Abortionists Horrified by Abortion

This evil must be stopped.

The Center for Bioethical Reform last year took an online ad from an abortion clinic and edited in some darn graphic abortion footage. So while the abortion folks are chatting up abortion like it’s the most wonderful thing since sliced bread CBR edited in graphic abortion footage.

It’s pretty effective but it’s grisly as all get out so I won’t embed it but you can find it here.

So the abortion clinic in question, the Northland Family Planning Clinics, freaked. And I mean freaked. They lawyered up and are now suing the CBR for copyright infringement.

But the CBR doesn’t seem very cowed.In fact, because of the lawsuit, CBR had access to all the emails concerning the CBR by the abortionists. And what they uncovered is laughable and by laughable I mean horrific in its cognitive dissonance…

Rest here.