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5 Minutes Inside Eternity

5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!"
-Leonard Ravenhill

The Confession of Saint Patrick

The Confession of Saint Patrick is available online. This is a short autobiography written by Saint Patrick himself (dates estimated at AD 387 - AD 461) and shows his great humility. The consensus of scholarly opinion is that this document is authentic. The Confession is primary source material written by Saint Patrick and not secondary material material written by somebody else about Saint Patrick.

Patrick was born and raised in Great Britain but became a captive at age sixteen and was held in Ireland. After six years, he escaped and traveled to France and Great Britain. He later returned to Ireland where it spent the remainder of his life and became highly influential in promoting the growth of Christianity.

The confession begins:

I, Patrick, a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many, had for father the deacon Calpurnius, son of the late Potitus, a priest, of the settlement [vicus] of Bannavem Taburniae; he had a small villa nearby where I was taken captive. I was at that time about sixteen years of age. I did not, indeed, know the true God; and I was taken into captivity in Ireland

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And there the Lord opened my mind to an awareness of my unbelief, in order that, even so late, I might remember my transgressions and turn with all my heart to the Lord my God, who had regard for my insignificance and pitied my youth and ignorance.

Therefore, indeed, I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.

Therefore, indeed, I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.

I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: ‘You destroy those who speak a lie.’ And again: ‘A lying mouth deals death to the soul.’ And likewise the Lord says in the Gospel: ‘On the day of judgment men shall render account for every idle word they utter.’``So it is that I should mightily fear, with terror and trembling, this judgment on the day when no one shall be able to steal away or hide, but each and all shall render account for even our smallest sins before the judgment seat of Christ the Lord.

Me, truly wretched in this world, he inspired before others that I could be—if I would—such a one who, with fear and reverence, and faithfully, without complaint, would come to the people to whom the love of Christ brought me and gave me in my lifetime, if I should be worthy, to serve them truly and with humility.

...I baptized in the Lord in so many thousands. And I was not worthy, nor was I such that the Lord should grant his humble servant this, that after hardships and such great trials, after captivity, after many years, he should give me so much favour in these people, a thing which in the time of my youth I neither hoped for nor imagined.

I ought not to conceal God’s gift which he lavished on us in the land of my captivity, for then I sought him resolutely, and I found him there, and he preserved me from all evils (as I believe) through the in-dwelling of his Spirit, which works in me to this day.

I am greatly God’s debtor, because he granted me so much grace, that through me many people would be reborn in God, and soon after confirmed, and that clergy would be ordained everywhere for them

One should, in fact, fish well and diligently, just as the Lord foretells and teaches, saying, ‘Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men,’ and, again, through the prophets: ‘“Behold, I am sending forth many fishers and hunters,” says the Lord,’ et cetera. So it behoved us to spread our nets, that a vast multitude and throng might be caught for God, and so there might be clergy everywhere who baptized and exhorted a needy and desirous people. Just as the Lord says in the Gospel, admonishing and instructing: ‘Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always to the end of time.’ And again he says: ‘Go forth into the world and preach the Gospel to all creation. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who does not believe shall be condemned.’ And again: ‘This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached throughout the whole world as a witness to all nations; and then the end of the world shall come.’

So, how is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God

From the time when I came to know him in my youth, the love of God and fear of him increased in me, and right up until now, by God’s favour, I have kept the faith.

Thus, I should give thanks unceasingly to God, who frequently forgave my folly and my negligence, in more than one instance so as not to be violently angry with me, who am placed as his helper, and I did not easily assent to what had been revealed to me, as the Spirit was urging; and the Lord took pity on me thousands upon thousands of times

But I fear nothing, because of the promises of Heaven; for I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who reigns everywhere. As the prophet says: ‘Cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you.’

Therefore may it never befall me to be separated by my God from his people whom he has won in this most remote land. I pray God that he gives me perseverance, and that he will deign that I should be a faithful witness for his sake right up to the time of my passing.

For the sun we see rises each day for us at his command, but it will never reign, neither will its splendour last, but all who worship it will come wretchedly to punishment. We, on the other hand, shall not die, who believe in and worship the true sun, Christ, who will never die, no more shall he die who has done Christ’s will, but will abide for ever just as Christ abides for ever, who reigns with God the Father Almighty and with the Holy Spirit before the beginning of time and now and for ever and ever. Amen.

AT&T Gives A Boost To Natural Gas Vehicles

AT&T Inc. has agreed to spend more than a half-billion dollars over the next 10 years to invest in more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles nationwide.

Dallas-based AT&T (NYSE: T) plans to spend $350 million to buy 8,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles and $215 million to replace company passenger cars with alternative-fuel models.

The alternative-fuel vehicles should provide a 39 percent improvement in fuel economy and a 29 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

AT&T will work with natural gas service providers to build up to 40 new CNG fueling stations across the company’s operating region to put the fueling infrastructure in place.

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Tweetathon 2009 - Live Today Noon to Midnight ET - Feb 19, 2009

Joel Comm, Google Adsense Guru and more, is hosting a Tweetathon today from Noon to Midnight ET today, Thursday, 19 February 2009. A series of celebrity guests will be participating. Live video/audio feed at:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/joel-comm-live

Ford Focus - We Love Ours!

We love our Ford Focus. Ours includes the Info Center feature so we can read our miles per gallon measurement on the dashboard. Currently, it's around 32.9 mpg and has been as high as 33.5 after a long drive on wide-open interstate highways. Our vans in the past have average around 14-15 mpg. The higher gas mileage is nice! The Ford Focus has a series of nice features and is responsive and fun to drive!

History of Stimulus

The US already has a long history of stimulus packages. The history of $10.8 trillion in US national debt is the history of stimulus spending of the past.

In our history, we've already seen $10.8 trillion be expended by our national government on goods and services beyond what taxes on the economy would provide.

Wealth should be invested and managed wisely and never squandered. We need more production and less consumption. Stimulus happens one time but interest on stimulus and debt is forever until repaid.

Stimulus Watch

Now that President Obama's stimulus package has passed, there's plenty of projects that are lining up for funding. Spending is nice but we need to re-tool for productivity. Stimulus Watch website shows you the many projects.