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Good morning church! Join us as we have our weekly Bible study! Romans Chapter 7.

Paul goes on to talk more about the role of Jewish law. He says that the law only applies to people who are alive, but that Christians are dead to the world and dead to the law. Thus, they don't have to obey all those fussy rules anymore. Sweet! It's kind of like when a man and woman get married—they have to stay faithful to each other. But if the husband dies, all bets are off. Now the wife can remarry and it's a-okay with everyone. Plus, she gets double wedding presents. Basically, Paul's saying that because of Jesus, Jewish law is dead. Christians have remarried and belong with God now. He's their dream guy. Before all that, we were slaves to the law and sin, but now we're free to run barefoot in a meadow with the Holy Spirit. How exhilarating. Now, wait just a second, Paul… it sounds like you're saying Jewish law is sinful. Oh no, Paul explains. You're misunderstanding!  The law isn't sinful, but it does point out all kinds of sin to us… making that sin look oh-so delicious. See, if no one had ever said, "Don't steal stuff," would we have even thought of stealing? Um, Paul, you're losing us. Look, the law is good, Paul says. Don't get him wrong. It's doing its best, but really it can't hold a candle to the power of sin. Ooooh, what's the power of sin? Well, it just means that sin has major pull over people. We may try to follow the law and do good things, but we just keep getting drawn back towards doing bad things. Blame it on the sin. See, we're just weak, sad little mortal beings who can't help but do bad things. And sin usually looks pretty good to us. But the good news is, there's someone who can get us off this crazy merry-go-round of sin. You guessed it—it's Jesus! It's always Jesus. Thanks to Shmoop.com

Steve Hudgeons, Jr.

Born January 21, 1950 in Fort Worth, Texas. Graduated 1968 at Diamond Hill Jarvis. Joined the US Navy 1969 and has 4 ½ years of honorable service and 3 ½ years of honorable service in the US Navy Reserve. Steve joined MUFON in 1991. Steve was appointed as Texas Chief Investigator in 1995.. He was part of the original Star Team conducting Star Team investigations in Texas. In 2008 he lead a group of Field Investigators to Stephenville / Dublin, Texas to investigate what is now known as “The Stephenville Lights.” In 2009 he became the MUFON State Director of Texas until 2012 and was appointed as MUFON Director of Investigations. Steve has 20 years of community service with many volunteer organizations, such as, Little League, Neighborhood Council, Community Policing with the Fort Worth Police Department, C.O.P Search Team, C.O.P. Base Radio Operator. Steve is an Estimator, Draftsman, OSHA Outreach Trainer, and Safety Director for a multi-million dollar construction company. He is also is owner of Infinity Industries, and owner / host of The Texas UFO Radio Show and the MUFON Radio Show. Steve is currently the MUFON Director of Investigations. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Texas-UFO-Radio-Show/249261215177333?fref=ts

Welcome church! We have set aside some time on Sunday morning for Bible study, prayer and reading inspirational stories. Join us!

Today we are reading Romans 6.

"Okay, so it's cool to sin, right? After all, Jesus did die to erase our sins, so we can just let him work all that out after we get done coveting our neighbor's wife over here…Um, no, Paul says (and probably rolls his eyes). Look, he explains, if you're baptized in Christ, then you're baptized in his death. Wait, what? Let's break it down: when you're baptized, you symbolically die and are reborn as a new person. That's because Jesus died and rose again. When you die, you leave all your sin behind. Now, you're fresh and new and super holy. Very nice.But wait… you still might want to sin because people kind of love sinning.Paul tells Christians that they need to keep presenting themselves as this new person. Don't go back to being the old person you were. Don't be a slave to sin. Free at last!Okay, but since Jesus kind of does away with Jewish law and not everyone has to follow it, isn't sinning actually kind of fine? Come on, guys, Paul says. This time he's really rolling his eyes.You can only pick one—either you want to serve sin or serve God. You can't do both. Besides, what has sin ever gotten you? A nice car? A good job? A hot girlfriend?Okay, but did sin ever get you eternal life with God? Didn't think so. Oh, friends, Paul says, "the wages of sin is death." Why work hard to earn death when God is giving out eternal life for free through Jesus? Act now… even though supplies are unlimited". Thanks to Shmoop.com

Carlo S. Carnevalini

 

Carlo S. Carnevalini was born in Nicaragua and raised a devout Catholic.  At the age of six he had his first encounter with extraterrestrial beings.  Two years later he read his first novel and fell in love with writing.  He wrote, directed and often starred in popular plays for a local puppet theater and while attending grammar and junior high school.  After a war broke out in Nicaragua, Carlo moved to Los Angeles, California where he finished high school.  Thereafter, he studied film production and volunteered his time at the American Film Institute.  His various extraterrestrial and paranormal experiences continued and he began to question his own faith.  While taking a test for his pilot’s license, he had a severe paranormal vision almost causing the plane to crash.  Feeling alone he hid his experiences from everyone until one day he discovered the book “Communion” which detailed the extraterrestrial experiences of its author, Whitley Streiber.  This book inspired him to write his own book about his life.  He married and lived in Florida for more than a decade, but his experiences continued to haunt him.  Ending his marriage amicably to deal with his demons, he moved back to Los Angeles to focus on writing his book, “The Curse of the Gifted.”  Carlo loves animals and has three dogs Foxy, Dee Dee and Lox, and a cat named Kylee.  His favorite LA spots are Hollywood, Malibu and Chinatown. Read more about Carlo on his blog. https://www.facebook.com/carlo.carnevalini

Welcome everyone to Sacred Sunday! We cordially invite you to join us for our regular Sunday Morning Bible Study! 11:00am PST.

Romans Chapter 5

Even though Paul looks down on Christians bragging about their accomplishments, he does say that there are a few instances where it's good to get a little boastful. Basically, Christians can brag about what God has done for them and their hope that one day they'll be hanging with him in Heaven. Note: the word is "hope" not "certainty." They can also brag about their suffering because, hey, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, right? Plus, who doesn't want to hear a good I-was-almost-stoned-to-death-for-my-faith story? Oh, and of course, Christians should talk up what God has done for them by sending Jesus. This is a big one. Christians should actually probably be talking about this a lot. Paul certainly does.  Just think, if God loved the whole world back when we were just huge jerks to him, just think how much he digs us now that we're walking the straight and narrow. He definitely hearts us now. A lot. Okay, but how can just one person's actions (i.e., Jesus' death) change the whole world? Well, Paul tells us, just look at Adam. Okay, we're listening…See, silly Adam just couldn't resist taking a little nibble of that fruit (even though that was literally the one thing God asked him not to do). And because Adam couldn't follow a simple direction, he and Eve and everyone else that came after them got served one big eviction notice for Paradise. But then God sent Jesus into the world. And Jesus gave up his life to wipe away all the sins that came before him. All in a day's work. So one guy brought sin and death into the world. Thousands of years later, another guy brought salvation and eternal life to the world. Well, we know which one we're addressing the thank you card to.

Lyn Ragan

Lyn Ragan knew at the age of fourteen that she would write a book one day. She subscribed to True Crime and True Detective, reading each edition faithfully while plotting her fiction novel she never wrote. Twenty-five years later, she met the love of her life never thinking she'd be involved in a real-life crime. After her fiancé's murder, she followed his guidance by way of ADC's, (After Death Communications) and penned their first two books, Wake Me Up! Love and The Afterlife, and, We Need To Talk: Living With The Afterlife. Her newest release is, Signs From The Afterlife: Identifying Gifts From The Other Side. While writing her first novel, Lyn was introduced to the spiritual arts of energy work. She pursued meditation and went on to study Reiki Healing, Aura Energy, and Chakra Balancing. She later used her studies to become a professional Aura Photographer, an Ordained Minister, a Children's Book author, and a publisher. Lyn enjoys sharing her afterlife experiences with Chip and hopes their story sheds new light on continuing relationships with loved ones passed. She lives in Atlanta with her fur-kids, Scooby, Chipper, Dusty, and Scooter. Lyn can be found online at www.LynRagan.com, and Facebook at WakeMeUpBook, WeNeedToTalkBook, and SignsFromTheAfterlife.

Welcome Church! We are here every Sunday to read the Bible, tell personal stories and pray together because when two or more are gathered.....In a non-judgemental down to earth format. God bless you every one! Today we are reading Romans Chapter 4!

How does Paul know all this? Because of Abraham. Remember him from way back in Genesis?Paul explains that the Bible tells us that Abraham believed in God, and because of this, God thought he was a swell guy. And it certainly wasn't because he was an awesome juggler (he wasn't). God liked Abraham because Abraham had faith in him. God is pretty big on people putting their faith in him.  Well, just remember that God was cool with Abraham before he was even circumcised. In fact, the main reason that Abraham got circumcised was to mark himself with a sign of his new relationship with God. So Abraham is basically a stand-in for everyone who has ever believed in God, but has not been circumcised. Gentile-Christians, we're looking at you. Like Abraham, no one has to work to get on God's good side. You just gotta have faith. Really, Paul says, if people could just go around doing nice things and win God's favor, then what would be the point of believing at all? When God promised Abraham that he would have lots of kids and that he would go on to be "the father of many nations," Abraham didn't doubt God. Sure, Abraham was over a hundred years old. And his wife, Sarah, was pretty much barren. But Abraham still believed it would happen. And you know what? It did. Now that's some strong believing. So there, Paul says. Faith! Abraham had faith in God's promises.  If someone believes in Jesus—that he died so that our sins could be crossed off God's ledger and that he came back to life so that we could be square with God again—then that person is a-okay by God. (Thank you to www.shmoop.com)

Marty Rosenblatt

Marty Rosenblatt’s focus at APP is to attract more people and groups to work with APP, and to act as Group Manager for several APP groups. He is both an Associative Remote Viewer (ARVer) and Analyst/Judge (AJer), applying the 1ARV protocol. Marty, is an expert on the science of precognition and its various protocols. Marty, may be the foresmost authority on all things related to precognition.

Marty is also President of Physics Intuition Applications, which he founded in 1998 to apply Remote Viewing (RV) to predicting stock market and sporting event outcomes; he writes the online magazine, "Connections Through Time". Marty teaches financial and sports precognitive application workshops with other experienced experts from the Remote Viewing community, including Russell Targ, Skip Atwater, Stephan Schwartz and Paul Elder. Marty has a M.S. in physics from UCLA.

From Marty," My vision is for a world society where precognition is applied as a practical and educational tool that which eventually becomes commonplace as human beings consciously adjust to being non-local and having immense potentials. Potentials that is so much greater than we now accept as the current state of consciousness. I believe we can evolve into infinite consciousness. The work we do at the Applied Precognition Project gives us glimpses of this".

Good morning church! Thank you for joining us today! Today we are reading:

Romans Chapter 3:

It's not that Paul's saying that being a Jew who follows Jewish law and is circumcised is not a big deal, because it totally is. It's great actually! Twenty points to the children of Israel!

Paul tells us that the Jews were the first people God shared his wisdom and laws with, so he knows they're cool in the Big Guy's eyes.

Sure, it's true that some Jewish people have been unfaithful to God over the years. For example: there are all those Jews who still stubbornly refused to believe Jesus is the messiah. (Not cool, according to Paul.)

But everyone lies. Everyone sins. No one really knows God. Way to bring us down, Paul.The good news is this doesn't make any difference to God. The crappiness of the world just reveals how awesome God actually is. Sweet.

Again, Paul stresses that Jews and Gentiles are on the same footing. No one gets a head start in the race to salvation.

This is basically because God sent Jesus to save everyone in the entire world. Only he can help us stop being so sinful and jerky all the time.

Yes, Paul says, Jewish law tells us what sin is and that's super important. (So, don't chuck out those Torahs just yet, guys.)

But the most important thing now is that God has sent Jesus. This is the natural continuation of Jewish law, but it's also outside of it. Whoa, Paul's blowing our minds.

Look, basically, God is going to save everyone who believes in Jesus no matter what their background was before they came to believe. Everyone sins. That means everyone needs Jesus. It's pretty simple. Thanks to shmoop.com

Bastia Marlowe

Bastia Marlowe was born in and grew up in New Orleans, LA under another name.  There, she lived amongst the living and the dead, spent her early adolescence immersed in rain, attended Catholic church, and roamed the city's haunted and flavored streets.  She loved all things New Orleans and once stood in line for 5 hours to be included in the film adaption of fellow New Orleanian Anne Rice's "Interview with a Vampire."  After a stint of performing theater and writing, she moved to Los Angeles in 2001 in her 20s hoping to experience ghosts but mainly exists among the walking dead.  She mostly misses Audubon Park, the low-hanging branches of trees lining St. Charles Ave., stage lights, hole-in-the-wall restaurants, NOMA, driving through City Park, creaky floors in old houses, old cemeteries, and rain. Bastia Marlowe is the great-grand daughter of Marie Laveau.

About Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 - June 16, 1881 ) was a practitioner of Voodoo renowned in New Orleans. (As for the date of her birth, while popular sources often say 1794, the records indicate 1801.) Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, (1827 c. 1895) also practiced Voudoun, as well as Voodoo. She and her mother had great influence over their multiracial following. In 1874 as many as twelve thousand spectators, both black and white, swarmed to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain to catch a glimpse of Marie Laveau II performing her legendary rites on St. John's Eve (June 23–24)