المسيح والعقول الصغيرة...

من العجب العجاب كيف يدخل بعض الناس إلى كنيسة الله بعقلية المكابرة والمحاربة... وكأن الذهاب إلى هناك هو مشاركة في واجبٍ إجتماعي، فلا تلسعهم ألسنة الناس إن غابوا...
عندما دقّت ساعة الصلاة تدافع المصلّون كي لا نقول المؤمنون، إذ أنّ الله وحده هو العارف بمكنونات القلوب... والتهافت كان لسببٍ واحد وهو أنّ القدّاس طويل، وما من أحدٍ يتمنّى لنفسه أن يقضيه واقفاً على رجليه...
إحتلّ أحدهم مقعداً مع عائلته... الحسّاد والغاضبون كثر... ذهبت إبنته إلى الحمّام خلال القدّاس، فانقضّت إحدى النساء لتلتهم المكان الفارغ! قال الرجل: هذا المكان لابنتي، وهو محجوز! قالت بنبرةٍ قتالية: لا شيء محجوز، وأنا أريد أن أجلس حيث يحلو لي!! تدافعا أمام هيكل الله، وكان ما كان، مع ما يكفي من كلامٍ نابٍ...
لست أتجبّر، لا بل أعرف أنّ الكثيرين قضوا النهار وربما الليلة التي سبقته بالعمل والكدّ، لكن ماذا عن جملة المسيح الشهيرة: عامل الناس بما تريد أن يعاملوك به؟!!
تخيّل ما كان حصل لو أن المرأة سألته: يا أخي، تعبت رجليّ من الوقوف، هل بإمكاني الجلوس ريثما تعود إبنتك... وما المصيبة لو قال الرجل: يا أختي، الكنيسة لنا جميعاً، أجلسي مكاني أنت ومن تريدين!!
من المضحك والمبكي كيف أصبحنا قليلي القدرة وبدون مقاومة... لا بل كم أصبحت عقولنا صغيرة أمام عظمة تواضع المسيح...كيف كنّا سنتصرّف لو قارنّا ما نعتقده اليوم عذاباً بعذابات المسيحيين القدماء؟

رسالة من السماء

اني خيرتك فاختــــــــــار فلا تبقى مشغول البال محتار

تعال الي فانني الله القدير الجبارأنا من صنع الأرض والبحار وأجريت الماء في الأنهار

وخلقت القمر والنجوم والشمس ليعطوا الأنوار

وأرسلت اليك ابني الوحيد يسوع المسيح البار

ليخلصك من خطيئتك ويمحو عنك العار

فمات عنك على الصليب لكي تنجو من النار

ارجع عن طريقك الملتوية وامشي مستقيما في المسار

لأن ابليس يريدك أن تبقى مع باقي البشر الأشرار

لكي تكون معه في يوم الدينونة وهلاك الناس الفجار

لا تبقى بائسا يائسا في حزن ومرار

عندي الحياة الأبدية فيها الفرح باستمرار

لا اريد تقدمة ولا بخور ولا أزهار

يا ابني أعطني قلبك تعال بتوبة واعتذار

اجثو على ركبتيك بتواضع وانكسار

فأقبلك ابنا لي وأجعلك من الأبرار

تب الآن ولا تتردد و لا تطيل الانتظار

فأنت لا تعلم متى هي ساعتك ومتى يمر القطار

اني خيرتك فاختار ما بين الجنة والنار

برنار النبّوت

River Of Life

St Patrick Cathedral, Melbourne

The angel showed me a river whose waters give life;

it flows as clear as crystal from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Apocalypse 22:1

زيارة المسيح

بقلم الأب/ سيمون عساف



راح الغني بالهيكل يزور المسيح وقلّو يا عربون المحبة والفدا

جارك انــــا وساكن بهالقصر الفسيح بدي يا يسوع المسيح تزورني

وتقبل عزيمة عالعشا أو عا الغدا

قلو المسيح بزورك وعندي ثقـة انك انت انسان من اهل التقى

حضّر شموخ القصر للملقى الكبير لــكن ما فيّي قلّك بأيا نهار

وأيّــــا دقيقة ممكن يتم اللقا

وعــاد الغني بنية سليمة وطيبه يحضّر بقلب القصر أكبر مأدبه

وحتى بمباهج هالدني يرضي المسيح وصّى عا لقمة طيبة وكنفش وقال

حلوة الحياة تكون لقمة طيبـــه


وتــاني نهار بمطلع الفجر المنير معتر فقير بيقصد القصر الــكبير

قّلو دخيلك يــا غني العندك ضمير اطعمني سقيني تشفع بعمري القصير

غضب إلــــه المال وتنمرد كتير ومتل القذيفة انفجر بــــوج الفقير

قّلو مـــــا فيّي اليوم استقبل حدا

جايي المسيح اليوم عندي عـــا الغدا


وتالت نهار بينفتح بالقصر بـــاب وبيفوت طفل صغير مش لابس تياب

قــلو غمرني بحضنك الدافي شوي محتاج ام تحبني محتاج بـــــيّ

بيتي زوايــا الشارع وتختي الرصيف افرشلـي بقلبك تخت ضيفني رغيف

قلو مـــا فيّي اليوم استقبل حدا

جايي المسيح اليوم عندي عا الغدا


ورابع نهاربعجقة صحون العشا بتدق باب القصر بنت بفرد إيـــد

قالت يا مؤمن من رضا الله عليك سلم عليّ بحسنتك تسلم إيديـــــك

بــدي غني عن كل درب يلمني ومتل الحنونــــه بالحنان يضمني

قلاّ ما فيّي اليوم استقبل حدا

جايي المسيح اليوم عندي عا الغدا


وخامس نهار بينفتح بـــاب الغنا عا جار تحت الدين قوس وانحنى

قلو يــا جاري انت بتحب المسيح مشهور بالاخـلاق وبتعمل مليح

دعمني برصيدك مــا لقيت مؤسسة تدفع عن ولادي القسط بالمدرسي

قلو ما فيي اليوم استقبل حدا

جايي المسيح اليوم عندي عا الغدا


وسادس نهار تسرسب كثير الغني ليش بعدو مـــا اجا فادي الدني

إلا وبيدق الباب كـاهن محترم بـــاع الغنى بالفقر وبالله انغرم

قلو مدينتنا يــــا خير رجالنا بحاجة لمستوصف يداوي عيالــنا

رد الغني عـا الكاهن الحر التقي وقلو يا بونـــا غير مرة منلتقي

اعذرني ما فيّي اليوم استقبل حدا

جايي المسيح اليوم عندي عا الغدا


الاسبوع فل وبعد مـــا طل المسيح راح الأكل ضيعان ضيعان المليـــح

يــــوم الاحد من بعد قداس الصلا قــــــال الغني يا ابن الله بالعلا

خسرتني ومـا زرتني بقصري الجميل عبدك انـــا ما بتربح لعبدك جميل!؟

تبسم وجـــه يسوع من بين الجروح وقلو مـــا بدي لعندك ولا نهار روح

زرتك بطفلة معذبة ومشوهـــــة ما حن قلبك عا الجمال وعــــا البها

زرتك بطفل صغير عـاري من التياب لبستني اكليل تــانـــــي للعذاب

زرتك وانـــا جوعان بالجار القريب بهدلتني وعلقتني فــــوق الصليب

زرتك وانــا عطشان دغري حرقتني حتى سفنجة خل مــــــا دوقتني

خليتني أوقف علــــى بوابك ذليل مـا قدرت تقشع صورتي بكاهن جليل

مـــا عبدت الله بذاتك عبدت الصنم ومـــا كنت راعي كنت جزار الغنم

كرمت نفسك بالدني وحقرتنــــي وحتى تعوّم خزنتك فقرتنــــــي

وغطيت فيّي مـــــالك وكدّستني وقدست حالك قبل ما مــــا قدستني

وهلق إذا بتريد تولد مـــــن جديد لازم حضورك بين أهـــلك تستعيد

حوّل بوابك بالعطا دقة قــــــلوب وعن إنشغالــك بالدهب والمال توب

قــــــدم صلاتك بالشعور وبالعمل شيل اليأس من شعبك وحط الأمـــل

خليك حاضر لا رحيل ولا غيــــاب صوتــــك محبة للشيوخ وللشباب

ومـــا زال داعيني عا قصرك بالوعي إلاّ مـــــا كل الناس تتغدا معي

مش رح تلاقي بقصرك الفاضي حدا

مش راح تشوف الرب عندك عا الغدا

Concentrate

'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.'
When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.
'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'

Numbers Can Talk…

Looking at my work on this page, anyone can see how much I wrote about my God this year, and even the year before… everything look like I’m away…
I don’t have the right to say that God is away from me… because I’m the one who is away!
As I do like to investigate myself, I’m re examining the causes to get a good treatment…
As a word of God, who do you think is the enemy who wants to shuts her off? Only devil is the meant to be!
He may use every method to accomplish his mission… and we have the freedom to choose…
I didn’t change any of my thoughts about my lovely God, and they will never be changed… and this is what he hates…
What to do to make me lose my role?
Just keeping me away, or at least feeling away from the holy light… and being away from God, means that the candles of our hope and faith may not last so long…
I will not hide on you that while writing these words, I fell asleep twice while sitting on my chair… I woke up suddenly to see that my computer is still on… I closed it reactively… I went to the toilet, and on the way back I remembered what I just wrote “he may use any method to keep you away”…
He thinks that he is smart… and that he has the power to do whatever he wants… but he didn’t know that God is right there…
I decided directly to re open my document, and write even a small word to add it on my way to the kingdom of God…
I think that this devil has to be smarter, to invent another method than keeping me busy and angry…

Remember that we must be alert, because our war is not with bodies, but with the darkest souls!!

علامة انتهاء الليل

سأل أحد الشيوخ تلاميذه: ما هي علامة انتهاء الليل وابتداء النهار؟ فأجابوه: أهي اللحظة التي يستطيع فيها المرء أن يميّز بيسرٍ من بعيد، الكلب من الخروف؟
كلا أجاب الشيخ.
أهي اللحظة التي يمكن فيها التمييز بين بلحة وتينة؟
كلا أجاب الشيخ.
إذاً متى يتمّ ذلك سأل التلاميذ.
فقال الشيخ: إنّها اللحظة التي، إذا نظرت فيها إلى وجه أيّ إنسان، عرفت فيه أخاك أو أختك. حتى ذلك الحين يكون الليل لا يزال سائداً في قلبك.

I Love Jesus

1. Look back and 'Thank' God.
2. Look forward and 'Trust' God.
3. Look around and 'Serve' God.
4. Look within and 'Find' God!'

I asked God, 'How do I get the best out of life?
God said: 'Face your past without regrets. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear!

Without God, our week is: Mournday, Tearsday, Wasteday, Thirstday, Fightday, Shatterday and Sinday. So, allow Him to be with you every day!

Life is short, so .... forgive quickly.... Believe slowly... Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably... Never regret the wonderful journey that you have with God.

Happy moments, Praise God. Difficult moments, Seek God. Quite moments, Worship God. Painful moments, Trust God. Every moment, Thank God. Always Love And Love.

INTERESTING CONVERSATION

An Atheist Professor of Philosophy speaks to his Class on the Problem Science has with GOD, The ALMIGHTY.
He asks one of his New Christian Students to stand and . . .

Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So you Believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD Good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor : Is GOD ALL - POWERFUL ?
Student : Yes.
Professor : My Brother died of Cancer even though he Prayed to GOD to Heal him.
Most of us would attempt to Help Others who are ill.
But GOD didn't.
How is this GOD Good then ? Hmm ?

( Student is silent )

Professor : You can't answer, can you ?
Let's start again, Young Fella.
Is GOD Good ?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Is Satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor : Where does Satan come from ?
Student : From . . . GOD . . .
Professor : That's right.
Tell me son, is there evil in this World ?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn't it ?
And GOD did make Everything. Correct ?
Student : Yes.
Professor : So who created evil ?

( Student does not answer )

Professor : Is there Sickness ? Immorality ? Hatred ? Ugliness ?
All these terrible things exist in the World, don't they ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, who Created them ?

( Student has no answer )

Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe the World around you.
Tell me, son . . . Have you ever Seen GOD ?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Tell us if you have ever Heard your GOD ?
Student : No , sir.
Professor : Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your GOD ?
Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter ?
Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor : Yet you still Believe in HIM ?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn't exist.
What do you say to that, son ?
Student : Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor : Yes. Faith. And that is the Problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat ?
Professor : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold ?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No sir. There isn't.

( The Lecture Theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events )

Student : Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White Heat,
a Little Heat or No Heat.
But we don't have anything called Cold.
We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is No Heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as Cold.
Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat.
We cannot Measure Cold.
Heat is Energy.
Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it.

( There is Pin - Drop Silence in the Lecture Theatre )

Student : What about Darkness, Professor ? Is there such a thing as Darkness ?
Professor : Yes. What is Night if there isn't Darkness ?
Student : You're wrong again, sir.
Darkness is the Absence of Something.
You can have Low Light, Normal Light , Bright Light, Flashing Light . . .
But if you have No Light Constantly, you have Nothing and it's called Darkness, isn't it ?
In reality, Darkness isn't.
If it is, were you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn't you ?
Professor : So what is the point you are making, Young Man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your Philosophical Premise is Flawed.
Professor : Flawed ? Can you explain how ?
Student : Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality.
You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD.
You are viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure.
Sir, Science can't even explain a Thought.
It uses Electricity and Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.
To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that
Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing.
Death is Not the Opposite of Life : just the Absence of it.
Now tell me, Professor, do you Teach your Students that they Evolved from a Monkey ?
Professor : If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir ?

( The Professor shakes his head with a Smile, beginning to realize where the Argument is going )

Student : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and
cannot even prove that this Process is an On - Going Endeavor,
are you not Teaching your Opinion, sir ?
Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher ?

( The Class is in Uproar )

Student : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever Seen the Professor's Brain ?

( The Class breaks out into Laughter )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever Heard the Professor's Brain, Felt it, Touched or Smelt it ? . . .
No one appears to have done so.
So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that
you have No Brain, sir.
With all due respect, sir, how do we then Trust your Lectures, sir ?

( The Room is Silent. The Professor stares at the Student, his face unfathomable )

Professor : I guess you'll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student : That is it sir . . .
the Link between Man & GOD is FAITH.
That is all that Keeps Things Moving & Alive.

NB:
I believe you have enjoyed the Conversation . . . and if so . . .
you'll probably want your Friends / Colleagues to enjoy the same . . . won't you ? . . .
Forward them to Increase their Knowledge . . . or FAITH

It turned out later that the student is Albert Einsten

دعاء للقدّيس يوحنا الذهبي الفم

يقال على عدد ساعات الليل والنهار ال 24

1- يا رب لا تُعدمني خيراتك السماويّة والأرضية.
2- يا سيّدي نجّني من العذب الأبدي.
3- يا ربّ سامحني بكلّ ما خطِئت إليك إن كان بالقول أو بالفعل أو بالذهن، إغفر لي وسامحني.
4- يا ربّ نجّني وأنقذني من كلّ شدّة وجهلٍ ونسيان وضجر وتغفّل وعدم إحساس.
5- يا ربّ نجّني من كلّ تجربة وتخيّل مع كلّ إهمال وهجران.
6- أنر يا جابلي قلبي الذي قد أظلمته الشهوة الشرّيرة.
7- يا ربّ أمّا أنا فأخطأ كإنسان ولكن أنت بما أنّك إلهٌ إرحمني.
8- يا خالقي أنظر إلى ضعف نفسي وأرسل نعمتك لمعونتي لكي يمجّد فيّ إسمك القدّوس.
9- أيّها الربّ يسوع المسيح أكتب إسم عبدك في مصحف الحياة مانحاً إياي آخرةً صالحة.
10- أيّها الربّ إلهي لم أصنع خيراً أو صلاحاً البتّة ولكن فليترأف وقتاً ما عليّ تحنّنك.
11- يا ربّ أمطر في قلبي ندى نعمتك.
12- يا إله السماء والأرض أذكرني أنا الخاطئ القبيح والشرير الدنس بحسب رحمتك العظمى حين تأتي في ملكوتك.
13- إقبلني يا ربّ بالتوبة والرجوع ولا تهملني مخزياً إياي.
14- لا تدخلني يا إلهي في تجربة.
15- إمنحني يا مخلّصي ذهناً صالحاً وأفكاراً حسنة.
16- أعطني يا ربّ دموعاً حارّة وهبني تذكّراً بالموت وتخشّعاً.
17- أعطني يا ربّ عتقاً لأفكاري وتصوّراتي.
18- أعطني يا ربّ تواضعاً وانقطاع الإرادة وهبني طاعةً.
19- أعطني يا ربّ صبراً وتمهلاً ووداعة.
20- أغرس يا ربّ فيّ أصل الصالحات بخوفك.
21- أهّلني يا ربّ أن أحبّك من كلّ نفسي ومن كلّ فطنتي وقلبي وقدرتي وأن أحفظ مشيئتك في الجميع.
22- أسترني يا عاضدي من الناس الأشرار ومن الأبالسة ومن الآلام ومن كلّ شيءٍ غير لائقٍ وواجب.
23- كما تأمر كما تلُم يا إلهي كما تريد يا منقذي فلتكن مشيئتك بي.
24- فلتكن يا ربّ مشيئتك لا إرادتي بشفاعات وتوسّل والدتك الكلّية الطهارة وسائر قدّيسيك. لأنّك مباركٌ أنت إلى جميع الدهور

To Be A King

There was a king who did not have a successor, surely because he hadn’t kids… so he asked one day his minister to put an announcement in his kingdom, saying: “we are searching for someone who replaces the king after his death… every candidate must be a God's lover, and surely a people’s one”…
A young poor man saw that he fulfills the conditions, so he decided to go and present himself… but what to do; he is so poor… so he sells his small house just to buy good things to wear…
On the way to the king’s castle he met a poor man who had very bad clothes, and he was shivering from cold… so he stopped by, and gave him the clothes he bought… and continues his way half nude…
When he arrived to the castle, he waited in the hall… and surprisingly, the king enters… the king was the same poor man he met on the way… first, he couldn’t find words… then he asked him: how come you were the poor man and now you are the king?
The king said: how do you want me to know if the person I’m searching for loves the people? That’s how I can be sure that you are my successor…
The young man said: You are sure that I love people and I do so, but how can you be sure that I love God?
The king said: if you love everyone, surely you love who created each one…

From the book: My Journey In Life Seasons.

Your Curriculum

The way is so difficult, just follow the light

When a young man presented his papers to the company manager, an attestation letter from the priest and the Sunday school manager was included.
The manager was happy for this (something that does not happen often or even), and said to the young man: that is great… but an attestation from the Sunday school and the priest are not enough…
The young man said: why?
He responded: I need an attestation letter from someone who lives with you everyday, not just on Sunday…

How many times do we practice Christianity just on Sunday, and we forget the other days? As if love and faith are for some hours from just a day in a week… (that’s if we are practicing even on Sunday)

I Wonder

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
What if we used it as we traveled?
What if we used it in case of an emergency?
What if we upgraded it to get the latest version?

It's just something to think about...something to make you say hmmmm, and where is my Bible??
I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phones?!

Inform Doubters Of ALL The Facts

Over the years, I have come across many people who deny God's existence, many people who do not believe in Jesus Christ. And, especially with the release of The Da Vinci Code, it seems that the number of people who question God and Jesus' existence are growing. And the Bible. It's all fiction. A pack of lies, stories and myths made up by humans. It has come to my attention that most of the people who claim this are not at all familiar with the Bible... neither the authors nor the era it was written in. They are not even familiar with the content. They are just convinced that Jesus is a mythological character that has been handed down to us over the centuries. Only interested in making uninformed claims. I ask these people to go and read the Bible. To study it's background and the era that it was written in. To look at the evidence from history and non-Christian writings. At archaeology confirms and to understand the reliability of the Bible. I ask them to be informed before making such pathetic claims.
I ask them to answer the following question. How did the Christian church come into being in the first century? We know that at the beginning of the first century there were no people called Christians, but by the end of that century Christians existed throughout the entire Roman Empire. History tells us that in the latter half of the first century there were men and women all over Palestine claiming that they had seen this man Jesus alive after his public execution. No one in the first century ever denied that this man was a real person. There were many enemies of the Christian church, who if possible, would have stopped this new movement. Yet no one ever did on the basis of his non-existence. So tell me... if there was no Jesus Christ, how and why did the Christian church come into being? Please, help me fill in this huge gap.
Not only is there evidence from history but also from non-Christian writings. Josephus, an aristocratic Jew, and Tacitus, the greatest of the Roman historians of the period, both wrote witnesses that Jesus lived and ministered in Galilee in the time of Herod Antipas. That he died in Judea following the accusations of Caiaphas the high priest, by the hands of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor. They wrote that the movement led by Jesus did not cease with his death, but continued and spread westward to Rome. Surely they were not both lying. Wait a minute. Maybe they were both very talented storytellers who just both coincidentally wrote the exact same story. Maybe, eh?
To support the historical evidence and eyewitness accounts we also have archaeology confirms. In 1961 an Italian archaeological team working in Caesarea came across an inscription from the time of Jesus bearing the name 'Pontius Pilate Prefect of Judea'. In November 1990 the tomb of Caiaphas the high priest was found on a hill in Jerusalem. Can these skeptical people explain to me these discoveries? Do they not uphold the authenticity of the Bible about Jesus? Of course!

Then there are those people who declare that Jesus’ life story as recorded in the Bible is not at all reliable… that the story of Jesus has been changed by Christians over the centuries. We can be so confident that this was not the case as detailed accounts of Jesus’ life were compiled so close to the time that Jesus was living in. How do we know this? By 70 AD church leaders Clement and Ignatius were quoting from gospel accounts of Jesus’ life and today we have more than 24,000 early manuscripts of the New Testament against which to check our present copies. So how can they say that we have altered the stories of the Bible to suit our liking and that it is not accurate?

Yes, I went and saw the movie. It is, like most people know, fiction. And his fictional story-line uses certain facts, yes. However these facts are so obviously distorted in order to support his pathetic claims. If anything, the movie strengthened my belief in God and the Bible. The strength people will go to in order to deter and lessen people’s faith made me laugh. I am more determined to strengthen other people’s faith. We need to inform doubters of ALL the facts... undistorted. We need to view The Da Vinci Code as inspiration.

Marwa Hosni

He Is Playing

What does he think?
He who wants to play with me doesn't know me very well...
I'm talking about the devil, surely... as my enemies are not humane, but the worst souls ever...
It is his defence... to waste my time with something fictional... non-existant.
He thinks that I will stop talking about his bad ways... that I will refrain from talking about the beauty and highness of God...
He who plays with me is the weakest... as I am aware of his strategies... it is not the first time.
When we close the door, he enters from the windows... just as does a thief...
What is his strategy today? What is his target?
It is our stability, happiness, love, faith...
He is a loser... our stability is powerful as God is maintaining it...
He is already defeated... our happiness is always present as we are sons of God... and only because we are sons of God...
He thinks that love can be bought and sold... that love changes with days and places...
He is defeated as our love is the light that fulfills the world and destroys darkness... the darkest of darkness, him...
It's funny the way he thinks... hasn't he heard of rocks and mountains?
His war is useless... have we nothing better to do than listen to his bullshit... let alone accept it?He tries to take revenge... and each time he tries, he is not successful...In war we do not forfeit... in war we cannot ever be defeated...
And Just remember he is always after us... after a good catch...
And beware... He hates us... that's in his nature...He encourages us to make errors and then calls everyone to witness it... It is only he who is capable of this...
Beware... And Lock your doors and windows with the keys of prayer...

Sassine and Marwa

Between Our Love & Your’s

We were in a conversation about the relation between God and life… is it applicable or not?

A woman said: I don’t believe… why do I need the Bible? Religion is just made by men to rule the world and block any instability…
Look, inside your Bible there are many unclear issues… why women have no real role in it? For example, what is the role of St Mary? She bared Jesus, but what was she after?
Your Bible said that the woman must follow her man… and me, I don’t want to follow a man…

I said: the Bible is not a lonely phrase… it is a united continuous one… you cannot just read a cut of a phrase and say look, this is your holy book… as it appears, you know the Bible very well… so you must know that he said: the man must love his wife as Jesus loves the church… he said also that the man leaves his dad and mom to follow his wife… and the same to her… he said also: you don’t leave each other until death…
Don’t you see that the bible is the number one in that age and even in ours, that pushes to the equality between men and women…?
Where do you see that Jesus didn’t equalize between us…
Remember very well, women who do sins were killed until death with stones, but the men not… who is the first one in the world to protect her, and even forgive her while blaming all the others…
Remember also… the only ones who visited Jesus in his tomb were women, while all the disciples (men) were hidden in a secret place… and the ones who took the great news of resurrection were also women…
I can describe and talk till tomorrow about women in the Holy Bible…
The Bible can be collected in one word… love…

She said: but we don’t need a religion to love…

I said: very true… even sinners love their families and the ones who belongs to them… this is inside the Bible too… do you know it before?
Jesus didn’t come here to ask you to love these ones (this love is somewhat innate, but can also be lost in many conditions)… he came here to make you love your enemies…
Love is the light… it fulfills our hearts…
You cannot say I love someone and I hate another one in the same time… if you are doing that, even the one you love, there will be a time you hate him who ever who is… why?
Isn’t clear? Love and hate cannot stay in the same place… the same heart… the darkness will win… it’s simply what happens when you have an infection somewhere, and you didn’t treat… then the infection will grow up slowly, ending by killing you…
This is the difference between our love and your’s…
Our love is full while unlimited… our love is rich while poor … our love is modest while powerful… our love is complicated by being brother and sister of everyone on this earth, while very simple… our love can forgive… and specially, he is an eternal one as he is from the heart of our God…
While your’s is weak… poor even if he has all the goodies of earth…
He is complicated by hating everyone on earth… and he is surely limited…
So you have to choose between God and death…

She said: why do I have to choose?

I said: because life is just a decision… and you are free to take it or not…

Sassine El Nabbout MD.

Discussing The Gospel Of Juda

An article published by National Geographic since 2 weeks, introducing this important discovery of the 21 century, that will act in a way to make “A lot of people upset.”
I will introduce an aswer to every part of there article in a so strict way (in Bold).

They started there article with: “Lost for nearly 1,700 years, a crumbling papyrus manuscript presents the most hated man in history in a new light”.

Who said we hate Judas? where is this marked in our bible?
The one who hates is not a christian. Very simple...

“pe-di-ah-kawn-aus ente plah-nay. These strange words were Coptic, the language spoken in Egypt at the dawn of Christianity. They had gone unheard ever since the early church declared the document off-limits for Christians. This is a passage where Jesus is explaining to the disciples that they are on the wrong track".

The off-limits are for the one who don't know or refuse to know who is Jesus & why he came to us. Sirs, christianity is a shut off of every limits. His words are not something flying around, or written on books, his word is written on our hearts.

Disciples are humans as we are, then the faults are almost always possible, no one said that they are always right in everything, even our bible that you are blaming to be wrong said that many times... Jesus said it many times: till when i will stay with you...
Then, if he is saying that to his disciples, the ones who saw him, & believed him, what will he says to everyone of us?... are we on the wright track???!...

Jesus Christ’s close friend, one of the 12 Apostles, who sold him out for 30 pieces of silver, identifying him with a kiss.

Jesus is a close friend of everyone of us, not only the 12 Apostles, and we sold him and still doing it everyday, even cheaper than that... so what is your discovery?

"As Christianity distanced itself from its origins as a Jewish sect, Christian thinkers found it increasingly convenient to blame the Jews as a people for the arrest and execution of Christ, and to cast Judas as the archetypal Jew. The four Gospels, for example, treat Roman governor Pontius Pilate gently while condemning Judas and the Jewish high priests".

"Forgive them because they don't know what they are doing"... does someone remember these words... Jesus said that before dying, so stop this delire... no one is blaming anyone... all sins were forgiven...

"The “secret account” gives us a very different Judas. In this version, he is a hero. Unlike the other disciples, he truly understands Christ’s message. In handing Jesus over to the authorities, he is doing his leader’s bidding, knowing full well the fate he will bring on himself. Jesus warns him: “You will be cursed"."

Hey, we don't understand what he understanded?!... it is like you are saying: he is the only smart trusted one, and the other eleven are just dumbs, and even the enemies of Christ message!!...
The 12 were chosen, not by anyone, but by God himself, so no way to errors... even with Judas real story...
And if Judas was the best of the best, how couldn't God protect him from being cursed?!!... and why he took the 30 pieces of Silver?...

"This message is startling enough to raise suspicions of fraud, common with alleged biblical artifacts".

Christianity is the full & free love Of God... the ones searching for artifacts, are the ones who want to find a reason for their bad ways...

“Christianity trying to find its style.”

Christianity is not a style... it is a life...

"The Judas gospel vividly reflects the struggle waged long ago between the Gnostics and the hierarchical church. In the very first scene Jesus laughs at the disciples for praying to “your god,” meaning the disastrous god who created the world. He compares the disciples to a priest in the temple (almost certainly a reference to the mainstream church), whom he calls “a minister of error” planting “trees without fruit, in my name, in a shameful manner.” He challenges the disciples to look at him and understand what he really is, but they turn away".

They talk about Jesus, as if he is someone who hates his disciples... or if he don't want them to understand, or even, as if it was so difficult to him to make them understand...
They talk about Jesus, as if he died just for Judas, the one who is planting fruitful trees, not for us & Judas & every Disciple...
While searching if the disciples planted or didnt't plant fruitful trees, isn't reasonable to start planting something??!...

"The key passage comes when Jesus tells Judas: “You will sacrifice the man that clothes me.” Judas did to him a favor." The canonical Gospels say Jesus prayed to God that he would not have to die. In contrast, the Gospel of Judas says that Jesus wanted to die to rejoin the fullness of God."

What is that important discovery?! read the bible sirs before giving us your new gospel... read it well... Jesus knew very well that he is going to die & to resuscitate, he knew also that someone is going to deliver him... and he knew who is this one... he has many ways to escape if he didn't want to die... he came to die... it is his mission and it's already done...
That's very true, he prayed that he would not have to die... do you know why sirs?? because it was not a normal death as every one... he died while boring every sin on earth, done before his presence on earth, during it, now and till the end of life on earth... he prayed yes, but he accepted the will of God, even that it was dying for sinners, while no one accept to die to deliver a good one... Do you accept it once?

“Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it,” Jesus tells him encouragingly. “The star that leads the way is your star.” Ultimately, Judas has a revelation in which he enters a “luminous cloud.” People on the ground hear a voice from the cloud, though what it says may be forever unknown due to a tear in te papyrus.

Ah! what a chance... a word said by god, lost because of a tear in a papyrus?!!
Oh! what can we do now?

"We will stop loving each other... we will hate every one including the disciples... we will hate Jesus"...
"We can do whatever we want... enjoy our life in every way... there is no god... it is just stories made by someone to make us lose our freedom"...
" The bible is all wrong... just a big lie"...
"Believers are just dumbs like their disciples"...
"I question if their is really a Jesus"...

This is the minimum said by many ones after opening the pages of Juda's Gospel...
What i can say: "Devil is just making another effort to improve his kingdom on earth, so be CAREFUL"...



Sassine El Nabbout MD.

Regarding The Gospel Of Judas

I am continually amazed at the ability of the modern press to show it's own colors to an apparently colorblind nation.
Recently therehas been a swarm of coverage around the Gospel of Judas, an apparentrecent discovery, and insightful document concerning therelationship between Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot. What the press failed to mention is the wealth of information regarding the Gospel of Judas, it's origins, meanings, and impact on Christianity.
The media would have you believe that some newdiscovery or truth about Christ has now been revealed. One radio reporter inferred that Easter would now be changed forever becauseof this new information.
People have been surprised to learn of a possible friendship between Judas and Jesus. Even more astounding, it seems, is the idea that the actions of Judas were, in fact, inline with the will of God through Jesus.
The Gospels contain nothing which would lead readers to believe that Judas and Jesus were not close. Judas was the treasurer for the chosen twelve. Obviously he was trustworthy, and a man of honor. Heseems no less close to Jesus than the 4 authors of the canonical gospels. Of course he is painted in a negative light by hisbrethren. Imagine living with a man for 3 years, communing with him daily, trusting him, only to have him betray the one Person you haveboth sworn to serve. That is a wound which does not heal easily.
And truth be told, Judas's actions were directly in line with thewill of the Father. Christ had to be turned over to the authorities, that he might be sacrificed for all mankind. This does not mean that what Judas did was righteous, or self lessly motivated. The idea Judas was a hero is historically claimed as being popular among the early gnostics, who proposed the idea of Godas an evil ruler and the biblical anti-heroes as the bringer of the Messiah.
Accuracy aside, let us assume this Gospel of Judas is authentic. What is the significance of Judas's actions, if they were in factdone out of obedience? What effect do they have on the Salvation which Christ's death brought to humanity? Absolutley none.
Evenif Judas had been instructed by Christ to betray Him, that would not change the significance of the cross.Remember that the media may have taken hold of this document inorder to promote their own present agenda, but the church has bothacknowledged and studied the Gospel of Judas since 180AD, when it was first mentioned by Irenaeus, an early Church Bishop.We must not fear the attempts of the enemy to trip us up. The truthis infallible in it's own right.
Remember, that any rash ordramatic reaction from the Christian community only pro-ports what the enemy is trying to tell the world: the present day Christian Church is an irrational bunch of bible bashers who don't know theirown history. Let us be calm, controlling ourselves in the face ofconstant adversity. Remember God's advice to Cain, "...sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it."
The power of Christ's actions and their everlasting effects cannotbe altered by any document, ancient or not. Know your history, know the story of our Savior and cherish every detail.

Copyright 2006 by JM Leary

من أقوال الآباء

الفضيلة والرذيلة هما للنفس كالصحة والمرض للجسد، وكذلك المعرفة والجهل بالنسبة إلى الذهن. وكلّما واظبنا على التقوى أو على العمل، ازداد الذهن إشراقاً بالمعرفة، ونصبح عندئذٍ أهلاً للرحمة عبر الوصية الخامسة، وفيها يقول الرب:" طوبى للرحماء ".
الرحيم هو المتعاطف مع القريب فيغيثه بما ناله من الربّ من مالٍ، وغذاء، وقوة، وكلامٍ مسعفٍ وصلاة. أي أنّه بكلّ قدرته وبدافع رقّته، يفتح قلبه للسائل ويحسب أنّه مدينٌ له، لأنّه نال أكثر بكثير ممّا طلب منه. إذ أنّ المسيح جاد عليه في هذا الدهر وفي الدهر الآتي، بأن يدعى

مثل الله رحيماً.

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ليس المؤمن من يؤمن بكلّ شيء، بل بالله وحده. أترك البحث واعتنق الإيمان.
الإيمان نورٌ منيرٌ للجميع، وحيث يكون تكمن القوّة.

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الصلاة تقودنا إلى الينبوع السماوي، تملأنا من ذاك الشراب، فتجري منّا ينبوع ماءٍ أبدي.
الصلاة تؤكد لنا الخيرات الآتية، وبالإيمان تعرّفنا المعرفة الفضلى للخيرات الحاضرة.
الصلاة لا تقتصر على الكلمات، بل إنّها اندفاعٌ إلى الله، حبٌّ غريب لا يأتي من البشر.
الصلاة غنىً لا يُسلب وغذاءٌ سماوي يشبع النفس، من ذاقها غاص في شوقٍ أبدي إلى الله، كمثل نارٍ آكلةٍ تضرم القلب.

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الصلاة التصاقٌ بالله في جميع لحظات الحياة ومواقفها، إلى أن تصبح الحياة صلاةً واحدة بلا انقطاعٍ ولا اضطراب.

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الصلاة هي أمّ كلّ الفضائل، فالصلاة تحفظ العفة وتربيها في حضنها، تبطل الغضب وتوبخ عليه، تمنع ميول الكبرياء والحسد، تستدعي الروح القدس ليحلّ فينا، وتسمو بالنفس لترتفع إلى السماء.

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When God calls u...

When God calls you, there are but two choices: Obedience or diobedience. There is no third option!
When God spoke to Abraham & asked him to go to a land he would later give him, Abraham's response was,"Ok, let's go!"
Today, many would say, "Hey, God, what's the matter with my serving you here? Ur's a nice place-good schools, shops & golf courses. Nice neighborhood- looks good on a business card."
When God said," Abraham, i want you to give Me your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love," he responded in simple obedience, assured ( so says Hebrews11) that if God should demand the life of his son, he would raise him from the dead. The response of many today would more likely be,"God, can't we make a deal? I've got quite a lot of money & lots of servants. How about giving you ten of my finest men? I will pay their salaries, & you can send them anywhere you want."
Many well-qualified individuals lose out with God because they want to make a deal with Him, saying, " I'll go so far but no farther." They are interested in serving God more in an advisory capacity than in grassroots involvement. This kind of attitude not only leaves them out of corporate head-quarters but also doesn't give God much to work with when it comes to kingdom.
God wants all you are & all you have...

From the book:
Successful Servants
Harold J. Sala

بسيطة

اعتدنا أيّها الإخوة كثرة الكلام والحشو، حتى في الصلاة... كأن اللّه لا يسمع، أو أنّه لا يعرف ما بنا وما نحتاجه...
الصلاة أيّها الإخوة طهارةٌ للنفس... هي لغة التخاطب مع اللّه عزّ وجلّ... وتلاوتها كلّ اليوم تؤكد عزم الإنسان على البقاء ملاصقاً له... كما أنّها درعٌ تخشاه الشياطين...
وبما أنّ كلاً منّا في معركةٍ على مدار الثواني مع عدونا اللدود والوحيد، فالتخلّي عن الصلاة تعني تسليم النفس لإبليس...
يجب التنبّه من سقوط النفس في الضجر والفتور، وهذه واحدة من سيئات التكرار... لكن يجب أن يتسلّح كلّ منّا من قبل بمعرفة ألاعيب إبليس... فلا تدعه يوماً يقنعك بأنّك صليت ما يكفي... طبعاً، لأنه المتأذي الوحيد ممّا ترتّله روحك...
وعندما تصلي، لتخرج الكلمات من قلبك وليس من شفتيك... ولتكن صلاتك بسيطة... ليس أكثر ولا أقلّ ممّا علّمنا السيد المسيح:
أبانا الذي في السماوات، ليتقدّس اسمك، ليأتي ملكوتك، لتكن مشيئتك كما في السماء كذلك على الأرض، أعطنا خبزنا كفاف يومنا، واترك لنا ما علينا كما نترك نحن لمن لنا عليه، ولا تدخلنا في التجربة، لكن نجّنا من الشرير. آمين

الرسالة

نحن في عالمٍ مظلم بسبب بعدنا عن النور الذي يشعّه اللّه ...
كلّ منّا بحاجةٍ إلى هذا النور الذي يدخل حياتنا في الصميم كي ينير خفاياه فيعلنها، لكي تشفى من مرضها الداخلي الذي هو الخطيئة...
نعم أيّها الأحبّاء، كلّنا موتى بالخطيئة التي تظلم حياتنا...ومن غير المسيح أتى ليشفي أمراضنا ويحمل عنّا هذا النير الثقيل...
ونحن نؤمن بذلك كلّه وبه نتكلّم...
نعم! نحن نؤمن ولذلك نحن مخلّصون...

د.ساسين ميشال النبّوت

Ten things God won't ask

1...God won't ask what kind of car you drove;
He'll ask how many people you drove who didn't have transportation.
2...God won't ask the square footage of your house,
He'll ask how many people you welcomed into your home.
3...God won't ask about the clothes you had in your closet,
He'll ask how many you helped to clothe.
4...God won't ask what your highest salary was.
He'll ask if you compromised your character to obtain it.
5...God won't ask what your job title was.
He'll ask if you performed your job to the best of your ability.
6...God won't ask how many friends you had
He'll ask how many people to whom you were a friend.
7...God won't ask in what neighborhood you lived.
He'll ask how you treated your neighbors.
8...God won't ask about the color of your skin.
He'll ask about the content of your character.
9...God won't ask why it took you so long to seek Salvation,
He'll lovingly take you to your mansion in heaven, and not to the gates of Hell.

Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments,worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.

Forgive As You are Forgiven…

It’s a part of each one of us… when we are hurt, there is no way to forget about it… we know that what we are doing is wrong, and its not what Jesus wanted and want each minute from us… but we don’t forgive…
Its really weird… unbelievable…
Even the ones who believes in love, mercy… the ones who were chosen to be the sons of god… when they are in a situation, each one forgot what to do… and unfortunately, there is no way to correct that…
They forgot why Jesus came to this earth…
They forgot that they are forgiven by Jesus…
By the King…
They enter what we call: the closed circle… where the devil dances while seeing them in pain…
They forgot about everything beautiful in this life…
Everything became this “hurt”…
Everything runs around it…
And for sure… Devil, that is the only one that hurt you, don’t stay looking only, but he will keep you running in this empty closed circle…
What is your pain sir while looking to god while crucified?…
Do you think that life will not be painful?… remember what Jesus said: there is no one slave that is better than his master…
And Jesus said also: who wants me, must take his cross and follow me…
Did you one day accepted your cross?…
Accepted it with happiness…
With Love…
Why?...
Because Jesus accepted the cross while full of love…
He died while saying: forgive them god, because they don’t know what they are doing…
While dying… he forgave us…
I remember her another story… the one of the master that was counting what he has… he took his slave… and asked him to return back his money… he wanted from him 10000… the slave said: oh master… I don’t have them… so the master asked his soldiers to take him to jail, and to buy his family as all what he has… the slave cried and asked his master mercy… the master’s heart feels pain to do all that to him… so he forgave him…
While going out, the slave that was forgiven met another slave… he wants from him only 10… the other slave said: I don’t have them right now… so the forgiven slave started to hit him while the poor one was asking for mercy, and he took him to police and put him in jail… the other slaves knew what happened… so they told the master… that ordered to see the slave again… when he was in face of him, the master said: I wanted from you 10000, and I forgave you for them when you asked that… your brother wanted your mercy for only 10 and you couldn’t forgive him… then he ordered his soldiers to take him out, to the eternal pain…

Do you want to be in this situation while you are facing god?...

Sassine El Nabbout MD.

A Daily Law In Praying…

" I stay in front of you, and you see me"… this is the first law… staying in front of god…
To know with each word, that there is a god that creates everything on the earth as in heaven… that we need him to protect us from what the devil programmed for us…
I repeat here: " with the sin the death entered to this world". Then the first sin is being away from praying… continuously…
Dear brothers, the real death is the death of our soul…
We need prayers, as we need nutrients, water…
Pray when you wake up… on the sunrise… on the first hours of the day… the late hours… the sunset time… the midnight… just keep praying… remember god, when you see something beautiful… always pray and pray…
With prayers we become unified with god… then with prayers we are always in love…

No Need To Have Fear

في السابق ، كان الناس يقفون على ضفاف نهر الحياة ارتالاً، يحملون الأثقال وينظرون بعين السواد إلى الغد... والعتمة تخنق الليل، والظلام يملئ الدنيا، والنفوس واقعةٌ في الحيرة، وأما الشيطان فكان لا يهدئ ولا ينام... والنفوس كلّها يملؤها الحزن... فلم يعد هناك من أملٍ بيومٍ جميل، ولا رجاء نأمله... بل كان الظلم يسيطر على الناس...
إلى أن طلّ علينا من السماء، نجمٌ ساطعٌ ، أتى وغيّر حياتنا... فمحى بتسامحه خطايانا... وعلى كتفيه حمل أوجاعنا...
فيا أيّها الأخ العزيز، لم يعد هناك من مبرّر للبكاء، للخوف، للضياع...
فعلاما تبكي؟... الا تعلم انّ الخسارة هي ربحٌ لكلّ من يؤمن...
وممّا أنت خائف؟.... ألا تعلم أن الرب هو إلهك وهو القادر على كلّ شيء...
ولما أنت ضائع؟... إتبع النور... فقط النور لتصل إلى الحيا الأبديّة...

To Remember...

Always in life, we choose the easiest ways… always we have the fear of death… always we try to not take a decision, a responsibility… always we lie to hide what we believe in… always we don’t say the truth to not be hurt… always we don’t walk in a direct way… always we put our hand in a place, our feet in another place, our heart in a place and our faith in a completely different place… always we walk around a situation but we don’t pass through it… always & always…

Isn’t time now to choose the right way but not the easiest one!?…

Isn’t time now to believe in the eternal life?!…

Isn’t the good time now to take a real decision, a man’s decision?…

Isn’t time to say the truth whatever will happen?…

Isn’t time to walk only in one right way, the way of Jesus?…

Isn’t time to put all our life in the hands of god & only god?…

Isn’t time to confront situations?… to continue our life in the light, not just dying in the shadow?…

Isn’t time to remember the son of man…
Our god…

Isn’t time to know our clear and only real mission as he knew it…
He confronted death… he had for sure many ways to run around… and even that may keep him alive, a king of earth… without pain… But he said: for that I came here… He came for us… to die, because we are sinners… He came to release us and he released us…

Trust me, it’s the time to be a real brother of the son of man…
Don’t wait for tomorrow, because you may not have enough extra time… And because the time of truth is now, don’t miss your chance…