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Comment by KUUIPO MAKALANI ~HUNAPRIESTESS~ on February 4, 2011 at 7:36am

SOOOOO IT IS KNOWN>>GOD IS NOT A OLD MAN IN DA SKY (slow easy smile)   HE IS THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL THINGS SEEN AND UNSEEN>>>>CREATOR OF JOHN LENNON, BUDDAH, KRISHNA, ISIS, LONO, PELE, ST PAUL  ETC ETC ETC..LORD OF LORDS, KING OF KINGS,GOD OF GODS AND GODDESS'S.....JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR...(GOD INCARNATE) (NOT JUST ANOTHER MAN)BUT GOD HIMSELF  OUR FATHER WHO ARET IN HEAVEN, CAME DOWN AND BECAME ONE OF US...SO HE COULD FULFILL THE LAW..AND DIE FOR ALL OF US..SO WE COULD HAVE THE FORGIVENESS OF ALL OUR SINS , PAST , PRESENT, AND FUTURE, HEAL US, AND GIVE US ETERNAL LIFE....(SIGH) ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL?????

PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL

IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR,

~KUUIPO~

Comment by KUUIPO MAKALANI ~HUNAPRIESTESS~ on February 4, 2011 at 7:29am

AND WHAT A BLESSING OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, HAS BEEN TO US ALL BY CREATING BRADDA JOHN LENNON..YES HE BEIEVED IN OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST...HEY HE WASN'T  SPIRITUALL CHALLENGED (slow easy smile) SEE HOW HIS "IMAGINE" GOT US ALL TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK??????

MAHALO EVERYONE ISN'T THIS PLACE YARON CREATED WONDERFUL??YAY! i REMEMBER WHEN WE HAD ONLY 100 MEMBERS...

Comment by KUUIPO MAKALANI ~HUNAPRIESTESS~ on February 4, 2011 at 7:25am

 

Word for Today:

EVEN BRADDA GANDI, MISSPEAKS......(SOMETIMES
Kuuipo Makalani Each one has to find their peace from within. And for peace to be real, must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ~Gandhi♥
ONCE AGAIN BRADDA GANDI IS IN ERROR..FOR THAT WHICH CAME FROM WITHIN , MANIFESTED WITHOUT AS WE SEE... OUR LORD AND ...SAVIOUR CAME IN T...HE FLESH, DIED IN THE FLESH SO THAT WE COULD SEE IN THE FLESH HIS WONDEFRUL LIFE GIVING LOVE (ALOHA ) FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US...BY DIEING IN THE FLESH,,HE FULFILLED THE LAW OF THE FLESH, AND SOOOO WE ARE AFFECTED BY THIS GIFT AND THEN CHOOSE TO ACCEPT THE GIFT OF THE FORGIVENESS OF ALL OUR SINS , PAST , PRESENT, AND FUTURE, OUR HEALINGS INSIDE AND OUT, AND THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE....AKAMI? (UNDERSTAND) THEREFORE THE PEACE WITHIN IS REAL BECAUSE IT IS AFFECTED BY OUTSIDE CIRCUMSTANCES......THUS CREATING A NEED TO GO INSIDE WHERE THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN RESIDES AKAMI? (UNDERSTAND? (BIG ONO KINE SMILE)
PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL
IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR,'
~KUUIPO MAKALANI ALII HUNA PRIESTESS~

Comment by Yaron Fishman on February 4, 2011 at 12:20am

Hi Kuuipo... I think I see where you're coming from. The way I understand it is that John Lennon did believe in God (see his quote below) , but he wanted us all to imagine what it would be like if people didn't kill others in the name of their religion.  

 

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."~John Lennon

Comment by KUUIPO MAKALANI ~HUNAPRIESTESS~ on February 3, 2011 at 10:46am

Comment by MRS. David W. Gotshall on January 29, 2011 at 1:01pm

Beautiful. Mr. Makalani misses the point. its Ms. Makalani  MRS.David W. Gotshall...

i got the point..did ya get mine????

John lennon just happened to get a lovely tune with a completely odd and (in my opnion)ignorant un researched message of going without the LOVE OF A WONDERFUL LOVING CREATOR...

PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL

IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR,

~KUUIPO~

Comment by David W. Gotshall on January 29, 2011 at 1:01pm

Beautiful. Mr. Makalani misses the point.

Comment by Bruce Larson*Moore on January 28, 2011 at 1:36pm

Those who simplify, fear and take literally the metaphor of the messenger, expend inordinate time and energy debating it's validity, rather than simply heeding the overall wisdom set before them, thus perpetuating a circular misrepresentation of the truth, while doing little to accomplish the goals they so adamantly defend...

Imagine, the reality of truly accepting and following the L.O.V.E. offered by the countless messengers throughout the ages... bringing their grace and peace unto fruition.... Imagine....

C.H.A.O.S.

Comment by Diane Devenyi on January 28, 2011 at 12:41pm

There is nothing like positive global collaboration to bring change to many and joy to my core! Let's all be in charge for a change...:-)

 

Comment by KUUIPO MAKALANI ~HUNAPRIESTESS~ on January 27, 2011 at 10:26pm

"IMAGINE " Sermon for Sunday December 13, 2009(A lesson in cause and affect) By Kuuipo Makalani

 

 Today at 3:18am

Sermon for Sunday December 13, 2009
By Kuuipo Makalani

"Imagine "
Luke 7:18-19

Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour is risen! He is risen, indeed! Imagine the sadness of the world if the Saviour was still in His tomb? Imagine the darkness, the despair, the terrible tragedy of our condition if Jesus Christ Lord and Saviour were dead....... This day we give thanks to God for the crucified Christ is alive. He is our living Lord and Saviour and it is His redeeming resurrection we proclaim. May God's good news touch our hearts. Lord, grant this grace to us all. Amen.

Less than a mile from my home stands a billboard. It is a very pretty little billboard, actually. It's panels look like they are put together with bits of blue and red and yellow stained glass. As to the billboard's message, that is also incredibly simple. In great, bold, black letters, the sign carries three words: "Imagine No Religion." The first time I drove past that billboard I did as it suggested. I tried to imagine a world in which there was no religion, where all the things religion had built, touched, and transformed over the centuries was eliminated or neutralized. My problem was this: when I contemplated a world without religion, I was overwhelmed. There were simply too many things which needed to be altered and modified and eliminated and erased.

For example, many of our hospitals, our nursing homes, the hospices, the retirement communities have been founded by religious organizations. In contrast, I know of very few similar places which have been built upon the humanitarian altruism of atheists and agnostics. Imagine No Religion. Next I thought of the colleges and universities which were begun by religious institutions. Then there is the army of volunteers which has found their motivation, their inspiration and their association in the church. The contributions i give to share the Saviour. Others sharing the Saviour's story for almost decades. Organizations also send out caring Christian teams to locations around the world. In the Name of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, those teams bring learning supplies to children who live on a garbage dump in Mexico, or they may help rebuild a family fishing boat which has been destroyed by a tsunami in Asia, or they may work to reclaim and restore a church building desecrated and despoiled by decades of Communist persecution, or they may work closer to home, renovating and repairing southern homes made unlivable by a hurricane. Once I got started thinking about the volunteers it was difficult to stop. There are so many who, having received the Christ's blood-bought forgiveness and the salvation which it gives, have come forward to share their precious Saviour in whatever way they can, wherever they can, to as many people as they can.

Imagine No Religion. In recent weeks I have passed that billboard numerous times. Each time I drove by I tried to follow through on its suggestion to imagine a world without religion. I thought about the laws which we enjoy in North America. Many of those laws are founded on Biblical principles established by t

Comment by KUUIPO MAKALANI ~HUNAPRIESTESS~ on January 27, 2011 at 10:24pm

" established by the Triune God who recognizes the value of all people. That is why here we do not discriminate between Jew and Gentile, slave and free, male and female. Recent world history has shown what does happen when leaders deny Divine direction, guidance and blessing, preferring to elevate and emphasize their wisdom, their power, their vision. You don't have to look far to see what the state will do when religion is removed. Look to the Nazis of Germany in the 1930s. They tried to legislate religion out of the lives of their citizenry. You know what happened to the Jews, the gypsies, the mentally challenged, the minorities, the conquered countries, anyone who did not measure up, who did not conform. You know what happened. You've seen the movies of the gas chambers and the concentration camps. Yes, imagine a world where there is no religion. It's easy to do. In vast Russia and populated China, atheism and agnosticism had many years to solidify hatred of the Creator and His church. Only now are there historians beginning to tally up the millions who were beaten and banished, the many tens of millions who were murdered and massacred and starved to death by their own brutal and sadistic rulers.

Of course, there were many times when my billboard-inspired imaginings were not so dark. There were times when I passed that sign and I thought of all the Christian people I had known over the years who had been a very personal blessing to me. How much poorer my life would have been without my Christian father. .

I thought of the Christian ladies who prepared and served meals for mourning families after a funeral; of Christian friends who, for hours, sat in silence by the side of parents who had a child who was seriously ill. I remembered the good Samaritans who had, completely behind the scenes and without anyone ever knowing, provided financial help for those who were struggling. I remembered the Christian teachers, brilliant, dedicated, underpaid Christian teachers who consistently went above and beyond the call of duty.......Those who wish only to bring the Saviour's story of salvation to people whom they will never meet, people whose names they will never know, people who live in places they will never go.

Because of a billboard I had remembered the countless blessings I had received from my crucified and risen Saviour. Quite frankly, this is an awful lot for a little billboard to do. It was a lot to ask of a street sign which carried only three words: Imagine No Religion. Somthing John Lennon also asked us to do, and now I know why.... I had imagined such a world and was thankful I would never live in such a place.......

That's why, one day I decided to express my appreciation to the people who had put up the sign. I wanted to thank those who had encouraged me to offer thanks for the multitude of blessings God has given to me through the perfect life, the innocent suffering, the unjust death, and victorious resurrection of His Son. So I could get an address, a phone number, an email, something which might allow me to contact these people, the next time I passed by that billboard I slowed down. There, in a corner at the bottom I found out this sign had been put up by the "Freedom From Religion Foundation."

Did you get that? The small print said the "Freedom From Religion Foundation" had purchased the billboard. Quite frankly, I was shocked. I had thought the billboard had been put up by some conscientious Christian organization committed to helping people realize what they'd been missing if there were no loving God involved in the affairs of men; if there were no Saviour to die on the cross of Calvary as our heaven-sent Substitute; if there were no risen Redeemer to promise, "Because I live, you will live also"(John 14:19). Apparently, and this is just a guess, when the folks at the Freedom From Religion Foundation asked me to imag

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