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Christian Bookstore - Secret Products You Can Find In An Online Store
The Christian bookstore has long been a place where Christians can go to buy church supplies, Christian books, Christian music, and a wide variety of other Christian products. Many traditional brick and mortar stores have struggled to survive as more and more people change their buying habits and make their purchases online. I still remember growing up and going to the Christian bookstore to check out all of the latest Christian music CDs and listening to the music previews to see what was new. Today the internet has made it easy to preview music from home, and it is easy to make purchases without leaving home.
The online Christian bookstore is great because they can offer a much wider variety of products. Since they don’t have to keep products on store shelves or stored in boxes in the back, they can greatly expand their product offerings. Here are a few secret products you probably never thought about purchasing in an online Christian bookstore.
Communion Supplies
Have you ever wondered where your church gets the bread they use during communion? Some churches use broken crackers that can be purchased at the store, but many other churches use products that are purchased at online stores. The same holds true for the wine used in communion services. The Catholic Church uses wine with alcohol content, but most other denominations use grape juice. Most Protestant denominations in the United States use grape juice because it is believed this is the juice used in the days of Christ. Overseas, there are many Protestant churches that use real wine.
Larger churches often use grape juice containers with the communion wafer stored on top. This is the easiest way to distribute the elements of communion when you are working with large churches. These prefilled communion cups with wafers can be purchased at an online Christian bookstore. Communion supplies are readily available at a Christian bookstore online.
Kids Toys
Your children are going to play with toys, so why not give them toys that will help promote Christian values? Guitar praise software is the Christian alternative to the Rock Band and Guitar Hero games, as your kids rock out to Christian music and praise and worship songs. Bible Challenge is a fun trivia game that will teach your kids lessons about the Bible they will remember for a lifetime. Veggie Tales have been popular for decades now, and even kids who have never been to church have heard about Veggie Tales.
Church Software
There are many great Christian software packages that can be purchased at an online Christian bookstore. The Apple iPad makes it possible for a pastor to have all of the notes for his sermon in electronic format while he is preaching the sermon. There are various worship software packages like ProPresenter and MediaShout that you can use for worship times so everyone knows the words to the worship songs. There are also many Bible study packages like Bible Explorer 4 Limited Collectors Edition which will help any Christian in studying the Word of God more efficiently.
There are many great secret products you can find in a Christian bookstore!
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Go Fish Guys - You Really Need To Check These Guys Out
The Go Fish guys are some of the most popular bands in children’s media today. While many Christians have heard their music, they probably don’t know much about the history of the Go Fish Guys. Many years ago when they were first noticed, they wanted to be the next big thing in Christian music. They hoped to follow in the footsteps of Third Day and DC Talk, but they quickly gained a following with children and young mothers looking for family friendly music. It wasn’t long before MOPS and everyone else wanted them to play at their conventions. Most bands don’t produce music for Vacation Bible School, but there is a huge demand for this music in the summer!
Today, the band is a staple in the Christian children’s music industry. They released their debut album in 2003 with the release of Splash. This music set them up for great success in a genre that craves family-friendly entertainment. They have appeared on The Today Show, and they present “old” music in new formats which appeals to children and young parents too! Many of our kids today have never even heard hymnals in church, but they will hear it when Go Fish sings it. Go Fish has a unique sound that can’t be easily copied, and they continue to release new music today.
The Go Fish guys have produced several great CDS and albums including Superstar, Snazzy, Snow, and Party Like a Preschooler. In recent years, they have been releasing music specifically to use in summer VBS programs at area churches around the world.
They have performed many classics on their albums, and they have released some of their own music too. Here are some of the songs you probably know that you can find within their albums:
If You’re Happy and You Know It
I don’t know any kids that don’t know this song! Go Fish guys has redone this classic song with Christian lyrics that are awesome for Vacation Bible School! Children and even some adults will be singing along with the lyrics of the song! It is on the new VBS album for 2012 titled Praise.
The Crazy Dance
This is the song you’ll see your kids dancing to for months and possibly years to come! You might even catch the parents dancing to The Crazy Dance! This is also from the 2012 album.
Movin to the Beat
Movin to the Beat is similar to the mainstream song Cha Cha Slide. It has all the fun movements of the Cha-Cha slide, and it has been redone with Christian lyrics to help teach kids lessons about the Bible. This is one of the new songs on the 2012 album.
The A B Cs
Yes! The Go Fish guys have a song to help your young children learn their ABCs! This is the perfect song for parents of younger children. You can find the song on the Party Like a Preschooler album.
The Go Fish guys have been producing some of the most professional music for the children’s Christian music for several years now. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel! Get your kids the music from Go Fish guys today!
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Mitt Romney isn’t the first über rich presidential candidate. George Washington, who owned 8,000 acres of prime farmland, was “spectacularly wealthy,” says Dan Ackman at Forbes, and “would have made the Forbes 400 of his day.” His marriage to a wealth widow accounted for much of his fortune — estimated by 24/7 Wall Street at more than $500 million in today’s dollars. Incredible but true: “His salary was 2 percent of the total U.S. budget in 1789.” Super-wealthy presidential candidates: A slideshow
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”For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10 (via hisquietvoice)
(Source: faithclt)
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”Nevertheless, I am constantly with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73: 24-26 (via whittweet)
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”I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own.
We are not able to plan our own course.
So correct me, Lord, but please be gentle.
Do not correct me in anger, for I would die.Jeremiah 10:23-24 (via jspark3000)
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An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the problem Science has with God. He asked one of his new Christian students to stand.
- 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: 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 God good, then? Hmm?
- (Student was 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 didn’t answer)
- Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
- Student: Yes, sir.
- Professor: So, who created them?
- (Student had 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 became 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 was a 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, 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 shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was 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 was in uproar)
- Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
- (The class broke 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 and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
- (The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
- Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
- Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
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- That student was Albert Einstein.
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- I already posted this somewhere in my blog, but I just had to reblog it again. SO much truth!
- Albert Einstein is a good example of science and faith still coexisting.
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“Who of you by worrying can add a single minute to his life” (Matthew 6:27).
God doesn’t want you to live worried and anxious about anything. He knows that worry is counterproductive. It steals your peace and joy and affects every area of your life, even your sleep! Have you heard the saying, “Don’t worry yourself sick?” Yes, worrying will actually make you physically ill. You won’t ever gain anything by worrying, in fact it causes you to lose precious moments that you can never live again. The good news is, God has promised to bring you victory over worry. When you make the choice to put an end to worry, God will give you His peace.Decide today to put an end to worry in your life. Don’t feed worry by focusing on bad news all the time. Sure, we should be informed, but we should be most informed of the truth of the Word of God. Choose today to feed your faith and fill your heart and mind with God’s promises. Declare everyday, “My God shall supply all my needs. He makes a way out of no way. He is a Restorer and Redeemer.” As you focus on God’s Word, you’ll drive out worry and fill your heart with faith and expectancy. You’ll be filled with hope and joy and move forward into the blessings God has in store for you.
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Jesus, I will follow you.: What's your motive?: Philippians Devotional - Day # 4
Read and mediate on Philippians 1:15-18.
15 It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. 16The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. 17The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not…
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”In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
John 16:33 (via kelseymagnolia)
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Anonymous asked: Sometimes I keep wondering why God sent me down this path. What great thing can I do for Him next? What does He have in store for me. I'm here at a new church, leaving everything behind, and I feel that I'm just sitting here. Not being productive with what I am capable of. Can you give me words of encouragement and patience? Thanks.
Heya!
Here are some steps:
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