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This site has the discoveries by Ron Wyatt of Wyatt Archaeological Research! You can find here Noah's Ark, The Ark of the Covenant, Sodom and Gomorrah, ...
http://www.throneofgod.com/
Here is Ron's website:
We look forward to sharing our dad's mission as well as some of our experiences growing up with our dad "the explorer". Dad's love for the bible was so great that he devoted most of his life to proving the validity of this timeless message from God. Dad sought to prove that the God of Abraham and Moses is still the one and only God of the universe.
http://www.ronwyatt.com/
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"Now, they'll have to deal with the evidence."
Ron Wyatt, while ill prior to his passing away, 1999.
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Chemtrail Update With Will Thomas
A man was asked to speak to a rather large church congregation. After he strode to the pulpit he said,"There are three points to my sermon." Most people yawned at that point. They'd heard that many times before.
But he went on, "My first point is this. At this time there are approximately 2 and 1\2 billion people starving to death in the world."
The reaction through the congregation was about the same, since they'd heard that sort of statement many times before, too. And then he said,"My second point..."
Everybody sat up. Only ten or fifteen seconds had passed, and he was already on his second point?
He paused, then said, "My second point is that most of you don't give a damn!"
He paused again as gasps and rumblings flowed across the congregation, and then said:
"And my third point is that the real tragedy among Christians today is that many of you are now more concerned that I said 'damn' than you are that I said that 2 and 1\2 billion people are starving to death." Then he sat down.
The whole sermon took less than a minute, but it is in many ways one of the most powerful ones ever given. In no uncertain terms, he was reminding those of us stuck in our pews that we are called to action, not to fancy words. We are members of the kingdom of God, not the kingdom of niceness and respectability.
The Christian life is not what it seems. Oftentimes we can become (sometimes without even being aware of it) committed to our own happy idea about the Christian faith. We become addicted to comfort and convenience, the good life, convinced it is somehow related to the truth of Scripture. Deep down, we want to believe that if we're Christians we should be good people and good things should happen to us.
But that's not what Christ calls us to. The problem with the "success gospel" is that you can't preach it to two-thirds of the world. I am well aware that we don't need more guilt to paralyze us, but all of us could stand a little more honesty and responsibility. In fact, even as I write these words I am also quite aware that I am still much more a part of the problem than of the solution.
Our religiosity, our 'respectability' our 'niceness' can actually get in the way. When we feel the basic purpose of our faith is to be nice and good, we are confusing the expressions of the lifestyle with the purpose of it. Some of us really believe that the point of Christianity is to look good and have a good Christian reputation. But the kingdom of God is a life changing, life transforming experience. It's more than just...respectability and niceness.
Jesus, to the contrary, was shocking, astonishing, loving, daring, revolutionary, kind, caring, compassionate...but nice?
To have experienced Christ, to have encountered Jesus of Nazareth, to have run headlong into the person of God in the flesh must have been like stepping into the path of a hurricane. Jesus promises us at least four things- peace, power, purpose...and trouble. God doesn't promise a carefree life; He promises peace and joy in the midst of trouble (John 16:33). There is danger in the midst of to much security and He knew it.
Sometimes, we are forced into the 'niceness' rut, and find it almost impossible to climb out. Even our spiritual leaders have to fight this mentality.
We have to get out of our comfort zones and be willing to get real with God and respond to His direction and His divine appointments with others that will come about. Be willing to put all our trust and confidence in Him and not in ourselves. Suffer loss of our self made positions and take action without caring about the opinions of others. We are going to serve the Living God.
We are going to re~present Christ to our world. We are not going to try to please everybody, we are going to serve the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 2:4 (New International Reader's Version)
In fact, it is just the opposite. God has accepted us to preach. He has trusted us with the good news. We aren't trying to please people. We want to please God. He puts our hearts to the test.
To preach the gospel message, to evangelise the world around us. Not to just sit in pews doing nothing but listening to others tell us stuff over and over again...
"There is nothing quite so nauseating or pathetic as the flesh trying to be holy."
Major Ian Thomas
I went to the skimboarding contest today at the Balboa Pier with my son. It was a foggy day with poor skimboarding
conditions. Some of the competitors had come from far away places to
take a shot at the title. There were even some 'Pros' in their own
heats.
It all started for me when I found a round wooden disk that had been painted red in 1963. I learned to skim across the flat sand on it. Then one day in 1965 a friend showed me a combination skimboard\bodyboard called a BonAire. It was made out of molded plastic with two handle holes on each side of the board. It had detachable fins. We would fill the fin holes with wax.
I quickly learned to skim down the beach slope and try to catch waves with it. The water would rooster tail out of the handle holes as we skimmed across the water. I lived in Newport Beach and would skimboard everyday with Jim Trapp. We dominated 45th street!
Because of the blunt nose and the squared off tail along with the limited buoyancy we couldn't do much in comparison to todays skimboard riders. For us it was 'walking' the board and 'nose riding.' We would catch waves for short distances before we sank into the water. One of the more fun things was when we would catapult ourselves into the air and flip. We quickly learned how to land flat on our backs in the dry sand in such a way that we never got hurt.
Before the rock groins were installed in Newport, back when there was only the steel pillar walls, there would be strong backwash that we could ride out into the water and then turn and ride an incoming wave back to shore. This was about as close to todays style of riding that we ever got.
The BonAire would crack now and then and we would have to go purchase new one's from Hart's Sporting Goods up in Costa Mesa over by Lions park.
Lee Pope the best surfer in my neighborhood at the time would suggest making a skimboard out of foam and fiberglass like a small surfboard. He was a few years ahead of his time on that idea. We never quite got around to trying it...wish we had.
It wasn't until I made a visit with my BonAire to Victoria Street Beach in Laguna Beach in 1975 that I saw the first actual foam skimboards. A group of dudes around my age were rippin on them. They told me to leave 'their' beach. They were not very friendly at all to me. Seriously, they were down right mean to me. Sometimes I wonder if 'Tex' from Victoria Skimboards was one of those dudes.
Here it is 2009 and my favorite pass time of my youth has now become an actual sport with it's own contest. I wonder what they would think to see me, a 58 year old rippin on one of those foam skimboards. Loose a few pounds, do some cardio, practice and suddenly show up in a contest...LOL
Hey...I was one of the best skimboarders around Newport Beach in the sixties...just ask Steve Parkford , Mike Rucker , Scott Clucase , Lee Pope or Mike Grasso, all really great Newport surfers. Scott was pretty good at skimboarding also. We never dreamed that Victoria Skimboards would make skimboarding into a worldwide sport.
Oh ya, for all you skimboarders today...there was no 'Blackball' for us in the sixties, we could skimboard all day long any day anywhere we wanted to in Newport Beach in the sixties. And we did!
I watch some of the videos on youtube and am amazed at how skimboarding has really taken off. Check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skimboarding
It all started for me when I found a round wooden disk that had been painted red in 1963. I learned to skim across the flat sand on it. Then one day in 1965 a friend showed me a combination skimboard\bodyboard called a BonAire. It was made out of molded plastic with two handle holes on each side of the board. It had detachable fins. We would fill the fin holes with wax.
I quickly learned to skim down the beach slope and try to catch waves with it. The water would rooster tail out of the handle holes as we skimmed across the water. I lived in Newport Beach and would skimboard everyday with Jim Trapp. We dominated 45th street!
Because of the blunt nose and the squared off tail along with the limited buoyancy we couldn't do much in comparison to todays skimboard riders. For us it was 'walking' the board and 'nose riding.' We would catch waves for short distances before we sank into the water. One of the more fun things was when we would catapult ourselves into the air and flip. We quickly learned how to land flat on our backs in the dry sand in such a way that we never got hurt.
Before the rock groins were installed in Newport, back when there was only the steel pillar walls, there would be strong backwash that we could ride out into the water and then turn and ride an incoming wave back to shore. This was about as close to todays style of riding that we ever got.
The BonAire would crack now and then and we would have to go purchase new one's from Hart's Sporting Goods up in Costa Mesa over by Lions park.
Lee Pope the best surfer in my neighborhood at the time would suggest making a skimboard out of foam and fiberglass like a small surfboard. He was a few years ahead of his time on that idea. We never quite got around to trying it...wish we had.
It wasn't until I made a visit with my BonAire to Victoria Street Beach in Laguna Beach in 1975 that I saw the first actual foam skimboards. A group of dudes around my age were rippin on them. They told me to leave 'their' beach. They were not very friendly at all to me. Seriously, they were down right mean to me. Sometimes I wonder if 'Tex' from Victoria Skimboards was one of those dudes.
Here it is 2009 and my favorite pass time of my youth has now become an actual sport with it's own contest. I wonder what they would think to see me, a 58 year old rippin on one of those foam skimboards. Loose a few pounds, do some cardio, practice and suddenly show up in a contest...LOL
Hey...I was one of the best skimboarders around Newport Beach in the sixties...just ask Steve Parkford , Mike Rucker , Scott Clucase , Lee Pope or Mike Grasso, all really great Newport surfers. Scott was pretty good at skimboarding also. We never dreamed that Victoria Skimboards would make skimboarding into a worldwide sport.
Oh ya, for all you skimboarders today...there was no 'Blackball' for us in the sixties, we could skimboard all day long any day anywhere we wanted to in Newport Beach in the sixties. And we did!
I watch some of the videos on youtube and am amazed at how skimboarding has really taken off. Check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skimboarding
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