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Dreamscape---Dreamscape was down for a couple of days, techincal difficulties I guess. I didn't host my 10PM yahtzee game due to that. BUT, they are back up again today, and if nothing else goes wrong I'll be hosting my 8pm yahtzee, and 9pm slingo games as scheduled.
Dreamscape---
As some of you might have noticed on Dreamscape, I wasnt around to host my games last Thursday and Friday. I was away on a business trip in the Seattle area, actually nearer to Olympia for a meeting I had to attend. I hope someone was nice enough to fill in while I was away. I sit on the Governors Committee which deals with disability issues, and its my final year of my first term on that posting, Im renewing my membership to that board. I believe while you are still alive and breathing you try and do some good for your communities you live in, not just think about ones self.
Seducity.com--- As some of you know Seducity is one of the vzones worlds that are mostly geared to adults mostly where anything goes as it is told.
On there you play games like yahtzee, slingo, poker slots, bingo and other games on there, as you do on Dreamscape, and New Horizone.
I "host" some of these games on Seducity and and the other vzone worlds. And never all the time I hosted on these worlds I gotten asked to "slow it down" when hosting these games.Some of these games are on timers, and the macros are set up to a 2 second delay.
Now this week I get an email from the powers that be that I go to fast in hosting my games, and when someone poofs from the game I dont wait until they return. These games are about an hour to play and you have to keep your game under the alloted time, so you have to keep track of the clock. Now I agreed to try and slow it down, and wait for a few minutes for a player to return to the game, but I cant help thinking and being somewhat ammused that lately there hasn't been many chances for me to host these games due in large part of no one shows up, or not enough players it causes me to cancel my games, that someone would go out of their way to nick pick?
Kinda makes me wonder what is really going on?
Readers,
Earlier this week I posted on the vzone fourm pages and on seducity, that I wont be able to host my game this Saturday April 17th between the hours of 10AM-3PM making me miss my games I usually host those hours due to a meeting I had to attend.
Well later this week I gotten a email from the powers that be that the meeting was canceled, so I will be able to host my 10AM game on DS, and host my 1PM game on SC.
However, on May 13-14th Ill be away on a business trip, unless something changes that, I wont be able to host my games on DS that Thursday and Friday.
Readers,
As you might have noticed on the home page of this site, I didnt post links to news stories like I normally do. I decided since I want to focus on my ministry more in providing bible lessons and articles of faith on my new site I started: bearingthecross that this site will be a source of info on other news and opinion material. Readers will be able to to directly to what is of interests to them and go from there.
I will continue posting on this blog page any info thats relvant to the virtual worlds communities I happen to be a member of.
The following article was taken from MSNBC.com and its worth reading.
THE INTERNET'S MOST SUCCESSFUL SCAMS
It's a Winter Wonderland on Moove.com
By, Peterthegreat on moove.com
This month's clube theme in Winter Wonderland.
I have a winter maze room, two nativity scene rooms, backgammon room, winter lodge.
On moove.com you start out in your "own" virtual house, where you decorate it anyway you wish. On the Moove.com community board there are links you can buy using their community dallors, furniture, new actors, clothes for you actor to wear and so on.
In my vitural house I decorated my rooms in my house to reflect my interests, and movies I like to watch.
Since this month is the Birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ, I decorated my winterland "club" to reflect that.
If you become a gold member you can open your own club so others can visit you.
So with that Merry Christmas to all.
If you hadn't already noticed, that all three worlds of vzones this week was down, and partly up. Their webpage is down too. The reason was for an extended maintenance which ended up turning into a really extended maintenance! Dreamscape has been down for three days, so yours truly couldn't host on Thursday or Friday.
New Horizone and Seducity are back up, sort of you can't access any of the forum pages on either worlds to post notices or anything. So you might say that vzones had a bad week.
JESUS IS JOINED TO SALVATION (PART 2)
From the Truth for the World webpage
Last time we looked at the fact that God has joined Jesus to salvation, that we cannot be saved except through Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
Certainly the cross is crucial to the matter of salvation. That is where the blood of Christ was shed. The cross is an essential part of God's plan for saving man. It is the very culmination of God's plan for saving mankind. Jesus died the death of Calvary, shed His blood on the cross, to save us from sin; and without the shedding of the blood of Christ, the sinless Christ, the perfect sacrifice, there could be no salvation.
However, we must understand that the shedding of Christ's blood purchased the church, to which all the saved are added when they are obedient to the terms Jesus set forth to become Christians. Those terms or conditions of salvation involve: (1) belief in Christ as the Son of God, (2) repentance from sin (that is, changing our mind about sin and our life of sin and turning away from it), (3) confession of the name of Christ (confessing with our lips that we believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God), (4) baptism into Christ, burial with Him in the likeness of His death, to be raised with Him in the likeness of His resurrection, cleansed there by His blood. It is only in baptism that the blood of Christ is applied from Heaven, figuratively, of course, but essentially, in order for us to be forgiven of our sins.
Saul of Tarsus, later the apostle Paul, was told by Ananias, "...arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord" (Acts 22:16). Sins are washed away in the blood of Christ as the body is buried in that watery grave.
When we come forth from that watery grave of baptism, we are added by the Lord to His church, about which we read in the New Testament. Acts 2:47 says those that were being saved were added to the church, to the body of believers who had been obedient to the terms of Calvary. While the cross is certainly essential to salvation, if we are to receive the crown, we must obey the terms of the cross. We must look to the cross in obedience to the terms or conditions of salvation; but, when we do that, we are added to the church, and we must remain faithful in the church, in that body of believers, in order to be saved, because the saved are in the church.
Today we want to examine the church as an essential part of God's joining Jesus to salvation. Let us look at some Scriptures which clearly show the church is important. In Matthew 16:18,19, Jesus declared, "...upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." Peter had just made the good confession, and Jesus said to him, "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." In other words, I am going to give you (and, of course, the other apostles) the keys to the kingdom—that is, the terms of admission, the authority to admit those into the kingdom or the church. That was done on the first Pentecost following the resurrection of Christ.
In Acts 20:28-32, it is clear that the very shedding of the blood of Christ was to bring about the purchase of the Church. Paul, speaking to the Ephesians elders, said to them, "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." Verse 28 of that text tells us that the church of God, the church that God has ordained established through Christ, with Christ as it's head, was purchased with the very blood of Christ. Now, can anything be unimportant that was purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ? Certainly, it must be important.
Not only is the church of our Lord important but it is immediate. Christ told us when it would be established, and the establishment of the church was in the days just after Christ ascended to the Father. The kingdom, or the church, was near at hand at the time Christ lived among men and preached the gospel. John the baptizer was the forerunner of Christ, and in Matthew 3:1,2, we read, "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea. And saying, Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
The kingdom of heaven and the church are one and the same institution. If we go back to Matthew 16:18,19, we see Jesus there used the terms "church" and "kingdom" interchangeably. He said, "...upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys to the kingdom of heaven." The church and the kingdom are used interchangeably there in Jesus' promise to build the church.
"In those days came John the Baptist, preaching And saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand." In other words, the kingdom of heaven is close to being established. Let's look at another passage that clearly shows the church was an immediate institution that is, it was about to be established during the New Testament period. In Mark 9:1, Jesus said, "Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power." There the kingdom of God is the same as the kingdom of heaven or the church. Jesus said, "There are some of you standing here who will not taste of death (that is, you will not die) until you have seen the kingdom of God, the church, come into existence." Not only that, He said, "It will come with power."
That is important, because we're going to see the power to which Jesus refers here is mentioned again as He speaks to His apostles in Acts 1:8. He says to them, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."
Acts 2:1-4 tells us exactly when the Holy Ghost came upon the apostles. This is the record of what took place on the first Pentecost day following the resurrection of Christ and His ascension back to the Father. Notice: "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place, And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." Notice the power of the Holy Ghost came upon the apostles on the first Pentecost day following the resurrection of Christ.
What is the argument here of the immediacy of the church? It is that Jesus said it would come before the death of some of those with him at that time. Remember John the Baptist preached, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand." Now notice, Jesus said in Mark 9:1 it would come with power before some of those died to whom He was speaking. Then He told the apostles (Acts 1:8) they would receive power when the Holy Ghost came. So, the power would come when the Holy Ghost came, and Acts 2:1-4 shows us the Holy Ghost came upon the apostles on that first Pentecost following the resurrection of Christ. Thus, that's when the kingdom came into existence. It is a present institution, not a future one. And the kingdom and the church are the same. They are not different.
In an earlier lesson, "The Church is Born," we dealt in detail with the Premillennial theory that the kingdom and the church are different and that the kingdom is some future institution while the church is a present substitute for it. Clearly, the church and the kingdom are the same, and the church is an immediate institution. It is here and now, and it is important.
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