The Tower of Babel

(Genesis 11.1-9)

AREN'T WE WONDERFUL? “Yes! Aren’t we great!” “Splendid!” “We are absolutely splendiferous! Why, we are SO wonderful, let’s build a magnificent city to show just how wonderful we are!” Oh, oh. The people who came after Noah were at it again. How quickly they forgot that everything they had came from God. And God is far, far more wonderful than they were. But still, they said one to another, “Let’s build a glorious city to ourselves. And in that city, let’s build a tower that reaches into heaven!” “Splendid idea!” “Top rate!” “Excellent!” And so they all agreed. And, the thing was, they COULD all agree, because in the time after the flood, everyone spoke the same language. They all could work together. And when you work together, you can do almost anything. (But that can be dangerous too, when you don’t do the right thing.) So one day God came to visit the magnificent city the people were building, and to see the great tower. “This isn’t good,” God said. “Because they all speak the same language, there won’t be anything they can’t do! “Every great thing they do, they will think that they are even greater - and there will be no end to the trouble that will bring. We will have to put a stop to this.” (God said, “We” because remember, there is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. There is one God, but three persons together as one God.) And so right then, God began to confuse the language of the people on earth. People started calling things by different names. “Hand me that hammer,” one worker said to the other one day under the hot sun, while they were working together way up on the tower. And the other worker handed him a brick instead. He didn’t know what the other worker was talking about anymore. “No! No! You dummy! Not a brick, a HAMMER!” (Have you ever noticed how we always think there is something wrong with the OTHER person when they can’t understand us - and that if we just speak LOUDER they will!). Well, they couldn’t get much work done like that! And soon the people weren’t getting along so well anymore. They quit building the great city and the tower. All the people that spoke one new language decided to get together and move to a new place, while the people who spoke another language went to find a nice place somewhere else. And because of that, people began to move all over the earth. So the magnificent tower never got finished. It became known as the tower of Babel (“Babel” is like the Hebrew word for confusion), because that’s where God made all the people’s language sound like babbling to each other.

How Great Is Our God

The splendour of the king, clothed in majesty
Let all the earth rejoice, let all the earth rejoice
He wraps himself in light, and darkness tries to hide
It trembles at his voice

How great is our god, sing with me, how grat is our god
All will see how great, how great is our god.

Age to age he stands and time is in his hands
Beggining and the end, beggining and the end.
The god-head three in one, father, spirit, son
The lion and the lamb, the lion and the lamb

Name above all names, worthy of our praise
My heart will sing how great is our god.

Hillsong - Break Free

Would you believe me would you listen if i told you that
There is a love that makes a way, it'll never hold you back
So wont you break wont you break free
Get up and dance in His love
So wont you break wont you break free
Get up and dance in His love

Who would have thought that God would give his one and only son
Taking a stand upon the cross to show His perfect love
So wont you break wont you break free
Get up and dance in his love
So wont you break wont you break free
Get up and dance in his love
His love never ending

There's no escaping the truth
There's no mistaking it's You
God forever we'll
Get up and dance,
Get up and dance
And praise You

Theres no escaping Your light
Theres no mistaking Your love
Across the world we will
Get up and dance
Get up and dance and praise You

Now is the time to take this freedom that has come our way
Offer our lives to see the glory of His name
So wont you break wont you break free
Get up and dance in his love
So wont you break wont you break free
Get up and dance in His love
His love never ending

Living all our days
We are holding on holding on
To all Your ways
We are holding on holding on
To all You say and You've done
We are holding on to Your love
Now we will...

...dance...

So won't you break free
Won't you break free
Get up and dance
Wont you break free

His love never ending

Hillsong - Hosanna (High-Quality)

I see the king of glory
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes
The whole earth shakes

Yeeeah

I see his love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing
The people sing

[Chorus]
Hosanna
Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest [x2]

I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith
With selfless faith

I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees
We're on our knees

[Chorus]

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart from what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdoms cause
As I go from nothing to
Eternity

[Chorus x2]

Hosanna in the highest

Hillsong Live- With Everything HD(Subtitulado en español)

Lyrics to With Everything :

Open our hearts,
To see the things
That make Your heart cry,
To be the church
The You would desire.
Light to be seen.

Break down our pride,
And all the walls
We've built up inside,
Our earthly crowns
And all our desires,
We lay at Your feet.

So let hope rise,
And darkness tremble
In Your holy light,
And every eye will see
Jesus, our God,
Great and mighty to be praised.

God of all days,
Glorious in all of Your ways.
Your majesty, the wonder and grace,
In the light of Your name.

With everything,
With everything,
We will shout for your glory.

With everything,
With everything,
We will shout forth your praise.

Our hearts will cry
Be glorified,
Be lifted high,
Above all names.
For You our King,
With everything,
We will shout forth your praise.

Woah...

Man robs bank to get medical care in jail

Some people who need medical care but can't afford it go to the emergency room. Others just hope they'll get better. 

Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gaston, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 and medical attention. Then he waited calmly for police to show up.

He's now in jail and has an appointment with a doctor this week.

Verone's problems started when he lost the job he'd held for 17 years as a Coca Cola deliveryman, amid the economic downturn. He found new work driving a truck, but it didn't last. Eventually, he took a part-time position at the convenience store.

But Verone's body wasn't up to it. The bending and lifting made his back ache. He had problems with his left foot, making him limp. He also suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis.

Then he noticed a protrusion on his chest. "The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," Verone told the Gaston Gazette. "I kind of hit a brick wall with everything."

Verone knew he needed help--and he didn't want to be a burden on his sister and brothers. He applied for food stamps, but they weren't enough either.

So he hatched a plan. On June 9, he woke up, showered, ironed his shirt. He mailed a letter to the Gazette, listing the return address as the Gaston County Jail.

"When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me," Verone wrote in the letter. "This robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body."

Then Verone hailed a cab to take him to the RBC Bank. Inside, he handed the teller his $1 robbery demand.

"I didn't have any fears," said Verone. "I told the teller that I would sit over here and wait for police."

The teller was so frightened that she had to be taken to the hospital to be checked out. Verone, meanwhile, was taken to jail, just as he'd planned it.

Because he only asked for $1, Verone was charged with larceny, not bank robbery. But he said that if his punishment isn't severe enough, he plans to tell the judge that he'll do it again. His $100,000 bond has been reduced to $2,000, but he says he doesn't plan to pay it.

In jail, Verone said he skips dinner to avoid too much contact with the other inmates. He's already seen some nurses and is scheduled to see a doctor on Friday. He said he's hoping to receive back and foot surgery, and get the protrusion on his chest treated. Then he plans to spend a few years in jail, before getting out in time to collect Social Security and move to the beach.

Verone also presented the view that if the United States had a health-care system which offered people more government support, he wouldn't have had to make the choice he did.

"If you don't have your health you don't have anything," Verone said.

The Affordable Care Act, President Obama's health-care overhaul passed by Congress last year, was designed to make it easier for Americans in situations like Verone's to get health insurance. But most of its provisions don't go into effect until 2014.

As it is, Verone said he thinks he chose the best of a bunch of bad options. "I picked jail."

You wont relent to you - Jesus culture

You wont relent to you - Jesus culture

You won't relent until You, have it all 
My heart is Yours 
You won't relent until You, have it all 
My heart is Yours 

I'll set You as a seal upon my heart 
As a seal upon my arm 
For there is love that is as strong as death 
Jealousy demanding as the grave 
And many waters cannot quench this love 

Come be the fire inside of me 

Come be the flame upon my heart 
Come be the fire inside of me 
Until You and I are One 

I don't want to talk about You 
Like You're not in the room 
I want to look right at You 
I want to sing right to You