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Bible Geocoding

http://www.openbible.info/ - "The location of every identifiable place mentioned in the Bible."

This is a great Bible study tool! Download a Google Earth KMZ file to view the location of all the places mentioned in scripture. This site also breaks the locations out by Book. If you don't want to use Google Earth, just click the "Preview" link beside each book to see the locations with Google Maps.

In addition, you'll find a Bible Atlas, printed map overlays, and a KMZ file for bodies of water. Full instructions for how to use Google Earth and the KMZ file are in the blog.

"The Heart of Christianity"

Among the world’s more than six billion people are innumerable religious beliefs. Most profess faith in a “god”, calling him by different names and trying to serve him in many different ways.

Someone has said that there must be a gene in humans that causes us to believe that there is a god, because humans throughout the world and through out time have held some sort of belief.

It is not a physical gene that attaches humans so strongly to God but, rather, it is the fact that within the human body lives an immortal soul. That soul identifies with its life-source — with God — and is endlessly reaching out to Him.

Who is that eternal Spirit, that God for whom all of us seek? How can we know Him and please Him? We want to answer some of these questions that haunt humanity.

Download this article, "The Heart of Christianity" (PDF, 200 KB), to learn what Christianity is all about. The article is from Voice of Truth International, Volume 49 (Spring 2006), and was written by J.C. and Betty Choate. Used here by permission.

Other Websites

The websites below offer valuable resources and sound teaching on Biblical topics:

• theBible.net - Read the Bible and articles, listen and watch audio and videos, ask questions and discuss various topics. Home of the Internet School of Biblical Studies and Searching for Truth online video.



• Apologetics Press - Articles, audio lectures, documents, e-books, and FAQs defending Christianity. Site also features a store and seminar schedules.



• Carolina Messenger - Website for a publication that's mailed throughout the Carolinas and beyond, containing an archive of past articles.



• House to House/Heart to Heart - Archive of a mailed publication containing many relevant and easy to understand articles.

Living Water

The State of the Union Address is an annual event in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of the U.S. Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate). The address is also used to outline the President's legislative proposals for the upcoming year.

Modeled after the monarch's Speech from the Throne in the United Kingdom , the address is required by the United States Constitution:

“The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." (Article II, Section 3)

George Washington gave the first state of the union address in the United States on January 8, 1790 in New York City , then the provisional U.S. capital. It has occurred in January (except for six occasions in February) since 1934. On January 23, 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush delivered the 2007 State of the Union Address. *

Considering the recent account of the state of the union of the United States , let’s ask ourselves an important question:

“What is the state of OUR (your and my) union with God?”

Sin separates us from God.  Long ago God spoke through the prophet Isaiah: “Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:1-2).  If something is not done concerning our sin, it will separate us from God for eternity (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9).

Because of His love for us, God gave us His Son to die for our sins so that our sins can be forgiven, and we can be reconciled to Him.  “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (Romans 5:8-10).

Those who believe in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31) turn from sin in repentance (Acts 17:30-31) confess Christ before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) in the name of Jesus (Acts 2:38) have their sins washed away and are reconciled to God. As long as we CONTINUE to walk in the light of His word, the blood of Jesus will CONTINUE to cleanse us and keep us reconciled to God (1 John 1:7).

Jesus died for our sins on the cross so that we could be UNITED with God – eternally.  He awaits our response…

What is the state of YOUR union with God?

* Information gleaned from Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union_Address

God bless you!