YOU KNOW YOU’RE RUSSIAN IF…
1. You had to share a room until you were 21.
2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil.
3. You are standing next to the two largest suitcases at the airport.
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think it s normal.
5. All your children have nicknames, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
6. You know someone with 20 kids
7. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone’s house.
8. You can fit 10 people into a civic
9. Your parents never throw anything away and if you by some chance manage to get something to make it to the garbage can… it mysteriously appears back where it was again.
10. You have lace curtains.
11. You have lace tablecloths.
12. You have or had rugs on your walls.
13. Your mom tells you you’re too skinny even though your 30 pounds overweight.
14. Girls can’t have boyfriends when they are 17 but they have to be married at 18.
15. Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think but they won’t let you do certain things because of what other ‘brat’ya’ and ‘sestri’ will think.
16. You or your relatives have at least five gold teeth in their mouth.
17. Either you or 40 of your relatives drive a civic, eclipse, camry, bmw or accord.
18. Your car windows are tinted twice the legal limit.
19. Going over 100 mph is routine.
20. You’re driving on 2 tickets and don’t remember what your license looks like.
21. You’ve been driving without a license for 2 years.
22. You say “lets meet at 9″, you actually mean “I’ll wake up at 9, take a shower, eat, watch tv and meet you at 12″.
23. You stand around in circles of friends for an hour deciding what to do.
24. After leaving a restaurant, it actually means you’re going outside to the parking lot to talk for another hour.
25. Your uncle/dad fixes cars from the auction.
26. You drive a car bought from an auction (which u will later sell and make a hefty profit off of unsuspecting American buyers).
27. You know your a new Russian immigrant if you wear church shoes with jeans, shorts, or slacks… while playing volleyball.
28. You know you are a new Russian immigrant if you tuck your shirt in your shorts.
29. At least 5 of your relatives are named Volodia, Yura, Olya, Oksana, Nataliya or Tanya
30. All of your CDs are burned, or u bought them at a Bazar for 2 bucks a piece.
31. You can make Perogis in 18 different flavors.
32. You get kicked out of every go kart, theme park, and anything potentially dangerous.
33. You work at construction site.
34. You have five leather jackets and matching gloves.
35. You keep your stash of cash under your mattress instead of a savings account.
36. Twelve of your friends get into a movie with only one ticket.
37. Your house is full of foreign medicine that is probably illegal here.
38. You sing at every party you go to.
39. Your mom recycles plastic cups and plastic plates, and sandwich bags by washing them.
40. You don’t know how to use a dishwasher.
41. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
42. Your dad has butchered a pig or lamb.
43. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.
44. Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties of bowls and plastic utensils.
45. You eat bread with everything.
46. You drink tea after each meal.
47. You are familiar with Yerolash and Nu Pogodi
48. If your a woman, you know how to put a scarf over your head and wear a skirt to church.
49. You don’t consider insects, dogs, cats, monkeys, or guinea pigs to be food; however you might eat some suspicious looking mushrooms that you’ve picked up in the woods.
50. If you want to be understood by a foreigner you just talk more loudly and slowly. TI SHTO NE PO-NI-MA-ESH?

Peace

Peace

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. ...I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid...

Leviticus 26:3-4,6

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: the LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Numbers 6:24-26

All of you stand today before the LORD your God... that you may enter into covenant with the LORD your God,... that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you,... so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God,... and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart’—as though the drunkard could be included with the sober. The LORD would not spare him; for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.

Deuteronomy 29:10, 12-13, 18-20

• We cannot give ourselves peace.
• Cannot have peace without God.
• Cannot gain peace on our own.
• We cannot follow the dictates of our heart, we must follow the commandments of God.
• Only God can give us peace.

Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” So he answered, “What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are so many?”

2 King 9:22

I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; For You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 4:8

The LORD will give strength to His people; The LORD will bless His people with peace.

Psalm 29:11

But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Psalm 37:11

Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; For the future of that man is peace.

Psalm 37:37

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me...

Psalm 55:18

I will hear what God the LORD will speak, For He will speak peace to His people and to His saints; But let them not turn back to folly.

Psalm 85:8

Mercy and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed.

Psalm 85:10

Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble.

Psalm 119:165

Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 125:5

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 128:6

My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commands; for length of days and long life and peace they will add to you.

Proverbs 3:1-2

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding;... her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Proverbs 3:13,17

When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:7

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder.
and His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end,...

Isaiah 9:6-7

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the LORD forever, for in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.

Isaiah 26:3-4

Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 48:18

“ There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”

Isaiah 48:22

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

Through the Trees - ART

By Marianne Broone

sighing and crying over what you see these days?

...And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple.

And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side; and the LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

To the others He said in my hearing, “Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple. Then He said to them, “Defile the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city.

Ezekiel 9:2-7

Verse of the Week 8-31-08

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 1:21-22

Wedding PICS

Click on Pavel & Nadezhda to Look at Pics :)

This was your life...

Women

Click on the photo. It is a true statement about women, in my opinion anyway.
Its in Russian.

Last Days

"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:15-16

The days are really, evil. It makes me pray more often that Jesus would come faster. I'm so tired of seeing so much sin going on in the world; homosexuality, for example. Not only in the world but people who call themselves Christians don't have a real relationship with God. So many people say "I'm a good person, I don't need to be saved from anything."

"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them." Romans 1:28-29

Sound familiar?

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’" Mathew 7:21-23

We must have a relationship with God! That means doing what He wants (not only going to church every Sunday), and having a personal relationship with God. Have Jesus be your best friend.

Also,

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments (garments of righteousness), that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne." Revelation 3:15-21

Therefore, it is not enough to be a simple Christian (warm), we must do something, we have to have a passion for God and be a light to others, we have to keep the garments of righteousness clean; God gives us the cloths of righteousness when we repent.

Jesus Said, "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Luke 5:32

So much sin in the world, so many people carry the name of a Christian but don't actually act like one, so many think they are not going to be judged in front of Jesus Christ because they think their "good enough."

God, help me be a light in this world.

Alrighty, I dont know how many read my blog (sinch I tend to post something about once every two months or less), but here's a question for you out there. How do you get motivated to do the things that you absolutely dont want to do? Its a saturday and I should be doing something fun or cleaning up, or doing something in the garden, anything. Im just not looking forward to it, Im always looking forward to sleeping or resting, prety much doing nothing. This sounds really bad, but seriously lately I have no motivation. Sometimes I just wanto quit. For those of you who dont know me, Im a part time student and a part time workaholic. My job is'nt hard but you know when the brain works a lot, you get tired, I write this from experience. Right now my life feels kinda boring, which is a little-bit Ok sinch I feel like I dont get enough rest. Or, maybe I need to go somewhere... I would love that. Anyway, I hope that you had a nice day, it was nice and sunny (finally :D). By the way, I took that pic., it was a rose that Pasha gave Nadia. Nice ha?

You know your Russian if...

This is funny... click here :D

$ave money on GA$

I got this email from someone on how to save money when getting gas, pretty good stuff...

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS

I don't know what you people are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon..

Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose , CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.

Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.

A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3)stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some other liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.


One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY. The reason for this is, the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.

Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up--most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom. Hope this will help you get the most value for your money.

DO SHARE THESE TIPS WITH OTHERS!

WHERE TO BUY USA GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON

Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us! The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor.

An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS.

Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis.

Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends.

I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell........................... 205,742,000 barrels

Chevron/Texaco......... 144,332,000 barrels

Exxon /Mobil............... 130,082,000 barrels

Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrels

Amoco............................62,231,000 barrels

Citgo gas is from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans. If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $90 - $100 a barrel

Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco..................0 barrels

Conoco..................0 barrels

Sinclair.................0 barrels

B P/Phillips............0 barrels

Hess.......................0 barrels

ARC0....................0 barrels

If you go to Sunoco.com, you will get a list of the station locations near you.

All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It's really simple to do.

Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) .. and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers !!!!!!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!

If it goes one level further, you guessed it ..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would all that take

Thank You,

Brian Haynes

Back on the blog...

I'm back on the blog :) More pics coming soon and more cool fun info. Enjoy...

The new version of Mary Had a Little Lamb

Mary! had a little Lamb,

His fleece was white as snow.

And everywhere that Mary went,

The Lamb was sure to go.

He followed her to school each day,

T'wasn't even in the rule.

It made the children laugh and play,

To have a Lamb at school.

And then the rules all changed one day,

Illegal it became;

To bring the Lamb of God to school,

Or even speak His Name!

Every day got worse and worse,

And days turned into years.

Instead of hearing children laugh,

We heard gun shots and tears.

What must we do to stop the crime,

That's in our schools today?

Let's let the Lamb come back to school,

And teach our kids to pray!

Author unknown

Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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The way we talk :D

Hi, how is life? how has your summer been? mine was great! Lots of blessings . There's something I wanted to share with you. I don't know if you noticed, but more and more Christians are beginning to use too many four letter words. I know you know what I mean by four letter words - cussing, profanity, and swearing. I'm the kind-of girl that is serious about those things. Can you imagine a pastor or a missionary using those words or swearing? than why is it acceptable to us normal everyday Christians?
I know one girl from a different church and I always thought of her as really nice, we are not really close friends, but whenever I see her at church we talk. Yesterday I was talking to her on the phone and she said a four letter word, immediately it changed my thinking of her. Those who are not Christians notice those things and think to themselves, "why should I become a Christian? I'm no different from them."
You are not only doing wrong in front of unchristian's but in front of God, it is sin. Read what the bible says about it:

"And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell." (James 3:6)

"If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless." (James 1:26)

" For 'He who would love life and see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit." (1Peter 3:10)

Jesus also said, "How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." (Mathew 12:34)

So, do people say bad words because of the bad that is already inside of them?
"every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit." (Mathew 7:17-18)

What kind of fruit are you bearing? what do people hear when they hear you speak? do they think, "wow this person really loves God and does His will"? or are they wondering, "this guy/girl is a Christian and they say those words, maybe its not that bad, I can too"?

Please think of this, and take it seriously, God wants us to be holy.
If you are reading this and you are not a follower of Christ, please accept my apology for those "Christians" who do not do as God teaches.

-In love, and because I care, Vera.

PS please comment, especially if you agree, Thanks :).

Cookie

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Abortion

Would You Consider Abortion in These Four Situations?

1. There is a preacher and wife who are very, very poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she is pregnant with her 15th. They are living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending abortion?

2. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. They have 4 children. The first is blind, the second is dead. The third is deaf and the fourth has TB. The mother finds she is pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you recommend abortion?

3. A man raped a 13 year old black girl and she got pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?

4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She is not married. Her fiancee is not the father of the baby, and he is very upset. Would you recommend an abortion?

If you have answered “yes” to any of these situations:

In the first case you would have killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists of the 19th century.

In the second case, you would have killed Beethoven.

In the third case you would have killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer.

In the fourth case you would have recommended the murder of Jesus Christ.

With U. S. abortion deaths topping 30 million, only God knows what we have sacrificed in lost human talent and creativity.

http://www.chick.com/bc/1999/abortion.asp?wpc=1999/abortion.asp&wpp=a

Who Murdered Clarice?

Click on the picture to read an interesting tract:

What Does Salvation Mean for Me?

This is a lesson that I am doing from a book, I hope you will find it interesting, just as I did:

What I Was:
Ephesians 2:1 - I was spiritually dead in trespasses and sins.
John 3:18 - I was condemned already.
John 3:36 - I had the wrath of God abiding on me.
Romans 6:17 - I was a slave of sin.
Revelation 20:15 - I was headed for the lake of fire.
Luke 19:10 - I was lost, yet sought by Jesus.

What God Promised Me:
Romans 6:23 - The gift of eternal life.
Colossians 1:14 - The forgiveness of sins.
Titus 2:11 - Salvation through His grace.
Ephesians 3:17; John 14:23 - To dwell in my heart.
Ephesians 3:19 - The love of Christ which passeth knowledge.
John 5:11 - The joy of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 4:7 - The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.

What I Did:
Romans 10:13 - I called upon the name of the Lord.
Romans 10:9 - I confessed with my mouth.
John 1:12 - I believed Him (Jesus Christ).
Acts 17:30 - I repented of my sins.

What God Did:
Romans 3:24 - Justified me freely.
Revelation 1:5 - Washed me from my sins.
Revelation 21:27 - Secured my name in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Romans 8:14, 15 - Adopted me as a son (child) of God.
Ephesians 1:6 - Accepted me in the Beloved.
1Corinthians 6:11 - Sanctified me.
2Corinthians 5:17 - Made me a new creation.

Definitions:
Repentance: a change of attitude resulting in a change of action (about sin).
Justification: to be declared "as not guilty."
Sanctification: to be "set apart" by God and for God.
Grace: undeserved (unmerited) favor.