March 29, 2007
Posted at: 8:16 am by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Armenia
Week 6 (Day 39): Prayer
To Do Today
Thank God for new life. Celebrate the feeling of spring and rejuvenation. Spend time outdoors enjoying nature’s beauty.
Today’s Prayer
King on high, mighty and awesome,
blessed Lord Jesus Christ,
for someone like me who despairs of salvation
only you can change the curse of mortality
into the blessing of life.
Only you can turn the discouragement of blame
into joyous praise,
shame into resilience,
humility into honor,
banishment into the hope of goodness,
separation into the expectation of reunion,
menacing words into compassionate comfort,
final condemnation into a second chance
at deliverance.
Today’s Scripture (Reading)
1 Timothy 3:14-16
I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you so that,
if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Daily Prayer and Scripture taken from the Armenian Church website
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March 28, 2007
Posted at: 3:45 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Armenia
Week 6 (Day 38): Prayer
To Do Today
Reflect on Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness. What would you do if you were alone for 40 days in the wilderness?
Today’s Prayer
But you alone, Lord God, who loves mankind without
revenge and with forbearing,
on the day of the terrible last judgment
when my sinful soul is judged, take into account
these heart-rending words of self-reproach
and contrition that I myself have written instead
of waiting to hear them from you, God of compassion.
Now lift away and annul the instances of my unruliness
for I am bound to you with all of the desires of my soul.
Take away the reproaches of shame and scandal.
Cover the ugly appearance of my naked body
with your mighty right hand. Lead me to your rest,
for I am worn by the burden of sin.
Set me on the path of goodness toward you,
refuge and life. Remember me in mercy
even after death, O perfect life.
Blessed in heaven and honored on earth,
praised always in all things forever and ever.
Amen.
Today’s Scripture (Reading)
Zechariah 9:9-16
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass.
I will cut off the chariot from E’phraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your captives free from the waterless pit.
Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.
For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made E’phraim its arrow. I will brandish your sons, O Zion, over your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet, and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
The LORD of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour and tread down the slingers; and they shall drink their blood like wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.
On that day the LORD their God will save them for they are the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.
Daily Prayer and Scripture taken from the Armenian Church website
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March 27, 2007
Posted at: 4:44 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Tech and Web
Today I found a list of “The 10 Worst Web Pages in 2006″ from Vincent Flanders. If you don’t understand why each of these websites suck, read his article.
10. Brown University
9. NEIU Foreign Exchange Lab
8. Red Blood Club
7. Tampax
6. LongsCycle
5. HRODC
4. Accept Jesus, Forever Forgiven!
TIE for 3rd.
VTR Australia
Ms. Dewey
CyberAtlas
2. Association of International Glaucoma Societies
1. Optimal World – Since the original website was taken down, I went through the Internet Archive to get the site
I have been challenged to create the worst possible website ever in existence. I am going to take features from websites all over that are horrible and compile it all into one horrific website. I am not sure what I will do with it, but I might allow for comments with additions and/or changes. I think it would be fun to have the worst possible website that was intentional. Stay tuned
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March 27, 2007
Posted at: 10:46 am by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Armenia
Week 6 (Day 37): Prayer
To Do Today
Say a special prayer for our struggling brothers and sisters in Armenia and elsewhere in the world.
Today’s Prayer
I was dubbed, ?Master,? which testifies against me.
I was called, ?Teacher, teacher,?
detracting from the praise of God.
I was said to be good because of my miserable plight.
I was considered a saint by men,
though I am unclean before God.
I was proclaimed just, though by all accounts
I am ungodly.
I reveled in the praise of men,
thus becoming a mockery before the tribunal of Christ.
I was called, ?Awake? at the baptismal font,
but I slumber in the sleep of mortality.
On the day of salvation I was named ?Vigilant,?
but I closed my eyes to vigilance.
So here are judgment and blame,
new reprimands and old sentences,
shame to my face and turmoil to my soul,
pleas about seemingly small things and very
grave matters.
Today’s Scripture (Reading)
1 Corinthians 12:8-27
To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same spirit,
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — Jews or Greeks, slaves or free — and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
If all were a single organ, where would the body be?
As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable,
and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part,
that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Daily Prayer and Scripture taken from the Armenian Church website
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