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- Ganesh Idol For Home Puja Room Decor - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2022 from Divya MantraBEST GIFT FOR ANY OCCASION: Idol for gift, showpiece for home decor, marriage, farewell gifts for colleague, to say thank you, birthday, office decoration item, home interior decorative product.; IDEAL RETURN GIFT: These very good quality brass idols by Divya Mantra make great ...
Views: 579 - Gender Equality in Islam - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2017 from Umer FiazIslam has always defined the monarchies of all domains. There is not a single issue on which Islam has not enlightened us through either Quran or Sunnah. When it comes to equality, non-believers always put the blame on Islam by calling it the most oppressed religion for all the women but this is ...
Views: 809 - Get a New Vision for Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from Denise MistichEveryone is focusing on the "State of the Union" or "State of the World," I should say. The economic crises in the US has captured all eyes and the whole world watches President Barack Obama, looking steadily for positive change. In my last article, I advised you to change your focus and look ...
Views: 1581 - Get Hanumanji's Form and Prayer Close to the Heart! - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2016 from Harshad JethraLord Hanuman is one of the most revered and adored deities in Hinduism. He is loved by one and all, cherished for his tales in mythology. Worshippers of Lord Hanuman have tremendous faith in him, he is believed to be a tremendous source of strength and with his blessings, one is able to ...
Views: 1364 - Get Your Head in the Spiritual Game - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2020 from Bruce WawrzyniakWe've all seen basketball games where a team calls a timeout and all the players huddle around to listen to the coach during that break. Timeouts aren't as common in the National Hockey League but they do happen occasionally in that sport as well. Plus, certainly, we see huddles on the field in ...
Views: 846 - Getting Religious Educational facilities - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2012 from sturat mikeSuch as a market place, the education field aspires to satisfy the necessities from the public through providing quite a few software programs along with programs in which is best suited for the particular requirements from the industry along with the student. Most of these modifications ...
Views: 885 - Ghost Hunting at Bolling Hall, 4th of June, with Simply Ghost Nights. - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2011 from Stuart DawsonThe Simply Ghost Night venture to Bolling Hall or a ghost hunting event, on Saturday the 4th of June 2011. It promises to be quite an exciting night of paranormal activity, with past experiences at this haunted location consisting, reports of whole groups feeling nauseous at the same time were ...
Views: 1096 - Ghost Hunting at Gainsborough Old Nick Theatre, with Simply Ghost Nights. - by Submitted on May 10, 2011 from Stuart DawsonThis was Simply Ghost Nights return to Gainsborough Old Nick Theatre after our previous visit earlier in the year which had been a rip roaring success. From our past trip there could lightening really strike twice and bestow all our ghost hunters such amazing paranormal activity yet again. The ...
Views: 1285 - Ghost Hunting at Newcastle Keep, with Simply Ghost Nights. - by Submitted on May 24, 2011 from Stuart DawsonWhere do we start about Newcastle Keep, the whole night shocked the Simply Ghost Nights team on this paranormal investigation. It was an event that nightmares and films are made of, we experienced it all at Newcastle Keep, the good, the bad and the downright demonic, from table tipping, glass ...
Views: 1395 - Ghost Hunting at The Manor House Hotel, West Auckland, Count Durham, with Simply Ghost Nights - by Submitted on May 20, 2011 from Stuart DawsonAs the team enjoyed the delights of this 3* hotel prior to the nights paranormal activity commencing, none of us could anticipate what would happen when the spirit world would come out to play later that evening. The Manor House Hotel is truly a quintessential old hall, with a chequered ...
Views: 1706 - Ghost hunting at The Sheffield Fire and Police Museum, with Chris Conway - 28th May 2011 - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2011 from Stuart DawsonWhat a great time we all had investigating the creepy Fire and Police Museum in Sheffield last Saturday. We were joined by the loveable and charismatic former Most Haunted Medium Chris Conway who described the place as a one of those rare places that unnerved him from the moment he got to the ...
Views: 1167 - Give Up Religion And Get Peaceful? - by Submitted on Apr 01, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockI have a strange feeling that many times our religions produce the opposite effects than what we assume they should. For example, Buddhism stresses three things; discipline, compassion, and wisdom; and Christian communities stress renunciation of violence, forgiveness, and unconditional love. ...
Views: 809 - Giving A Gift On Hanukkah Is A Nice And Accepted Custom - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2012 from Micko StojanovicHanukkah is the name for the Judaic festival of lights. It is commemorated for eight days. It honors the reestablishment of the Second Temple of Jews situated in Jerusalem when Maccabean Revolt came about in the 2nd century BC. It initiates from the 25th day of the third civilian month of Jewish ...
Views: 987 - Giving Is At The Heart Of The Christian Faith, And To The Life We Really Want - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2007 from Dr. Steve McSwain,Stephen B. McSwain has written a thoughtful book in The Giving Myths: Giving Then Getting the Life You’re Always Wanted (Smyth & Helwys Publishing, 2007) that comes out of his personal interests and professional work as a vice president of Cargill Associates Inc., a philanthropy and fundraising ...
Views: 1218 - Giving the Gift that God Will Like, or What's This Time of Year About? - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2014 from Richard RuhlingAs Jews celebrate Hannukah and Christians do Christmas, most people look for a day off or hope to benefit commercially from this time that's meaningless to millions of others. What's the point? Is it all vanity as Solomon said? Religion is gratitude if we are doing it right. If we don't see ...
Views: 1403 - Global Government, Not the Pope, Is the Beast of Revelation 17 - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2017 from Richard RuhlingRevelation offers a solemn warning in the 14th chapter--“If any man worship the beast and his image…[he] shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God…” Here’s an in-depth look at those words: worship, beast, and image. “Worship” is a contraction of worth-ship. It means giving more worth to ...
Views: 1132 - Global Warming - Will God Help Us Solve The Problem - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2006 from Arthur Levine© Arthur Levine 2006 Global Warming – Will God Help Us Solve The Problem? Orange Groves on the East coast, Palm trees in New Jersey, where is God’s hand in all of this? Are we going to end up like a bunch of fried Bananas? According to the latest scientific evidence revealed by ABC News and ...
Views: 1165 - God Brags, “Declaring the End from the Beginning”? Six Impending Events from the Book of Genesis - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2014 from Richard RuhlingGod Brags, “Declaring the End from the Beginning”? Six Impending Events from the Book of Genesis Summary: The Bible has a chiastic structure, like a chasm—we crawl into it on one side and up out of it with events in a mirror image of the way in. This article looks at how God “declares the end ...
Views: 1980 - God in America: The PBS Special and a Conversation with Stephen Prothero - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2010 from Dr. Steve McSwain,"God is dead," said Nietzsche. Well, maybe somewhere, but not here, as the PBS special, God in America makes abundantly clear. I recently interviewed the chief editorial consultant to this PBS special, airing this week, Dr. Stephen Prothero. As the distinguished professor of religion at ...
Views: 1623 - God In Stages - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVIn my quest to better understand god — and prayer — three friends and I formed a prayer group called Master Mind. I’d heard about this kind of group at church. At our weekly meetings, we’d each share what we wanted help or guidance with, and one person would write down everyone’s requests. At ...
Views: 915 - God is Agape Love - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2019 from David NelmesRelationships are everything...simply because they are all that exist. Nothing has meaning until you decide how it relates to you or how you relate to it. It is the process of making these associations that will determine the outcome of our experiences in life. We are creatures of love that ...
Views: 1271 - God Is Love - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockA good friend of mine, a Methodist, asked his minister if people who didn't believe in Jesus were destined for hell. The minister thought for a moment, and then said, "God is love." This reply is a sign of the shifting landscape of spirituality. The original tenets of religion, that God, or ...
Views: 802 - God Loves Muslims & Gave Us All Land, Including Jews: History Lessons - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2017 from Richard RuhlingArabs are descendants of Abraham with a claim on the land of the covenant that Jews say is theirs, but the terms need to be redefined after what’s coming. “The day of the LORD comes…I will bring all [Arab?] nations against Jerusalem to battle. The houses shall be rifled and the women ...
Views: 1207 - God the Supreme is Infinite Part Five - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2020 from Sharon Beecroft BrownTrying to define who God is, is beyond my ability or anyone’s for that matter. When those who speak about Science and can’t believe unless there is concrete evidence of God’s existence, do not know anything about having faith. Like God the Supreme or Divine, he is not concrete. Not everything ...
Views: 791 - God's Name is not Lord and the Lord's Name is Not God: How We Hallow His Name & Why It's Important - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: The 3rd Commandment (Exodus 20:7) was intended to protect God's name, but when translators removed His name and replaced the four letters called the tetragrammaton, with LORD in all caps, They took His name in vain (made it empty as they made it into a generic title). Elijah turned ...
Views: 1298 - God's perfect plan for Marriage - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from Lorene HallGOD'S PERFECT PLAN FOR MARRIAGE By Lorene Hall HEADSHIP: Servant Leadership In Biblical headship, the husband is assigned the primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership in the home [Ephesians 5:23-29]. The ...
Views: 3066 - God's Self Imposed Concussion - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2010 from Greg AllenSpring means the birth of new beginnings, but it also signals a dawning of mowing the lawn. For many, home improvement ideas begin to dance around in our heads. My wife and I live in an older home and we had a concrete pad in front of the side door for as long as I could recall. The ...
Views: 1546 - God's Word Paves the Way - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2007 from Ann StewartShe was widowed, lost and penniless. Logic told her to stay with family and traditional beliefs and rituals. But, somehow, deep in her heart, she knew that she had to make a choice, and that was to go forward into as yet unfamiliar territory. Ruth had learned from her mother-in-law about God ...
Views: 933 - God, Gods, Goddesses and Human Perceptions - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2021 from santosh krinskyDoes God exist? Are there more than one God? Is God a figment of human imagination? These questions have confounded humanity for aeons and, even today, they are hotly debated. Some believe there is only one God and that anyone who worships a different form or name of God is deluded. Some ...
Views: 738 - Godess Bhavani-Primordial Divine Power - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2012 from Yuga Rishi Shriram SharmaSuper Energy Gayatri is also called Bhavani. When the Primordial Divine Power is worshipped as Bhavani, such intense divine light manifests in a spiritual seeker, which helps in overcoming undesirable taints in one’s psyche. It can be called an energy stream. Bhavani is also called Durga, ...
Views: 1375 - God’s Five Favorite Hiding Places - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from William CottringerGod’s Five Favorite Hiding Places by Bill Cottringer Sometimes God is hard to find, let alone know very well. Not being able to see God, we have to go places where a God-like presence can be sensed in some distinct way. Here are God’s seven favorite hiding places, where such an ...
Views: 1749 - Goo and Magog in Islam - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2018 from Marghoob Bin SafdarIslam is the most practised religion in the world. Muslims are present in almost every region of the world and practising the teaching of Islam. As it is the phycology of a person want to know about the Islam, History of Islam, about the prophets about the companions of the Holy Prophet ...
Views: 913 - Good God, Bad World? (A conversation between Juan Carlos "J.C." and a billionaire named Yu) - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2007 from Carl PantejoBy Carl Pantejo, Pantejo@ynvurcepublishing.com Excerpt from: “My Friend Yu – The Prosperity Mentor,” copyright Carl Pantejo 2007 –Y.N. Vurce Publishing. http://www.ynvurcepublishing.com Note: Throughout this article The Original Substance is the name used for: GOD, ...
Views: 1713 - Grandma's Secret Potion of Faith - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2005 from Arthur LevineGRANDMA’S SECRET POTION OF FAITH Grandma Jenny slipped shoveling snow off the front steps of our home in the midst of a fearsome snow storm at the age of ninety-six and broke her hip. She was a feisty little woman who weighed only ninety-five pounds and stood four feet-nine inches tall. The ...
Views: 1291 - Growing Spiritually Beyond the Forms of Religion - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe see a growing movement around the world of people leaving the religion into which they were born, and starting down a spiritual path of inner growth. A driving factor behind this change is the perception among these people that the religion has either lost any life-force that it may have had ...
Views: 418 - Guardian Angels - by My view of Guardian Angels and Angels
Before I get started remember that what I write is my truth. You may not always agree with what I have to say. Keep your own truths.
Guardian angels are assigned to individuals who have made the choice to live their life from a place of Love. These people ...
Views: 1145 - Guidance Of Umrah For The Pilgrim Who Are Going To Perform First Time - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2015 from Umer FiazUmrah is being in Ihram and having made Niyyat for Umrah when crossing the prescribed Meeqat. Ihram for men is simply two piece unstitched garment. He can change as many as he wants but remain in it until his Umrah is complete. For women it is their full dress that they wear daily. That dress ...
Views: 1682 - Gur Pani (Jaggery water) was the favorite mashroob of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in Ramadan - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2022 from Marghoob Bin SafdarThe mashroob (juice) of jaggery was the most favorite water of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ as compared to others. The Messenger of Allah (SWT) mostly discontinued the Fast with jaggery mashroob. Because this normalizes the temperature of the body particularly in extreme driest form. Since Fasting in ...
Views: 1426 - Gurudev Embarks on his Historical Journey for World Peace - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2014 from Kumar SwamijiHeartfelt Farewell by Thousands of Devotees "All the prolems of this world can be easily solved with the help of cosmic science because that isthe eternal method to evoke cosmic grace, the source of this universe. This is such a powerful science that is can liberate humanity from every ...
Views: 638 - Gurudev explains the hidden mysteries of the universe - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2014 from Kumar SwamijiCosmic science is capable of solving unsolved mysteries of this universe as the cosmic power itself has given us these answers hidden and encoded in our scriptures. We can easily find these answers in the Vedas. Even scientists have accepted that the Vedas carry the answers to many mysteries ...
Views: 639 - Hagiodoxy The Seal Of The Holy Glory - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2007 from Jason WittThe hagiodoxy is the Seal of the holy glory. It is the way many people have tasted of the Holy Spirit today. And it is the way many people have received the Holy Spirit--more than just a taste of God. When Jesus died on the cross the administration of the Holy Spirit began. It happened ...
Views: 807 - Hail To The King! From The Diary of A Former Slave VII - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2010 from Rabbi Simcha WeinbergI once watched a drunken man running down the street in the rain, weaving from one side to the other. When I asked him what he was doing, he responded, “I’m running through the raindrops!” I’m not drunk. I’m not even running. I can walk, even stand between the hailstones. They just won’t fall ...
Views: 722 - Hajj A Series Of The Holy Rites - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2015 from Umer FiazHajj is the pilgrimage to the Makkah in the Saudi Arabia, is a central duty of Muslims. It can be traced back to the era of prophet Abraham A.S. For fourteen centuries, countless millions of Muslims, men and women from each and every corner of the earth, have made the pilgrimage to Makkah, the ...
Views: 955 - Hajj For Kids - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2011 from Nabil KunwarThis most important act in a Muslim’s life, and one of the Five Pillars of Islam, does not have to be an adults-only pilgrimage. Although it is recommended that very young children and infants do not go on the Hajj, because of vulnerability to infection and sunburn, older kids can accompany a ...
Views: 1967 - Hanuman Idol for Home Puja Room Decor Pooja Mandir Decoration - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2022 from Divya MantraBEST GIFT FOR ANY OCCASION: Idol for gift, showpiece for home decor, marriage, farewell gifts for colleague, to say thank you, birthday, office decoration item, home interior decorative product. IDEAL RETURN GIFT: These very good quality idols by by Indian artisans make great return gifts ...
Views: 579 - Hanuman Yantra - Lord Hanuman Personified - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2012 from Sanjeev KumaaarHanuman Yantra is the representation of Lord Hanuman. In Hindu Mythology, Lord Hanuman has been personified as the supreme symbol of strength, courage, and devotion. He is believed to be the reincarnation of Lord Shiva, one of the Hindu trinity of Lords. Besides that, he is prominently known for ...
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