Wreath Makers Branch Out With Their Business

Julie was a thirty two year old who had moved around the country during her childhood. Her father had been a mechanic in the United States Air Force and thus they had relocated a number of times. Both she and her younger brother had been born in Guam while their father was stationed on at Andersen Air Force Base. After that they spent a couple of years at Arnold Air Force base in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and her father finished up his career at the Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine. Of all the places she lived, she liked Maine the most.

Like Julie, her father also liked the state of Maine and the many different beautiful regions of the state. In the north where the base was located, half was flat potato farming country and the other western half were deep woods that were great for hunting. Farther to the south and west there was the Appalachian mountain range and all along the south was the beautiful rocky coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1994 the Air Force closed down the base in Limestone as a result of budget cuts, and because the cold war was over. The base was essential for the cold war because of it was the first and longest runway for planes that would be returning from Europe. When it closed down, her father was lucky to get a job at the National Guard center in Bangor, Maine, because he and the rest of the family really wanted to stay in the state.

One hobby that Julie and her mother took up in the months before Christmas was making Christmas wreaths. They first learned how to do it at the congregational church they occasionally attended. After one service in November every year, the members of the congregation would gather and collect fir boughs to use to make the wreaths. The following Sunday they all got together to make the wreaths to put up around the inside of the church for the Christmas season. She and her mother both loved the smell of the fresh wreaths and they were very good at making them.

In the next few years they started making wreaths and setting up a stand along the road outside their house. They were very successful but there was a lot of competition in the area given the endless amount of fir forests in the area. They had recently subscribed to a satellite internet provider at their house and Julie started surfing the web and gauging the demand for Christmas wreaths outside of the area. She was able to find many people in different forums asking about Christmas wreaths. It was too late in the season to do anything, but she prepared for the next season.

Using the broadband internet, the following summer she asked her brother if he could make a website to help them sell wreaths, he agreed in return for a percentage of the sales. The following November, Julie and Her mother had made 250 wreaths, where before they had made a maximum of 100 for the entire season. By the end of November, they had completely sold out of their 250 wreaths. They tried to keep up with the demand, but everyday that Julie would check the site, she would have to turn people away because they couldn’t keep up with the demand.

The following fall she and her mom started collecting the fir boughs before Halloween and they even employed two other friends to help them. Over the summer, her brother had upgraded the website to accommodate the high volume of traffic. That year they made more than 10,000 dollars in less than one month. The broadband internet had provided them with the ability to make money that they never would have imagined.

As business kept increasing over the following years, she and her mom became bosses of a team of more than twenty workers and had earnings that had risen to six figures. Julies brainstorming and internet connection had given them a lifestyle they could never have imagined.

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Question by Exposing Catholicism: Why does The Church of Rome disobey its own catechism’s and the word of Yahweh by bowing to idols?
YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD AND HIM ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE”
2084 God makes himself known by recalling his all-powerful loving, and liberating action in the history of the one he addresses: “I brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” The first word contains the first commandment of the Law: “You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him…. You shall not go after other gods.”[5] God’s first call and just demand is that man accept him and worship him.

2085 The one and true God first reveals his glory to Israel.[6] The revelation of the vocation and truth of man is linked to the revelation of God. Man’s vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity with his creation “in the image and likeness of God”:
There will never be another God, Trypho, and there has been no other since the world began . . . than he who made and ordered the universe. We do not think that our God is different from yours. He is the same who brought your fathers out of Egypt “by his powerful hand and his outstretched arm.” We do not place our hope in some other god, for there is none, but in the same God as you do: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.[7]

2086 “The first commandment embraces faith, hope, and charity. When we say ‘God’ we confess a constant, unchangeable being, always the same, faithful and just, without any evil. It follows that we must necessarily accept his words and have complete faith in him and acknowledge his authority. He is almighty, merciful, and infinitely beneficent. Who could not place all hope in him? Who could not love him when contemplating the treasures of goodness and love he has poured out on us? Hence the formula God employs in the Scripture at the beginning and end of his commandments: ‘I am the LORD.’”[8]

They claim that its ok to bow before idols and when shown correction they claim that the bible isnt the sole source to live by but 2 TIM 3:16 says otherwise
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness

Yeshua always said when tempted by the devil FOR IT IS WRITTEN

Gods word is the sole basis for which you should live not some man made doctrine formed under paganistic traditions…..how can they spin it

Best answer:

Answer by HUMANIST
Because they are fools

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

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Everyone Benefits From Christianity

In 1 Corinthians 1:17-31 Paul went on to tell us that people make two kinds of foolish demands on the Lord. “The Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom” (1 Corinthians 1:22). He is talking about the two kinds of people — those in the family of God (the Jews), and those outside the family of God (the Gentiles). We know that there are two kinds of people in the family of God — the saved and the lost (Romans 9:6), but there are also two kinds of people not in the family of God — the unsavable and the not-yet-saved (Luke 2:32).

The Jews required signs or miracles to confirm the mission of the Old Testament prophets who were sent to them. That’s the traditional way that they certified their prophets. It was quite natural for them to insist on a sign to prove that Jesus was the true Messiah. Like the Jews of old, many people in the churches today are still waiting for a miracle to establish their faith. Yet, Jesus performed many miracles during His life on earth, and was resurrected from the dead and seated at the right hand of God as the ultimate miracle. Makes me wonder what people are waiting for today!

Paul also said that those outside the church, those who don’t know the Lord seek wisdom — and not knowing the Lord, they seek worldly wisdom, godless wisdom. Many of them seek it as a substitute for God, as a way of salvation. Indeed, liberalism teaches salvation through knowledge or education. The civil government currently preaches salvation through education in their public schools. According to the state, education is the standard cure for everything — poverty, crime, drug abuse, domestic violence, etc. Again, it is not education per se, or wisdom or intelligence itself that is the problem. The problem is godlessness. Godless education or godless wisdom is futile because only God can change the heart. Only God can change the mind.

I’m not trying to undercut the importance of education. It is very important. But education does not save people from sin. Everyone needs education, both categories of the saved and both categories of the lost will benefit from biblical education. The saved need to be educated in godliness for their own sanctification. The lost who are not-yet-saved need to be educated in godliness in order to draw them into salvation and sanctification. The unsavable need to be educated in godliness in order to help them from being as evil as they can be. Even the unsavable benefit from a biblical education. They aren’t saved by it, but they learn about the role of law and the fact that the state has been instituted to punish those who break the law, and knowing that contributes to better behavior, which benefits everyone, including themselves. Conversely, there is no need for godless education. Ignorance of the Bible only serves to encourage godlessness and sin.

Paul goes on to say that “God chose what is low and despised in the world … to bring to nothing things that are” (1 Corinthians 1:28). God did not choose what was popular. He didn’t choose successful people, or beautiful people, or smart people. He chose what was despised, that which is contemptible, least esteemed, and most unpopular. Why would the Lord do that? Because Scripture teaches that people are sinners and that sin likes to be dressed in wisdom, intelligence, popularity and beauty.

Sinners are caught up in their own thinking, their own values. They are caught up in themselves, and will not yield to a superior wisdom. Sinners will not heed Scripture. They refuse to learn from history. They are unteachable because they think that they know better. They cannot escape the limitations of their own desires. They are proud of themselves, even when they are soft-spoken.

Conversely, Paul tells us that God has arranged things “so that no human being might boast in the presence of God” (v. 29). God alone “is the source of your life in Christ Jesus” (1 Corinthians 1:30). Everything in Scripture and history points to the fact that God is the author and finisher of human salvation, and that people are sinners and completely unable to save themselves. Salvation is by and through Jesus Christ alone, “whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30). There is no salvation at all apart from biblical salvation in Jesus Christ alone (Acts 4:12).

Therefore, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 1:31). All pride is forbidden, except pride in Jesus Christ. We are not to take pride in anything — not in our favorite sports team, not in our own accomplishments, not in our abilities, not in our generosity, not in our theology, not in our church, not in our nation. The only pride a Christian has is pride in Jesus Christ, and the road to that kind of pride goes through the valley of humility.

This is not an argument against cheering on a home team, nor against the playing or watching of sports. But it does stand as an accusation against the contemporary sports industry that drives an unhealthy sports mania that promotes values that are opposed to the gospel.

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