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Acting For the Greater Good I like this discription A hero can be defined as a person who acts in a way that benefits the greater good of her society. It seems like half the world's stories are about good overcoming evil, the other half are love stories. Both themes meet in the crucifixion. God purposely chose a means of salvation that would reveal the depths of God's love for each of us. The cross is his way of saying, " This is how much I love you ! See how much you matter to me ! You may break my heart, but you will never change my mind. No price is too high to pay for you, not even the death of my own Son." Neither Roman soldiers nor all the armies of hell could hang Christ on the cross against his will. Nails didn't hold Jesus on the cross, love did. He is simply and plainly the superhero above all others. Christ paid the ultimate price, he won the decisive victory, and he did it all for love.Is it just the churches place to teach our children about God and the Bible? Have you ever just taken a min, to think about how much time children read about Hero's and play video games, and watch movies? A child will spend less then one hour a week with the church family. I wont even talk about the music they listen to today. If we asked our children right now, to tell us what the First Commandment was, do you think they could answer us? But ask them about Harry Potter, or Spong Bob, or Big Bird, anything and they are filled with wisdom all about these hero characters. You might say, well there is no harm, its just a t.v. show or so.
This is why the Lord placed it upon my heart to introduce 'Hero's" of the Bible through the tool of Music and The Let's Talk About Heroe's Vacation Bible School. And these programs are all FREE to your church to use.
It is time that we sound the ALARM! Just as Gideon and his few soldiers sounded their trumpets 300 men against 135,000 or Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho. Just come with a open mind and read the following. It is the condition of our MIND that is important to the choices we make and the things we act out from those choices. We must teach our children about the Real hero's of our past, and the qualities they had. That is why Noah,Abraham,Moses,David,Joseph and the disciples are just a few that I include in the Keyboards for Christ Music Ministry. Heroe's are made, and we must Make the Difference in how the children view a HERO.
Thank you again for taking your time in considering to make a difference, one child at a time.
WHO'S YOUR HERO? Researchers for the World Almanac and Book of Facts asked 2,000 American eighth-grade students to name prominent people they admired and wanted to be like. Those most frequently mentioned by the teens, as their heroes were sports celebrities and movie stars. The younger children choose, big bird,spong bob, star wars,batman,superman and other 'make believe' characters. Commenting on this, columnist Sidney J. Harris lamented the fact that every one of the 30 prominent personalities who were named was either an entertainer or an athlete. He noted that statesmen, authors, painters, musicians, architects, doctors, and astronauts failed to capture the imagination of those students. He further suggested that the heroes and heroines created by our society are people who have made it big, but not necessarily people who have done big things. They are people who have sought self-fulfillment. The media has done non-thinking persons a disservice in getting them to exchange the lasting inspiration of the hero for the momentary excitement of the celebrity. While celebrities may dazzle us, heroes enlarge us. The heroes of the early church were martyrs and ours are celebrities." Our celebrities rise on a wave of applause and break on the rocks of inattention. They are fantasy waiting to be exposed. The following was a UPI news release: "Isaac Singer, 77, who won the Nobel prize for literature at 73, said he was surprised and happy after his 1978 Nobel selection, but 20 minutes later he was the same man 'with the same worries and troubles.'" Read Hebrew's Chapter 11 Click on Bible The failure of human achievements to bring lasting satisfaction was expressed well by Mr. Singer. Less than half an hour after being so highly acclaimed, he realized that he was burdened with the same cares as before. Who are our heroes today? Sports hero's... Football, Basketball, Tennis, High School hero. Teacher, principle, etc. Any body who makes money. Cooperate leaders heroes. Lee Iocota, Donald Trump, Michael Milchen, .Someone ask one movie star who her hero was. She said that she watched her own workout tapes. We need spiritual heroes. A few years ago disc jockey in Jacksonville Florida ask teenagers who their heroes were. Number #1 Prince, #2 Madonna, #3 Michael Jackson Not a single one said mom or dad. Reasons we lack heroes. Two Characteristics we need when we look for heroes: Someone big enough to follow.
John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what you country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country." Gave people a cause bigger than themselves. WiCliff a very successful translating agency throughout the world did an add several years ago. It was a picture of a strong athletic looking man wading through a jungle river with a canteen on his side. The advertisement said: "Jim was voted the most likely to succeed. It's too bad Jim had it made. Personality, initiative, a college degree with honors, everything was his for the asking. Now look at him back packing across a jungle river, giving his life to a preliterate people barely out of the stone age, painstakingly creating a written alphabet from a previously unrecorded babble of sound. Working night and day translating the pages of the New Testament, exposing the senselessness of superstition and ignorance, relieving the pain and introducing the possibility of health, building a bridge of understanding to a neglected people and to think Jim could have been a success." When they ran that ad they had more young people to sign up than at any other time. They gave kids something to live for and something for which to die for.
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Someone big enough to die for. 
They gave them a bigger than life hero.