BS: Happy Birthday GNU

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: frogprince
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:30 AM

Couldn't wait for someone else to call attention to your B'day this year, huh? Have a good one, Bro. Any decent restaurants around you that give ya yer age as a percentage off for the day? I usually get a pricey steak real cheap when the day rolls around.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:40 AM

Have a Good One Mate . and thats an ORDER ! !

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Ernest
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:40 AM

Happy birthday again!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:45 AM

Happy birthday gnu!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:47 AM

Have a great one!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:51 AM

Maeve said it, Gnu. Happy Birthday, buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: kendall
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 12:53 PM

Have a funny one, Mate.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 01:08 PM

Hey, ya lazy quadruped!! Go dancing on your birthday. All the guys in Mom's place are shouting it out for ya!!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 01:19 PM

Happy Birthday, gnudarlin'!! Hope you have twice as much fun as when you were half your age.**bg** May you have all that you need and desire in the coming year.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 01:25 PM

I just realized how late I am with birthday wishes. A year to be exact.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: David C. Carter
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 01:32 PM

Better late than never.

Happy Birthday GNU

David

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Becca72
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 01:40 PM

Happy Birthday fellow Aquarium...Aquarian...whateveritis

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 01:43 PM

Old Gnus is good news.... many more!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 01:46 PM

Oh.. and if anyone asks you to fetch something, you just tell 'em....



You can't teach an old gnu dog tricks!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 02:07 PM

Happy Birthday, Gary.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: ranger1
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 02:10 PM

Happy birthday, gnu!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: gnu
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 02:20 PM

I am touched. No, not in the head.

Thanks guys!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 02:21 PM

Gnu, I missed this thread last year and I kinda' hate to post when I know how much Father JoeBro hates these threads. I think the best thing I can do for your birthday that would be right down Joe's alley might be to offer up some redemption for this thread...........................

Have you ever stopped to contemplate how redemption works through Christ's righteousness?

Redemption is a buying back from judgment. It is a rescuing and recovery from being lost. It is being released from the penalty of sin.

Most people love to hear of a great report of how someone has been redeemed from disaster. Hollywood has made money for years telling stories of redemption through hard work, luck or human virtuosity.

The classic story of Rocky Balboa, the washed up fighter who pulls himself up by his own boot-straps to become the heavyweight champion of the world produced three successful sequels. At a time when Rocky is down on his luck he gets a call from the undefeated Apollo Creed to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world – something of a publicity stunt. Instead of disgracing himself, Rocky nearly pulls off an upset, but redeems himself and his marriage in the process. In 1976 it won the top award as best picture for being a classic human-interest story of man-made redemption. Slyvester Stalone has made a career out of making this man engineered redemption characters.

In contrast, Paul teaches the Romans how redemption works through the righteousness that is found in Christ.

True redemption starts from God's purposes to rescue man from the destruction of sin, death and eternal judgment through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

There have been thousands of alternative redemption plans offered to the human race, but none satisfies God's standards except through Christ's recovery solution.

Only when people learn to proclaim redemption through Christ righteousness will they learn to be fully satisfied.

Ask the Lord to help you to contrast the human engineered plans of redemption with the one given in Christ.

Paul teaches the Romans that the foundation of redemption is found in Christ's grace. Romans 3:24 states, "All are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy at Christ's expense) through the redemption which is provided in Christ Jesus."

Paul emphasizes that only when the gift is received does the propitiation take place. (To cause one to become favorably inclined or to regain the good will of God through Christ's sacrifice)

You and I know of many people who are aware of this free gift, but have never reached out with their whole heart, soul and mind to personally receive it.

A person can acknowledge that they rationally understand redemption as an ideal concept, but it only becomes actuated when we personally trust Christ to come in to our life as our Lord and Savior.

Just as a person can acknowledge that there is a chair in front of them, but only finds rest when they place their entire weight on it for support.

Approximately 86% of the world's people are yet to receive Christ's free gift of redemption and grace for numerous reasons.

our redemption is only by faith in Christ's righteousness. The great apostle knew that many of the Jewish members of the church were prone to listen to the Judaizers who emphasized their own brand of righteousness.

Paul counters this human tendency to rely on one's own goodness by stressing the ultimate form of faith is an expression of penitence.

Only when we recognize our need to depend on Christ's righteousness instead of our own, are we able to receive His free gift of salvation. He writes, "We are not adequate in ourselves but our adequacy comes from God. He has qualified us (Making us fit and worthy and sufficient) as ministers of a new covenant of salvation through Christ. Not ministers of the letter of the legally written code but of the Spirit for the code of the Law kills, but the Holy Spirit makes one alive." (2 Cor. 3:5,6)

Ask the Lord to help you teach others how pure faith is full of penitence, reliance and realization that our worthiness is found in Christ alone.

Paul taught that redemption comes through the pardon of God.

One day a convicted murder heard that a man had come to visit him the night before he was to be executed. When the prisoner saw the man in a black cape carrying a Bible he shouted at the jailer, "I do not want to see any preachers. Religion never helped me before and it certainly will not do me any good now!" The visitor looked deeply into the prisoner's eyes, turned and walked silently out of the room. The next day as they were about to place the noose around the prisoner's neck the sheriff said, "Do you have any last requests?" The prisoner said, "I stayed up all night wondering who that visitor was? Please, tell me who he was." The sheriff paused and said, "That was the governor of the State who came to give you a pardon! Today you are not going to die just because of your crime, but because you refused to accept the pardon."

Anyone who goes to hell does so because they refused to accept the pardon that is offered to them freely through the redemption that works through the righteousness of Christ.

Ask the Lord to help you extend that pardon to as many people as possible so they will not have to pay for their sin's penalty in hell and in self-destructive behavior.


The redeemed are dependent of God for all. All that we have-- wisdom, the pardon of sin, deliverance, acceptance in God's favor, grace, holiness, true comfort and happiness, eternal life and glory--we have from God by a Mediator; and this Mediator is God. God not only gives us the Mediator, and accepts His mediation, and of His power and grace bestows the things purchased by the Mediator, but He is the Mediator. Our blessings are what we have by purchase; and the purchase is made of God; the blessings are purchased of Him; and not only so, but God is the purchaser. Yes, God is both the purchaser and the price; for Christ, who is God, purchased these blessings by offering Himself as the price of our salvation.

Ask the Lord to help you to guide people to personally act by faith in Christ. Show them how to pray to receive Christ as their Savior and Lord today before it is too late.

Or are we just jerking off?


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: akenaton
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 02:30 PM

Happy Birthday!!.......from Trollsville..:0)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 04:19 PM

Danged, gn-ze... Happy Birthday... Does it hurt???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: GUEST,J-boy
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 04:42 PM

Have a good one! Or two.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 05:23 PM

Happy Birthday, Gnu! I hope you're in the middle of a great one and didn't get any viruses for presents.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: gnu
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 07:00 PM

Well, as usual, I bought Mum two dozen red roses ($2 cheaper at Costco than a dozen anywhere else) on accounta SHE did all the work 55+ years ago. I also bought her a cake at Costco... hey, $10 for a MASSIVE carrot cake (her fav cake). Besides Mum buying me the supper of my choice tonight, she gave me a letter written by my father to her mother on this date in 1957 from the 3 (f) Wing RCAF Base in Germany.

He dropped her off at the hospital after breakfast while on his way to work. He got off work at 5PM and went to the hospital. I was born at 5:30PM. Minded me of the story he used to tell... Mum was a good Air Force wife... waited until he got off work. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 07:16 PM

Spawzer, you deliver a really bad and boring tale, but you are the absolute master of the punch line.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: alanabit
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 07:37 PM

Happy Birthday gnu!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 09:55 PM

Happy birthday, gnu! I'm glad you aren't gargling with salt this year.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Maryrrf
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 10:03 PM

Happy Birthday Gnu!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:33 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

from sandra

ps. 55 is not senior - I've had to wait the 5 years since I retired at 55 to become a Senior which happened a few weeks ago. I'm still waiting for my Seniors Card so I can prove it, then I really must find out how to act "Senior"

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Severn
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 03:37 AM

HAPPY GNU YEAR!

Following a wonderful birthday, of course.

Maybe a late present would be in order.....

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 06:23 AM

hey, happy birthday to a lovely bloke!

best cyber wishes

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 09:33 AM

Sorry this is a day late, but I was a dollar short. I was going to send you a present, but after looking in at least one gas station I said "Screw it!" and gave up.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 11:11 AM

Heck! Don't time fly whren you're young and having fun,
AtB from Charlie.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: gnu
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 02:47 PM

Yo Rap! Ya looked in a gas station and couldn't find a present? A tank a gas would be nice but, of course, far too expensice a gift. What about spare a windshield wiper? Oh, yeah, I drive a Ford... still to expensive. No air fresheners? They always got air fresheners and I wouldn't have to shower as often in the winter. I prefer pine over lilac.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 03:04 PM

I coulda sworn he just had one. OK: Happy Birthday, Gnu.

On Saturady I'm gonig to smoke a jiont on your behlaf. No need to thank me, budyd. Anythnig for a frend.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: gnu
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 04:11 PM

Gee... why didn't I think a that? I haven't had a draw in years. Then again, I haven't had any chip and dip in a long while and they say it starts with the first one.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 05:12 PM

Happy belated, Mr. Gnu. And it sounds like your mother had a fine day also! I've felt her pain - my youngest was born 20 years ago on the same day (but didn't take nearly so long over it, only about 1 1/2 hours hard labor.)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: olddude
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 06:13 PM

come fishin with me, now that would be a birthday

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: gnu
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 06:27 PM

SRS... dunno how long Mum was in (hard) labour.

I wish I could, Dan. We'll just have to tell lies fer now. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 08:45 PM

So, what else is gnu?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 09:41 PM

Y'all oughta come fishin' with ME. I guarantee a catch!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: gnu
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 10:00 PM

22?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 07:18 AM

Is it a year already, hope you have a better one than the last, Happy Birthday.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Beer
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 11:17 PM

Gary,
this is the first time I call you by your birth name on mudcat. I feel he deserves to be called what he was baptized as. Your an icon on this chat site and you deserve all the limelight that can be given. You maybe a year old but you are still young at heart.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 11:00 AM

Very kind of you, Adrien. Started early last night, eh? >;-) Me too.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday GNU
From: Beer
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 11:03 AM

Not at all. Was at the Coffee House last evening and got home late and noticed that your birthday thread slipped of.