Volume 3, Issue 1 2014

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Services & Meetings

Sunday Services:

Morning Service 11:15

Kids Church 11:15

Youth Service (2 & 4th

Sunday)

Corporate Prayer:

Wed/Thurs Noon-1 pm

Hilltop Academy:

Wednesday 5:30pm

(On Summer break)

Foundation Class 101

Sunday 9:45 am

Hilltop Christian Center

P.O. Box 5301

Tacoma, Wa 95415

TEL: 253.272.3250

EMAIL:

thehilltopcc@aol.com www.hilltopchristiancenter.org

RETURN TO GOD!

King Hezekiah began the restoration process by re-opening the doors of the temple,

removing the accumulated debris, and sanctifying the priests. Next he sent

messengers throughout all of Judah and Israel compelling the people of God to

return to God. Living without acknowledging God was the new normal and it was

evident by the rejection of the message and ridicule of the messengers. However,

those who returned to Jerusalem in order to worship God were so impacted by the

presence of God and the fellowship of the saints that they traveled throughout the

nation going from city to city destroying idols and tearing down altars in high

places. Their re-prioritization of worship led to the destruction of strongholds and

reestablishment of the blessings of God.

Christians everywhere, Return to God! Repent of our negligence and restore our

commitment to worship God. The well-being of cities and nations is hanging in the

balance. Get into a local church and become part of a God-honoring Body so God

can use your light to scatter the darkness. (II Chronicles 29-31)

For several years, worship at the temple in

Jerusalem was gravely neglected. The nation was littered

with idols and everyone did what was right in their own

eyes. As the Northern Kingdom of Israel teetered on the

brink of destruction, God was raising up a twenty-five

year old man by the name of Hezekiah who would lead the

Southern Kingdom of Judah into a time of revival.

Sr. Pastor Pana Mamea

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When it comes to life and death, many

Christians may only think, salvation and sin,

concerning the soul. Life and death are all around

us. We see them in the physical world all the

time. We see life in the spring time when flowers

bloom and death in the fall when leaves drop from

trees.

Life or death can also come from the mouth. The

words we speak about our circumstances,

ourselves, and others. Life or death, are in the

decisions we make daily.

One of the life or death decisions some people tend

to forget is what we eat. Each individual needs

food to sustain their health. We must nourish our

brain, heart, and other organs to survive. However,

the choices we make in eating living foods or dead

foods can mean life or death. Just below you will

hear about living foods versus dead foods. It is

information found in the book “The Seven Pillars

of Health”, by Don Colbert M.D.

Dead food's will make you disease prone and will

cause degenerative diseases such as diabetes,

cardiovascular disease, arthritis, and will make you

overweight. They will also make you fatigued and

prone to develop hypertension and high

cholesterol.

Living foods will protect your body from cancer,

heart disease, all degenerative diseases, obesity,

and they will sharpen your mind as well as energize

you, and enliven you.

Everything you put in your mouth has the potential

to produce life or death. But eating the wrong foods

will bring curses of poor health. Some foods should

not be labeled "food" but rather "consumable

product" or edible, but void of nourishment."

Living foods exist in a raw or close-to raw state.

Living foods include fruits, vegetables, grains,

seeds, and nuts. They are plucked, harvested, and

squeezed, not processed, packaged, and put on a

shelf. Living foods are recognized as food.

Dead foods are the opposite. They are

living foods that have fallen into human hands and

have been altered in every imaginable way making

Living Food vs. Dead Food

Educate yourself by consulting with your physician.

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Health

them last as long as possible at room temperature

and to be as addictive as possible to the

consumer.

Life breeds life. Death breeds death. When you eat

living foods, the enzymes in their pristine state

interact with your digestive enzymes. The

Dead foods are the opposite. They are living foods

that have fallen into human hands and have been

altered in every imaginable way making them last

as long as possible at room temperature and to be

as other natural ingredients God put in them-

vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, antioxidants,

fiber, and more-flow into your system in their

natural state. These living foods were created for

our digestive systems, bloodstream, and organs.

Dead foods hit our bodies like a foreign intruder.

Chemicals, including preservatives, food

additives, bleaching agents, and so on, place a

strain on the liver. Toxic man-made fats begin to

form in our cell membranes and become

incorporated in our bodies or stored as fats. They

begin to form plaque in our arteries. Fat also

contains compounds called leptins. When the

small intestine detects options, it sends a message

to the brain saying, "I'm satisfied, I'm full, stop

eating." However, it takes about twenty minutes

from the time we start eating for the food to reach

our small intestines and leptin is able to signal the

brain to stop eating, and most Americans can eat a

tremendous amount of food in twenty minutes.

Your brain, sensing that it still doesn't have the

nutrition it needs, sends out hunger signals. You

eat again- more of the same dead food. Your body

does its best to harvest the tiny traces of good

from the food, buy in the end you are

undernourished, overfed the wrong foods, and

overweight.

With this bit of information, you can now arm

yourself and make better choices. Life and death

is just not in the tongue, but can also be found in

the food you eat.

Article by Vickie

Thompson

Do you know the Difference between

Dead food and living food?

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As I thought about what Bill said I became surer, if nothing else, that I

could identify with that dream. I don’t like reoccurring bad dreams and there has

to be a way to stop going around the mountain and repeating those same

experiences that got you going in circles anyways. If you did before and lost your

way and don’t have the road map that shows you better direction to follow, you’re

apt to follow those reject experiences, that will, unfortunately, land you in the

same lap of misery you just left. You may not be able to understand a map, you

may need a guide. A trusted guide someone you know has good traveling

experience, not just a wanderer, but someone who has been led by the best guide

and understands how to discern the good, the bad, and the ugly of the road trip.

And lastly, if you don’t always want to be a follower and would like to be

a leader, you will have to differentiate what leadership qualities you are looking

for. And seek out those who you trust and who you bond with. In addition, trust

someone with tried and true results with evidence under their belt. Denzel

Washington once said, “You never see a U-Haul following a hearse, you cannot

take it with you.” Make your life count for something that others can emulate

long after you’re gone”. Written By: Annie Hines

Bill Watterson: commencement speech graduating class of 1990 of Kenyon

“…I’ve had a reoccurring dream about Kenyon, in it; I’m walking to the post office. On the way to my first

class at the start of the school year, suddenly occurs to me that I don’t have my schedule memorized and I’m

not sure which classes I’m taking or where exactly I’m supposed to be going. As I walked up the steps to the

post office I realized I don’t have my box key, in fact, I can’t remember what my box number is, I’m certain

that everyone I know has written me a letter but I can’t get them. I get more flustered and annoyed by the

minute. I head back to middle path, racking my brains and asking myself, how many more years until I

graduate, wait, didn’t I graduate already? How old am I? Then I wake up. This reoccurring dream serves

as a reminder that the central image is a metaphor, that is, a good part of your life – not knowing where

you’re going or what you’re doing”.

Make your life count for something: Class of 2014