http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/romans/ en-us Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:20:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2071656/posts “Our Church Is a Loving Family” (Romans 12:9-21)Our church is a loving family. Yes, it is. I am confident it is, and I am confident in appealing to you to think and act as such, because God says that’s what we are--a loving family. That’s what he made us to be, that’s who we are, so let’s think of ourselves in that way and let’s let our lives demonstrate that love in action. That’s kind of a summary of today’s Epistle lesson, from Romans 12. Listen to some of the things St. Paul says to the church in Rome: “Let... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2071656/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:20:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2041342/posts “Rest for the Weary” (Matthew 11:25-30; Romans 7:14-25a)“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Jesus here issues a wonderful invitation and makes a wonderful promise. “Come to me” is the invitation, and “I will give you rest” is the promise. And to whom does he address this invitation and this promise? To “all who labor and... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2041342/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:10:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2030431/posts Archaeologists have dug up the skeletons of 16 horses and a two-wheeled chariot in a grave dating back to the Roman Empire in north-east Greece, the culture ministry announced today. Half of the horses were buried in pairs, whilst two human skeletons were also discovered in a dig near Lithohori, in the Kavala region. Near to the remains of six of the horses archaeologists found a shield, weapons and various other accessories... diggers found a grave and four tombs covered with a ceramic lid, which contained four bronze coins dating back to the fourth century AD. The chariot, dating from... Herald Sun (Australia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2030431/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:03:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019387/posts Romans were upper crust on daily bread May 21 2008 by Tony Henderson, The Journal WHEN it came to their daily bread, troops at a Northumberland Roman fort took no chances. Excavations at Vindolanda are revealing two massive granaries whose quality even outshone the nearby commanding officer’s quarters. The dig is also uncovering a magnificent flagged roadway next to the granaries. “The masonry of these granaries is far superior to that of the nearby commanding officer’s residence, and although some of the walls have suffered from stone robbing, others are standing to a height of around 5ft,” said director of... Journal Live http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019387/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 22:38:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967877/posts The Romans carried out cataract ops By Jane Elliott Health reporter, BBC News An eye stamp: the equivalent of the modern medicine label Think of the Roman legacy to Britain and many things spring to mind - straight roads, under-floor heating, aqueducts and public baths. But they were also pioneers in the health arena - particularly in the area of eye care, with remedies for various eye conditions such as short-sightedness and conjunctivitis. Perhaps most surprisingly of all is that the Romans - and others from ancient times, including the Chinese, Indians and Greeks - were also able also to... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967877/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:46:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963957/posts It’s a safe bet that most of you reading these words have been to a professional football game. Many of you—particularly those who live in Philadelphia—have probably witnessed the occasional brawls between the home crowd and those foolish enough to wear an opposing team’s colors. A few of you, I dare say, have been involved in such altercations. But how often have you witnessed football fans actually kill opposition partisans? Well, perhaps I should qualify that by saying American football fans. When was the last time you heard of agitated sports nuts rioting in the streets and burning down half... Catholic Men's Quarterly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963957/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2008 22:43:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1962126/posts A team of archaeologists from the University of Exeter has found a Roman fort dating from the 1st Century AD in fields in Cornwall. Several items of pottery have been excavated and a furnace which may have been used to smelt minerals. Researchers said the find at Calstock, close to a silver mine, could show for the first time the Romans' interest in exploiting Cornish minerals. Very little is known so far about the Roman occupation in Cornwall... Archaeologists became interested in the site when they found references in medieval documents to the smelting of silver "at the old castle"... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1962126/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:02:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942900/posts A unique exhibition of 2,000-year-old paintings called Pompeian Red has opened at the National Museum of Rome. news.bbc.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942900/posts#comment Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:46:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1932695/posts   A Byrd's eye look at the historic 'Israeli - Arab conflict' towards Annapolis 2007    Around 2,000 years ago, the Romans that have conquered Israel, the Jewish people, the Jewish land, (after killing Jesus) destroy Jews' second temple, massacre hundreds of thousands after a rebellion against Rome's oppression and prohibition on practicing Judaism and mass torture [an armed rebellion which was disapproved by the rabbis & any religious leaders], and expell majority of Jews out of the land [as was expected throught the Jewish prophets, because God expects from his people - the Jews much more than from other... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1932695/posts#comment Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:48:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1891932/posts A superstitious Society Compare to modern society, the Romans seem extremely superstitious. But then today's major religions have all throughout their past discouraged, even combatted, superstitions. Also our sciences and our technological world allows little room for superstition. The Romans lived in an era previous to this. Their world was full of unexplained phenomena, darkness and fear. To Romans these superstitions were a perfectly natural part in the relationship between gods and men. The Roman habit of interpreting natural phenomena as signs from the beyond stemmed from the Etruscans. The Etruscans, who developed reading omens and auspices into a form... Roman-Empire.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1891932/posts#comment Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:18:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1859760/posts Abstract The Kings of Rome were abolished because of the last King's immorality and tyranny. The replacing government, a Republic, balanced the powers and responsibilities between the people and the upper class. The surrounding tribes recognized the Romans' generosity: some surrendered to Rome because they would be better treated by the Romans than their existing government. As the state grew, the Romans became self-absorbed, and created enemies instead of allies. The upper class used entitlements to absorb the people's responsibilities and gained political superiority by manipulating the law and people’s elected representatives. Slave labor destroyed the peoples' need to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1859760/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jul 2007 19:09:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853027/posts Ancient Romans Preferred Fast Food Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News June 18, 2007 — Just as a U.S. Presidential state dinner does not reflect how most Americans eat and socialize, researchers think the formal, decadent image of wining and dining in ancient Rome mostly just applied to the elite. According to archaeologist Penelope Allison of the University of Leicester, the majority of the population consumed food "on the run." Allison excavated an entire neighborhood block in Pompeii, a city frozen in time after the eruption of volcano Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Historians often extend findings from Pompeii to other parts... Discovery http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853027/posts#comment Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:25:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832248/posts Ancient Romans built their towns based on astronomical grids Washington, May 9 : Ancient Romans built their towns using astronomically aligned grids, a recently concluded Italian study has revealed. As part of the study, researchers examined the orientation of some 38 towns in Italy, and found that all of them followed strong symbolic aspects linked to astronomy. "It emerged that these towns were not laid out at random. On the contrary, they were planned following strong symbolic aspects, all linked to astronomy," said Giulio Magli of the mathematics department at Milan's Polytechnic University. While ancient Roman writers, including Ovid and... New Kerala http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832248/posts#comment Fri, 11 May 2007 23:11:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827516/posts Gladiators' graveyard discovered By Monika Kupper and Huw Jones BBC Timewatch Gravestones helped identify the site as a gladiator graveyard Scientists believe they have for the first time identified an ancient graveyard for gladiators. Analysis of their bones and injuries has given new insight into how they lived, fought and died. The remains were found at Ephesus in Turkey, a major city of the Roman world, BBC Timewatch reports. Gladiators were the sporting heroes of the ancient world. Archaeological records show them celebrated in everything from mosaics to graffiti. Motifs of gladiators are found on nearly a third of all... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827516/posts#comment Thu, 3 May 2007 00:55:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806042/posts A HARDY band of Welshmen in red, who took on the might of the Italians 2,000 years ago, could prove inspirational for tomorrow's Welsh Six Nations warriors. A leading historian has documented the exploits of the ancient Silures tribe, who fought a long campaign against the Romans two millennia ago. Dr Ray Howell from the University of Wales, Newport, even says our penchant for wearing red may spring from the tribe's favourite battle colour. Dr Howell, a reader at the university's School of Education, has published an examination of the South-East Wales tribe, who came close to thwarting the Roman... IC Wales http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806042/posts#comment Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:16:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1798602/posts English Heritage is conducting stabilisation work at the site Archaeologists have found traces of a Roman settlement at a 5,000-year-old landmark man-made hill in Wiltshire.English Heritage believes there was a Roman community at Silbury Hill about 2,000 years ago. The 130ft Neolithic mound near Avebury - one of Europe's largest prehistoric monuments - is thought to have been created some 3,000 years earlier. Experts carrying out a project to stabilise the hill say the site may have been a sacred place of pilgrimage. Human activity English Heritage geophysicist Dr Neil Linford said: "We are really excited by this discovery... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1798602/posts#comment Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:42:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755481/posts 'They Show No Respect for Their Caesars'by Gerald A. HonigmanDec 18, '06 / 27 Kislev 5767  E-mail This  Print  Homepage The year was 1887. An Egyptian woman discovered a treasure trove of over three hundred clay cuneiform tablets that would shake the world of religion and the study of ancient history. Named for a local Bedouin tribe, the Tel El-Amarna tablets (which can now be found mostly in the Berlin and British Museums) were mostly the official correspondence between Pharaoh Amenhotep IV - Akhenaten - and his governors and vassals from places such as Canaan, Syria, Babylonia, etc. They date mostly from... Arutz Sheva http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755481/posts#comment Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:49:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1754632/posts By Carol Kaufmann Photographs by Arne Hodaliè Why did Romans, Celts, and even prehistoric settlers submerge their personal belongings, from swords to dishes, in a shallow river in Slovenia? Archaeologist Andrej Gaspari is haunted by pieces of the past. His hometown river, the Ljubljanica, has yielded thousands of them—Celtic coins, Roman luxuries, medieval swords—all from a shallow 12-mile (19 kilometers) stretch. Those who lived near and traveled along the stream that winds through Slovenia's capital of Ljubljana considered it sacred, Gaspari believes. That would explain why generations of Celts, Romans, and earlier inhabitants offered treasures—far too many to be... National Geographic Society http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1754632/posts#comment Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728946/posts Who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong? Yet that essential knowledge, generally assumed to come from parental teaching or religious or legal instruction, could turn out to have a quite different origin. Primatologists like Frans de Waal have long argued that the roots of human morality are evident in social animals like apes and monkeys. The animals’ feelings of empathy and expectations of reciprocity are essential behaviors for mammalian group living and can be regarded as a counterpart of human morality. Marc D. Hauser, a Harvard biologist, has built on this idea to propose that people are born... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728946/posts#comment Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:07:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728278/posts Haredim promise violence if parade takes place, tell J'lem police chief 'will not give up, dialogue or negotiate' Haredim keep threatening to strike the gay parade scheduled to take place in Jerusalem in two weeks. Most recently, Jerusalem Police Chief Maj. Gen. Ilan Franko met Sunday with Haredi leader Yitzhak Tuvia Weiss. Franko asked to learn about the stance of Haredi rabbis who declared their intent of a 'Million Man Protest' against the parade. Police did not release details of the meeting. A source close to the rabbi said that Weiss told Franko that he cannot promise the police chief... YNet (Lately they have become "GAYNet") http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728278/posts#comment Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:59:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1721348/posts The remains of a 2000-year-old city have been discovered under Inverness and it is being hailed as one of the most important recent discoveries in Scotland. The find near Inverness Royal Academy was uncovered by a team who spent almost a year excavating the remains of seven large roundhouses and almost a dozen iron kilns... the ancient city's "industrial estate" where iron was smelted, bronze was cast and glass was produced... Among the items found below a site near Inverness Royal Academy, now being developed by Tulloch Homes, were part of a bronze horse harness, an enamelled bronze brooch, dozens... Inverness Courier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1721348/posts#comment Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:40:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1721345/posts Although Bonhams auction house, which will display the Sevso Hoard, insists no sale is planned, the Marquess of Northampton who bought the silver for an undisclosed sum in the 1980s recently said he "hopes" the silver will be sold, and that it has "cursed" his family. It now belongs to a trust he founded... The marquess, whose estates include more than 30,000 acres and magnificent stately homes in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, sued his legal advisers after the Sotheby's auction was abandoned, and received a substantial but undisclosed settlement out of court. The 14 pieces of fabulous silver include four enormous... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1721345/posts#comment Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:22:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711703/posts A ceramic bobblehead doll of the Prophet Muhammed - created to resemble the infamous caricature published by a Danish newspaper - is being hawked online for $22.99 a pop by an ex-Marine. The unapologetic creator, Timothy Ames, 28, said the bobblehead is similar to "dashboard Jesus" figurines that can be stuck with adhesive to flat surfaces. "I thought, 'If they flipped out over some cartoons what will they do with a dashboard Muhammed?'" Ames said from his home in Hawaii. But Islamic experts are not amused, saying the bobbleheads could anger Muslims, whose religion strictly prohibits depictions of the prophet.... All contents © 2006 Daily News, L.P. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711703/posts#comment Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:23:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1476409/posts After eight years of war, Gaius Julius Caesar has finally completed his bloody conquest of Gaul. Just as he is prepared to celebrate a resounding victory and return to Rome with his army, he receives word that his daughter Julia has died in childbirth. HBO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1476409/posts#comment Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548879/posts 2005: Boob tube at its worst New reality shows bite in bottom 10 'Daddy' Dearest: T.J. Myers sought her biological father in the Fox fiasco. Oops, She Did It Again: Britney Spears bombed with her 'Chaotic' show. Developing a list of the best television programming during the past 12 months is a daunting task. Assembling a lineup of the worst TV programs of 2005, is even more Herculean. So many choices, so few slots ... It's a sin, for example, that certain awful TV shows should escape the end-of-year tally unscathed simply because there are other, worse contenders beneath them... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548879/posts#comment Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:12:54 GMT