I don't know the speaker, but I like what he says.
What was his oath upon taking office?
Word Cue: Isolated (Gr., eremos). Often translated as wilderness or desert, the term indicates an uninhabited place, hence, the NET translation as “isolated.” “The New Testament usually refers to the desert as a solitary place. Jesus repeatedly withdrew from the large crowds (Luke 4:42; 9:10-12) to these places for privacy and a time of prayer with His Father” (Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary 1995: 349).
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And they wonder why people doubt the Obamas' Christianity? This phrase "keeping the spirits clean around us," is nothing but paganism, spiritism, and is as far from Christianity as the east is from west.
1. Freedom from Fear
Perhaps more frequently than any other command, the Bible tells us not to fear. At the same time many of us live in cultures both saturated with and fueled by fear. I know I fear failure. I fear discomfort. I fear the loss of my health, security, and status. But this is not normal life for a follower of Jesus. John tells us that “perfect love drives out fear.”E. Stanley Jones, a world-class missionary who lived most of his life in India, encourages, “Then discipline yourself against all anxiety and fear. Fear is the enemy – not the thing of which we are afraid, for most of our fears are never realized. They never come. Those that do come can be used in the purposes for which we live.”
May God add his grace to our discipline, resulting in lives free from fear.
The above is the first thing to pray about for others. There are nine more. All of them, though coming from a denominational source, seem to have good application as we seek to be more specific in our prayers for those workers for whom we have prayed the Lord to send into the harvest.
This week’s Time Magazine featured a 12-page article on the The Secret World of Extreme Militias. Page after page describes the threat of renegade anti-government groups, who are described as militant groups armed with rifles and assault weapons and who threaten war against “‘the jackbooted thugs’ of Washington.” Yet, Time didn’t spare a single sentence to describe the nation’s true militia forces.
There is a not-so secret world of militias out there called State Defense Forces (SDFs).
Volunteers who helped after Katrina.
Celebrating American greatness…in Chile
In a different day and age, Jeff Hart would be the most famous American in our country right now. He would be honored at the White House. Schoolchildren would learn of his skill and heroism. But because Jeff Hart works in an industry under fire by the Obama administration, more people in Chile will celebrate this symbol of American greatness than in American itself.
Way to go, Jeff. He cut off two months off the projected timeframe for reaching the miners.
And another interesting nugget from Gallup, a graphic representation of responses to the question of how Americans would respond “if someone asked you to describe the federal government in one word or phrase.” The words are sized according to the frequency of response:
Pretty graphic, eh?
Word Cue: Hide (Gr., krupto). “… God Himself judicially hides the knowledge of salvation from those who do not seek it seriously. … Jesus extols the divine direction even in its paradoxical character, which sets in the wrong all human arrogance.” (Oepke, TDNT III: 973)
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More commonly associated with gambling, the world of horse racing may at first seem an unlikely draw for religious conservatives
via telegraph.co.uk
Vice ain't what it used to be.
(Second half of title is mine, BTW.)