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AP Wire: Forty percent of Americans have never lived when there wasn’t a Bush or a Clinton in the White House. Anyone got a problem with that? Already, for 116 million Americans, there has never been a time when there wasn’t a Bush or Clinton in the White House, either as president or [...] I’m reluctant to admit this, but it’s a plain fact of my own experience that many sincere Christians and other religious people I know are decidedly pro-war, pro-killing, pro-violence, and perhaps even pro-torture. This saddens me greatly and regularly, especially since such sentiments are diametrically opposed to plain teaching of the Lord Jesus: But I say to [...] ‘A Coup Has Occurred’ Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at an American University symposium on Sept. 20. The last five years have seen [...] So apparently Mr. Bush received a phone call from Saddam Hussein one day in which the (now publicly hanged on international TV) dictator offered to peaceably leave Iraq for the relatively paltry sum of $1 billion dollars. An offer like this doesn’t come every day, you know…. Here’s a chance to avoid the horror of war, [...] (Erev Sukkot 5768) I wish you a wonderful Sukkot season – this sacred time that reminds us of our heavenly Father’s sheltering Presence during our times of wandering here on this earth. Here’s a picture from this evening as we finished building our sukka and said the Shehecheyanu and al netilat lulav blessings. Sometimes called “Tabernacles” [...] Today I read an article about Esquire Magazine editor A.J. Jacobs, a self-professed agnostic, who attempted to “obey every rule in the Bible as literally as possible” for an entire year. Not surprisingly, a year later, he’s still a professing agnostic, though he claims to have found a new respect for the Bible, [...] The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) tells a parable of a theater where a variety show is proceeding. There are musical acts, dancers, magicians, comedians, acrobats – one amazing act after another. Each act receives thunderous applause from the audience. Suddenly the manager comes forward. Speaking calmly, not wanting to panic the patrons, he says, [...] How do we relate to Yom Kippur? What do Messianic Jews do regarding Yom Kippur? Do we fast, afflict ourselves, and confess our sins, or do we rejoice in the knowledge that we are forgiven of all our sins because of Yeshua’s perfect avodah as our Kohen Gadol of the New Covenant? In other [...] Prophesied destruction of Damascus imminent? (Excerpted from Hal Lindsey’s recent article at WND.) Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter told reporters this week, “Iran has entered into strategic cooperation with Syria on conventional and nonconventional weapons development,” adding, “The Iranians are very big in Syria.” Iran’s Ahmadinejad is preparing Syria to cover his flank should [...] God is not “finished” with national Israel, even though there’s a “partial hardening” until the fullness of the Gentiles come to faith (Rom 11:25), and then “all Israel will be saved” (Rom 11:26). The Church is actually made a part of she’arit Israel - the faithful remnant of Israel (Rom 11:17), and not the other way [...] While I was driving to work today, a thought occurred to me that I hope you will find encouraging. The “fruits of the Spirit” are identified as those nine virtues or qualities that mark the life of the true Christian (Gal. 5:22-23): Love (agape)- ahavah. This is the very first fruit. Joy (chara)- simcha Peace [...] New Torture Weapons Developed by Raytheon With the harrowing cries of unjustly tasered University of Florida student Andrew Meyer still ringing in my ears, I was horrified to learn that “Merchant of Death” Raytheon Corporation has been quietly developing a new sort of “ray gun” (Orwellianly named the “Silent Guardian”). It seems that this that vile and sadistic contraption, devised no doubt with the [...] As delicious irony would have it, Mr. Bill “I-didn’t-have-sex-with-that-woman” Clinton was forced to give his exclusive fund-raising speech about energy policy in the dark last night. It seems that despite the technological advances of modern man, with electricity and information being delivered at the flip of a switch, even Mr. Clinton or his well-monied cronies couldn’t find the [...] I’m not sure why University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was tasered and beaten down by a group of gun-toting police today. The details are sketchy. Perhaps his questions to U.S. Sen. John Kerry about the 2004 election during a “campus forum” were considered too volatile, like the inflammatory rhetoric of a madman who refuses to stop yelling [...] It seems like the world can’t get enough of the “material girl” Madonna, aka “Esther” (Louise Ciccone Ritchie). According to Haaretz magazine, Louise has recently appointed herself as “Ambassador for Judaism” and was given warm reception and private audience with none other than President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem after Rosh Hashana festivities concluded last Saturday evening. Could the formerly meretricious [...] This morning I read a fascinating article that asked why a 118-year-old cylinder, the international prototype for the metric mass, is losing weight. The cylinder certainly isn’t being meddled with by humans, since it is kept tightly in a triple-locked safe at a lab outside Paris and rarely sees the light of day. It is used exclusively [...] My wife and I had a discussion tonight regarding the perennial question of suffering. Why did God create the universe with both the possibility and the prevalence of suffering and evil? Surely an all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful God could have created a world free from the harrowing pain that plagues us all. The question [...] Filed under Fascism. According to the Sun-Sentinel, Broward County’s Hebrew-language Charter School can once again teach Hebrew — thanks to the auspices of Big Brother. It seems the curriculum of the Ben Gamla Charter School was being scrutinized by the Broward School Board, debating the question of whether Hebrew can be taught without also promoting a religion. So who knew [...] The Associated Press reports today that University of Oklahoma sports fan Allen Beckett, a church deacon and bar patron, nearly castrated University of Texas fan Brian Thomas. Apparently Mr. Thomas was wearing a Texas Longhorns shirt that didn’t agree with Mr. Beckett, so he decided to castrate him on the spot… Evidently it took more than [...] Although I do not agree with the doctrinal tenets of Islam for an enormous variety of reasons, and I furthermore contemn their unthinking threats of violence, I do sympathize with their abhorrence of American “popular” culture. For instance, in a recent article, “Terrorists threaten to kill Britney Spears, Madonna,” certain Jihad leaders interviewed on the radio accuse various [...] Followers, Not Admirers by Soren Kierkegaard It is well known that Christ consistently used the expression “follower.” He never asks for admirers, worshippers, or adherents. No, he calls disciples. It is not adherents of a teaching but followers of a life Christ is looking for. Christ understood that being a “disciple” was in innermost [...] Justin Raimondo (of antiwar.com) writes: “Six years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the entity known as al-Qaeda remains largely a mystery: its intent, its ideology, its leadership, and its inner workings are all largely unknown to the American people. Experts study them and interpret the arcane meanings of their utterances in light of Koranic [...] IN WESTERN CULTURE there is an optimistic tendency to assume that the more knowledge someone has, the better. Such an assumption is based on the ideal of technology, which seeks to control the environment for the supposed good of mankind. The wise man, according to the Greeks, is the worldly man of knowledge and [...] If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. Psalm 137:5 According to a Reuters report, “young U.S. non-Orthodox Jews are becoming increasingly lukewarm if not alienated in their support for Israel.” The study claims that this trend is not likely to be reversed as more and more American Jews assimilate [...] It’s interesting, is it not, that Osama bin Laden, George Bush’s oft-forgotten nemesis, is now resurfacing for the anniversary of 9-11? Oh, apparently the Bush and Bin Laden families go way back, having had social and financial relations for over 20 years. Who knew? Anyway, according to an AP wire I read today, [...] Perhaps you’ve heard the scuttlebutt about the NAU, or “North American Union.” That’s the euphemism given to collective scheme of the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SSP) of North America (you can watch Jerome Corsi discuss this on CSPAN here or read about the NAU-styled driver’s [...] All of us – without exception – hold fundamental presuppositions that mark our ultimate concerns. We believe in order to understand, and not the other way around. Reason itself is a matter of faith that is ultimately validated by an aesthetic sense of “fitness” or coherence. In other words, if you push the idea [...] Wednesday September 12, 2007 (at sundown) is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (for 5768). Also called Yom Teru’ah (the Feast of Trumpets), this sacred time has prophetic significance for the Messianic believer, since it commemorates both the creation of the universe by Adonai, as well as the “calling up” of the new creation [...] Quite regularly I answer emails from well-meaning souls who have become so enamored with the Jewish roots of the Christian faith that they run the risk of abandoning the liberty that Yeshua came to give us… This is tragic and greatly saddens me. Just today I received an email from someone who is studying [...] Based on some comments I posted recently regarding the liberty we have in Yeshua (Jesus), a dear Messianic brother wrote me and asked whether I meant to say that a Gentile or Messianic Jew should actually be forbidden to wear tzitzit or other traditional accouterments of the Jewish people. Does our liberty in Yeshua, then, mean [...] Many of us are in various states of denial regarding our own sinful condition and need for deliverance, which can be illustrated by the case of the metzora (one afflicted with the spiritual disease called tzara’at) and its progression in the life of the afflicted. A doctor friend of mine recently reminded me that [...] We live in such an age of shamelessness and degradation that it might be helpful to think about a basic principle of Jewish thinking called tzeniut (tse-nee-OOT). This concept concerns the rules of modesty, chastity or the derech eretz (good manners, decorum) of the spiritual Jew. Tzeniut is an act of chesed v’emettoward [...] My TV set is deliberately broken so it can’t receive a signal (though it can still play DVDs). It’s been that way for many years. I despise television and the inane dreck that is served up as entertainment these days (or “news,” for that matter). Television is a window on the depravity and sin-sickness of man. It is like [...] |
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