Salvation of the Jews to Determine the Lords Return: the Churches Greatest Prayer Responsibility
October 31, 2008
Jesus won’t come until the Jewish people are saved.
Why the salvation of the Jewish people is your greatest priority in prayer!
Maybe you live in a town or city far removed from Israel, and maybe you don’t even know any Jewish people. Perhaps you go to church every Sunday, and even give support to the annual missions drive, but praying daily for the salvation of the Jewish people? well? that is surely something someone is doing somewhere. Right? Maybe you are even a Jewish believer but you have never felt the burden of prayer. Or perhaps you are a missionary and the Lord has placed a calling on your life to travel to a third world country, so why should you worry about praying for Israel and the Jewish people?
"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." Psalm 122:6
In this verse, we must ask, what is the peace of Jerusalem? Certainly it isn’t the state of affairs today. So should we pray for half of the city to be given to the Arabs? Will that bring peace? History shows that it will only increase the conflict. Ok? what about giving Jerusalem over to the Vatican or the United Nations, they can certainly keep the peace, maybe that is what we should pray for. Is God’s inheritance a mere political football? Can man govern what God has ordained as His?
The Voiceless
October 31, 2008
WE count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber, But o’er their silent sister’s breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!
Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts’ sad story,– Weep for the voiceless, who have known The cross without the crown of glory! Not where Leucadian breezes sweep O’er Sappho’s memory-haunted billow, But where the glistening night-dews weep On nameless sorrow’s churchyard pillow.
O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses, Till Death pours out his longed-for wine Slow-dropped from Misery’s crushing presses,– If singing breath or echoing chord To every hidden pang were given, What endless melodies were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven!
Reflections on ‘Voice’
My wife and I recently attended a showing of “Rwanda” - an unforgettable and harrowing experience. One of the things that really struck me was the powerlessness of the persecuted Tutsi tribe. The persecuting Hutus described them as ‘cockroaches’, and what do we do with ‘cockroaches’. Crush and kill! They are not people, they have no value, they have no voice which the persecutors paid any attention to.
Building Catapults Required Engineering Know How
October 30, 2008
When building catapults, armies had to include in their ranks those people capable of employing complicated mathematical formulas and turning them into machines of war.
While their appearance on the warfare scene dramatically changed tactics for quite literally hundreds of years, it was no easy task for medieval armies to create the machines of war they needed to help ensure victory.
The engineers were generally responsible for the production or mass production of larger scale weapons on the battlefield and leading up battle.
When building catapults on site, engineers had to rely on their own know how and the materials available to them, unless of course they transported the wood, sinew and in the case of some more complex catapults, the counterpoises and other materials with them.
When the idea was to create more simple machines such as ballistas or mangonels, the task of building catapults was much easier on site than let’s say a trebuchet, which often required extremely heavy materials. In the case of the ballistas and mangonels, the main ingredients ? wood and rope or sinew ? were a little easier for engineers to find. The difficulty came in getting these machines together in a big hurry for an impending siege.
The Rapture, A Coming Event; Part 1
October 29, 2008
Daniel 2:44-11:35
To begin with, what is prophecy? It’s the study of future events. There are those who think that the rapture has already taken place, and that Jesus has already set up His kingdom on earth. I’m here to show that this type of thinking was the same in Paul’s time.
Lets look at 2nd Thessalonians, 2:1-5. A letter had been forged in Paul’s name and was sent to the Church stating that the rapture had already taken place. 2nd Thes 2:1-5 “That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, nether by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you. The church here at Thessalonia was upset, for they relieved a false letter in Paul’s name, they were sad because, they thought that they were lost because they believed that the church had already been raptured. What a blow that had to be on these people, waiting on Jesus to return and take them home and then hearing that He had already come and gone. Isn’t that what were hearing today? Prophecy has to take specific time lines that were set up by God.
Rock of Ages
October 28, 2008
William Jennings Bryan said: “Christians desire that their children shall be taught all the sciences, but they do not want them to lose sight of the Rock of Ages while they study the age of rocks.”
It may seem incredible to those who do not know that the Churchians created the Devil as a means of keeping their flock in fear - who also think the Devil is a Pagan concept. The fear of death was not a Keltic concept and they weren’t moved to assign all their wealth to some rich church when they approached death in order to avoid joining the Devil. Some Christian fundamentalists sell the idea that the age of rocks was a way that the Devil sought to lead Christians astray and these same people would have you teach your children the “Rock of Ages” has more veracity than the geology that proves we’ve had a long time on this earth to develop and learn what kind of Divine soul we are blessed with.
ASIATIC LAWS OF UNIVERSALITY IN THE ‘STUPAS’:
Looking In The Eyes Of Happiness
October 27, 2008
From what you see around you in your daily lives, happiness may appear an illusory state of existence. Do you see true happiness in the lives of those who pass through your world each day? Do you see, and feel, true happiness in your own life, and the lives of your immediate family? Or in your work colleagues, or fellow commuters?
The answer, in many cases, will be "no, I don’t". Why is that? Is it because so many people have so many reasons to be unhappy? Or is it, maybe, because they fail to see what in their lives should be a reason for happiness?
Being short sighted, as I am, can have a drastic affect on the way you see the world around you. I usually only wear glasses to watch tv, or dark glasses outside in the sun. Without them, the world can be severely distorted. Somebody I know well could pass me by, and if I’m not close enough, I will not recognize them. Worse still, I may think I recognize someone only to find to my embarrassment that is not them at all; in fact, the person may not even remotely look like the friend I had thought it was. More often than not, that would be because of expectation; I would expect to see a certain person in a certain place, and someone would appear, maybe with similar clothes on, and I would think "It’s??."
Debussy and Gamelan According to a 150 Year Old Man
October 26, 2008
Hello!
If you haven’t been transported by the mesmerizing sounds of Gamelan yet, we highly recommend you hear some. It will change the song you can’t stop singing. (As much as you love Whitney’s "I Will Always Love You" it’s time Kevin Costner carried her out of your brain.)
Gamelan is like musical crack. Claude Debussy, French Composer. got addicted to it and it changed his whole compositional style.
Don’t believe me? Then believe this really old guy, Jean Michel, that I met down in the Caribbean at a health spa. Jean is like 150, and he told me about his old pal "Claudey D" over margaritas, then during an herbal wrap, and then he finally stopped when he passed out during his Zinfandel colonics.
Is Jean’s tale apocryphal? We don’t know. However, we do know it shows the power of gamelan on a classical composer.
Jean Michel:
If you don’t think hearing some good gamelan will change your life, let me tell you about my old pal Debussy. Me and the Claude-homme used to hang, back in the day. Now I just hang. (sighs) It happened sometime after I hit 120 years old. I take Viagra, but all I get is stiff shoulders.
Gay Marriage Hitting Resistance
October 26, 2008
Gay marriage is hitting significant resistance in Washington D.C. where a huge Gay contingency exists. Some homosessual men have been seen in the streets of our Nation’s Capital protesting our country’s laws against gay marriage. They have been seen on TV marching in protest in Gay Pride Parades carrying on. Many of these gay couples work in Washington D.C. and are running our country and have infiltrated many government agencies. Many are Lawyers and Lobbyists. A few have found Churches willing to endorse gay marriage in order to receive the homosexual citizen’s rich tithing.
Unfortunately graffiti has also found its way into Washington D.C. by taggers and this graffiti has found its way onto the very church buildings that these homosexuals attend. In fact although these are most likely isolated incidences many homosexuals have alerted the media in order to play the victim cards. What many do not understand is that they already run Washington D.C. and are running many agencies there. They work as lobbyist and also often use their sexual prowess to get in bed with those decision makers who can promote their personal agendas. Some say that homosexuals vindictive and petty and are quite problematic since they are such a small minority of our nation. This simply is not true of all the homosexuals in Washington D.C. One gentleman we talked to who is involved as a Washing D.C. insider said he know hundreds if not thousands of homosexuals in the political inner circles of Washington D.C. and know of at least two that he had heard about that were not vindictive at all.
Can Existential Therapy Give You a Sense of Wellbeing?
October 25, 2008
My journey to becoming a therapist began with a desire to develop greater significance in my life and improve the quality of my relationships. Having worked as an organisational psychologist for many years, my work increasingly involved coaching senior managers in the art of managing their organisations. These sessions revealed that, contrary to my expectations, the help they required was related to more personal aspects of their lives outside of work.
Despite considerable coaching experience, I felt that if I were to assist them on this journey into exploring meaning in their lives both inside and outside of work, I would have to develop more specific psychotherapeutic skills. I began my search for my psychotherapeutic home. Over the next few years, I dabbled in many modalities, including psychodynamic, transpersonal, cognitive behavioural and humanistic. Despite these approaches having much to offer, I felt that their underpinning assumptions didn’t fully mirror my own philosophical beliefs about what it is to be human. Then I stumbled upon existential psychotherapy.
Muhammad
October 24, 2008
FAITH THAT MOVES MOUNTAINS:
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior is a great book that would allow people to see how they can cause change. It is written by Dan Millman who brings us the following from another of his books that are all worth contemplation.
“On an otherwise ordinary day, an angel appeared to a young merchant and former camel herder, known by all in the city where he was born. The angel’s words filled him with awe and dread–it told him that he was to defy his people’s ancestral religion, to denounce 360 deities carved in stone and worshipped for centuries, to declare himself the prophet of a single God, to abolish a way of life upon which countless lives and beliefs were founded–and establish a new religion out of nothing. Surely, he would be met with incredulity, rejection, violent persecution, and exile. Could his seemingly mad quest bring anything but failure–or at best, a martyr’s death?
Or would this mortal, obedient to the divine command of an angel, achieve a victory beyond any that reason could have foretold?
