Scripture Reading for January 28, 2012
Torah: Exodus 10:1-13:16, “Bo” (Go …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 46:13-28 New Testament: I Corinthians 11:20-34 Gospel: Luke 22:7-30 “Ha Yom Shezerit” (Day of Unleavened Bread)
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Iran preparing for Armageddon
BY REZA KAHLILI, WND— Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has held several secret meetings with his economic and military advisers in recent days to prepare for the possibility of war with the United States. Sources report the preparations are to include the execution of those Iranians who oppose the regime. Khamenei has been heard…
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"Palestinian Theologian" Trashes "Palestinian Theology"
BY MALCOLM LOWE, STONEGATE— For over two decades, parts of the Christian world have been bemused by the writings of self-styled “Palestinian Christian theologians.” Since their brightest lights are Protestant pastors, they are minor figures among the overwhelmingly Orthodox and Catholic faithful of the Holy Land. But they are strangely popular in Liberal Protestant circles…
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Which Christ preaches 'Christ at the checkpoint'?
BY AVIEL SCHNEIDER, ISRAEL TODAY— From March 5-9 Bethlehem Bible College will be hosting its second “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference. While Israelis are celebrating their ancient divine delivery during the Purim holiday, some 30 Christian leaders will be gathering in Bethlehem to raise the banner of “Palestinian Liberation Theology” as the only true hope…
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Palestinian refugees to get $72 million
BY YNETNEWS— The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Chief, Filippo Grandi, signed a $72 million financing agreement towards the Agency’s General Fund. Speaking at a signing ceremony at UNRWA’s Vocational Training Centre in Gaza City, Grandi expressed gratitude to…
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Power Prayer: Confession and Petition
Holy Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Your mind in Your Word, of neglect to seek You in my daily life. My transgressions and short-comings present me with a list of accusations, but I ask You that they will not stand against me,…
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Video: He gave his only son
Who is Jesus – and what does His life, death, and resurrection mean to me? Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” —John 14:6 Many go through life unfulfilled, unfocused, searching, a blank canvas waiting for a picture of purpose to…
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Chapter 2- Thinking Humbly of Oneself
By PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— There is in everyone a natural desire for knowledge, but what good is knowledge without the fear of God? A lowly peasant who serves God is better off than a brilliant, proud philosopher who studies the stars but doesn’t know the One…
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America and the Arab Spring
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet. One year later, Mubarak and his sons are in prison, and standing trial. This week, the final vote tally from Egypt’s parliamentary elections was published. The Islamist parties have won 72…
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‘Unprecedented’ EU Sanctions on Iran a Farce
BY RICK MORAN, FRONTPAGEMAG— The European Union has agreed to an “unprecedented” set of sanctions against Iran, banning the importation of Iranian oil to its member states while also imposing currency and commodity sanctions on Iran’s central bank. But far from forcing Iran into a corner, the latest sanctions leave a backdoor open to the…
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Power Prayer: God honoured
O Yahweh my God, Father of our LORD Jesus the Messiah, Praise waits for you, to render it is my noblest exercise; This is your due from all your creatures, for all your works display your attribute and fulfill your designs; The sea, dry land, winter cold, summer heat, morning light, evening shade are full…
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BY ARUTZ 7— “Anti-Semitism is deeply rooted in German society” according to an official report conducted for the Bundestag. The conclusions of an independent commission composed of sociologists, police officials, anthropologists and social psychologists who were appointed by the German parliament in 2009 are found in “the German government report on racism in general and…
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Ex-Chief: Bomb Iranian Revolutionary Guards
BY WORLDNETDAILY— The United States should consider military strikes against not just Iran’s nuclear sites but the entire Iranian Revolutionary Guard infrastructure, argued former CIA director James Woolsey in a radio interview today with WorldNetDaily. Comparing the Guards to Adolph Hitler’s blackshirts, Woolsey named several “fair game” Guard-related targets, including Iran’s space program, ballistic missile…
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Netanyahu: EU sanctions step in the right direction
BY OPHIR BAR-ZOHAR AND DANNA HARMAN, AP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the European Union’s decision on Monday to impose sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, calling the decision “a step in the right direction.” According to Netanyahu, who spoke at an afternoon Likud faction meeting, it is still too early to predict the outcome of…
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Christians in Iran, Syria face rising persecution
BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JPOST— There has been a wave of violence targeting Iranian and Syrian Christians over the past month, say Christian news reports. In addition, Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who has been on death row since 2010 for seeking to register his home-based church, refused to renounce his Christian beliefs in exchange for his…
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Spot Report: Mainstreaming anti-Semitism
Think on this! “The anti-Semitic says: ‘There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the kings best interest to tolerate them.…
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Video: Blaming Israel, really?
TheLandofIsrael.com has done it again! In this new, entertaining approach to sticking up for the Jewish People, Ari & Jeremy put the blame where it belongs!
The myth of Al Quds
BY RICHARD BOOKER, PART 3 of MYTHOMANIACS In the Bible, the prophet Zechariah writes of the time when God will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in…
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