Power Prayer: Son of God and Son of Man

ON SON OF GOD AND SON OF MAN, You were incarnate, did suffer, rise, ascend for my sake; Your departure was not a token of separation but a pledge to return; Your Word, promises, sacraments, show your death until you come again, That day is no horror to me, for your death has redeemed me,…

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Evangelicals must rise to the occasion

by Jordan Sekulow, Washington Post 2011 began with some bleak news for Muslim-Christian relations around the world. Recent attacks against churches in Iraq, Nigeria and Egypt have killed dozens of Christian worshippers. Meanwhile, the Pakistani government is standing by the country’s controversial blasphemy law which critics say threatens religious minorities. How should political and religious…

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Anti-Christian drumbeat loud before Egypt attack

by Maggie Michael, AP In the weeks before the New Year’s Day suicide bombing of an Egyptian church, al-Qaida-linked websites carried a how-to manual on “destroying the cross,” complete with videos on how to build a bomb and the locations of churches to target — including the one that was attacked. They may have found…

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Israel: Losing the Battle of Psychological Warfare

by Melanie Phillips As we all know by now, Israel has lost the battle for public opinion in the West. Even the Israel government is now acknowledging this fact. Israel and its defenders have been outclassed and outmaneuvered in a war of the mind being waged on a battleground it never even acknowledged it was…

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One that calls for a response

Melanie Phillips said: “So while Muslims deny the Holocaust, they claim that Israel is carrying out a holocaust in Gaza. Antisemitism is central to Jewish experience in Europe; Muslims claim that ‘Islamophobia’ is rife throughout Europe.  Israel gives all Jews the ‘right of return’ to Israel on account of the unique reality of global Jewish…

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The Plight of Middle East Christians

by Jeffery Goldberg, Atlantic Monthly I’ve been struck over the past couple of days by the lackadaisical coverage of what seems to be the most important story coming out of the Middle East right now — the terrible attack early on New Year’s Day on a Coptic church in Egypt, in which 21 Christians were…

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Weekly Scripture Portion

Each week we give a suggested series of scripture readings for the the coming week. It begins on the Sabbath (Saturday) with the weekly Torah portion and the accompanying Haftorah reading. It concludes with a compatible portion from the Gospels and the New Testament. For the Sabbath of January 8, 2011.   Torah Portion: “Bo”…

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The New York Times and Israel

by Atty. Elyakim Haetzni, Arutz 7  Well-known columnist Thomas Friedman summed up his recent article, Reality Check, in the New York Times as follows:  “The most important thing President Obama and the Secretary of State…can do now is…to simply get out of the picture…America has to get off the road…”. Putting aside our reservations about…

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Is Mossad Systematically Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists?

by Chana Ya’ar, Arutz 7 Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency (FNA) is accusing Israel’s international intelligence agency of killing the country’s nuclear scientists. The news agency quoted a report posted Wednesday on the IranNuc.ir website that said the Mossad “has a long record in assassinating Arab and Muslim scientists in collaboration with its U.S. and…

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Mubarak says Israel needs to review its policies

by JPost Staff Israel needs to reexamine its policies and initiate steps to build trust with the Palestinian Authority so that negotiations can be restarted, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday. The two leaders met in Sharm e-Sheikh and held a lengthy, friendly and comprehensive discussion that focused on the…

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Jordan: Swift action needed for peace

by AFP Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday urged “swift action” to help push forward the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, warning against wasting more time, a palace statement said. “Efforts for having serious and effective peace talks should continue, based on a two-state solution, which is the only way to achieve regional stability and security,”…

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Where’s that reset button?

by Matthew RJ Brodsky, JPost   With the peace process returning to a deep freeze, the Obama administration is eyeing an opportunity to make headway with Syria. The theory is nothing new: If the regime in Damascus can make peace with Israel, end its sponsorship of terrorist groups such as Hizbullah and Hamas, distance itself from…

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UN spurns Beirut on fixing sea border after Israel strikes gas

by Debkafile The UN has turned down Lebanon’s demand to intervene in delineating its sea border following Israel’s discovery in the Mediterranean of the Leviathan gas well – billed as the world’s biggest find in a decade. UN Spokesman Martin Nesirsky explained that UNIFIL’s mandate applied to coastal waters, not to delineating maritime lines. Cyprus…

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Video: 'Palestine' belongs to the Jews by Intl. Law

Dr. Gauthier is a Canadian lawyer whose life’s work has been devoted to a thesis proving the legitimacy of the Jewish claim to Jerusalem under international law. In his first ever presentation to a Christian audience, this thorough analysis of the Jewish people’s legal claim to their capital was given at the ICEJ’s Feast of…

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Spot Report: The Middle East's "Religious Cleansing"

Think on this: The bad news: “Indeed the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think his is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.” … “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of…

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Pro-Israel activists: New congress will remain Israel ally

by Hilary Leila Krieger, JPost  WASHINGTON – The Congress that will be installed Wednesday might be losing four of its Jewish members, but Republicans and several pro-Israel advocates insist it will remain as supportive as ever of the Jewish state. “The members who are taking over will be at least as strong in their pro-Israel…

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Arab world in uproar over Zionist spy birds

by Israel Today Israel’s Ma’ariv daily newspaper reported on Tuesday that Saudi Arabian officials have “arrested” a wounded vulture that landed in a rural area of the country wearing a transmitter and a leg bracelet etched with the words “Tel Aviv University.” The bird is part of ongoing long-term research into bird migration patterns, but…

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