Thursday, March 31, 2016
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Saturday, March 26, 2016
How should Christians respond to the refugee crisis?
How should Christians respond to the refugee crisis?: What does the Bible say about how refugees should be treated? How should Christians view the Syrian refugee crisis?
Friday, March 25, 2016
Truth, Style and the Music of Shai Linne
Truth, Style and the Music of Shai Linne: Shai Linne and other Christian rappers are saying things on stage that most preachers aren't preaching from the pulpit. Does musical style really matter?
Atheists usually deny the existence of the soul. They do this because they don't know what it is.
The "soul" is the life that inhabits your body. The word "soul" and the word "life" (in the Bible) mean the same thing.
When you and I die, the life (the soul--the real you) will leave the body and pass on, into eternity. The Bible says that your soul is eternal.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
The below is from an article on the meaning of the word "atheism," on a site called "Atheist Revolution." It was written because many atheists don't know how to define themselves:
"Atheism comes from the Greek 'a - theos,' and since the 'a' prefix means 'without' or 'the absence of,' we must first make sure we understand theism. Theism refers to the belief that some sort of god or gods exist. A theist is one who accepts the theistic claim (i.e., some sort of god or gods exist). An atheist is one who does not accept the theistic claim. That is, atheism means 'without theism' and refers to the absence or lack of theistic belief."1
So "atheism" means "without a belief in God," and an "atheist" is someone who is "without God." The word comes from the Greek word "atheos" which means among other things "without God."
So if you're an atheist, you can tell people that you're without God. Now you know how to define yourself.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
Accomplishments
President Barack Hussein Obama gets a bad wrap for all of his failures, but the fact is he has accomplished a lot while in office. In fact, there are hundreds of things he has done that no other president has ever done.
Just to illustrate the point, we have listed 38 amazing accomplishments that will likely never be accomplished ever again…
1) First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2) First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
3) First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
4) First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5) First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6) First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7) First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8) First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs.
9) First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
10) First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
11) First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
12) First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
13) First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
14) First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
15) First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
16) First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
17) First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
18) First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
19) First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
20) First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
21) First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
22) First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
23) First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
24) First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
25) First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
26) First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
27) First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
28) First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.
29) First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
30) First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
31) First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
32) First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
33) First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
34) First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
35) First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
36) First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”
37) Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.
38) First President to be called a pussy on live national TV...(Col.Ralph Peters)
We wanted to list more, but our hands started to cramp up from listing so many things.
Friday, March 18, 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
The Armor of God
The Armor of God: The Bible says strength is found in weakness when we stand in the strength of the Lord. How is putting on the armor of God going to help believers during spiritual battles?
Obama’s Muslim Identity
Obama’s Muslim Identity: Obama's Muslim Identity, The record is clear: Obama has lied about his Marxist and Muslim backgrounds. The American people have every right to be suspicious of him, Donald Trump, Jeremiah Wright, Baptism
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Pope calls for worldwide abolition of death penalty
People must recognize that God has given government the authority to determine when capital punishment is due (Genesis 9:6; Romans 13:1-7). It is unbiblical to claim that God opposes the death penalty in all instances. Christians should never rejoice when the death penalty is employed, but at the same time, Christians should not fight against the government’s right to execute the perpetrators of the most evil of crimes. In my humble opinion this man has a reason for saying this. Whatever reason it is it can't be good.
Pope calls for worldwide abolition of death penalty
Pope calls for worldwide abolition of death penalty
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
The Edenic covenant - What is it?
The Edenic covenant - What is it?: The Edenic covenant - What is it? What covenant did God make with man in the garden of Eden? Is the Edenic covenant conditional or unconditional?
What does the Bible say about trusting others?
What does the Bible say about trusting others?: What does the Bible say about trusting others? How can I learn to trust other people? Should I require other people to earn my trust?
Monday, March 14, 2016
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Irish slaves
The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves The Slaves That Time Forgot.
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment.
They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives. We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade. But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor. The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies.
By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves. Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white. From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well. During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers. Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish.
However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle. As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts. African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African.
The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude. In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion.
These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company. England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia.
There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat. There is little question that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more in the 17th Century) as the Africans did. There is, also, very little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry. In 1839, Britain finally decided on it’s own to end it’s participation in Satan’s highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded THIS chapter of nightmarish Irish misery.
But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they’ve got it completely wrong. Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories. But, where has this ever been taught in our public (and PRIVATE) schools???? Where are stories of Irish Slavery in the history books? Why is it so seldom discussed? Do the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims merit more than a mention from an unknown writer? Or is their story to be one that their English pirates intended: have the Irish story utterly and completely disappear as if it never happened. None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal.
Confucianism – What is it?
Confucianism – What is it?: Confucianism – What is it? What are the tenets of Confucianism? What is a biblical perspective on Confucianism?
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
What does it mean that humanity is made in the image of God (imago dei)?
What does it mean that humanity is made in the image of God (imago dei)?: What does it mean that humanity is made in the image of God (imago dei)? Why did God create us in His own image and likeness?
What do I need to do to hear, 'Well done, good and faithful servant' when I arrive in heaven?
What do I need to do to hear, 'Well done, good and faithful servant' when I arrive in heaven?: What do I need to do to hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant” when I arrive in heaven? How can I be a good and faithful servant?
The first Valentine was posted around 1806. Almost one billion Valentine's Day cards are sent each year on or near February 14 with females purchasing 85% of the cards. This is second only to the number of Christmas cards sent. The history is somewhat murky as to how Valentine's Day has come to be what we now know and celebrate. Saint Valentine served in third-century Rome. Emperor Claudius decided that single men made better soldiers. Therefore, Claudius banned soldiers from being married. One version of the story is that Valentine continued to perform the weddings of young soldiers who were in love, and Claudius had Valentine imprisoned. While imprisoned, Valentine reportedly fell in love with the jailer's daughter. Valentine sent her a card and signed it, "Love, your Valentine." Another version is that Valentine defied Claudius by helping Christians escape the torture of the Romans.
Valentine died in approximately A.D. 270. Others claim the church may have decided to celebrate in mid February to "Christianize" the pagan Roman celebration Lupercalia. The first Valentine sent in the United States was in the 1840's by Esther Howgald. Most of us enjoy "spoiling" a loved one on Valentine's Day. Sending gifts and cards conveys love, affection, and friendship.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
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