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THE EMMAUS WALK:

A Messianic School of the Bible


AN OPEN DOOR TO THE BIBLE AND UNDERSTANDING IT

WORLD'S GREATEST BOOK CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IF GIVEN A CHANCE: Beyond question, the greatest book in the world is the Bible, and the greatest Book is about the greatest Person, Jesus Christ (Yeshua the Anointed).

Friend, are you unable to read the Bible, that is, make sense of it? Or do some parts make sense, but others, such as Leviticus or Revelation or Romans seem totally bewildering? Are you desiring to go deeper, or reach a higher ground, spiritually, but your difficulty in comprehending scripture is holding you back? It may well be you need to consider that the Bible is essentially Messianic--that is, it exists to tell you about the Messiah and Savior, and virtually everything in the Bible points to Him. With this understanding, you are on your way to unlocking the scriptures and opening the door to Yeshua--for they are, in truth, a living Person, Jesus (Yeshua), who delights in His Name, the Word (John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

You are most welcome to review the list of the Bible books now. This is vital. In this era, when there is so little knowledge of the Bible, it can no longer be taken for granted that everyone knows what they are.

The Books of the Bible





THE MESSIANIC BIBLE TEXTS--WHAT ARE THEY?

The Bible's Messianic Texts are thus named because they are passages in scripture that point specifically to the Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus in Gentile terminology). Foremost in consideration of these texts, Christ Himself chose it when conducting an informal Bible class with two distraught and troubled disciples who had left Jerusalem just after the crucifixion and were on their way to Emmaus, a village seven miles from the Holy City. This spiritual trek inspired the logo graphic at the top of our home page, and in Judaea in the time of Jesus (see the map) Emmaus is near the bottom, located close by Jerusalem.


Vita of Ronald Ginther, Founder of the Emmaus Walk:

Vita


"Autobiographical Sketch of a Sparrow," by Ronald Ginther


IS JESUS WALKING BESIDE YOU? HAVE YOU EVER MET GOD?

"Have you ever met God?", a Reply to a Radio Show Host's Question by Ronald Ginther



The Emmaus Walk Certificate of Excellence


AS A CLEAR REBUTTAL TO THE SECULAR HUMANISTS RULING AS OPPRESSORS OVER A ONCE FREE AMERICA, WHO DENY THE SUPER-ABUNDANT CHRISTIAN HERITAGE WE HAVE AND THE FACT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION. THIS FOLLOWING IS AN ACTUAL ACT OF CONGRESS THAT ESTABLISHED THIS RESOLUTION, WHICH COULD NOT BE MORE DAMAGING TO THEIR TISSUE OF LIES STATING THAT AMERICA IS A GODLESS NATION FOUNDED ON SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: America, the World's Most Powerful Nation Declares the Bible to be the Word of God!

"CONGRESS DECLARES BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD," Public Law 97-280, October 4, 1982, Statute 1211, Approved October 4, 1982


THE EMMAUS WALK COURSE ARTICLES, WITH BIBLE RESOURCES:

A Standard Messianic Texts List (amended and revised somewhat) from the Jewish New Testament


The Names of Yeshua (Jesus) in the Bible


"Introduction to Biblical Science," by Duane L. Smith


"The Work and Person of the Holy Spirit: Essay I, "An Opinion About the Holy Spirit Gifts as Seen Today," by Duane L. Smith


Mrs. Pearl Ginther's Tribute to Christian Education


Crosswalk Bible Website



Part I, "Love: God's Priceless Gift," by Duane L. Smith


Part II, "Love: God's Priceless Free Gift," A Study with Questions, by Duane L. Smith


Supplemental Study Questions on Love article, by Duane L. Smith is temporarily not on-line


Part I, "Genesis's The Seed of Woman, God's Redeemer to Come," by Ronald D. Ginther

"Exodus: Types of Christ," by Ronald Ginther


Duane L. Smith's "Prophetic Dream," a dream-vision of the Lord Jesus


Bible Study Tools Online, with Goshen Online Study Bible--Verse Lookup


The Blue Letter Bible


The American Bible Society library Bibles and other resources


"Leviticus: Atonement4us," by Ronald Ginther



Another fine article by Duane L. Smith:

"The Hope of the Christian, and Worldly Despair," by D. L. Smith


"What is Truth?"--Part I, by Duane L. Smith (A Philosophical Approach to Apologetics)


Part II, "What is Truth?", from Foundational Principles for Living, by Duane L. Smith


"Ruth the Vine," A Poetic Tribute to Christ's Moabite, Christlike Ancestress, by Ronald Ginther


"Esther: the Book of Godly Intrigue," by Ronald Ginther


"Deuteronomy: Israel's Chance to Obey Christ Completely," by Ronald Ginther


"Joshua: A Many-Faceted Type of Christ," by Ronald Ginther


Questions for "Joshua: A Many-Faceted Type of Christ"


"Judges: Othniel, A Little Christ," First of Thirteen Delivering Christ-Types from Ehud to Samson, by Ronald Ginther


Judges: Samson, Backslidden Nazarite and Judge of Israel," Or, "Hope for the Completely Washed-up Christian," by Ronald Ginther

"A Glimpse of Heaven and a Taste of Hell," by Instructor Duane L. Smith, with illustrations by Butterfly Productions


"Foundational Principles of Life," Part I, by Duane L. Smith


"Judges: Samson, Backslidden Nazarite and Judge of Israel," Or, "Hope for the Washed-up Christian," by Ronald Ginther


"Bible Names for God's Son"


Study Questions for Bible Names of God's Son, by Ronald Ginther


"Come Let Us Reason Together," "An Account of Messianic Witnessing," by Duane L. Smith


Here is the last article written by Duane L. Smith:

"Einstein, Quantum Mechanics, and the Reconciliation with Theology," Parts I-III, by Duane L. Smith


"Foundational Principles for Abundant Living, Meditations on God's Grace, Section A," by Duane L. Smith


Test Questions for Foundational Principles, by Duane L. Smith


Recommended The Emmaus Walk Book List:

"A Man Called Peter," The Story of Peter Marshall, by Catherine Marshall. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. See also the site's ending note on this page about Peter Marshall and his message on Elijah and America's spiritual crisis which has just been reprinted by Lamplighter Magazine.

In connection with this book about Peter Marshall, Joyce Meyer's magazine, December 2005, offers "Stand Up and Be Counted," DVD and VHS by Joyce Meyer. The 66-minute video features Alan Beliles, Peter Marshall, and Dave and Joyce Meyer.

Be sure to read a biography of Sir Isaac Newton the physicist and inventor of calculus--also a Christian and agreed by most scientists to be the greatest scientist who ever lived. We need to know that Christians (Bible-believing followers of Jesus "Christ!) have furthered the advance of science, technology, and civilization beyond any other group (and certainly beyond the contributions of secular humanists!).

"We Have a Choice, Humility or Humiliation," perhaps a last and most significant call to America to repent or be destroyed by our enemies (Islamic terrorist organizations and supporting Islamic nations, with friends in the West aiding them, such as the secular-humanists entrenched in the U.S. Congress). This call is Robison's prophetic warning, available in his 16-page booklet printed and distributed by LIFE Outreach International, Fort Worth, TX, 2006.

"The Enemy at Home--the Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11," by Dinesh da Souza. This is not a religious book, but it describes the cultural environment in which Christian faith must now fight for its very existence, as all our Christian institutions are assaulted daily by media, mainline church denominations that have turned secular humanist, by Hollywood films and videos and the speeches of film stars, by blasphemous musicians and celebrities, by the press, by obscene talk show hosts, by popular fiction and non-fiction writers (The impious, pot-boiler-spewing DaVinci Code-type writers, ad nauseum), apostate clerics (such as the New Age Religionist and gay rights activist, Bishop Tutu) who don't mind linking arms with witchdoctors and abortionists and gay rights guerillas, and now obscene and blasphemous Congressmen and Congresswomen who have lost all conception of integrity and reverence for God and regard for their own responsibilities as servants and elected representatives for the benefit of the American people. He is an excellent cultural analyst and commentator, and there are very few in America who can analyze and interpret the American Left clearly for what it is and what it is doing to America, and be brave enough to tell the unpopular, politically incorrect truth.

"Smith Wigglesworth," Apostle of Faith, biography by Stanley Howard Frodsham, Radiant Books, Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, Missouri. Smith Wigglesworth was, spiritually speaking, the politically incorrect evangelist of his day. His unorthodox, unconventional methods and statements infuriated and shocked the conventional religious authorities of Christianity in his time--he was thought to be a terrible cad, when, for instance, he rudely rebuked a rich woman who had called him to her bedside because she was ailing and needed healing. This rebuke was what she desperately needed! She repented of her sin and pride, and God touched her heart and life profoundly. If only we had more honest men of God like Smith Wigglesworth today! We have plenty of slick salesmen and mega-church builders who know how to package and market their products to a mass audience of gullible, "me-centered" Christians! Now when a man says something politically incorrect, whether in or out of church circles, he immediately apologizes for the hurt he caused (since he has so little regard for the truth that he cannot suffer ridicule and loss for its sake). Smith Wigglesworth refused to do anything of the sort--and the effect was a real change, a real transformation in the people he rebuked.

"George Muller, Man of Faith and Miracles," biography hy Basil Miller, Bethany Fellowship, Dimension Books, Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Tortured for Christ," autobiography of Richard Wurmbrand, Diane Books, Glendale, California. His wife has a new book out as well, but please begin with his book.

"Hope for Man in a Hopeless World," by Basilea Schlink, Bethany Fellowship, Dimension Books, Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Glory in the Church, the Coming Revival," by Edward E. Hindson, Thomas Nelson Publishers, New York/Nashville

"Czechmate," by British evangelist to Russia and Siberia and Slavic nations, David Hathaway. This is his own autobiographical account of his unjust imprisonment in a communist country, Czechoslovakia, for taking Bibles in to give to Christians. As he told the communist judges on his case, it was officially no crime under the Czechoslavakian constitution, and he was absolutely right. But they would not let him go free, since freedom of religion was granted, only offically for the sake of the Western democracies' recognition of the country. He was imprisoned for no crime but the simple taking of Bibles into a country that said officially the Bible was permitted! What hypocrisy of the communists! In no way was freedom of religion and the Bible allowed by them to exist. Yet gullible Western church officials came and visited, going back to tell their churches and the press that the Czechoslovakian people were free to worship God and free to have Bibles--both totally untrue. The communists called the Bible a "bomb," highly dangerous to their power and tyranny over the people. A dear British friend of mine has known him personally in Britain, and went on a tour to Israel that he led all across Europe and Communist countries--an epic journey that probably could not be repeated today, as some of the countries such as Syria and Lebanon are known terrorist-supporters. It took place in 1963 and lasted 28 days!

"Jesus Freaks." I have not read it, but you can order it through VOM Books.

"The Next World Order," by evangelical Bible prophecy scholar, Grant Jeffrey, who is an excellent source for Israel's role in eschatological prophecies and developments of the End Times. To order his book, go to his website.

Grant Jeffrey, Bible Prophecy, and book, "The Next World Order"


"The Everyday Guide to "God," A to Z Listing of God's Attributes, with Scriptures, by Amy Ng Wong, Humble Creek Publisher, Uhricksville, Ohio

"The Complete Book of Bible Lists," by H.L. Willmingon, Tyndale House, Wheaton, Illinois

"God Sent a Man," the story of Joseph, by Carylye B. Haynes, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D.C.

"Israel Act III," The Bible and the Mideast in prophecy, by Richard Wolff, Tyndale House, Wheaton, Illinois

"Eric Liddell, Pure Gold," biography of the Chariots of Fire Olympic runner turned missionary to China, by David McCasland, Discovery House Publishers, Grand Rapids, Michigan

"Messianic Christology," by Arnold J. Fruchtenbaum, Ph.D., Th.M., Ariel Ministries, Tustin, California. This book costs $25, available through the Purple Pomegranate, Jews for Jesus, 60 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94102-5895. It is worth it, and should be in the library of every serious Bible student.

"C.S. Lewis," Heroes of the Faith series biography, by Sam Wellman, Barbour Publishing, Uhrichsville, Ohio

For those Christians with strong stomachs, but who know how the Grace of God can reach to the lowest depths of human depravity and redeem a wretched soul:

Richard Wurmbrand was the founder of the Voice of the Martyrs ministry to the persecuted Christians of the world. He spent 14 years in Romanian prisons for his faith in Christ. His book, "The Answer to the Atheist's Handbook," can be obtained by going to VOM.

Voice of the Martyrs Books


Roy Ratcliff's "Dark Journey, Deep Grace--the life of Jeffrey Dahlmer. Roy Ratcliff appeared on Daystar TV to talk about his book. It can be found at any Christian bookstore. Jeffrey Dahlmer, who molested, murdered, and dismembered his victims, was saved in prison. Roy Ratcliff kept close contact with the converted Dahlmer, until his death in prison (he was beaten to death with a sawn off pipe by a fellow prisoner--a common occurrence in prison, which any still uncaught molestor ought to consider). This book is not for everyone, obviously, but Christ has no problem with the Dahlmers of this world--He came to die and save sinners, and His grace is sufficient for the worst of us!

The true account of how a Japanese boy, Koji Honda, born into supertitution and false idol worship taught him in his home by his own parents and grandparents, found Jesus Christ who saved him and then raised him up from the pit of devilish, highly religious darkness in his Jesus-hating native town to become a Bringer of the Glorious Light and Liberty of the Gospel--an Evangelist of great power whose ministry reached all across Japan, to major cities, saving thousands of unsaved Japanese.

Chapters 1-2 of "Has God Forgotten Japan?", "Purified with Salt," and "A Baptized Sinner," by Evangelist Koji Honda


Chapter 3 of "Has God Forgotten Japan?", "Conversion and Restitution," by Evangelist Koji Honda


Chapters 4 and 5 of "Has God Forgotten Japan?", "Bible School Days" and "Suffering War Years," by Evangelist Koji Honda


Chapter 6 of "Has God Forgotten Japan?", by Evangelist Koji Honda, "A Church is Born"


Chapters 7-8 (with Conclusion) of "Has God Forgotten Japan?" by Evangelist Koji Honda, "God Saves Japanese Too," and "Behold, I Will Do a New Thing"


Please, as Koji Honda requested so urgently, join in prayer for Japan's unsaved millions. Your prayers are vital to the evangelization of that great people and nation.

WHAT WAS MOHAMMED ALL ABOUT? WHO WAS HE? WHAT WAS HIS STATED AND WRITTEN OUT AGENDA AGAINST JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, WHICH HE FULLY PRACTICED UNTIL HE DIED AND HIS FOLLOWERS TOOK OVER, DOING THE SAME THINGS AS HE HAD DONE? IS ISLAM A RELIGION OF PEACE (AS IT IS CLAIMED TO BE BY ITS VIOLENT LEADERS TO NEWSMEN FROM THE WEST) OR WAR? AND WHAT CONNECTION IS THERE BETWEEN ISLAM, AMERICA, AND ISRAEL, WITH THE CATASTROPHES OF NATURE AND TERRORISTIC ATTACKS?

John McTernan, who appeared on Sid Roth's "It's Supernatural" television program, is absolutely right in connecting terrible, increasingly destructive events with our presidents' and governments' mistreatment of Israel--and has to my mind at least explained perfectly why our nation has suffered catastrophes as 9/11 and the hurricanes that destroyed New Orleans and many coastal communities. If you have a better explanation, let us know. Please go to Sid Roth's website for interview with John McTernan and information about his book, "As America Has Done to Israel," Xulon Press, or call 1-888-833-6416 and ask for Order 1055. A donation of $20 will include shipping and handling. I am reading my copy presently, and it is a terrific, eye-opening account--which explains so much that has bewildered millions of us Christians about what is happening to America in connection with Israel and our government's forcing Israel to give up Covenanted land to the Muslim terrorists and the Arabs who are claiming it as theirs. The book can also be obtained by going to his website or by writing to: Sid Roth, P.O. Box 1918, New Brunswick, GA 31521, with the Order #1055.

Sid Roth, The Messianic Vision, and radio and Tv show, "It's Supernatural"


A Rose of CHRIST YESHUA'S Love for the Beloved Moslem People who are being called by Jesus Christ to come to the only true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:

REMEMBER THE ONCE GLOBAL POWER OF THE SOVIET UNION WHICH DENIED GOD EXISTED? WHERE IS THE SOVIET UNION? CAN YOU FIND IT, PLEASE, MR. HARRY BELOFONTE, YOU WHO ARE EIGHTY YEARS OLD NOW BUT FOOLISHLY, DEFIANTLY DEFEND FIDEL CASTRO, THE BRUTAL, ATHEISTIC, COMMUNIST DICTATOR WHO HAS ENSLAVED AND TORTURED AND KILLED UNTOLD THOUSANDS, WHO REMAINS ONE OF THE LAST HOLDOUTS FROM THE SOVIET ERA EMPIRE? ITS SPIRITS OF ATHEISM HAVE MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ARE FLOURISHING IN THE LAWYERS' ANTI-AMERICAN CLAQUE, THE ACLU, AND THE ORGANIZATION, AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE! THESE SPIRITS RULE IN THE UNIVERSITIES, THE COLLEGES, AND IN THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. THESE SPIRITS EVEN RULE IN THE SEMINARIES, IN THE MAINLINE CHURCHES THAT ARE MEMBERS OF THE NCC AND THE WCC. THESE SPIRITS ARE ANTI-CHRIST SPIRITS, AND THEY ARE ALIVE AND WELL IN AMERICA.

Christ did not die as the Soviet masters of Russia claimed--He ruled from heaven over the earth and laughed at these puny defiers of God. In His time, he spoke one word, and the whole mighty Soviet Empire crumbled and dissolved away in a matter of a few days! Before that event, mighty miracles were done, to show the Soviet atheists that God existed, and that He was still God, and they were but men. One of the men who stood up for God's existence was a young man, a youth of twenty when he was brutally tortured and murdered because he refused to deny Christ his Lord. Born and raised to manhood in Modavian SSR, he was recruited to serve in the Soviet Army stationed in Crimea. There he experienced many miracles, saw many angels, and was delivered from sheer death on a number of occasions, all to show that God existed in a land where His existence was denied by all the powers and authorities of state. This testimony still stands! It is highly regarded in heaven to this very day! This testimony was one that brought down the high and proud Soviet gods of Russia, crumbling them to fine dust which the winds then blew away! This is a testimony that ought to provoke trembling in the knees of all who oppose God in America and Europe today, which are ruled by godless, atheistical, secular-humanists (the same kind of people who ruled Soviet Russia and its empire).

CENTER FOR TESTIMONIES OF MARTYRS FOR CHRIST:

Perhaps the most remarkable story of martyrdom and faith of a Christian to come out of the former Soviet Empire and Communist Russia: "A Russian Martyr, Ivan Vasilyevich Moiseyev," Translated by H.K. Neerskov, Edited by John. B. Calhoun, and published by Christ for the Nations of Dallas, Texas in 1974:

Chapters 1-3, "A Russian Martyr, Ivan Vasilyevich Moiseyev"


Chapter 4, "A Russian Martyr, Ivan Vasilyevich Moiseyev"


Chapters 5-6, "A Russian Martyr, Ivan Vasilyevich Moiseyev"


Chapter 7, "An Appeal for Justice," Chapter 8, "A Letter to the World," and Epilogue, "A Russian Martyr, Ivan Vasilyevich Moiseyev"


His story is also featured in the VOM book, "Jesus Freaks." The March issue of VOM magazine tells about a 12-year-old girl who read "Jesus Freaks" and was especially touched by the story of Ivan Moiseyev. She so admired his courage and steadfastness and complete trust in God that she delved more into God and began to recite memorized scriptures in her own church. In response other members gave to support VOM and the Christian captives in Christian-persecuting nations. Has Ivan Moiseyev, a lone Russian martyr who was tortured to death at age 20 by Communist military and the KGB, any impact twenty, thirty years later? Yes! As her case clearly demonstrates--his life still speaks, just as the martyred Abel's righteous blood still speaks to us today, according to Hebrews. It is indeed speaking, causing young girls half a world away to serve God all the more passionately and do all she can to help and encourage persecuted saints in countries all over the world where persecution of Christians is going on. She started as a 12 year old! What is our excuse?

Voice of the Martyrs Magazine has a book by Sabrina Wurmbrand, wife of the late famous author of the martyrs' classic, "Tortured for Christ," Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, which details the tortures and martyrdoms of his fellow Christians in a Communist Romanian prison. Pastor Wurmbrand died in 2001, but his books are featured in the March issue. You can obtain any of his books by going to the bookstore of VOM in its magazine or look on its website. You can also read about and write encouraging letters to the pastors and other Christian believers imprisoned in China, Laos, and various Moslem or Hindu countries.

"Voice of the Martyrs" Website, Magazine, and Bookstore


Pastor Van Thong is a pastor in Laos (which has one of those Chinese communist clone-governments that is so hostile to Christians and the Gospel), who is uncompromising and fearless. The authorities have imprisoned him for over three months now. But Voice of the Martyrs found him and is able to get letters from Christians to him, to encourage him, which will send a message in turn to the authorities that this man is not forgotten by Christians round the world! If they know that the world is watching them, they will probably release him, just as the Czech communists released David Hathaway, who "got too hot to handle" once Christians began praying, writing letters to Parliament, and petitioning the Czech ambassador! Your letter counts. I am sending mine in the next mail. It costs so little. Simply download the letter they show you how to compose on-line. It can make a big difference, now and in eternity.

THE EMMAUS WALK MUSIC CENTER:

"The Long, Lonely Road," A Song's Lyrics by the late Duane L. Smith


"Someday," a Negro Spiritual Song by Ronald Ginther


CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM (HOW TO MAKE CHRISTIAN VALUES AN UNAVOIDABLE ISSUE FOR SECULAR HUMANISTS RULING AND OPPRESSING AMERICA):

Link for Christian activists (LOVE AND PEACE "terrorists" FOR CHRIST), via David Wildmon's American Family Association On-line:

American Family Association On-Line


Conversion to Christ the Savior is the way for people to change their minds and take Biblical views (it is the work of the Holy Spirit, not anything people say), but there are legitimate ways to counter and confront subtle as well as blatant liberal biases in the news and media:

Fight Media Bias


Sound the Alarm


Family Research Council, Defending Family, Faith, and Freedom


FRIENDSHIP CENTER FOR SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE:

An excellent view into events in Israel is found in Benny Hinn's website. Just go to his website and click on the window on the left hand side of his page, entitled Israel News Today. Article after article is offered. There is also video of his various programs taped in Israel, programs interviewing Christian leaders in Israel. Exciting, timely stuff!

Israel Today News, via Benny Hinn Ministry


Yet another excellent Israel resource is "Levitt Letter," the newsletter of the Levitt Ministry. It is worth ordering, for it is jammed with fascinating news and articles you may find no where else. Joel Rosenberg's article, "Muslims Accept Israel"s Messiah,' tells how a Muslim cleric, Shiekh Ahmad al Qataani, declared on the infamous, anti-Western Muslim-extremist, jehadist-supporting television station Aljazeera (which is the Devil's mouthpiece, to put it kindly) that more Muslims are converting to Christ than ever before. Does this not make their report all the more credible, since they hate Christ so much? The shiekh reported, "Every hour 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every day, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity." He called it a tragedy to the stunned interviewer, but the angels in heaven are rejoicing--for Christ is tearing down the walls of Islam faster than they can be built back up! It is just a matter of time before crosses rise in Mecca from every mosque and shrine, put up by the people themselves whose lives have been transformed by the Good News of the Savior and Lord, Jesus (Issa) of Nazareth, the only Son of God!

Joel C. Rosenberg, author of "Muslims Accept Israel's Messiah," can be reached via his website. He is a bestselling author too.

Joel C. Rosenberg


AMERICA'S RE-EDUCATION CENTER:

IF WE DON'T KNOW WHERE WE CAME FROM, WE CAN'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: So-called scholars and social commentators have declared our Founding Fathers to be Deists or skeptics. Nothing could be farther from the truth, states David Barton. It is better than a trip to Disney World, watching the boyish but dignified David Barton stand in the magnificent Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol and, pointing out pictures and statuary and inscriptions, totally demolish the "scholars" and their ridiculous (his word) contention that the Founding Fathers were Deists. He has extensively researched the founding documents, which they obviously neglected to do. He has explored the writings and lives of the Founding Fathers, which they obviously neglected to do. With truckloads of evidence, he shows that America could not have been conceived and brought into existence if it it had not been for the fervent, sacrificial Christian faith of our nation's founders. He gives names, pictures, writings, and dates. The case is closed. The Founding Fathers were not Deists! Will this shut up the liars and fake scholars with high-sounding names and degrees. Absolutely not! They will continue to spout absolute nonsense, because they know that most Americans will not take the trouble, take five minutes even, to go to David Barton's website and find out the true facts. No amount of expense or trouble is thought too much for going to a sports event, of course. This is sad but true. How many Americans would spend like that on their church and its functions! I will not hold my breath for the answer!

For Washingtonians, David Barton, nationally known author and American historian, is speaking, giving a lecture with questions and answers portion, Tuesday, March 20, 7 pm, at Life Center, 1717 S. Union Ave (take exit highway to Bremerton from I-5 in Tacoma, Washington, and Union is about two miles, with an exit on the right. Take exit, turn right on Union and go about a mile or less to the big church of Life Center on the right, which is past a hospital). No admission, but an offering will be received. For more information, contact Jennifer Lee at j.lee@faithandfreedom.us

David Barton, Wallbuilders


"Burning Questions and Candid Answers," by Pastor Joseph Rangen (Retired) and Nephew Ronald Ginther


Part I, "America's Urgent Decision: Spiritual Revival or Disaster," by John Kittleson, Lay Evangelist, published September 1988, but right on time for NOW!!


Part II, "America's Urgent Decision: Spiritual Revival or Disaster," by John Kittleson, Lay Evangelist, published September 1988, but right on time for NOW!!


A modern "Shamgar" is Fox channel's Bill O'Reilly, a non-Christian gadfly and a boot in the rear of secular humanist propagandists such as the NBC, the State of Vermont, and other secular humanist pathogens. Bill O'Reilly's book on the secular-humanist BLITZKRIEG on Christian America, "Culture Warrior," has been a romping best-seller for months and months on New York Times bestseller list (which fact really rubs it in, that a liberal, secular progressive paper like the Times, has to record the success of a book that criticises the liberal, secular progressives.) Other than the Bible, this is probably the most hated and feared book in America at the moment, simply because it tells the plain truth about the myths of secular progressives based on documented facts. O'Reilly's book can be found at any bookstore or Amazon.com.

Some excellent resources about America's Christian heritage, founders, and values can be found on these websites. Marilyn Hickey made a video tour of historic Christian sites in the American Revolution and the Continental Congresses, and Dr. James Kennedy has a video, "One Nation Under God," for a donation of $25 to Coral Ridge Ministries. Also click on his "Beginning Again" icon on his website page.

Marilyn Hickey Ministries

Coral Ridge Ministries

HAS SLAVERY GONE AWAY FOREVER? OR IS IT STILL AN ISSUE WE MUST DEAL WITH? WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE ABOLISHING OF SLAVERY IN BRITAIN AND THE BRITISH DOMINIONS? The following film produced in Britain is the creation of Ken Wales, who as a talented young man was given a scholarship by Walt Disney so he could go to a fine school and perhaps become a film maker. More important is the film itself. This film will embolden us, it will be a life-changing experience for all of us, making us fight for the unborn and the sex slaves of the international sexual gulag, not to mention the poor Filippino maids in the Middle East and the enslaved black Christians of southern Sudan (Darfur).

"Amazing Grace," the Story of William Wilberforce


The story of William Wilberforce, written by Ken Wales, the brilliant producer of the movie "Amazing Grace," is available too at your bookstores. It is called" The Amazing Grace of Freedom," by Ken Wales.

THE SECULAR HUMANIST BBC OUTDID ITSELF THIS TIME IN BIASED REPORTING AND REVISIONIST HISTORY: I listened a couple days ago to the BBC's latest "report" on slavery. I listened to every single word, so I could tell if they misrepresented the history in any way. Guess what they did? They did not mention William Wilberforce once! Not once! And they mentioned Pitt only once, in passing. Nothing really added. John Newton--no mention either! They gave more credit to King George for signing the bill abolishing slavery in Britain, while observing that slavery went on in the empire for thirty years more (as if abolition of slavery is an instant process when you're dealing with a world-wide empire!). No real mention either for the primary role of the Muslim Arab slave traders (just one one mention that Arabs were involved). They credited a lone African ruler for speaking out, rather lamely, against slavery, who was rulling during the time the slave trading was going on. He probably, routinely, put wives to death who didn't please him, and beheaded anyone who didn't pay enough tax to the royal coffers--a real despot who would feel comfortable sitting next to the likes of Saddam Hussain or the head of the British Broadcasting Corporation!

No coverage whatsoever of the West and Central African tribes who raided the villages, seized the women and children and young men, and killed the men who could defend themselves and killed the elderly and sick who were no good to them for selling as slaves to the British slaveship captains. They naturally did not mention anything about the current slave-trading and slave-holding and enslavement of thousands of Africans going on this very day in the Sudan! Slave-holding is a long-accepted practice in African Muslim societies--has been so since the time of the Muslim Arabs swept to power in North Africa in the 7th-8th centuries! Now it is a policy of the Sudanese central government, which is radical Islamicist, to wipe out the Christians of South Sudan, convert the pitiful survivors to Islam forcibly, while enslaving them and working them to death, or raping and fathering children on them, or selling them to Christians who are raising money in the U.S. to buy these wretched fellow Christians and set them free to return to their shattered villages and burned down homes, in the hope they can rebuild their lives and families somehow.

This was not a true report, British Broadcasting Corporation! This was not historical! This was a gross misrepresentation, perpetrated by the BBC by hauling in a number of ignorant, or dishonest, British university dons and so-called experts on the subject of slavery. What rubbish! What a farce! This is the sickening kind of reportage that goes on constantly in the BBC and its broadcasts to the world. It is not journalism--it is propaganda for the secular humanist and atheist world-view and ideology, which is in its way just as bad as Nazism and Communism.

The colonial, empire-building British are pilloried by the BBC as evil arch-demons for conducting the slave trade and profiteering off it. Well, nobody (certainly not any Christian!) will defend them for what they did. But to exclude all the other facts of the case is totally reprehensible of the BBC and its supervisors and newscasters. They are deliberately distorting and revising history, so as to make the central role of valiant Christians such as Wilberforce and Pitt and Newton non-existent or inconsequental, while a free pass is given the Muslims and pagan African tribes and chiefs somehow, accounting them lily white innocent despite their primary role serving as the most brutal and inhumane enslavers and middle-men in the African slave trade. They are also totally ignoring Islam's notorious history of slavery and also its present involvement, for profit and poltical and religious aggrandizement, in slavery.

The BBC, with those arrogant, "snooty" Cambridge and Oxford accents, turns a blind eye to slavery--when it is Muslim, but tars anybody who would object to this, or suggests that slavery is going on today, perpetrated by the Muslim northern Sudanese government in Darfur and southern Sudan against primarily black Christians. For this the BBC, in my opinion, is a co-conspirator in the enslavement of Africans today! They are also liars of the worst possible stripe. These are life and death issues--and the BBC needs to undergo intensive sensitivity training where truth and genuine journalism and humanity are concerned.

HERESY AND CORRECTION CENTER:

David Pett is a long-time minister, a pastor, and handles the Word of God most responsibly and aptly for these times. That cannot be said of most preaching from the pulpit today in America! He is offered here, but you can sign up for his email messages yourself by using his email address. The following message by David, "Are All Things Equal" is a blessing to all who are open to the truth of it.

"Are All Things Equal," a Message by David Pett


PROPHECY CENTER:

"Two Prophecies," by Duane L. Smith


"The Voice of the Lord and the Heart of a Prophet," A Dream of the Lord Jesus, Parts 1 & 2, by Duane L. Smith


THE RESURRECTION IS HISTORICALLY ESTABLISHED FACT, NOT RELIGIOUS WHIMSY OR SOMEBODY'S RELIGIOUS HOAX: We as Christians do not blindly believe that Christ rose from the grave just because we were taught it in Sunday School. We know it as an incontrovertible fact. This fact is centered, personified in Jesus Christ himself! He declared: "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die."

"Resurrection Reasons: Why We Believe Jesus Rose from the Dead"


"Comments on Resurrection Reasons," by Ronald Ginther


NEED TO DROP WAL-MART FROM OUR BIG BAD CORPORATIONS LIST! This is from LAMPLIGHTER Magazine: "WalMart Update--In the last two issues of this magazine we reported news regarding financial aid that was being given to radical homosexual activist groups by WalMart. We are delighted to report that due to intense pressure from Christians, WalMart has announced that it will no longer supply such aid. Go to the WalMart website at www.walmartstores.com and click on "Contact Us." You will find forms you can use to send a message to local stores or to the corporate headquarters. Write and thank them for changing their policy and encourage them to continue upholding family values. Your opinion matters!"

Amen! To God be the glory!--Ed.

PRAYER TARGET CENTER:

If you order Evangelist David Hathaway's magazine, Prophetic Vision, or go to his Eurovision Ministry website to learn about his ministry and healing and evangelistic TV services in Russia, Siberia, and Eastern Europe, you will know that Russia is experiencing a revival that Mr. Putin and his politically correct religious backers in the Orthodox Church, Islam, and Judaism cannot stop.

Try to bottle the Holy Spirit! He is the Divine Wind--He cannot be controlled by state authority and state laws against evangelicals. Please pray for Russia, that the door to evangelize will remain open--despite all that Mr. Putin is doing to draw the noose tight on religious freedom in that grand, beautiful land.

Remember Tolstoy's novels, or Dr. Zhivago, or even Solzhenitzen? Once you catch a whiff of the Russian steppes and the sweeping grandeur of its birch forests, uncountable lakes, and mountains where enormous tigers still roam, you are hooked forever! I was--when I began reading the Russian classics at age 19, just out of high school. I read Doestoyevski, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gogol, and other greats, on up to the last Nobel Prize winners. I make this request. Let us send prayers, marked "To Russia with love!" The Russians are probably the most warm-hearted people on earth! They are the most human in their feelings, despite the terrible despots and dictators they never seem to be able to get rid of! Can anyone equal the ferocious self-honesty of Doestoyevsky or Alexander Solzhenitzen? It is almost self-destructive, it is so intense, for it will permit no vague excuses and lame justifications for falsehood and evasion. It loves truth passionately--and I think God is very pleased when people love truth as passionately as the Russians do! Why should they be afflicted with such falsehoods, such lying and brutal, dehumanizing ideologies as Communism, socialism, and atheism? I don't have the answer. It just speaks about the diametric opposites and conflicts native to the Russian character, I believe. They believe a lie just as ardently as they believe the truth. They do not tread middle ground or straddle the fence, as contemporary, post-modernist Americans are so fond of doing! They are hot or cold--not lukewarm. They do not make good Laodeceans! I would love to have some Russian friends--but none live anywhere near me. They would lift my spirits a great deal, as I view the double-dealing, lying, thieving, deceiving, compromising ways of this immoral popular culture in America.

I want to write my Congressmen and say something like: "You are a crook that would make a better used car salesman, that is clear by your actions. Admit it! And do right, will you? Why keep lying and misspending our tax money and running down your country for your own petty advantage? Change! We need to change, sir! We will all die if we continue on like this! The whole nation is perishing--crumbling away, in the destruction of countless lives by politically correct immorality, perversion, robbery, and deception!"

Of course, I can't write that. It is the truth. But I write what I can--without compromising my beliefs and the truth. When you write to thieves and liars who are now your legal, voted-in representatives in Congress, you cannot begin by name-calling, justified as it may be. They will simply trash your letter and maybe submit your name to the F.B.I. for the hate crime and sensitivity training division to look into. No, Christ came not to condemn, but to save. That is the way to begin, even in a letter that I recently wrote reprimanding my Representative in Congress for spearheading the foolish resolution calling for a pull-out in Iraq before either we or Iraq is ready.

I believe he is dishonest, a dupe of his own party, for taking on this job of heading up the resolution. I know the Middle East enough, and know about our declared terrorist enemies well enough, that a resolution of this is like opening the front door to the wolf and saying, "Welcome, do whatever you want!" Show weaknes, timidity, fear, a willingness to compromise your core beliefs, and the wolf will march right in and take over! The wolves of Islam are doing just that! It is just taking a bit more time with America than it is taking with tired, old, super-tolerant, super-decadent Europe.

But Russia--good or bad, it is not a compromiser like our society. We will see a true revival--not a hitech, televised rehash of Azuza that fools nobody but the rehashers--that will sweep from Russia to engulf and transform Europe, if Hudson Taylor's prophecies are true, and I believe they are. It will happen soon. Be a part--by prayer. We aren't called to go to Russia, probably, but we can go, with love, by prayer. God has given us this mighty instrument, prayer, to change the world and win it for Christ. What are we doing with it? Letting it rust idle at our sides, like an old sword we seldom if ever pull out and use? Let's not rust away, let us be gleaming, sharp instruments in God's hands instead. It is our choice. May be be willing to be used and be willing to sacrifice a little of our time and energy, and even our money, to extend the Kingdom of Christ into Russia and all parts of this dark world, bringing the blinding light of the Gospel to every darkened, enslaved soul left on this old earth. Amen!

Brazil Missionary Cora Taylor (turned 92), Daughters, and Birthday Cake

EXCERPT FROM MY MISSIONARY AUNT'S MISSIONARY PRAYER LETTER FROM CORA TAYLOR: A missionary for over 50-60 years in Brazil for the New Tribes Mission, my beloved Aunt Cora Taylor writes to me and my mother: "Let me share a great blessing of encouragement I received recently when I opened a letter from one of our missionary families working among the [name of tribe] Indian tribe in the Amazon basin. She was thanking for an offering thy had received. 'My name is Lourdes. My husband [name is given] and I have been missionaries with New Tribes since 93. We have two children. The [name of tribe], with whom we work live in an isolated area, 13 to 14 days travel by boat or two hours away by plane. They are a happy people but bound by fear of evil spirits to whom they sacrifice even their own children. But Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil; and through the teaching of His Word they shall come to know our God and the wonderful life Christ gives His own. I have joy in teling you that God used you and your husband [now deceased, killed in a fatal car crash on the way to a mission conference] to bring us to where we are today. Many years ago you went to the small interior town of Itambe when my husband was just a teen. It was the worst time of his life. He was rejected by his parents and ordered out of the house. In the midst of this situation you came and held meetings telling of God's love for the tribal peoples. My husband said he went to church with the purpose of upsetting the service, but you blessed him and the next day came to visit him. He was so amazed that you would reserve time to seek him out; as a result he came to God. He has never seen you since then, but never will he forget the message of the love of God the Father that came to him through you! Today he is a wonderful husband, father, and dedicated servant of the Lord.'"

My aunt also writes: "I must translate one letter written by an Indian in New Guinea--pleading for a missionary. I can't help but bawl every time I read it. He has written our mission for years and pleads for some one to come and teach his tribe the truth. 'We are lost," he says and you can help us.'" My aunt is now 92, still going strong for the Lord. Please pray for her health, that she will continue to be the great blessing she is as a woman of prayer and hospitality to the many tired missionaries and others who come to stay and be refreshed in body and spirit at the guesthouse where she is the keeper. It is named after her! Remember also to pray for the tribesman in New Guinea (a big, mostly jungle island in the area of Indonesia, located above Australia). He has been writing and pleading for someone to come for years now, to bring the Gospel to him and his people! How can we not at least pray for this poor man and his urgent request. We can hear the Gospel preached almost every day if we want! But he has never heard it preached! Can we just stand by while he and his people slip into a Christless eternity?--Ed.

IT'S IN THE BIBLE: Most people may not know that many of the phrases they use in everyday conversation come from the Bible. Here are just a few of them: "In the twinkling of an eye" (I Cor. 15:52). "Den of Thieves" (Matt. 21:13) "Keep the faith" (2Tim 4:7) "A stone's throw" (Luke 22:41) "Old wives' tales" (1Tim. 4:7) "Drop in the bucket" ((Isa. 40:15) "Apple of his eye" (Deut. 32:10) "No rest for the wicked" (Isa. 46:22). --Rev. Jerome Porkorny in Catholic Quote

"Solid Rock, not Sand," Message Notes by Ronald Ginther, on how to keep it simple and honest with God. We are clay, He is the Potter--not the other way round, as it is preached and promoted in popular Christianity today. Want to "get back on track with God?" Here's how, in a few words:

"Choose Rock, Not Sand," Message Notes by Ronald Ginther


Sand and rock--it reminds me of yet another element, clay. A life-long friend was an artist, and she was an art teacher in high school long before I knew her in her retirement years. She had once gathered clay from a dry river bank in Eastern Washington, recognizing it as the stuff from which pots and ceramics could be made in her classroom by her art students, who could put their projects in the kiln and bake them into real objects of art or usefulness. She must not have used all the clay for her class, for a ceramic pot half-filled with it and also a plastic sack of it were found in the attic of her house after her death at the age of 87. It was given to me, as I had been her gardener and friend for many years. I was glad to get it, and poured water on this rock hard, fifty-year old clay, and it miraculously came back to life as soft, yielding clay--perfect stuff for any potter to fashion into beautiful and useful objects. I felt this was a most meaningful legacy for her to leave me, whether she knew it or not. "I am the clay, and He is the Potter," I thought.

Now I had real clay in my hand, and I offered it at church to a pastor and his wife who came to a sparsely attended prayer meeting one night. The pastor made a face as I handed it to him on a clean napkin, but his wife was more appreciative, and when she prayed, she prayed in the spirit of humility, in the spirit of humble clay that God the Potter can use for His glory. I was glad to use this clay, and hope there will be more opportunities in the future where I can share it with fellow members, fellow "vessels" of the Body of Christ. It may be unpleasant, ugly stuff, but look what a Master Potter chooses to work with, and look what wonderful things He can make of it if He is allowed to do what He wants to do with it!--Ed.

DUNCES' CORNER:

FBI STATES THERE IS NO THREAT POSED BY SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF TERRORIST GROUPS DRIVING BLUE BIRDS FULL OF SCHOOL CHILDREN: Now heading the list in our Dunciad, FBI has just released information that "suspected" members of terrorist groups (read, without the politically correct language, "Muslim jehadists operating in secret cells for conspiracy to overthrow the United States government") are driving U.S. Blue Birds carrying school children to and fro. It is nothing to worry about, dunce spokesman, Mr. Kolko of the FBI (a name that reminds me of cuckoo!), says to the American people!

His statement ought to cause us to laugh ourselves sick, if it weren't so serious a matter. Are they stupid, ignorant, deceiving and deceived? Or are they all three at once? I would opt for all three! They are stumbling over themselves, trying to be politically correct, not alarm the American people at all costs to the security of the people, and save their hides and jobs while jeopardizing their mission: which is to stop Muslim jehadists and cell groups in the U.S., round them up, get all the information that can be gotten about their ties to other groups, and deport them and bring them to justice if crimes can be proven. It takes no rocket scientist to figure out that this is a grave threat to U.S. school children, the government, and society. Those innocuous Blue Birds can be loaded with explosives, then filled with children going to school to use them as hostages, and then driven to targets and detonated as suicide bombing missions. How like the Al Qaida to try to pull off this kind of operation! It bears their rubber stamp all over it. But the FBI tells us all there is nothing to worry about. I am not going to worry. Any country with so defunct and dysfunctional an agency as this needs to go to God Almighty for protection. This is the news--as stated in the AP--which you can hardly believe 95 per cent of the time--but this is very credible, indeed. It goes right along with the history of the FBI in recent times, when dealing with Muslim terrorists. They may be average to good at snooping around, but follow-up is abyssmal, as this report proves. If they are as naive as this report tells us they are, they could not protect a children's playground at a day school, much less an entire nation. They need to be fired, and real people who want to do their jobs hired. American people, fellow Christians, why do we put up with such egregrious incompetence, if not lying, deceiving, and double dealing, that puts us all in deadly peril from our enemies within the borders? Why do we pay for such a worthless service? It is a terrible waste of tax money, to say the least. The FBI has been so dumbed down by politically correctness, which is secular humanism trying to bring socialism to the U.S., that their hands are tied behind them--exactly what the situation they should be working instead to bring to all our domestic enemies, who are Muslims, not Quakers and Presbyterians, Masons or Rotarians or Lutherans or Pentecostals! They are MUSLIM--there is no other religion whose malignant muftis and clerics are SYSTEMATICALLY, GLOBALLY, promoting this kind of activity. What is there about "Muslim" they cannot understand? It is an acronym for "Madmen use slyness, lying, invasive malevolence." That is what Mohammed taught (read the Hadiths) and his followers followed-up. That is how they got the advantage of Christians and Jews whose kingdoms they could not overwhelm with the first military attacks. Now if that acronym doesn't describe Osama bin Ladin and all his long-robed, long-beared clones to a "t,", tell me one better.--Ed.

THE LATE GREAT STATE OF MINNESOTA'S FIRST MUSLIM CONGRESSMAN HAS EXPOSED HIS OWN DUPLICITY AND SHOWN HIS TRUE COLORS: Minnesota was my favorite state after my homestates of Washington and South Dakota--but no more! I am ashamed of a state that would elect such an anti-American, anti-Chrisian charlatan as this man! This deceiver declared to the nation he was not going to swear in on a Bible, but chose his Koran, which is his holy book, even though it is not America's, the country which he is supposed to be serving! What an Anti-American! What an anti-Christ dunce! Would he dare do this in any other country? This shows how much he despises this Christian-founded country and its Christian foundation and roots! Congress, which is secular humanist and anti-Christian at the core, went right around him and accepted and commended him! The White House and our President accepted and endorsed him as well--which shows their true lack of respect for our Christian-founded heritage and foundation, not "tolerance" and "multiculturalism," which are mere buzzwords for socialism and secular humanism's agenda for America. Well, it has come out that the Koran that he took from Thomas Jefferson's library (which Thomas Jefferson would have denied him!) was not there because Thomas Jefferson admired the Muslim religion of Islam. On the contrary! He got a Koran to read because he wanted to know the thinking of this religion that would attack Christian countries and even new-born nations such as America, which had no prior dealing with Muslims of any kind. At the time of his presidency, the Muslims of North Africa were pirates, attacking the merchant vessels of Britain, France, and America, enslaving the crews, and taking the cargoes, or holding them all up for ransom if they thought they could get more that way. Britain and France had been paying millions yearly in tribute to protect their ships and crews, but America finally said enough to this racket, and went to war! The new-born navy and commandoes of the U.S. (a kind of colonial SEAL operation) outflanked and then defeated the Barbary Pirates, the Muslim rulers of Morocco and Libya, and forced them to the conference table. "Why do you hate us so, when we never had dealings with you as a nation before?" the amazed Thomas Jefferson asked one of their leaders. He was told that the Koran, their holy book, commanded them to do what they were doing to "infidel" Christians and Jews! Well, there is your answer to tolerance and multiculturalism's deceptions. Our first war after the War of Revolution with Britain was with Muslim powers who were jehadists in their day. Has anything changed? Apparently not! We are still being attacked by the same countries, as they support international terrorism against our nation and our remaining allies.

Thomas Jefferson, who was a true American, would have taken this rascally Congressman from Minnesota by the seat of his pants and thrown him bodily out of the Capitol! Is there a man left with red American blood in his veins who would do it today? Obviously not! You would be arrested, rather than commended! You could have Congressmen beat other Congressmen with canes in a session, but if anyone defends the honor of the United States, he is arrested! That is the low state, the nadir, to which we have descended as a secular humanist-corrupted nation.

HERE IS A QUIZ THAT WILL TEST YOU ON YOUR KNOWLEDE OF THE TWELVE DISCIPLES AND APOSTLES:

Here is a "new" quiz, reborn from the year 1931, its last printing, according to the booklet I have in hand. I do hope it will bless you, as we review our knowledge or lack of it regarding the Apostles, men who served to found the Christian church and the Body of Christ world-wide. We owe them this much review, as we owe so much to their sacrifices, which, minus one, were their cruel deaths by martyrdom. Which one disciple did not die a violent death for his faith in Jesus Christ? That is one of the questions. But it should be remembered, that he still was tortured by expert Roman torturers, and when he could not be put to death, he was exiled to a desert island, so we know he suffered greatly for the Gospel. Tradition about this particular disciple who was the most long-lived, is reliable, because it was witnessed to by Polycarp, who knew the disciple personally and was mentored by him; in other words, tradition about him can be trusted precisely because it is so early and verified by near contemporaries that we can accept it without reservation.

Disciple Quiz


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ST. PATRICK'S DAY IS NOT ABOUT ST. PATRICK: The day when everyone puts on Irish green, and there are parades and dances, and people turning into leprechauns and worse in bars all over the country and Ireland, is not about St. Patrick. What is not being said on this day is the true story. Dr. James Kennedy gives the true story on a recent message, on who the real St. Patrick was, from birth to death--and all that he accomplished (it was tremendous, and Dr. Kennedy says St. Patrick is considered by many Bible authorities to be the greatest evangelist and Christian figure since St. Paul, which is saying something!).

Please go to the Coral Ridge Ministries link to get the message by Dr. Kennedy. But here I can say this much. I researched St. Patrick to do a newspaper feature article, and it was printed in a local paper. I was as much surprised to find out who he really was as my readers, no doubt. He would have denounced the current celebration using his name--not because he was a curmudgeon or a party-spoiler, but because he loved Jesus Christ and the Gospel and the people of Ireland so much!

His true story starts in the 5th century, in Britain, as the Roman Empire is crumbling away to nothing in Europe. Here on the outskirts of the empire in Britain, things are going much the same for the time being, though Ireland nearby is a problem, having remained pagan and outside the civilizing empire. From Ireland raiding parties go out and pillage the British coast, with impunity, since the Roman warships no longer sweep the Irish sea free of pirates periodically. Now the British coast has to fend for itself, and it cannot be done. It is just a matter of time before the pirates strike at Patrick's own hometown.

In his own telling, he began as a little hypocrite in his father's church, where his father was a deacon. He looked and acted like a Christian. He heard his father tell the truths of the Gospel, but it really didn't mean anything to him. Then the Irish raiders struck, and Patrick was carried off a captive to Ireland. There he was sold a slave to man owning flocks of sheep. In Britain, Patrick had lived until his early teens a comfortable life as a upper class Briton--a deacon's son--but here the life of privilege and security was completely stripped away along with his fine clothes. He was literally starving and naked, exposed to the cold, damp, and wild animals of a savage, uncivilized, pagan Ireland.

But...young Patrick, in his slavery and desperation and pain, remembered his father's words, and turned to Almighty God in prayer. He prayed constantly, hundreds of prayers in a day. God answered him. To shorten this account, God had a ship go to the coast 200 miles from Patrick that would be Patrick's means of deliverance. God then told Patrick to flee to it and get on board. Patrick obeyed. He found the ship, but was refused by the captain. As he walked away, God said to turn back, the captain would accept him. Patrick turned around, and the captain was calling him! Patrick took sail on the ship carrying Irish bloodhounds for sale in Gaul, and this same ship, after some adventures in Gaul, returned him home to Britain to his family. He was back! But God wasn't through with him. Patrick could not forget the Irish, despite their cruelty to him. God gave him a vision, Irish people appearing to him and calling to him to return with the Word of God, which was the light in their darkness. Patrick obeyed, and the rest is thrilling. Patrick preached fearlessly to the savage, pagan Irish, from king to shepherd, and over 100,000 Irish were saved, an entire nation became Christian for the first time in history. No one has equalled that achievement before or since. Billy Graham has influenced the whole world, and millions have been saved in his life-long ministry, but he has not preached and a whole nation, America, has been saved. The Irish people and nation were brought into God's holy kingdom, and they were delivered from paganism and witchcraft, drunkenness, abuse, slavery, dirty living, immorality, and obscene customs and coarse talking, and continual warfare as a lifestyle (the chieftains, before Patrick, were forever fighting and attacking each other's domains). Peace and civilization and happiness settled upon Ireland for the first time--thanks to the Good News of Jesus Christ--and a young man willing to forgive his former captors and bring them the liberating truth.

This is the true story, that you do not hear on the so-called St. Patrick's Day.

"Truths That Transform Broadcasts," the True Story of St. Patrick by Dr. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries


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