I Peter 4:8: "But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers."

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).

The Books of the Bible

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MY NEIGHBOR'S BIBLE:

HOW DOES YOU NEIGHBOR READ YOU, FRIEND? WHAT KIND OF BIBLE ARE YOU? OBVIOUSLY, WE ARE LOUSEY, ROTTEN, WORTHLESS REFLECTORS OF CHRIST AND THE SAVING GOSPEL, BECAUSE WE HAVE LOST AMERICA TO PAGANISM, ATHEISM, AND SECULAR HUMANISM AND INCREASINGLY TO WAHIBIST ISLAM FROM SAUDI ARABIA:

I am my neighbor's Bible,

He reads me when we meet;

Today he reads me in my home.

Tomorrow in the street.

He may be relative or friend,

He may be strange to me;

He may not even know my name,

Yet, he is reading ME.

"The Forbidden Book," Exploration Films

"Essene Scrolls Center

Jewish Newswire Website for Sam Goodenough's Article about President Bush coming face to face with the Bible and God's Covenant with Israel

"The Holy Land Experience," Orlando, Florida

The whole Bible on microfilm, miniaturized, is available in this beautiful display holder, for a love gift of any amount to Trinity Broadcasting Newwork, PO Box A, Santa Ana, CA 92711-2101:

As the law is used to ban the Bible in America, because it contains scriptures against homosexuality and calls it (and every other sin) a sin and an abomination in the eyes of God, this microfilm Bible may become invaluable, as printed Bibles may become a capital offense if found in anyone's possession. It has happened in many other countries many times before in history, and it is a capital offense (or something that will put you in prison in Saudi Arabia and get you tortured, fined, beaten repeatedly, and possibly beheaded--no water treatment only as in "brutal" American-style "torture" in Iraq) in a number of countries right at this time in a so-called civilized world.

The Bible scriptures can be found on these little scrolls, and they can be "spooned" out with a tiny wooden paddle, one a day. What a delightful gift for someone dear, or get one for yourself and others for family and friends! Your Christian bookstore ought to have it, or they can order it.

Former President Bush, with his Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, was very strong for his entire two terms on forcing Israel to give up its heartland to the Muslim Arabs for peace (his land for peace gambit called "The Roadmap to Peace" which does not create piece but simply cuts Israel into indefensible peaces for the terrorists to devour and the enemy Muslim countries round about to conquer with an all-out attack). Here is Dr. Reagan of Lamb and Lion Ministries, comparing Israel with its surrounding Muslim Arab neighboring states in the Middle East: "Today there are 22 Arab nations with a combined population of 289 million people. The Arabs oclcupy a total area of 5.3 million square miles of oil rich land. By contrast, there is only one Jewish state with a population of 5 million Jews who are squeezed into only 8 thousand square miles of space. That's a population ratio of 58 to 1 and a land ratio of 662 to 1. The Arabs have truly been blessed."--Dr. Reagan, "The Fate of the Muslims," Lamplighter Magazine, Jan-Feb 2009 issue, page 12, column 2

Giving up a single inch of Israeli land or Israeli-occupied land (have it any way you like, for it is Covenanted land, given Israel by God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in an everlasting pact with Israel his Chosen People), is suicide, national and individual for Israel and the Israelis, pure and simple. Our government has been engaged, despite its disclaimers and its protestations of support for Israel's freedom and nationhood, in pushing a free nation of Jews into commiting none other than suicide. God will never allow this to happen. President Bush, and his even worse successor, Barak Hussain Obama, will suffer defeat on this issue. It is inevitable.

"Bible Atlas & Map Center"

B.I.B.L.E.--"Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth"--Acronym by Pastor John Hagee, Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, Texas.

We have our own Acronym at the Emmaus Walk: For the youth specifically, with a space exploration slant: B.I.B.L.E.--"Blasting Into Blessing, Life Eternal". How about yours? Make an acronym of your own with your own special meaning!

THE WORD OF GOD IN BRAILLE:

Sign language can also be used to transmit and preach the Gospel, and here is a little sample of sign language with a timeless message:

The Timeline on How We Got the English Language Bible:

Great Site

Founder of the Emmaus Walk Messianic School of the Bible:

Vita

"Autobiographical Sketch of a Sparrow," by Ronald Ginther

"A Short Profile of a Made, not Self-Made Christian," by Ronald Ginther

Vita II, With Reference to "The Mystery of the Red Admirals," by Ronald Ginther (Permission to reprint the Red Admirals story being sought)

Welcome to the Emmaus Walk!

"Welcome to the Emmaus Walk, or How to Walk out of Darkness and Deception Into the Light!", by Ronald Ginther, Founder of the Emmaus Walk

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

"His Eye is on the Sparrow," Excerpt of Message by David Wilderson, Pastor of Times Square Church, New York City, NY

Pastor Ron Phillips has a message on this dark time for Christians in America, when things get worse, not better. Please go to his ministry and church website for it.

Pastor Ron Phillips, Message on "What to Do when things get worse."

GRATITUDE TO GOD CENTER:

God is our Hope, not man, not Mr. Obama from Chicago and all his opportunistic, terroristic, and socialistic friends. God alone is our Refuge and Source of every good thing--not man. All Mr. Obama can do is spend money he does not have to throw at problems he cannot solve. That is his Grand Solution, and it will not work. It cannot work. He can rearrange the furniture that way on a sinking ship, but the ship is still going down to the bottom of the sea.

Jesus, nevertheless, says in His holy Word, to His true children here in America: "Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world."--John 16:33

"Wild winds blow across the nations,

they sweep the multitudes into frenzy

and the Israeli bombs fall on Gaza,

trying to stop Hamas,

as the rockets ascend and land and explode

in the streets, bus stops, houses, and schools of Ashdod, Sderot, and Beersheva..."

TINY ISRAEL IS IN GOD'S MIGHTY HAND WHILE FIGHTING FOR ITS LIFE, AND THE PRESENT WAR IS IN THE WILL OF GOD, SINCE IT CLEARLY INVOLVES ISRAEL'S CONTINUED SURVIVAL:

It may sound strange, but God can turn anything to good. Israel had no choice in response to constant, increasing rocket attacks from Hamas in Gaza but to attack Hamas in its strongholds. Do you feel sorry for the "Palestinian people"? Don't. Hamas uses the "civilian" population for human shields, to make the Israelis look bad and gain a propaganda victory when our traitorous U.S. media reports that children and women are killed by Israeli attacks on Hamas positions. This is an old, old trick that works very well, as our media is too stupid, or just too hateful (they are both!) to realize or care that they are useful fools to the terrorists. The Gazan Palestinians are not civilians, actually. They are all abetting and aiding the terrorists they elected to power. So, based on their actions and complicity, they are ravenous wolves, since if you support wolves (as the Gazan Palestinians support and shelter Hamas and its deadly activities) you are probably close enough in spirit to a wolf to be one yourself! Children are not innocent either. They support Hamas too--yes, children! Do you see the pictures of them hoisting weapons in Hamastan "HATE ISRAEL AND JEWS" parades? Those aren't toys, they are the real thing. Tell that to the guns control airheads in the U.S! Why don't they go and disarm these people? Fed hatred for Israel and outright lies about Israel "stealing their land" by their mother wolves since they were babes at the breast, they are regularly recruited, trained, armed, and used to attack Israel. Terrorist Muslim children, armed, can kill innocent people in Israel, Arab and Jewish, just as dead as adult terrorists. We thank God that his angels are with the Israelis as they seek to protect their own people against these remorseless, implacable enemies who want to kill every Jew in the whole Middle East if they can. God will not permit the Devil to use Hamas to do this! We thank God for protecting His Chosen People the Jews (who are the Israelis of today). Our Bible would be a fraud if the Jews are destroyed off the earth. God's Promises for all the End-Times and the Millennium and the Ages to come, including the New Jerusalem inhabited by all the saints of God, will not come true if the Jews His Chosen People are exterminated--which is the clear objective of the Hamas terrorists of Gaza and the Hezbollah and Bin Ladin terrorists, as well as being the aim of such terrorist states as Syria, Iran, and other Muslim states allied with them. God Almighty is not on their side. They have a false god Allah and the might of Soviet Russian arms (yes, the Soviet Empire is revived under Vladimir Putin and his puppet, Medvedev), but we have the might of Almighty God, and Israel is under His wings of protection as well! What can man do to us? They can kill the body, destroy our physical homes, but they cannot destroy our spirits, which are safe in God's hands forever, if we are true children of God and not just hoping to be.

FLOODING AND DESTRUCTION OF THE PUYALLUP VALLEY CITIES OF ORTING, SUMNER, AND PUYALLUP AVERTED BY THE MERCIFUL HAND OF GOD THROUGH THE PRAYERS OF FAITHFUL MOTHER(S):

We who live just about 300 yards from a flooding river, thank God for delivering us from the most dangerous floodcrest the other night, which made 26,000 people just upriver from us evacuate their homes, and flooded portions of the valley even today, putting more people out of their homes as a dam was forced to release some water held back at the highest peak the other night. We were praying, and asking others to pray for us by email, even my relatives in Brazil and a friend in England. It was a dire situation. We faced being completely inundated by this raging river full of mud and logs, and our little mobile homes would have been wrecked and tossed about like tin cans in the surge of waters. A little concrete, rather low concrete bridge is right close by, too, and if piled up with logs, it would have dammed the huge amount of waters rushing toward Commencement Bay in Tacoma's port, forcing the water up over onto us! After 30 years here, this is the worst we have ever seen happen with this mountain fed, medium-sized river, and this seemed to be the BIG ONE that would take us out. It was the Devil's payback for all the prayers and witnessing for Jesus and winning of souls done by my mother the last 30 years in this place and in this whole area! We know that. But he was not allowed his revenge. He has the other folks in his chains, but not everyone here! He came, Jesus said, to rob, kill, and destroy--and that was his agenda with this flooding river. But God is seated above the flood waters, the Psalms proclaim. He is on his throne, and he can divide the Red Sea, and a river is a lot less water than a whole sea, is it not? He also divided the Jordan River in floodtime, did he not? Knowing this was God's demonstrated ability and that He is ever merciful, we cried to him for mercy, and He came through for us here in the Puyallup Valley. A major flood would have destroyed most of the city and destroyed Mom's little home with it. But we are still here, thanks be to God!

My mother also prayed for sunshine. Well, as the news reported on TV, this very area was one of only two spots in Western Washington where sunshine broke out on the day after the floodwaters began to subside. Thanks to the fact that we don't have Lousiana's corrupt and heartless Mayor Nagin as our mayor, or a Dem-olition governor which they had during the hurricanes who is a Bush hater and nothing else, our levee stood and did not cave in when it was needed. The other part of the system, Mud Mountain Dam, also worked to hold back part of the flood waters at a critical time. But God did the rest, which they couldn't do: he kept the logs from jamming up, and did not allow the river to flood us. As I went to get some needed things from the store, the sun broke out, and I had to stand there for a few moments in the parking lot of Safeway to enjoy the sun's rays and praise God.

Judge Moore (pictured here) became Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court when he voted in by the citizens of Alabama to show their overwhelmingly favorable support of him and his stand for the Ten Commandments. This happened after an arrogant fathead of an activist liberal judge in Alabama denied him the right to exhibit his own plaque he made picturing the Ten Commandments in his courtroom! Denied his own court, he ran for the office of the Supreme Court chief justice and won it handily! But the anti-Ten Commandments judge did not give up the battle against God and His laws. He and his gang won further cases against him and got the Ten Commandments memorial removed from the Statehouse that he had put there--and it went to a church, I hear. Oh, what is the Legislature and courts of Alabama based on then, if not the Ten Commandments? Men's laws? If so, then men can deny the freedoms we have, and we have no appeal. But our Bill of Rights and Constitution affirm, state most clearly, that we are granted our inalienable rights of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness by God, not by men of mortal flesh and blood and sinful ambitions to tyrannize over others and take advantage of them. What God has granted, wicked men in black robes are now going to take away if we let them. Judge Moore stood up for our inalienable rights, and he was most wrongfully removed from his judgeship, and later his beautiful, dignified memorial was removed from the Alabama capitol building by state troopers obeying the dictates of activist, unconstitutional judges and activist, unconstitutional kangeroo courts. Thank God for Judge Moore, a defender of our cherished rights and liberties in America that our forefathers fought and sacrificed for, and even died for. Except for men like Judge Moore in our past, we would not have the freedom the rest of the world was and still is denied. Yet now our legacy is being destroyed, and 21st century patriots like Judge Moore punished for simply displaying the Ten Commandments in his court room, which he set there for criminals to reflect upon before they go and plot to commit more crimes against society. With the Ten Commandments banished, why then will they be restrained from more evil-doing? What is to prevent them, if they have no conscience, or anything that reminds them there is a God who will hold them responsible for their wicked deeds? Clearly, we will have a howling, tooth and claw jungle, where anything goes, the strong preying upon the weak, if the restraining, protecting law of God is removed. Look around you, fellow American! Isn't it a howling jungle getting worse day by day? We got this horrible state of affairs by banishing the Ten Commandments from schools and now from courtrooms! The Ten Commandments were created by God, and they represent more genius than Albert Einstein ever could muster. They create a civilized society, in all respects. But remove them, and you get the opposite: an uncivilized, barbaric society that is in decline, and will prey on its own members self-destructively. Does that description fit America?

If there were justice in America, Judge Moore would be compensated for all the thousands of dollars he has had to spend in his defense against his unjust attackers, and it ought to be increased to multiple millions for the emotional stress caused him and his family! The ACLU and the judges that are supporting their agenda ought to be fined out of existence, just as the KKK was a few years back. That would happen if there were justice in America. As it is, there is not the ghost of a chance Chief Justice Moore will ever be compensated even in part for what he has suffered because of the unfair, unjust persecution from his liberal and ultra left adversaries.

Go over these These "Teen Commandments" and you will see they would save the whole teen-aged population of the U.S. if tried. The Solution is not used (instead there is a general following of the rules to raise crooks--see Tract Center for "How to Raise a Crook"). The true Solution is known, but it is completely ignored by the educational establishment, which is not in the business of finding genuine solutions but in stubbornly set in the business of continuing the same old secularist humanist failures--since they are rejecting God in the whole process of education, which dooms everything they try to do to failure.

Below, in the Tract Center, are the negative examples: "How to Raise a Crook".

If you know you are raising a crook rather than what you know God wants in a boy or girl, here is God's telephone number:

Jer. 33:3.

"The Ten Commandments," How We Have Broken Them All in America and Warrant God's Judgment Upon Us and our Nation, by Ronald Ginther

Course Articles are now listed in the new "Course Articles Center" page:

The course article on Exodus was deleted by mistake, but we are searching for it and will have it back on-line as soon as we can.

Ten Required Subject Courses (plus six elective courses) are now on-line. Questions are being appended to those subjects and courses, so please return for them.

Required Subjects:

1. Christian Education

2. Prayer

3. Holy Spirit

4. Biblical Science

5. Foundational Principles

6. Witnessing (includes Apologetics) and Discipleship

7. Types of Christ (OT)

8. Bible Covenants/Israel/Bible Atlas

9. Christian Hope and Character

10. The Prophetic Calling

Electives (this is a partial list):

1. and 2. Christology (based on Christology book offered on this page)

3. Intro. to Hebrew (Zola Levitt book, information how to order it offered on this page)

3. Intro. to Greek

4. "Messianic Prophecy" Course by Zola Levitt (information on it and how to order it on this page)

5. History of the Cradle of Judaism and Christianity, the Middle East, as well as the history of Islam and some of the other anti-Christ cults and atheistic philosophies and environment, secularist, and animal activist moveents (including Darwinism) affecting Christianity significantly.

"Course Articles Center"

CANDIDACY/GRADUATION CENTER:

"Requirements for Certificate"

The Emmaus Walk Certificate of Excellence

Zola Levitt Ministries offers 12 courses in the Institute of Jewish-Christian Studies. These courses are all excellent, since Zola Levitt was no small authority on the Bible and Jewish studies (and he enlisted a number of experts and authorities in Bible scholarship as well), so you may want to do most of them, or all, but the course, "Messianic Prophecy," is one in particular that you might want to do in order to satisfy an elective requirement in the Emmaus Walk. ZLM will charge you $49 for this one course, or something close to that amount. You can find out about this Institute by going to ZLM:

Zola Levitt Ministries, and The Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies

"BIBLE READING/MEDITATION CENTER"

Daily Bible-Reading Guide for a Year

A Reading Through the Bible guide is also available at the back of "Light For My Path," Illuminating Selections from the Bible, by Humble Creek Press. See the details below on this page.

Some Bible Resources:

"The Bible, The Whole Story," is now on DVD. "Seven major doctrines of Scripture are explained in Zola's clear and informative style. The Bible is covered from Genesis to Revelation. A useful teaching tool for beginner and expert alike."--from the "New and Updated from ZLM" catalog list. In this book Zola Levitt teaches about the Abrahamic Covenant, The Law, Prophecy, The Messiah--Why Jesus of Nazareth?, Grace--the Gift of Absolute Forgiveness, The Church, and the Kingdom (the future thousand-year reign of Christ on Earth). Please contact Zola Levitt Ministries for this DVD. It is #DBWS, $39, for 2 DVDs.

For one elective credit for the Emmaus Walk:

"Bible Resources Center"

"Messianic Christology" is a "must-read" for all Bible students. It will give you information you won't find most everywhere else--and from a Jewish perspective too, which can open windows of insight and illumination that Gentile sources have no access to, unless by quoting Jewish sources.

We highly recommend this on-line bookstore for Christians, the Faith and Freedom Bookstore. Categories of its offerings are: Bibles, Books, Children's Music, David Barton (American heritage) books, Audio Books, DVDs, Christian Bestsellers, Christian Parenting, Christian Business and Leadership, Magazine Subscriptions:

Read and do a review of this absolutely terrific book, and you have your Christology requirement for the Emmaus Walk degree certificate half taken care of. I cannot draw from it here, as it is copyrighted, but the material is excellent, and the appendices are also wonderful, every word of them, so don't stop reading when you come to them!--Founder of Emmaus Walk

"Faith and Freedom Site/Bookstore"

Another Bible resource:

Crosswalk Bible Website

RECOMMENDED CHRISTIAN BOOKS LIST:

SILENT NIGHT, by Stanley Weintraub.

World War I, an unbelievably savage bloodbath in which millions were slaughtered on the killing fields of the front trenches in France on the border with Germany, halted for a couple days, right at Christmas. A coincidence? Did a general command it? Did a president? No, not one man did it. Christmas did it, the spirit of God in Christmas stopped the mighty Big Berthas of the Krupps, and the artillery and machine guns of the British and French. The front lines dissolves as men poured across and hugged, shook hands, and celebrating the Reason for the Season, Jesus, Born in Bethehem as the Savior of the World!

Your children or you won't read about this, or be taught about it, by professors in college and teachers in secondary schools, of course. But it is a fact of history, and this book chronicles this miraculous World War I Christmas truce and the events of it.

Mary Hojos is a Hungarian Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. She was just a little girl when it took place, but she can't forget it to this day. 600,000 Hungarian Jews were exterminated. What were the odds of this little Jewish girl surviving? You figure it--not very high. But God had his mighty, delivering hand on her, no doubt. She tells about a little Jewish boy, in the Winter of 1944 when huge blocks of ice were floating down the "blue" Danube river, a poor orphan who had just seen his beloved parents slain by the Nazis. He was given the same death-shot that had just killed his parents and hundreds of other Jews, but it failed to kill him somehow. What a nuisance to the Nazi killers who had to get rid of hundreds more Jews that day! What to do--waste another good bullet? No! To get rid of him they threw him the river, that should take care of him, they thought. But he did not drown, he somehow mustered his last strength and got out on the bank further down and did not die after all. Mary saw this happen! How about that for an experience? How could she or that boy ever believe that there was a loving God in heaven after that, or these Nazis, who were killing their Jewish people people while shouting the name of "Jesus", were not true Christians as they acted out their murderous hate against them, their parents,and relatives and friends? Wouldthey ever want to hear about the Gospel? You can understand why there is such a barrier between Christians and Jews to this day, after that happened all over Europe after Mary Hojas describes it for you. We see the events of the Holocaust through Jewish eyes, and when that happens, our Gentile eyes finally see a little of what it means to be a Jew attacked by cross-badged SS!

One story really spoke to me. A Gentile man was taken, because of his name, for a Jew, and identified as such by the Nazi authorities. For hours he was in agony, unable to prove they were wrong about him. A Jew finally spoke to the sweating, pale-faced fellow with biting irony, observing how he could not stand being a Jew for only a few hours, but they the Jews had been forced to bear this treatment for thousands of years!

How then would the Arabs and Muslims feel, if they were taken for Jews or Israelis? Would they like the heat of Hamas and Hezbollah and the mad mullahs of Iran breathing down their necks? Or how about bringing Saddam Hussain back from the dead to give the Shiites another run for their money? He could even be used to deal with Iran, since no one in the West has the guts to do what is necessary to stop Iran's nuclear arming.

Mary Hojos dealt with the Gentile/Jewish barrier head on and became an evangelist, spreading the Gospel of Yeshua her loving Savior. She found a way to minister that message even to fellow Jews who had known the worst persecution from the Nazis. In this book you read about some of her life story, which is interesting enough to make reading the book worthwhile, but she goes on to identify the "stones" that need to be removed. What are these stones? They are misconceptions that have grown up in the Church about the Jews and their place in the Old Testament and also in the New Testament and the Church Age. These misconceptions led to anti-semitism and terrible persecution of the Jews, but something more: the missing of the blessing by Christians they would have known from God if they had not been so darkened in their understanding about the Jews through the centuries after Christ walked this earth. You need to read Zola to find out what these misconceptions are, if you haven't already, and if you cannot access this book or any book by Mary Hojas. She writes very plainly and authoritatively about the Gospel from a Jewish viewpoint, which is so rare. But she does it lovingly, not as a critic but one who invites us to come share the blessing of discovering how truly Jewish Jesus and the Apostles actually are.

There is so much that can be said about this little jem of a book. Discover it yourself. You can find it, if you really want to know what you may have been missing out on, and your pastor and church included!

Mary Hajos's book was published by Christian Literature Crudade, Fort Washington, PA 19034.

From the back cover: "During World War II Mary Hajos, a Hungarian Jewess, recognized in Jesus the Messiah and Savior of the world. She received the call to bring the gospel to both Jews and Gentiles, beginning her ministry first of all to Christians in Europe, and since 1972 in the United States as well. Her special concern is to remind Christians of the full validity of all the promises of God, even those given to Israel. She points out that the Christian church can be alive with a powerful outreach only as it acknowledges God's promises to Israel, and Israel, the people of God, as a powerful illustration of God's unfailing faithfulness. How God stands true to His word can be experienced in our time even as it is found recorded down through the centuries of holy history. The reader will find in this book accounts of personal experiences with Christians, Jews, and Gentiles, as well as with Antisemites.

"Book Reviews Center"

BIBLE PICTURES OF ITSELF is a wonderful thing, is it not? The Bible describes itself as LIGHT, FIRE, SEED, BREAD, MILK, HONEY, MEAT, GOLD, SWORD and HAMMER. You can order this tract from: Faith, Prayer, and Tract League, Grand Rapids, MI 49504, Bible Book Mark No. 162 ($1.80 per doz., $11 per 100).

Can you name other things the Bible is? The Gideon Pocket Bible lists a number: The Traveller's Map, the Pilgrim's Staff, the Soldier's Sword, the Christian's Charter. I thought of the Navigator's North Star. How about Water for the thirsty? Or a Lifejacket for the drowning sinner? Or... Surely, there are more.

Click on Healing Channel or info.healingchannel.org for the "The Story of Jesus" booklet

Missions Center:

"Missions Center"

GOSPEL TRACT CENTER:

Judging just by the public record of statistics of bad and immoral and even unlawful and murderous behavior, (though this is not to say all parents are guilty when they are Christians and yet raise crooks in their family!), American parents have obeyed Dr. Spock instead of the Bible and raised a generation that is crooked and perverse. It is the one thing American parents have done a superb job on: raising crooks! We now have millions in the prisons, at a cost of $50k a year each to keep there. Instead of being law-abiding, productive citizens, they are a liability that is crushing us with the price of their lost productivity and also the expense of keeping them behind bars so they can't repeat their crimes.

Still not convinced? A world-wide survey has just been tabulated, and it gave these terribly sobering, even ominous results, after giving to parents the question: "What do you want most for your children?" Japan: success. Europe: health. America: happiness.

Happiness? What does that have to do with scholastic achievement and personal development, and better still, integrity and even righteouness and being pleasing to God? Nothing! God is not against us having happiness, but the first goal for all of us creatures of His is to love and serve God, and nothing is above that, not health, success, or happiness! American parents have really dropped the ball, according to this survey reported on the radio.

Here are the 12 ways to misery, 12 ways to raise crooks instead of godly young people who will be a blessing to their families and to society:

"Twelve Ways "How to Raise a Crook"

Testimonies of Martyrs Center:

"Testimonies of Martyrs Center"

Music Center with original and also added lyrics to famous Christian anthems and songs:

"Music Center

CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM CENTER:

Another message recently aired is also excellent, "The Wonderful Word of God," preached by Dr. Jackson at Rejoice in the Lord, Campus Church in Pensacola, Florida. H49 is the number to use to order it. Tapes are $7.50, and DVDs a little more.

"Darwinism and Its Children," by Ronald Ginther.

"Christian Activism Center"

FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SUPPORT FOR THE APPLE OF GOD'S EYE, ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE:

"Friendship for Israel Center"

Dave Hunt's Documentary Video, "Israel, Islam, and Armageddon"

"Speak Tenderly to Jerusalem:

"Speak Tenderly to Jerusalem"

"Against All Odds," by Bill McKay, Order #S-0708, c/o John Hagee Ministries

The trailer and a behind the scenes/production video can be accessed on the Against All Odds web page, with information on how to get the series that is offered for $22 on video. English friends: "Against All Odds" can also be sent in video to you directly in Britain from the John Hagee office in Britain. The cost in English money is something over 10 pounds.

Against All Odds Trailer, & CD

Also, Levitt Letter, March 2008 issue, carries an excellent review of the docudrama, "Against All Odds," by Sam Goodenough, www.IsraelInsider.com

FRIENDSHIP CENTER FOR MOSLEMS AND JEWS:

"The True Furqan" at Amazon.com

Christian TV, when it isn't preaching the false gospels of prosperity (the Bible declares it false, not me, in numerous places), self-deification, self-enhancement, good diet, marriage and sex, etc., but is serving to spread the pure Gospel of the Old Rugged Cross, is still very effective in the saving of souls, for you can see for yourself this is true by going to World Net Daily and reading about the Hamas terrorist leader's son, Sheik Masab Yousef, who has recently accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior. Levitt Letter, October 2008, also carries the astounding World Net Daily story.

Imagine being the son of a Hamas founder, who himself headed the youth organization that trained youth to be suicide bombers, well he turned his life over to Jesus Christ when he saw how brutal Hamas was to its own people, and now he is in the U.S., though with a death warrant on him put up by none other than Osama bin Ladin [and people say he is dead!]. Masab is most courageous as a young Christian! He needs your prayers for his protection. He has declared that there will be no peace between Hamas and Israel, as Hamas cannot give up its agenda, which is the utter destruction of Israel and the Jews. So much for President Bush's stupid and failed and unBiblical Roadmap to Peace which exchanges Israeli land for peace with its enemies.

World Net Daily, for Story of Sheik Masab Yousef's Believing in Jesus Christ

AMERICA'S RE-EDUCATION CENTER:

REVIVAL CENTER

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large.

And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

"Who knows what God might do if His people began to PRAY FERVENTLY for spiritual revival? Perhaps one reason Satan has gained such a hold on so many lives is because we don't pray enough."--Billy Graham.

"Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy."--Habakkuk 3:2.--from Billy Graham Association.

TRANSFORMING

OUR NATION

ONE PRAYER

AT A TIME

"Revival Center"

INFANTICIDE/GENOCIDE CENTER:

"Oh Lord, please deliver us little children from Obama! Obama says he wants babies in their mommies' tummies killed if their mommies don't want them, and they are to get killed even if they get born somehow and their mommies still don't want them. And please, God, don't let him hurt doggies and their puppies too! And, dear God, thank you for one mommy and one daddy who love me, and my puppy too! Amen!"

Did you know that in New York City, half the babies in the womb won't be allowed to live? Fifty per cent! Isn't that a national calamity, if there ever was one? That isn't anything like the death toll from the hurricanes--it is more like the death tolls from Hitler's gas chambers or Pol Pot's killing fields in Cambodia or Stalin's massacres--that is the equivalence of our abortion business (and it is a very big business in America!).

That is a culture of death. Any civilization that kills half its population for sheer business profit, is a dying culture, a culture of death. America has become a culture of death. Ugh! Who really wants to live in a culture of death where dead babies make billions of dollars for Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry? I for one hate living with this mass murdering for hire going on--4,000 lives a day snuffed out for sheer profit by Planned Parenthood and the abortion mills! Hitler would be jumping for joy, for many of them are Jews! How about you? Whom do you vote for? Do you vote for abortion-supporting candidates? Well, if so, then you are voting for a culture of death. This country is being destroyed right before your eyes, because 50% of the children are already missing from the society, schools, from playgrounds, from homes and families, from churches, from future productive jobs, from our military, from our research laboratories, from our universities...and just think how the value of life is cheapened, but you can kill your own child you conceived and be applauded for it! So you can go pay somebody to kill a real living person in you who has a future and wipe him or her out, just for your own convenience! You can enjoy life that was given to you, but turn around and deny life of someone else? Abortion makes a total mess of human life and human society. It is condoning murder for "justifiable reasons." You can't build a life and a viable society on that! Murder has been made legal in our culture of death. Murder is now socially acceptable (as long as you don't call it what it is), but in God's eyes it is an abomination, a terrible sin, and he will never accept it. Oh, you are not a murderer? You don't have to shoot someone with a gun to commit murder. You or I can murder someone with our words, with our evil tongues and gossip (which is verbal assassination). God commanded: "THOU SHALT NOT KILL." Yet we kill, we kill the most helpless and the most voiceless among us, and no child is safe anywhere in the womb, where a child ought to be most protected, most safe of all. Planned Parenthood has gone to war against the human race. It is an industry of evil profiteering off murdering innocent unborn babies, and is based on shameless lies. It is the world's biggest abortion industry, and receives hundreds of millions (it is rewarded!) by Congress, which steals our tax money and gives it to Planned Parenthood over our protests! And if you aren't protesting? Well, you are complicit then with the murders of millions--and must share in the judgment of God for them. You cannot claim ignorance. This has gone on for over forty years, and Planned Parenthood is everywhere, and its abortion mills are operating full blast in tens of thousands of locations across the land. God recognizes no "fetuses," or blobs of tissue in the womb. He calls them children, which they are. His Word says: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."--Jeremiah 1:5. God shows no partiality. What he said to Jeremiah the prophet, he says to every child in the womb--he formed them, he knows them, he sanctifies them, he ordains them for a special destiny. When you kill a baby this way, you strike at God their Creator. Care to stand before him, as you will, and defend your killing children that He created? What will you say then?

For going against the tide of death and poisonous, individual-initiative- destroying welfare dependency in their own black community, brave Christian blacks of integrity (true Christians) are being attacked by blacks for standing against abortion! Can you imagine that! They are called every name, including the "n" word, for trying to protect the lives of unborn black babies! Imagine that! It is incredible, how duped and deceived millions of church-going black people have become, voting Democrat and liberal year after year, now voting a fanatical Marxist demogogue and radical abortionist in as the next president (God forbid!). God forgive them! And God protect the brave black men and women of godly principle and love for their own people who are bearing the brunt of these attacks, not just the Mormons, for opposing the genocide being waged by Planned Parenthood, the Democrat Party, the NAACP, and mainline black Protestant denominations, against all black people. In previous articles on the subject, we have given the names of some of the courageous black ministers who are crying out against the genocide of these Devil-led groups.

WAKE UP AMERICA, WAKE UP BLACK AMERICANS! Yours is a large part in a sinking culture of death, which America has become, for there is a 50% chance you will elminate by abortion the very person who could, as a doctor, save your life, or marry your son or daughter and give you grandchildren, or teach your children, or protect your family on some battleground, or employ you in a good position or hire you for it, or be your best friend or your children's best friends, or do research and discover the means to cure the deadly new diseases that may someday kill you and your loved ones. PLUNK YOUR VOTE IN THE DEMOCRATS' LAPS, AND YOU ARE KILLING OFF YOUR FUTURE, YOUR MEANS OF SURVIVAL AND A BETTER LIFE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, YOUR CONSCIENCE, EVEN YOUR STANDING WITH GOD IS RADICALLY AFFECTED--IS IT WORTH IT? WHAT ARE YOU GETTING IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR SUPPORTING LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS AND CORRUPT DOCTORS OF DEATH AND ALL WHO PROMOTE THE CULTURE OF DEATH FOR THEIR OWN PROFIT?

Thank God, there are brave voices in the black community, Christians like the pastor I heard recently on the radio, who spoke to Lars Larson on his show. He stands against abortion in his own abortion-prone community, a voice crying in the wilderness of compromise and delusion for God's righteousness and the sanctity of human life, born and unborn. So there is this pastor, and others, and may God strengthen them for the time of testing, for God will not abandon them, though they face rejection on every side because they dare to tell the truth, regardless of the personal cost to themselves! They are pure gold, these brave men!

Bible Greats, as Portrayed by Eben:

"Bible Greats" by Eben

Christian Greats, as Protrayed by Eben (including the piece about Rev. Jerry Falwell, the brave evangelical Christian leader who kicked the groggy, sleeping churches, kicking and screaming, back into the public marketplace of ideas where the church traditionally was and still belongs, reaffirming the historic, fundamental Christian faith as a marketplace faith):

"Christian Greats Center"

RESURRECTION CENTER:

Without the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, our faith in God would be in vain. We would be going nowhere after this life you or I would want to go. Without the Resurrection, it would be the grave, to await the judgment and then the casting of our souls into hell. Some future that would be! But thanks be to Christ who died for our sins, that we might have eternal life! We are free to receive the free gift of God, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Lord! He is the Light of the World, shining into a sin-darkened cave full of the devil's bats, but He will pull us right out of that cave and into His

"I am the Resurrection, and the life; he that bewlieveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."--Lord Jesus Christ, John 11:25

Jesus is the true and greatest Morning Glory. He, like the flowers of the vine that open while it is still dark just before sunrise, rose in Resurrection glory from the dark grave just before sunrise!

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly!"--Quote Sent to my mother, author unknown

You can enter the Lord's glorious, shining Kingdom. He has promised to let you in, the moment you call sincerely on His Name Jesus, believing in Him for your salvation, asking him to forgive your sins and make you a true child of God. You can do it any place, any time, at any age! Do it now! He will then be your Savior, Lord, and Guide, and Protector as well. He cannot lose you to the Devil and the world, if you don't want to be lost. He is a winner of souls, not a loser of souls. You have to work hard to return to the world and Satan your former slave master. But it will start with small sins, unconfessed, and little Bible reading, and much tasting of the world's worldly entertainment and its pleasures, and maybe even engaging in outright sins knowingly, because you think grace will cover them, and you don't have to change and quit sinning once you are a saved and born again Christian. Sorry, sin, the Bible says, leads to death. That is sin's wages. What you reap, you will sow! You can bank on that truth. But Jesus wants the best for you. He wants you to be a New Creation, and continue a New Creation, changed from one degree of glory to the next, as he purges you daily by the Word and discipline of you of the old leaven of sin in your mortal members. You are saved from destruction in hell, given a new heart and a new spirit in Christ, but your body and soul are still the battleground of the Old Adam's sin that you were conceived in. That requires the Lord's help, you cannot defeat it with your own strength or good behavior. Only Christ can defeat it in you. The Bible says so! The same Lord who defeated sin and death and the Devil on the Cross through his suffering and death and the shedding of his innocent blood, He is the only One who can defeat the sin operating still in you as a born again and saved Christian believer. But he has given you many helps, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, and the fellowship and counsel of the saints in the churches, as well as Bible-based teaching and preaching in the true church.

So, giving all these helps, He can lead us now, and we can now walk in His light. His light is Himself in us, and He gives it to us now--not later on. Want His light? He is available now, this instant. Just call on Him, pray to Him, and abide in Him moment by moment. Everything said here is true, as the Bible teaches it is true. So read your Bible! Immerse yourself in God's Word! Let Jesus speak to You and guide and enlighten you. He will do it all. He is faithful, He is the Good Shepherd.

It was a hopeless time, when Christ was crucified! The promises He gave his disciples were all forgotten, nobody believed them, and so they thought it was the utter end of His ministry and all their hopes they had invested in Him as the Messiah of the Jews. But how wrong they were--utterly wrong! Aren't you glad they were wrong (and all the Romans and Herodians and Jewish leaders in cahoots with them, and Jesus was right? He proved it by rising from the dead!

"Resurrection Center"

Big Bad Wolf Business Center:

God is still on the throne, despite the devious moves by the current Obamites and Congress to bail out irredeemably corrupt auto unions and corrupt and inefficient auto companies in Detroit. These bloated octopuses ought to be put into the meat grinder of economic grinder, not rescued so they can choke all real profit-making business in their midst! Yes, jobs are at stake, but only BECAUSE OF their greed and their refusal to put in honest labor for FAIR pay. They now demand we all, as U.S. taxpayers, pay for their colossal featherbed we see collapsing on them! YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, THE BIBLE SAYS! This is highway robbery to bail out these scoundrels! God preserve us from these wicked people in Detroit and all those wicked politicians in Washington and Congress who would rob us to pay them what they do not have coming. Who will pay for OUR jobs, if the businesses that employ us should fail? It will never happen!

A very easy format to follow, the Prayer Journal can be made by simply following this example, using lined paper in a notebook for convenience:

Date

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Request_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

"Little prayer, little power, more prayer, more power, much prayer, much power"--quote from Pastor John Hagee's mother, who is a woman of powerful prayer at age 95.

Prayer Center

GLOBAL WARMING HOAX CENTER:

Scientists reported that Antarctica gained in ice mass last year, despite all the Doomsday hoopla by Al Gore about it splitting up and floating away. The latest scientific finding is that the ice mass of the Arctic has remained constant since 1979, the same year that TIME and NEWSWEEK warned of a "global cooling."

Another "little item" that won't get reported in the mainstream media: The world's temperature went down in 2007, one whole degree, not up! But Al Gore won't tell his virtually brainless, adoring audiences that fact either!. We are supposed to "buy green" and "drive green" hybrid cars--what nonsense! They end up costing more money! Those batteries, which polluting factories make in a lot of different foreign countries, wear out! What do you do with them then? The ethanol puts water in your engines, and that necessitates very costly repairs. Go ahead, go green and clueless, but you will pay dearly, without one single effect you can prove scientifically that will benefit the global environment! When the chief promoter of the Global Warming agenda produces one of the biggest carbon footprints of any individual in the world, then you know for certain he is nothing but a hypocrite and a shyster.

"Global Warming (Climate Change) Hoax Center"

ENGLISH LITERATURE HERITAGE CENTER:

John Hagee Ministries to Order "Pilgrim's Progress"

Go see the trailers at least, and you will have to bite, as this is tremendous photography, with meaning that can change our lives!

"English Literature Heritage Center"

RECOMMENDED MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS:

Not so good news, but understandable in this time of the economic woes of Wall Street and the whole nation's mortgage and lending markets, the Lamplighter published by Lamb and Lion Ministries of Dr. Reagan and his people is going to have to charge $25 for a year's subscription, rather than be given free of charge as formerly done. You can still receive it free of charge by email. So you don't have to go without. But I prefer the published version, which I can take with me anywhere to read without lugging a laptop around. You will search far and wide to find better Bible scholarship than Dr. Reagan's. I challenge you to find someone better. You will probably give up! "Will the AntiChrist be a Muslim?" is one question he deals with. He takes on the books and theologies of some major speakers on the subject, as well as reviews their books on the subject. I for one can see that the AntiChrist, by the end of Dr. Reagan's Bible-based analysis, CANNOT be a Muslim. But see for yourself. Get the Lamplighter, one of the two ways offered. You won't be disappointed in the least, I can promise you.

Cover story tells how the Pilgrim's experiment with communism flopped dismally. When they turned capitalistic, each person producing as much as he could according to the Christian Puritan work ethic instead of taking what he or she wanted from the communal store regardless of what he put in or how little he or she worked for it, the colony survived and took off and there was plenty to thank God for!

This exciting issue (each issue is exciting, you will find, which you will read nonstop) carries the stories, "Christmas in a WWII German Labor Camp," with a Holocaust survivor telling about Jewish Christians celebrating Christmas in a Nazi camp near Ostlinde, and "I Reject Islam and Love Israel," told by an Arab who says "Palestine" never existed, and Israel and the Jews have full claim to the whole land and also the temple of Solomon area on the Temple Mount, not the Arabs and Muslims! President Bush and Secretary Rice ought to listen to this brave and truthful Arab and former Muslim! Of course, they won't, as they are set in concrete in a failed and unBiblical, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Covenant policy called, absurdly, "The RoadMap to Peace." It brings, and has already brought, not peace for land but war after war (Hezbollah's rampage in the north of Israel, and after that Gaza and Hamas's rampage of rockets that finally forced Israel to respond to stop the rocket attacks day and night on their cities, towns, farms. The writer says: "Israel is the front line in the world's war against the tyranny of Islam." Can it be said better and more realistically than that? Enough of the lies and cover-ups and politically correct evasions of Washington, the State Department, and even our U.S. Presidency! They are leading us all down a path that will produce only compromise and concession after concession with our sworn terrorist enemies and their overpowering us eventually with destruction and death and war, not peace.

VOICE OF THE MARTYRS, December 2008 Issue, has this article, which you should make every effort to read, by accessing the website's archives--"Jesus is Better than Mohammed."

The November 2008 issue of VOM is excellent still, and has much information that is absolutely critical for Christians to know about the persecuted saints in various countries in Asia and the Middle East primarily. Fatima, a Saudi Arabian woman who gave her heart and life to Jesus, was killed by her own brother because she became a Christian and bravely told her family. Her last words are recorded in this issue, in the form of a most beautiful and touch poem appealing to her relatives, all Muslims, to turn to Jesus, the Only TRUE LORD AND SAVIOR, who is Love, and not to follow Allah and Mohammed, the way that leads to hatred and darkness. Don't miss her last words on this earth! The Christian Revolution in Iran (yes, Iran!) is also featured in this website, with names and details about the savage persecution waged against Christian Iranians by the Sharia law authorities and the Radical Islamic government of Iran which has legislated death for all Muslims who convert to Christianity (in a land that was a haven for Christians centuries ago!). Go to the website of VOM where these great accounts and many others of present day heroes and heroines of the Christian faith are posted.

Voice of the Martyrs Magazine

For the article in the section, "Israel in the News," showing Barak Hussain Obama's bold-faced lie to the national conference of American Jewry (AIRPAC), which he later said to Fareed Zakaria of CNN, was mere "poor phrasing" in his speech and not being careful enough about his "syntax," please go to the Israel My Glory website and visit Arutz-7:

"Israel National News, Arutz-7, Concerning Barak Hussain Obama's Shameless Lie to AIRPAC (The national Jewish Charities Conference) and Cover-up to CNN

CARTOON CENTER

We heartily recommend the cartoons of the Levitt Letter, which are clearly the best in the Christian and even the secular magazine world. You cannot possibly find their equal--just try! And I won't hold my breath!--Ed.

"Cartoon Center"

BIBLE QUESTIONS/QUIZ CENTER:

From Bible Quizzes by Mildred Olive Honors:

"Let's 'C' About Joseph

All Answers Begin with C.

1. What garment did Joseph's father give him?

2. What made it so pretty?

3. His brothers received twenty _ _ _ _ _ when they sold him.

4. How did these traders travel?

5. What officer did Potiphar hold over the soldiers of Pharaoh?

6. What seven animals did Pharaoh see in a dream?

7. When Joseph explained the dream, what did Pharaoh put around his neck?

8. What did he give him to ride in?

9. What did Joseph store in the great storehouses he built?

10. Where did Joseph's brothers live?

11. What did they come to Egypt to buy?

12. What did Joseph tell his servants to hide in Benjamin's sack?

Answers to "Let's 'C' About Joseph

A wonderful Bible study is also available for you and church groups to use called "Joseph--Who was Humiliated and Afterwards Exalted (Read Gen., Ch. 37-50). Questions are also given with the Study for you to answer. Joseph was, arguably, the most Christlike person in the Bible after Jesus Himself. Chapters 37-50 deal with him (including Ch. 37, which shows the moral depravity of the culture surrounding him in Canaan and even in the patriarch's family), and it says something significant that so large a portion of the Bible should be devoted to portraying the life of one person, for it would not be done unless God intends for us to know that this is a very important example for us to learn from and emulate. Joseph is probably the greatest Christ-type, and Ruth is Runner-Up, in my estimation, if not on the exact same level as he since she did not suffer as much or as long as he did before he was vindicated and exalted. Nevertheless, the greater honor has to be hers, for directly through her lineage and son's descendants the Christ and Messiah, Yeshua, was born!

This Bible Study has come to us from my mother's collected Bible studies in her 90+ years walk with God while faithfully studying His Word (she is still studying His Word in various lessons from her church), and it speaks for itself as an excellent means to gain the spiritual benefit from Joseph's life and the way God turned him into a great instrument for God's plan and purposes for Israel, present and future, not only Joseph. Through Joseph the line of Jacob was preserved, and Jacob's other son was Judah, through whom the Lord Jesus Christ was brought forth some 1200 to 1400 years after Joseph.

Lesson- Notes of "Joseph, Who was Humiliated and Afterwards Exalted

Soon to be on-line:

Questions for "Joseph, Who was Humiliated and Afterwards Exalted"

A Mathematical Puzzle about Joseph, by Mildred Olive Honors (1931):

Take the number of pieces of silver for which Joseph's brother sold him. (Gen. 37:28).

Multiply by the number of cows in each of Pharaoh's dreams.

Divide by the length in years of the famine.

Multiply by the number of brothers Joseph had.

Add Joseph's age when he stood before Pharaoh. (Gen. 41:46)

Substract the number of beasts laden with gifts which Joseph sent to his father. (Gen. 45:23). Add the number of changes of rainment he gave to Benjamin. (Gen. 45:22). The result will be Joseph's age when he died. (Gen. 50:26). For the answers, go to the Bible Quiz Center page and look for "Answers to A Puzzle About Joseph.":

"Bible Quiz Center"

Jawbone of Judgment Center:

Word of Faith? It is hardly that! It is a heresy, as much a heresy as Self-Deification a la Oprah Winfrey (making yourself God, or taking his place in your exercise of faith). Study Duane L. Smith's Article, from his "Foundational Principles of Life" series, Concerning Word of Faith and Self-Deification Heresies" in the Churches. These are widespread heresies, and are so popular and attract so many Christians that they are firmly entrenched in many churches and dominate even some denominations. They still know the Gospel in these churches, true, but the heresies are going to cause distraction and confusion and even induce some to lose faith altogether when the "Formula" for spiritual and financial blessings doesn't work for them like it is supposed to work. Duane's own mother, whom he described as a sincere and faithful saint and woman of God, suffered greatly when she was practicing this Word of Faith heresy and began doubting her own salvation when the formula failed in her life. Isn't that a very sad thing to happen to her? Yet thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Christians, have suffered in the same way.

From "Foundational Principles of Life," Concerning Word of Faith and Self-Deification Heresies, by Duane L. Smith

Don't pick up this piece of Christianeze, or motivational fluff, if you can help it. It is not worth the bargain basement price of two bits. You could not pay me to take a copy! I have enough paper to line the garbage can if I need to do that job, or cover the floor of the dog house or bird cage, or some such thing. His father could not have been this unBiblical, to produce a book called, "Become a Better You." Really! Rehashing the Old Adam, that is going to get a person to heaven? Never in a million or a billion years, Joel Osteen! Yet he is just trying to make a buck by this Christian potboiler, and he will probably make thousands no doubt from it, which he does not deserve in the least. Flee from such garbage, and do not buy it and give it at Christmas to another Christian, lest you feed their weakness in their walk with God with such tripe as Osteen's ways to "better" yourself. The Bible is not about "bettering yourself." It is about the death of self by submission to the Cross! It is about transformation, New Creation, Salvation, Regeneration. Bettering yourself instead of dying to self is something Satan would highly recommend, since he knows he can still retain title to all these "bettered", carnal souls Osteen is shepherding at his vast arena-filling megachurch. I am surprised Satan does not appear on the cover or the fly jacket recommending it, as I am most certain he does. Spray paint a dung heap to look like a gigantic gold nugget, and it is still a dung heap (a stinking manure pile, "animal excrement heaped up in a pile," if you don't know Biblical language and how graphic it really is in the original wording). It may look better on the outside after Joel Osteen is done with you, but you will still be sinful and reeking of unrighteousness inside. Jesus ran into Joel Osteens in his preaching campaigns. They were then called Pharisees. He accused them of cleaning their exteriors, whitewashing them to look clean and bright and pure, but inside they were filled like whitewashed tombs with foul rotten flesh, worms and dead men's bones. That was not a nice thing to say to the sanctimonious, super-pious Pharisees of his day, and Joel Osteen wouldn't like it either if it were applied to his preaching and his book in particular, "Become a Better You." Pfui!

You have revealed what you are, Mr. Osteen! Just from that one absurd title! Is that why Jesus came to earth, suffered and died? Just so we could become better pigs in the filthy old pigsty? I was a lost sinner, condemned by my sin, rotten and stinking, a slave to Satan, bound in chains! I desperately needed forgiveness, deliverance, and transformation, and cleansing from all sin! Only Jesus could give me that! Only his Cross, and daily denying myself as Christ said, could give me that! I needed no less than that--but to simply "become better"? That would have been a Band-aide in comparison, Joel Osteen! You are another false shepherd among the televangelists! Offering Looney Tunes Plasatic Adhesive Bandages, super cool and scented and in various flavors, with sparkling colors and razz-matazz to please the eye--but they are only temporary, superficial fixes and makeovers, which you offer to the perishing and dying sinner, and they can't help save any soul one bit! You can't save a dying man with a facial massage, pedicure and manicure, when he has a terminal tumor or aneurysm exploding in his brain, or someone else with a cardiac arrest or heart attack, or collapsed lungs, or someone who is losing all his blood from a fatal gunshot wound in his main organs or from a bad accident of some kind! How foolish and cruel you are, to offer a cool and trendy body waxing to the perishing and the deeply wounded souls, who are utterly ruined and going to die in their sins if they don't hear the true Gospel that can still save and redeem souls from sin and death.

You aren't even trying to square your preached and televised messages with the Word of God, the Bible, which I notice you seldom quote as you preach. Why would you need the Bible anyway? You do very well with your own foolish and vain and worldly philosophy of life. It is called New Age religionism. It is not Christianity. You are dressing up New Age Religion in an evangelical sheepskin, but you are still a wolf out to devour men's souls and lead them to hell and eternal destruction. You will go to destruction yourself, if you continue on this way! I am not sure you are born-again, but if you are, all these works of yours WILL be burned up as hay, wood, and stubble. You can bank on that happening, Mr. Osteen, or the Bible does not have a shred of truth in it, and Jesus Christ and the Apostles were all frauds!

Were you ever a Christian, truly born again? Jesus only knows that. But your preaching is not from the Bible, it is not promoting the Gospel of Christ centered on the Cross, and your manner of life as well as your personal reported statements on LARRY LIVE and other TV programs show clearly that you are a ravening wolf, not a sheep following Christ the Shepherd, and that toothy grin of yours, why, that only proves that human wolves like you can grin and smile as they are about to devour the hapless, clewless sheep!

Keep offering your professionally packaged and marketed LOONEY TUNE BANDAGES! Duped by Madison Avenue marketing gimmicks and techniques, people will still buy them by the millions, and put them on their various needs and hurts and even their mortal wounds, but they will not change anything in a true spiritual sense, or advance a soul one inch toward the kingdom of God and heaven! They'll just look a little better! But millions of Christians will march one day, looking good like you, right into the jaws of Satan--willingly, joyously, trustingly. Come out from among these people, now, the Bible warns us. Flee the City of Destruction, Pilgrim! Do not join in their folly and destruction. Return to the truth of the Bible and the full-orbed Gospel, not joining in with this perpetually grinning Snake Oil peddler, "Mr. Positivity," Joel Osteen, and his ilk.

God can use the secular authorities, and in this case the FBI, to bring oppressors and corrupt leaders to trial. The Governor of Illinois, a friend of Obama's from his years of wheeling and dealing in Chicago's Tammany Hall like politics, tried to sell Obama's senatorial seat which he will be vacating. This is illegal, a felony, and so he was arrested. Good riddance to this piece of Chicago riff raff! Unfortunately, Chicago's hopelessly corrupt political machine has plenty of crooks just like him to take his place. Chicago is a nursery of such low types, a petri dish of germs and microbes, not law-abiding, upright, clean-living Americans of integrity and high moral principle.

For the entire message, please go to:

"If the Ship is Sinking," by Pastor Paul Anderson, Director, Lutheran Renewal, November 2000 Issue of Lutheran Renewal Newsletter, which as the Focus, "For Those Seeking the Empowering Presence of the Holy Spirit"

Lutheran Renewal Website

SAINT-BUILDING AND PREACHING/TEACHING CENTER

"Saint-Building Center"

These valuable messages of Stuart Maxwell Hawkins' will furnish one or more of the six elective subjects as they come on-line with study questions or quizzes.

Stuart Maxwell Hawkins's message, "Forgive Me," is now on-line, and will also carry Study Questions soon.

"Forgive Me," Message by Stuart Maxwell Hawkins

Deshazer's stunning story is available from Discovery House.

Let the Living, Restoring, Healing, Strengthening Word of God FLOW INTO YOUR HEART AND LIFE NOW!

HERE IS A WORD FOR THIS PRESENT DARK HOUR IN OUR HISTORY: When hope seems dead, or there is no reason seemingly to hope anymore, what do we do? W.E. Sangster, writing in 1940, found reason for hoping on, when all hope seemed dead and futile. He knew what he was talking about. He was part of the generation that had suffered two world wars (TWO!), like flaming bookends front and back of the same book! Many of that generation jumped off a bridge or grabbed the bottle of sleeping pills, or a shotgun, or walked into a river and took their lives, seeing no reason to go on. But W.E. Sangster found hope in the the Old Rugged Cross of Jesus Christ, he found it there, and no where else. Are you interested to see how he found it there? Are you experiencing the hopelessness of the contemporary world scene and your own circumstances that are seemingly going down, not up? Chapter 5 of his book, "These Things Abide," Devotional Meditations in Dark Days, is called, "When Hope is Dead--Hope on!"

Please go and investigate this meditation from someone who knows what the darkest times are like, a message that can inspire hope anew in you and me, so that we can face the darkness of the present hour and in the coming days the coming terrorist crisis and turmoil and possible economic disaster of a century.

"When Hope is Dead--Hope On!" by W.E. Sangster

REALITY CHECK CENTER:

Ms. Oprah Winfrey is touting her mantra for the new year 2009. I mislaid her exact words, but as she was saying all last year, nothing has really changed with her philosophy, for it amounts to "Put yourself first, you are Number 1." Isn't that what you hear all the time on her programs if you watch them? Dr. Phil also proclaims this same "me, myself, and I" obsession as the way to live. Deny yourself? Take up your cross and follow Christ? Christ's commandment is utterly rejected by them and their followers. The absolutely clewless, brain-dead studio audiences cheered wildly again and again, dozens of times (they are given all sorts of free gifts, so this explains their enthusiasm), as this philosophy was unveiled, point by point, on their various programs today. These two charlatans of the New Age Religious-Left Agenda for America have outdone themselves. The most popular thing in American culture today is SELF. Enhancing YOUR SELF, that is the sole purpose and meaning of human existence, according to Dr. Phil and Ms. Winfrey. MYSELF, MYSELF, MYSELF! ME! ME! ME! I! I! I! I had to think that this is a tragic choice on their part. Imagine if you can how it will go with them when they appear before Christ one day to account for their lives, and all they will have is what they achieved themselves, for themselves, and he will then show them the glorious lives they utterly missed by rejecting his commandment: "Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me!" I know that Dr. Phil masquerades as a person who is doing a lot of good for people, in helping them manage their various problems and obsessions and addictions and get "control" of their lives. It isn't true. These people are never presented with Jesus Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He will never speak of sin and the need to be forgiven by God and a life of self-denial and the Cross. Never! If he did, he would lose his audience and his program and lavish studio set.

Following these two deceivers and imposters will bring death and destruction, sooner or later. In Judges the downfall of the Israelites came time after time when, it says as the epitaph again and again for each fallen generation, "each man did what was right in his own eyes." That is a horrible epitaph, is it not? Are we any different today? Not a whit! Watch Oprah, if you can keep your nausea-button depressed long enough) and see if that is not what she is preaching through her own words and through the offerings of her know-it-all guest-idiot experts. Actually, I do not watch by my own choice. A family member is hooked on these programs, thinking them entertaining, and I am forced to hear what is going on, day after day--while praying that God will deal with the person to remove the dependency on them.

The spirit of delusion has a muscled wrestler's iron grip on Christians in America today! Evangelicals are fast coming under its influence, as in the case of evangelical leaders, one after the other. Pastor and Bestselling Author sRick Warren, who authored the blockbusters, "The Purpose Driven Christian," and the "Purpose Driven Church," with other books no doubt selling millions of copies too, are two of those delusion-propagating ministers. He behaves in a way Christ did not behave: he compromises with the world and its rulers. You never saw Jesus buddying up to Herod and Pilate or the equally corrupt and cruel Jewish high priests Annas and Caiaphas and getting a consensus brokered before he said or did anything. He did not consult them at all! He even called Herod a "fox," which was a term of contempt, as foxes were unclean scavengers, in Jewish opinion, and could not even be touched without contaminating a person! The immensely popular author and Pastor Rick Warren is of an entirely different stripe, however. He is a consensus-builder. He can consort with terrorists in Syria, as easily as with someone from the Kiwanis Club, apparently. He hosted the "debate" of Senators McCain and Obama during the presidential campaigns. Now he is going to be the "purpose driven" clergyman doing the Invocation at the inauguration of Barak Hussain Obama (God forbid such an abomination!). Look, Christian, for more such accommodation, as it is well-described in the Bible as spiritual "harlotry." Israel was guilty of that sin, tremendously, all through its history until the Babylonian Captivity. Chained and dragged to Babylon, the Jews got their fill of an idol-worshipping culture, as the Babylonians had the most hideous and obscene idols installed on every street, and worshipped in hundreds of temples stuffed with thousands of gods that the Babylonians celebrated and did everything to please, even with human sacrifice and temple prostitution. Cured by Babylonian paganism and idolatry, the chastened Jews returned to their land in the time of Ezra (read the books of Ezra and Nehemiah for this event), purged of idolatrous tendencies at long last. They now served Yahweh, the Lord God of Israel alone, and no heathen gods along with him. It was a severe purging, indeed, which cost them their country and their freedom for seventy long years, not to mention thousands of Jewish lives. Judah remained a tiny province in the Persian Empire, and so it did not regain national sovereignty and freedom even with Persian patronage of the restoration of Jerusalem and the Temple. But they were cured of their terrible sickness, their spiritual harlotry. This monotheistic, Yahweh-centered Jewish faith, however, lapsed soon into legalism and empty, showy ritual, so that by the time Jesus was born, there were few faithful believers in God left in Judaea. Then John the Baptist rose as a prophet sent by God to call the people to repentance and back to righteousness and faith in the Lord God of Israel.

Have we learned anything by the Jewish experience? Apparently, we have not! We in the Evangelical churches are lapsing into spiritual harlotry, into ungodly alliances with the devlish world system, which is clearly shown in the alliances of eminent evangelical leaders such as Rick Warren joining forces with the likes of Barak Hussain Obama, who stands against every evangelical belief and principle you can name. His anti-Christ, anti-morality, anti-marriage, anti-sanctity of human life views were expressed by him in the presidential campaign, and even at Rick Warren's debate or symposium at his Saddleback church at the televised meeting--so we need not repeat them again here. Go to Obama's website, if you want to hear them again. Rick Warren well knows what Obama believes, and yet he will go to Washington to officiate as the man of God in the Innvocation of Obama's inauguration! This is a most devilish and disgusting act on his part, to be sure. It shows his true colors. He is just the same as the Evangelical Lutheran Church pastors who flocked together to support the candidacy of Adolf Hitler, whom they touted as the German "Messiah." They actually called him that! Obama is touted as the messiah or primary agent for America's "Change." What kind of change to the good can come from one so depraved and anti-Christ as this Chicago bred shyster, Democrat party hack, friend of crooks, and Marxist ideologue? You tell me! But I don't have to guess. I know that whatever superficial good he seems to produce in a crisis, we will pay blood and tears for later, just as the German people (many of them evangelical Christians in the Lutheran Churches) paid after their "German Messiah" restored the prostrate, inflation-ruined German economy by military manufacturing orders for his war machine only to seize absolute power and turn into a raging, bloody monster devouring most of Europe while killing 6 million Jews in his gas chambers. Obama does not seem that sort of super monster now, true, but given the opportunity and the power, this little monster from Chicago has all the capability within himself of becoming another full-blown Hitler, as he wields world power from his office of president in the White House and really begins to strut his stuff on the world stage that office has given him.

Put your ear to the ground? What do you hear? I hear the drumming hoofbeats of the Four Horses of the Apocalyse! War, Famine, Disease, death! They are unleashed upon the feckless world! They are now galloping toward us all, bringing unimaginable horrors and disasters. We know that the spirits of anti-Christ, operative in the world since the time of the Apostle John (see his letters), are combining in a spirit of anti-christ that will direct the Anti-Christ himself. Hitler was a forerunner of this Anti-Christ to come. That is very clear. But Obama? He too is a forerunner, that is also clear, though many with the spirit of delusion blinding them cannot see it (for their own lusts, greed, compromising, and guile have led them away into grievous error and outright evil-doing, such as this abominable Invocation by Pastor Rick Warren).

The spirit of delusion has put the catchwords into the big, flapping mouths of these compromisers with the world and its devilish, anti-christ spirits. What are they? Listen! I hear them increasingly. These people are calling out the glitzy catchwords and buzzwords of the new apostasy, the Apostate churches' gospel, which is: "JOIN together, Christians, let us UNITE and COME TOGETHER FOR THE SAKE OF AMERICA, and put our differences aside, FOR THE COMMON GOOD!" This is the DEVIL'S call, and it comes from the pit of hell. The BIBLE says: BE YE SEPARATE FROM THE WORLD AND ITS SATANIC SYSTEM! The Bible doesn't say join, and unite, and combine with the rulers of this world! Does it? Never does it say that--but many evangelical leaders, such as Rick Warren, are saying this, are they not?

Did Jesus join with Herod, or Caiaphas, or Pilate, or Caesar in Rome? No, he did not. "My kingdom is not of this world," he emphatically told Pilate right to his proud and mighty Roman face. Jesus did not compromise one iota with the authorities of this world system ruled by Satan, but right now we see high churchmen and evangelical leaders such as Rick Warren stumbling over their own feet to get to Obama and join in the elevation of this Chicago scumbag to the highest office in the world as if he were some kind of saint. Sorry, the office of president is not so revered and santified an office, that it can cover sins and follies. That is what the Democrats teach, but it is a false doctrine of secular humanism. The Bible only teaches godliness and righteousness, truth and justice, with the Way of Salvation in Jesus Christ alone. The Bible does not teach spiritual harlotry or compromise with the satantic, anti-christ world system. Rick Warren, unless he repent, will go to a judgment of shame, reserved for false shepherds. To officiate at the Invocation of Obama is to condone an unrighteous Obama and his anti-christ, anti-moral, anti-marriage beliefs and totalitarian Marxist agenda. You made a specious show of moderation and conciliation and truth-seeking at the Saddleback debate, but you are now showing your true colors, you have swung over to the support of Obama and his agenda, whatever the cost to your evangelical beliefs, if you really had any to begin with (which is a question now in my mind).

You, fellow Christian, will be led away with them to destruction if you heed these compromisers, who will seduce you with your music and their charming words and their prestigious monikers (Bishop, Doctor, Prophet, Pastor, etc). Others are celebrities with instant name recognition nationwhide in sports or entertainment or even televangelism ministries. They too will be singing Obama's praises and the need for Christians to join, to unite, to link arms and clasp hands for the grand common good of America and the world! DON'T JOIN THEM! DON'T SING "WE ARE ONE IN THE SPIRIT," OR "KUMBAYA" WITH THESE MULTITUDES OF STRAYING SHEEP! DON'T TAKE THE MARK OF COMPROMISE AND DELUSION AND FALSE UNITY ON YOUR FOREHEADS! YOU MAY DO IT AT THE ULTIMATE COST OF YOUR SOUL, AS THIS RICK WARREN-DRIVEN DECEPTION WILL LEAD TO WORSE AND WORSE DECEPTION, UNTIL THE DEVIL HAS YOU FULLY IN CONTROL, UTTERLY IN THE DARK ABOUT YOUR TRUE SPIRITUAL DEMISE. WHY NOT RICK WARREN AS THE FALSE PROPHET TO THE FALSE MESSIAH BARAK OBAMA IN A FORTHCOMING MOVIE ABOUT THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD? THEY COULD PLAY THEMSELVES IN THOSE ROLES. IT WOULD BE A VERY TRUTHFUL FILM, AND TOO TRUTHFUL FOR THE WORLD'S AUDIENCES, WHO WOULD CALL IT HATEFUL, SINCE THEY WANT TO BELIEVE THAT OBAMA IS THE HARBINGER OF WORLD PEACE THROUGH HIS STILL UNDEMONSTRATED AND UNVERIFIED GENIUS IN DIPLOMACY.

When you see a highly credentialed Lincoln historian go on TV and compare Obama to Lincoln (which I just heard tonight on a prestigious CNN book and author interview program), then you know for sure the spirit of delusion has a fatal grip on educated and uneducated Americans alike. Imagine that, Obama, who has not done anything you can put on a resume to land a real job, has been compared with the truly great, immortal Abraham Lincoln! If I had not heard it for myself, I could not have believed the report about it. It is sheer lunacy to make such a comparison. Yet this historian made it without blinking an eye, and the interviewer, a party liberal hack like the historian, did not not miss a beat either in accepting the comparison as legitimate without a single question about it. Such rubbish goes across the air waves now, we do not have enough garbage handlers to deal with adequately, and it is piling up sky-high, and someday will come crashing down on us!

Now, you cannot say to the Lord Jesus you were not warned by me. You have been warned, right here on these humble pages of the Emmaus Walk. I don't care if few see this warning, and fewer still heed the warning, which really comes from the pages of the Bible, not from a human source. I feel sad, however, that the masses are ignoring the warnings of prophetic speakers like David Wilkerson and others like him! The Bible itself, even without their voices, is shouting this warning at you, in fact, the ENTIRE WORD OF GOD SHOUTS IT! DON'T TOUCH THE UNCLEAN THING! FLEE FROM IT! RUN!

Having warned you as I have, I do not have to take responsibility, as a small sort of watchman, and a fellow Christian, for your drift into apostasy, by your joining in with the influential, wildly popular compromisers, the Rick Warrens, luring you into the grip of the depraved world system ruled by Satan.

I watch Daystar and TBN fairly often (I especially love the Billy Graham "classics", his messages of the Gospel before huge audiences the world over that are word perfect for today, despite the fact many were delivered decades ago and are in black and white), and the heads of these networks do not have a clew about compromise and the spirit of anti-christ and the dangers involved, though it is preached often on those venues. They include the most egregrious charlatans on their stations, week after week, along with true men of God. True men of God also consort, blindly, with these charlatans, which Ic cannot in the least way explain. I don't have to take responsibility to warn the men of God, as they ought to know what their Bible teaches and what the charlatans, such as Joel Osteen and Mike Murdoch and others, preach does not line up with what the Bible teaches. Perhaps, they do not want to confront the TBN programming system and be thrust off. That is just too bad, as they will pay a heavy price, if they are continuing with a network that they know is not squaring with the Bible and faithfully handling the trust of millions of Christians world-wide. The heads of TBN and Daystar evidently think they are acting responsibly, and the dozens of men of God go before the camera with these heads and seem to have full fellowship with them, with no major problems as to the charlatans that also appear on these networks, but the Bible still stands, it is not mocked, and God is not mocked. God will sift out the chaff from the wheat ultimately, but it will be a very painful ordeal to those involved. It need not be so painful, if we would only do more self-examination, and hold one another more accountable in Christian ministry, than we do. We will all pay a very heavy price when we stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ, which may be very soon, if we come to the Lord with our present terribly compromised and increasingly apostate and idolatrous church. God have mercy on us sinners! We are denying the Bible record, seeking to be free of it, while ensnaring ourselves anew in Satanic delusions and lies. We are mixing unrighteousness and righteousness, and calling it brotherhood and unity and progress and change. But God sees it for what it is: sin and abomination. Let us flee from it now, while we still can! Let us not touch the unclean thing! Let us flee to the Cross of Jesus, cling to it, for only He and His Cross are a safe haven in this evil and perverse generation.

We must remain steadfast, holding to the truth of the Gospel delivered to us by the saints of the Early Church, by Paul and the other Apostles, and then by such ones as Martin Luther, Wycliffe, Wesley, Spurgeon, Moody, and Billy Graham (this is far from a complete list). The point is we have innumerable "Gospellers," down through the ages, and have no excuse if we depart from the Gospel--none whatsoever. They suffered and in many cases gave their lives for the Gospel, so that it would be preserved for us in its purity. What have we done after we received it? Did we remain true to it, steadfast in its truths, ordering our lives by it? Sharing it everywhere we could with lost souls as well as saints?

Dr. David Cooper, pastor of Mount Paran Church, proclaimed the simple, unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ (how refreshing that pure Gospel truly is, after all the adulterated gospels we are constantly being exposed to in the major outlets and venues of evangelicalism these days!), while telling the TV audience of TBN also what the Gospel is not by telling us first and foremost what it is. What is the Gospel? It is Jesus Christ born, suffered and died on the Cross, raised from the dead, ascended to glory and all authority and power on the throne of the Father! That is the Gospel, for in his death on the Cross he took our penalty for sin and He won forgiveness of sins for us, the free gift of salvation, and this free gift is available for all who repent of their sins and cry to return to God as his sons and daughters. Our focus must only be Christ, Christ, Christ! The Christian faith is not about religion. IT IS NOT ABOUT RELIGION! It is about Jesus, a relationship with him. It is not foundational, or one thing among other things in a Christian's life. It is the ONLY story, the only thing that really matters. Love to tell the old, old story? Do you need a good teacher of ethics or high principles? Well, you don't need Jesus then, though he did teach the highest principles known to men in the Sermon on the Mount. There are good teachers galore, dead or living, available. The world flocks to them, and pay them big bucks too, just to hear the words of wisdom drop from their lips (actually, it is not wisdom, just worldly knowledge dressed up as wisdom).

But a man dying of thirst needs real water--not high quality photographs of of water. He has to have the real thing to survive. In the same way, if you are honest and truly needy see yourself as a sinner, you need something more: and then ONLY JESUS WILL DO!

ONLY JESUS!

No other Person (no Good Teacher) can save and transform a sinner into a saint--there is no real competition with Jesus the Savior, friend.

Dr. Cooper studied all major religions and says: There is only one Savior, one man who made that claim, that he was our Savior, and could save us from our sins. Nobody else could--not Buddha or Mohammed or Lao Tze, or Confucius, or Zoroaster, or any other great religious teacher. They taught various things to better humanity, but they couldn't deal with sin and transform a sinner into a saint. Jesus's Name means SAVIOR. JESUS IS THE SAVIOR! HE IS THE ONLY SAVIOR! HE CAN BE YOUR SAVIOR, IF HE IS NOT! HE IS MY SAVIOR! Dr. Cooper's Gospel preaching was electrifying. It cleared the smoke, mirrors, balloons, lollipops, and the Wizard of Oz's gimickry control board of the prosperity gospel right out of the studio--at least temporarily. The economic downturn is really no problem for a Christian. Economies go up, and then they go down, and then they go up, and then they go down--they always will. We should not be concerned about the economic so much. One thing is certain: heaven, or hell. The worst thing that can happen, Dr. Cooper said, for a Christian, is that he dies and goes to heaven. All the things we worry about and that concern us so much now do not really matter, compared to Him whom the Gospel reveals and proclaims.

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We hold to the historic Christian kerygma, the KERNEL, FOUNDATIONAL truths expressed in the Nicaean Creed in its entirety! Read it. Believe it. It expresses the pure, BIBLE-BASED, APOSTLE-TAUGHT Gospel of Jesus Christ, and was recognized and approved by the early church council at Nicaea, as the everlasting testimony and proclamation of the Church that the Lord Jesus, the Head of the Church, founded. Who is Jesus? In the Nicaean Creed the early Church proclaimed him to be: "Jesus Christ, God of God, light of light, true God of true God, born and not created, one substance with the Father through whom are all things created." No human teacher or religious leader will ever, can never, come up to the level of Godhead, unless he is Jesus Christ, fully Man, and fully God! Praise to His Name, which is above all Names, and in whom is vested all authority by His Father in heaven. After hearing about Him, reading about Him in holy Scripture, who on earth would want anyone else but Him for Savior and Lord! He is unspeakably, indescribably magnificent!

THIS IS A PIECE OF BYGONE AMERICANA, BUT AMERICA YEARS AGO SEEMED A PLEASANTER, MORE LEISURELY SOCIETY (HORSES FORCED IT TO BE MORE LEISURELY, NO DOUBT--JUST IMAGINE THE TIME IT TOOK TO PUT ALL THAT HARNESS ON A HORSE AND HITCH IT TO YOUR WAGON OR SLEIGH!). BUT WE CAN ATLEAST ENJOY NOSTALGIC SCENES, WHICH IS ALL THAT IS LEFT NOW OF THOSE TIMES. SO, HOW ABOUT AN OLD-FASHIONED WINTER SKATING SCENE? ROCKEFELLER CENTER'S SKATING POND IS CERTAINLY NOT AS ATTRACTIVE AS THIS ONE SET DEEP IN THE COUNTRYSIDE!

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