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Showing posts with label Christian. Show all posts

Friday, July 15, 2016

Who Is Trump"s Pick for VP? Governor Mike Spence (Wikipedia)

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Who Is Trump’s Pick for VP? Governor Mike Spence (Wikipedia)
The Indianapolis Star Newspaper announced tonight (July 14, 2016) that their governor Mike Spence will be Donald Trump’s Republican Vice Presidential nominee, though Trump’s official announcement won’t be made until tomorrow morning (July 15). Ray checked enough reliable news sources to confirm they believe Trump’s pick is Pence. With that in mind, Ray checked with Wikipedia and found a well-written biography on Pence. He’ll share that with you now.




Who Is Trump’s Pick for VP? Governor Mike Spence (Wikipedia)



Who Is Trump"s Pick for VP? Governor Mike Spence (Wikipedia)

Thursday, November 19, 2015

The American Pastor Imprisoned In Iran And His Wife Need Your Prayers

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The American Pastor Imprisoned In Iran And His Wife Need Your Prayers


Naghmeh Abedini is pulling back her public fight to see her husband Pastor Saeed Abedini freed from an Iranian prison.


Christianity Today reports the emotional stress of the effort, along with “abuse” issues in her marriage before and since Saeed’s imprisonment, have taken a toll. CBN News contacted the American Center for Law and Justice, which represents the Abedini family, for a response.


“In recent days, Naghmeh — Pastor Saeed’s wife — has revealed that she is dealing with some very serious personal issues inside her family. She has asked for privacy and prayer. We are respecting her request. The ACLJ will not have any comment on the personal issues that she is addressing,” the ACLJ told CBN News.


The Christianity Today article is based mostly on two emails Abedini sent to supporters revealing the problems. In those emails she listed marital problems, including “physical, emotional, psychological and sexual abuse  [through Saeed’s addiction to pornography]  .”


The ACLJ gave CBN News the following statement from Naghmeh Abedini:


“I regret having sent the emails. I was under great psychological and emotional distress. I am now taking time off to heal and to rest and to spend much needed time with my kids. I would appreciate for those who care about Saeed and our family to give us time for rest and healing and to respect our privacy.”


Meanwhile, The ACLJ told CBN News it remains committed to seeing Saeed’s freedom.


“What we are focused on is this: bringing home an American pastor who has been wrongly imprisoned in Iran because of his faith. We know that Pastor Saeed remains in grave danger in prison where he continues to be beaten and psychologically abused by Iranian guards and remains in need of medical care,” the ACLJ said.


“We continue to pray for Naghmeh, Pastor Saeed, and their family. We will continue our work — in this country and abroad — to secure the freedom of this U.S. citizen,” the ACLJ statement concluded.


Naghmeh also asked for prayer to continue for Saeed and their family. Christianity Today reported she pointed out that Saeed still shares his faith in Jesus while imprisoned — and that she calls her husband a “treasure.”


“But that does not mean he has not been battling with his own demons which I am believing that he can be freed of,” Christianity Today quoted from Naghmeh’s writings.


“I will continue to pray for my husband’s release and advocate for him as he suffers in an Iranian prison for his Christian faith. I would also ask others to join me in continuing to pray for his release,” Naghmeh said in her statement to CBN News.


Saeed Abedini has spent more than three years in an Iranian prison simply for his Christian faith. He is still being mistreated, beaten and denied medical care.


Despite Naghmeh’s revelations, several groups that have stood with the family said they will continue to speak out on her husband’s behalf.


“Regardless of any struggles that Pastor Saeed may be experiencing it doesn’t change the fact that the faith community needs to be a powerful and passionate voice calling for his immediate release and standing with our persecuted brothers and sisters,” said Rev. Patrick Mahoney, who leads the Christian Defense Coalition.


Mahoney has led several prayer vigils across the country and met with political leaders to try and secure Pastor Abedini’s release.


Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council, has also been actively involved in Pastor’s Abedini’s case.


“It’s hard to imagine the pressures that souls like Nagmeh and Saeed Abedini endure,” Schenck said in a statement released by his office. He reminded people who’ve prayed for the Abedini family that “they are not super heroes, just regular people facing the same problems we all do, only under extreme circumstances.”


Mahoney and Schenck will hold a press conference later on Friday to show their continued support for Pastor Abedini.


“God calls us to stand on principle and justice not personalities,” Mahoney said.


Meanwhile, reaction to Naghmeh Abedini’s personal family trauma on social media has been mixed.


Robin G., writing on CBN News’ Facebook page, said, “Something about his just doesn’t feel right in my spirit.”


Jan H. wrote, “I’m sad that she didn’t keep this private. What is the point in exposing this to the whole world?”


Jenny J. said, “This is absolutely heart breaking. I am shocked.”


Nadege S. added, “It is easy to accuse a man who is locked up thousands of miles away in a dungeon.”


Meanwhile, another poster, Teresa C., warned people not to judge the Abedini’s writing: “We don’t know the whole story and it is not for us to know.”


The emotional and psychological trauma of enduring a hostage or kidnapping situation can be extremely difficult for families and loved ones involved.


“There’s a lot of studies that have shown that families incur post-traumatic stress at the same rate that hostages do,” Chris Voss, founder and CEO of The Black Swan Group, a company that solves business negotiations with hostage negotiation strategies said. “The reality is that this is the family’s darkest hour.”


Voss is a 24-year veteran of the FBI’s negotiation team and was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the agency.


“When someone is a hostage, the fear and trauma is overwhelming and unending they don’t know when it is going to end and it is a really horrifying experience for families,” Voss told CBN News from his office in California. “Families are held hostage as much as the hostages are.”


In a Washington Post, editorial Naghmeh Abedini wrote about the emotional toll the ordeal was taking on her family.


“The continued imprisonment of Saeed has taken a very emotional and tragic toll on our family,” Naghmeh said. “My kids have had to grow up without a father. Saeed has missed so many birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions.”


Abedini said since the US and Western countries signed a nuclear deal with Iran, her husband’s physical condition has gotten worse.


“Saeed was being beaten and interrogated by Iranian guards in prison,” Abedini wrote in the Washington Post. “During that encounter, guards interrogated Saeed and used a stun gun on him. Although there was no detailed information provided, Saeed was told he would face additional new charges, possibly extending his eight-year prison sentence.”


Voss says in such cases where a hostage victim endures great physical and psychological torture at the hands of their captors, families back home also feel the pain.


“What we have a tendency to do as human beings is that we imagine it in a very horrific fashion so the people that love him  [Pastor Abedini] and the people that care about him are really putting themselves through hell trying to get him out, thinking about what he must be going through. It is truly the families darkest hour,” Voss said.


CBN News will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.


The American Pastor Imprisoned In Iran And His Wife Need Your Prayers


 



The American Pastor Imprisoned In Iran And His Wife Need Your Prayers

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Soul Harvest, Chapter 10

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Soul Harvest, Chapter 10


Rayford has now discovered, much to his joy, that his helicopter pilot friend, Mac MacCullum, has become a Christian. Rayford has been told two different things about his wife, Amanda. Carpathia (the Antichrist) has told him that Amanda was killed in a plane crash. But Carpathia told Mac that Amanda has been working for him as a spy since before all the time she’s been married to Rayford. Meanwhile, Buck is still searching hard for his wife, Chloe. He has been told by a doctor that Chloe was badly injured and that she is in a hospital in Minnesota. He has also been told by the doctor that it is next to impossible to drive to Minnesota with all the torn up roads and highways and the jammed traffic between Chicago and there. Ray picks the story up at this point.



Soul Harvest, Chapter 10



Soul Harvest, Chapter 10

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Take Time With God # 98 – Which Bible should you use?

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Take Time With God # 98 – Which Bible should you use?


 In a recent survey among Christians of all denominations it concluded that nearly half of Bible readers read from the King James Bible. But is that really the best Bible for you to read? How would you know which one is the best one for you? Ray will answer that for you right now.



If you have died with Christ [a]to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” 22 (which all refer to things destined to perish [b]with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? 23 These are matters which have, to be sure, the[c]appearance of wisdom in [d]self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.



Footnotes:


  1. Colossians 2:20 Lit from

  2. Colossians 2:22 Or by being consumed

  3. Colossians 2:23 Lit report; Gr logos

  4. Colossians 2:23 Or would-be religion


Take Time With God # 98 – Which Bible should you use?



Take Time With God # 98 – Which Bible should you use?

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

News reports from late 2014

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I took a good portion of this month off and so did Larry. I haven’t done a newscast in nearly 2 months. That will change dramatically tomorrow. Larry and I are back and ready for the new year.


While I’ve been gone, the past two months have been full of events in America that you may not have heard about. You need to know what’s happening. That’s why I’m sharing this news report with you now. –Ray


News clips from late 2014



News reports from late 2014

Friday, December 26, 2014

Movie – The Climb "A great Christian film" Ray

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I’ve never understood mountain climbers who love to scale high mountains by rough and dangerous climbing. But they don’t understand why I like to keep both my feet firmly on the ground. Both my sons love to climb and are as limber as tightrope walkers. I hold my breath and pray as I watch them ascend.


Christian movies have improved tremendously during my lifetime. Today most Bible-based Christian films are big box office attractions. How I thank God for that. The following story and the acting is as good as it gets. Combine two mountain climbers with faith in Christ like my sons have, and you get a movie worth watching…… – Ray


Movie – The Client “A great Christian film” Ray



Movie – The Climb "A great Christian film" Ray

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

How Charlie Brown"s annual Christmas Show got on television

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Charlie Brown is perhaps the most famous cartoon character in existence today. Charles Schultz did a remarkable job of writing the comic strip for Charlie Brown that appeared in newspapers all over America every Sunday. People everywhere bought newspapers just to read the Charlie Brown strip.


Yet there was something so unusual about the characters created by Charles Schultz. They often carried a Christian message, at times even quoting Scriptures.


Suddenly the Coca-Cola bottling company wanted to do a Christmas special on television. And the video you are about to see is the pause that refreshes all of us as we watch Charlie Brown still on television at Christmastime every year. –Ray


How Charlie Brown’s annual Christmas show got on television



How Charlie Brown"s annual Christmas Show got on television

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

My movie review of "Left Behind" that is in theaters now

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Georgia, Larry and I saw “Left Behind” Friday night and we are eager to see it again. It is not the whole book of Left Behind, but covers the first two chapters in an outstanding way. It shows every humans great need for Christ and how God often uses a crisis to wake people up to their need of Him. Faith based movies don’t have to beat your head with a hammer to get Christ’s message across. But it is obvious throughout the film Who it is everyone needs. The acting, directing, story, action scenes, editing, individual people involved on the plane at on the ground are all excellent. The rapture itself, whether A Christian believes in a pre-tribulation rapture or not, Is skillfully portrayed. It does have a dramatic Hollywood-style ending That will enthrall Christians and non-Christians alike. We give it fifteen thumbs up because we’re all thumbs! – Ray



My movie review of "Left Behind" that is in theaters now

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Hollywood actor Jim Caviezel who played Jesus in Mel Gibson"s Passion of the Christ

Larry and I spare no expense bringing you guests who we know you’ll want to see and hear. Here’s a terrific example:  Jim Caviezel who made you weep in Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ. Not only did he destroy your popcorn with your tears, but he has a lot to say offscreen. Here’s Pastor Dave Cooper from the Rock Church in San Diego interviewing Jim. Actually this cost us nothing, but we thought we might impress you! – Ray



Hollywood actor Jim Caviezel who played Jesus in Mel Gibson"s Passion of the Christ

Sunday, September 7, 2014

SAMARITAN"S PURSE: "PRAY FOR THE INNOCENTS IN SOUTH SUDAN"

One of my greatest memories as a news director in San Francisco was to host a press conference for all the other radio stations for Bob Pierce, the founder of Samaritan’s Purse. This ministry is one of Christ’s greatest outreaches to the whole world. – Ray



SAMARITAN"S PURSE: "PRAY FOR THE INNOCENTS IN SOUTH SUDAN"

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Whitney Houston sings The Star-Spangled Banner

Whitney Houston loved America and loved Jesus Christ. Her friends wept the hardest because she was such a beautiful person who knew how overwhelming it is to be a superstar. She didn’t intend to commit suicide. She took drugs and literally drowned in a bathtub. She was to entertain again that night and her friends say she was excited about it. This video is priceless.



Whitney Houston sings The Star-Spangled Banner

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

FBI AND HOMELAND SECURITY WARN LAW ENFORCEMENT ABOUT ISIS

Both the FBI and Homeland Security have issued warnings to all law enforcement agencies throughout America that our attacking Isis in Iraq may bring Isis to attack America. That warning was released Friday after the terrifying announcement that foreign fighters who have been fighting as Isis troops are returning to their own countries and creating Isis cells with nothing but evil strategies in mind.


 


 


 


CHRISTIAN NEWS FROM RAY


A free service of Jesus Christ is Lord Ministries


News written and delivered by Ray Mossholder


Wednesday, August 27, 2014


 


Hello America. Hello world.


From the headquarters of reachmorenow.com in Fort Worth, Texas, this is Ray Mossholder and this is the news.




 


Both the FBI and Homeland Security have issued warnings to all law enforcement agencies throughout America that our attacking Isis in Iraq may bring Isis to attack America. That warning was released Friday after the terrifying announcement that foreign fighters who have been fighting as Isis troops are returning to their own countries and creating Isis cells with nothing but evil strategies in mind.


The warning reads: “It is difficult to predict triggers that will contribute to (Homeland violent terrorists) attempting acts of violence. (Lone wolf terrorists) present law enforcement with limited opportunities to detect and disrupt plots, which frequently involve simple plotting against targets of opportunity.”




 


Yesterday White House spokesman Josh Earnest downplayed the threat to America from Isis. He told the press corps “We are concerned about the threat that is posed by Isil, but it is the assessment as stated by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and by the intelligence community, that there currently is not an active plot underway to attack the United States by Isil.” Earnest read those words very carefully.


The recent law enforcement bulletin that was sent nationally by the FBI and Homeland Security stressed that Isis will continue to use Twitter hashtags and Facebook along with other social media to spread its propaganda, especially after any major events while many more people than even what is usual are checking with family and friends. (Isis used the attention focused on social media to propagandize directly after the Napa, California, earthquake this past weekend.)




Disasters natural or otherwise are used by Isis for propaganda and spreading fear over the social media


 


Earnest also stressed that the vast majority of Isis members are just two countries – Iraq and Syria. However, they will try to regularly send fear worldwide because fear, in spite of everything else, is their number one weapon.


 


It remains unclear at this moment whether President Obama is striking a beehive with a stick or a country that has not invited him. Either way the results right now are like high stakes poker with the winner being announced very soon.


Our president has, without any authorization but his own, sent drones in a prelude to airstrikes against Isis in Syria. Syria’s president Assad is anything but happy about it and asking America how it would like it if a foreign country, especially one that has been totally antagonistic towards its leader, should come with drones flying over our nation? The anger coming from Assad may lead to the United States finding out the answer to that question very quickly.


 




President Obama has used to sending drones over Pakistan. Far more recently, he has been sending them over Iraq. His purpose in sending them over Syria is still the same – to locate that terror organization that has threatened it will very soon destroy one of our major cities. But Assad says America’s drones are unwanted in a major violation of international law. Once again, as is our president’s habit, he did not consult Congress or Assad before this action. Congress remains on vacation.


In international terms, Obama action is “intrusive” rather than “protective,” which is to say that America has invaded Syria for the purpose of destruction rather than coming on to friendly territory for the purpose of defending ourselves. For a president who believes in political correctness, that philosophy must not extend in his mind further than our own borders. Some question whether it extends that.




 


On Monday, President Assad demanded that America get his permission before invading his country with the goal of airstrikes. In no uncertain terms, the US State Department answered that it has no intention of seeking “the approval of the Syrian regime.”


 


What is troubling about what we are at this moment in Syria is setting a precedent that in later weeks, months, or hopefully many years, may be used as the excuse for any nation in the world to do what we are doing now to our own country. And we will have no excuse to argue against it.


The Obama administration hates any idea that we might start working again with the Syrian president who has used chemical warfare as a weapon. Meanwhile, it is to be remembered that the United States is working to develop chemical warfare weaponry right now. For what purpose?


Is there a time in any future situation that America would unleash their chemical weapons against any group of people? If so, doesn’t that make us hypocrites while even working on such a possibility?


Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said yesterday, “Just because the Syrian regime is taking on Isil or… Speaking publicly about that, it certainly doesn’t mean that were on the same side of the coin here. I think when American lives are at stake, when we are talking about defending our own interests, we’re not looking for the approval of the Syrian regime.”


Lord, may this never come back to bite us.


 


In an announcement by the United States National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden, an American, Douglas MacAuthur McCain (his correct spelling), died in action against Iraqi troops yesterday. She said “We continue to use every tool we possess to disrupt and dissuade individuals from traveling abroad for violent jihad and to track and engage those who return.”




American Douglas MacAuthur McCain,


slain with Isis in Syria


 


Members of McCain’s family told the Minneapolis Star Tribune they had been concerned about McCain’s enthusiasm for Isis. His uncle said Douglas had converted from Christianity to Islam several years ago and traveled to the war region through Turkey to fight as a jihadist.


Attorney General Eric Holder said about 7,000 American men out of approximately 23,000 members of Isis are fighting now in Syria and Iraq.


 




Isis handiwork


 


England’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was quoted Sunday as saying that the Islamic State is “turning a swath of Iraq and Syria into a terrorist state as a base for launching attacks on the West. Sooner or later they will seek to strike us on British soil.”



Germany bombing England during the Second World War


 


Meanwhile, the United States and the United Kingdom intelligence forces joined together and have pinpointed the man who beheaded journalist James Foley. The man is from England and was raised in a million-dollar home in Maida Vale, one of the most plush areas of London, with his mother and five siblings.






 


The man, until he left for the killing fields was a well-known British rapper, Abdel–Majed Abdel Bary, whose rap music has been playing on the BBC until he sent a picture of himself from Raqqa, Iraq, earlier this year, holding just a head of someone. He wrote under the picture “Chillin with my homie or what’s left of him.”


Abdel’s father, Egyptian national Adel Abdul Bary, was believed to have been a very close friend of Osama bin Laden and was extradited from England to the United States in 2012 for his alleged bombings of two US embassies in East Africa.


Here are just a part of the lyrics written by the rapper turned savage with Isis:


“Give me the pride and the honor like my father, I swear that they came and took my dad, I could’ve killed a cop or two. Imagine then I was only six, picture what I’d do now with a loaded stick. Like boom bang fine, I’m wishing you were dead, violate my brothers and I’m filling you with lead.”


 


The demonic cruelty and barbarism of Isis is beyond human imagination. Their most recent inhuman action was to wire the Iraq Christian town of Talesskev with explosives everywhere before it could be liberated by Peshmerga. Talesskev was once the home of six thousand people and it was recaptured by the Kurdish troops on the 16th of this month. It’s a town located about 20 miles from Mosul. Ever since, the heartbroken Iraqis who lived in Talesskev have been sifting through the rubble to find anything left that belong to them.




 


General ABDUL-ARAH-MAN (Abdularahman) Gawrini said “I always tell my friend that Isis has more TNT then we have baking powder.” Gawrini said his special troops have unwired eight clusters of TNT in Talesskev. He said Isis is highly skilled in manufacturing explosives, and they also helped themselves to the many times in explosives the Iraqi Army left behind when it fled its bases.


 


Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced tonight that Israel and all militant factions in Palestine including Hamas, Fatah, and Islamic Jihad, have reached their twelve cease-fire to end seven weeks of devastation. He said they also have agreed to postpone negotiations over issues that remain for one month.




Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas


 


Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the agreement on all sides “commits Hamas to ending all hostile activity from Gaza. Now if that in fact does happen, and we hope it does, that is, for us, victory.”


Abbas said that he will soon present a detailed plan aimed at establishing a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines. That was in reference to all the territories Israel occupied in the Six-Day War – including Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.


Something is very strange about stopping this war. One of the things is that Hamas seems to have won everything they wanted and Israel gets to go back to waiting to see if Hamas will keep the agreement or start firing rockets back into Israel continuously after the cease-fire ends or even before it ends.


One of three things has just happened to Benjamin Netanyahu – one, he has turned out to be a fool, which he absolutely isn’t. Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the greatest leaders Israel has known.




 


Two, he is making a political decision because his poll numbers favoring him with the Israeli people have fallen from 82% in July to 32% this week, mainly because he has allowed so many cease-fires when the Israeli people knew they were winning against the terrorists and desperately need to destroy them once and for all. Netanyahu promised Israel that this would be a long war and that Israel wouldn’t stop until they had wiped out their enemy. That’s why his poll numbers went up so high as the people cheered their army on. If he has stopped because of the freefall in his poll numbers, his poll numbers will drop worse than ever because he hasn’t kept his word to them. He will continue to decrease the faith his people have had in him.


The third possibility, and by far the most probable, is that behind the scenes Netanyahu has had so much arm-twisting done to him by President Obama, John Kerry, and the United Nations (who has embraced Hamas like a long-lost brother), that the Prime Minister knows it would be dangerous to his country to continue because the longer he did the harder they’d twist until his arm would be completely torn away by the Obama administration. Israel desperately needs the millions of dollars they receive yearly from America. Without it, Israel’s future would be extremely challenging.




President Obama is getting his way. A couple of years ago he said he believed Israel should give up all the land that Israel conquered in the 1967 Six-Day War. And far harder days for Israel will be in their future than they have had in their past. What a way for America to treat his greatest ally in the Middle East!


Whatever has caused this situation to be given as a prize to Hamas is extremely sad. Hamas is a terror organization that will soon become a state thanks to the United Nations with full support from our President.


 


You might think that’s the end of the Israeli report for tonight, but it isn’t. Israel received more than a strong threat from Iran yesterday. Iran claims an Israeli drone flew over their country that was an Israeli drone. Their response was immediate. Brigadier General Hossein Salami said about the drone, “Iran will not give a diplomatic response but will air its grievances with Israel on the battlefield, but we will not necessarily announce it. Our enemy will see and understand it. We never step back in a confrontation with our enemies. The Islamic Republic is powerful and is capable of confronting any power at any level and we never bring down the level of our goals.”




Brigadier General Hossein Salami


 


The day before, the Iranian government said they planned to sue Israel in the International Criminal Court.


Iran declared over the weekend that they had shot down Israel’s drone and that it was an Israeli–made Hermes 450 unmanned drone on the way to Natanz nuclear enrichment site where it is alleged that Iran is building a nuclear bomb.


Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.


Psalm 25




1. To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

2. in you I trust, O my God.

Do not let me be put to shame,

nor let my enemies triumph over me.


3. No one whose hope is in you

will ever be put to shame,

but they will be put to shame

who are treacherous without excuse.

4. Show me your ways, O LORD,

teach me your paths;

5. guide me in your truth and teach me,

for you are God my Savior,

and my hope is in you all day long.

6. Remember, O LORD,

your great mercy and love,

for they are from of old.


7. Remember not the sins of my youth

and my rebellious ways;

according to your love remember me,

for you are good, O LORD.

8. Good and upright is the LORD;

therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

9. He guides the humble in what is right

and teaches them his way.

10. All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.

11. For the sake of your name, O LORD,

forgive my iniquity, though it is great.


12. Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD?

He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.

13. He will spend his days in prosperity,

and his descendants will inherit the land.

14. The LORD confides in those who fear him;

he makes his covenant known to them.

15. My eyes are ever on the LORD,

for only he will release my feet from the snare.

16. Turn to me and be gracious to me,

for I am lonely and afflicted.

17. The troubles of my heart have multiplied;

free me from my anguish.

18. Look upon my affliction and my distress

and take away all my sins.

19. See how my enemies have increased

and how fiercely they hate me!

20. Guard my life and rescue me;

let me not be put to shame,

for I take refuge in you.

21. May integrity and uprightness protect me,

because my hope is in you.

22. Redeem Israel, O God,

from all their troubles!


 


Syria had attacked Israel this weekend. Five Syrian rockets struck in different sections of the Golan Heights. They were fired at 1:30 A.M. Sunday morning and thankfully caused no injuries. A spokesman said no one in Israel is sure who fired those rockets.


This is not the first time that Syria has fired at Israel. In July, they fired a rocket into northern Israel and Israel fired back with an even stronger return.


Saturday night, Lebanon also fired a rocket at Israel that ended in Upper Galilee. Israel did not fire back, but immediately sent “a strong protest” to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.


 


The European Centre for Law and Justice which is the international affiliate of the American Center for Law and Justice, last week called on the Secretary-General of the United Nations, H. E. Ban Ki-moon to launch an investigation to discover why United Nations Relief And Work for Palestine Refugees in the Near East facilities were used to support Hamas operatives in their attacks on Israel.


Jay Sekulow, who serves as Chief Counsel of both the national and international arms of the ACLJ wrote the following to the Secretary general: “The homes very reputation and legitimacy of the United Nations and its various arms are at stake, especially since Hamas is widely recognized as a terrorist organization. What’s worse – the return to Hamas of the rockets unlawfully stored in UNRWA facilities strongly suggests that UNRWA employees may be acting in concert and/or cooperating with Hamas operatives in unlawfully attacking a UN member state. That cannot be tolerated and may, in fact, constitute a war crime. At a minimum, it places in question the legitimacy and impartiality of all UNRWA operations in Gaza.


Until such an investigation takes place and effective measures are put in place to preclude future violations of UNRWA protected status, the impartiality of UNRWA will remain in question, and Israeli doubts about the sanctity of UNRWA will be fully justified.


 




 


 




 


Hollywood is rightfully blamed for many things, but they got it right this time. More than 200 actors, actresses, directors, and those associated with the making of motion pictures have signed a statement stating that “Hamas cannot be allowed to reign rockets on Israeli cities, nor can it be allowed to hold its own people hostage. Hospitals are for healing, not for hiding weapons. Schools are for learning, not for launching missiles. Children are for hope, not for human shields.


While we stand firm in our commitment to peace and justice, we must also stand firm against ideologies of hatred and genocide, which are reflected in Hamas’ charter, Article 7, which reads ‘There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!’”


Here are the ones who had signed the statement:




 


Earlier last week a similar letter was written in favor of Hamas that was circulated by Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and carried a hundred signatures from Hollywood. That list got so much negative response from the rest of Hollywood that both Penelope and Javier withdrew their signatures and admitted they hadn’t known enough about what Hamas was doing, but had been reacting to the death of children in Palestine.




Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem


 


 


Ukraine has captured ten Russian paratroopers in the Eastern Donetsk region and Vladimir Putin has said “Woops!” He insists their paratroopers entered Ukraine strictly by accident.




 


Putin’s embarrassment came at a very untimely moment. Within hours of the discovery of the paratroopers, Vladimir and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, sat down for the first time face-to-face and talk together in Minsk, Belarus.


Their talk ended with much more of the result then might have been expected. Poroshenko give this report: “A roadmap will be prepared in order to achieve, as soon as possible, a cease-fire regime which absolutely must be bilateral in character.” Poroshenko and Putin spoke alone for two hours. Afterward they were joined by the EU’s top diplomat Catherine Ashton for still more talk.


Vladimir Putin at the end of his conversation with Ukrainian president said “Russia, for its part will do everything to support the peace process if it starts. But it is up to the government in Kiev and separatist leaders in the East to work out conditions for a truce.”




Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko talks with


Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin


 


The Obama administration also continues to accuse Russia of putting their own boots on the ground in an invasion of Ukraine. United States security advisor Susan Rice said yesterday ” Russia’s military incursions into Ukraine – artillery, air defense systems, dozens of tanks and military personnel – represents significant escalation, and this is unacceptable, dangerous and inflammatory.” Vladimir Putin continues to say that these charges against Russia are being made without proof because none of it is true.


 


 


 




Speaking of incursions, California Governor Jerry Brown doesn’t believe there is such a word as “illegal” when it comes to our border. He says California’s big enough for everybody and is throwing a party with all the trimmings for every illegal alien who would like to come and live in the Sunshine State


Last night, Governor Brown threw a party for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and according to the Los Angeles Times, he told the large Mexican crowd that joined them, Brown called America “the other Mexico.” Brown “spoke about the interwoven histories of Mexico and California. Then, again according to the Times, the Governor “nodded to the immigrants in the room, saying it didn’t matter if they had permission to be in the United States. You’re all welcome in California.”


Los Angeles has been a sanctuary city for years that has all but given illegals the keys to the city. Now Jerry Brown has opened up the floodgates of all California and, like the Statue of Liberty is saying “Give me your tired, your poor…”, but he is adding two more words “your illegal.…”




Brown made California a sanctuary state by signing the Trust Act that gives drivers licenses to illegal aliens, expanded financial support for them, and signed the California Dream Act. Mexican president Nieto thanked Governor Brown for extending state benefits to the immigrants.




 


While the border crossing of anyone and everyone continues, Brown had already vowed “to find ways to shorten long waits at the Tijuana/San Diego international border crossing and said “If we can put a man on the moon, we can put a man from Mexico to California in 20 minutes.”


In 2012, 28% of Californians were born outside the United States according to the New York Times. Hispanic voters made up 19.2% of California voters in 2010. According to the Pew Research, Latinos make up nearly 40% of the state’s population and have made California “only the second state behind New Mexico where whites are not the majority and Latinos are the plurality.”




 


 


Even though the University of California has admitted a record number of Hispanics, the Latino Caucus has vowed to make affirmative action and bilingual education top legislative priorities. Jerry Brown applauds their goal.


Yesterday Mexico’s Governor spoke to the California state legislature while American Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi has been isolated for months in a Tijuana jail cell for crossing the border the other way by mistake. Jerry Brown, who is running for reelection, has no time to be concerned about that.




If I had said Ferguson, Missouri, a month ago, you might have wondered where that was in that state. No longer. Hearing the name of that suburb of St. Louis almost certainly gives you a mental picture of what happened there earlier this month. In still another name would immediately come to mind – Michael Brown.




 


Michael Brown would have enjoyed his own funeral in Ferguson on Monday. Black people know music from the soul and there was a lot of it at Michael’s funeral. Thousands came to take part in it who couldn’t get in because of the huge crowd jammed in inside. Even though the event was solemn, the music, though non-theatrical, was professional and the singers and speakers were deeply sincere.


With Michael Brown buried yesterday, somewhere close to one hundred demonstrators marched in Ferguson yesterday, demanding the arrest of police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael. They also called for the removal from office of the Ferguson police chief.


Although the marchers simply chanted, there was an undertow of seething rage. The black people who will never forget the name Trayvon Martin and how his killer was exonerated want no repeat performance of what they believe was at that time a wretched unfair decision.


The marchers chanted “Fired up, fed up, time that we stand up.” In their minds the verdict is already in. The fact that America has a philosophy of innocent until proven guilty, doesn’t interest them at all.




 


The facts are clear. Officer Darren Wilson shot an unarmed black teenager is evidence enough to hang him. A few bruises should never be enough to shoot six bullets into anybody. The protesters are so far stopping just short of a lynching. They were blocked from walking up the courthouse steps by policemen who were mainly on bicycles.




 


 


The whopper is getting whopped by Burger King’s former fans. In fact, the fans are planning a boycott of the Burger King fast food chain. Why? Because Burger King is the most recent company to use a tax dodge by getting out of Dodge.




 


The fans are spreading the news faster than a speeding bullet on Facebook and Twitter that Burger King plans to take its major office and move it to Canada and is buying a donut and coffee chain called Tim Horton’s to give them their Canadian base. Adding doughnuts that you can dunk in your coffee will give Burger King – get ready for this – 18 thousand fast food restaurants across 100 countries! The price of such a takeover? – A measly 11 billion dollars! And who else but Warren Buffett will be supplying 25% of that because he likes the dough in doughnuts.


Burger King announced the deal yesterday morning, but rumbles among the customers nationwide say the King belongs to America along with mother, the flag and apple pie.




 


There is no doubt Burger King’s financial gain will soon offset any amount of money lost right now from disenchanted burger lovers. Otherwise Buffett would save his pennies. Instead, Buffett says “This sure beats the stock market.”


The purpose, of course, in Burger King making this giant move is because of the high taxes – they are taxed 35% of their profits compared with 26% north of this country. A second reason for the move is because Burger King hasn’t done at all as well as McDonald’s or Dunkin’ Donuts with the morning crowd throughout our land. The reputation of Tim Horton’s breakfast crowd in Canada is phenomenal, and once that chain is taken over by Burger King, should very quickly make Burger King the early morning favorite.


What’s happening is called a “tax inversion.” Many companies in the last three or four years have done a very similar thing – moving their corporation to a totally different country in order to save a ton of money. The difference between 35% in taxes and 26%, may not sound like much, but it represents many millions more dollars in corporate taxes for businesses as large as Burger King. President Obama has talked about closing the Corporation loophole that has angered his administration every time a new corporation takes their business elsewhere and away from the home of the free. These corporations have found that America isn’t free enough to keep them here.


One thing giving the Burger King protesters hope is that boycotting stopped your friendly neighborhood drugstore Walgreens earlier this month to another land. They gave up that idea when three hundred thousand or so petitioned them who were against that idea. However, Kings rule and the deal with Canadian doughnuts is now a slam dunk.


I wonder if, when it gets to Canada, it will change its name to Burger King ay?!




 


 


 


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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY


Capital punishment happens when our government


creates a brand-new tax.


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