Proclamation for a New England Fast Day 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. ~ Ps 10:4 We have often heard that the main reason for fasting is to humble one’s self before God in order to…
Pope Francis at Vargihna, Brazil Photo by Tânia Rêgo/ABr, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Brazil license Reported today by the AP, available at Yahoo! News, “Pope: Abandon ‘futile’ military Syria solution“:
A Yemenite Jew blows a shofar Tonight begins the Feast of Trumpets according to the calculated Jewish calendar. It is called “Rosh Hashanah” by Jews, but that merely means “New Year” (literally “head of the year”). Still, there is some recognition of its importance, as it kicks off the “Days…
Fox News posted a video “Would US strike leave Syria ripe for jihadi takeover?” in which Middle East journalist Lisa Daftari outlines why she believes a strike at Syria could open up Syria to be taken over by extreme Islamists/jihadists.
Fountain outside US Dept of Labor Photo by Evrik from Washington DC As I posted on my business blog, “Labor Day Is More Than Just a Day Off“. It is a day of rest for many, and a day of recognition for the American worker. The world is a turbulent…
Screenshot from the Lemmings PC game Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana What does abortion have to do with lemmings? Are sheep lemmings, only bigger? What’s a real sheep look like? Silly questions? Well, take the last question, for an example….
A history teacher helps a disabled student during a history lesson, 1943 Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ~ Winston Churchill (contested, although George Santayana said something similar, and it is often misattributed to him) I actually do not understand why people follow liars….
It is a strange thing when the big news of the day is that nothing happened. We did not (yet) invade or bomb Syria, and no high ranking elder in the COG universe died today. As I write this, it is now 10 minutes away from sundown in the eastern…
Just published hours ago on WND, Glenn Beck admits “MEDIA POWERHOUSE: U.S. IDENTIFIED IN BIBLE“. “Israel was split into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom,” Beck explained. Many people don’t realize that ancient Israel (the Northern Kingdom) actually went to war against the Jews (the Southern Kingdom…
Tower of Bable, from Dore’s English Bible 17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions…