“Every great move of God begins by making the crooked ways straight.” —Mel Montgomery Why Did The Glory Leave Us? I seldom agree with everything written in the articles I post, but I have gained insight from something said, which is why I post them. This one is worth reading all the way to the [...]
Archive for April, 2010
The Arizona Uproar
Posted in Immigration, Politics on April 29, 2010 |
Here’s a fair assessment of the situation in Arizona, from someone who actually lives there: Arizona has had enough and seen enough. This bill, admittedly flawed, motivated in part by anger and frustration, is an effort to step in and do something about a serious national problem on our southern border that grows more dangerous [...]
Robert Spencer on Obama’s Animosity Toward Israel, and “Is President Obama Actually a Muslim?”
Posted in Islam, Israel, Politics, Videos on April 28, 2010 |
Theses video segments are short, between one and four minutes each. Part 1: Are We Fighting Islam with Less Efficient Weapons? Part 2: Obama’s Animosity Toward Israel Part 3: Is President Obama Actually a Muslim? From part 3: Barack Obama, if he were a Muslim, would not be behaving in any way differently from how [...]
Five Weeks and Fifty Pages
Posted in Miscellaneous on April 26, 2010 |
I have a rather large paper to write for school, so blogging may be intermittent for the next five weeks (although there’s no guarantee of that).
Jerusalem is mentioned 767 times in the King James version of the Bible: http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=Jerusalem&version1=9 Jerusalem is mentioned 7 times in this English translation of the Qur’an: http://quran.com/search/jerusalem You’ll notice that all 7 of these results are parenthetical comments by the translator(s). So actually, the Qu’ran doesn’t mention Jerusalem by name at all. Not one single [...]
“One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project.” —Ronald Reagan en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan Ronald Reagan said that in 1961. For years critics have been saying that his dire predictions about Medicare never came to [...]
Mosaic 1.0
Posted in Computing on April 22, 2010 |
The Mosaic web browser was released 17 years ago today. April 22, 1993: Mosaic Browser Lights Up Web With Color, Creativity I started using Mosaic on SunOS in September 1994, and it was pretty rickety for a long time. I wasn’t overly impressed with it, mostly because it was the channel through which my homework [...]
The Joy of the Lord (mp3)
Posted in Music on April 22, 2010 |
This one’s worth a buck: The Joy of the Lord (Darrell Evans) Sounds best in a tie-dye shirt and flip flops[1]. [1] These were also known as thongs back in the ’60s, and they were something that one wore on their feet!
Islamic Anti-Semitism and Nazism
Posted in Islam on April 21, 2010 |
It’s time for this week’s episode of “Jihad Wednesday.” Robert Spencer writes: This is a common species of wishful thinking and willful blindness. Its proponents imagine that Islam is a Religion of Peace™ with no anti-Semitic elements (you know the drill, Islam reveres the “People of the Book,” etc.), but it was corrupted by the [...]
The Reverential Fear of God
Posted in Audio Recordings, Theology, Videos on April 20, 2010 |
I heard Jim Kaseman preach on apostasy and the reverential fear of God last week. This probably isn’t something that you think you want to hear about, but it was good. Jim says that the reverential fear of God and obedience are the central themes of the next move of God. I found audio/video recordings [...]
One of my favorite worship songs is Breathe, by Marie Barnett. The chorus contains the phrase, “I’m desperate for You.” A few years ago Bible teacher Andrew Wommack took exception to the use of the word desperate in worship songs. He pointed out that this word means despair, hopelessness, desperation, despondency, depression, discouragement and dejection. [...]
“The Word of Faith movement has been over for ten or twelve years at least. It came to a screeching halt because of false doctrine, extremes and sin in the camp.” —Jim Kaseman Ten or twelve years! There must be some regional variation: 2001-2003 seemed like really good years to me. While on the subject [...]
Catnip
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Trivia on April 15, 2010 |
I saw this on a bumper sticker last night: If you don’t talk to your cat about catnip, someone else will. I’m doing my taxes today, and I can use all the levity I can get. Update It seems that I owe the U.S. Treasury 32 cents. That’s only 5 cents more than Barney Fife’s [...]
Islam: A Presidential Perspective
Posted in Islam on April 14, 2010 |
Here’s what John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, had to say about Islam: “In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of [...]
Protectionism Didn’t Cause the Great Depression
Posted in Economics on April 13, 2010 |
Here’s an interesting article from American Thinker by Ian Fletcher, who is arguing that the Smoot-Hawley trade tariff of 1930 did not cause the Great Depression. I have for a long time considered Smoot-Hawley to have been a significant contributing factor, if not the primary cause. From the article: Let’s start by reminding ourselves of [...]
It’s All About Jesus
Posted in Audio Recordings, Christianity, Faith, Israel, Theology, Videos on April 12, 2010 |
I recently read this statement in a blog post: “Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence, but Christianity cannot explain its existence without Judaism.” I believe the author of this post was probably quoting John Hagee, whom I have heard make very similar statements. In any case, this statement is not entirely true. [...]
From my ever-expanding quote file: “There’s not a message preached about giving up your all for Jesus. It’s all about you can have a better life and everything’s going to be fine and dandy. Jesus said if you love your life, you’re going to lose it.” —Rodney Howard-Browne “I don’t think the American church is [...]
Too Many Books
Posted in Books on April 8, 2010 |
Here is a list of books that I’m currently reading. I like to keep several going at the same time, but this is too many; I need to finish some of these before I start any more.
Over 15,000 Served
Posted in Islam on April 7, 2010 |
Sometime last month the total number of Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11 passed 15,000 worldwide. Islam: Making a True Difference in the World – One Body at a Time Despite this alarming statistic, Islam is still portrayed as a “religion of peace” by most politicians— Democrat and Republican— and the mainstream media. It should be [...]
Rare Audio Recordings
Posted in Audio Recordings, Theology on April 6, 2010 |
Here is a collection of rare audio recordings by F.F. Bosworth, Howard Carter, the Goodwins and many other pioneers of the 20th century Pentecostal movement: List of Recordings (brothermel.com) I have listened to the recording of F.F. Bosworth, and while the audio quality is not very good in places, it was still worth listening to.
