ENGLISH ONLY EDITION. Light is sown like seed for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Psalm 97:11
Monday, July 28, 2014
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Scientists: Atheists might not exist
Excerpt taken from Scientists: Atheists might not exist written by Bob Unruh in WND.
“As Christians, we’re not asking the world to believe the Bible. What we are asking them to believe is the gospel. The early church didn’t have the Bible as we know it, so they didn’t go around saying ‘Repent and believe the Bible.’ The Old Testament scrolls were kept in the synagogue, not many could read, there was no such thing as the printing press, and the New Testament hadn’t been compiled,” he (Ray Comfort) said.
“The Bible is a book written for the godly – as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. It’s a special book written for the humble of heart, and those who try and read it without a humble heart are like a man trying to read Shakespeare in the dark. It will be senseless. However, when we believe the gospel, repent and trust alone in Jesus we come out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. God opens the eyes of our understanding, and a major part of that illumination will be that the Scriptures will suddenly come alive,” he (Ray Comfort) said.
“As Christians, we’re not asking the world to believe the Bible. What we are asking them to believe is the gospel. The early church didn’t have the Bible as we know it, so they didn’t go around saying ‘Repent and believe the Bible.’ The Old Testament scrolls were kept in the synagogue, not many could read, there was no such thing as the printing press, and the New Testament hadn’t been compiled,” he (Ray Comfort) said.
“The Bible is a book written for the godly – as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. It’s a special book written for the humble of heart, and those who try and read it without a humble heart are like a man trying to read Shakespeare in the dark. It will be senseless. However, when we believe the gospel, repent and trust alone in Jesus we come out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. God opens the eyes of our understanding, and a major part of that illumination will be that the Scriptures will suddenly come alive,” he (Ray Comfort) said.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Thank you
I just wanted to take a minute to thank my friends, my faithful readers and the new visitors for your visits and message of encouragement on Facebook. Although most of you are anonymous, you are the ones that help me build it and I appreciate your support in helping when you pass it on to your friends. A special thanks to the faithful followers, I don´t know who you are but I can tell that you follow this blog because of the same city and country names coming up very regularly.
I hope and it is my sincere desire that you have benefited from the posts I have written and that it has helped in getting closer to our Lord who is the One who inspires me and who keeps me going. I can only give freely what I have freely received. I am deeply and immeasurably indebted and grateful to Him because of the demonstration of His love, grace, mercy and pardon for my sins through His self-sacrificial death on the cross and the free gift of eternal life through His resurrection from the dead.
God bless you and may all together continue to lift up the Holy Name of our Lord and Savior our God, the Father, Jesus-Christ, his Son and the Holy Spirit who reveals to us who they are and what they have done for us. Maranatha.
Jean-Louis.
I hope and it is my sincere desire that you have benefited from the posts I have written and that it has helped in getting closer to our Lord who is the One who inspires me and who keeps me going. I can only give freely what I have freely received. I am deeply and immeasurably indebted and grateful to Him because of the demonstration of His love, grace, mercy and pardon for my sins through His self-sacrificial death on the cross and the free gift of eternal life through His resurrection from the dead.
God bless you and may all together continue to lift up the Holy Name of our Lord and Savior our God, the Father, Jesus-Christ, his Son and the Holy Spirit who reveals to us who they are and what they have done for us. Maranatha.
Jean-Louis.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
The Feet of the Messenger of Peace
Original French written and posted by Jean-Louis in 9/2010
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Isaiah 52:714
And with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the the gospel of peace. Ephesians 6:15
So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. 16 Very truly, I tell you, servants[a] are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. John 13:14-17
The Feet of the Messenger of Peace
To My lovely Wife Mírian
To My lovely Wife Mírian
It´s been two months now
Since you appeared at
my door
You came in gently
without fanfare
And simply sat on the
floor
Your grateful sheepish
smile
Welcomed my invitation
To let you sit down
In a corner for a
while
Like a young aphonic
boy
His head among the
stars
Under the veiled power
Of your unveiled charm
I invited you to sit
on the throne
For it is not proper
to offer the guest
A corner of the rug
belonging
To the devoted servant
Then, taking a cushion
To rest your feet
Tired from the long
voyage
I removed the used
sandals
Full of dust covering
Their rare beauty
I took a basin and
tenderly
I washed and dried
them
Then, leaning to pray,
For these beautiful
and fragile feet
Belong to the docile
messenger
Proclaiming the Gospel
of Peace.
Jean-Louis.
Jean-Louis.
Which Thief Are You?
Reblogged from: Serve Him The Waiting
Forgiveness can be a hard thing for sinful humans to understand, embrace, and practice.
First of all, there is a difference between being hurt, and being harmed. Most of us Christians are pretty quick to forgive when hurt, but often find it much harder when they have been harmed. Allow me to explain. If your husband forgets your birthday, it is understandable that your feelings would be hurt, but there is no real harm done by the momentary memory lapse, (unless of course you choose to hold it against him). Now if your husband “forgets” the vow he made on your wedding day, and is unfaithful, then very real harm has been done. See the difference? One offense is much weightier than the other.
When King David lusted after Bathsheba, acted upon that lust, then compounded the sin further by having Uriah killed, whom did he sin against? (2 Samuel 11)
If Jesus died to balance the books on the sin of the whole world (Isaiah 53:6), then who am I to hold the sin of another against them, even if it was directed at me? Regardless of whether that person has been washed in the blood, we who have nothing to recommend us to God other than the blood of Jesus that covers us, are in no position to exact payment from anyone who has done us wrong, and how much more egregious is it to hold a debt against a fellow blood-bought believer? Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, says the prayer.
Matthew 18:23-35 says the Kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king. Which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents, but when that servant could not pay, rather than sell the servant and his family and possessions in order to recoup the debt, the master had mercy and forgave him his debt. Yet the servant then went right out to collect a debt from someone who owed a much lesser amount of money to him.
Notice the passage does not say he was trying to collect this debt in order to pay back the master. No, it was just a shakedown! This guy wanted his money, but when his debtor could not pay, he had him thrown into prison until he should repay it all. When the master learned that his servant had no compassion over a small debt even after he himself had been forgiven such great debt, the master was “wroth and delivered him to the tormenters until he should pay all that was due unto him”. (Vs. 34)
Since we know that salvation is eternal, does this mean if we don’t forgive others, God won’t forgive us? Or does it simply mean what it says: we will be delivered unto the tormenters? If we find ourselves wondering why the devil seems to have been given permission to personally torment us, why we are miserable under circumstances that seem unrelenting, perhaps it is time to go before the Lord and ask Him to reveal to us the unforgiveness in our own heart. It is a sin, to hold someone else’s sin against them. But just as was the case with King David; against God, and God only, has my enemy sinned. (Psalm 51:4)
That person may have harmed me, but they did not sin against me, they sinned against God, and I have too. We are each like the two thieves who hung on either side of Jesus when He died. Both guilty. Which one went to paradise? The one who understood Jesus was hanging there because of that thief’s own personal sins. The other guy was still casting stones and adding crimes to his own rap sheet right up until his last breath.
Which thief are you?
Forgiveness can be a hard thing for sinful humans to understand, embrace, and practice.
First of all, there is a difference between being hurt, and being harmed. Most of us Christians are pretty quick to forgive when hurt, but often find it much harder when they have been harmed. Allow me to explain. If your husband forgets your birthday, it is understandable that your feelings would be hurt, but there is no real harm done by the momentary memory lapse, (unless of course you choose to hold it against him). Now if your husband “forgets” the vow he made on your wedding day, and is unfaithful, then very real harm has been done. See the difference? One offense is much weightier than the other.
When King David lusted after Bathsheba, acted upon that lust, then compounded the sin further by having Uriah killed, whom did he sin against? (2 Samuel 11)
If Jesus died to balance the books on the sin of the whole world (Isaiah 53:6), then who am I to hold the sin of another against them, even if it was directed at me? Regardless of whether that person has been washed in the blood, we who have nothing to recommend us to God other than the blood of Jesus that covers us, are in no position to exact payment from anyone who has done us wrong, and how much more egregious is it to hold a debt against a fellow blood-bought believer? Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, says the prayer.
Matthew 18:23-35 says the Kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king. Which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents, but when that servant could not pay, rather than sell the servant and his family and possessions in order to recoup the debt, the master had mercy and forgave him his debt. Yet the servant then went right out to collect a debt from someone who owed a much lesser amount of money to him.
Notice the passage does not say he was trying to collect this debt in order to pay back the master. No, it was just a shakedown! This guy wanted his money, but when his debtor could not pay, he had him thrown into prison until he should repay it all. When the master learned that his servant had no compassion over a small debt even after he himself had been forgiven such great debt, the master was “wroth and delivered him to the tormenters until he should pay all that was due unto him”. (Vs. 34)
Since we know that salvation is eternal, does this mean if we don’t forgive others, God won’t forgive us? Or does it simply mean what it says: we will be delivered unto the tormenters? If we find ourselves wondering why the devil seems to have been given permission to personally torment us, why we are miserable under circumstances that seem unrelenting, perhaps it is time to go before the Lord and ask Him to reveal to us the unforgiveness in our own heart. It is a sin, to hold someone else’s sin against them. But just as was the case with King David; against God, and God only, has my enemy sinned. (Psalm 51:4)
That person may have harmed me, but they did not sin against me, they sinned against God, and I have too. We are each like the two thieves who hung on either side of Jesus when He died. Both guilty. Which one went to paradise? The one who understood Jesus was hanging there because of that thief’s own personal sins. The other guy was still casting stones and adding crimes to his own rap sheet right up until his last breath.
Which thief are you?
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
As Israel strikes back, fake Gaza images dominate social media
A BBC report
has found that many of the photographs used to illustrate the situation
in Gaza are from years ago, and even from the conflicts in Iraq and
Syria.
Reposted via http://servehiminthewaiting.com/
A significant part of any battle nowadays is waged in the media, as each sides tries to garner public support through the exploit of images and footage used to influence popular opinion.
A report by the BBC shows that Palestinian supporters are using fake images to illustrate the suffering in Gaza.
"Graphic images are being shared on social media to show how people have been affected by the renewed tensions between Israel and the Palestinians," the BBC reported.
"Over the past week the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack has been used hundreds of thousands of times, often to distribute pictures claiming to show the effects of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza."
The hashtag has received 375,000 retweets in eight days.
The network found that several graphic photos, that spread through social media proporting to show killed Gazans and destruction caused by IAF strikes in recent days, were actually photos taken several years ago, some of which in other war areas like Syria and Iraq.
"BBC Trending," a show that examines trends in social media, checked the veracity of widely spread photos on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack.
Over 300,000 posts were made under that hashtag. In one case, a picture of a neighborhood being bombarded was posted with the caption "This happened today in gaza while ramadhan.Our prayers always be w you. Israel is the real terrorist! (sic)"
But a BBC investigation found that the photo was taken during an IAF strike in 2009 in Beit Lahia during Operation Cast Lead.
In another instance, a photo of blooding children was posted with the
caption "This is not a matter of religion. This is a matter of
humanity."
According to the BBC, the photo was taken in Aleppo in Syria and not in Gaza. Another photo in the same post was taken in Iraq in 2007.
The British broadcaster also spoke to one of the posters who shared a photo under the #GazaUnderAttack, even though the photo was taken in Syria. "I deleted one of my posts that has the image in there," she said. "It's disappointing that images get shared quite quickly. I guess that's the different between the internet and credible newspaper publisher where pictures are from a source."
A Ynet examination found that photos that are not from the IDF's current Gaza operation are still being shared on Twitter.
A search of the hashtag found a photo of two men rescuring a boy severely wounded in IAF bombings with the caption "The world is silent as Israel wipes out Gaza with airstrikes. Another kid, one of many, says goodbye." with the #GazaUnderAttack hashtag.
But a search of Google Images found the photo was taken in 2012 during Operation Pillar of Defense. The boy in the photo was killed along with his family in an Air Force attack.
Hamas has used this tactic in the past too. Tazpit's Anav Silverman reported in 2012 that during Operation Pillar of Defense, the militant organization used fake images of Gaza with false headlines, inciting a flurry of comments on Facebook against Israel.
The photos were of massacres that occurred in Syria the previous month, but were depicted as massacres of Gazan families by the IDF. Other such incidents reoccur persistently.
Ynet contributed to this report.
Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
|
Reposted via http://servehiminthewaiting.com/
A significant part of any battle nowadays is waged in the media, as each sides tries to garner public support through the exploit of images and footage used to influence popular opinion.
A report by the BBC shows that Palestinian supporters are using fake images to illustrate the suffering in Gaza.
"Graphic images are being shared on social media to show how people have been affected by the renewed tensions between Israel and the Palestinians," the BBC reported.
"Over the past week the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack has been used hundreds of thousands of times, often to distribute pictures claiming to show the effects of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza."
The hashtag has received 375,000 retweets in eight days.
The network found that several graphic photos, that spread through social media proporting to show killed Gazans and destruction caused by IAF strikes in recent days, were actually photos taken several years ago, some of which in other war areas like Syria and Iraq.
"BBC Trending," a show that examines trends in social media, checked the veracity of widely spread photos on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack.
Over 300,000 posts were made under that hashtag. In one case, a picture of a neighborhood being bombarded was posted with the caption "This happened today in gaza while ramadhan.Our prayers always be w you. Israel is the real terrorist! (sic)"
But a BBC investigation found that the photo was taken during an IAF strike in 2009 in Beit Lahia during Operation Cast Lead.
According to the BBC, the photo was taken in Aleppo in Syria and not in Gaza. Another photo in the same post was taken in Iraq in 2007.
The British broadcaster also spoke to one of the posters who shared a photo under the #GazaUnderAttack, even though the photo was taken in Syria. "I deleted one of my posts that has the image in there," she said. "It's disappointing that images get shared quite quickly. I guess that's the different between the internet and credible newspaper publisher where pictures are from a source."
A Ynet examination found that photos that are not from the IDF's current Gaza operation are still being shared on Twitter.
A search of the hashtag found a photo of two men rescuring a boy severely wounded in IAF bombings with the caption "The world is silent as Israel wipes out Gaza with airstrikes. Another kid, one of many, says goodbye." with the #GazaUnderAttack hashtag.
But a search of Google Images found the photo was taken in 2012 during Operation Pillar of Defense. The boy in the photo was killed along with his family in an Air Force attack.
Hamas has used this tactic in the past too. Tazpit's Anav Silverman reported in 2012 that during Operation Pillar of Defense, the militant organization used fake images of Gaza with false headlines, inciting a flurry of comments on Facebook against Israel.
The photos were of massacres that occurred in Syria the previous month, but were depicted as massacres of Gazan families by the IDF. Other such incidents reoccur persistently.
Ynet contributed to this report.
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