The One - Pastor Mike Hoggard

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam

Who is killing Palestinian children?

Arab winter commes to America. Interview with Jamie Glazov

IDF set to open field hospital for wounded Gazans | The Times of Israel

IDF set to open field hospital for wounded Gazans | The Times of Israel

Hamas rebuffs Israeli offer to extend humanitarian window | The Times of Israel

Hamas rebuffs Israeli offer to extend humanitarian window | The Times of Israel

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.

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.

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 

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,

I warmed and blessed them

For these beautiful and fragile feet

Belong to the docile messenger

Proclaiming the Gospel of Peace. 

Jean-Louis.

Related posts:

• Distance, separation and the Cure

•  What Would Jesus Do?   
• Preparing the Way for the Second Coming of Christ 
• The basin and the towel 

Which Thief Are You?

By STLloyd March 3, 2012 faith Forgiveness God thief

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?