Christians aren’t the only ones expecting the End Times. According to this author, Daesh is TRYING to bring on the Apocalypse!
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
Daesh: My preferred descriptor for IS, ISIS, ISIL because it does not include the word “state” thus depriving them of this legitimacy.
Filed under Barack Obama, Christianity, Egypt, Foreign Policy, ISIS, Islam
Meditation (excerpted by CtH) by Kate Rhodes
Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46 – God’s command concerning quarantining of lepers
Gospel of Mark 1:40-45 – Jesus heals a leperI remember helping in RCIA at my parish in Los Angeles, and we had broken out into small groups. In my small group, one of the candidates was reflecting on the Scripture readings for the week and said how she’d heard that the New Testament was essentially God’s apology for the Old Testament.
It was the first time I’d ever encountered this pretty pervasive (and WRONG!) idea that God thought He was too harsh in the Old Testament and so in the New Testament He plays his nice card and sends Jesus.
We live in a culture dominated by “bleeding heart” liberal ideology that wants a watery gospel where Jesus was this super nice guy and sin doesn’t exist.
But Jesus doesn’t contradict the Mosaic Law. He says in the Sermon on the mount: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.” (Math. 5:17)
And in today’s Gospel we have a beautiful example of that profession. Jesus doesn’t hug the leper, and say: “Moses was just so mean. I love you just the way you are.” No. He actually, literally makes him clean.
Jesus doesn’t overlook or ignore our flaws, he bears them for us. Just as the leper was cast out, sin casts us out. Sin isolates us. It divides us not only from God but from our family, our friends, and our communities.
Jesus wants to transform you the way that he transformed the leper. He wants to bring you out of isolation and into communion.
Be bold today to approach Christ as the leper approached Him—in full awareness of your brokenness—and ask him for healing.
http://blessedisshe.net/jesus-heals-leper/?mc_cid=673b2f3ab9&mc_eid=ccaefed520
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“Today I read about the execution of those twenty-one or twenty-two Coptic Christians,” the Pope said. “Their only words were: ‘Jesus, help me!’ They were killed simply because they were Christians.”
“The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a witness that cries out to be heard. It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same. Their blood confesses Christ.”
“As we recall these brothers and sisters who were killed only because they confessed Christ,” he said, “I ask that we encourage one another to go forward with this ecumenism that is emboldening us, the ecumenism of blood.”
“The martyrs belong to all Christians,” he said.
Filed under Christianity, Pope Francis
1:23 AM – 16 Feb 2015 BREAKING: In response to the mass killing of Coptic Christians, Egypt has sent warplanes to strike Daesh weapons caches and training camps in Libya.
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Filed under Bible Prophecy, Christianity, Islam, Media Bias
At age eight, Ramona Trevino climbed to the top of a roof and begged God to let her know he was real. After receiving a sign, she made a pact with herself to follow him always. But family difficulties and growing pains made it hard for her to continue on that path.
Pregnant at 16, she dropped out of high school and entered an abusive marriage, which ended in divorce. Wanting to make a difference and to help girls in similar tough situations, she accepted a job as the manager of a Planned Parenthood facility in Sherman, Texas. Over time, however, Trevino began to grapple with whether she was doing women more harm than good, setting her on a path to seek the truth, no matter where it might lead.
Realizing she could no longer refer women for abortions or provide them with false assurances of risk-free sex, Trevino took a leap of faith and left the financial security of her job. Her ultimate conversion involved a full return to the Catholic faith of her childhood and a new role as a pro-life advocate and speaker.
Trevino is one of hundreds of former abortion practitioners and abortion center staffers who are now pro-life and she will stare her story in a webcast on Monday, February 16 at 9 p.m. ET @ http://redeemedbygracewebcast.com/
Read the rest @ http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/13/she-ran-a-planned-parenthood-abortion-referral-clinic-but-something-made-her-quit-her-job/
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Filed under Catholic Church, Christianity, Life Issues, Planned Parenthood
There are SIX things the Lord hates,
yes, SEVEN are an abomination to him;
Haughty eyes, a LYING tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
A heart that plots wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to run to evil,
the FALSE WITNESS who utters LIES,
and the one who sows discord among kindred.
-Proverbs 6:16 (NABRE)
Jesus said,
“It is not what enters a person’s mouth that defiles him, but what comes OUT OF HIS MOUTH that defiles him.” -Matthew 15:11
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The purpose of the Crusades was to free Christians.
The purpose of Jihad was and is to enslave the kafir (non-Muslims).
This is a MUST WATCH VIDEO. It’s only six minutes. Six eye-opening minutes.
Bill Warner, PhD: Jihad vs Crusades
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“Consider this: we are ruled by a leader who watches our enemies burn a comrade alive and he lectures Christian leaders about the Crusades!!!” -James Woods
One caveat there, Mr. Woods. It should say “served” … but insofar as Obama’s view of his power and authority is concerned, “ruled” is right. “Leader” though … ::snort:: I don’t THINK so.
According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll, nearly 70% of Americans lack confidence in Obama’s ability to fight ISIS.
I saw an interesting post on Facebook by a man who said he used Obama’s words countless times during the Vietnam War when he was doing Communist interrogation/political indoctrination role-playing instruction at the USAF Survival School in a simulated North Vietnamese POW camp.
“Obama was repeating what has been standard communist propaganda and political indoctrination screed since Marx said religion was the opium of the people and that it should be destroyed. Marx neglected to mention that Christianity was the biggest obstacle to his psychopathic and genocidal communist dictatorships, and to communist-infiltrated Presidencies like Obama’s.”
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Filed under Barack Obama, Bobby Jindal, Christianity, Communism, Islam, Vietnam
“As we have seen many times, there is no moment so grave that our current president will not to use it to get up on his high horse, take a shot at Western civilization, and emphasize his own moral superiority. … No littler man has ever been president.” – David Gelernter
Fox News: Kelly Files clip – Obama has never once condemned crimes committed “in the name of Mohammed”
Bernard Lewis, the greatest living English-language historian of Islam said, “The Crusades could more accurately be described as a limited, belated and, in the last analysis, ineffectual response to the jihad — a failed attempt to recover by a Christian holy war what had been lost to a Muslim holy war.”
“In his ignorant and bigoted remarks to religious leaders this week, President Obama parroted the jihadi propaganda [that blames] the cultural incompetence, practical indolence, and spiritual decay of the entire Middle East [on] Richard Coeur de Lion’s twelfth-century swordplay.” – Ralph Peters
“We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West’s high horse, because we’ve earned the right to sit in that saddle.” – Jonah Goldberg
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Filed under Barack Obama, Catholic Church, Christianity, History, ISIS, Islam, Megyn Kelly, Middle East, United Nations
From Fox News Update: “There’s chutzpah and then there’s being self-deluded. President Obama appeared to veer toward the latter when he vowed to ‘redouble vigilance’ against ISIS in the wake of the Islamist militant’s latest and most depraved atrocity, burning alive a pilot from a key member of the U.S.-coalition fighting the group.”
Here’s a news flash, Cockroach-IN-Chief: Your “vigilance” toward militant Islamic terrorism was ZERO. ZERO times TWO was ZERO. Redoubling it still equals ZERO.
Also from Fox News Update: “The president wouldn’t say the name of ‘radical Islam’ and instead chose to be facile in denouncing ‘whatever ideology they are operating off of’ as ‘bankrupt’. Hmmm. Which ideology is it again? Are they feminists? Dadaists? Jacobites? Maybe Jedis?”
Probably Right-Wingnut, Climate-Denying, Tea Party-ists. If you doubt me, ask Brian Williams. He never ever lies about anything.
Now comes word that Obama chose the National Prayer Breakfast to rant at American Christians about not getting all high-moral-horsey about ISIS atrocities because, you know, the Crusades and slavery and Jim Crow laws.
Ummmmmmmmmmm … Muslims invaded Christian nations. Last I heard, even Democrats didn’t have a problem with people defending themselves from aggression.
As for slavery, Christians ended it while Muslims still practice it. And don’t get me started on Jim Crow laws (and the KKK) which were, you know, entirely a DEMOCRAT phenomenon.
Now … if you wanna talk about whose moral horses actually ARE higher:
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Filed under Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Christianity, Democrats, History, ISIS, Islam, Slavery
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