Erase any doubts about Islam's ultimate intentions

This is from a conference that was held at the Hilton Hotel Grand Ballroom in Oak Lawn, IL this past weekend. The conference of about 800 participants was held by the group Hizb Ut Tahrir; a group that has been banned in Germany, Russia, Pakistan and several other Middle Eastern countries. (HT:Newsbusters).

Islam is a varied religion, but it has an unbending core of world domination that will continue to seek the overthrow of western culture and its Christian underpinnings. Watch and pray.

Even a Stopped Clock is Right Twice a Day

Even the ever cynical and Christian-phobic Bill Maher gets it right at times. He said this on his HBO show "Real Time" Friday night during his "New Rules" segment..... (HT:Newsbusters)


"Michael Jackson IS America. We love him so much because he reflects our nation perfectly: fragile, over-indulgent, childish, in debt, on drugs, and over the hill."

Pray for Bill Maher that his anger and cynicism would drive him to despair over man's ability to make the world better, and that he would see his great need for a Savior.

Two Ways to Read the Bible

There are two ways to read the Bible.

The one way to read the Bible is that it’s basically about you: what you have to do in order to be right with God, in which case you’ll never have a sure and certain hope, because you’ll always know you’re not quite living up. You’ll never be sure about that future.

Or you can read it as all about Jesus. Every single thing is not about what you must do in order to make yourself right with God, but what he has done to make you absolutely right with God.

- Tim Keller

The beauty of the human voice combined with words of ultimate beauty

My Song is Love Unknown

Baby Memories

Babies in the womb remember. Jennifer Harper of the Washington Times reports on a new study that confirms babies in the womb indeed remember.

They weigh less than 3 pounds, usually, and are perhaps 15 inches long. But they can remember.

The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are born.

"In addition, results indicated that 34-week-old fetuses are able to store information and retrieve it four weeks later," said the research, which was released Wednesday.

Scientists from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Maastricht University Medical Centre and the University Medical Centre St. Radboud, both in the Netherlands, based their findings on a study of 100 healthy pregnant women and their fetuses with the help of some gentle but precise sensory stimulation.

She goes on to note...

A call to NARAL Pro-Choice America for comment on the implications of the research were not returned.

Hmmm...perhaps they simply forgot to return the call, as their memories are slipping with age. Oh well, I guess it means they're just human.

He became sick on Saturday--and died on Monday!

Timeless words on the brevity of our times and the richness of grace by John Newton


Dear friend,
Two people who were well the day you left us--have since died. One of them has already been buried--he was a poor ungodly creature, suddenly cut off in the prime of life! The other man was young, jovial, jesting and thoughtless. He became sick on Saturday--and died on Monday!

Oh, my friend, what do we owe to the grace of God--that we were not cut off in the days of our ignorance--as so many others have been!

Blessed be God for Jesus Christ--He is exalted to "save to the uttermost!" That word 'uttermost' has an extensive meaning--it includes a conquest over all difficulties, and a supply of all that is necessary! How totally, and how often, would I have been lost--had not Jesus engaged to save me to the uttermost! And many a time I would have given up all hope--but for that text, "He is able to save to the uttermost!" "To the uttermost" reaches to all possible circumstances. He can . . .
enlighten the most ignorant,
soften the most obdurate,
support the most tempted,
comfort the most distressed,
pardon the most guilty!

Oh, may His precious name be engraved upon our hearts, and sound sweeter than music to our ears--for He has loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and will save us to the uttermost--in defiance of . . .
all our sins,
all our fears and
all our enemies!

(Letters of John Newton)

Happy 500th Birthday John Calvin

1958-2009


In 500 years will anyone be celebrating the birth of Michael Jackson? Will anyone note his great influence on culture and nations and the cause of the gospel? Will anyone still be singing "Beat It" or moonwalking? I can't say for sure but my money will still be on Calvin. Today all over the world many will be celebrating the birth of the great Reformer John Calvin who was born July 10, 1509. To grasp the impact of the entire Reformation Michael Horton has this article on the 5 Sola's of the Reformation.

Probably one of the most ill-informed accusations ever said about Calvin is that his views kill evangelism and missions. Yet listen to these excerpts from an article by Ray Van Neste

Perhaps the best evidence of Calvin's concern for missions is the mission activity of the Genevan church under his leadership. Under Calvin's leadership, Geneva became "the hub of a vast missionary enterprise"[14] and "a dynamic center or nucleus from which the vital missionary energy it generated radiated out into the world beyond."[15] Protestant refugees from all over Europe fled to Geneva; they came not merely for safety but also to learn from Calvin the doctrines of the Reformation so they could return home to spread the true gospel.

In one year, 1561, though the Register mentions only twelve missionaries, other sources indicate that at least 142 missionaries were sent![21] Hundreds of men were sent out, reaching Italy, Germany, Scotland, England, and practically covering France.[.


In addition to the extensive work in Europe, one group of Genevan missionaries was sent to Brazil. The Register simply states that on Tuesday, August 25, 1556, M. Pierre Richier and M. Guillaume were sent as ministers to Brazil.

Soli Deo Gloria- To God Alone Be the Glory

True Freedom

"I shall now conclude my discourse by preaching this Savior to all who hear me, and entreating you in the most earnest manner to believe in Jesus Christ, for "there is no salvation in any other". ... If you are not reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, if you are not clothed with the spotless robe of His righteousness, you must forever perish."


- United States Founding Father, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon, "The Works of John Witherspoon, (Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1815), Vol. V, p. 276, 278, "The Absolute Necessity of Salvation Through Christ", January 2, 1758

There are only two things which I am sure of

In a day of information explosion (think nuclear!), these are must know truths from a couple of hundred years ago.

John Newton, former slave trader, writer of Amazing Grace, pastor and saved sinner writes:


When I was young, I was sure of many things.
But now that I am old, there are only two
things which I am sure of:
One is that I am a miserable sinner!
Secondly, that Christ is an all-sufficient Savior!

He is well taught--who learns these two lessons.

"This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full
acceptance: 'Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners'--and I am the worst of them!"
1 Timothy 1:15