It is time for Christians to remember to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Meanwhile Muslims are praying for a huge piece of Jerusalem and demonstrating in the streets demanding that the whole city be given to them chanting:

“Jerusalem is Arab, our eternal capital”

Here’s what I posted today on one of my other blogs:

There are many reasons why Christians should continue to remember Jerusalem in our prayers. First of all because I believe that we are commanded to pray for Jerusalem in Psalm 122:6. But beyond that we need to pray for the destiny of that land and people.

Those of us in America should be praying for Our President and his administration. VP Biden has been over to Israel recently and pretty much favored and was sympathetic to the Palestinian Muslims and their claim over the land. In fact he warned Israeli officials that their relationship with the US was in severe danger over settlements in Jerusalem.

It is my perspective that if this country does not support Israel and their right to Jerusalem then we are the ones that are ultimately in real trouble. So even for purely selfish reasons we do need to be praying. I just don’t understand why we would want to support violent dictatorial Islamic despots over the freely elected leaders of a democratic Israel. It doesn’t make sense to me on any level. Obviously we are battling against demonic powers here and spiritual blindness can be the only logical explanation. Prayer is essential for this situation.

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Here’s an incredible quote from Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D). Not only that he actually means it—it is a day to celebrate!:

“Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.”

Response: Really good unless you are one of the 36,000 and the 100,000 or so in their families.

Sort of reminds me of Marie Antoinette who said – “let them eat cake” when informed that the Parisians were out of bread. But she was just ignorant. Then there’s Harry who really should have known better.

To be fair, the daily job losses aren’t as bad as last month, but does that qualify as a ‘big day’ and ‘really good’? Hardly.               *Top

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According to Compass Direct, last month more than 100 local Lao officials in Katin village of Ta-Oyl district, Saravan Province forced 48 Christians to leave their worship service by gunpoint.

Then the officials marched them 4 miles out of town and left them there to fend for themselves.

Guards have been posted at the entrance of the village to keep the Christian families from coming back unless they renounce the Christian faith. Meanwhile, the 11 Christian homes in the village have been confiscated along with most of the possessions.

This is not the first time that Katin village officials have forced Christians to renounce their faith or leave. The Katin village leaders have declared that spirit worship is the only acceptable form of worship in their community and that other religious groups will not be tolerated.

Laos is suppose to have freedom of religion guaranteed by their constitution but local officials continue to ignore the laws of their own country even though provincial officials in the past have asked them to respect the rights of religious minorities.

Meanwhile, the government of  Laos is communist and really not sympathetic to plight of the Christians or any other religious group for that matter.

We really do need to keep these folks in our prayers.                       *Top

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On Monday President Obama presented his new heathcare program for all to see for the first time. Abortion funding is included in the new proposal even though pro-life Democrats and nearly all Republicans oppose it.

A couple of weeks ago the President said that he was going to more open this time to the concerns of the Republicans and some in his own party.  Now he seems to be telling us that we are going to get abortion funding  whether we want it or not?

The new proposal is a ‘more of the same’ near copy of the Senate version which pro-life Democrats in the House have already said that they could not support.  Also the bill does not contain any protections for pro-life doctors and nurses who would not want to participate in abortions for ethical and religious reasons.

The President has scheduled a televised affair for Thursday on the Healthcare proposal. At first he had said that during that time he was going to entertain other ideas and proposals. Now in the last week or so the climate has changed and the TV event looks like it’s only going to be a PR opportunity for the President to present his already cooked plan.

Now the dirty little secret is out that the administration and the Congressional leaders plan on by-passing the usual way bills of this nature are passed and plan send it through a ‘reconciliation ‘ process like budgets receive approval.

If they follow through with this scenario and use this questionable parliamentary maneuver then only 51 votes are needed in the Senate and a bare majority in the House to get it done.

In essence and in the final analysis, by this action the President will be telling the American people who oppose his healthcare program and abortion funding in particular:  ‘You are going to get it whether you want it or not’!            *Top

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He says that he wore the button to work for over a year with no complaints then all of a sudden they required him to lose the button or get fired—he declined.

Home Depot management say it is merely a matter of dress code violation:

"This associate chose to wear a button that expressed his religious beliefs. The issue is not whether or not we agree with the message on the button," Craig Fishel said. "That’s not our place to say, which is exactly why we have a blanket policy, which is long-standing and well-communicated to our associates, that only company-provided pins and badges can be worn on our aprons."

Response: First of all, I support the right of any business to have a dress code and expect their employees to follow through. However, this sounds like the local manager over reacted and may have been far too impressed with his own power.

Also, exactly what religious beliefs did the button express Mr. Fishel? —Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Mormon, Catholic or Protestant? What Beliefs?—it is part of the pledge of allegiance for pete sake! Maybe you should instruct your employees not to take any cash since the Motto of the country is on all of it—“In God We Trust”.

In the midst of a recession when everyone needs their job and ‘big box’ businesses like Home depot are suffering through a loss of business it seems insane to me that any large company would want this kind of bad PR. After all the button is rather harmless and does support the country. This is sure to bring them some grief and additional loss in sales from folks that are sympathetic to a patriotic American being crushed by a big bad giant corporation. Who really needs this?            *Top

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“The largest Swedish newspaper publishes an article accusing Israel of murdering Palestinians so it can sell their body parts. The largest Dutch newspaper publishes an article accusing Satan-worshipping Jews of creating swine flu and other diseases to murder large numbers of people. The newspaper of the British elite publishes an article by a well-known philosopher calling Israel a Nazi state.”

Are the Israelis really killing Palestinians in order to sell the body parts? Did the Satanic Jews really create swine flu to kill millions? Did the victims of the Nazi Holocaust really end up founding a nation—Israel that is a ‘Nazi’ state? These stories would probably seem rather ridiculous to most Americans. Yet they were printed in some of Europe’s most prominent newspapers with little proof or documentation. Not only that, they were accepted at face value by Europeans which are becoming more and more anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic.

These are just some of the more blatant  examples, more subtle propaganda goes unquestioned almost daily in Europe. There is little or no support for the State of Israel now among the Europeans. Nearly every bad report is unquestionably accepted when it comes to the Israelis.

Some have blamed the increasing anti-Semitism on the exponential growth of the European Muslim community. However of lot of it has deep historical roots that can’t be dismissed by anything more recent.

The idea that Satan worshipping Jews created Swine Flu reminds one of the historical beliefs of many Europeans during the Middle Ages that the Jews created The Plague. It is beyond me how anyone in the 21th century could believe such a thing—but it was printed in the largest Dutch newspaper as fact!

After reading this article it is understandable how Israel seems to be standing alone with little or no international support accept the USA. The rise of anti-Semitism in Europe once more is a chilling development considering what happened the last time.           *Top

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