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Before becoming a disciple, Peter and his brother Andrew were fishermen. In fact, the first four disciples Jesus called in the Synoptic gospels were fishermen. Jesus announces that the fishermen will become “fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19, Mark 1:17). (The pun is in the Greek as well as the English.) |
Peter is depicted fishing in the gospels on several occasions even after becoming a disciple. He uses his skills as a fishermen to procure tax at Jesus’ request (Matthew 17:27). Based upon this story, tilapia is known as St. Peter’s fish in the Middle East. Also, between Jesus’ death and resurrection, Peter returned to... |
In what ways did fishing prepare Peter for his ministry? |
I knew that fishing required patience and reliance on God, but not being an angler myself, I asked Captain Greg Kembro of Apalachicola Fishing why he thought Jesus called fishermen. Greg has 35 years of fishing experience and is a Christian. He replied, “Maybe that is the answer, Jesus knew if he could win them he coul... |
In what other ways does fishing parallel ministry? Why do you think Jesus built his ministry around former fishermen? |
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
Habakkuk: "Minor" Prophet? |
Complete: “The just shall live by _____.” Faith (Habakkuk 2:4) |
The assertion that “the just shall live by faith” was made by the prophet Habakkuk. The word the King James Bible renders “just” is more commonly translated “righteous” (ASV, CEV, ESV, HCSB, NASB, NIV, NLT, NRSV, RSV). The Hebrew tsaddiyq can equally mean “just, lawful, righteous”. |
The book of Habakkuk is the eighth of twelve books classified as minor prophets. The apostle Paul used the Habakkuk quotation “the just shall live by faith” in composing his most influential letter, Romans (Romans 1:17). In fact, scholars concur that the Habakkuk reference serves as part of Paul’s thesis statement for ... |
The prophets, and specifically the minor prophets, are often neglected by today’s preachers? Why is that? Is it because it is assumed Jesus fulfilled their teachings? Is it because they are difficult to discern without knowledge of their context? Is it because they are understood and their social values are difficult t... |
“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.” - Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Monday, June 13, 2011 |
Esther's Double Identity |
What is Esther’s other name? Hadassah (Esther 2:7) |
Esther, the Jewess who used her influence as Queen of Persia to save her people, is introduced into the Biblical text with two names: |
While the name Esther appears 55 times in the Bible, the name Hadassah never again appears. The book of the Bible that bears the heroine’s name reads Esther, not Hadassah. |
Hadassah is Esther’s Hebrew name, likely the name given her by her parents. Hadassah means “myrtle”. While the myrtle is a plain plant, its crushed leaves produce a pleasant fragrance. It is one of the four species bundled together in the celebration of Sukkot (based on Leviticus 23:40). |
Esther, however, is a Persian name. It is either derived from the Persian word for “star” or a theonym which incorporates the name of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. While its exact meaning is contested, its Persian etymology is not. |
In Hebrew and Aramaic, the word ester is related to the Hebrew word meaning “to hide”. Esther hid her Jewish identity (Esther 2:10, 20) and her Persian named helped her do it. The famous Rabbinic commentator Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) justifies Esther’s subterfuge by noting that if she had not disguised her religion,... |
Was Esther wrong to conceal her religion? Is the fact that her Hebrew name is largely forgotten an indictment against her? How public should one be with their religious beliefs? |
Saturday, 26 May 2012 |
Massive news |
The news that the city of Sheffield will be represented solely by its massive team in the Championship next season has already been tweeted to Planet GJ667Cc by a team of electronic artists in Arizona. Unfortunately, the news will take twenty years to get there travelling at the speed of light. |
However, more information is emerging about this massive planet. Apparently, part of it, especially towards the north, is occupied by a race of super intelligent giant owls who have enough dexterity in their talons to make steel. The feedstock for the steel comes from intergalactic scrap metal merchants. |
Apparently they are the remnants of a little known space expedition that was sent from New Cross to Uranus in the hope of finding intelligent life there as there was none in New Cross. They missed their target and ended up in another part of the galaxy. |
One of the scrap merchants said, 'It's an in and out job for us on their planet. The screeching of those owls does your head in. And as for the smell. We beam up to the mother ship as soon as we can and tune into the New Den to chill out.' |
The rest of the planet is occupied by a humanoid race called Bladesmen whom the Owls depend on to turn their steel into implements. Apparently their cutlery is much prized in that part of the galaxy. |
The two races encounter each other at the massive Merryhell retail outlet. |
1. Well done. This orbital news surely closes the black hole that was the Third Division. |
Time for Championship Diary once again?? |
1. It needs some updating and I am very busy at the moment, but I will do it before the Crown Berger Cup at Welling. |
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 |
Rosa sat, |
so Martin could walk, |
so Obama could run, |
so our children can fly. |
- quote flying around the internet. |
Go vote! And if you have any trouble, report it here at Voter Supression Wiki |
Simon Owens said... |
The Voter Suppression Wiki is pretty cool. |
I've been working on an election project that utilizes Twitter: Freshly Squeezed Tweets. It aggregates tweets like Twitter Vote Report, but it creates a more abstract visualization of the aggregate conversation on Twitter showing frequency and context of election-related words. The site will pull a continuous stream of... |
single mom seeking said... |
Great work!! I was led here by my friend Deesha (I'm part of Cheeky Mamas, too).... and I'll be back for more! |
IERegGetBool |
Reads an Internet Explorer registry setting that’s defined to have a type suitable for interpretation as a boolean. |
IERegGetDw ( |
UINT uSetting, |
BOOL *pbData); |
The uSetting argument is an index that identifies the setting. For a list of supported settings, see the general notes on the Internet Explorer Registry API. |
The pbData argument provides the address of a variable that is to receive a boolean interpretation of the setting’s data. |
Return Value |
The function returns zero for success, else an error code. |
If pbData is NULL, the function cannot do anything useful, and fails (returning E_POINTER). |
Interpretation of the data depends on the type that is defined for the setting. Presumably by oversight, the function does not first check that the given index is supported: a value sufficiently far out of range will crash the process by inducing the function to read from an invalid address. |
If the setting is defined as having REG_DWORD data, the function reads the setting as if for the IERegGetDw function, but returns TRUE or FALSE via pbData according to whether data for the setting is non-zero or zero. |
If the setting is defined as having REG_SZ data, the function reads the setting as if for the IERegGetWz function, into a buffer sufficient for 8 characters. It returns TRUE via pbData if the case-insensitive string data is YES, TRUE or 1, or FALSE for NO, FALSE or 0. |
Possible error codes from either registry search are: |
The IERegGetBool function is exported from IERTUTIL as ordinal 166 in version 8.0 and higher. |
Globalists Attacking The U.S. and Russia In 21st Century Warfare |
The US and Russia are being manipulated into conflict |
The US and Russia are being manipulated into conflict by Globalists |
image: Socio-Economics History Blog |
By: Nick Russo December 13, 2016 |
If you watch the Main Stream Media (MSM), you have noticed a new theme talked about on every news program and on every news channel. The theme is that Russia hacked the United States’ election and got Trump elected through some sort of manipulation. Most people now recognize that the MSM lied regularly to the America... |
This letter from the editor was published due to the fact that the NY Times knew that the public recognized the Times’ and most other MSM outlets’ biased propaganda efforts during the election. |
Now back to the new theme of Russia hacking the election. The story originates from factions within the U.S.’s intelligence community publicly making A CLAIM with no real evidence (SEE HERE) that the Russians are the entity which hacked into the Democrat National Conventions email system. They simply made the claim-s... |
Since this claim was made by factions within the U.S. intelligence community, both the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence which oversees ALL intelligence activities have issued statements claiming that there is NO EVIDENCE SUCH A HACK INFLUENCED THE ELECTION-SEE HERE with an excerpt below: |
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)…..has not endorsed their (CIA’s) assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence that Moscow intended to boost Trump over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton…. |
This supposed Russian hacking released emails to the American Public that ranged from severely embarrassing comments to blatant illegal tampering with the Republican Primaries. One such example are the emails released showing that the Democrats PAID GROUPS to INCITE VIOLENCE AT TRUMP PRIMARY RALLIES IN ORDER TO DISCRE... |
Bob Creamer (appears at 10 mins 50 secs): “We have a call with the campaign every day to go over the focuses that need to be undertaken.” Authors note: This is the same Bob Creamer that had visited the White House and Obama personally on over 300 occasions which links the activities to the DNC and the White House di... |
Let’s recap the situation: |
Factions within the U.S. intelligence community, which are surely Russian hawks, have made claims with no evidence that the Russians effectively stole the election for Trump. This ‘claim’ has been saturated on every news channel on television as if it is undeniable truth despite the fact that other high profile intell... |
Now the question is WHY is the Establishment pushing this narrative? |
It is no secret that the Democrats have been actively trying to CHANGE THE ELECTION OUTCOME. The Democrats first demanded and received election recounts in some highly contested swing States which handed Trump the election. How did that work for the Democrats? Well, not so good. As an example, in Wisconsin it led t... |
The recount option did not work to change the election so on to the next method of trying to change the election results-getting to the Electoral College. Now the Democrats are trying to ‘establish in the minds of the electors’ that the Russians swayed the election for Trump. After broadcasting the idea of Russian inf... |
See Here,excerpt below: |
A handful of electors have already made headlines by claiming they will refuse to vote for Trump when they convene on Dec. 19, in their respective states, to vote for President. |
Ok, we have established the Psychological Manipulation which is underway to both implicate the Russians and keep Trump out of the White House. Why is this happening? |
The implication of Russian influence on the U.S. election is meant to accomplish two key goals. This claim of Russian influence is designed to undermine the American Electoral System and to push the U.S. and Russia into conflict. |
The United States and Russia are two very large and powerful nations which have become obstacles to the Globalist Agenda. The isolation of Russia within the global economic framework (via economic sanctions, etc.) is a direct reaction by the Globalist’s to Russia’s resistance to being absorbed into the Globalists’ Age... |
Russia has been under Globalist attack for years due to their resistance of Globalism as indicated below in these articles two of which were written in 2014 and published on this site: July 2014: Global Elite Agitating For War Against Russia August 2014: War In Ukraine Manufactured By Western Oligarchs September ... |
Furthermore, the election of Donald Trump in America is also a reaction by the American People to the ill-effects of Globalism on the U.S. economy and on the People’s quality of life. One of Donald Trump’s primary themes and the galvanizing factor in amassing his public support was his “Americanism Not Globalism” mant... |
As you can see, the Globalists have a real problem with the resistance of both America and Russia. And an even bigger threat to the Globalists is the real possibility of the U.S. and Russia becoming close allies in their fight against the Globalist system. Donald Trump has already indicated that he wishes for America... |
It should be abundantly clear by now. The Globalists are in direct conflict and are waging full scale 21st century warfare on America and Russia. |
The purpose of the ‘claim’ of Russian influence on the U.S. election is both to try and change the election outcome and to provide an excuse for the Globalist faction within the U.S. to actively attack Russia. |
We have established here that the U.S. and Russia are big obstacles to the complete takeover of Globalism. Furthermore, an even bigger obstacle is for the two nation-states to form an alliance of resistance. Therefore, if you are the Globalists, you directly benefit from weakening both America and Russia and keeping t... |
How do the Globalists weaken the U.S. and Russia and, simultaneously, keep them from joining forces? The Globalists accomplish this goal by driving the two resistant nation-states into war with each other. It is now abundantly clear that it is a strategic goal of the Globalists to drive the two countries apart throug... |
Independent Nation-States are a great obstacle to the transformation into Globalism. |
We are witnessing 21st Century Warfare happening before our eyes. Globalism is actively attacking the two largest nations which oppose its Global System. Stop thinking about warfare in conventional terms! There are now higher dimensions to warfare than previously existed. |
We must become aware of the battlefield which this war is taking place and not fall into the manipulation traps which the Enemy sets for us. In order to resist Globalism, the People and the Governments of the U.S. and Russia must resist being manipulated into conflict and must come together in a relationship that mutu... |
If you believe this article provides good information which could contribute to raising peoples’ awareness and/or keeping the peace with another nuclear power: |
Jun 22, 2017 |
Majo no Tabitabi V1 Chapter 14 |
Chapter 14: The Royal Kingdom of Celestellia |
Part 1 |
As I advanced above the prairie with my broom, the flowers dashed as if opposing it. The grass that received the light of sun wilted away with a gentle sparkle and a sound similar to a burbling stream. |
Taking a deep breath, I opened my eyes. |
The opposite side of the grasslands. |
Located there was a country surrounded by walls. |
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