Posts Tagged ‘ Jesus ’
I always find it interesting when politicians of either stripe use the Bible for their own purposes. The application of the passage they are quoting or referencing is almost always wrong or a far-fetched application bearing little relationship to what is actually being said. President Obama is a liberal progressive to use their own terms. [ READ MORE ]
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the [ READ MORE ]
Did Jesus favor the down and out? Did Jesus give preferential treatment to the poor? Would Jesus approve of government sponsored wealth redistribution? Did Jesus think the rich should pay their fair share? What does Scripture say about these things? This is a link to another “what would Jesus do” article. This time it has to [ READ MORE ]
Although it’s been 37 years there are parts of Monty Python’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail I can still quote. “Message for you sir” as the messenger tells King Arthur as an arrow strikes the messenger’s chest with the message attached. “I’ll be all right, really” as the knight who is trapped in a castle filled [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes you just have to post fun stuff! Because of my interest in Roman military history I’ll just run a Google search for various terms and then wade deep into the search to see what turns up. This link kind of cracked me up. It’s from a British Ghost website-a website that documents British ghost [ READ MORE ]
Israelis link ancient sword to fall of Herod’s temple —JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have discovered a Roman sword from the time of the destruction of the second Jewish temple in 70 AD, ——officials said on Monday as Jews prepared to mourn the anniversary. —The Israel Antiquities Authority said that the 60-centimetre (23.6-inch) long weapon and [ READ MORE ]
My Take: Jesus would support Palestinian statehood bid Editor’s Note: Carl Medearis is an international expert in Arab-American and Muslim-Christian relations and is author of the book Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism As you can see the author of the article in his capacity as is a Mid-East expert. I’m not an expert on much of [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes I catch a few minutes of Fox and Friends to find out what happened while I was asleep and blissfully unaware of the latest catastrophe. Yesterday one of the segments featured a Democratic Strategist. Now before I move on let’s deal with the terms “democratic strategist.” By and large Democrat Strategy revolves around name [ READ MORE ]
Recently, the recently busted tax cheat Charlie Rangel (D-New York) asked what Jesus would do about the debt ceiling. Charlie was supporting his boss Obama with the often repeated Democrat slogan “we need to soak the rich” and redistribute their wealth. So, Rangel’s comments were really geared to more spending, not less and he implies [ READ MORE ]
It’s always a little comical when the lefties try to quote Jesus in order to make the Republicans look stingy, greedy, heartless, uncompassionate and/or mean-spirited or to justify increased tax extractions to Caesar. This story from Newsbusters via Fox Nation describes a typical misquote, non-quote, quote taken out of context or otherwise misrepresentation of Jesus’ words. Here’s [ READ MORE ]
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