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No Payments, No Interest, No Future?: The Age of Nostradamus
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For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
Big victory for traditional marriage
in Maine
Voters in
Washington domestic partnership issue still undecided
Analyzing GOP gubernatorial victories
in VA, NJ
Republican
candidates for the governors' seats in both Virginia and New Jersey emerged
victorious Tuesday night, handily defeating opponents in states that just one
year earlier went overwhelmingly for Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Democrat wins House seat in heavily GOP area in NY
A battle
for control of the Republican message may have cost the party a special
election for a northern New York House seat.
Not another czar, but perhaps a
'dictator'?
The
leader of a Christian medical group is warning that pending healthcare
legislation in the U.S. House could establish the secretary of Health and Human
Services as the new "healthcare dictator."
Cap and trade - Gore's 'gravy train'
Al Gore
reportedly stands to benefit greatly from proposed "cap-and-trade"
legislation -- and possibly become the first "climate
billionaire."
Socialized healthcare - one way or
another
A healthcare
policy analyst says Democratic leaders in Congress are playing "rope a
dope" with opponents of their healthcare bill, knowing full well that if
they don't succeed in passing a public option they can still socialize
healthcare with an individual mandate.
More discharged for being pregnant than being 'gay'
A
conservative military watchdog has released a report debunking the claim by
radical homosexual activists who argue that military personnel losses due to
homosexuality pose a "threat to national security."
Porn poll produces encouraging results
A new
poll shows that most American adults don't think viewing Internet pornography
is harmless.
A sisterly escort, an unlikely place
A
Catholic nun is acting as a patient escort at an
Indonesian students view persecution
as training
Nearly a
thousand Bible school students in
Village v. kingdom - city overrides local church
An
TX woman challenges council prayer
The city
of
States, beware of Medicaid expansion by feds
A health
economist warns that the House healthcare bill constitutes such a large
expansion of welfare spending that a majority of healthcare in this country
will eventually be purchased through government programs.
Is chirp the new tweet?
A new
website has been created for people who like to 'tweet' but are upset with
unwanted twitter. ChristianChirp.com was launched last week by web guru James
Paris.
Legal concerns spark cancelation of
Christmas parade
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INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS BOARD
I
exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in
authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and
honesty. For this is good and acceptable
in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all
men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.-I Timothy 2:1-4
WORLD LEADERS. Please pray
today for Prime Minister Boyko Borissov
of
AMERICAN PEOPLES AFFINITY STRATEGIC MOBILIZATION.
Pray for the Strategy Mobilizer Team meeting to be
held in
PAISA OF COLOMBIA (PIE-sah).
The Paisa Team has been approached by a local Great Commission Christian church
interested in understanding the chronological Bible storying
process. An initial meeting has taken place, and now the church’s missions leader is interested in learning how to train their
mission teams and local lay leaders in 20 towns throughout the state. Please
pray that God will lead and empower both the church’s missions
leader and the Paisa Team as the missions leader witnesses the storying process used in a new Baptist mission and then
maps out a strategy to implement training, beginning in November. Praise God
for raising up others in
CORSICANS OF FRANCE (KOR-si-kans).
Team
ISRAELI JEWS OF
JAHANKA OF SENEGAL, GUINEA AND THE GAMBIA (jah-HONK-kay). The school year has just begun. Please
continue to pray for J as he begins a new year as a schoolteacher in village Y,
asking that he will have many opportunities for sharing with his students, their
families, and the other people there. Give thanks to God that the people of
village Y have been interested in hearing what God’s Word says. Pray that this
interest will continue and that they will respond, choosing to “follow the road
of Jesus.” http://www.jahanka.org
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No Payments, No Interest,
No Future?: The Age
of Nostradamus
Here’s a new phrase for you: “Let us eat, drink, and be merry
today, for in 2012, we die.” At least that’s what the History Channel would
have you believe.
If
you are the credulous type, there has never been a better time to treat
yourself to some luxuries, at least if the terms of the deal are right. If the
merchant or manufacturer says “no payments or interest through 2012,” go for
it.
At
least that's what you conclude watching the History Channel.
For
many years, the network was nicknamed the “Hitler Channel” because of all the
shows it ran on World War II and the Nazis. Today, a better nickname would be
the “Nostradamus Channel.” Hardly a day goes by
without at least one show touting some doomsday scenario and how it was
foretold.
At
the center of this programming strategy lies Nostradamus,
the 16th-century French apothecary whose devotees claim foresaw everything from
the rise of Napoleon to 9/11. Everyone who has ever written a book on Nostradamus gets extended face time on the History Channel,
where their claims are treated with the utmost seriousness.
It
isn’t only Nostradamus. Name a doomsday prediction
made by some long-dead person or group and chances are the Nostradamus
Channel has given it a respectful airing, no matter how unhinged the claims
might be.
The
latest and greatest example is the new series The Nostradamus
Effect. That’s the name the producers have given to the “convergence” of
“doomsday prophecy” and “current events.”
We
are told that for “5,000 years, prophets around the world”—including, of
course, Nostradamus—“have predicted the end of days.”
Operating “independently,” they have concluded that 2012 will be a “time of
extraordinary shift.”
One
so-called expert told viewers that “we’re on the verge of the biggest riot of
all time.” Another said that “we are reaching a confluence of tipping points.”
These tipping points include climate change, financial upheaval, political
unrest, crop failures, terrorism, and nuclear war, to name but a few.
That
sounds ominous. Of course, nobody can cite anything that sounds like an actual
prediction, such as, “In 2012, the world blows up.” It’s speaking nonsense,
rank speculation.
It’s
not much to go on, but then again, this isn’t about facts or reason—it’s about
fear. It’s about understandable anxiety made worse because in rejecting
Christianity, the West has rejected the basis of its hope. A world in which
God’s purposes are being fulfilled for our good has been replaced by one that
leaves man in charge, mostly for ill.
The
world has become literally senseless to us. We live in, as theologian Robert
Jensen once put, a meaningless world wishing we could believe in something. The
more events seem to spin out of control, the more we succumb to superstition
and irrationality. And of course there’s always a media conglomerate ready to
sell the credulous what they crave.
Further
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