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| |  | | | Dr. W.A. Criswell - W. A. Criswell Sermon Library | Dr. W. A. Criswell
W. A. Criswell was born December 19, 1909 in Eldorado, Oklahoma. He received his B.A. from Baylor University, and his Th.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served as pastor of First Baptist Church Chickasha, Oklahoma and First Baptist Church Muskogee, Oklahoma prior to being called as pastor of First Baptist Church Dallas in October of 1944. He served for fifty years as senior pastor of First Baptist Church, for many years the largest church in the Southern Baptist Convention, preaching more than five thousand sermons from its pulpit. He became the historic church's first Pastor Emeritus in 1995.
Dr. Criswell published fifty-four books and was awarded eight honorary doctorates. The Criswell College, First Baptist Academy, and KCBI Radio were started under his leadership. He served on the board of trustees of Baylor University, Baylor Health Care System, Dallas Baptist University, and The Baptist Standard. He also served as a member of the Annuity Board and as Chairman of the Trustees of the Baptist Sunday School Board (now LifeWay Christian Resources). The Baptist Banner characterized his contribution to the Southern Baptist Convention as [More] | |  |
| |  | | | Leherensuge: Jews are 'Phoenicians', Palestinians are 'Jews' | | Is it any miracle that in their days of overthrow and subjugation many Babylonians and Syrians and so forth, and later on many Phoenicians, speaking practically the same language and having endless customs, habits, tastes and traditions in common, should be attracted by this inspiring cult [Judaism] and should seek to share in its fellowship and its promise? After the fall of Tyre, Sidon, Carthage and the Spanish Phoenician cities, the Phoenicians suddenly vanish from history; and as suddenly, we find not simply in Jerusalem but in Spain, Africa, Egypt, the East, wherever the Phoenicians had set their feet, communities of Jews. [More] | | |
| |  | | | WHO WERE THE PHOENICIANS? - Haaretz Bookshelf - Haaretz - Israel News Haaretz.com | | It is universally accepted today that the Phoenicians were a nation which had settled on the Mediterranean coast, along a narrow strip of land bordered by Aradus to the north, Mount Lebanon to the east, and Mount Carmel to the south. The city of Jaffa is sometimes mentioned as the southern border, and the Eleutherus river (Nehar el–Kebir) as the northern one. Plinymentions Jaffa as "Jaffa the Phoenician" though he designates the city of Dor as the border between Phoenicia and Judea. Raymond Weill, relying on various sources, infers that the term Phoenicia implied at first a vast section of the Aegeo–Asiatic world, and that only in the course of centuries it became restricted to the above–mentioned narrow coastal strip. For Weill this puzzling fact remains inexplicable. According to Herodotus (II, 84) "these Phoenicians dwelt in old time, as they themselves say, by the Red Sea"This quotation from Herodotus was taken by many scholars to mean they came from the region surrounding the Persian Gulfwhile others thought they were from the Erythrean region. Strabo (I, II, 35; XVI, 27) refers with astonishment to the claim of the inhabitants of the Persian Gulf that two cities in their region are named Tyros and Aradus, whereas Plinystates that the name is not Tyros but Tylos. [More] | | |
| |  | | | Black Robe Regiment - The Black Robe Regiment | One if by land, two if by sea, three from within.
The America that our founding fathers and countless millions have fought and died for is under attack. Not by some foreign aggressor but from an ideological mindset and post modern worldview. We have lost our moral compass and are in danger of loosing our liberties and freedoms. As was once true during the American Revolution, the church stood as the center of political debate and the church leaders were instrumental in rallying the masses in their fight for liberty. The time has come again for the church leaders to assume their rightful roll as leaders of the community and make a stand for freedom. The entire Christian community must now unite in opposition to the erosion of our founding principals and return this nation back to the divinely inspired constitutional precepts and values that facilitated Americas rise to greatness.
We are calling on all church leaders to join with us in building a united community of constitutionally minded and Christ based patriots willing to push back against an overreaching federal government. Please join the Black Robe Regiment and invite others in as well. Use the resources and initiatives here to educate, motivate, and activate your congregations into action. Time is running short and we must awaken and make our stand and have our voices heard!! [More] | | |
| |  | | | Freedom of assembly: An essential element of democracy | First Amendment Center – news, commentary, analysis on free speech, pre | The First Amendment prohibits government from abridging “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” This basic freedom ensures that the spirit of the First Amendment survives and thrives even when the majority of citizens would rather suppress expression it finds offensive.
Over the course of our history, freedom of assembly has protected individuals espousing myriad viewpoints. Striking workers, civil rights advocates, anti-war demonstrators and Ku Klux Klan marchers have all taken to the streets and sidewalks in protest or in support of their causes. Sometimes these efforts have galvanized public support or changed public perceptions. Imagine a civil rights movement without the March on Washington or the women’s suffrage movement without ranks of long-skirted, placard-carrying suffragists filling city streets.
The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the importance of this freedom in the 1937 case De Jonge v. State of Oregon, writing that “the right to peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and free press and is equally fundamental.” According to the court the right to assemble is “one that cannot be denied without violating those fundamental principles which lie at the base of all civil and political institutions.”
In De Jonge, the high court struck down an Oregon “criminal syndicalism” law that prohibited advocacy of “any unlawful acts or methods as a means of accomplishing or effecting industrial or political change or revolution.” Dirk De Jonge had been convicted for teaching communist doctrine to a gathering of 300 people. The Supreme Court reversed his conviction, ruling that “the holding of meetings for peaceable political action cannot be proscribed.”
The First Amendment protects peaceful, not violent, assembly. However, there must a “clear and present danger” or an “imminent incitement of lawlessness” before government officials may restrict free-assembly rights. Otherwise, the First Amendment’s high purpose can too easily be sacrificed at the altar of political expediency. [More] | | |
| |  | | | Texas Right to Life | In the 1960's, concerned citizens around Texas joined their local doctors, lawyers, ministers, and social workers as they testified in Austin in a grassroots effort to protect the long-standing laws of our state that safeguarded the yet-to-be-born child. Because of the common motivation of these citizens, a state organization, Texas Right to Life, was incorporated to strengthen and coordinate their defense of innocent human life. In 1973, the challenge intensified when Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton struck down every law in the land that protected those who could not protect themselves.
Over thirty years later, our work continues as we fight for the rights of the unborn (including the nascent humans created in laboratories), the disabled, the sick, the elderly, and the unloved in a world where the lack of respect for innocent human life has escalated to the point where they are all at risk. [More] | | |
| |  | | | Mass Shootings, a Perspective | | Mass murders (4+ murders) account for 0.2% of all murders, and 0.001% of all deaths. All this talk about how horrible the problem is and how America is plagued with mass murders ignores the fact that we're talking about about less than 30 deaths a year. More people die from falling out of trees. | | |
| |  | | | The Church Report – Discussing the best ways to live your life. | Despite the bad reputation Christianity, Islam and Judaism are getting these days through things like the shooting of abortionists, suppression of women and assassination of politicians, he writes, “sensible people in all religions” are turning back to their sacred texts like the Bible.
He quotes a Roman Catholic theologian who has taught at Rutgers and Princeton as reporting “a tremendous interest in liturgy and ritual among students. Students are also fascinated by moral orthodoxy in matters of sex and sexuality — tremendously hungry for things that give more shape to life.”
This is all very well, Mr. John Bentley Mays comments, but “the danger is the temptation to shift too far the other way, to go for what promises to be unchanging, rock solid. That can go to fundamentalism which risks perversion into violence.”
Which of course raises a crucial question. What exactly does he mean by “fundamentalism,” and how does it differ from the religion of “sensible people?” Belief in the “rock solid” is undesirable, but how exactly does one believe in the non-rock-solid? The only admissible beliefs in the Mays canon, it seems, are such as make no presumptuous claims that there really is anything to believe in. … [More] | | |
| |  | | | Dr. Lalita Renee Smith | IN | God Campaigns | | I am a creative visionary. My passion is to use my creative gifts and talents to advance the Kingdom of God on earth and provide wisdom, inspiration, and revelation to those who seek truth.
As a teacher to Christian leaders, I am used to teach others how to dissect personal, corporate and regional prophecies in order to effectively perform strategic spiritual warfare in their lives, ministries and region.
Personal prophetic counseling and life coaching skills are also an integral part of my spiritual arsenal. [More] | | |
| |  | | | God Campaigns | Lalita Smith | | | Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted among the nations. (Psalm 46:10) We are issuing an urgent call to members of the body of Christ globally to commit from 6 minutes up to 60 minutes a day in stillness before the Lord of the whole earth for 60 days. Many are setting aside 7-15 minutes per day. We are asking you to be led by the Lord to whatever length of time you commit to. | | |
| | | | | Common Sense = Proirity for EDUCATION REFORM! - Home | | Our goal is to wake up America to back responsible Educational reform! America was built with pride, hard work, love of freedom, morality, education, common sense and the worlds greatest educational system up to the mid 1950's. Then came the socialist education changes, thanks to University of California Berkeley then San Francisco's Flower Children and liberalism was born with "One-Sided Education" that spread through out the land. Our elected officials (bureaucrats) over the past 6 generations should be sited for dereliction of duty! Current elected officials talk with no actions (back bone) because "One-Sided Education equals One-Sided Leadership"! "We the People" need to take charge of our education system as proven by the "California Trigger Law". Funding should be the number one action by all Americans! [More] | | |
| |  | | | The Buying of America | | "We the People" which opens our Constitution, means 100% of all Americans not just the 10% of the elitist, bureaucrates, super pac's, unions and the wealthy buy control of our government elections. Our government is broken and can only be fixed with term limits for federally elected congress people and senators and getting a hand on Education. Term limits allows the congress and senate to shorten their terms in office to 3 terms for congress persons and 2 terms for senators. This will stop career polticians as they become complacent and divisive. [More] | | |
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| |  | | | Watter's Creek |Foundation of Faith | The Watter's Creek Prayer Room is Hosted by Ms. Baker and maintained by The Foundation of Faith of Allen, TX.
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| |  | | | Elliot Mathias | Auther with Aish.com | | Elliot Mathias is the founder and executive director ofHasbara Fellowships, a leading pro-Israel advocacy training program for university students across North America that is a program of Aish International. Mathias lives in Livingston and is a member of the Community Relations Committee of MetroWest. | | |
| |  | | | Loyal To Liberty — Alan Keyes' | I started this site in January, 2009, around the time Barack Obama began his occupation of the Oval office. Thanks to my experience with Obama, I had the strong sense that his tenure would mark a major crisis that would threaten the survival of constitutional self-government, of, by, and for the people of the United States.
At the time, relatively few Americans were speaking out about the mortal danger Obama posed to America’s liberty. Most were unaware of his utter rejection of the moral ideas on which America is founded (God-endowed unalienable rights, respect for the laws of nature and of nature’s God, just government powers derived from the consent of the governed). Most were unaware of his lifelong commitment to radical Marxism. Most were unaware that his commitment to perpetuate abortion included the willingness to countenance the murder of fully born infants, like the ones whose lives Kermit Gosnell infamously destroyed.
Thanks to an almost universal conspiracy of silence in the so-called ‘mainstream’ media, voters were led to believe that he was just another liberal politician. They were led to believe his candidacy offered Americans the opportunity to prove they had left the nation’s ugly heritage of racial bigotry and divisiveness behind. They were led to believe that his promises of change reflected a sincere commitment to the prosperity and well-being of the nation.
None of this was true; as Americans have learned from increasingly hard experience. More and more of them, especially among those who call themselves conservatives, have also learned from hard experience that the Republican Party’s opposition to Obama is mostly a sham. This was fully exposed when the GOP nominated Mitt Romney for President in 2012. The greatest difference between Romney and Obama was that Romney could boast that he imposed a more radical government takeover on the people of Massachusetts than Obama managed to get in the Obamacare legislation.
On this site, you’ll find out a good deal about Obama’s radicalism and the treacherous aid and comfort the GOP’s quisling leadership gives to his cause. You will also find careful thinking that articulates strategies for grassroots action by which Americans willing to do so may even now restore their country to the blessings of liberty.
This site doesn’t deal in punchy sound bites and slogans. My aim is to remember the wisdom of the founders. To do so we must practice their way of thinking; for unless we practice, it will become inaccessible to us.
Unlike today’s political shysters, the Founders didn’t deal in conclusions. They dealt in reasoning, and presented their conclusions in logical terms.
This is what I try to do in all that I write. My aim is not to please with agreeable words, but to inform with sound reasoning and logic in order to substantiate reasonable conviction.
If we truly respect the American founding, we must never agree to be estranged from it. We must never let the founding generation’s way of speaking and thinking become so alien and unfamiliar to us that we come to live, as it were, in another country, divided from them by barriers of impatient feeling and incomprehension.
This is one reason we must reject the revisions of “style” that cut us off from the monuments they inscribed to liberty and self-government. If our right of liberty is to survive, so must our ability to read and comprehend those inscriptions.
After you’ve had a chance to sample these resources, you’ll be asked to pay a small fee ($2/month, $20/year or $150 for access that does not expire), to help defray the costs of sustaining it. The counter in the upper left hand corner of the page lets you know how many free views you have left. Clicking on the counter will bring you to the subscription page.
From the beginning I’ve wanted this site to be a place where faith gives reason for citizen action. I hope and pray that it will prove so for you. [More] | | |
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