Click thumbnail for larger image. Inspired art by Roger Loveless.

6/2/06

 

If you are unsaved, or unsure if you have eternal life, please go to our  "Road to Salvation" page now, and be sure before it is too late!  As long as you draw breath, you have to opportunity to know for SURE where you will spend eternity, but once you die, or the Lord returns at the end of the Great Tribulation, it will be too late... you will have made your choice by then!  Be blessed by all, and have a blessed, peaceful day in the Lord!

Today we have the following updates:

• Scriptures: "God's Promises & Answers", Chapter 16 (new chapter added every Monday)

• New article: The Other Prophet by Jamma Mokhriby

• Today's Prayer Requests - Update on Uncle Scotty and on Brandon (2 year old) on Prayers for Life page; two new requests on Prayers for Other page; and an update on me on Prayers for Illness page.

• New Recipe - "Grilled Shrimp Rice Noodle Bowl"

• Today's Cute Animal picture!

• June, 2006 - Monthly calendar

• Download Richard's SONGS of praise for free!!!

• Don Francisco MP3's [My goal in life is to get all the way through "He's Alive" without crying! <smiles>]

• My POETRY of praise for free!!!

• SHARING PAGE SITE MAP!!!

• My FAVORITE SCRIPTURES (categorized)

• HEBREW/AMERICAN CALENDAR

NEW FOR TODAY:

2 TIMOTHY 3:

• A quarter of boys, 20 percent of girls claim to have 'cyber sex'

• Bishop stranded in Africa blames the devil (The Church of England bishop who was abandoned deep in the African bush by his hosts when they learned of his views on homosexuality today blamed "the devil" for his ordeal.)

ANTI-SEMITISM:

• A Final Note of Discord (In Controversial Parting Shot, U.K. Union Endorses Boycott of Israeli Academics)

ISRAEL HAPPENINGS:

• Giving Up On Israel (Joseph Farah, editor of World Net Daily and once as enthusiastic a defender of Israel as anyone in the media, finally threw in the towel, writing, “I Give Up On Israel.”)

• Realignment in one step (Olmert stresses: Nothing will stop me, I hope at end of my term reality here will be completely different)

LAST DAYS DECEPTIONS:

• Ancient Scroll May Yield Religious Secrets (ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A collection of charred scraps kept in a Greek museum's storerooms are all that remains of what archaeologists say is Europe's oldest surviving book -- which may hold a key to understanding early monotheistic beliefs.)

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS:

• How an Herb Might Help the Brain (Gingko biloba turns on enzyme that protects neurons)

• Immune Response Gets Under the Skin (With new vaccine technology, biologists set skin's protective cells into overdrive)

PLAGUES:

• Why Locusts Swarm: New Study Finds 'Tipping Point'

NEW FOR YESTERDAY:

EARTHQUAKES:

• Deadly Java Quake Highlights "Ring of Fire" Dangers (The magnitude-6.3 earthquake that shook the Indonesian island of Java this weekend has so far killed about 5,700 people and left more than 100,000 homeless.)

EUROPEAN UNION:

• Dutch told to return land they won from the sea (In the name of European Union environmental directives, their farm is earmarked for flooding - the first time in Holland's centuries-long battle against water that a substantial piece of land is to be deliberately returned to the sea.) <- FEATURE!

EZEKIEL 38-39/ARMAGEDDON PLAYER(S):

• Iran's military plans for invasion by U.S. (Iran, apparently anticipating an American invasion, has quietly been restructuring its military and testing a new military doctrine that calls for a decentralized, Iraqi-style guerrilla campaign against an invading force.) <- FEATURE!

• Iran to build two more nuclear plants (Iran plans to build two 1,000 megawatt nuclear reactors and will solicit bids within the next two months, a senior official told Reuters on Wednesday.)

• Russia-China Relations at Unprecedented High

ISRAEL HAPPENINGS:

• Gillerman: World War III already begun (Syrian and Iranian diplomats traded barbs with Israel's UN ambassador on Tuesday, as a routine Security Council meeting on fighting terrorism degenerated into insults.) <- FEATURE!

LAST DAYS DECEPTIONS:

• Alien Appears in Duck X-Ray? (As if bird flu fears weren't enough to make ordinary waterfowl suddenly seem creepy, now there's this: an x-ray of a duck with what looks like an alien hiding in its gut.)

MARK OF THE BEAST PRECURSOR:

• Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants (Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has proposed implanting the company's RFID tracking tags in immigrant and guest workers. He made the statement on national television earlier this week.) <- FEATURE!

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS:

• Drops Best for Swimmer's Ear (With swimming pools opening up all over the country, many people will once again experience the often painful condition known as swimmer's ear.)

• Good Cholesterol Study Underway (British researchers who helped establish the benefits of statins in preventing cardiovascular events by lowering LDL, or "bad" cholesterol levels, are now hoping to find similar benefits for a new drug combination aimed at increasing HDL, or "good" cholesterol levels.)

• Which ADHD Drugs Work and Why (Researchers from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., conducted a meta-analysis involving 29 previous studies on ADHD drugs to determine which of the various medications is most effective in reducing ADHD symptoms.)

NATURAL DISASTERS:

• Himalaya Forests Vanishing, Species May Follow, Study Says (Nearly a quarter of the species unique to the Himalaya could vanish by 2100 because of massive losses to the mountains' forests, a new study warns.)

PESTILENCE:

• Big Rodents Overrun Washington Seniors (Residents say the oversized rodents are swarming through the 75-unit development of manufactured homes near the airport of this Eastern Washington town, burrowing under homes, fouling front porches with their droppings and... according to some unconfirmed accounts... attacking people.)

PLAGUES:

• 115 outbreaks of bird flu reported in Romania

• Bird Flu Explodes in Indonesia (Indonesia averaged one human bird flu death every 2½ days in May, putting it on pace to soon surpass Vietnam as the world's hardest-hit country.) <- FEATURE!

STRANGE EARTH SIGNS:

• New Orleans Sinking Faster Than Thought (Now new research suggests parts of the city are sinking even faster than many scientists imagined _ more than an inch a year.) <- FEATURE!

• Study Reveals Ancient Arctic Climate Swings (The 1,312-foot-long cylindrical sediment core sample provides a 56-million-year record of the continent's temperature trends. It reveals that approximately 45 million years ago, the Arctic went from being a warm greenhouse to the frosty ice-covered continent that we know today. )

STRANGE HEAVENLY SIGNS:

• Lightning strikes praying woman ("I said, 'Amen,' and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire," she said. "I'm blessed to be alive.")

Have a blessed, peaceful day in the Lord!  Peg.

Read the Bible online in 16 versions: Bible Gateway

For links to Christian books, movies, and newsletters, click HERE.