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6/27/06

 

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 20 (new chapter added every Monday)

• New article: Pre-Trib Rapture: What Is It Anyway? by Jack Kinsella

• Today's Prayer Requests - New request on Prayers for Other; update on our daughter on Prayers for Illness; Uncle Scotty's funeral is this morning... please pray for comfort for his family (see Prayers for Comfort).

• New Recipe - "Greek Pasta Salad"

• 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:

• Gay Pride Parades Held Across Nation
  Hundreds of thousands of raucous parade-goers took to the streets from New York to San Francisco on Sunday for annual gay pride parades, just weeks after an attack on a popular gay singer in New York and the 25th anniversary of the start of the AIDS epidemic.

• Students names, social security numbers captured by GOOGLE... <- FEATURE!
  In short, schools say Google grabbed information they shouldn’t have.

• Transvestite gang pesters Magazine Street
  Davis said it wasn’t supposed to be like this. They survived Hurricane Katrina’s Category 3 winds and the ensuing looters. They reopened despite the long odds of doing business in a devastated city. The last thing the Magazine Street shop owners expected to threaten their survival was a crime ring of transvestites.

GLOBALIZATION:

• Mexican trucks to enter U.S. freely? <- FEATURE!
  Bush administration refuses to answer WND's questions

ISRAEL HAPPENINGS:

• Israel 'Will Ensure Hamas Govt Toppled' If soldier Slain
  Israel will work to ensure the Hamas-led government falls if a soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants is not released alive, a high-ranking security official said.

• Israeli Tanks Awaiting Orders To Attack Gaza
  The Israeli Prime Minister said this morning that he was ready to give the go-ahead for a full scale military operation against Gaza to free an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants.

• Return of the partner
  Sharon invested the best of his final years in politics in selling the idea that the PA has been eliminated as a partner to the disengagement plan, and here Ehud Olmert is going as far as Petra to shake hands with the Palestinian chairman.

• The 3rd Option: Jews Can Become Residents of PA State <- FEATURE!
  PM Ehud Olmert briefly acknowledged Thursday a new option for residents of Yesha communities on the chopping block: Remain to become new citizens of the Palestinian Authority.

LAST DAYS DELUSIONS:

• Lab tuned to gravity's 'ripples'
  The Hanover lab is trying to detect the ripples created in the fabric of space-time that sweep out from merging black holes or exploding stars. Success would confirm fundamental physical theories and open a new window on the Universe, enabling scientists to probe the moment of creation itself.  

MARK OF THE BEAST PRECURSOR:

• Children to be given electronic identity cards
  Brussels: Electronic identity cards for all children under 12 are to be introduced in Belgium. They will bear a code designed to allow parents of missing children to be traced instantly.

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS:

• Better Approach to Colon Cancer <- FEATURE!
  Some colon cancer patients may soon be spared unnecessary chemotherapy thanks to a new study out of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California. Researchers say the answer is in the lymph nodes.

• Blood Transfusion Safety
  Each year about 350,000 coronary artery bypass graft surgeries are performed. For those patients who have repeat procedures, blood transfusions are routine. Now, doctors are asking how safe it is to use blood that has been sitting on a shelf for those procedures.

• Clearer MRI
  Every photographer knows it's difficult to take a clear picture if your subject won't sit still. For doctors, clear images are not only essential tools for diagnosing patients, but critical road maps that guide them through surgery. Now a new invention is helping doctors get the clearest images possible.

• Exercise for Serious Illnesses
  "One of the things that they told me was to not exercise because it would overheat you," Pooser says. But new research shows exercise may actually strengthen patients with illnesses like these.

• Implants Help Sleep Apnea -- In-Depth Doctor's Interview <- FEATURE!
  When you sleep, you breathe through your nose and mouth. When you have sleep apnea, you can't breathe through your nose or mouth. The airway's closed. Your body tries to get a breath and no oxygen goes in.

• In-Vitro More Cost-Effective Than Artificial Insemination
  For some couples trying to get pregnant, in-vitro fertilization may actually be more cost-effective than artificial insemination. A new study from researchers in England reports the less-expensive option, artificial insemination, must be repeated many times for some couples, making it more expensive.

• Tick-Tock! How Fast is Your Clock?
  The biological clock ticks for every woman. How fast or how slow it goes is different for each one of them. Now there's a new way for women to know if they're running out of time, before it's too late to have children.

NATURAL DISASTERS:

• Roads, Rails, Federal Offices Deluged
  A rare tropical deluge that began Sunday and could continue through midweek unleashed floods that swamped homes and highways, closed several federal buildings in Washington and forced some people to swim for their lives.

RUMORS OF WAR:

• U.S. May Deploy Missiles in Japan
  The United States plans to deploy advanced Patriot missiles at its facilities in southern Japan by the end of the year, a Japanese newspaper reported today. The U.S. government notified Japan this month that it would deploy the surface-to-surface Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles in Japan for the first time, amid signs that North Korea plans to test-fire a ballistic missile, Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported.

STRANGE EARTH SIGNS:

• Glaciers are melting at their fastest rate for 5,000 years <- FEATURE!
  Mountain glaciers are melting faster now than at any time in the past 5,000 years because of an unprecedented period of global warming, a study has found.

STRANGE HEAVENLY SIGNS:

• Huge Asteroid to Fly Past Earth July 3 <- FEATURE!
  An asteroid possibly as large as a half-mile or more in diameter is rapidly approaching the Earth. There is no need for concern, for no collision is in the offing, but the space rock will make an exceptionally close approach to our planet early on Monday, July 3, passing just beyond the Moon's average distance from Earth.

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

• Palestinians: Chemical warfare if Israel invades Gaza
  But terrorist sources admit current toxic arsenal 'primitive'

• Possible Terror Threat Closes Calif. Port
  Federal authorities said the message was written in English and read: "Nitro + glycerin my gift for G. W. Bush and his Jewish gang."

NEW FOR YESTERDAY:

2 TIMOTHY 3:

• Murder wave hits US ‘exburbs’
  After 54 murders this year, New Orleans has become one of the deadliest examples of a rising murder rate that is defying the trends of the past decade and fuelling concern about a crime wave that appears to be spreading to smaller cities and states with little experience of serious gun violence.  

AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE:

• "Knowledge Shall Be Increased" by Dawn Bible Student Association <- FEATURE!
  THE PROPHET DANIEL HAD been instructed by God to seal up the meaning and interpretation of the wonderful ‘end time’ visions and prophecies that God had given to him. These blessed truths, that had been received and recorded by the prophet so long ago, were to be hidden and sealed from the worldly wise and curious seekers of knowledge until the closing times of the present Gospel Age. In due time, however, God’s eternal purpose would be realized in the revealing of his timely message to watchers who would be on hand at the end of this age, to understand the meaning of Daniel’s prophecy.

APOSTASY:

• COLUMBUS, OH: Episcopalians pass compromise resolution calling for restraint
  Resolution A161, effecting a moratorium on the ordination of homosexual bishops and the blessing of homosexual unions, failed in the House of Deputies on Tuesday, threatening alienation of the Episcopal Church from the worldwide Anglican Communion. In a last ditch effort to save Episcopalian-Anglican relations, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold convened a Special Legislative session on Wednesday morning, calling on Bishops and Deputies to consider an emergency resolution, number B033, that would express what the convention "actually" believed.

• "I'm convinced I'm no abomination!" by Mike Mickey
  While I don't like to cast stones as I am a lowly sinner saved only by the grace of God myself, I reasoned to myself at that time, based on yet another obstacle arising in the case of Eugene Robinson that should prevent him from holding his office, that the Episcopal Church would take a look at what was already a pitiful decision on its part and say, "Enough!" I was wrong. As such, the good bishop Eugene Robinson, an abandoner of his wife and children, an apostate, and an alcoholic continues to make a mockery of the Word of God while feigning as a representative of the Christian faith.

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION:

• Pastor faced charges for evangelism at mall
  Charges were dropped against a Sacramento-area youth pastor who was arrested while sharing his Christian faith one-on-one with shoppers at a mall.

CRAFTS/CROSSTITCH:

• Yeshua (Jesus' true name in Hebrew)

  YHWH (God's true name in Hebrew)

EARTHQUAKES:

• Strong Quake (6.2) Strikes Central Indonesia
  A powerful earthquake struck Indonesia's Sulawesi island early Sunday and panicked residents, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

END TIMES:

• The Closed Door Of Revelation by Spirit Journals
  They did a recent survey of professing Christians and found that an alarming rate of Christians today are not attending church anywhere. You can read into that what you want and most look at it as a negative. I'm not saying that Christians need to stay home and not attend church. But I will say this. When you look at that survey on the surface one would conclude that these believers are people who are lazy, backslidden perhaps, lethargic, etc. But when you start reading the reasons why Christians are not attending church you realize that the problem lies in the fact that most who don't attend church are not attending church because of spiritual reasons but because there is not many churches left where the presence of GOD can be found in a true way.

ISRAEL HAPPENINGS:

• Israel's self-destruction
  Called upon repeatedly by our "civilized" world to negotiate with unrepentant terrorists, every prime minister from Yitzhak Rabin to Ariel Sharon has agreed to assorted policies of national defeat. Current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's idea for Middle East peace is simply more of the same.

• Rabbi: Olmert may suffer Sharon's fate <- FEATURE!
  Rabbi Dov Wolpe of Kiryat Gat says 'we've seen what Almighty can do to those who carry out evacuation, and this time there is chance it will happen before evacuation'

LAST DAYS DECEPTIONS:

• The end times are NOT a game! by Mike Mickey
  The Purpose Driven Life video game? Surely not, I mused.

• Scientists plan to recreate 'Big Bang' to uncover universe's mysteries
  International scientists will recreate the immediate aftermath of the "Big Bang" in a bid to uncover the mysteries of the universe, a world physics summit announced.  

• Video Glorifies Fallen Terrorist
  Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader paid tribute to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a video Friday, extolling him as "the prince of martyrs" and vowing to avenge his death. "Yes (George W.) Bush, there isn't a single person who'll be killed that we won't get vengeance for, God willing," said Ayman al-Zawahri.

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS:

• New Device Zaps Migraines <- FEATURE!
  A magnetic pulse technique originally developed to treat psychological disorders like depression has been modified to zap away migraines before they can fully form.

NATURAL DISASTERS:

• Tropical storm could develop N East of Bahamas: NHC
  A tropical storm could develop northeast of the Bahamas over the next day or so, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an outlook Friday.

OCCULT:

• Philosopher or faker?
  A meeting explored works of Helena Blavatsky.

PERSONAL:

• I kicked the smoking habit after 35 years!!!

• Page includes my original prayer request, my special dream two nights after quitting, my new poem/apology to the Lord, and information about Commit Lozenges (God's gift to smoking mankind!!!).

PLAGUES:

• Bird-flu mutation spreads in family
  JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The World Health Organization has detailed the first evidence that the deadly bird-flu virus mutated and spread from person to person within a family, but specialists said yesterday the genetic change does not increase the threat of a pandemic.

• WHO Says Bird Flu Virus Mutated
  A World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island, but bird flu experts insisted Friday it did not increase the possibility of a human pandemic.

SCIENCE:

• Cell Phones Increase Risk of Death By Lightning, Doctors Claim
  According to a letter published in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal, people who talk on, or even just carry, mobile phones outdoors during storms are more likely to sustain fatal internal injuries if struck by lightning.

• Police Capture Gator on Long Island Lawn
  Police in a Long Island village nabbed an unusual suspect today—with a long tail, powerful jaws, sharp teeth and a family rap sheet that stretches back millions of years.

• Scientists work on mind-reading computers <- FEATURE!
  LONDON - A raised eyebrow, quizzical look or a nod of the head are just a few of the facial expressions computers could soon be using to read people's minds.

STRANGE EARTH SIGNS:

• Earth Is Hottest Now In 2000 Years <- FEATURE!
  It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since the Earth has run such a fever. The National Academy of Sciences in the US, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported today that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia."

• Melting Greenland ice cap to be monitored
  Denmark will set up seven unmanned measuring stations along the edge of Greenland's vast ice cap to monitor how fast the frozen sheet covering the massive island is thinning, Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard announced Friday.

STRANGE WEATHER:

• Record Rainfall for the Eastern U.S. - Accuweather
  Flooding continued to plague the D.C.-Baltimore metro area Sunday night as a band of thunderstorms continued to sit and rain heavily on the area.

• Study: Global Warming Fueled 2005 Hurricanes
  Global warming, and not natural variations in ocean temperature, provided most of the fuel for last year's unusually strong hurricane season, scientists said this week.

TERRORISTS/TERRORISM:

• Al-Aksa claims chemical capabilities
  The Aksa Martyrs Brigades announced on Sunday that its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons.

• Iraqi Govt Declares State of Emergency
  The Iraqi government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew Friday after insurgents set up roadblocks in central Baghdad and opened fire on U.S. and Iraqi troops just north of the heavily fortified Green Zone.  

• Muslims Threaten 9/11 in Europe! <- FEATURE!
  Pictures of Muslims who marched in the streets of London during their recent  Religion of Peace Demonstration. Feb.3,2006 over Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad. From BBC News and London Telegraph These pictures have never been shown in any of our American newspapers or television news programs because we should never appear to offend anyone!

• Official: 7 Arrested in Sears Tower Plot
  Inside a city warehouse, authorities believe, a group was hatching the early stages of a widespread terror plot _ one that targeted Chicago's Sears Tower, an FBI office in Miami and other U.S. buildings.

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

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