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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Salvation Army Officer Martyred on Xmas Eve
CNN) -- A Salvation Army major was shot dead in front of his three children on Christmas Eve in North Little Rock, Arkansas, authorities said.
Maj. Philip Wise, 40, was gunned down Thursday. He was found lying by the back entrance of a Salvation Army facility, said police spokesman Sgt. Terry Kuykendall.
Wise apparently dropped two bell ringers off at home and returned to the Salvation Army building with his three children, ages 4, 6 and 8. Two men carrying handguns approached them and demanded money before shooting Wise, Kuykendall said.
The suspects fled on foot.
read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/25/arkansas.salvation.army.slaying/
Maj. Philip Wise, 40, was gunned down Thursday. He was found lying by the back entrance of a Salvation Army facility, said police spokesman Sgt. Terry Kuykendall.
Wise apparently dropped two bell ringers off at home and returned to the Salvation Army building with his three children, ages 4, 6 and 8. Two men carrying handguns approached them and demanded money before shooting Wise, Kuykendall said.
The suspects fled on foot.
read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/25/arkansas.salvation.army.slaying/
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM PREMIER BRAD WALL
Two thousand years ago, a Saviour was born, heralded as bringing good news of great joy to all people.
Jesus came to give us a message of hope, peace, and healing.
He told us to love one another, and taught us how to reach out to others, especially those less fortunate than ourselves.
Saskatchewan is a great place to live, and getting even better. But there are still those in Saskatchewan and many around the world who don't have the privilege of looking forward to a merry Christmas.
We can all do our part in the coming year to ensure each person in this province has a reason to celebrate.
We can reach out to someone in need locally, through hard working groups like the Salvation Army, or by supporting an organization that reaches out to other countries to offer help and hope
read more: http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=4114ae18-1871-44d6-b83e-ee979c6b191c
Jesus came to give us a message of hope, peace, and healing.
He told us to love one another, and taught us how to reach out to others, especially those less fortunate than ourselves.
Saskatchewan is a great place to live, and getting even better. But there are still those in Saskatchewan and many around the world who don't have the privilege of looking forward to a merry Christmas.
We can all do our part in the coming year to ensure each person in this province has a reason to celebrate.
We can reach out to someone in need locally, through hard working groups like the Salvation Army, or by supporting an organization that reaches out to other countries to offer help and hope
read more: http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=4114ae18-1871-44d6-b83e-ee979c6b191c
The General's Christmas Message
All My Heart Rejoices
WHAT a night! The night our Saviour was born! A night to rejoice with all our hearts!
Sweet angel voices, sounding far and near, announced his birth: Christ is born! It was as though the entire sky announced this matchless message. Joy filled the air. Joy-bells still ring to hail his coming.
If we listen carefully, our ear attuned, we can still hear the holy baby’s first cry from the manger in Bethlehem. It is as though from birth he has been calling us, entreating, pleading with us to flee from the snares and dangers that await our souls. ‘Come to me,’ he says. ‘Leave all that grieves and burdens you. I can offer freedom. I can give you all you need.’
So let us accept his divine invitation, you and I together. Let us do so without delay. He invites us all. He calls to the lowly and the great alike. We cannot impress him with our education or our income, so whoever we are we approach him together with awe and wonder as equals. He invites us to commit ourselves to him. He wants us to return the love he offers us all. The Christmas star, high and bright in the sky, is a hope-filled sign of divine love.
Coming to the newborn Christ-child is a signal that we have come to our senses. We come to him, deciding to live in obedience to him, and finding our hope of Heaven in him. He offers us the matchless prospect of living with him for ever. Who else promises matchless joy both now and in all eternity?
For all these reasons my heart rejoices. Christ is born!
By General Shaw Clifton
with acknowledgements to Paulus Gerhardt (1607-76)
and 'The Song Book of The Salvation Army', No 73
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WHAT a night! The night our Saviour was born! A night to rejoice with all our hearts!
Sweet angel voices, sounding far and near, announced his birth: Christ is born! It was as though the entire sky announced this matchless message. Joy filled the air. Joy-bells still ring to hail his coming.
If we listen carefully, our ear attuned, we can still hear the holy baby’s first cry from the manger in Bethlehem. It is as though from birth he has been calling us, entreating, pleading with us to flee from the snares and dangers that await our souls. ‘Come to me,’ he says. ‘Leave all that grieves and burdens you. I can offer freedom. I can give you all you need.’
So let us accept his divine invitation, you and I together. Let us do so without delay. He invites us all. He calls to the lowly and the great alike. We cannot impress him with our education or our income, so whoever we are we approach him together with awe and wonder as equals. He invites us to commit ourselves to him. He wants us to return the love he offers us all. The Christmas star, high and bright in the sky, is a hope-filled sign of divine love.
Coming to the newborn Christ-child is a signal that we have come to our senses. We come to him, deciding to live in obedience to him, and finding our hope of Heaven in him. He offers us the matchless prospect of living with him for ever. Who else promises matchless joy both now and in all eternity?
For all these reasons my heart rejoices. Christ is born!
By General Shaw Clifton
with acknowledgements to Paulus Gerhardt (1607-76)
and 'The Song Book of The Salvation Army', No 73
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Magnificat!
Prominent theologians James Dunn and Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham, drive home the point in many articles and books that faith isn’t just a vague idea of or belief in something. Faith is an action word. Faith and faithfulness are forever intertwined.[3] One cannot say they love God and not show it by loving their neighbour (Matthew 25:31-46; Luke 10:27, 18:18-29). If you have faith in Him, you will be faithful and even when we are unfaithful, Christ’s faithfulness makes our faith(fullness) possible (Romans 3:3,4, see also Genesis Romans 1:16-17, Romans 2:1-16, Hebrews 11). It is the faithfulness of Christ that led to humanity’s salvation. Faith is an action and the action of faith during Advent is waiting. Christmas is coming.
In our story today something very interesting is happening (Luke 1:46-56). A couple of weeks ago we read about how Zechariah found out that his wife Elisabeth (who was barren up to that point in time) is now – in her old age! – going to have a baby (Luke 1:5-25, 68-79; see also Genesis 11:30, 17:15ff and 1 Samuel 1).[4] And now Mary, a much younger relative of Elisabeth’s, has also found out that she is going to have a baby (Luke 1:26-38). It was amazing that Elisabeth is going to have a baby because Elisabeth is barren and well into her old age (Luke 1:35) but it is even more amazing that Mary is going to have a baby not because Mary is old and barren because she isn’t. She is quite young. She is actually a teenager but young Mary – who is now pregnant – young Mary has never been with a man in that way (see Luke 1:34).
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In our story today something very interesting is happening (Luke 1:46-56). A couple of weeks ago we read about how Zechariah found out that his wife Elisabeth (who was barren up to that point in time) is now – in her old age! – going to have a baby (Luke 1:5-25, 68-79; see also Genesis 11:30, 17:15ff and 1 Samuel 1).[4] And now Mary, a much younger relative of Elisabeth’s, has also found out that she is going to have a baby (Luke 1:26-38). It was amazing that Elisabeth is going to have a baby because Elisabeth is barren and well into her old age (Luke 1:35) but it is even more amazing that Mary is going to have a baby not because Mary is old and barren because she isn’t. She is quite young. She is actually a teenager but young Mary – who is now pregnant – young Mary has never been with a man in that way (see Luke 1:34).
read the sermon: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/12/luke-146-56-christmas-is-coming.html
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Could this be the house where Jesus played?
By Diaa Hadid, Associated Press, in Nazareth
Cited from The Independent
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Days before Christmas, archaeologists have unveiled what they say are the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Christ – a find that could shed new light on what the hamlet was like when, according to the New Testament, Jesus lived there as a boy.
Based on clay and chalk shards found at the site, the dwelling appeared to house a "simple Jewish family" said Yardena Alexandre, excavations director at the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Nazareth holds a cherished place in Christianity. Christian tradition holds it to be the town where Jesus grew up and where an angel told Mary she would bear the child of God. "This may well have been a place that Jesus and his contemporaries were familiar with," Ms Alexandre said.
read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/could-this-be-the-house-where-jesus-played-1847228.html
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Cited from The Independent
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Days before Christmas, archaeologists have unveiled what they say are the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Christ – a find that could shed new light on what the hamlet was like when, according to the New Testament, Jesus lived there as a boy.
Based on clay and chalk shards found at the site, the dwelling appeared to house a "simple Jewish family" said Yardena Alexandre, excavations director at the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Nazareth holds a cherished place in Christianity. Christian tradition holds it to be the town where Jesus grew up and where an angel told Mary she would bear the child of God. "This may well have been a place that Jesus and his contemporaries were familiar with," Ms Alexandre said.
read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/could-this-be-the-house-where-jesus-played-1847228.html
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Organized Chrisitan resistance in Nazi Germany
From The Nazi Parallel: The National Security State and the Churches
by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
In Nazi Germany ...a primary aim of the controlling leadership was the destruction of any organizational threat that might challenge the attainment of "state" ends; and unions, students and professional organizations, and community groups and political parties were infiltrated, harassed, destroyed, or brought under state control. The most powerful bases of organized resistance in Nazi Germany were the churches, which provided the "most active, most effective, and most consistent" opposition to Nazi terror. The churches were so deeply rooted in their communities that it was difficult to attack them openly, although the Nazis tried from the beginning to undermine and destroy church authority. The churches were not only the first large organizations left intact that began to resist Hitlerism as organizations, "they also remained unique in this respect throughout the period from 1933 to 1945, although their resistance remained limited to certain issues and methods. Throughout World War II one important segment of the Protestant Church (the Confessing Church) refused to pray for military victory, and by the war's end many hundreds of clergymen had died in concentration camps.
The analogy here with Latin American experience is striking. . .
read more: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%0/NaziParallelFascism_Herman.html
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by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
In Nazi Germany ...a primary aim of the controlling leadership was the destruction of any organizational threat that might challenge the attainment of "state" ends; and unions, students and professional organizations, and community groups and political parties were infiltrated, harassed, destroyed, or brought under state control. The most powerful bases of organized resistance in Nazi Germany were the churches, which provided the "most active, most effective, and most consistent" opposition to Nazi terror. The churches were so deeply rooted in their communities that it was difficult to attack them openly, although the Nazis tried from the beginning to undermine and destroy church authority. The churches were not only the first large organizations left intact that began to resist Hitlerism as organizations, "they also remained unique in this respect throughout the period from 1933 to 1945, although their resistance remained limited to certain issues and methods. Throughout World War II one important segment of the Protestant Church (the Confessing Church) refused to pray for military victory, and by the war's end many hundreds of clergymen had died in concentration camps.
The analogy here with Latin American experience is striking. . .
read more: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%0/NaziParallelFascism_Herman.html
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Sunday's Sermon: Christmas is Coming!
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Start Stomping
JAC # 64 (December 2009 - January 2010)
by Major Stephen Court
http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki.nsf/vw-issue/0F73D227F83BC9D38025766900332492?opendocument&id=5C46762EE4B97FA880257669002F15DE
DUSK fell on the remote hills and sparse treeline, playing tricks with your vision. Was that a wild animal skirting across the valley or, more innocuously, a shadow? As night settled into its quiet somnolence, the highly decorated Commander parachuted into enemy territory. The Reclamation Operation began. And that, folks, is the beginning of the end of human history. Jesus undertook to reclaim enemy land and re-establish the Kingdom of God on Earth.
The Salvation Army has a healthy view of spiritual warfare. . .
read more: http://www.armybarmy.com/JAC/article14-64.html
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by Major Stephen Court
http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki.nsf/vw-issue/0F73D227F83BC9D38025766900332492?opendocument&id=5C46762EE4B97FA880257669002F15DE
DUSK fell on the remote hills and sparse treeline, playing tricks with your vision. Was that a wild animal skirting across the valley or, more innocuously, a shadow? As night settled into its quiet somnolence, the highly decorated Commander parachuted into enemy territory. The Reclamation Operation began. And that, folks, is the beginning of the end of human history. Jesus undertook to reclaim enemy land and re-establish the Kingdom of God on Earth.
The Salvation Army has a healthy view of spiritual warfare. . .
read more: http://www.armybarmy.com/JAC/article14-64.html
read more in this issue of JAC: http://www.armybarmy.com/jac.html
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