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The Bible In Paintings 2 Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Sculptures•Tapestries•Windows Act 1: SARAI ENTICES ABRAM TO ACT FOOLISHLY G E N E S I SCHAPTER 16:1-4 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maid-servant; perhaps I can build a family through her.” ABRAM AGREED TO WHAT SARAI SAID. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife....

After getting arrested for sexually molesting children is a good time to declare yourself transsexual — and make sure to do it in a jurisdiction run by liberals. Just ask James “Hannah” Tubbs: A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday ordered Hannah Tubbs, a transgender California woman, to serve two years in a juvenile facility after [he] pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in 2014. Two years in juvie is pretty mild for molesting a 10-year-old — especially when a guy gets to serve it in a female facility. Before doing so, the judge criticized far-left District Attorney...

State trooper who told off Inslee over vaccine mandate dies from COVID UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 29, 2022 By Craig Sailor Tacoma News Tribune A former Washington State Patrol trooper who told off Gov. Jay Inslee over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, resigned and then became a sought-after media figure, has died, according to the State Patrol. Trooper Robert LaMay’s death was announced Friday. He was 50. According to FOX News, KIRO News Radio, Newsweek and other media sources, LaMay died after contracting COVID-19. His former boss, State Patrol Chief John Batiste, said he was deeply saddened to hear of LaMay’s death...

A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that over the last decade, 131 federal judges failed to recuse themselves in hundreds of cases that involved their own financial interests. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, in his year-end review of the federal judiciary, said the report’s findings indicate a “serious problem of inadequate ethics training,” especially for those judges who had numerous violations. The conflicts of interest primarily include judges hearing cases involving their or their families’ stock holdings, which ultimately tainted some 685 court cases. Given the rising concerns that the federal judiciary is becoming increasingly politicized,...

In his Prophecy Update on Jan. 16, 2022, Pastor Tom Hughes said, “All the bad news points to the coming good news.” The constant bombardment of prophecy-related bad news signifies that the Rapture, Tribulation Period, Second Coming, and Millennial Kingdom of God are coming, and in fact, getting close. Concerning Jesus, the prophet Isaiah said, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government...

In 1994, the Republicans articulated a clear vision for America and regained Congress for the first time in over 40 years. It’s time to repeat that process. “What are Republicans for?” asked Joe Biden at his recent press conference. It’s an important question, and it calls for a simple and clear answer. We Republicans need to write a New Contract With America, packed with ideas that will resonate with American voters in 2022. Here are some suggestions: 1. We will “Refund, Reform, and Respect the Police!” We will do whatever we can to end the crime wave devastating American neighborhoods....

I must begin with an apology if I have made an error in how/where I've posted this vanity as it is my first in 18 years as a lurker/intermittent poster. That being said, I fear that in roughly 10 hours from the time I "pen" this "letter" I shall bear witness to the last words I shall ever hear uttered from the lips of my father. I won't go into details about his condition, but I fear I may not have the strength to keep my composure when I visit him in the hospital (please no crass remarks about Covid/the...

Few exist in our nation who are better able — and inexplicably willing — than Keith Olbermanto afford us a portal through which we may view the mindset of your average left-wing digressive on the topic of what is necessary to heal America’s present cultural divide.Last week, Olberman publicly condemned Biden — and even called for his resignation — due to his Administration’s failure over the last year to defend the country from what he called — by way of incredible hyperbole — the “terrorists” who reside amongst us throughout this country, as exemplified by those who entered our nation’s...

Whatever victories wokeism may be enjoying now, they're not going to last. In a recent article, N.S. Lyons takes a sardonic yet, in this writer's view, overly respectful assessment of the present and future success and prospects for wokeism in American culture. On the one hand, he perceives this woke subculture (which he perceives as the majority culture) as a most unsatisfactory historical development, but at the same time, he sees it as the culmination of over 50 years of dogged cultural Marxism having worked its way into positions of power in our culture. He posits that the cultural opposition...

The Talk Shows January 30th, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest anchor Dana Perino: Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby; Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). Panel: Return of the Wallass idiots: Never Trumper Doug Heye; Jacqui Heinrich, White House correspondent for FOX News; Harold Ford Jr, democrat proponent on Fox News’ The Five. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio); Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.); Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.). Panel: Never Trumper Stephen Hayes; Carol Lee, national political reporter for NBC Spews; Ousted...

@MaajidNawaz ANNOUNCEMENT: I am booked for the JRE show with @JoeRogan in the US Much to talk about on the nightmare, tyranny, state sponsored gaslighting, public hysteria, abuse & sheer absurdity of these last two years Watch for the episode to drop near the end of this month

Social media posts claim that a convoy heading to Canada's capital to protest Covid-19 vaccine mandates for truckers set a Guinness World Record for being the longest. This is false; the global authority on record-breaking said the honor is held by a parade that took place in Egypt in 2020, and specific conditions have to be met for an official record attempt to be registered by Guinness. **SNIP** But claiming that it "made the Guinness Book of World Records" for being the longest convoy is false. A spokeswoman for Guinness World Records told AFP in an email that the "the...

Will disbarment get their attention? As I write this, New York City is laying to rest a 22-year-old police officer killed in an ambush attack by a career criminal. New York Distict Attorney Alvin Bragg has doubled down on his written progressive policy stating that the U.S. Constitution gives him the right not to prosecute certain crimes, while Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon has recommended prosecuting a 26-year-old adult transgendered female as a juvenile for a sexual assault on a 10-year-old committed when the suspect was 17 years of age. If convicted in juvenile court under Gascon’s proposal, the...

...As of Saturday evening, police and city officials did not know when the protest would end. Mayor Jim Watson admitted there is a possibility there will be large crowds downtown again today. "My message, again, is clear - You’ve been here, you’ve made your point, you’ve protested, you’ve disrupted a lot of communities - the ByWard Market, Centretown and so on in our city - it’s time for you to go back to your home," said Watson on CTV News Channel. "Because we have to start rebuilding our economy because COVID-19 has been devastating to a lot of small businesses."

Thanks for joining us today. The prophecy “teased” in the headline is the prophetic prayer of Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist. In my NIV study Bible, the prayer’s subhead is “Zechariah’s Song” and notes, “This hymn is called Benedictus, (‘Praise be’) because the opening word in the Latin Vulgate translation is ‘Benedictus.’”This prophetic “song” — recorded in Luke 1: 68-74 — immediately follows the birth of John the Baptist. Let’s read it now and then discuss why Zechariah’s prayer is a great New Testament prophecy that I would argue does not receive enough attention: “‘Praise be to the...

Prophets are those who speak for God. They love Him and His people. They speak the often-painful truth to God’s people not to win an argument but because of their love and their conviction that only His undiluted truth can save us in the end.People-pleasing and other forms of human respect cannot supplant reverence for God and His truth. Prophets are willing to endure pain, suffering, and even death in order to proclaim God’s truth to an often-unappreciative audience.Today’s readings set forth a kind of “rule for life” for prophets. We who are baptized into the order of the prophet...

January 30th, 2021 St. Matthew's Cathedral, Khartoum, SudanReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingJeremiah 1:4-5,17-19 ©'I have appointed you prophet to the nations'In the days of Josiah, the word of the Lord was addressed to me, saying:‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;before you came to birth I consecrated you;I have appointed you as prophet to the nations.‘So now brace yourself for action.Stand up and tell themall I command you.Do not be dismayed at their presence,or in their presence I will make you dismayed.‘I, for my part, today will make youinto a fortified city,a pillar of iron,and...

This week has been eye-opening. Even for me -- and I'm the guy who has warned for over a year, in commentary after commentary, and often for three hours a day on my nationally syndicated radio show, that the COVID-19 vaccine could be dangerous and deadly and could lead to catastrophe. I stuck my neck out like no other talk show host in America to warn the vaccine may not even prevent illness; in fact, it could damage the immune system, thereby causing more illness and death. And not just from COVID-19, but also injuries and death linked to the...

Are the world’s elite tone-deaf, willfully ignorant, or truly malicious? I must contemplate this question because, on a very human level, it points to where we’ve gone wrong, and what we must do to fix it before it’s too late. I think, honestly, it’s all three. It just depends on the person whom we’re talking about and what set of circumstances we’re contemplating. Let’s face it: There are a relative few who consider themselves “the chosen” in this world, the ones with the most money, the power-mad, the influencers. Nothing says that their ideas are any better than yours or...

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