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The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• SAUL IN DAMASCUS—BLIND AND NEEDING HELP ֎ Featuring 23 Paintings, 1 Mosaic, 1 Photograph, 1 Statue and 2 Windows ֎ A C T S «Chapter 9» In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, “Ananias!” “Yes, Lord,” he answered. The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and...

There has been little accountability for the lies of the COVID pandemic. Clearly the disease originated at the Wuhan Virology Lab. The mRNA vaccines were not nearly as effective as touted (if they worked at all), and possibly unsafe. Another glaring dishonesty, exposed by doctors like Meryl Nass, relates to the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID. Whether or not hydroxychloroquine is effective against COVID, government authorities thwarted doctors from honestly attempting to find out, and interfered with doctor-patient relationships to do so. Agencies conspired to undermine and discredit doctors like Dr. Meryl Nass, discouraging alternative therapies possessing strong safety...

When a pandemic caused shutdowns across the globe in March 2020, Stacie Grahn thought it was the literal end of the world. Stacie Grahn “I thought: ‘This is it. We’re all in our homes. Is this when we’re all going to disappear?’” Grahn said in a phone call from British Columbia. “With the vaccine, I thought: ‘Is this how they’re going to separate us? Is this going to be the mark of the beast we have to take?’”For those like Grahn who are taught the rapture can happen at any second, the End Times are more than fodder for apocalyptic...

America Is a Land of Systemic JusticeThe best available evidence suggests that, in terms racial demographics, cops are arresting those who actually commit the crimes.Abraham Lincoln described America as a nation “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Today’s Left portrays America as a nation conceived in slavery, and dedicated to the perpetuation of racial oppression. When CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell asked Joe Biden in the summer of 2020, “Do you believe there is ‘systemic racism’ in law enforcement,” Biden answered, “Absolutely. But it’s not just in law enforcement. It’s across the board....

While the so-called “Tennessee Three” have mostly fallen out of the news since being reinstated by their respective city councils (while still being barred from all committees), one member of the trio is still doing all he can to make headlines. Justin Jones, perhaps the most visible member ejected from the state legislature in early April after leading an insurrection inside the Tennessee capitol building, wasn’t content with getting backslaps on Good Morning America and being lauded as a hero for inciting a mob. That mean it was time to execute his most ghoulish stunt yet. On Tuesday, Jones tried...

How Many Deaths Will It Take Before Biden Forcefully Addresses the Fentanyl Crisis?Fentanyl is poisoning babies, teenagers, and adults. Those in government in Washington, D.C., who were elected to protect us have done the opposite.PENN HILLS, Pennsylvania—When the Penn Hills police and paramedics arrived at the modest suburban Pittsburgh home in the 8100 block of Chaske Street on Jan. 14, they found the father of 7-month-old Zhuri Bogle desperately performing CPR on his infant daughter. It was 6:44 a.m., and with the exception of a few flurries swirling in the brisk winter air, the sky was still as dark as...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 1 Zechariah’s Song67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them. 69 He has raised up a horn[c] of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70 (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us— 72 to show mercy to our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant, 73 the oath he swore...

As remarkable as her surgery sounds, she isn’t the oldest Israeli recipient of a pacemaker. Over the last decade, Atar’s team has placed pacemakers inside the bodies of at least three others older than 100. The eldest was 107.... Doctors judge according to biological age, and not chronological age, considering factors like a clear mind, lifestyle and diet, normal or low blood pressure, kidney function, the absence or not of diabetes. “All are predictors of longevity,” said Atar ... “May you live until 120” is a traditional Jewish birthday blessing, and Israelis already enjoy one of the longest life expectancies...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) serves to safeguard the health of low-income pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children younger than 5 years who are at nutritional risk. WIC served about 6.2 million participants each month in fiscal year 2021, including an estimated 43 percent of all infants in the United States. Federal program costs for WIC totaled $5 billion in fiscal year 2021. Congress authorizes a specific amount of funding annually for WIC operations and has funded WIC each year since the late 1990s to serve all eligible applicants. To qualify for WIC,...

VIDEO Ladies! Ladies! Can we please resolve this dispute with peaceful arbitration? No? Well, as you can see this leads to a scene of absolute havoc at a gas station culminating in a wild car flip in a Chicago suburb. Yes, I posted this dispute earlier but now, thanks to ever present surveillance cameras, I am able to present the dramatic car flip in great detail at both regular and slo-mo speeds. It is as yet unknown what sparked the dispute that led to this mayhem although it is suspected that the disputants were engaged in a Nicene Creed theological...

Our Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg can’t tell us enough times how racist our highways are. Pete prefers bicycles (even if he has his bicycle dropped off at a spot near the White House so he can be photographed riding a bike to work there without working up a sweat). And, of course, railroads, the subsidy-loving choice of central planners. The last time Pete attacked highways as racist was in 2021. US transport secretary Pete Buttigieg said highway designs in the country were “racist,” and claimed that the new infrastructure bill would help fix it. (snip) This was in reference to...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office confirmed that an officer was shot in the parking lot of Baptist Health South Tuesday night. According to Sheriff T.K. Waters, at around 9:30 p.m., security at Baptist Health South was made aware of a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot. However, when the security officer tried to engage, the suspect drove around the parking lot at a high speed, and that is when security called JSO for backup. When JSO officers arrived, the suspect pulled up, held what looked like a gun out the window and asked police to “shoot me.”

But it is also a fundamentally disingenuous statistic that, rather than illuminating, obscures the problem of firearm deaths in those under 20. Put simply, virtually no study on any scientific issue considers the broad grouping of ages 1-19 a single cohort. This grouping encompasses toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school children, adolescents and young adults. Is there any logic in combining those too young to walk with those learning to ride a bicycle with those who are driving cars? Unfortunately, this is how the CDC has defined children, thereby conflating vastly different circumstances. The CDC cherry-picking of who is considered a child...

"Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will all be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). The Rapture of the Church. It is Christianity's most preposterous belief. The very idea that a Savior from the sky is coming to get a particular group of people, that dead bodies will be raised back to life, and those alive at that moment will be changed into a...

Republican-led red states are overall in a much better economic situation than Democrat-led blue states, according to a new report that ranks the economic outlook of all 50 states. The annual "Rich States, Poor States" report, authored by economists Stephen Moore, Arthur Laffer, and Jonathan Williams, calculated each state's economic outlook by taking into account 15 variables — such as its taxes, minimum wage, policies toward unions, and quality of legal system — to create a final ranking. The authors noted that each variable is directly influenced by state lawmakers through the legislative process. Mostly red states joined Utah atop...

As of tonight, inflation persists, the commercial real estate sector seems to be teetering, the U.S. dollar continues to lose its value. So, key economic indicators are — as they say in the market shows — worrisome, but on a more fundamental level, there are also danger signs. When young people are told by their leaders that work is a scam and that stealing things from other people is a human right, how do you think your economy is going to look in 10 years? How about your civilization? The answer depends in part on just how much idleness and...

The Wagner Group private military company (PMC) may be trying to force mobilized Russian personnel to sign contracts with the mercenaries fighting for Moscow to offset their troop losses in Ukraine. Spearheading Moscow's fierce fight for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that has raged for months, the group, headed by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, has seen a huge number of troops killed in action. "A group of around 170 mobilized men from these aircraft ... were forced to sign contracts with the Wagner PMC," Astra reported, citing the soldiers' relatives. Russian sources had previously reported that 100 mobilized personnel in Luhansk...

It’s only mid April and mortgage demand should be approaching it’s yearly high. But under Biden and The Fed, mortgage demand seems to have peaked earlier than normal. It’s already late in mortgage cycle. Mortgage applications decreased 8.8 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 14, 2023. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 8.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index decreased 8 percent compared with the previous week....

Image Courtesy Dean Weingarten On Friday, April 14, at the first day of the NRA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis in 2023, this correspondent rode the shuttle from the Gate Ten parking lot to the Indiana Convention Center. A passenger was openly carrying what appears to be one of the Springfield XD series of pistols in a thumb-break outside the waistband holster. Notice the clip on the right front pants pocket. It is almost certainly attached to the ubiquitous folding pocket knife. The gentleman was perfectly willing to have this picture taken of him openly carrying. His comment was to the...

SUFFOLK, VA., Wednesday, April 15. You have of course been informed of the rebel advance upon Suffolk. The alarm was first given in the Federal camps last Saturday afternoon, and the men were called to arms. Rumors that LONGSTREET was advancing with a large force and heavy pontoon trains had been circulating previously for two or three days, but were generally not credited. They were somewhat confirmed, however, by the reports of our cavalry, who had found the rebel pickets more bold, and in some cases crowding on our lines. Apprehensions of an attack at headquarters were evident from the...