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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• MARTYRS IN THE BIBLE J E S U S 1 NANCY WELSCH "Our Cross to Bear" 2 CHRISTINA HEALTHYNI "Jesus Carried Cross" 3 EL GRECO "Christ Carrying the Cross" 4 SEBASTIANO DEL PIOMBO "Jesus Carrying the Cross" 5 MARCO D'OGGIONO "Christ Carrying the Cross" 6 WAYNE PASCALL "Bearing the Cross" 7 ANDREI MIRONOV "Carrying of the Cross" 8 ANDREY MIRONOV "Christ Meeting His Mother on the Way to Calvary" 9 ANDREY MIRONOV "Via Dolorosa" 10 GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO "The Disrobing of Christ" 11 Trinity Art...

On Saturday, September 2, 2023, I woke from sleep at four a.m. and looked out my window in search of the waning moon. Media had described the second full moon of August as a “blue moon” and a “super moon” and I hadn’t yet seen it.I saw some black men partying on the sidewalk around Costello Park. Lately the park has become a site of all-night parties. Men gather on the sidewalk after sunset and remain till near dawn. I’d estimate about fifteen partiers. They sit on milk crates and metal chairs that Paterson, as part of a renovation, using...

NATIONAL NOODLE DAY October 6th and National Noodle Day recognizes oodles of noodles just in time for National Pasta Month! What style do you prefer? #NationalNoodleDay If you missed National Linguine Day in September, this day offers an opportunity to make up for it. The word noodle derives from the German word nudel. Noodles are made by rolling unleavened dough out and cutting into a variety of shapes. While long, flat noodles may seem to be the most common, they come in several forms, names, and textures. And each kind of noodle pairs differently with sauces and meals. Found in...

The Girl Scouts are discontinuing a popular cookie just a year after its debut sparked a frenzy. Raspberry Rally won’t be sold this upcoming cookie-sales season, which runs January to April 2024, Girl Scouts of the USA has announced. The Rallies was introduced last year as a “sister” cookie to the iconic Thin Mints, a crisp mint-flavored cookie encased in chocolate, but in the Raspberry Rally, the cookie was replaced with a bright pink berry-flavored one. It was dipped in the same chocolate coating as its sibling. The Rallies were the Girl Scouts’ first-ever cookie to be exclusively sold online,...

Forget race. Forget sex. Forget immigration. The mother of all culture wars is breaking out, and its subject is the car. The automobile has long been a policy flashpoint, with the paramount issue being where it should be able to roam. This was the heart of the brutal urban-planning battles of the mid-20th century, which were fought over the need for and placement of new highways. Yet it’s hard to describe those earlier policy fights as a culture war. Liberal urban activists such as Jane Jacobs—who famously fought off Robert Moses’ plan to build a highway interchange over Washington Square...

WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 5. A letter from Dalton,. Ga., Sept. 26, published in the Richmond Dispatch on Saturday, says: "The over-sanguine multitude will be somewhat disappointed to know that the chances of Gen. BRAGG taking Gen. ROSECRANS' army is no easy job. Although his losses have been heavy, he yet has a very formidable army." The two armies were still confronting each other at last accounts at Chattanooga. ROSECRANS, it is said, has established three lines in front of the town, and it is also reported that BRAGG is fortifying Missionary Ridge. The Examiner of Oct. 2, has the following:...

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Customs specialists at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport seized a box of giraffe droppings from an Iowa woman who brought them back from Kenya with the intention of making a necklace. Photo courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Customs officials in Minnesota seized a box of giraffe feces from a traveler who arrived from Kenya and said she planned to use the droppings to make a necklace. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the Iowa resident was selected for inspection by agriculture specialists upon arriving at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from a trip to Kenya....

People shopping for electric vehicles starting next year will be able to get a $7,500 federal tax credit off the sticker price while at the dealership, rather than having to wait months to receive their tax returns. The changes to how car buyers can get the federal tax break on EVs — part of the Inflation Reduction Act — were announced by the Biden administration on Friday, and are being rolled out to car dealerships before they take effect starting January 1. Under the new guidance, those purchasing a new electric vehicle or plug-in electric vehicle that qualifies under the...

Former President Donald Trump endorsed pro-life Republican Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid for Speaker of the House early on Friday. “He will be a GREAT Speaker of the House, & has my Complete & Total Endorsement!” Trump posted. “Just had a great conversation with President Trump about the Speaker’s race,” Congressman Troy Nehls posted on Twitter Thursday evening. “He is endorsing Jim Jordan, and I believe Congress should listen to the leader of our party. I fully support Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House.” Jordan launched a campaign to become Speaker of the House just one day after Kevin McCarthy...

Fire officials in Florida have issued a warning to the public after recent storms have highlighted major safety issues with electric vehicles. A local fire and rescue department started raising the alarm in the wake of Hurricane Idalia’s landfall in Florida’s Big Bend near Keaton Beach in late August. The department has warned owners of electric-powered cars, trucks, scooters, and golf carts that exposure to salt water can cause the vehicles’ batteries to catch fire. Palm Harbor Fire Rescue on Florida’s Gulf Coast issued the warning in a post on Facebook. The post urges owners to move their battery-powered vehicles...

There is no doubt that the 2024 elections are underway. You have probably already seen campaign launches, heard the first attack ads, received campaign emails, and you may have tuned in for the Republican presidential debates. While we are energized and motivated to oust pro-abortion President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and win pro-life majorities in the House and Senate next year, we cannot afford to overlook the important races happening across the country this year in 2023! Here are some of the races we are watching closely: Kentucky Pro-abortion Governor Andy Beshear (D) is up for re-election...

This shuffle came about after Jordan, along with Rep. Mark Meadows (R.-N.C.), forced Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to resign, by filing a vacate the chair motion on the last day before the August 2014 recess. Boehner did resign right away, and it did not seem like Jordan and Meadows would succeed until House Republicans came back to Washington--having heard in their districts a growing frustration with the speaker. In a fateful meeting, Jordan, Meadows and Boehner agreed to let Boehner, a Catholic, hang on to his speakership until after the visit of Pope Francis to Washington. Boehner resigned the next...

The US economy added 336,000 jobs in September — a surprising surge that raises the risk that the Federal Reserve will further tighten interest rates to tamp down inflation. The blowout number was nearly double the 170,000 jobs economists had expected, and marks a sharp increase from the 187,000 jobs gained in August, according to fresh data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The report also showed that wages increases were smaller than expected and the unemployment held steady at 3.8% — slightly above the 3.7% forecast and even with the jobless rate in August, which had...

In what I called in an X post the "laugh line o' the day," Nicolle Wallace opened her Thursday MSNBC show on a solemn note. She even managed to keep a straight face while saying: "On this program, we try our hardest not to ever amplify [Trump's] most dangerous comments." Wallace then promptly proceeded to give the lie to her claim, by resorting to the liberal media's most tired cliché: Trump = Hitler.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

For part 1 of our exposé, dealing with our general sense of the conference click here. For part 2, where we review a session by panelists with trans children who argue for gender affirming care, click here. For part 3, where a speaker repeatedly teaches that we must be gay affirming, click here. (on link) Andy Stanley joined Debbie Causey for the second main session of the Unconditional conference. Causey is a pastor and the long-time Care Director at North Point Community Church. She is a board member of Renovus, an LGBTQ activist group led by her and other gay-affirming...

Wagner troops are outraged after Russian officials bulldozed a cemetery of its mercenary fighters just days after the death of its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Prigozhin himself had opened the cemetery last year in the village of Nikolayevka, Samara Oblast, in Russia's southwestern region. Video footage from a Wagner supporter today showed that cement had been poured over the gravesites of those who died fighting in Ukraine. The crosses marking the grave sites had also been ripped out of the ground and were thrown into a landfill "like rubbish". The supporter tells viewers on Telegram that "everything has been demolished" The...

Chris Moritz told Carlson that the total valuation of the ‘gender transition’ industry jumped to more than $4 billion in 2022 is predicted to top $7 billion by 2030. (LifeSiteNews) — Tucker Carlson has blown the lid off what he and his most recent “Tucker on X” guest are calling “Trans, Inc.,” the multi-billion dollar industry that is reaping profits off dangerous surgeries and experimental drugs for gender-confused minors and adults. Carlson welcomed Chris Moritz to talk about the situation Wednesday evening, as Moritz says he has conducted an in-depth study on the matter. Elon Musk re-posted Carlson’s episode to...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a "formal deprogramming" for many supporters of former President Trump during a new CNN interview.

Former SBC president, JD Greear, has been under fire on social media in recent days after a video surfaced of him advocating for his church’s diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI) program. But what exactly is the result of that program? Apparently, this. You may remember during the COVID/BLM scandal a few years ago, Greear’s Summit Church was involved in an anti-police march in North Carolina alongside militant Black Lives Matter groups. The march was led by one of Greear’s co-pastors, the worship pastor, Michael Georges Jr. Georges, who refers to himself as the “Black King,” has been an advocate for the Black Lives...