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Prime Minister Netanyahu:Merry Christmas to all our Christian friends around the world from Jerusalem! This is Jerusalem of gold, now it's Jerusalem of snow. We celebrate Christmas with you, we know the importance you attach to our common heritage, to the State of Israel and to the city of Jerusalem, where so much of our common history was forged. We have a great past, we have common values, we have the desire to seize a common future of security, prosperity and peace, so from the city of peace, Jerusalem, I extend the warmest Christmas greetings to all of you. Merry...

The other day, my wife and I visited a Best Buy store in the Chicagoland area and were pleasantly surprised. As we were checking out, the young cashier went out of her way to wish us both a very merry Christmas. My wife and I were taken aback by the young lady's obvious enjoyment in extending her greeting, to the point it was a topic of conversation as we left the store. Shortly afterward, I received an e-mail sent out by an individual who was supporting a boycott of Best Buy. The individual was forwarding an e-mail he had received...

GREET YOUR FRIENDS IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGES........... Acholi - Mot ki Yomcwing Botwo Me Mwaka Manyen. Adhola - Wafayo Chamo Mbaga & Bothi Oro Manyeni. Aeka- Keremisi jai be. Afrikaans - Geseende Kerfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar. African/Eritrean/Tigrinja - Rehus-Beal-Ledeats. Ahtna - C'ehwggelnen Dzaenh. Aklanon - Malipayon nga Paskwa ag Mahigugmaon nga Bag-ong Dag-on. Albanian - Gëzuar Krishlindjet Vitin e Ri!. Aleut - Ruudzdistvachxizax^ama ama slum tagadagan inix^sinaa imchix anuxtakus. Alettiq - Piamci Amlesquat Uksut; Amlertut Kiaget!. Alsatian - E gueti Wïnâchte & E glecklichs Nej Johr!. Alur - Wafoyo Kado Oro & Wafoyo Tundo Oro manyeni. Alutiiq -...

December 19, 1982 (Morning) Bethlehem Baptist Church John Piper, Pastor YOU SHALL GO FORTH LEAPING LIKE CALVES (Malachi) Malachi is the latest Old Testament prophet. Haggai and Zechariah preached during the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile. In Malachi the temple is finished and the worship there has already become wearisome to the people (1:13). The situation of divorce and intermarriage with unbelievers (2:10,11), the withholding of tithes (3:8) and the oppression of the poor (3:5) -- all these are like the situation in Nehemiah's time (13:1-3; 23f; 10:32-39; 5:1-5). So the probable date for Malachi is around...