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The gates and doors were barred And all the windows fastened down I spent the night in sleeplessness And rose at every sound Half in hope of sorrow And half in fear the day Would find the soldiers breakin' through To drag us all away And just before the sunrise I heard something at the wall The gate began to rattle And a voice began to call I hurried to the window Looked down into the street Expecting swords and torches And the sound of soldiers' feet But there was no one there but Mary So I went down to...

MAY 6 EVENING How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Beloved, now are we the Sons of God; ... it doth not appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as he is.As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of heavenly. The Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able...

Barack Obama vetoed a plan for stealth bombers to blow up Osama Bin Laden's compound in March so special forces could get DNA evidence to confirm he was dead. The U.S. President gave the all clear for an air strike on the 54-year-old's hideaway - but backed out. Military leaders were going to drop 2,000lb bombs from two B2 stealth bombers on the secure site yards from Pakistan's military academy, sources revealed. But Obama told the military to hold off, and instead an elite team American forces killed the terrorist during a firefight. The President vetoed the original plan so...

Mel Gibson’s much anticipated The Passion officially opened in theaters on Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2004. Never in history has any movie so captured the attention and adoration of the Christian community. No movie, no movement, no sermon, no revival, no event – nothing in modern history has created such a moving among the Christian world. The first day The Passion grossed over $25 million dollars. And there appears no slowdown. After 5 days, it has now grossed over $125 million dollars. The Passion generated an unbelievable $10 million in advance sales. Many churches leased complete movie theaters to show...