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At 1 p.m. on Monday, supporters of the women who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault walked out of their homes and workplaces. The national walkout was promoted partially in response to the backlash these and other women face when going public with stories of sexual assault and rape. The anti-sexual-harassment organization Times Up tweeted on Sunday that “WOMEN MUST BE HEARD” in a “MOMENT OF SOLIDARITY” with Kavanaugh’s accusers, Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez. It urged people to wear black and leave wherever they are in protest, using the hashtag #BelieveSurvivors on social media. In...

If you belong to God, you are called to freedom. But many believers never live a life of freedom. There are several Biblical keys to freedom. One of the most overlooked of them is choice. Many of us go through life as if we have no choice in our walk. Choosing is really part of following God. If you don't choose God, and seek righteousness everyday, you'll end up following the way of sin.Do you want to be free? Then you have to choose. Choose to do right, choose to go God's way. Choose to walk in His strength. Choose...

If you are having a lot of problems living a life of victory, you are making a heavenly grammatical error with your conjunctions. There is a very simple lesson about using the word 'BUT'. Never put the word God before 'but'. To do that is bad grammar. If you are saying, "I know God loves me, but..." or, " I know Jesus died for me, but...", you are nullifying the word and power of God. The more you do that, the more you are hurting yourself.To correct your grammar, always put the Word of God, the things of God, His...

On Chanukah, the Jewish people light the Menorah, the sacred 9 branch Lampstand. Every night another light is lit. The problem is, there are 8 days of Chanukah - but 9 candles on the Menorah. What is the ninth candle? It is the Shamash. The Shamash is the candle that is lit first. Every night the Shamash lights up every other candle.Shamash means the SERVANT. The Hebrew prophets called Messiah the servant. Messiah came as the servant. Messiah is the SHAMASH, the Light that lights up all others. It is written of Him, "He is the true light that gives...

A believer visiting in England was shown the coach used by the royal family for state occasions. In the back of the coach were two little seats. The visitor was told they were for the royal footmen. The royal footmen had the job of following along side the royal coach as it moved through the streets. The visitor remembered the verse, "Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life..." and he said to himself, "They don't know it, but I am a king and I have two footmen..."And so it is for all the children...

"Jesus" is a great name with which to call the Lord. But He was never given that name - it is an English translation of the name He was given, "Yeshua." It means "God is Salvation." It is a beautiful name because it's the Lord's, but also because you are in it. Think about it - whose salvation is it? It's our salvation - it's your salvation. So you are in His name. Your need is in His name, your burden is in His name, your fears, your emptiness are in His name. All of you are in His name...

Without exception, the authors of the Gospels refuse to exalt themselves. They don't give themselves good press. The Gospel of Matthew doesn't lift up Matthew, it instead reports that Matthew was a sinner, a tax-collector. The Gospel of John doesn't lift up John. It records that John was among the disciples that forsook the Lord when He needed them most. In the Gospels, only one Person gets good press- Messiah. If the Gospels were the work of man, they'd bear the fingerprints of the author. The author would downplay their own faults, and take credit for their works of divine...

After the engagement was sealed before a Hebrew wedding, the groom would leave the bride's house and the two would be separate for about a year. The bride would prepare herself for the groom and the groom would prepare a place for the bride. And then at night, the groom, dressed as a king, would come to the house of the bride. The two would be lifted up on a chair and carried away with joy to the house that the bridegroom had prepared. There they would celebrate for days with a great marriage feast and the two would become...

There is a truth that is totally Biblical, yet not about Jesus at all. You may think that you want to know about Jesus, because your whole life and faith is about Him. But the Bible is really not about Jesus. The Bible is not about Jesus because the Bible is Jesus - and there's a big difference. Islam speaks about Jesus, Judaism speaks about Jesus, but we do not just speak about Jesus, we speak Jesus.Of course we are to speak about Jesus, and to sing about him and to write about Him. But it's not enough, because it's...

We live in an anti-always culture. One that is based on constant change. The only thing permanent in our culture is that there's nothing permanent. What's in today is gone tomorrow. Attention spans are shorter and shorter. Family dinners have been replaced by fast food. We live in an MTV, fast food disposable culture. It is not just the containers that are disposable, but so are modern values and beliefs.An anti-always culture produces people who lack the 'quality of always', the quality of consistency, of endurance, of faithfulness, and of an innner core of morality, that which can never be...

Which Bible translation is the best? There's the King James - a great old version that's very poetic, but it's not the best translation. There's the New King James which keeps much of the beauty, but in more modern English - but that's not the best. There is the New American Standard that presents a very literal, word for word translation - but that's not the best either. The best translation of the Bible is ...you. It's written in the Epistles that you are our epistle - written on human hearts. The best Bible translation is not written on paper,...

Hinduism teaches that salvation comes when man merges back into God through the cycle of reincarnation. Islam teaches that the way of salvation is to obey the Shariah, Islamic Law. Buddhism teaches that the way of salvation is to extinguish all desires and passions and enter a state of nothingness called "Nirvanna." Orthodox Judaism teaches that salvation comes when one observes all the mitzvahs to the point where one's good deeds outweigh one's bad deeds. These different teachings have one thing in common. They all maintain that salvation has to come from man. It's all about a hand reaching up...

In Hebrews 10:24 it is written, "Let us consider how to provoke one another to love." Some of you read the first part of the verse, and not the end. You read, "let us provoke one another..." And you stop there. You have been following the Lord by getting good at provoking other people. You provoke otherwise very loving and spiritual people into entertaining thoughts of hurting you.This is not what the verse means. God has called you to be a provoker. You are supposed to influence people. You are supposed to affect their behavior and cause them to do...

Many say that since you are saved by faith you don't have to do anything. There are others who do many things for God, but as a kind of compulsion, or to earn His approval. There is no joy in it. Many feel tired and 'burnt out.' Both need to learn the Hebrew word MACHOL - it means 'dance.'If you ever watched a bride dance with her groom you can hardly tell who is leading. They seem to move effortlessly. It seems to be a perfect dance, all planned out even before they do it. This is the way it...

In Hebrew the word, KAHVADE means 'heavy.' It's the word Moses uses in Numbers 11:14 when he says, "I am not able, alone, to bear this people, it's too Kah-Vade, too heavy for me.'' Many things in this world are heavy, and for those of you who live in it, it is easy to start getting heavy. It is easy to get weighed down by all the problems, worries, anxieties, fears and conflicts. Are you feeling heavy? Probably - because you live on earth. God wants you light.Even though the world weighs 6.6 sextillion tons- it floats. You can see...

It is easy to grow old. Just do nothing and you'll grow old - not only in life - but in the Lord. It is easy to let yourself lose the youthfulness of your relationship with God. How do you stay young in the Lord? One of the overlooked and forgotten secrets of youthfulness in God is found in the ancient Hebrew word, NORAH. Norah is sometimes translated as 'awful' - but it really means awesome. God is NORAH - awesome and awe-inspiring. The first believers were filled with life and youthfulness in their walk with God. In Acts 2:43,...

On the night of the first Passover, the Hebrews were commanded to sacrifice a lamb and mark the beams of their doorway with it's blood. If you can picture it you can see a triangle pointing from earth to Heaven. By that triangle of the Lamb's blood, judgment passed them over and they were saved and set free. Over 1,000 years later God did His part. As it was told, "God will provide the Lamb." around 30 A.D, on Passover God sacrificed the final and ultimate Passover Lamb. As Messiah hung crucified on Mt. Moriah, there was again the Passover...

In Luke 23:33-34, it is written, "When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him...Yeshua, Jesus said, "Father forgive them, for they don't know what they're doing." do you realize what an amazing thing this is? He is naked, hanging on the cross, held up by Roman nails through his hands and feet. His life is ending because of His enemies. His body is wracked with excruciating pain - and what is He doing? He is praying for them - praying for those who nailed Him to the cross! He is thinking about them and their...

Israel was surrounded. God told Hezekiah and the people to go down to the battlefield and take their stand. So they did. The enemy armies fell into confusion and turned on each other. It was a miracle of God. Did they have to do anything? No..it was all the Lord. And yes, they had to get into position for the miracle.In the same way, the Book of Acts is filled with miracles, but it wouldn't have been filled with miracles if the disciples and apostles just sat all day, and stayed home. They had to get in position for the...

The firemen of Genoa Texas were bored. Eight of them decided to stop talking about fires and start setting them. In a three-year period, over forty fires in Genoa were set by the firemen, usually in abandoned buildings or grass fields. The fireman became very busy, starting fires, rushing to the firehouse, then back to put out the fire they had started. One day they made the mistake of stting fire to a barn owned by the brother of a Houston fire department official, prompting an investigation which led back to the Genoa firemen.What do we learn from these amazing...