Welsh Rarebit: Unbelievably Good 250 Year Old Cheese Toast!

 

 

 

 

Townsends explores the history of Welsh Rarebit, a hearty
and thrifty 18th century cheese dish for cold winter evenings!

 

Unbelievable Good 250 Year Old Cheese Toast
Welsh Rarebit
(December 28, 2025)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday Meditation: For Thy Mercy And Thy Grace

 

 

 

 "All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.  When You give it
to them, they gather up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things."
(Psalm 104:27-28)

 

 

Red Cardinal 
Image courtesy/Dreamstime.com

 

For Thy mercy and Thy grace

Constant through another year,

Hear our song of thankfulness

Jesus, our Redeemer hear.

 

Lo! our sins on Thee we cast,

Thee, our perfect sacrifice;

And, forgetting all the past,

Press towards our glorious prize. 

 

Dark the future: let Thy light

Guide us, bright and morning Star:

Fierce our foes, and hard the fight;

Arm us, Savior, for the war. 

 

In our weakness and distress,

Rock of strength, be Thou our stay;

In the pathless wilderness

Be our true and living Way. 

 

Keep us faithful, keep us pure,

Keep us evermore Thine own;

Help, O help us to endure;

Fit us for the promised crown. 

 

So within Thy palace gate

We shall praise, on golden strings,

Thee the only potentate,

Lord of lords, and King of kings. 

 

"For Thy Mercy and Thy Grace"
(1841)
Henry Downton 
(1818-1885)
English clergyman and hymn writer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Charles Stanley: Surviving Our Present Culture

 

 

 

 

 Dr. Charles Stanley explains that Christians fall into two categories.
There are those who are committed followers of Jesus and there are
those who are self-centered and  carnal-minded having become
entangled in the present culture we live in today.

 

Surviving Our Present Culture
Dr. Charles Stanley/In Touch Ministries
(Uploaded July 2, 2022)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: The True Story of Slavery They Never Taught You

 

 

 

 Host Mike Droberg unravels the long and tragic history of slavery,
which did not begin in America or in Europe. It was not confined to any
single race.  Long before the Atlantic slave trade, slavery existed across
Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Empires rose on it.
Religions regulated it.  Entire civilizations normalized it. 

The True Story Of Slavery They Never Taught You
FORGOTTEN HISTORY
(December 27, 2025)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ministry Update: Amazing Be'er Sheva Outreach/The Wells Of Salvation

 

 

 

 "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government will be
 upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
(Isaiah 9:6)

Please pray for the continuing success of brother Zev's street ministry,
 as he proclaims the good news of salvation through Yeshua Ha'Mashiach
 to his fellow Jews in Israel.

Amazing Be'er Sheva Outreach
The Wells of Salvation
Messianic Rabbi Zev Porat Preaches
messiah ofisrael
(December 27, 2025)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday Poetry Corner: People, Look East

 

 

 

"You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter." 
(Psalm 74:17)

 

Winter Sunrise Beauty
Image courtesy/StockCake

 

People, look east.  The time is near

Of the crowning of the year.

Make your house fair as you are able,

Trim the hearth and set the table.

People, look east and sing today:

Love, the guest, is on the way. 

Furrows, be glad. Though earth is bare,

One more seed is planted there:

Give up your strength the seed to nourish,

That in course the flower may flourish.

People, look east and sing today:

Love, the rose, is on the way.

Birds, though you long have ceased to build,

Guard the nest that must be filled.

Even the hour when wings are frozen

God for fledging time has chosen.

People, look east and sing today:

Love, the bird, is on the way. 

Stars, keep the watch. When night is dim

One more light the bowl shall brim,

Shining beyond the frosty weather,

Bright as sun and moon together.

People, look east and sing today:

Love, the star, is on the way. 

Angels, announce with shouts of mirth

Christ who brings new life to earth.

Set every peak and valley humming

With the word, the Lord is coming.

People, look east and sing today:

Love, the Lord, is on the way. 

 

"People, Look East"
(1928)
Originally titled, "Carol of Advent"
Eleanor Farjeon
(1881-1965)
English writer and poetess

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Governor Murphy's Christmas Eve Parting Shot

 

  

 

"So God created man in His own image; in the image of God
He created him; male and female He created them."
(Genesis 1:27) 

 

"In His Own Image"
Beth Sweigard
Image courtesy/eBay

 

 As he prepares to leave the office of Governor of the State of New Jersey,
Phil Murphy chose Christmas Eve, the night when Christians around the world
remember the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to further advance
his administration's pro-infanticide agenda.

While we could hardly expect a message of "peace on earth, goodwill to men"
 from the mouth of an abortion extremist, it also should not come as a surprise
 that he announced a $22 million dollar funding commitment to' protect and grow'
access to abortion through what his administration calls the "Reproductive
Health Access Fund" an abortion slush fund designed to funnel
 taxpayer dollars to abortion providers.

According to Marie Tasy, President of New Jersey Right To Life, Murphy
used this announcement to further boast that during his eight years in office,
his administration has directed a whopping $268 million in taxpayer funds
to the abortion mills of Planned Parenthood, thus rewarding 
his most loyal political constituency. 

Mrs. Tasy decried Murphy's announcement as deeply offensive. 
Furthermore,  I agree with her that Christmas Eve should be a time of 
personal reflection, of reverence, and a celebration of life, especially
the life of the baby boy born in Bethlehem.

The announcement of more money for more abortions on Christmas Eve,
 while perhaps not intentional, nevertheless seems like a mockery of the One 
 who came so that we may have life and have it in all it's fullness.

Murphy's self-righteous pride and arrogance reminds me of two pivotal scenes
 from a popular Christmas story about another prideful, arrogant, and selfish man... 

 

Ghost Of Christmas Present's Darker Side
Werebat
(Uploaded December 21, 2011)

 

Charles Dickens' famous miser Ebenezer Scrooge was a tough nut to crack,
a worldly man of finance who took little notice of the suffering and misery
of others, however, when faced with the prospect of his own death, 
forsaken by all who knew him and soon forgotten, he chose life.
  

 "He became as good a friend, as good a master,  and as good a man, as the 
good old city knew..." especially in regards to Tiny Tim Cratchit, who did
 not die, but grew into a strong and healthy boy, thanks to the kindness
 and generosity of his newly found friend and uncle "Scrooge".