Flashback Friday: Show Me The Way

 

 

 

Released in February, 1976 as the lead single from the double live album,
"Frampton Comes Alive!" the upbeat tune, "Show Me The Way" by English rock 
 singer and musician Peter Frampton became a huge hit for him in the United States,
 reaching Number #6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart during that Bicentennial year.

 Also in 1976,  "Frampton Comes Alive!" was voted Album of the Year
 by Rolling Stone readers' poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and 
was still at Number #14 on Billboard's 1977 year-end album chart.

  Considered one of the greatest albums of the "Me" Decade, in 2020,
 "Frampton Comes Alive!" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

 

Show Me The Way
(1976)
Peter Frampton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Messianic Rabbi Zev Porat Preaches: A Curse Not Spoken Since The Time Of Yeshua Goes Beyond Time

 

 

 

"As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order
to accomplish a day like this-to preserve the lives of many people."
(Genesis 50:20)

"I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come.
I say, "My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish."
(Isaiah 46:10) 

 An important message from Rabbi Zev Porat concerning events happening 
in Israel that you will not hear about from the world news media!

Please keep brother Zev's street ministry in your prayers as he witnesses
the powerful soul-saving message of the Gospel to his fellow Jews.

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and the salvation of Israel.

Maranatha! 

 

A Curse Not Spoken Since The Time Of Yeshua
Goes Beyond Time
messiah ofisrael
(July 2, 2026)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Independence Day Together: American Burger vs Israeli Burger! This Recipe Will Shock You!

 

 

 

 Shabbat Shalom, Eretz Israel!  

 Sabbath Blessings & God's Peace To All.

 

Image courtesy/Dreamstime

 

 

 

In honor of Independence Day, gracious host Rivki and chef David of
  the Lev Haolam kitchen tests an all American hamburger against
a hamburger cooked Israeli style!  Both look delicious to me!

  

American Burger vs. Israeli Burger!
This Recipe Will Shock You!
Independence Day Together
Lev Haolam
(July 2, 2026)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday's Thoughts: Living Sacrifices

 

 

 "Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God's mercy, to offer your bodies
as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of
worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good,
pleasing, and perfect will of God."
(Romans 12:1-2)

 

 

Image courtesy/Wikipedia

 It is a challenge to live our lives as sacrifices to God. 

When we do, we aren't the masters of our bodies and minds-God is.
All that we do or think must conform to the Word of God. Such a high
calling is impossible without the Holy Spirit's guidance and help.

We cannot make spiritual progress without the Holy Spirit, and that is
why in Romans 12:1 the Lord tells us to offer our bodies to Him as
living sacrifices. If we try to grow and change spiritually without the
supernatural empowering of the Holy Spirit, we are conforming to
the pattern of the world. The Lord tells us to avoid this by becoming
transformed by the renewal of our minds.

As a sacrificial act of worship, God expects us to be holy and pleasing to Him.
When I was sharing Romans 12 with a group of young people, one fifteen year
old girl asked, "Does this mean that everything I do every day-at school, at home,
in sports, in art and with friends-all these should be an act of worship to God?"

Another student replied, "How can I stay on my knees that long?"

We chuckled, knowing that we worship not only on our knees, but also as
we live our lives. Our everyday lives are important to God, important enough
that He sent His Son to die on the cross so that Jesus could live in us through
each day-including the ordinary ones.

We can now say, "I'm going to school to worship God." "I'm going to paint
a picture to worship God." "I'm going to clean the kitchen to worship God",
as well as "I'm going to church to worship God."

When we conform to the world's patterns and methods, we do not please God,
no matter how good we feel about ourselves or how much other people approve
of us. But we do please God when our minds are renewed. Then we are able to
test and approve God's perfect will.

 

"Living Sacrifices"
Marie Chapian
(1938- 
American writer and radio ministry host
Devotional taken from NIV Women's Devotional
New Testament With Psalms And Proverbs
(1983)
 Zondervan Publishing

 

  In the 1970's during a trip taken to the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 
award-winning writer Marie Chapian conducted interviews with many  
 people there- peasants, gypsies, factory workers, physicians, laborers-
 even officials of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.  

The purpose of these interviews was to discover how Christians sustained 
 their faith when the Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia during World War II.

 The result of this research became the basis for her gripping, 1978 novel,
 "Of Whom The World Was Not Worthy".

 "We must believe with all our hearts and souls that He is with us. He is a God of love!" 
declares Jacob, a devoted Christian evangelist, one of the main characters in the story.

 "This is war. The only place you will be safe is in the grave", 
a gray uniformed soldier responds to him.

And yet, despite living in the midst of hell on earth,  Jakob, his wife, Jozeca, and
other believers, offered themselves as daily "living sacrifices" to God, clinging 
 to their unswerving faith in Him, while praying for both friends and foes alike.

Although this remarkable story, a true testimony of faith in a time of severe testing,
 is now out of print, "Of Whom The World Was Not Worthy" is still available
 online through Amazon.com and at Thrift Books.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Hillbilly Kitchen: Irresistibly Easy Garden-Fresh Squash Fritters With Granny's Secret Ingredient

 

 

 

 

 Gracious host Becky from The Hillbilly Kitchen shares her grandmother's secret
for making delicious summer squash and zucchini fritters!   I remember my mother
telling me how my maternal great-grandmother, Viola Johnson, used to make
squash fritters and serve them in place of meat on hot summer days!

Remember to always put God first! 

 

 

Irresistibly Easy Garden-Fresh Squash Fritters 
With Granny's Secret Ingredient
The Hillbilly Kitchen-Down Home Country Cooking
(June 30, 2026)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

America At 250: Gettysburg

 

 

 

This first day of July commemorates the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg,
 fought between Union and Confederate armies on the sprawling farmland in
 and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between July 1st to July 3rd in 1863. 

Considered the turning point in the war, and leading to an ultimate victory for the Union
forces, this battle alone claimed over 50,000 American lives and has long been considered
  not only the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, but of any battle ever fought on American soil.

"Gettysburg" a poem by Irish-born American poet John Jeffrey Roche (1847-1908) 
was composed for the dedication of the High Water Mark Monument, which
   took place at Gettysburg National Military Park on July 2, 1892. 

 

 

The Bloody Angle*
(1912)
N.C. Wyeth
(1882-1945)
American illustrator and painter
Image courtesy/Fine Art America

 

There was no union in the land,

Though wise men labored long

With links of clay and ropes of sand

To bind the right and wrong.

There was no temper in the blade

That once could cleave a chain;

Its edge was dull with touch of trade

And clogged with rust of gain. 

The sand and clay must shrink away

Before the lava tide:

By blows and blood and fire assay

The metal must be tried. 

Here sledge and anvil met, and when

The furnace fiercest roared,

God's undiscerning workingmen

Reforged His people's sword. 

Enough for them to ask and know

The moment's duty clear-

The bayonets flashed it there below,

The guns proclaimed it here: 

To do and dare, and die at need,

But while life lasts, to fight-

For right or wrong a simple creed,

But simplest for the right.

They faltered not who stood that day

And held this post of dread;

Nor cowards they who wore the gray

Until the gray was red. 

 

For every wreath the victor wears

The vanquished half may claim;

Every monument declares

A common pride and fame.

We raise no altars stones to Hate,

Who never bowed to fear:

No province crouches at our gate,

To shame our triumph here. 

Here standing by a dead wrong's grave

The blindest now may see,

The blow that liberates the slave

But sets the master free! 

What ills beset the nation's life

Too dangerous to bear,

The sword must be the surgeon's knife,

Too merciful to spare. 

O Soldier of our common land,

'Tis thine to bear the blade

Loose in the sheath, or firm in hand,

But ever unafraid.

When foreign foes assail our right,

One nation trusts to thee-

To wield it well in worthy fight-

The sword of Mead and Lee. 

 

 

 

The High Water Mark Monument at Gettyburg National Miltary Park lists the commanders
and their military units at the high water mark of the battle.
Image courtesy/Wikipedia

 

* "The Bloody Angle" refers to an area around a clump of trees that was used as a landmark for
  Confederate Major General George Pickett's ill-fated Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. 
 The Confederate forces were soundly defeated in the attack, resulting in a hard won victory 
 for the beleaguered Union Army.  Considered "the high-water mark of the Confederacy" the
decisive Union victory forced Confederate General Robert E.Lee and his remaining Army
 to retreat back to Virginia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday's Word: Chasah/Hope, Refuge, Trust

 

 

 

According to Strong's Concordance, the meaning of the Hebrew word, chasah,
pronounced, "khaw-saw" is "to have hope, to take refuge, and to trust" in God.

  "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
 I will say to the LORD, "You are my refuge, my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
Surely He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome
pestilence. He shall cover thee with His feathers and under His wings shalt
thou trust: His truth shall be Thy shield and buckler."
(Psalm 91:1-4)

Image courtesy/Pinterest

 

 " He shall cover thee with His feathers and under His wings shalt
thou trust: His truth shall be Thy shield and buckler."

"A condescending simile indeed!  Just as a hen protects her brood and
 allows them to nestle under her wings, so will the Lord defend his people,
and permit them to hide away in Him. 

Have we not seen the little chicks peeping out from under the mother's feathers?
  Have we not heard their little cry of contented joy?  

In this way let us shelter ourselves in God, and feel overflowing peace 
in knowing that He is guarding us.  While the Lord covers us we trust. 

 It would be strange if we did not. How can we distrust when
 Jehovah Himself becomes house and home, refuge and rest, to us?

This done, we go out to war in His name and enjoy the same guardian care.
We need shield and buckler, and when we implicitly trust God, even as
chicks trust the hen, we find His truth arming us from head to foot.

The Lord cannot lie; He must be faithful to His people; 
His promises must stand. This sure truth is all the shield we need. 

 Behind it we defy the fiery darts of the enemy.

Come, my soul, hide under those great wings, lose thyself among
those soft feathers! How happy thou art!" 
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon