Get ready, fellow sky watchers! The last full super moon of 2025 will rise tonight.
Called the Full Cold Moon, lovely Luna will be 100% illuminated this evening
by 6:14 P.M. EST.
🌕I hope the skies are clear where you're at tonight!🌕
"At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country
of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel.
Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities."
(Joshua 11:21)
Joshua and Caleb join their guests Chaim Malespin and Israel Hanna on a
journey to ancient Hebron and visit Israel's "Land of the Giants" Tel Rumeida,
a site where epic battles once raged between the tribe of Judah and the Nephilim kings.
They also visit Athens for the first time, revealing the domination of the Greek Empire.
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law."
(Galatians 5:22-23)
I know a little band of friends that calls itself a woman's club. The avowed
purpose of this club is study, but there is an undercurrent of deeper, truer things
than even culture and self-improvement.
There is no obligation, and there are no promises; but in forming the club and in
selecting new members, only those are chosen who are kind-hearted and dependable,
as well as possessors of a certain degree of intelligence, and a small amount of genius
which is the capacity for careful work.
. In short, those who are taken into membership are those who will make good friends,
and so they are a little band who are each for all and all for each. If one needs the
helping hand of comradeship, not one, but all are eager and willing to help, with
financial aid if needed, but more often with a good word or a small act of kindness.
They are getting so in the habit of speaking good words that I expect to see
them all develop into Golden Gossips. Ever hear of golden gossip? I read of
it some years ago. A woman who was always talking about her friends and
neighbors made it her business to talk of them, in fact, never said anything
but good of them. She was a gossip but it was "golden gossip".
This woman's club seems to be working in the same way and associations of
friendship and mutual helpfulness are being built up which will last for life.
It is a beautiful thing, and more than ever one is impressed with the idea
that it is a pity there are...
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind
When just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.*
"Money is the root of all evil" says the proverb, but I think that proverb maker
only dug down part way around the plant of evil. If he had really gotten to the
root of the matter, I am sure he would have found that root to be selfishness-
just selfishness, pure and simple.
Why all the mad scramble for money? Why are we all "money-mad Americans"?
It is just for our selfish gratification with things money can buy, from
world domination to a stick of striped candy-selfishness, just selfishness.
Not long ago I was visiting in a family where there were several children.
The father lost his memorandum book and was inquiring for it. No one
had seen it. "I wish, he said, "that you children would find it for me
before I come back at noon." There was silence for a minute, and then
one of the children said: "Why don't you put up a quarter? That'll find it!"
"Well, I will," his father answered and at once the children were all
eagerness to search. It seemed to me such a pity to appeal to a selfish
interest in a home where there should be loving service freely given.
In the blacksmith shop, one hot day last summer, the blacksmith was
sweating over his hot irons when two idle boys sauntered in and over
to the water bucket. It was empty.
"Ain't yuh got no water?" asked one of the boys.
"Not if the bucket is empty," answered the blacksmith.
Then the man for whom the blacksmith was working spoke up.
"Why don't you go get a bucket of water?" he asked.
"I will for a nickel," said the boy.
"Yes, we'll go for a nickel," agreed the other boy.
"Were you going to pay for your drink?" asked the man innocently, and
the boys looked at him surprised and then slunk away without filling the bucket.
Just an example of selfishness made more contemptible by being so plainly unfair.
Cooperation, helplfulness, and fair dealing are so badly needed in the world,
and if they are not learned as children at home, it is difficult for grownups
to have a working knowledge of them.
So much depends on starting the children right!
"The Helping Hand Of Helpfulness"
(December 1916)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
(1867-1957)
Prolific American writer
Author of the "Little House" series of books
Essay taken from the book,
Little House In The Ozarks
A Laura Ingalls Wilder Sampler
The Rediscovered Writings
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Edited By Stephen W. Hines
(c. 1991 Guideposts Edition)
*From "The World's Need" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near. A star will come forth
from Jacob and a scepter will arise from Israel."
(Numbers 24:17)
"Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth
has been given to Me."
(Matthew 28:18)
"But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed
heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe."
(Hebrews 1:2)
And much more... in this intriguing episode of Today's Wild West!
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we
are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs
of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer
with Him, that we may be glorified together. For I reckon
that the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be
compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
(Romans 8:16-18)
Les continues his walk through the Bible, helping us
to connect the dots within the Holy Scriptures.
Gracious Lev Haolam host Rivki and tour guide Luzi, reveal the untold
story behind Jerusalem's first neighborhood outside the Old City walls,
and the visionary who made it possible.
"But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing
it its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall."
(Malachi 4:2)
Jesus, Thy boundless love to me,
no thought can reach, no tongue declare;
O knit my thankful heart to Thee,
and reign without a rival there.
Thine wholly, Thine alone, I am;
be Thou my Rod and Staff and Guide.
O grant that nothing in my soul
may dwell, but Thy pure love alone!
O may Thy love possess my whole,
my Joy, my Treasure, and my Crown.
All coldness from my heart remove;
my every act, word, thought, be love.
O Love, how cheering is thy ray!
All pain before Thy presence flies;
care, anguish, sorrow, melt away,
where'er Thy healing beams arise.
O Jesus, nothing may I see,
nothing desire or seek but Thee.
This love unwearied I pursue
and dauntlessly to Thee aspire.
O may Thy love my hope renew,
burn in my soul like heav'nly fire.
And day and night, be all my care
to guard this sacred treasure there.
"Jesus, Thy Boundless Love To Me"
(1653)
Paulus Gerhardt
(1607-1676)
German theologian, Lutheran preacher,
and hymn writer
"The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is
the only means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for
our Arab unity. In reality, there is no difference between Jordanians,
Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical
reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people,
since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of
a distinct, "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence
of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons.
-Zuheir Mohsen
(1936-1979)
Member of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization
Debunking the viral claim that the "Jews stole Palestine".
"It's nobody's fault but our own if a bill like this gets passed..."
In this clip from Walt Disney's "Davy Crockett: King Of The Wild Frontier"(1955)
the legendary frontiersman (played by Fess Parker) rails against fellow members
of the United States Congress after learning of the pending Indian Removal Act.
Davy Crockett: Indian Removal Act
"I am wondering about these new age pastors. Like, is that what everybody does
when they leave the military, they start a church...Did the military execute an operation,
a psychological operation on the American people to get us to support Christian Zionism
after World War II? Kind of the question that I think is hanging in the air right now."
-Candace Owens
Billionaire Elon Musk was once the hero of the climate movement.
A visionary praised for saving the planet with
electric cars and reusable rockets.
But the moment he defended free speech and exposed government-backed
censorship, everything changed. The media turned on him. Regulators
came after him. Advertisers tried to bankrupt him.
Although the establishment unleashed the same dirty 'cancel' campaign
used to silence critics in the past, Musk did not cave in. He stood his ground.
"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
(Colossians 3:17)
For the courage which comes when we call,
While troubles like hailstones fall;
For the help that is somehow nigh,
In the deepest night when we cry;
For the path that is certainly shown
When we pray in the dark alone,
Let us give thanks.
For the knowledge we gain if we wait
And bear all the buffets of fate;
For the vision that beautifies sight
If we look under wrong for the right;
For the gleam of the ultimate goal
That shines on each reverent soul:
Let us give thanks.
For the consciousness stirring in creeds
That love is the thing the world needs;
For the cry of the travailing earth
That is giving a new faith birth;
For the God we are learning to find
In the heart and the soul and the mind:
Let us give thanks.
For the growth of the spirit through pain,
Like a plant in the soil and the rain;
For the dropping of needless things
Which the sword of a sorrow brings;
For the meaning and purpose of life
Which dawns on us out of the strife:
Let us give thanks.
For the solace that comes to our grief
In knowing earth's season is brief;
For the certitude given by faith
Of the continents out beyond death;
For the glorious thought that each day
Is speeding us thereward away:
Let us give thanks.
"Let Us Give Thanks"
(1919)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1850-1919)
American author and poetess
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
(John 15:13)
In wake of the tragic shooting of two members of the West Virginia National Guard
in Washington DC this past week, "Thank You" by country/pop singer-songwriter
Ray Stevens is a moving tribute to those, past and present, who have kept us a free
and independent nation, the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces.
Thank You for my freedom. May God bless you all.
Gracious host Rivki and Lev Haolam Chef David Pilner
share how to make delicious Hummus, Israeli-style!
In this final lecture, the discussion centers around restoring the Constitution.
Many these days are calling for a "Constitutional Convention"
but is this the right solution?
“Sarah served with courage, extraordinary resolve, and an unwavering
sense of duty to her state and to her nation."
-West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey
Sarah Beckstrom, age 20, one of the two members of the West Virginia National Guard,
who was ambushed and shot yesterday by an Afghan refugee in Washington DC has died.
May she rest in eternal peace.
The other victim, Guardsman Andrew Wolfe, age 24, is still fighting for his life.
Please pray that he will make a full recovery.
Sarah, a resident of Summerville, West Virginia, began her service on June 26, 2023,
and was assigned to the 863rd Military Police Company, 111th Engineer Brigade,
West Virginia Army National Guard.
Thank you for your service to our nation, Sarah.
To the families of Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe, may God comfort
you and give you His strength in this time of immeasurable sorrow and loss.
"Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever."
(1 Chronicles 16:34)
"Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."
(1 Thessalonians 5:18)
"Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless
the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain."
(Psalm 127:1)
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A Proclamation
By the President of the United States of America
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,
to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore
His protection and favor;
and whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee,
requested to me to recommend to the People of the United States, a day of public
Thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts,
the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them
an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government
for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th of November next to
be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being,
Who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be;
That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble
thanks for His kind care and protection of the People of this Country
previous to their becoming a Nation;
for the single and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of His
Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war-
for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since
enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been
enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness;
and particularly, the national One, now lately instituted-for the civil
and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means
we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge;
and in general, for all the great and various favors which He
hath pleased to confer upon us, and also, that we may then unite
most in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to
the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon,
our national and other transgressions;
to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform
our several and relative duties properly and punctually-to
render our national government a blessing to all the people,
by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional
laws- discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed;
to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (and especially such as have shewn
kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord;
To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and increase
of science among us and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree
of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October
in the year of our Lord 1789
Go. Washington
Material Resource courtesy of George Washington's Mount Vernon
and The Mount Vernon Ladies Association
"Bow Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; Touch the mountains and they will smoke."
(Psalm 144:5)
An update from geophysicist Stefan Burns who reports on sudden volcanic
eruptions worldwide from Africa to Asia to the Americas. Is this a normal
rhythm of volcanic activity, or perhaps is it the beginning of a larger wave
of eruptions which could produce significant global effects?
President Trump reacts to the tragic shooting of two members of
the West Virginia National Guard, who were shot this afternoon
in Washington DC by an illegal from Afghanistan.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families of these two American heroes.
"The floodwaters have risen, O LORD, the rivers have raised their voice;
the seas lift up their pounding waves. Above the roar of many waters-the
mighty breakers of the sea-the LORD on high is majestic."
(Psalm 93:3-4)
Wild weather ripped across Israel this week with heavy rain,
unprecedented flooding, lightning strikes, and pummeling hail while
the IDF conducts a massive exercise in preparation for impending war.
