"Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes!
I will sing to the LORD;
I will sing praise to the LORD,
the GOD of Israel."
"The Song of Deborah and Barack"
(Judges 5:3)
Who Were These Powerful Women?
Power Of Wisdom
(July 22, 2025)
"Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes!
I will sing to the LORD;
I will sing praise to the LORD,
the GOD of Israel."
"The Song of Deborah and Barack"
(Judges 5:3)
"But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await
a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ."
(Philippians 3:20)
Les continues his walk through the Bible teaching us
how to connect the dots in the Holy Scriptures.
British journalist Melanie Phillips join Viktor Frankl on his podcast for an
in-depth conversation to discuss the recent primary win of Zohran Mamdani,
rising antisemitism, and radical ideologies threatening to ruin the future of NYC.
And what can be done to stop it.
The legendary American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke was often call the "King of Soul"
for his distinctive vocals. "Touch The Hem Of His Garment" which Sam recorded with
the gospel group, The Soul-Stirrers in the days before his later success as a popular
recording artist of the late 1950's and early 1960's befits that later crowning as
he undoubtedly put his whole heart and soul into singing this classic hymn!
The gracious host of At Home shares faith, fellowship and a fabulous
recipe for bacon and cheese frittata!
"Lord, how can I thank you when I am single and want to be married?"
"Dear God, how can I ever be happy in this dead-end job?"
"God, how can I thank you for broken plumbing in our bathroom
when we don't have the money to make repairs?"
How can we have thankful, contented hearts when the circumstances in our lives
are not what we had planned and when they lie outside our control or power to change?
Let's look at our alternatives. If we are not thankful, we become bitter and angry with God:
He is not providing what we "rightfully" deserve. If we are not content, we become
rebellious and complaining: after all, He gives our friends everything they pray for-
why does He refuse us?
Underlying these complaints and questions lie two errors in our thinking:
that God is not trustworthy and He does not desire our good.
When we compare these conclusions with Scripture, we discover how wrong we are!
God's Word instructs us that God is sovereignly in control, providing for
and working out all circumstances in the lives of those who love Him
and whom He has called. He is intimately involved with us;
He works out His purposes through the events in our lives so that we may be
conformed to the image of His Son. We have further reason to praise Him.
The same God who formed the world in six days knows every hair on our
heads. The same God who chose a people for Himself before we were
born sent His Son to die on the cross to redeem us from our sins.
God's love for His people is not determined by the circumstances in our lives.
His love is steadfast. Our marital status, career or finances might fluctuate or
totally break apart. In spite of that, however, we can and must give Him thanks
for His love toward us. We must serve Him with unhesitating hearts.
"Thanksgiving For All Things"
A devotional by Carol L. Baldwin
Christian counselor and writer
Author of the book, "Friendship Counseling"
Devotional taken from
The Woman's NIV Devotional New Testament
With Psalms And Proverbs
(1990)
Zondervan Publishing
What does God really say about Israel?
In this time of rising confusion, even in the Church, this bold
and unrehearsed service tackles the subjects of Replacement Theology,
antisemitism, national redemption, and Israel's prophetic future.
A beautiful song from Emmy-nominated, modern day psalmist
and Messianic worship singer Marty Goetz.
.
When Flies Attack...
A scheming spider ends up getting more than he bargained for
when he lures a frolicking fly into his web in this whimsical
Disney Silly Symphony cartoon from 1931.
I never thought I would ever be motivated to cheer on a bunch of pesky flies!
"Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."
(Ephesians 5:11)
Pastor Allen Jackson confronts the silence surrounding one of the most chilling
controversies of our time. The Jeffrey Epstein case is not just about one man's
notoriety, but a vast network of wealth, power, and corruption which reaches
into the highest levels of government, media, and global influence.
He also addresses the latest accusation against the Israeli government
and their alleged "connection" to the Epstein client list.
What is Israel's true significance-aside from being the center of Middle Eastern
politics and intrigue-according to God's Word? Why does this one tiny nation
remain the subject of so many conspiracies, conflicts, and spiritual battles?
Someone is working very hard to keep the truth suppressed, however, the
truth cannot be hidden from God. As Jesus Himself told us, "There is
nothing secret that will not be known and come to light."
(Luke 8:17)
The Story The World Media Is Not Reporting. Why?
Masara Kim of Truth Nigeria shares with CBN's Raj Nair the heartbreaking details
of the most recent horrific massacre of Christians by Islamic jihadists in that land.
"I've already told you, Jesus replied. But you did not believe. The works I do
in My Father's name testify on My behalf."
(John 10:25)
An inspiring weekend message from brother Zev Porat in Israel.
May God bless and protect him in his street ministry, preaching
the glorious message of salvation in Yeshua to his fellow Jews.
Please pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the salvation of Israel.
Maranatha!
Almost twenty five years ago, on a beautiful, coming-of-fall morning in September, 2001
the lives of millions of Americans changed forever when New York City suffered one of
the worst terrorist attacks in our nation's history. On that day, the lives of over 3,000
Americans and others were lost when Islamic terrorists slammed planes into the
twin towers of the World Trade Center, into the Pentagon in Washington DC,
and crashed a hijacked airliner into a field in western Pennsylvania.
Most Americans were caught completely off guard that day. We were shocked.
And angry. We grieved over the lives of so many of our fellow citizens lost in this
cruel and senseless assault on our nation. In the patriotic fervor in the days
that followed, we vowed, "Always Remember, Never Forget."
In a recent political upset which has allegedly shaken the Big Apple to its core, and has
sent shock waves across the nation, a self-described Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani
recently secured the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City.
He is almost guaranteed to become the next leader of America's largest city,
which has often been called, "the crossroads of the world".
According to a recent report from Yahoo! News, Mamdani's platform includes taxing
the wealthy, the creation of government-run grocery stores, and defunding the NYPD.
This last issue is hardly surprising to me as Brooklyn has already established
a self-funded, "Muslim Community Patrol" within its borough, which provides
additional security to neighborhood mosques and Islamic schools in the area.
Why do the residents there need an additional community patrol when
they already have an established police force?
Also, according to the report, Mamdani actively supports, "Palestinian causes".
Thousands of people, including myself and President Trump, witnessed
Muslims in northern New Jersey and New York City, not to mention in
Palestinian communities in Gaza rejoicing and dancing in the streets
celebrating our terrible loss on September 11th. Today, most major
media outlets have selective memory about this, even going so far
as to say that the reports of celebration have since been "debunked".
Like President Trump, I too, have a very good memory of what
I saw on that day via television news reports. And I will never
forget what I witnessed either.
As Texas Congressman Brandon Gill opined on X: "Mass migration is
fundamentally transforming our communities-and the electorate. It has to stop."
This man is right. This has got to stop. I believe the attacks on ICE agents
who are trying to enforce US Immigration laws are deliberately coordinated
and being used to further destabilize and to destroy America.
And, that most of the news media is complicit in protecting the identities
of those behind this movement, or, they have taken bribes-just like many
major American universities and colleges-from those who are committed to
the promotion of "stealth jihad" or a silent, unholy war within our own borders.
*"...the pestilence that walks in darkness."
(Psalm 91:6)
In this important teaching, Christian apologist and founder of The Berean Call
Ministries, Dave Hunt (1926-2013) lays the groundwork for what is happening right
now in our nation and in the world today. It is imperative that Christians understand
the true history and diabolical nature of what some of our own leaders have called,
"the religion of peace" and how Islam is being used by Satan in these last days
to deceive and destroy the people and the nations of the world.
Italian-American songstress and native born Jersey girl Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero
better known as Connie Francis, passed away this week at the age of 87.
One of the most popular top-charting female vocalists of the late 1950's and early 1960's
her beautiful voice is estimated to have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
I always loved Connie's role as the perky college co-ed Angie in the 1961 beach movie,
"Where The Boys Are". Connie also sang the title song from the film, which not only became
one of her greatest hit records, but her signature song as well. May she rest in eternal peace.
"For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from
captivity My people, Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to
the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it."
(Jeremiah 30:3)
In a world full of lies and deceitful propaganda, along with displays of profound
satanic-driven hatred increasing throughout the world against the nation and
people of Israel, this classic teaching from Christian apologist/ author and founder
of The Berean Call Ministries Dave Hunt (1926-2013) sets the record straight.
"He that does the will of God abides forever."
(1 John 2:17 )
"What does it mean to be free? Does it mean that you do anything that
your please at any time? That you throw off all order and restraint, you're
just self-indulgent, self-pleasing, self-willed...Let me tell you, friend, that's
not real freedom. That's slavery. It's slavery to self and its slavery to sin.
But there is a kind of real freedom that comes when God sets our hearts free.
What's the evidence? When we are truly liberated by the grace of God, and
the power of God, it's not to please ourselves, it's not to do our own thing,
but it's to be able to obey God and be able to obey Him with delight, to obey
Him with readiness, not reluctantly, not grudgingly, but freely and joyfully.
I just long to know what Your will is. And when I discover Your will,
I run in that pathway. There's a note of eagerness, a note of excitement,
that comes not from pleasing self, but from seeking to please God,
from doing His will."
One of the most popular easy listening hits of the summer of 1967, the old standard,
"Release Me" by British pop sensation Engelbert Humperdinck, was the number
one song across the pond in Great Britain, beating out the Beatles' "Penny Lane"
and "Strawberry Fields"from reaching the top of the record charts there.
In fact, his version of this sad love ballad was the highest selling single
in the UK that year with record sales of 1.38 million copies.
In America, the song reached the number four spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
Although other versions of "Release Me" (And Let Me Love Again) were recorded by
Patti Page, Ray Price, Kitty Wells, The Everly Brothers, Dean Martin, and Elvis Presley,
the song was a breakthrough hit for Engelbert Humperdinck, establishing his career
as an internationally-acclaimed recording artist, with some of his most
devoted fans calling themselves, "Humperdinckers."
On a more personal note, this was one of the songs I remember my mother often
singing to us kids while we were driving in the car somewhere on hot summer days.
"The "star of the sea" as it is sometimes called, had always held a fascination for me...
I remember an old seaman's tale that said starfish were the remains of stars that fell
from the sky. I peered into the pail. Broken and wounded, the creature did indeed
bring to mind a fallen star...
When you are broken, wounded, scarred or tired...when you have lost
just a little, or so much there is hardly anything left-take heart.
That is when God does His most beautiful work."
Excerpts from the story, "A Broken Star"
-Sue Monk Kidd
Broken and wounded...
That's about right.
That's how I have been
feeling lately.
Broken and wounded...
betrayed by someone
who once promised to
love me forever.
Broken and wounded...
my heart shattered,
by the sudden
and unexpected death
of someone dear to me,
who considered me
his friend...
Now we are separated
by the dark chasm
between life and death
and all I can feel
is broken...
and wounded inside
just like the little starfish...
feeling lost...
in a decaying world
that seems to be
rushing faster and faster
headlong...towards
some cataclysmic end...
But... was the world
ever in control of itself?
And...am I really alone
in my suffering?
Is there not Someone
Who knows me better
than anyone else,
including myself?
Someone Who knows
what it feels like
to be broken
and wounded inside?
To feel forsaken...
and betrayed...
and lonely...
Someone Who is
close to those
with hurting souls...
Who wept
at the death
of a beloved friend...
Someone Who,
I am often reminded,
loves me so very much
that He suffered the most
excruciating brokenness
and wounding
of His own body and soul
on my behalf...
He suffered...
becoming a curse
on a tree
Shedding drops of
precious blood,
His precious love
for me...
so that I may have life
more abundantly...
and share
the glory of
Eternity
with Him.
"Broken and Wounded"
A poem by
Pamela Denise Brida
(2014)
"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD
will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain."
(Exodus 20:7)
"So then, this is how you should pray:
"Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name."
(Matthew 6:9)
An interesting take on the true meaning of the 3rd Commandment
"You are my Refuge and my Fortress, my God in whom I trust."
(Psalm 91:1-2)
"And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him,
who are called according to His purpose."
(Romans 8:28 )
In a time when God's truths are being twisted or ignored in order
to favor the modern narrative of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
Pastor John MacArthur stood dauntless against the compromise
with sin found within much of American Christianity today.
Although he will be greatly missed by his wife and family and
church congregation, as well as many people all over the world
whom he has inspired through his teaching of the Holy Scriptures
in the way God intended for His Word to be taught, we know
with blessed assurance in our Lord Jesus Christ that this
"good and faithful servant" is now absent from his body
and present with his Lord. His real life has just begun.
"Let the fields exult and all that is in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy
before the LORD-for HE IS COMING- to judge the earth. HE WILL judge the world in
RIGHTEOUSNESS and the peoples in HIS FAITHFULNESS."
(Psalm 96:13)
"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the AMEN,
the FAITHFUL and TRUE WITNESS, the ORIGINATOR of GOD's creation."
(Revelation 3:14)