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“Hey,” my friend wrote, “did you know you can add key words on amazon.com so your book can be easily found?” Imagine that! I had no clue. I went right to the task. Actually, I went right to hubby. And I sweetly asked him to add, “inspiration, encouragement, conquers, triumph, etc.” So I’m hoping when folks search books with that theme, Simply Salsa will dance right on to their computer screen. But I asked myself why I didn’t know that secret about key words? My friend closed his note by saying, “You don’t know what you don’t know.”

War, famine, earthquake, pestilence, society chaos are seen, end-times in Matthew 24. Summary: Trump’s ok of Jerusalem as capital of Israel sets the stage for a papal-influenced United Nations to react with hostility. Jerusalem’s destruction would be a sign of impending judgment on the US because the Lion of Judah will ‘roar’ from Jerusalem, Joel 3:16. That’s an earthquake at 2nd Passover with high destiny potential for Christians who believe Christ’s clues, and observe it as explained.

Summary: God has given set times [mo'ed] as appointments for us. The pope's visit to Congress falls on one of them Happiness is based on relationships described in the 10 Commandments. People who break them—people who lie, steal, kill or commit adultery are not happy people and will not be in heaven.

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Jesus healing. So much can be shared on this subject and of course, one can never cover it completely, so I will not even attempt to do it. Instead, I would just like to very briefly mention a Jesus healing revelation from the Word of God. With the start of the Protestant Reformation with ...

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentle Man. I place these elements according to their value. No man is great who does not have Sympathy plus, and the greatness of men can be safely gauged by their sympathies. Sympathy and imagination are twin sisters. Your heart must go out to all men, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the learned, the unlea ed, the good, the bad, the wise and the foolish it is necessary to be one with them all, else you can never comprehend them. Sympathy!

Let me set the foundation of our study and research with the Scripture passage from Genesis 1:26-28, which shows the original purpose with which the Lord created us: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over ...

Summary: The Bible uses political cartoons to represent nations. In the book of Daniel we find a ram in the Middle East pushing west, but it is stomped by a goat that flies from the west “at the time of the end.” That will be the end of militant Islam, but the ram is a more noble creature than a goat as suggested by Christ when he will separate the sheep from the goats. The Quran teaches militancy that will get its adherents killed. Bible has better information on current events as they unfold.

Summary: The 3rd Commandment (Exodus 20:7) was intended to protect God's name, but when translators removed His name and replaced the four letters called the tetragrammaton, with LORD in all caps, They took His name in vain (made it empty as they made it into a generic title). Elijah turned Israel back to the true God. His name by the best evidence dating to Josephus in 70 AD, says “it consists of four vowels.”

In my days as a blind Nana, a few gems of joy glimmer through. This past week, while my four-year-old granddaughter and I interacted, the TV played in the background. In the middle of our giggles, she let out a loud gasp, and then tapped my arm. “Nana, did you hear that?” Her tone told me she was about to say something profound (often only a grandma can appreciate). I got down on my knees and looked in her little face. “Hear what, precious?” That guy on TV said “God” and he wasn’t praying.

We are taught not to be selfish but I believe in one area of our life we really need to be extremely selfish. That area is forgiveness of each other. For God will forgive us as we forgive each other (paraphrased from Luke 11:4). See I hear people all the time say "well I just can't forgive so and so for what they did". Do we not realize that we harm ourselves when we hold unforgiveness in our bosoms toward each other? That is why I say forgiveness is a selfish act.

We've heard it all before - you must stay positive and standing on the bright side of life. There are a lot of self-help books and Ebooks that have come into inception which promote positive thinking, as many people believe that the path towards prosperity is opened by positive thinking and good vibes. However, who says that only books could promote and provide positive vibes? The Internet has provided people with a lot of opportunity. One of the privileges that the Internet

Summary: Hebrew prophets forecast an end-time destruction of Jerusalem. Five 'when-then' signs point to 2016 for apocalyptic events. History supports Passover as a time of impending Judgment. Bible believers should consider selling Jerusalem properties and keeping Passover elsewhere.

Summary: With mounting hostility to Israel, the return of Jewish people to the land of Israel is seen a premature. This is seen from a biblical perspective that needs further consideration… As Israelites whose ancestors were conquered by the Assyrians and later scattered among the nations, we look forward to returning, but not before a serious impending event. Here’s why?

Jared Lee Loughner is charged with killing six people and wounding others in the recent tragedy in Arizona. Days of media coverage has raised controversy, speculation and a sea of voices all trying to handle and assess what seems almost incomprehensible in a civilized nation. It has become abundantly clear that Loughner’s motivations were not merely political but were born of an imbalance in his life and his thinking that may have been induced by one or more of several sourc

'She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.'Toni Morrison, Beloved How do you sleep? Sleep, the beloved time when care is put to rest and angels guard us. Or it would be if I was mistress of a large house in Victorian England and I had people tending to my every need.

Telling you to have faith would be like telling you to have money. It just doesn't work that way. Faith grows like a flower. You have to plant it in good soil. Then you have to water it with good water every day. You have to feed it the nutrients it needs to optimize the blooms. If you don't water it every day, especially when the atmosphere is hot and dry, your faith will wither and die. You have to tend to it every day by spending time in the Word and in prayer. Be carefu

“The sun shall be darkened and the moon turned to blood before the day of the Lord,” Joel 2:31. The Bible says we “know the times and seasons perfectly,” 1Thessalonians 5:1. This suggests we should at least know the year for when "the day of the Lord" comes with “sudden destruction,” verse 2.

#1. Trump’s Making Jerusalem the capital of Israel was opposed by the pope and 126 countries in the United Nations in spite of several previous presidents agreeing to the idea but not doing it. #2. Trump’s plan to pull out of the Obama-era Iran Nuclear Treaty if Iran doesn’t make significant changes. #3. Plans to cut money given to Palestinians due to their disinterest in peace with Israel. All of these favor Turkey’s appeal to 57 Muslim nations to besiege Jerusalem, http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/57-muslim-nations-urged-to-besiege-israel/rn

It takes a measure of faith to pray... I mean, you wouldn't be praying to the Lord if you didn't actually believe that He is there, that He hears, and that He is able to provide you the answer you seek, would you? So now we need to build on that measure of faith by reading and studying the Word. The reason for building up and strengthening our faith is so that we can hang onto it, because if we don't hang onto it, it will weaken and disappear. Most everyone realizes that hang

Lately, I have been hearing this discussed more and more. Prayer is work, no doubt about it. But prayer works ... no doubt about that either! Why, then, would any Christian in his right mind neglect to go to the Lord in prayer? Especially when we realize that our dear Lord has put absolutely no limitations on what we may pray for, why indeed? The sky is the limit for us, folks, and so why, why, why don't we pray? The very simple answer is that we simply do not believe t

Time in the bible is not always literal and study of the bible requires a cross-references and an understanding of how time works biblically and time is not always literal. How does the bible and Christianity tell us evolution is compatible with the bible? I have researched this and found that there is no contradiction. Found some good info related to this, as well as going back to reading the bible myself to further confirm. In Genesis, we have two creation stories and we h

Summary: The pope with more gold than anyone, is not like Donald Trump, wanting to help America to do the same. Those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it. Trouble for America is impending as money and freedom fade. As a college student, I spent a summer in Colombia and Venezuela where I saw Communist demonstrations. Half the people couldn't read or write. They lived in poverty so that promises made by Communism found fertile soil in the hearts of poor, illiterate people.

Olimpic winners didn't get there by moderation. Moderation isn't the key to anything except mediocrity. We are under-utilizing the benefits of pure air, sunlight, absteemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet and use of water. While a lukewarm tub-bath is relaxing example, but the extremes of hot and cold offer more health benefits as they open and close blood vessels and can even double the white blood count to aid immunity, etc.

Summary: History tends to repeat. With militant extremists who don't honor truces or peace-fires, their call for a 3rd Intifada is serious. August 7 is the 10th of Av, counting from the new moon crescent. “In the 5th month [counting from spring, Exodus 12:2] in the 10th day...Nebuchadnezzar burned the house of the LORD,” Jeremiah 52:12,13. It was the end of an era, even as it was in 70 AD when Herod's Temple was also burned on the same date according to Jewish historian, Josephus.

Summary: A complex of astronomical signs, economic conditions and sabbatical cycles point to this fall and next spring for the biblical end-times. Biblical information indicates the religious year begins in the spring, (Exod 12:2) six months after the civil year begins as currently observed in the fall, starting with Rosh Hashanah—the Feast of Trumpets on the new moon of the 7th month. Admittedly, biblical chronologies are like a land-mine that often have been blown apart by events that don't fit, but here's a view that could fit with the latter part of September being huge.

I can vividly recall some of my high school days. One recurring theme that sticks out in my mind is exam time. Tests and exam times were the bane of my existence. I looked forward to them as much as a hedgehog looks forward to balloons for Christmas. Having said that, there was one thing that I was very skilled at when it came to school examinations. I refer to the art of the 11th hour. Yes, dear friends. I speak here of the timeless (excuse the pun) art of procrastination.

Summary: Five 'when-then' signs from 2015 signal the 'day of the Lord,' and suggest this spring. Multiple Bible texts support an earthquake as initiating the end-times. 1. “The day of the Lord” begins with an earthquake (Joel 2:10,11; Zeph 1:7,10, 1Thess 5:2,3) and it was signaled by the rare solar eclipse and blood moon at the beginning of the biblical year, March 20, 2015. “The sun shall be darkened and the moon turned to blood [paniym, facing] the day of the Lord.” Events marked 2015 as facing 2016 when we may expect “the day of the Lord” this spring.r

Summary: Governments world-wide are in a crisis that will widen and deepen till they crumble like the image in the 2nd chapter of Daniel. The US Constitution was a gift of freedom by godly men who honored the biblical model of self-gove ment. If people will not govern themselves well, there are not enough inspectors or police to control the sheeple and there will be a rebellion to the growing tyranny. The easiest example is the government healthcare plan. “Devil-in-the-details” Bureaucracy: A sample of 1%--the first 200 of 20,000 pages--

The one thing all of us need to know is that every human creature living on this planet is a spirit with an outer covering of physical matter and that the latter possesses no consciousness as a living entity at all. In other words, if it weren’t for our spirit, there would be no life in our human bodies whatsoever.

Summary: All the Protestant reformers saw the papacy as the “little horn” power claiming the title of God while persecuting the saints and changing the Commandments, Daniel 7:25. In Revelation 13, we see the beast [political cartoon] as an amalgamation of a lion, bear, leopard and dragon representing the papacy as it assimilated the customs and paganism of Babylon, Persia, Grecia and Rome that it outlived. The beast had a wound that healed and the world worships the beast.

Summary: Latin America is proof that the pope's US/UN agenda for “common good” and a New World Order has little value. South America, colonized by Catholic priests, have had Catholic government for centuries and they are still in poverty.

We joke about it. We dismiss it. We want to ignore it. And we don’t want to think about it. Author, Heather Bauer gives a unique twist to his influence. Bread is the Devil is the title of her book about dieting. And she discusses it on this segment on CBS’s “The Talk.” But no matter how silly, humorous and innocent we want to make him, the truth is Satan really exists. His presence in this world is as real as eating too much bread and butter brings on the next dress size.

The Vatican strategized through Mohammed’s wife, Khadijah, a wealthy Catholic who arranged for her Catholic cousin, Waraquah, to mentor young Mohammed. (Google) more information in video link below. Both religions have Mary, Fatima and war to force conversions in common. Islam’s Quran is militant against infidels, but they learned it from Rome’s crusades to drive infidels from Jerusalem because the Vatican wanted it and still does, to be in charge of the ‘holy places.’ (Video linked below)

Summary: This topic is like a minefield with many hazardous conclusions drawn from texts taken without context. This article offers a broader spectrum of ideas and contexts than most Christians have considered. If you Google “Rapture September,” more than a million results suggest this is on people's minds. Some are even having dreams about it. Others ask, Does not knowing the day or hour apply to the 2nd coming or to the rapture?

“Like a frog that doesn't know when to jump from slowly heating water,” we are coming to the boiling point, based on biblical signs of the apocalypse. Six news items from this past year suggest that trouble is impending.

"A wise man seeks by music to strengthen the weakness of his soul; the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears." ---ConfuciusnnAccording to Corrine Heline, the ancients understood the power of music and sought to use it to attune to higher realms of consciousness. At one time China closely regulated the types of music children were allowed to hear---only music that uplifted the soul. Ancient religions, including Christianity, were careful to guard against dissonant music

Congratulate us! In just about a month we (Jeana Murray-Nieporte and Bill Niepote) will celebrated 25 years of “Success-in-Marriage.” Notice our word SUCCESS. We’ve not just survived 25 years of marriage (as a friend recently said of her relationship with her spouse). On the contrary, we have experience SUCCESS in our relationship. By success we mean greater intimacy, better understanding, increased patience, and quality communication.

A few months ago my family and I visited the beach at Christie Lake Conservation Area for a day of rest and relaxation. The people at Christie have installed a special screen that allows them to chlorinate part of the water and keep it separate from the rest of the lake.

Lent began on February 25, 2009 --- Ash Wednesday, so I am getting a late start on these Lenten devotionalsn The word "fast" does not simply relate to doing without food. The more spiritually enhancing fast is to put aside the thought patterns that are not beneficial to your well-being. Determine what you are continually saying to yourself that is self-defeating, like .... I am not worthy ... I am not well ... I can't find a job ... I don't qualify ... I cannot afford ... . O

Don't fake it, FEEL IT. Success in any situation in life is only a feeling away.rn"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for GOD is LOVE." 1 John 4:8 Access the FEELING of LOVE and you have accessed the POWER of GOD. Often when faced with negative circumstances we think the circumstance or situation is harming or destroying our life. We are mistaken. It's not circumstances that cause us to fail, but how those circumstances make us feel. The FEELING of FEAR is what destroys us.

Summary: Which is the antichrist--the pope or the coming Imam Mahdi of Islam? Pat Robertson seems to be questioning the historic Protestant view of the papacy as the antichrist power, impressed with the work of Joel Richardson and a “MidEast Beast.” Before we throw the baby out with the bath water, let's consider an update to CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters, which was about the devil's strategies to deceive us. The devil has something for everyone and in the modern version, Christians can easily see how militant Islam is anti-Christ.

Summary: God has given set times [mo'ed] as appointments for us. The pope's visit to Congress falls on one of them Happiness is based on relationships described in the 10 Commandments. People who break them—people who lie, steal, kill or commit adultery are not happy people and will not be in heaven.

Science has been in the news because of the discovery of gravitational waves that Einstein, a century ago, said existed. Are we brilliant--or maybe retarded because of our unwillingness to admit something else Einstein said—that God is not a magician?

Summary: The Harbinger was about a series of events that needed explanation in Cahn's best-selling book that warns of impending judgment. Harbinger II needs little explanation except to note that the Supreme Court decision for same-sex marriage came on a date that resonates with biblical meaning for what's happening and may be confirmed within weeks.

Summary: Human wisdom tends to centralization and building big government. The European Union isn't working well, and it's an omen for what's coming under UN control. There's better information that could help us avoid serious trouble. Wisdom is looking at life from a biblical perspective. The European Union poster suggests their intent to rebuild the Tower of Babel culturally for Europe to become "one voice."

And when the day of Pentecoast was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the houses where they were sitting.......... And they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ( Acts 2: 1-4)

Why do pastors preach to their congregations? Instead, in my opinion, they would be much better off ... and keep all the members of their flock ... if they would teach instead of preach. Again, in my humble opinion, preaching is what needs to be done only until the people see the light and receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. After that happens, most preacher/pastors are satisfied ... but what they fail to realize is that the new person is not satisfied. The new convert

“’Muslim demonstrations’ are nothing new. Googling that phrase gives 1,300,000 results. But if one adds the word ‘violent,’ there are 2,450,000 results, suggesting that violence occurs nearly twice as often. If this happens with the result of destruction in Jerusalem, the biblical end-times are signaled,” says Richard Ruhling, author on current events and Bible prophecy, offering the following view.

Summary: Which is the antichrist--the pope or the coming Imam Mahdi of Islam? Pat Robertson seems to be questioning the historic Protestant view of the papacy as the antichrist power, impressed with the work of Joel Richardson and a “MidEast Beast.” Before we throw the baby out with the bath water, let's consider an update to CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters, which was about the devil's strategies to deceive us. The devil has something for everyone and in the modern version, Christians can easily see how militant Islam is anti-Christ.