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"In civilized life it has at last become possible for large numbers of people to pass from the cradle to the grave without ever having had a pang of genuine fear. Many of us need an attack of mental disease to teach us the meaning of the word." William James. We have all heard the seemingly discriminating remarks that fear is normal and abnormal, and that normal fear is to be regarded as a friend, while abnormal fear should be destroyed as an enemy.

As Jews celebrate Hannukah and Christians do Christmas, most people look for a day off or hope to benefit commercially from this time that's meaningless to millions of others. What's the point? Is it all vanity as Solomon said?

Summary: We are at risk for a superficial understanding of Bible prophecy that applies to our time. The words of a popular song, “The Days of Elijah,” are discussed as an example. A large roomful of Marines sing “The Days of Elijah” on Youtube. It is linked below for readers who might want to watch. Let's look the words of the song in italics with a brief discussion fo some points.

Yes, godly men fought for this country and braved death to establish it's freedom in 1776. But contrary to what many believe, this is not 1776. We hate what we see happening to America--too much "change" that millions unwisely voted for. Colonel Ammerman (under General Schwarzkopf in Desert Storm) cited unclassified information to say there were a millio UN troops in North America, mostly on closed military bases (more than a decade ago, so you might double it).

Summary: Pastor Jack Darnall dreamed of a tall black man with short cropped hair and large ears who was well-liked initially, but became a “terrible dictator” as president when Christ came. (Google Jack Darnall's dream) It seemed so unlikely that he told only a few people of his dream in the 1980's before he died. It seems impossible until one considers Christ's coming as a thief or Bridegroom at the beginning of the last seven years.

Summary: Prescription drugs have had a “free pass” for too long. It's time to revisit the science of pharmacology, evolved from toxicology—the science of how much chemical killed half the animals. A close friend of Williams said Robin was taking a drug for Parkinsons that listed suicide as a side effect. Isn't it time to blow the whistle on big pharma as a leading cause of illness, disability and death? The list of adverse reactions for most prescription drugs could scare us to death if not kill us outright.

Summary: With probably trillions in gold, Pope Francis has a good idea about sharing the wealth. Would he be willing to set a good example and say, “Follow me”? If you Google “gold to the Vatican,” the first page of 7,080,000 results has numerous links to $170 million in gold from Nazi Germany that included gold from the teeth of Jewish people gassed to death. There are also 55,000 results for “gold to the Vatican” on YouTube with some of the same points below.

Starting a business in Africa, can be a herculean task. The reason is that the cultural, developmental and bureaucratic hurdle are enormous. The number of "tiny" business in Africa is larger than any other in the world. Most of the small or medium size businesses in the continent are not qualified to be called such, because they cannot match up with their contemporaries around the world.

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This article discusses ways to help develop spiritually ... from the outside (limited) world to the inside (unlimited) one. "Many Nobel Prize winning physicists recently have proven beyond doubt that the physical world is one large energy ocean that flashes into and out of being in a fraction of a second, over and over again. Nothing is solid. This is the world of Quantum Physics. They have proven that thoughts are what put together and hold together this ever-changing energ

We all like to have a nice car, fashionable clothes, a great income and a gorgeous home, but is achieving these things the measurement of “success”? I’ve been watching Celebrity Sober House. It’s a television show where addicted stars live together in order to practice sober living. One of the celebrities shared that she doesn’t know how to live sober because for as long as she can remember, she has never been sober.

“From mac ' ' cheese to chocolate bars, you don't have to go hungry to eat healthy” says Yahoo News. While we’d like to eat those treats at the end of a meal, snacking goes against the grain of healthy habits or positive lifestyle, says Dr. Richard Ruhling, a retired MD who taught Health Science at Loma Linda University.

Summary: A recent report suggested all patients at risk for heart attack should have their BP lowered by drugs. It's true that people with lower blood pressure live longer, but this does not mean people should take drugs to lower it. They would do better to eat a low fat, low salt diet and get exercise which helped 85% of patients off their BP drugs and to avoid bypass surgery in the 70's (Pritikin). Rx drugs are a cause of death now rivaling heart disease due to adverse drug reactions, (JAMA, 4-15-1998; Western Jour Med, June, 2000; Archives of Int Med, Sept 10, 2007)

Most people who purport to be Christians would answer in the affirmative. Upon reflection, however, I wonder how accurate an affirmative response would be for many. What I'm getting at is, those of us who claim to be believers have no trouble accepting our salvation, have no trouble believing that we have ete al life, and have no trouble believing most of what the Bible says. Most? Not if you're a true believer! We are not to have selective hearing of God's Holy Word. No!

Modern medicine kicked out Hippocrates as Father of Medicine--“Let your food be your medicine.” Doctors promote DuPont's slogan, “Better Living Through Chemistry.” But if you know anyone taking a bag of pills, you know it's not so. Studies often report benefit from a vegetarian or vegan diet. A good example is this study reporting improvement in pain from diabetic neuropathy in Type II diabetics on a plant-based diet. http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AADE/47120

Never mind this unarmed youth just came from a convenience store that he robbed. Never mind reports that this 300-pound youth reached into the police car and tried to grab the officer's gun. We don't really know the whole story, but the story seems lop-sided and makes the black population angry, inciting them to violence.

In a Wikipedia entry under ‘Frances Parkinson Keyes biography’ is found a finely preserved picture of the late Mrs. Keyes sitting at a typewriter. There is no paper in the typewriter and there is no paper to be seen anywhere in the room. Obviously the picture is posed, and because Keyes was the author of over fifty books no one would think twice about the lack of paper in the photo. Over forty years ago I befriended Mrs. Keyes personal secretary who invited me to the author’

FIND YOUR JOY.... Part 1 (the Edge of negativity) Truth be told, sadness, grieve, hardship, and negativity is the order of the day. From the very moment you wake up on a new day, to the close of the day, there is a likelihood that you would be bombarded with all forms of negativity, from all sorts of places. With this hype ravaging the society and shaping the consciousness of the entire human race, there is an increase in the level of unhappiness and depression. No one has an immunity to this plague, (even when we pretend).

If you are to overcome fear there are several things that you must control on your own accord. "In the healthy body every cell is polarized in subjection to the Central Will. Perfect health, therefore, is orderly obedience, government and harmony. Every cell is a living entity, whether of vegetable or animal potency, and wherever disease is, there are disunion, error, rebellion and insubordination; and the deeper the seat of the confusion, the more dangerous the malady and the harder to quell it." J. C. Street.

Muslims are afraid to speak against radical Islam. Maybe they are afraid of their fellow Muslims, afraid of dying, maybe afraid of Allah. A contrast with Christianity is seen. Islam, the world's second largest religion, has conce s that are often overlooked. 1. Not just Islam, but anyone, by their silence, gives consent to that which they should protest. In the case of Islam, a billio Muslims should be protesting the terrorist acts that kill innocent people that are not fighting Islam. This lack of protest mars Islam as a religion of peace.

Summary: Friday's Omnibus Budget Bill will provide $1.2 Billion for lifetime residency cards to 700,000 Muslim migrants as we did over the last five years,” said Senator Sessions of AL. Email or call congress TODAY! “In spite of what we heard the president say on TV, Islam is NOT a religion of peace,” says Dr. Richard Ruhling, author and Bible prophecy expert. The Koran is clear: “When opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever yo find them.” Koran 9:5. “Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.” Koran 9:123

A miasma is an unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor. Media has a moral obligation to tell the truth, and there is so much that they are silent about that an odor of something dead is recognized by many who decry their white outs.

Last Wednesday, my dear friend and I stepped into a nice hotel nestled in the busy part of Miami, near the airport. She put a large gift basket in my hands. “I think they left this for you.” What a lovely surprise! And on the night table was a stand with a copy of my new release, Simplemente Salsa, to be launched at EXPOLIT (an annual event for publishers, bookstores, music artists and distributors—an event to huge for my brain to take in).

“Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith,” said Trump.

Summary: Christ’s warning in Matthew 24 was understood by early believers as military force, and their fleeing Jerusalem in obedience spared them the siege and destruction by Titus. But the warning was not only for Jerusalem, but “the end of the world,” Matthew 24:3,15. Obama promised change, but most people had no clue as to how bad the changes would be. The world is on the brink of economic collapse and the Fed is printing money to postpone the fateful day when Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.

I don’t know about you, but I hate to be put in the position of little or no choice. So I don’t put myself there… on purpose… and neither should you! I know how different it feels when I CAN’T by something versus when I WON’T buy something. When we make ...

Before Adam received the breath of life from God his body was lifeless – his blood was not circulating, his inner organs were not functioning and he had no sense of consciousness or any awareness of his existence as an individual life-form. He might as well have been a tree stump lying on the ground.

Summary: The Alpha & Omega Bible Code supports the Exodus [from bondage] as the primary model for all three wedding parables. That model is not about a rapture. Killing babies is one of a dozen parallels that the US has to the greatest nation at the time of the Exodus. Martial law brings plagues to liberate us before “the Bridegroom comes.” The first plague attacked their economy—the Nile River.

Summary: Nine surgeries were performed so that a patient on kidney dialysis at the end of the line could have a renal transplant. (Google) Before we call this a modern medical miracle, let's take a closer look... . With Obamacare's low rewards and a changing medical scene, we can expect a trend to surgery, much like Cesarean sections are done about six times more frequently now than when I was in med school 50+ years ago. ...

We go about our business each and every day, not realizing that all the events, circumstances and experiences attached to our lives are determined by a single factor. What happens for the rest of this day, tomorrow and all your tomorrows will depend on the image factor in your life. Undoubtedly, the image that you already possess within was deposited by the mindset of a world that has been in turmoil since the beginning of human existence.

Reading the Bible is a crucial practice for every Christian living in the world today. Reading the Bible and learning from it is what feeds our spirit. It is what keeps us encouraged and keeps us filled with the words of God. The problem is that while the Word of God is filled with a mass of valuable information there are times that it is difficult to understand and fully grasp what you are reading. It is important that we do everything we can to understand and grasp these co

At the writing of this piece Sarah Palin has not yet announced to the nation that she is going to run for President in the 2012 election. When or if she does, her name will not be alone on the republican ticket, in fact a lot of names will be on the ticket, some very worthy names. The names of Mike Huckabee, Michelle Bachman may very likely be on the top of the bill and others will be in the offing if their supporters have anything to say about it. Names like Mitt Romney, Ma

With half of marriages ending in divorce and so many married couples still unhappy, this topic begs a look. Many might be happy if they kept two points in mind. This author thought he was happily married when his first wife of 20 years left him. He was in a stressful marriage for 19 more years when his wife die. He's now been happily married for five years and sees that it's not rocket science; he wants to share two important considerations.

Realize that there are different places to put the Word of God. Most thinking people put it in their minds. But guess what? In many cases it just stays there and never reaches anywhere else. That's like having a teaching degree and then not working as a teacher. What good is all that knowledge you bothered to acquire? You might become an accomplished musician . . . but if you don't ever play your instrument, your music stays in you. What a waste! Those who learn the Word

Good! It should! Because it's an offensive place. But that is putting it mildly, so if you mind being offended, just consider how much you will mind when you end up there! Oh, you don't want to go there? Great! I don't either, and that is exactly why I serve our Lord and Savior, Jesus, the Christ. But it was not always so. Why? Because I didn't know any better. I was an outspoken agnostic at best since the time I first began questioning things at the age of eight. What tr

HOW TO GROW YOUR FAITH From our knowledge of the levels of faith, we know that faith has a growing capacity. The amazing thing about this is that no matter how strong your faith is, it never stops to grow. More so, no matter how dead your faith is, it can still grow. Truth be told, nothing in the spirit realm stands still, therefore, that measure of faith either grows or withers. In order to grow your faith from one level to another, these are unfailing principles to engage. a. The principle of obedience.r

Many people do not seem to understand how a person can actually love God. That's because they think of God as an invisible being far away in the clouds somewhere. They ask themselves, "How can I possibly love someone I've never seen and cannot touch?" First of all, He can be seen if only we will stop to look for Him. Nature abounds with evidence of His existence. Secondly, we can touch His heart with acts of love and compassion for our fellow sojou ers along the way. And H

I hate, hate it when the church service is about to begin, and I need to visit the ladies room. Never fails. Hubby leads his blind wife to the entrance and waits for me. I usually make my way out with no problem. Sometimes I take a while because I chat with friends—girl stuff, you know. And when I walk out, all I have to do is stretch my hand before me. And without fail in seconds hubby’s strong hand grips mine and off we go.

The foundation for human behaviour is information. We all grow up simply accepting the information we absorb through the senses of hearing and sight – and then apply ourselves to life accordingly. Some of us add a little thinking of our own, perhaps even questioning the validity of what is considered to be the norm. After all, are teachers, lecturers, professors and scientists not passing on to us (with some added conviction) what they, in turn, heard from someone else?

Summary: “With 428 millio Bibles sold last year, it's still the best-seller. Why not discover the reason? Only God can foretell the future, but here are four 'when-then' omens or signs for apocalyptic events this coming spring.”

The above headline question in Newsweek (10/21/17) went unanswered as the article diverted into a political free-for-all citing Dr. Robt Jeffress, mega-church pastor, a Trump supporter in Dallas. Newsweek also cited him as linking the church to the “Whore of Babylon” in Revelation, says Dr. Richard Ruhling, author on current events and Bible prophecy. He offers the following view in the context of some Catholics and Lutherans healing a “deadly wound” resulting from Luther’s posting 95 theses (points) on the church door 500 years ago this month.

“How are we doing with time?” I asked hubby. He stuffed my suitcase in the trunk. “You’ve got plenty of time.” Expectation bubbled up in me. I was heading to St. Louis for my high school reunion. As we reached the airport, he pulled the car beside the curb in front of the Southwest counter to drop me off, and said, “It will be a fun weekend.” I grinned. “I think so.” “I’m talking about me,” he said. Funny guy. But he was right. With me gone, he would have a fun weekend. Without my endless “to do” list, my honey was going to, indeed, have fun and relax!

While there are many forms of teaching in the Christian education arena, there are a few basic tenets that are applicable across the board. We will focus on these tenets as they apply to "formal" teaching (classroom, discussion, lecture, discipling relationships), but they are just as important in informal settings. nn1. Set goals. This is probably the biggest omission for teachers. We know and want to communicate a lot of "stuff," but we haven't clearly defined our goal and

Have you ever been in this situation? I know I have. You are in a group prayer meeting and you are listening to a particular brother or sister going non-stop for it seems like a decade; or you are at a funeral or church event and the person giving the prayer is saying the correct words, so much so that it is evoking a lot of ‘Hallelujahs’ and ‘Amen’ and ‘Yes Lords’. All you can think about, right at that moment, is ‘Man, this person knows how to pray’, or ‘Man this person knows how to touch God’, and you are left feeling intimidated because you know that you cannot pray in that manner.

As I was reading the gospels today, I noticed a very simple method the Lord Jesus applied to be successful in fulfilling God’s purposes and intentions for His life. This method can be clearly seen in Luke 9:51. It says there that: “ …when the time was come that he (Jesus) should be received ...

Before there was Dave Ramsey, there was the Bible. This American financial advisor will suggest many options for handling money — except reading what the Holy Bible has to offer. Make room for charity Trying to live on a budget is often difficult because of it requires strict planning, foresight, and self-discipline. When unforeseen expenses get thrown into the mix, it often gets tossed aside as we scramble to restore order. However, God has asked us to set aside part of ou

Since my articles entitled Prophecy 2008 and Prophecy 2009 were the most read articles of each respective year I have undertaken this piece with much care and forethought. The prophetic message has changed little in the last two years but the country has changed significantly, unfortunately the changes have not all been good. What has not changed one whit is the prophetic charge I was given almost forty years past. In no uncertain terms I can say that our economy will plumme

Media Mock Meade’s Misunderstanding of a Sign in Sky September 23 as ‘End of Days and Rapture,’ says Dr. Richard Ruhling, author of God Bless America? He explains the ‘Great Sign of Revelation 12’ is not apocalyptic for September 23, but its nine months ‘pregnancy’ points to next spring…

“Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith,” said Trump.

You might think that that title refers to using proper English or to the tone of your voice. If you do think this, you are wrong. Oh, these things are important, but they are not the point of this article. The point is, if you are trying to capture your God-given healing, you need to make the correct positive declarations like, "My body is totally healed, from the top of my head to the soles of my feet! I feel good! I feel great! My body is at its ideal weight! All my joint