In the US, the GOP don't have the Presidency, so the media can seize on the unpopularity of the President and claim 'nobody can do a good job in administration.' However, that lie gets shown up often when effective GOP administrations take office. So the media tend to take on a role of scold when conservatives are in office, as it is, in Australia. And they can claim *anything* so long as it serves their leftist politicians.
Obama speaks as President. But what he says is factually wrong. The US has never had a policy of killing Muslims. Further, the US army does not kill many .. and when she does she is accountable. The accusation that the US has killed millions of Muslims is rhetoric. In fact, the US has prevented the deaths of many Muslims threatened by Islamic terrorists. What Obama says is offensive, and not something I can support. Maybe the article linked is a joke .. ? Way too close to the bone from a President who identifies with thugs.
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Hatches
Happy birthday and many happy returns Yasmine Lebbe, Leon Duong and Salina Wong. Born on the same day, across the years, as
1493 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
1836 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (d. 1910)
1861 – Amélie of Orléans (d. 1951)
1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
1909 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)
1933 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (Jimmy & Johnny) (d. 2011)
1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress and singer
1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Drifters)
1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
2000 – Frankie Jonas, American actor
Matches
48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
1066 – William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1542 – Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.
1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery inBrazil.
1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga onSamar Island.
1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
Despatches
48 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
935 – Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)
1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1978 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
1996 – Mohammad Najibullah, Afghan politician, 7th President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: how the film lied
Rabbit-proof myths
By: Andrew Bolt Nov 16th 2002
By: Andrew Bolt Nov 16th 2002
Phillip Noyce claims his new film, Rabbit-Proof Fence, is a true story.
The Hollywood director’s publicity blurb repeats the boast: ``A true story.’’
Even the first spoken words in the hyped film, which opens next week, are: ``This is a true story.’’
Wrong. Crucial parts of this ``true story’’ about a ``stolen generations’’ child called Molly Craig are false or misleading. And shamefully so.
No wonder that when Craig saw Rabbit-Proof Fence at a special screening in her bush settlement last month, she seem surprised.
``That’s not my story,’’ she said as the credits rolled.
No, it isn’t. Instead, it is Craig’s story told in a way that would help ``prove’’ the ``stolen generations’’ are no myth—that thousands of Aboriginal children were indeed torn from the arms of loving parents by racist police.
In saying this, I mean no disrespect to Craig.
She has had a film (supported by $5.3 million of taxpayers’ money) made of an episode of her life in which she showed extraordinary courage, endurance and willpower—but it’s a film which can’t be trusted to tell the whole truth. Who could value its praise?
It was 1931 and Molly Craig was just 14, when she and two of her younger cousins—Daisy, 8, and Gracie, 11—were taken from an Aboriginal camp at Jigalong, in Western Australia’s north, and sent to the Moore River Native Settlement, 2000km south.
There these girls were to live with other ``half-castes’’ and to go to school, learning skills to help them to adapt to non-Aboriginal society.
But the girls fled after one night, and in an amazing nine-week epic walked home to Jigalong—all but Gracie, that is, who was found by police at Wiluna.
Craig’s feat made the papers but was not written up in full until 1996, when her daughter, Doris Pilkington, who was herself raised at Moore River, wrote the book on which Noyce has based his film.
BUT Noyce and his scriptwriter didn’t stick to the facts Pilkington uncovered. Instead, the story was rewritten and now supports a monstrous falsehood—that we have a genocidal past that is, as Noyce’s publicity material declares, ``more cruel than could ever be imagined’’.
Let me show you how they did it—how they told untruths or only half the truth in their ``true story’’.
THE FILM opens at Jigalong in 1931, and shows a neat bush camp. Molly Craig is happy and healthy. Her mother is well-groomed. All is well.
THE FACT is many of these bush camps were squalid.
When Doris Pilkington first returned to Jigalong 30 years later, it was still appalling.
``No one prepared me for the conditions that people lived under,’’ she told ABC radio in 1999.
``It was shocking. I hadn’t seen so many dogs in my life. It was just tin humpies and people just slept anywhere.’’
THE FILM shows Molly playing with other children at Jigalong. Everyone is smiling and seems happy.
THE FACT is Molly was the first ``half-caste’’ of her tribe, and the full-bloods treated her with scorn.
Pilkington says her mother often had to play alone because full-blood children told her she was neither Aboriginal nor white, and was ``like a mongrel dog’’. She had no father to protect her.
THE FILM suggests Molly and her cousins were removed from Jigalong only because the state’s Chief Protector of Aborigines, A.O. Neville, was a genocidal racist who wanted to ``breed out the Aborigine’’.
It shows Neville outlining his plan to take half-caste children from their families and stop them breeding with full-bloods. We then see him ordering that Molly and her cousins be removed because the youngest girl is ``promised to a full-blood’’.
THE FACT is the girls were taken after Neville learned they were in danger.
In 1930, he had received a letter from the superintendent of Jigalong complaining that Molly and Gracie ``were not getting a fair chance as the blacks consider the H/Cs (half castes) inferior to them’’. He asked that they be removed.
Others were also worried, given how vulnerable half-caste girls then were to sexual exploitation, particularly by whites.
In December, 1930, a Mrs Chellow from Murra Munda station wrote to Neville about the girls, warning: ``I think you should see about them, as they are running wild with the whites.’’
This fits with what Neville told the 1936 Moseley Royal Commission into the treatment of Aborigines: ``The children who have been removed as wards of the Chief Protector have been removed because I desired to be satisfied that the conditions surrounding their upbringing were satisfactory, which they certainly were not . . .’’
Even today we rescue Aboriginal children from abuse and neglect—and in tragically high numbers.
THE FILM shows a policeman chasing the girls in his car and ripping them from Molly’s screaming mother.
According to Noyce, this scene ``tells the whole story’’ of his film.
THE FACT, writes Pilkington, is that the officer rode up on horseback to tell Molly’s stepfather he’d take the girls, and ``the old man nodded’’. The officer put Molly and Gracie on a horse, gave them the reins and asked them to follow him.
The next day he picked up Daisy and two sick women at another camp. There was no chase, no struggle.
THE FILM then shows the girls on a train, locked in an iron-barred box for dogs. They travel the last leg to Moore River tossed in the open tray of a truck.
THE FACT is the girls were not locked in any box, and travelled most of the way south by ship, which Pilkington said they felt was as a ``most pleasant experience’’. They saw porpoises, chatted to the crew and walked the decks before going to bed in a cabin.
They rode the last bit not in a truck, but in a car driven by a matron who stopped for sandwiches and lemonade.
THE FILM shows the girls arriving at Moore River, where they wear prison-style sacks and are woken in the morning by a guard who screams and belts the walls of their room with a club.
THE FACT is photos of children at Moore River show them dressed in European clothes. Pilkington writes that when her mother ran away, she was dressed in ``two dresses, two pairs of calico bloomers and a coat’’.
She also says the girls were woken individually and welcomed by one of the female staff.
THE FILM shows children at Moore River singing Way Down Upon the Swanee River for visitors. This shows they’re so robbed of their black culture that they sing fake Negro songs instead.
THE FACT is Molly saw no such concert. And Susan Maushart’s book Sort of a Place Like Home: Remembering the Moore River Native Settlement says this: ``Journalists investigating conditions at Moore River were invariably impressed by the colourful experience of a staged corroboree.’’
THE FILM shows babies left to cry in a room of cots. They, too, seem ``stolen’’.
THE FACT is most Moore River children—1003 of the 1067 who went there between 1933 and 1936, according to the Moseley commission—were not ``stolen’’ but sent there by their parents to get a schooling or to be safe.
Many had parents living in the camp next door.
SUCH distortions of the truth, and for what? There are enough cruelties in our past we must confront—the theft of black lands, the half-caste children abandoned by white fathers, and the years of neglect of a people whose culture and communities are now shattered.
There is so much to make good—which is why the lies of the ``stolen generations’’ activists are unforgivable.
The Aboriginal leaders who falsely claim they were ``stolen’’, the writers who exaggerate the number of children removed, the silly compensation cases that collapse and the slick claims of genocide all risk making every claim of black suffering seem a cynical try-on.
The truth of our past is hard enough to face. Untruths and exaggerations now will only divide us.
Your film shames not us, Phillip Noyce, but you.
The Hollywood director’s publicity blurb repeats the boast: ``A true story.’’
Even the first spoken words in the hyped film, which opens next week, are: ``This is a true story.’’
Wrong. Crucial parts of this ``true story’’ about a ``stolen generations’’ child called Molly Craig are false or misleading. And shamefully so.
No wonder that when Craig saw Rabbit-Proof Fence at a special screening in her bush settlement last month, she seem surprised.
``That’s not my story,’’ she said as the credits rolled.
No, it isn’t. Instead, it is Craig’s story told in a way that would help ``prove’’ the ``stolen generations’’ are no myth—that thousands of Aboriginal children were indeed torn from the arms of loving parents by racist police.
In saying this, I mean no disrespect to Craig.
She has had a film (supported by $5.3 million of taxpayers’ money) made of an episode of her life in which she showed extraordinary courage, endurance and willpower—but it’s a film which can’t be trusted to tell the whole truth. Who could value its praise?
It was 1931 and Molly Craig was just 14, when she and two of her younger cousins—Daisy, 8, and Gracie, 11—were taken from an Aboriginal camp at Jigalong, in Western Australia’s north, and sent to the Moore River Native Settlement, 2000km south.
There these girls were to live with other ``half-castes’’ and to go to school, learning skills to help them to adapt to non-Aboriginal society.
But the girls fled after one night, and in an amazing nine-week epic walked home to Jigalong—all but Gracie, that is, who was found by police at Wiluna.
Craig’s feat made the papers but was not written up in full until 1996, when her daughter, Doris Pilkington, who was herself raised at Moore River, wrote the book on which Noyce has based his film.
BUT Noyce and his scriptwriter didn’t stick to the facts Pilkington uncovered. Instead, the story was rewritten and now supports a monstrous falsehood—that we have a genocidal past that is, as Noyce’s publicity material declares, ``more cruel than could ever be imagined’’.
Let me show you how they did it—how they told untruths or only half the truth in their ``true story’’.
THE FILM opens at Jigalong in 1931, and shows a neat bush camp. Molly Craig is happy and healthy. Her mother is well-groomed. All is well.
THE FACT is many of these bush camps were squalid.
When Doris Pilkington first returned to Jigalong 30 years later, it was still appalling.
``No one prepared me for the conditions that people lived under,’’ she told ABC radio in 1999.
``It was shocking. I hadn’t seen so many dogs in my life. It was just tin humpies and people just slept anywhere.’’
THE FILM shows Molly playing with other children at Jigalong. Everyone is smiling and seems happy.
THE FACT is Molly was the first ``half-caste’’ of her tribe, and the full-bloods treated her with scorn.
Pilkington says her mother often had to play alone because full-blood children told her she was neither Aboriginal nor white, and was ``like a mongrel dog’’. She had no father to protect her.
THE FILM suggests Molly and her cousins were removed from Jigalong only because the state’s Chief Protector of Aborigines, A.O. Neville, was a genocidal racist who wanted to ``breed out the Aborigine’’.
It shows Neville outlining his plan to take half-caste children from their families and stop them breeding with full-bloods. We then see him ordering that Molly and her cousins be removed because the youngest girl is ``promised to a full-blood’’.
THE FACT is the girls were taken after Neville learned they were in danger.
In 1930, he had received a letter from the superintendent of Jigalong complaining that Molly and Gracie ``were not getting a fair chance as the blacks consider the H/Cs (half castes) inferior to them’’. He asked that they be removed.
Others were also worried, given how vulnerable half-caste girls then were to sexual exploitation, particularly by whites.
In December, 1930, a Mrs Chellow from Murra Munda station wrote to Neville about the girls, warning: ``I think you should see about them, as they are running wild with the whites.’’
This fits with what Neville told the 1936 Moseley Royal Commission into the treatment of Aborigines: ``The children who have been removed as wards of the Chief Protector have been removed because I desired to be satisfied that the conditions surrounding their upbringing were satisfactory, which they certainly were not . . .’’
Even today we rescue Aboriginal children from abuse and neglect—and in tragically high numbers.
THE FILM shows a policeman chasing the girls in his car and ripping them from Molly’s screaming mother.
According to Noyce, this scene ``tells the whole story’’ of his film.
THE FACT, writes Pilkington, is that the officer rode up on horseback to tell Molly’s stepfather he’d take the girls, and ``the old man nodded’’. The officer put Molly and Gracie on a horse, gave them the reins and asked them to follow him.
The next day he picked up Daisy and two sick women at another camp. There was no chase, no struggle.
THE FILM then shows the girls on a train, locked in an iron-barred box for dogs. They travel the last leg to Moore River tossed in the open tray of a truck.
THE FACT is the girls were not locked in any box, and travelled most of the way south by ship, which Pilkington said they felt was as a ``most pleasant experience’’. They saw porpoises, chatted to the crew and walked the decks before going to bed in a cabin.
They rode the last bit not in a truck, but in a car driven by a matron who stopped for sandwiches and lemonade.
THE FILM shows the girls arriving at Moore River, where they wear prison-style sacks and are woken in the morning by a guard who screams and belts the walls of their room with a club.
THE FACT is photos of children at Moore River show them dressed in European clothes. Pilkington writes that when her mother ran away, she was dressed in ``two dresses, two pairs of calico bloomers and a coat’’.
She also says the girls were woken individually and welcomed by one of the female staff.
THE FILM shows children at Moore River singing Way Down Upon the Swanee River for visitors. This shows they’re so robbed of their black culture that they sing fake Negro songs instead.
THE FACT is Molly saw no such concert. And Susan Maushart’s book Sort of a Place Like Home: Remembering the Moore River Native Settlement says this: ``Journalists investigating conditions at Moore River were invariably impressed by the colourful experience of a staged corroboree.’’
THE FILM shows babies left to cry in a room of cots. They, too, seem ``stolen’’.
THE FACT is most Moore River children—1003 of the 1067 who went there between 1933 and 1936, according to the Moseley commission—were not ``stolen’’ but sent there by their parents to get a schooling or to be safe.
Many had parents living in the camp next door.
SUCH distortions of the truth, and for what? There are enough cruelties in our past we must confront—the theft of black lands, the half-caste children abandoned by white fathers, and the years of neglect of a people whose culture and communities are now shattered.
There is so much to make good—which is why the lies of the ``stolen generations’’ activists are unforgivable.
The Aboriginal leaders who falsely claim they were ``stolen’’, the writers who exaggerate the number of children removed, the silly compensation cases that collapse and the slick claims of genocide all risk making every claim of black suffering seem a cynical try-on.
The truth of our past is hard enough to face. Untruths and exaggerations now will only divide us.
Your film shames not us, Phillip Noyce, but you.
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Bolt Report tomorrow
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (8:43am)
On The Bolt Report tomorrow on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm:
New senator David Leyonhjelm, Michael Kroger and Bruce Hawker, Kevin Rudd’s former campaign advisor.
We’ll be naming and shaming warming extremists and discussing the first boat-load of asylum seekers sent back to Indonesia.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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How warmists cost us billions
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (8:23am)
The price of global warming alarmism is enormous. Take the cost of the mothballed desalination plants, built after warmists persuaded politicians the rains would dry up:
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
Sydney’s privatised desalination plant, which is costing residents more than $500,000 a day to keep on standby, will not be needed for at least another four or five years.Mind you, big cities did need more water security as they grew. Dams were the cheap option, but who made those almost illegal?
The sale of the plant last year to a private company for $2.3 billion means residents are locked into paying about $10 billion in fees for the next 50 years, whether the plant is operating or not. Not one drop of water has come out of the Kurnell facility since it stopped operating more than a year ago.
With dam levels at 93.4 per cent, the plant has been placed into “water security” mode, a long-term shutdown which is likely to continue for some time."My best estimate is it will still be about four to five years before we turn the desalination plant on,” Sydney Water’s managing director Kevin Young told 7.30 New South Wales
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
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A new Senate with a bias to freedom
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (8:17am)
Good profile
of two new Senators - Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm and Family
First’s Bab Day - who will lift the intellectual tone of the debate and
be articulate spokesmen for freedom and lower taxes:
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
Australia’s Labor and Liberal parties should brace themselves for two home-grown Ron Pauls: Bob Day, chairman of the Family First Party, and David Leyonhjelm, treasurer of the hitherto obscure Liberal Democratic Party, who are set to enter the Senate next July for South Australia and NSW respectively, with profound ramifications for policy and politics alike.Leyonhjelm will be on The Bolt Report tomorrow.
Far from supporting Tony Abbott’s signature paid parental leave and direct action on climate change policies, Day and Leyonhjelm - two successful businessmen in their early 60s - will seek to reverse the inexorable growth of government spending and regulation and convince their tyro colleagues to do the same.
“I might vote for direct action or PPL if Abbott promised to cut income or company tax to a flat rate of 20 per cent,” says Leyonhjelm, who advocates substantial cuts to income tax and a severely curtailed welfare state.
“We are not hard-hearted but people in the first instance should look to themselves, their family and civil society before laying claim to other people’s taxes.”
Day, who also supports cuts to welfare and a flat 20 per cent tax, says: ... “We support genuinely liberal policies based on ‘Austrian economics’ in contrast to the Keynesian claptrap routinely espoused...”
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
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ABC tries irritating gotcha on Abbott
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (8:03am)
What Tony Abbott actually said:
(Thanks to reader CalJ.)
The last thing anyone should want is to have Australia’s relationship with Indonesia defined by this boats issue, which I am sure will be but a passing irritant.What the ABC’s Emma Alberici, interviewing the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Right, claims Abbott said:
How do you feel about a world leader describing asylum seekers as “irritants”?What the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights dutifully replies:
I am appalled.As am I, but not by Abbott.
(Thanks to reader CalJ.)
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IPCC more sure about less
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (7:30am)
On the IPCC report…
A significant mistake may have been made. Doug Keenan writes to the Met Office Chief Scientist about this problem:
Alarmist media outlets are hanging their hat on the IPCC being even more sure humans are heating the earth, even though there’s been no significant warming for 15 years - which is not what they expected. For example, from The Age:
So much depends on just how that extra certainty was calculated - from 90 per cent sure last time to 95 per cent now. Thing is, Professor Judith Curry can’t see where this came from:
Andrew Montford on hiding the decline:
UPDATE
Brilliant take, from Professor Ross McKitrick:
A significant mistake may have been made. Doug Keenan writes to the Met Office Chief Scientist about this problem:
Dear Julia,UPDATE
The IPCC’s AR5 WGI Summary for Policymakers includes the following statement.
The globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data as calculated by a linear trend, show a warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C, over the period 1880–2012….(The numbers in brackets indicate 90%-confidence intervals.) The statement is near the beginning of the first section after the Introduction; as such, it is especially prominent.
The confidence intervals are derived from a statistical model that comprises a straight line with AR(1) noise. As per your paper ”Statistical models and the global temperature record” (May 2013), that statistical model is insupportable, and the confidence intervals should be much wider—perhaps even wide enough to include 0°C.
It would seem to be an important part of the duty of the Chief Scientist of the Met Office to publicly inform UK policymakers that the statement is untenable and the truth is less alarming. I ask if you will be fulfilling that duty, and if not, why not.
Alarmist media outlets are hanging their hat on the IPCC being even more sure humans are heating the earth, even though there’s been no significant warming for 15 years - which is not what they expected. For example, from The Age:
It is more certain than ever that human civilisation is the main cause of global warming, putting the world on track for dangerous temperature rises, the latest major UN assessment of climate change science has found.It’s a neat propaganda trick, where the certainty becomes the news - rather than the admission that there was less warming to be certain about.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it is “extremely likely” that humans are the dominant cause of observed warming since the mid-20th century, with carbon dioxide emissions the main factor.
So much depends on just how that extra certainty was calculated - from 90 per cent sure last time to 95 per cent now. Thing is, Professor Judith Curry can’t see where this came from:
Yesterday, a reporter asked me how the IPCC came up with the 95% number. Here is the exchange that I had with him:UPDATE
Reporter: I’m hoping you can answer a question about the upcoming IPCC report. When the report states that scientists are “95 percent certain” that human activities are largely to cause for global warming, what does that mean? How is 95 percent calculated? What is the basis for it? And if the certainty rate has risen from 90 in 2007 to 95 percent now, does that mean that the likelihood of something is greater? Or that scientists are just more certain? And is there a difference?
JC: The 95% is basically expert judgment, it is a negotiated figure among the authors. The increase from 90-95% means that they are more certain. How they can justify this is beyond me.
Reporter: You mean they sit around and say, “How certain are you?” “Oh, I feel about 95 percent certain. Michael over there at Penn State feels a little more certain. And Judy at Georgia Tech feels a little less. So, yeah, overall I’d say we’re about 95 percent certain.” Please tell me it’s more rigorous than that.
JC: Well I wasn’t in the room, but last report they said 90%, and perhaps they felt it was appropriate or politic that they show progress and up it to 95%.
Reporter: So it really is as subjective as that?
JC: As far as I know, this is what goes on. All this has never been documented.
Andrew Montford on hiding the decline:
You would imagine that the document would review what was said last time round and how things have changed since that time, but you’d be wrong…Dr Roy Spencer on the surprising omission of a key variable:
It would, for example, have been interesting for AR5 to discuss the increase in hurricane intensity that the AR4 SPM said was “likely” on the basis of the climate models. Instead, we get a veil drawn over the subject, with not a word on the hurricane drought in recent years.
Similarly, the divergence between model and observational estimates of long-term warming (effective climate sensitivity) is alluded to in opaque fashion in a footnote ("lack of agreement on values across lines of evidence") rather than being tackled head on in a way that would make clear the difficulties scientists are having with the climate jigsaw.
The general theme of obscurantism runs across the document. Whereas in previous years the temperature records have been shown unadulterated, now we have presentation of a single figure for each decade; surely an attempt to mislead rather than inform. And the pause is only addressed with handwaving arguments and vague allusions to ocean heat.
A best estimate for climate sensitivity — unarguably THE most important climate change variable — is no longer provided, due to mounting contradictory evidence on whether the climate system really cares very much about whether there are 2, or 3, or 4, parts of CO2 per 10,000 parts atmosphere.A round up of opinion at Watts Up With That.
YET…the IPCC claims their confidence has DOUBLED (uncertainty reduced from 10% that 5%) regarding their claim that humans are most of the cause behind the warming trend in the last 50 years or so...
UPDATE
Brilliant take, from Professor Ross McKitrick:
SPM in a nutshell: Since we started in 1990 we were right about the Arctic, wrong about the Antarctic, wrong about the tropical troposphere, wrong about the surface, wrong about hurricanes, wrong about the Himalayas, wrong about sensitivity, clueless on clouds and useless on regional trends. And on that basis we’re 95% confident we’re right.(Thanks to reader isobar.)
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It’s only a “war” when Liberals correct what Labor rewrote
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (7:22am)
Here’s how it works with Fairfax reporters. When the Left rewrites what children are taught about our history, that’s “reform”.
When conservatives rewrite what children are taught about our history, that’s a “history war”:
When conservatives rewrite what children are taught about our history, that’s a “history war”:
The so-called history wars of the Howard government era are back with a vengeance: [Education Minister Christopher] Pyne believes the national curriculum has too much focus on progressive causes and ignores the role of the Coalition political parties in building Australia.Pyne, who will be very able in such a “war” (should he be allowed to fight it), puts the matter well:
‘’I don’t mind if the left want to have a fight with the Coalition about Australia’s history,’’ the minister says in his new Parliament House office, where he has on his wall a 1963 Liberal Party flyer denouncing Labor’s faceless men.
‘’People need to understand that the government has changed in Canberra, that we’re not simply administering the previous government’s policies and views. I know that the left will find that rather galling,’’ he says with a grin, ‘’and while we govern for everyone, there is a new management in town.’’
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Is Yudhoyono Abbott’s good cop?
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (7:01am)
The Indonesian foreign
minister seems to have been smacked down by President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono for his arrogant attempt to embarrass the Abbott Government.
Yudhoyono seems prepared to do business with Tony Abbott, but that business will have to be done quickly, given Yudhoyono has only a year left to serve.
Paul Kelly:
Yudhoyono seems prepared to do business with Tony Abbott, but that business will have to be done quickly, given Yudhoyono has only a year left to serve.
Paul Kelly:
But the backdrop is the extraordinarily inept decision by the Indonesian Foreign Ministry to break diplomatic protocols by releasing its own version of the New York talks held by the foreign ministers, Bishop and Indonesia’s Marty Natalegawa, last Monday.Did Yudhoyono bring Natalegawa to heel?
This document records Natalegawa telling Bishop that turning the boats “should be avoided” because they “would risk the tight co-operation and trust that has been bounded in the Bali Process"…
There is simply no precedent for Jakarta’s diplomatic aggression before the first official meeting of a new Australian prime minister and an Indonesian president… It treats Bishop like an inconsequential fool whose bilateral talks can be merrily published as part of a tactic to intimidate Abbott or put Abbott and Bishop on notice. It is a most un-Indonesian-like move…
Chris Bowen and Bob Carr did not miss: they said Natalegawa was “so tired” of Bishop’s “robotic insistence” of no policy differences “that he felt obliged to release the minutes of the meeting”. Labor is making political hay.
The message from inside the government is “Stay cool”. Abbott won’t be provoked. This event suggests Yudhoyono and Natalegawa have different positions. Certainly, Abbott and Bishop will hope so…
As for Natalegawa, if he did authorise release of the record of conversation, it is a grievous mistake without justification… It will fan Coalition fears that Natalegawa, once a student in Australia, is pro-Labor and unsympathetic to the new government.
Diplomatic sources in Canberra said the latest Indonesian statements were intended to send Canberra a clear message, “Sorry, we stuffed up”, smoothing relations before Mr Abbott’s two-day visit…Another theory: Natalegawa is the bad cop to Yudhoyono’s good. And the price of cooperation just went up.
There was no evidence Dr Yudhoyono had intervened to calm the row, but diplomatic observers in Jakarta pointed out he had previously publicly overridden Dr Natelagawa at least twice.
In November 2011, the President contradicted the Foreign Minister after discussions with then prime minister Julia Gillard, saying the US marines rotation through Darwin was “not expected to distract or disturb neighbours”.
In June this year he made an apology to Singapore and Malaysia over “haze” from Sumatra forest fires, days after Dr Natalegawa described calls for an apology as “a bit redundant”.
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Greens leader in denial, and not just about the warming pause
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (6:53am)
Christine Milne says
it’s natural to lose six senior advisers in a week, and her leadership
team is united after an election slump caused by everyone else but the
Greens themselves.
There’s three false claims right there.
UPDATE
Going, going...
There’s three false claims right there.
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Going, going...
DIVISIONS are deepening within the Greens as current counting shows their support has collapsed by a third since 2010 with more than half a million voters deserting the party at the September 7 election…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
(T)he disastrous showing is now sparking off furious bouts of finger pointing as the party seeks to sheet home the blame and leader Christine Milne faces increasing pressure. Senator Milne has already lost her chief of staff, Ben Oquist, who held the same job under Bob Brown.
“He got increasingly angry and it became increasingly obvious he didn’t have Christine’s back and he had to go,” one Greens insider said…
Reports that deputy leader Adam Bandt is poised to challenge for the leadership with Mr Oquist’s backing were denied.
“He (Mr Bandt) knows the leadership’s going to be his,” one source told The Weekend Australian, saying the leadership would eventually land in his hands without a challenge…
(A) Tasmanian source spoke of speculation former state Greens leader Peg Putt or the incumbent Nick McKim, expected to be tipped from office at next year’s state poll, could be drafted in to replace Senator Milne in Canberra.
“Milne is on the ropes,” the source said.
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Has The Age ever seen a sceptic it hasn’t misreported?
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (6:40am)
Age environment report Tom Arup makes stuff up:
What makes The Age so incapable of reporting sceptical arguments correctly?
In their more reflective moments, mainstream climate scientists will tell you they wish they were wrong and that the Andrew Bolts of the world were right. That global warming was not occurring. That it was not that dangerous. That it was all due to natural variation. That it was one big global conspiracy.I have never said global warming was “all due to natural variation” and “was one big global conspiracy”. I have instead questioned warmist hyperbole and inaccuracies of the kind Arup has yet again demonstrated.
What makes The Age so incapable of reporting sceptical arguments correctly?
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Gillard’s secret women’s strategy
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (6:16am)
Chris Kenny says there was nothing accidental about Julia Gillard’s divisive appeal for the women’s vote:
IN June this year, not long before she lost the prime ministership, Julia Gillard launched Women for Gillard…
“I invite you to imagine it,” she said at the time, “a prime minister - a man in a blue tie...”
It was the moment when the public saw the issue had obviously and repeatedly been confected…
By this stage, even Gillard ... felt the need to defend her handling of the issue. “Friends, we didn’t discover women’s issues in a focus group,” she asserted…
Hmmm… Sigmund Freud might call it denial…
Long before the unbridled emotion of the misogyny speech ... Gillard was involved in a deliberate political and media strategy “focusing on women’s issues”, building a “narrative around the first female prime minister” and increasing her “profile in media consumed by women”.
The four-page document is a “Women’s media strategy” compiled as a media unit brief by adviser Sally Tindall and dated May 22, 2012…
The briefing suggests: “Mamma Mia interview with Mia Freedman, followed by blog or Q&A on the website. This would include some social media in the lead up by key ministers and prominent women, encouraging people to ask questions.”
This idea was circled and marked “OK” and then taken up within days…
A series of pitches are suggested to particular programs, journalists and magazines. A trip to the files shows the most obvious and talked-about example in the period immediately after this brief was her second anniversary interview with News Limited’s Claire Harvey, where the nation woke up one Sunday to read of, among other things, Gillard’s penchant for knitting.
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These drownings must be stopped
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (6:08am)
Another tragedy - and another reason for Indonesia to help is to stop the boats:
AT least 22 people died, most of them children, and dozens more were feared drowned after their asylum-seeker boat overturned off Indonesia, injecting greater urgency into Tony Abbott’s already troubled visit to Jakarta for leadership talks on Monday.
Villagers yesterday found 22 bodies floating in the water, while those among the 25 people rescued said there had been about 120 passengers from Lebanon, Jordan and Yemen on the Christmas Island-bound boat, leaving about 75 missing last night, feared drowned.
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IPCC report: very confident our gasses weren’t so bad
Andrew Bolt September 28 2013 (12:36am)
Bottom line: the IPCC’s latest report is even more confident that man is to blame for, er, less global warming than you were once told to expect.
And, yes, there has been an unexpected pause in warming of the atmosphere, with the IPCC blaming the deep ocean for hiding the missing heat where it can’t easily be found.
The full report won’t be released until Monday while you are sold the more heavily politicised Summary for Policy Makers.
From the summary…
We’ve seen about 0.85 degrees of warming over the past 130 years (which hasn’t seemed to hurt, I think):
The globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data as calculated by a linear trend, show a warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C , over the period 1880–2012, when multiple independently produced datasets exist. The total increase between the average of the 1850–1900 period and the 2003–2012 period is 0.78 [0.72 to 0.85] °C, based on the single longest dataset available...That warming slowed dramatically over the past 15 years - to just 0.05 a decade, or virtually zero:
Due to natural variability, trends based on short records are very sensitive to the beginning and end dates and do not in general reflect long-term climate trends. As one example, the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 to +0.15] °C per decade), which begins with a strong El Niño, is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012; 0.12 [0.08 to 0.14] °C per decade)...But never mind. Think of the sea level rises instead - you know, the ones the ABC’s chief science presenter, Robyn Williams, warned could have our cities swamped by a sea level rise of 100 metres by 2100. Strange, though - so far we’ve probably had just 19cms in 110 years:
The rate of sea level rise since the mid-19th century has been larger than the mean rate during the previous two millennia (high confidence). Over the period 1901–2010, global mean sea level rose by 0.19 [0.17 to 0.21] mAnd it seems Tim Flannery was wrong to warn in 2007: “Anyone with a coastal view from their bedroom window, or their kitchen window, or wherever, is likely to lose their house as a result of that change, so anywhere, any coastal cities, coastal areas, are in grave danger.” Turns out the median sea level rises tipped under the four IPCC scenarios for 2100 are between just 26cms and 30cms, with a very upper limit of 82cms under the most alarming scenario:
Meanwhile, the upper ocean is said to have warned by just 0.11 degrees per decade over 40 years:
On a global scale, the ocean warming is largest near the surface, and the upper 75 m warmed by 0.11 [0.09 to 0.13] °C per decade over the period 1971–2010.But that upper ocean warming may now also have slowed, and the missing heat is likely to have somehow transferred to the deeper ocean:
It is about as likely as not that ocean heat content from 0–700 m increased more slowly during 2003–2010 than during 1993–2002… Ocean heat uptake from 700–2000 m, where interannual variability is smaller, likely continued unabated from 1993 to 2009...The Arctic ice has reduced over time, but ignore those predictions (peddled by the likes of Al Gore, the BBC, Tim Flannery and our ABC) of an ice-free Arctic by this year. Only one of the IPCC scenarios thinks the Arctic might be nearly ice free in summer by mid-century:
Based on an assessment of the subset of models that most closely reproduce the climatological mean state and 1979 ? 2012 trend of the Arctic sea ice extent, a nearly ice-freeBut the puzzling thing is that at the other end of the globe, sea ice is actually increasing:
Arctic Ocean in September before mid-century is likely for RCP8.5 (medium confidence)… A projection of when the Arctic might become nearly ice-free in September in the 21st century cannot be made with confidence for the other scenarios.
It is very likely that the annual mean Antarctic sea ice extent increased at a rate in the range of 1.2 to 1.8% per decade (range of 0.13 to 0.20 million km2per decade) between 1979 and 2012.And those climate models upon which warmist scientists rely for their scary predictions just can’t compute that increase:
Most models simulate a small downward trend in Antarctic sea ice extent, albeit with large inter-model spread, in contrast to the small upward trend in observations...Nor is that the only thing the models got wrong. This 15-year pause in the warming of the atmosphere wasn’t predicted, either, however much the IPCC summary tries to smudge:
The long-term climate model simulations show a trend in global-mean surface temperature from 1951 to 2012 that agrees with the observed trend (very high confidence). There are,So let’s throw around a few possible excuses, of which the most grudging and least credited is that perhaps there was just a teensy overestimation of the effect our emissions have on temperature:
however, differences between simulated and observed trends over periods as short as 10 to 15 years (e.g., 1998 to 2012).
The observed reduction in surface warming trend over the period 1998–2012 as compared to the period 1951–2012, is due in roughly equal measure to a reduced trend in radiative forcing and a cooling contribution from internal variability, which includes a possible redistribution of heat within the ocean (medium confidence). The reduced trend in radiative forcing is primarily due to volcanic eruptions and the timing of the downward phase of the 11-year solar cycle. However, there is low confidence in quantifying the role of changes in radiative forcing in causing the reduced warming trend. There is medium confidence that internal decadal variability causes to a substantial degree the difference between observations and the simulations; the latter are not expected to reproduce the timing of internal variability. There may also be a contribution from forcing inadequacies and, in some models, an overestimate of the response to increasing greenhouse gas and other anthropogenic forcing (dominated by the effects of aerosols) ...See, the IPCC scientists still can’t get their climate models to do some basic simulations of how our climate really works. I mean, clouds are really tricky:
Climate models now include more cloud and aerosol processes, and their interactions, than at the time of the AR4, but there remains low confidence in the representation and quantification of these processes in models...But never mind all that. Confidence is now higher than ever:
It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.And more warming is to come, the IPCC claims, although nothing like the 6 degrees some alarmists such as the Potsdam Institute, Mark Lynas, National Geographic, the Global Carbon Project and the Sydney Morning Herald were claiming was quite possible. Indeed, three of the IPCC’s four basic scenarios tip a maximum possible warming of just half that or less, and one thinks there might be as little as 0.3 degrees of warming by the end of the century:
Increase of global mean surface temperatures for 2081–2100 relative to 1986–2005 is projected to likely be in the ranges derived from the concentration driven CMIP5 model simulations, that is, 0.3°C to 1.7°C (RCP2.6), 1.1°C to 2.6°C (RCP4.5), 1.4°C to 3.1°C (RCP6.0), 2.6°C to 4.8°C (RCP8.5).It is indeed likely, given the warming since the end of the Little Ice Age, that the planet will resume warming soon. But, then again, it might not.
But so far we can say it hasn’t warmed as the warmists predicted, not brought the devastation they so lavishly described.
Man’s gasses may well have warmed the Earth, but so far so very good.
(Bumped from yesterday.)
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Scientists stumble on a form of matter that is like a light sabre.
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Devil at the Crossroads
Sometimes you are the chaser, and other times you are chased...
This was one of those other times...
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LUMEN GENTIUM
SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS
POPE PAUL VI
ON NOVEMBER 21, 1964
THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH
1. Christ is the Light of nations. Because this is so, this Sacred Synod gathered together in the Holy Spirit eagerly desires, by proclaiming the Gospel to every creature,(1) to bring the light of Christ to all men, a light brightly visible on the countenance of the Church. Since the Church is in Christ like a sacrament or as a sign and instrument both of a very closely knit union with God and of the unity of the whole human race, it desires now to unfold more fully to the faithful of the Church and to the whole world its own inner nature and universal mission. This it intends to do following faithfully the teaching of previous councils. The present-day conditions of the world add greater urgency to this work of the Church so that all men, joined more closely today by various social, technical and cultural ties, might also attain fuller unity in Christ.
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IMMIGRATION Minister Scott Morrison has finally responded to questions over an asylum seeker boat which sank off the coast of Indonesia.
Mr Morrison said Australian authorities were initially in charge of the search for the asylum seeker vessel after receiving a phone call about the incident yesterday morning.
Initial reports placed the vessel 25 nautical miles off the Indonesian coast, inside the Indonesian search and rescue region, but a Border Protection Command aircraft and a merchant vessel responding to an all ships broadcast were unable to find it.
The search and rescue operation is now being handled by Indonesian authorities, Mr Morrison said.
"Australian Government officials in Jakarta are seeking additional information from their Indonesian counterparts, including seeking to confirm where the vessel foundered. It is believed to have gone down in Indonesian territory."
He said Australian authorities would continue to provide whatever help was required by the Indonesian government but could not say what assistance was currently being offered.
Initial reports placed the vessel 25 nautical miles off the Indonesian coast, inside the Indonesian search and rescue region, but a Border Protection Command aircraft and a merchant vessel responding to an all ships broadcast were unable to find it.
The search and rescue operation is now being handled by Indonesian authorities, Mr Morrison said.
"Australian Government officials in Jakarta are seeking additional information from their Indonesian counterparts, including seeking to confirm where the vessel foundered. It is believed to have gone down in Indonesian territory."
He said Australian authorities would continue to provide whatever help was required by the Indonesian government but could not say what assistance was currently being offered.
Earlier today, Prime Minister Tony Abbott ignored reporters seeking information on up to 90 deaths after an asylum boat sank off the coast of Indonesia.
Up to 70 asylum seekers are still missing, feared drowned, after their boat broke up and sank en route to Australia.
At least 22 people, mostly children, are confirmed drowned after the boat, which was believed to be carrying about 120 passengers, struck rough seas on Friday off the coast of Java.
One of the passengers, a Lebanese man, had reportedly lost his pregnant wife and eight children in the disaster.
Just 25 of those aboard had been rescued before efforts to locate survivors were postponed last night due to failing light. The remainder were still in the water.
The boat broke up after it began taking on water about 6pm AEST.
The tragedy unfolded as the government sought to return two rescued groups to Indonesia.
Prime Minister, Mr Tony Abbott, ignored reporters when asked about the tragedy shortly after he addressed a sporting function this morning.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-news/abbott-flees-reporters-after-asylum-seekers-drown-on-way-to-australia/story-fncynjr2-1226728862846#ixzz2gBCbImkG
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Students at Universities and Colleges all over Canada have come together to denounce Zionism and the State of Israel at an event called Israel Apartheid Week or IAW.
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Swans supporting Hawks this year? - ed
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While looking forward to future storm chases, I also look back at past ones. This storm was between Boise City and Guymon, Oklahoma back in 2010.
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In an ideal world, I’d spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland. It’s a dream of a place. In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner. My chihuahua, Max, will come with me. He has to do 10 steps to every two of mine but he is super-sporty and can easily run up to 2,500m. I’ll pack us both jumpers, just in case we get lost, and I’ll spend the evening taking photographs of the Matterhorn. Every day that mountain looks different.
I’ve been skiing since I was four years old – the same length of time I’ve been playing violin – and my boyfriend, [Lionel Catelan, a wine dealer], is a big skier too. He’s very patriotic towards the ski resort of Val d’Isère in France, because that is where he is from, but we both fell in love with Zermatt when we came here on a ski trip in 2005. It wasn’t an altogether positive experience. We got robbed at the train station and found the people a little unfriendly, but the stunning natural scenery and the Matterhorn more than made up for this. After that we came back to Zermatt whenever we could, summer and winter.
I’d wanted to live in the mountains since I was 14 and in 2009, I finally thought “what the heck” and bought a place in Zermatt. I’d been renovating a house in London for about four years and it still wasn’t finished. It still isn’t. Every weekend I’d walk past it and feel depressed. Given I didn’t have children to think about, I figured I didn’t have anything keeping me there.
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When He made the world, He made two ways to repair each thing: With harshness or with compassion. With a slap or with a caress. With darkness or with light.
“And G‑d looked at the light and saw that it was good.” Darkness and harsh words may be necessary. But He never called them good.
Even if you could correct another person with harsh words, the One Above receives no pleasure from it. When He sees his creatures heal one another with caring and with kindness, that is when He shines His smile upon us.
-From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory.
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IT”S NOT TOO LATE.John 11: 21 - 22.
Turn to your neighbor and repeat these words after me say neighbor it’s not too late. God encourage our heart that it is not too late. A lot of times the enemy tries to convenience us that we missed our blessing. The devil will play with your mind. He will say if we would have done this at this time I will be further ahead and I would have my blessing a long time ago. So we will feel defeated due to the fact that we should have done that 3years ago. Well while that might be true in some sense, it’s not too late. God has a time for all of our lives.
God's time is not your time. I use to say God I want you to come right now quick fast and in a hurry. And most of us really want him to come right now. But isn’t it something when God delays his coming. He delays it for a reason. Some of us can not handle a right now blessing. So He makes us wait. In our waiting He works out our patience. In our waiting He has to bring our attitude under control. Some of us have a bad attitude. We are mean and clean. It bothers me when I see saints that are claiming to know God with a bad attitude, it bothers me. Even with our attitude we want God to come quick fast and in a hurry. Saints are to be so sweet until we are dripping syrup. When I see you I should not have to wonder if you are saved and sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost. I should see the attributes of the spirit. I should see love, peace, joy, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, meekness, temperest and faith.Be patient and wait for Him.He can not fail.God bless you.
Turn to your neighbor and repeat these words after me say neighbor it’s not too late. God encourage our heart that it is not too late. A lot of times the enemy tries to convenience us that we missed our blessing. The devil will play with your mind. He will say if we would have done this at this time I will be further ahead and I would have my blessing a long time ago. So we will feel defeated due to the fact that we should have done that 3years ago. Well while that might be true in some sense, it’s not too late. God has a time for all of our lives.
God's time is not your time. I use to say God I want you to come right now quick fast and in a hurry. And most of us really want him to come right now. But isn’t it something when God delays his coming. He delays it for a reason. Some of us can not handle a right now blessing. So He makes us wait. In our waiting He works out our patience. In our waiting He has to bring our attitude under control. Some of us have a bad attitude. We are mean and clean. It bothers me when I see saints that are claiming to know God with a bad attitude, it bothers me. Even with our attitude we want God to come quick fast and in a hurry. Saints are to be so sweet until we are dripping syrup. When I see you I should not have to wonder if you are saved and sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost. I should see the attributes of the spirit. I should see love, peace, joy, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, meekness, temperest and faith.Be patient and wait for Him.He can not fail.God bless you.
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Father God, I come to You today giving You thanks and praise for Your faithfulness in my life. I choose to receive Your Word which is life and strength to my soul. I choose to serve You with my whole heart all the days of my life. Help me to love others the way You love me. Give me opportunities to be a blessing everywhere I go. Help me to keep my heart focused on You. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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If you believe, you will receive.(Matthew 21:22, NIV)
Christianity is about believing.All through the Bible, there are so many promises of what God has already done for us. It says in Ephesians that “God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing.” It says in Colossians that “God has made us worthy.” There is mercy for any mistake we will ever make. It’s already been taken care of. He paid the ultimate price through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son, Jesus. He’s done His part. Now it’s up to us to do our part. We have to start believing so that we can receive.
In the natural, when someone gives you a gift, what’s the first thing you usually say? “Thank you.” When you give thanks, it’s a sign that you are receiving the gift. Today, start receiving what God has given you by saying, “Father, thank You for Your mercy. Thank You for supplying all of my needs. Thank You for Your goodness in my life.”
As you learn to give Him thanks, you are learning to receive from Him. Open your heart by faith today and thank Him for all the blessings He has prepared for you.God bless you.
Christianity is about believing.All through the Bible, there are so many promises of what God has already done for us. It says in Ephesians that “God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing.” It says in Colossians that “God has made us worthy.” There is mercy for any mistake we will ever make. It’s already been taken care of. He paid the ultimate price through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son, Jesus. He’s done His part. Now it’s up to us to do our part. We have to start believing so that we can receive.
In the natural, when someone gives you a gift, what’s the first thing you usually say? “Thank you.” When you give thanks, it’s a sign that you are receiving the gift. Today, start receiving what God has given you by saying, “Father, thank You for Your mercy. Thank You for supplying all of my needs. Thank You for Your goodness in my life.”
As you learn to give Him thanks, you are learning to receive from Him. Open your heart by faith today and thank Him for all the blessings He has prepared for you.God bless you.
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Father God, I humbly come to You today. I choose to let go of the past. I choose to release those who have hurt me so I can embrace the best that you have for me. Help me to forgive, help me to love, and help me to stay on the good path You have for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead
(Philippians 3:13, NIV).
Oftentimes, when we see someone who has hurt us, that pain and offense is stirred up, and we start thinking about what happened again. But in that moment, you have a choice to make. One of the best things you can do, instead of rehearsing the hurt, is to pray for that person and speak blessing over them.
Remember that forgiveness is for you. Letting go of bitterness is for you. Don’t let the past hold you back from what God has in store for your future any longer. Get past the past by choosing right thoughts because God has victory and blessing in store for your future.God bless you.
(Philippians 3:13, NIV).
Oftentimes, when we see someone who has hurt us, that pain and offense is stirred up, and we start thinking about what happened again. But in that moment, you have a choice to make. One of the best things you can do, instead of rehearsing the hurt, is to pray for that person and speak blessing over them.
Remember that forgiveness is for you. Letting go of bitterness is for you. Don’t let the past hold you back from what God has in store for your future any longer. Get past the past by choosing right thoughts because God has victory and blessing in store for your future.God bless you.
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Father, today I choose to release every care and concern into Your loving hands. I refuse to worry and choose to trust.Do not pass me by. Fill me with Your peace. Show me Your ways as I surrender every area of my heart and life to You in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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How do you turn things over to God? Start by making the choice and declaring your resolve. Simply say, “Father, I choose to let You be God of this situation. I take my hands off. I trust You.” Then, choose to worship Him. Worship is one of the best ways to set your heart and mind in the right place. You can’t worry and worship at the same time. Worship is a sign that you are trusting God; worry is a sign that you are trying to control things.Let God be God.The Scripture says,“Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him.”(Psalm 37:7, NKJV)
Today, take the pressure off yourself and turn things over to God. Give Him control and let Him take your setbacks and turn them into comebacks. Remember, the God who holds the universe holds you in the palm of His hand. Trust Him and let God be God in every area of your life.God bless you.
Today, take the pressure off yourself and turn things over to God. Give Him control and let Him take your setbacks and turn them into comebacks. Remember, the God who holds the universe holds you in the palm of His hand. Trust Him and let God be God in every area of your life.God bless you.
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Pass me not, O gentle Savior,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
[Chorus:]
(I'm calling)
Savior, Savior,
(Why don't you)
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Let me at Thy throne of mercy
Find a sweet relief,
Kneeling there in deep contrition;
Help my unbelief.
[Chorus]
Trusting only in Thy merit,
Would I seek Thy face;
Heal my wounded, broken spirit,
Save me by Thy grace.
[Chorus]
Thou the Spring of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Whom in heav'n but Thee?
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
[Chorus:]
(I'm calling)
Savior, Savior,
(Why don't you)
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Let me at Thy throne of mercy
Find a sweet relief,
Kneeling there in deep contrition;
Help my unbelief.
[Chorus]
Trusting only in Thy merit,
Would I seek Thy face;
Heal my wounded, broken spirit,
Save me by Thy grace.
[Chorus]
Thou the Spring of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Whom in heav'n but Thee?
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LEARN FROM LIFE’S TESTS. Throughout life God puts people to test to help them grow in faith and obedience to His will. The Lord put Abraham to test in order to determine how mature was his faith and obedience. In order for God to use us He first requires that we completely yield our mind, emotions and will to Him. For this reason God said, “To obey is better than sacrifice.” Once the Lord knew that Abraham would obey Him in the most extreme ways, He knew that the man of God could use him as a model for many others to follow in the faith. God only multiplies those people who are faithful in little things before He uses them to accomplish great things for His kingdom’s purposes. Abraham’s willingness to offer Isaac as a sacrifice is a foreshadowing of how God offered Christ as a supreme sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. No wonder Jesus said, “Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for His friends.” (John 15:13) God bless u.
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There are times when God’s commands may not make human sense to our way of thinking, but we should trust and obey His will in all situations. Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience that God want from us, delayed obedience is disobedience. Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from Grace.
After the Lord had miraculously given Abraham a son named Isaac, the Lord tested Abraham and said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.” (Gen. 22:1,2)
Because Abraham had committed himself by covenant to obey the Lord and had consecrated Isaac to the God by circumcision, he did as he was instructed. When we trust and obey the Lord we can be sure that God will bless us. Moses wrote, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our people forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” (Deut. 29:29) Obedient to the Word is the key to success.God bless you.
After the Lord had miraculously given Abraham a son named Isaac, the Lord tested Abraham and said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.” (Gen. 22:1,2)
Because Abraham had committed himself by covenant to obey the Lord and had consecrated Isaac to the God by circumcision, he did as he was instructed. When we trust and obey the Lord we can be sure that God will bless us. Moses wrote, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our people forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” (Deut. 29:29) Obedient to the Word is the key to success.God bless you.
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WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF ARABIA, EURABIA AND THE REST OF
THE WORLD.
THERE ARE MANY MUSLIMS WHO WILL NEVER APPPRECIATE " NATIONAL
MUSLIM APPRECIATION MONTH " BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN KILLED BY MUSLIMS.
AS
FOR THE REST OF US INFIDELS AND KAFIRS WE APPRECIATE NOT BEING KILLED BY
MUSLIMS.
THE APOSTATE MUSLIM POTUS CALIPHATE BARRY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT
SHARIA HAS NOT CONDEMNED HIM TO THE SAME FATE AS OTHER APOSTATES THEREFORE HE
TOO WOULD APPRECIATE THE LENIENCY EXTENDED TO HIM BY THOSE WHO ARE COMMANDED TO
KILL APOSTATE MUSLIMS.
http://nationalreport.net/obama-declares-november-national-muslim-appreciation-month/
Washington,
DC — President Barack Obama held a press conference to announce that he is
declaring the month of November ‘National Muslim Appreciation Month’.
“The
Muslim community deserves our full acceptance and respect,” Obama told
reporters. “We have killed millions of Muslims overseas since the September
11th attacks. They are not all bad. In fact most of them are good. So from now
on, November will be a month to celebrate the Muslim community, the Sunnah and
the Quran.”
Khaled Matei who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood‘s Freedom
and Justice Party told CNN he is pleased with Obama and his actions. “I spoke
with President Obama by telephone yesterday and personally thanked him for what
he is doing for the Muslim community,” Matei said. “This is definitely a step in
the right direction I explained to him. Praise Allah.”
Obama informed
reporters about his future plans for helping Muslims around the world. “I will
be working with Congress in making it easier for Muslims to earn a Green Card
and achieve American citizenship,” Obama said. “Currently as it stands,
obtaining a Visa or Green Card for a Muslim is very difficult. There are too
many background checks in place and I plan to fix that.” Obama continued,
“Muslims are hardworking people who are just looking to live the American Dream
like the rest of us. Mr. Matei of the Muslim Brotherhood assured me they want
to come to this country to help us, not harm us.”
Obama finished the press
conference by explaining to reporters how happy he is with America. “Folks,
there is no way we could have had a ‘National Muslim Appreciation Month’ 20
years ago. That really says a lot about the growth and progress of this great
country.”
‘National Muslim Appreciation Month’ begins November 1st and will
end at midnight on November 30th. For any questions or comments please contact
the 24-hour National Muslim Appreciation Hotline at (785) 273-0325.
- See more
at: http://nationalreport.net/obama-declares-november-national-muslim-appreciation-month/#sthash.JT50joqc.dpuf
But what he says is factually wrong. The US has never had a policy of killing Muslims. Further, the US army does not kill many .. and when she does she is accountable. The accusation that the US has killed millions of Muslims is rhetoric. In fact, the US has prevented the deaths of many Muslims threatened by Islamic terrorists. What Obama says is offensive, and not something I can support - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
Standing in a grocery story line just now, I saw PEOPLE magazine's interview of Kay and me. I pray it helps others who struggle with depression, mental illness, or suicide, but when I saw the photos of Matthew, I broke down and sobbed
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This weekend I am really eager to share a message called "HOW TO BE HAPPY NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS" based on Philippians 1:12-30. It's Part 2 of my series "The Habits of Happiness" as we go verse-by-verse through Philippians. Join us at one of our 8 campuses or online athttp://www.saddleback.com/
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So many people are miserable because they think happiness come from self-gratification. It actually comes from self-sacrifice.
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Dumped? You need to forget about the one who forgot about you. Refocus on God. "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted." Psalm 34:18
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Depression teaches us that we cannot always trust our emotions or our thoughts. In darkness, we learn that only God can always be trusted.
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The law is quoted in the article. Read it for yourself. Is there any law, Constitutional provision or amendment for which Barack Obama has any semblance of respect? Please share this on your page ... people have to wake up one day.
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September 28: Statehood Day in the Czech Republic
- 1066 – William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning theNorman conquest of England.
- 1891 – Railway workers in Montevideo founded theCentral Uruguay Railway Cricket Club, which later changed its name to Peñarol, now Uruguay's most successful football club.
- 1928 – Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming(pictured) discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killingmould growing in his laboratory.
- 1995 – Over 30 mercenaries led by Bob Denard landed on the Comoros in an attempted coup, his fourth one on the African island nation since 1975.
- 2008 – SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket achieved orbit on its fourth attemptto become the first successful liquid-propelled orbital launch vehicle developed with private funding.
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Events[edit]
- 48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
- 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
- 351 – Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
- 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
- 935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
- 995 – Members of Slavník's dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
- 1066 – William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.
- 1106 – The Battle of Tinchebray – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
- 1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
- 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
- 1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1542 – Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
- 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- 1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
- 1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.
- 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 1867 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
- 1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery inBrazil.
- 1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
- 1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
- 1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
- 1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga onSamar Island.
- 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland.
- 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
- 1924 – First round-the-world flight completed.
- 1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
- 1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- 1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- 1944 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
- 1950 – Indonesia joins the United Nations.
- 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
- 1958 – France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinearejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
- 1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
- 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
- 1962 – The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
- 1963 - Whaam!, now considered Roy Lichtenstein's most important work, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery that lasted until at October 24.
- 1971 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
- 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
- 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 1994 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
- 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
- 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 1996 – Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
- 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- 2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
- 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed, and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium calledStade du 28 Septembre.
Births[edit]
- 1493 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
- 1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
- 1667 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
- 1681 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
- 1705 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician (d. 1774)
- 1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
- 1746 – William Jones, Welsh philologist and scholar (d. 1794)
- 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
- 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
- 1819 – Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan engineer (d. 1885)
- 1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
- 1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
- 1824 – Francis Turner Palgrave, English critic and poet (d. 1897)
- 1835 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1918)
- 1836 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (d. 1910)
- 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1929)
- 1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
- 1856 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author (d. 1923)
- 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist, discovered gamma rays (d. 1934)
- 1861 – Amélie of Orléans (d. 1951)
- 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
- 1877 – Walter Thijssen, Dutch rower (d. 1943)
- 1877 – Albert Young, American boxer (d. 1940)
- 1878 – Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
- 1881 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
- 1887 – Avery Brundage, American sports administrator, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
- 1889 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1891 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
- 1893 – Giannis Skaribas, Greek author, playwright, and poet (d. 1984)
- 1898 – Carl Clauberg, German nazi doctor (d. 1957)
- 1899 – Alice de Janzé, American heiress (d. 1941)
- 1900 – Joe Falcon, Cajun accordion player (d. 1965)
- 1901 – William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS (d. 1990)
- 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)
- 1903 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general officer (d. 1988)
- 1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
- 1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
- 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian actvist (d. 1931)
- 1909 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
- 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino politician, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
- 1910 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician (d. 1942)
- 1913 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (d. 2007)
- 1916 – Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (d. 1977)
- 1916 – Olga Lepeshinskaya, Soviet ballerina (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Ángel Labruna, Argentinian footballer and coach (d. 1983)
- 1918 – Arnold Stang, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Doris Singleton, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Tuli Kupferberg, American poet, author, and musician (The Fugs) (d. 2010)
- 1923 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish politician (d. 2007)
- 1923 – William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Russian conductor and violist (d. 2010)
- 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
- 1925 – Frank Latimore, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1926 – Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)
- 1928 – Koko Taylor, American singer (d. 2009)
- 1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer-songwriter
- 1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist
- 1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (d. 1973)
- 1933 – Miguel Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (d. 2006)
- 1933 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (Jimmy & Johnny) (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress and singer
- 1934 – Janet Munro, English actress (d. 1972)
- 1935 – Ronald Lacey, English actor (d. 1991)
- 1935 – Heather Sears, English actress (d. 1994)
- 1936 – Emmett Chapman, American guitarist, invented the Chapman Stick
- 1937 – Alice Mahon, English politician
- 1937 – Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (d. 2003)
- 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Drifters)
- 1939 – Elbridge Bryant, American tenor (The Temptations) (d. 1975)
- 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
- 1939 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-English actor
- 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician
- 1942 – Marshall Bell, American actor
- 1942 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999)
- 1942 – Tim Maia, Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. 1998)
- 1942 – Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1943 – Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman
- 1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player (Steppenwolf, The Mynah Birds, The Sparrows, Blue Cheer, and World Classic Rockers)
- 1943 – Win Percy, English racing driver and three-times British Touring Car Champion (1980; 1981 & 1982)
- 1943 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1944 – Marcia Muller, American author
- 1945 – Marielle Goitschel, French skier
- 1945 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2011)
- 1945 – Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army
- 1946 – Jeffrey Jones, American actor
- 1946 – Helen Shapiro, English singer and actress
- 1947 – Bob Carr, Australian politician, 39th Premier of New South Wales
- 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 1948 – Panagiotis Adraktas, Greek politician
- 1949 – Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer
- 1950 – Laurie Lewis, American singer and fiddler
- 1950 – John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
- 1951 – Norton Buffalo, singer-songwriter, harmonica player, producer, and actor (Steve Miller Band) (d. 2009)
- 1951 – Wei Chen, Canadian journalist
- 1952 – Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball coach
- 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress, singer, and model (d. 2012)
- 1953 – Otmar Hasler, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
- 1954 – Steve Largent, American football player and politician
- 1954 – George Lynch, American guitarist and songwriter (Dokken, Lynch Mob, Souls of We, and Tooth and Nail)
- 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
- 1955 – Kenny Kirkland, American pianist (d. 1998)
- 1957 – C. J. Chenier, American singer-songwriter and accordion player
- 1959 – Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
- 1959 – Steve Hytner, American actor
- 1959 – Dantes Tsitsi, Nauruan politician
- 1960 – Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer
- 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American singer-songwriter
- 1960 – Socrates B. Villegas, Filipino archbishop in Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan
- 1961 – Quentin Kawānanakoa, American politician
- 1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 – Dietmar Schacht, German footballer
- 1962 – Chuck Taylor, American journalist
- 1963 – Steve Blackman, American wrestler
- 1963 – Greg Weisman, American scriptwriter and producer
- 1964 – Claudio Borghi, Argentine footballer and manager
- 1964 – Laura Cerón, American actress
- 1964 – Gregor Fisken, Scottish race car driver and businessman
- 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American actress
- 1964 – Paul Jewell, English footballer
- 1964 – Mārtiņš Roze, Latvian politician (d. 2012)
- 1965 – Jens Melzig, German footballer
- 1966 – María Canals Barrera, American actress and singer
- 1966 – Ginger Fish, American drummer
- 1966 – Puri Jagannadh, Indian director
- 1966 – Leilani Sarelle, American actress
- 1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
- 1967 – Moon Zappa, American actress and singer
- 1968 – Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
- 1968 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (d. 1990)
- 1968 – Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress
- 1969 – Manuel Benitez, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1969 – Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete
- 1969 – Ben Greenman, American author
- 1969 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1969 – Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
- 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
- 1970 – Mike DeJean, American baseball player
- 1970 – Gualter Salles, Brazilian race car driver
- 1971 – Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lonely Astronauts and Fistful of Mercy)
- 1971 – A. J. Croce, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1971 – Alan Wright, English footballer
- 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American dancer, model, and actress
- 1973 – Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish DJ and producer
- 1973 – Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
- 1974 – Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer
- 1974 – Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
- 1974 – Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
- 1974 – John Light, English actor
- 1974 – Shane Webcke, Australian rugby player
- 1975 – Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer
- 1975 – Lenny Krayzelburg, American swimmer
- 1976 – Ali Asel, Kuwaiti footballer
- 1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
- 1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
- 1977 – Se Ri Pak, South Korean golfer
- 1978 – Bushido, German rapper and producer
- 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman
- 1981 – José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
- 1981 – Melissa Claire Egan, American actress
- 1981 – Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress
- 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1981 – Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian bass player (CSS)
- 1982 – Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer
- 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian target shooter
- 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1982 – Nolwenn Leroy, French singer-songwriter
- 1982 – Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
- 1982 – Dustin Penner, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
- 1982 – St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Polyphonic Spree)
- 1983 – Stefan Moore, English footballer
- 1983 – John Schwalger, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984 – Luke Pomersbach, Australian cricketer
- 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer-songwriter and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
- 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
- 1984 – Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
- 1985 – Shindong, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior)
- 1985 – Alina Ibragimova, Russian violinist
- 1986 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
- 1986 – Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (d. 2013)
- 1987 – Pierre Becken, German footballer
- 1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
- 1987 – Chloë Hanslip, English violinist
- 1988 – Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
- 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Mark Randall, English footballer
- 1990 – Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
- 1992 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
- 1993 – Jodie Williams, English sprinter
- 2000 – Frankie Jonas, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 48 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
- 935 – Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)
- 1104 – Peter I of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1068)
- 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
- 1429 – Cymburgis of Masovia (b. 1397)
- 1582 – George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)
- 1596 – Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (b. 1540)
- 1618 – Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
- 1687 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian theologian (b. 1623)
- 1694 – Gabriel Mouton, French scientist (b. 1618)
- 1702 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English politician (b. 1640)
- 1742 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663)
- 1781 – William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, English diplomat and politician (b. 1717)
- 1829 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (b. 1771)
- 1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769)
- 1873 – Émile Gaboriau, French author and journalist (b. 1832)
- 1891 – Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)
- 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist (b. 1822)
- 1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
- 1915 – Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
- 1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
- 1918 – Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
- 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860)
- 1938 – Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861)
- 1943 – Sam Ruben, American chemist (b. 1913)
- 1949 – Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens (b. 1881)
- 1953 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
- 1956 – William Boeing, American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (b. 1881)
- 1957 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan violinist and composer (b. 1888)
- 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
- 1962 – Roger Nimier, French writer (b. 1925)
- 1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)
- 1966 – André Breton, French poet (b. 1896)
- 1970 – John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
- 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
- 1972 – Rory Storm, English singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
- 1978 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
- 1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
- 1981 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
- 1982 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
- 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino politician, 10th President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
- 1991 – Miles Davis, American trumpet player, bandleader, and composer (Miles Davis Quintet) (b. 1926)
- 1993 – Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)
- 1993 – Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
- 1994 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (Propeller and Ruja) (b. 1953)
- 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (b. 1946)
- 1994 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian film producer (b. 1915)
- 1996 – Mohammad Najibullah, Afghan politician, 7th President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
- 1999 – Escott Reid, Canadian diplomat and author (b. 1905)
- 2000 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Patsy Mink, American politician (b. 1927)
- 2002 – Hartland Molson, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
- 2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
- 2003 – Elia Kazan, Greek-American director (b. 1909)
- 2003 – George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)
- 2004 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
- 2004 – Scott Muni, American radio host (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1921)
- 2007 – René Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Wally Parks, American businessman, founded National Hot Rod Association (b. 1913)
- 2009 – Guillermo Endara, Panamanian politician, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (b. 1956)
- 2010 – Kurt Albert, German mountaineer (b. 1954)
- 2010 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Avraham Adan, Israeli general (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Lateef Adegbite, Nigerian politician (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Larry Cunningham, Irish singer (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Chris Economaki, American sportscaster (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Joe Habie, Guatemalan businessman (b. 1956)
- 2012 – Abdul Ghani Minhat, Malaysian footballer (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian diplomat (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Michael O'Hare, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Ahmed Ramzy, Egyptian actor (b. 1930)
- 2012 – M. S. Shinde, Indian film editor (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Pierluigi Vigna, Italian magistrate (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Czech Statehood Day (Czech Republic)
- National Day of Awareness and Unity against Child Pornography (Philippines)
- Teachers' Day (Republic of China and Chinese-Filipino schools in the Philippines), ceremonies dedicated to Confucius are also observed.
- World Heart Day (World Heart Federation)
- World Rabies Day (International)
- Ask a Stupid Question Day (United States)
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“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Matthew 6:33 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!"
Deuteronomy 33:29
Deuteronomy 33:29
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to his enemies, and reserve all the mourning for his own family? Shall his foes have mirth and joy, and shall his home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ, call himself rich in happiness, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless beggars? No, we will rejoice in the Lord always, and glory in our inheritance, for we "have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the comfortable fruits of righteousness; and therefore by the aid of the divine Comforter, we, the "people saved of the Lord," will joy in the God of our salvation. We are married unto Christ; and shall our great Bridegroom permit his spouse to linger in constant grief? Our hearts are knit unto him: we are his members, and though for awhile we may suffer as our Head once suffered, yet we are even now blessed with heavenly blessings in him. We have the earnest of our inheritance in the comforts of the Spirit, which are neither few nor small. Inheritors of joy forever, we have foretastes of our portion. There are streaks of the light of joy to herald our eternal sunrising. Our riches are beyond the sea; our city with firm foundations lies on the other side the river; gleams of glory from the spirit-world cheer our hearts, and urge us onward. Truly is it said of us, "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord?"
Evening
"My Beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him."
Song of Solomon 5:4
Song of Solomon 5:4
Knocking was not enough, for my heart was too full of sleep, too cold and ungrateful to arise and open the door, but the touch of his effectual grace has made my soul bestir itself. Oh, the longsuffering of my Beloved, to tarry when he found himself shut out, and me asleep upon the bed of sloth! Oh, the greatness of his patience, to knock and knock again, and to add his voice to his knockings, beseeching me to open to him! How could I have refused him! Base heart, blush and be confounded! But what greatest kindness of all is this, that he becomes his own porter and unbars the door himself. Thrice blessed is the hand which condescends to lift the latch and turn the key. Now I see that nothing but my Lord's own power can save such a naughty mass of wickedness as I am; ordinances fail, even the gospel has no effect upon me, till his hand is stretched out. Now, also, I perceive that his hand is good where all else is unsuccessful, he can open when nothing else will. Blessed be his name, I feel his gracious presence even now. Well may my bowels move for him, when I think of all that he has suffered for me, and of my ungenerous return. I have allowed my affections to wander. I have set up rivals. I have grieved him. Sweetest and dearest of all beloveds, I have treated thee as an unfaithful wife treats her husband. Oh, my cruel sins, my cruel self. What can I do? Tears are a poor show of my repentance, my whole heart boils with indignation at myself. Wretch that I am, to treat my Lord, my All in All, my exceeding great joy, as though he were a stranger. Jesus, thou forgivest freely, but this is not enough, prevent my unfaithfulness in the future. Kiss away these tears, and then purge my heart and bind it with sevenfold cords to thyself, never to wander more.
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Today's reading: Isaiah 3-4, Galatians 6 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 3-4
Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
1 See now, the Lord,
the LORD Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
both supply and support:
all supplies of food and all supplies of water,
2 the hero and the warrior,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty and the man of rank,
the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.
the LORD Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
both supply and support:
all supplies of food and all supplies of water,
2 the hero and the warrior,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty and the man of rank,
the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.
4 “I will make mere youths their officials;
children will rule over them.”
children will rule over them.”
5 People will oppress each other—
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.
The young will rise up against the old,
the nobody against the honored....
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.
The young will rise up against the old,
the nobody against the honored....
Today's New Testament reading: Galatians 6
Doing Good to All
1 Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. 2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.3 If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. 4 Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, 5 for each one should carry their own load. 6 Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.
7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers....
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Abimelech
[Ăbĭm'elĕch] - father of the king.
[Ăbĭm'elĕch] - father of the king.
1. A king of Gerar in the time of Abraham (Gen. 20; 21:22-32; 26:1-16, 26-31).
The Man Who Rebuked Another for Lying
Abimelech would have taken Sarah, Abraham's wife, into his harem, but learning that she was the wife of another, returned her uninjured. Abraham appears here in a bad light. He deceived Abimelech, but when found out was justly rebuked by the God-restrained Abimelech. Certainly the righteous should rebuke the ungodly ( 1 Tim. 5:20), but how sad it is when the ungodly have just reason for rebuking the righteous. What a degradation it was for Abraham, then, to be rebuked by a heathen king!
Abraham sought to palliate his deception by claiming that Sarah was actually his half sister, daughter of the same father but not the same mother (Gen. 20:12, 16).
A lie if half a truth
Is ever the worst of lies.
Abraham was the more blameworthy because he had done the same thing before ( Gen. 12) and had suffered much in the same way as upon this occasion. How grateful Abimelech was for the dream warning him of his danger! The covenant made with Abraham is somewhat significant -
I. It was proposed by Abimelech who, although knowing how Abraham had failed God, yet saw how favored he was of God (Gen. 21:22).
II. It revealed certain distrust of Abraham. Abimelech requested Abraham not to be tempted to sin in such a direction again (Gen. 21:23).
III. It was meant to secure Abraham's good will. The king desired the favor of the wandering pilgrim who had failed to act kingly. Abraham consented to the king's request (Gen. 21:24).
IV. It gave Abraham the opportunity of rebuking Abimelech. The matter of the stolen well had to be put right. Wrong had to be repudiated before a covenant could be agreed upon (Gen. 20:9; 21:23, 26).
V. It secured for Abraham the inheritance of Beer-sheba, "the well of oath," which possession the patriarch sanctified ( Gen. 21:27-33).
2. The son of Gideon by a concubine in Shechem who belonged to a leading Canaanite family (Judg. 8:30, 31; 9; 10:1).
The Man Who Was Bramble King
This Abimelech, who made the first attempt to set up a monarchy in Israel, is known as "The Bramble King." But his violent and ill-fated reign over Israel only lasted for three years. After the death of Gideon his father, Abimelech took seventy pieces of silver from his mother's people with which he hired vain and light persons to follow him. He slew seventy persons of his father's house. Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon, who is also called Jerubbaal, hid himself and when Abimelech was proclaimed king by the men of Shechem, he revealed himself and warned the Shechemites against Abimelech in a parable about trees, from whence he received his nickname as "Bramble King." What a tragic death this would-be king of Israel suffered (Judg. 9:53, 54)! A fitting end, surely, for one who sowed a Biblical city with salt (Judg. 9:45).
3. Son of Abiathar, the high priest in David's time (1 Chron. 18:16). Also known as Ahimlech.
4. A name given to Achish, King of Gath (according to Ellicott), to whom David fled (1 Sam. 21:10).
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GOD PULLED BACK THE CURTAIN
The so-called “special revelation” that God gives includes Jesus Christ himself, the Word that was from the beginning and was with God and was God. Jesus put it this way: “If you have seen me you have seen the Father.” The other major example of special revelation is the word of God in Scripture, the living testimony of truth given through people with the special calling of prophets and apostles. This is the way the book of Hebrews puts it: “In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets in many and various ways, 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 1:1-2).
The salient points are simple: God is real. God has spoken. We must listen.
We could philosophize about who God could be, and settle on the alternatives that seem most reasonable, but if God has spoken in the revealed word and in the Word made flesh, then doesn’t all other knowledge about him move to the margins of the page? The fingerprints of God may be evident in a spiral galaxy, in the wildflower petals of an Indian Paintbrush, and in the spiritual impulses that we experience, but what are fingerprints compared to Voice and Face? Give me the galaxies, for sure, but I will be able to know and adore and love a God who actually speaks.
There is a kind of “general revelation,” which the apostle Paul talks about in Romans when he writes, “Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made” (Romans 1:20). These and other biblical passages say that we as human beings have plenty of evidence that God exists and that he is powerful and superlative and beautiful as designer of the universe. But apparently this is not enough. Human beings easily turn away from the mere fingerprints of God with indifference. A fingerprint doesn’t call out to you, it can’t lead your life, and it does not embrace you when you need to be comforted.
So God spoke. He revealed. He pulled back the curtain, uncovering what was shrouded (“revelation” in the Bible means “an uncovering”). He spoke from heaven (that is, his realm of existence), but not by taking us up a ladder to heaven, but by extending heaven to earth in the person of Jesus.
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