What did Christianity look like before it became an institution? Find out for yourself with this collection of firsthand accounts of the early church. Includes excerpts from Origen, Tertullian, Polycarp, Clement of Alexandria, Justin, Irenaeus, and others — and equally revealing material from their critics, detractors and persecutors.
In these firsthand accounts of the early church, the spirit of Pentecost burns with prophetic force through the fog that envelops the modern church. A clear and vibrant faith lives on in these writings, providing a guide for Christians today. Its stark simplicity and revolutionary fervor will stun those lulled by conventional Christianity.
The Early Christians is a topically arranged collection of primary sources. It includes extra-biblical sayings of Jesus and excerpts from Origen, Tertullian, Polycarp, Clement of Alexandria, Justin, Irenaeus, and others. Equally revealing material from pagan contemporaries – critics, detractors and persecutors – is included as well.
My theology has been enhanced and understanding of doctrinal issues on critical matter increased since I came in contact with your books and the discoveries made from your years of of outstanding work for the kingdom. Each time I download a book, my pray for your ministry and team members is lord do not forget their labor of love, time of research and total investments into years of service that today many of us are cheap beneficiaries. We are blessed as a ministry and thank you.
Thank you for sharing this book. It is through the written word that a person can find enlightenment. The thoughts of others written down and shared across time keep hope alive. I am inspired, as if a flame has been rekindled. I must read more. reading inspires thoughts, and thoughts rekindle the spirit, we are what we think.
What more can I say? In Christ's words, "but from the beginning it was not so" (Mt19:8). This book, "The Early Christians", takes us back to the beginning, which remains the best of Christianity. Anything other than this is undesirable as unacceptable. God bless you and enlarge your coast for such "wonderful resources" as this.
May God bless your ministry fro making this book available. it enhances ones knowledge of Church history. Remain blessed. Mike.
My perspective on theology was turned, Christ must be the center of life and ministry, not church, organization or regulations. Life unity with Christ is the way to serve HIM.
Your books, especially Early Christians has provided me much needed insight into the early community of Christians and how one is to follow Lord Jesus Christ then, and now. I have been seeking this knowledge for so long. God Bless you all and thank you for your efforts to make this material available to the Christian world and the all the world.
I had the opportunity to read The Early Christians In Their Own Words by Eberhard Arnold not long ago. From my perspective bas a Christian Historian (Christian History being my passion for over 30 years) this is one of those rare books that hit hard with good quality scholarship and at the same time invite the reader to go beyond their safe zone and learn about their faith - especially since the book guides the reader through much of the early gospel message and some important works of the first apologists on record. Even more, we are not challenged to have a dictionary, concordance, or several other reference books to glean many nuggets of knowledge that in some instances has been lost. It was a great read and I will never forget how much I enjoyed the journey through Theology and faith that was so rewarding to me.


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Your child was evaluated, and the school denied special education services. The decision may be upsetting. But now it's time to look forward. How can you get the help your child needs? What are your options? Here are 10 steps you can take.
1. Understand the school's reasons.
If the school denies services to your child, it must explain its decision in writing. The school should provide you with a copy of the evaluation report at no cost. The school must also give you information on how to challenge its decision.
2. Contact a Parent Training and Information Center (PTI).
IDEA requires that each state have a Parent Training and Information Center (PTI). Its purpose is to give parents the skills and information they need to work with schools that provide special education services. The center may have a library, support groups and other resources. The center's staff may be able to answer specific questions about your state's special education rules.
3. Talk to an education advocate.
An education advocate helps parents navigate the school system. The evaluation process for children who have learning and attention issues is complicated. It can also vary from school to school. An advocate can help you understand your options and even help you negotiate a solution with the school. Advocates are generally paid, but some provide free services to low-income families.
4. Consider a 504 plan.
If your child isn't eligible for services under IDEA, check whether support is available under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. A 504 plan can help your child manage learning and attention issues with accommodations, such as extra time on tests or assistive technology. Sometimes, the school may actually suggest a 504 plan.
5. Ask about extra help for your child.
6. Get help outside of school.
These days, many businesses and other groups provide out-of-school programs for children who are struggling in school. Look up local learning centers in your area. Ask other parents about their experiences. Consider whether it makes sense to use a personal tutor for your child. In most cases, you have to pay for these services.
7. Explore an independent educational evaluation (IEE).
Generally, parents must pay for an IEE. Parents can request that the school cover the cost, but the school may not agree. If the school's evaluation was flawed or incomplete, a due process hearing can result in the school being required to pay.
One way to try to get the school to change its decision is to ask for mediation. A mediator is a neutral professional who works with parents and the school to find a solution. The mediator will usually meet with the parents and the school at the school offices and work to bring the two sides to an agreement.
9. Consider filing a due process complaint.
Another way to challenge the school's decision is through a due process complaint and hearing. This is a semi-formal proceeding where you and the school present evidence to an impartial hearing officer who decides if your child is eligible for services. A related option is a state complaint. This would be in the form of a letter to the agency in charge of education in your state.
Both due process and state complaints are serious and complicated legal processes. You may want to discuss these options with a lawyer first. Learn more about other ways to resolve disputes with your child's school.
10. Plan for a new evaluation.
Whether you've tried steps 1–9 or have gone a different route, you may want to start creating a paper trail for your child's next evaluation. With more time and evidence, the school may agree your child needs special education and related services. Prepare now. Save tests and papers that show your child's difficulties. Save emails between you and teachers that document your child's struggles. Next school year, you may be in a better position to request a new evaluation.


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How Was Portuguese Born?
By Ligia Fleckenstein / Brazilian Portuguese
Just as Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian, Portuguese is considered to be a Romance language. In another words, it has had its very beginning in Vulgar Latin which came through the Roman invasion in 218 B.C. into the Iberian Peninsula – the area where Portugal and Spain are located today.
The Origin of European Portuguese
The name Vulgar Latin itself tells you that this was not a refined language. Even though, Latin was the language spoken in Rome by the magistrate and the highly educated people, they did not come to the Iberian Peninsula. It was the Roman soldiers, and the uneducated settlers and merchants who came in contact with the population in the Peninsula. As the Roman Empire spread throughout the area, Vulgar Latin became the official language in the whole Iberian Peninsula for many years. But, it still had some influence from the previous language that existed there before.
In 711, when the Roman Empire was weakened, the Arab people invaded the Peninsula imposing the Arabic language into the area. In spite of that, the people continued speaking their own version of Latin leading to three different dialects: Catalan, Castilian y Galician-Portuguese.
Then, the Galician-Portuguese branched out into two new languages: Galician and Portuguese. Portuguese became the established language in the south of the Peninsula, the area of Lisbon, and consequently, into the area that was later called Portugal. With the expansion of the Portuguese Empire, this language reached areas in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
The Origin of Brazilian Portuguese
When the Portuguese settlers arrived in Brazil in 1500, the native population spoke a type of Tupi-Guarani language. With the help of the Jesuits, who learned the indigenous language, both Portuguese and the language of the land were spoken until 1557. By this time, many immigrants had arrived in Brazil, and the Portuguese Crown prohibited the use of the Tupi-Guarani. In 1559, when the Jesuits were expelled from the new found land, Portuguese became the official language of Brazil. Even so, there was a strong influence of the Tupi-Guarani language in our Portuguese.
Later, with the slave trade, our language received many contributions from the African languages spoken by the slaves, especially from Nigeria and Angola.
After 1822, when Brazil became independent from the colonization of Portugal, there was no more Influence from the Crown into our language. Then, many people from different areas of Europe began to immigrate to the center and south of Brazil bringing the influence of their languages.
Even though Brazilian Portuguese as it stands today has evolved from Vulgar Latin, it undoubtedly has gone through the influence of a wonderful mixture of languages from the foreigners who in a way or another settled in Brazil. This process resulted into a variety of accents in the different regions of Brazil, and also in the subtle differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese.
Check out what else you might want to learn about the Portuguese language in our All About Portuguese page.

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Wish I'd Said That
"It's obvious by now that Barack Obama is treating black Americans like one treats a demented uncle, brought out from his room to be ridiculed and scolded before company from time to time, the old Clinton Sistah Souljah strategy borrowed from Clinton's first presidential campaign when he traveled the country criticizing the personal morality of blacks and wooing white voters by objecting to what he considered anti -white lyrics sung by rapper Sistah Souljah."
Ishmael Reed, former Obama supporter
A Beautiful Thought from George Carlin
"There are two ways to think about this existence we have. One of them is that it's Wednesday and it's three fifteen and we're talking here in my home, and at four o'clock I have to leave for another meeting. Now, that's a reality. But there's another reality. We're in the solar system of a second-rate star, three quarters of the way out on a spiral arm of an average galaxy in a thing called the Local Group. And ours is only one of billions of galaxies, each of which has billions of stars. Some star systems are binary, and there could be a planet that revolves around a center of gravity between two binary stars. So you'd have two sunrises and two sunsets every day. One could be a red giant, the other a white dwarf; two different-sized, -shaped, and -colored suns in the sky. And there might be other planets and comets. In other words, fuck Wednesday, fuck three fifteen, fuck four o'clock, fuck the United States, fuck the earth. It's all temporal bullshit. I like thinking about being out there and not thinking about the corporate structure, not worrying about freedom, and not worrying about guns. I chose a life of ideas. That entertains me. That nourishes me."
Regina Thomas for Congress
She needs your support. Obama is backing her opponent, the conservative incumbent.
Told You So
"Does it make sense to want a black president? Will we feel better seeing a black president even if he can't find the right time to leave Iraq, institute single payer health care, end mass incarceration, or fight for affirmative action? In the future, we will again see a black presidential candidate claiming that there is no black America. If we adhere to the belief that a black face in a high place is always good, that throwaway line in a speech might just take on a more ominous meaning."
Sorry if quoting myself is considered bad manners, but the above words of wisdom come from yours truly. I said that in my Black Agenda Report column in May of 2007 and was I ever right.
On Sunday Barack Obama insulted black people by spewing hate speech against black men and by the end of the week he announced that he would support the FISA bill cooked up by Pelosi and Hoyer that would give immunity to telecoms who spied on us illegally. When he was in the throes of a knock down drag out fight with Hillary Clinton, he was pressured to do the right thing.
"To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies."
No Hillary, no pressure. Now he says he supports the compromise.
As they used to say on late night television commercials, "But wait, there's more." Not only did the double talking bastard find a way to justify criminality perpetrated on the American people, but he endorsed a white conservative Congressman, John Barrow, in his primary fight against a black progressive state legislator, Regina Thomas.
"Barrow cynically waited until after Obama's sweeping primary victory in Georgia to endorse him. He did so only once he saw that Obama would likely be the nominee and obviously with the hope of having Obama encourage Barrow's sizable African-American constituency to support him. And now Obama turns around and intervenes in a Democratic primary on behalf of one of the worst Bush enablers in Congress -- not in order to help Barrow defeat an even-worse Republican, but to defeat a far better and plainly credible Democratic challenger."
You can contribute to Thomas' campaign here through Act Blue, but I digress. We all know what will happen to Thomas now. Black voters will go with Massa Obama. They will do what he says and his stab in the back to Thomas will be explained away or ignored outright. No one cares except me and ten other people, and I know them all by name.
This is a sad time for black people and for democracy, the little that is left of it.
What Obama Has Wrought
According to this Oliphant cartoon, black men are all lazy and irresponsible (with incredibly large feet and lips too). Oh, and they don't vote either.
The saddest thing of all is that most black people ate up Obama's Fathers Day speech. We do vote, and 99.99% of us will vote for this man who conjures up the most awful images about us. It is now acceptable to confirm and spread stereotypes, thanks to Obama and his hate speech.
Obama Lies
I have to thank Arthur Silber for linking to this Earl Ofari Hutchinson piece on the myths about black fathers. It seems that Mr. Brilliant Speech Writer and Law Professor can't research simple facts that were presented in Newsweek magazine.
"A month before Obama made this stereotypical and plainly false assertion, Boston University professor Rebekah Levine Coley, in a comprehensive study on the black family, found that black fathers who aren't in the home are much more likely to sustain regular contact with their children than absentee white fathers, or for that matter, fathers of any other ethnic group. The study is not an obscure study buried in the thick pages of a musty academic journal. It was widely cited in a feature article on black fathers in the May 19, 2008 issue of Newsweek. There was no excuse then to spout this myth. The facts are totally contrary to Obama's knock."
Who needs facts where black people are concerned. Glen Ford said as much in today's issue of Black Agenda Report.
"But there are large regions of the white body politic in which it is not only acceptable, but damn near required, that politicians demonstrate their impatience with the alleged moral shortcomings of Black people. Barack Obama trolls for votes in those foul waters, at the cost of Black people's dignity."
That statement isn'treally surprising. Glen's most important points are about the the sick relationship between Obama and black voters.
"African Americans are expected to circle the wagons at the merest hint of racist threats to the candidate. Any slight to Obama, real or imagined, must be met with massive Black response, while Obama's disregard of Black priorities and sensibilities is endlessly forgivable. At the commonsensical level, the entire Obama-Black folks relationship is so bizarre as to seem insane. The candidate has been imposed on the African American polity by corporate forces in the Democratic Party, of which he is a loyal, Harvard-vetted operative. He constantly swears fealty to the white American civic religions of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny, both rooted in race supremacy. He has proven his devotion to this ghastly Euro-American mythology and worldview, through public denunciation of liberation theology and ritual separation from one of its major institutions. He bows to imperial power and its endless expansion, fully aware that, as Dr. Martin Luther King phrased it 40 years ago, the military will 'draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube, draining all hope for creation of a just society.' "
Seem insane? Glen is being too kind. It is insane. Black people applauded Obama's speech far outside the walls of that church. Most of us just don't care what he says or does. We will support him as he leads us to war or to jail or the unemployment line or the poor house or to the gates of hell itself.
There is nothing but more pathology to come between now and November. I can barely stand to think about it.
No Good, Shiftless, Lazy, Baby Making Black Men
According to Barack Obama, that is the sum total of the black fatherhood experience. He never mentions black men specifically without bringing all of them down to the lowest, most mean spirited stereotypes. Beating up on black men is the low hanging fruit of politics. As the New York Times put it, his speech yesterday was meant to ". . . resonate among white social conservatives in a race where these voters may be up for grabs."
Hopefully the Senator will get around to acknowledging the black men who fulfill their responsibilities, only to have states take their hard earned money away from their kids. As reported in this New York Times (sometimes they get things right) last year "Mothers Scrimp as States Take Child Support".
"The collection of child support from absent fathers is failing to help many of the poorest families, in part because the government uses fathers' payments largely to recoup welfare costs rather than passing on the money to mothers and children.
Close to half the states pass along none of collected child support to families on welfare, while most others pay only $50 a month to a custodial parent, usually the mother, even though the father may be paying hundreds of dollars each month."
Obama did mention obliquely that money shouldn't go to bureaucrats, but that was buried well into the speech, after he referred to black adult males as "boys acting like men."
Is it possible for Obama to talk about men who are doing well, to highlight their successes in spite of struggle, or is he just going to make jokes that black men are happy with 8th grade educations and steal lines from Chris Rock? Perhaps Mr. Smart Politician can find a group of black men to praise publicly. Dream on. That doesn't make for the cheap applause line.
As for black people, what can I say? We have lost all self respect. We express unending devotion to a politician who calls black men boys. We cheer him when he brags that he will have a foreign policy like Ronald Reagan, a president few of us liked. We defend him when he states that he will continue America's violence around the world and kill people in Gaza or Iran or wherever the pro-Israeli lobby and the military industrial complex say that someone must die at the hands of Uncle Sam.
He will get applause every where he goes, from white people who will be reassured that he won't represent the needs of black people, and from black people who will be happy to see him sworn into office, no matter what he says about them. As I said in Black Agenda Report, Obama's victory will mean the end of truth telling in the black community. "It turns out that Obama's hand on the bible next January will be historic in more ways than one. Almost all of black America will have decided to sell their souls in order to witness this scene. That will certainly be a change, but it isn't anything we should believe in."
Arthur Silber
"Margaret Kimberley is one of only a handful of bloggers entirely exempt from the condemnation that follows. Not only is she, together with Chris Floyd, exempt: if I had the power to bestow medals of honor that genuinely recognized what the word "honor" is intended to convey, she and Floyd would be the first two recipients."
I admire Arthur tremendously, and he seems admire me too. The mutual admiration society will definitely continue. And I love being lumped in with Chris Floyd too.
Arthur gets all starry eyed because I try to tell the truth about the way our system really works. I recently came across this great quote, which if I may be so bold, is a central theme of Silber's writing too.
"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling
I don't know who Edward Dowling was, but he certainly hit the nail on the head. I saw this quote in an article about Barack Obama and his support for the American empire. No, there will not be change coming from him. As always change will come from us, or not at all. Actually I take that back. Good change will come from us. There is going to be change, the only question is whose and who will it benefit.
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Wish I'd Said That Part II
"This is the way it always works - before the presidential election, they say: 'well, we can't risk losing the presidential election. It's too important. We have to wait until after the election.'
Then, if Obama wins, we'll hear: 'We can't risk losing our Congressional majority in the 2010 midterms. Bill Clinton overreached in his first two years and it led to Newt Gingrich. We can't risk that. So we have to wait until after the midterm election.'
Then, after the 2010 midterm elections, we'll hear: 'well, we can't risk losing Obama's re-election in 2012. It's too important. We have to wait until after the election.'
Repeat endlessly.
The only thing that can break that cycle is if a person gets into power who is transformative rather than a status quo caretaker devoted to the perpetuation of his own power. People have different views, of course, about whether Obama is such a figure. I don't think people who claim he is -- including Obama himself -- really know."
I have to disagree with Greenwald here. Anyone paying attention knows that Obama is "a status quo caretaker devoted to the perpetuation of his own power." As Greenwald said, repeat endlessly.
"I ask this literally, not rhetorically: can someone identify even one meaningful event from the past 18 months that would have been different had the GOP retained control of both houses of Congress? Just one." - Glenn Greenwald
I can't. I dare anyone else to try. Greenwald is venting his spleen about the great FISA treason committed by Pelosi, Hoyer and Silvestre. They are planning to give Bush everything he wants, i.e. warrantless surveillance and retroactive immunity for telecoms who broke the law.
Here is the really sad part. Greenwald and anyone else who is paying attention will be asking the same question about President Obama. Trust me. Change is not coming, not anytime soon.
Kucinich Presents Articles of Impeachment
Thank goodness for Dennis Kucinich. He is still standing firm and demanding that Bush and Cheney be impeached.
"Listen up, Obama, you cheap, lying fraud: the United States government launched a criminal war of aggression against a nation that never threatened us. It continues a bloody, murdering occupation which does nothing but worsen the agony of the Iraqi people. We have no right to be in Iraq at all. We never did. The actions of the United States government have led to a genocide of world historical proportions.
Genocidal murderers and those who support and enable them -- as you do, Obama, since you vote to fund this continuing crime -- do not get to "ask" one single goddamned fucking thing of their victims. Not. One. Single. Goddamned. Fucking. Thing.
Get it, you pathetic little asshole?" - Arthur Silber
Can Rebecca Walker Please Shut Up
Rebecca Walker is really mad at her mother, writer Alice Walker. She is so mad that she has made an entire career out of her anger. The younger Ms. Walker doesn't really have much to say, but what the hell. If she wasn't Alice Walker's daughter she would never have been able to make a living as a writer in the first place. Why not use mom's name to make money and then use resentment at her to keep making a good living?
Several years ago I read, or rather tried to read, Black, White and Jewish, her autobiography. I couldn't finish it because Ms. Walker really had very little to say, except that she was mad at her parents. It is interesting that she doesn't use her father's last name, Leventhal, instead of her mother's. Like I said, you don't get a book deal from being Mel Leventhal's daughter.
Mother and daughter are estranged and that fact is unlikely to change. The younger Walker penned a piece for Britain's right wing Daily Mail, How My Mother's Fanatical Views Tore Us Apart, in which she lambasts her mother and all feminists for her difficult childhood.
I won't argue with Rebecca Walker if she says her mother did a bad job. I will take her word for it. But she has become quite tiresome and needs to discuss her issues with a good therapist so she can stop using her mother's fame to punish the rest of us. You see we have to keep hearing about her bad her mother was, and then Salon and other media outlets picks up on it and now her personal family dysfunction becomes fodder for useless talk about a mediocre talent.
Right now endless screeds about Alice Walker are boring and make Rebecca Walker look bad. Trust me. No one is wondering about Alice Walker's parenting. They wonder why her daughter can't find something else to say.
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Thanks Electronic Intifada
Electronic Intifada is one of my favorite websites. I am very proud that they posted my most recent Black Agenda Report column, Slow Death in Gaza.
Thanks EI.
Rogue Nation Threatens Nuclear Terror
"Undoubtedly, nuclear weapons in the hands of an irresponsible regime with a long record of war crimes and crimes against humanity poses the most immediate and serious threat that the world and the region are facing."
What is the country in question? If you said North Korea you are wrong. If Pakistan came to mind you are still wrong. Israel? Bingo!
The above quote comes from Mohammad Khazaee, Iran's representative to the United Nations. He made this statement in response to Israeli cabinet minister Shaul Mofaz's assertion that an attack on Iran was "unavoidable." Khazaee got straight to the point about the threat that Israel poses to the world.
"Such a dangerous threat against a sovereign State and a member of the United Nations constitutes a manifest violation of international law and contravenes the most fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and, thus, requires a resolute and clear response on the part of the United Nations, particularly the Security Council."
Lots of luck Khazaee. Even if the Security Council took action, the United States would use its veto power and once again let Israel off the hook. Israel is free to attack Lebanon, Syria, or Gaza and exact collective punishment on civilian populations, all because it is Uncle Sam's client state.
John McCain and Barack Obama have both pledged to continue America's subservience to Israel, so Iran will always have its sovereignty and its very existence threatened. So much for change.
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Texas High School Student Investigated For "Kill List"
A handwritten note listed more than a dozen students and a handful of school employees in DeSoto, Texas as targets.
By Ralph C. Jensen
DeSoto, Texas police and district school officials are investigating a student who left a threatening message in a high school bathroom that included a "kill list."
A photo being shared widely by DeSoto High School students and parents showed a note bearing a threat to shoot up the school for "payback." Written on toilet paper, the note included the names of 18 students as targets. Five school employees were also identified on the target list.
Interviews led investigators to the student who was allegedly involved. Interviews were conducted through investigating social media and campus surveillance, said DeSoto ISD spokeswoman Tiffanie Blackmon-Jones.
Blackmon-Jones said that even though the district has identified the source of the social media post that originally shared the photo, "out of an abundance of caution, we're continuing to stay on alert."
District officials said any student found making a threat could face both disciplinary action at school and criminal charges depending on what the investigation finds.
Blackmon-Jones said the district worked with police to immediately address safety concerns on campus with increased security and more frequent patrols. DeSoto High already has metal detectors, bag searches and other measures in place on a regular basis.
The photo surfaced on Tuesday. The note references a "shoot up" at the school Friday morning but lists the date as "12/16/19."
A handful of parents said they were considering keeping their children home on Friday and Monday as a precaution, who also said they weren't sure if it's real or not. "How do we know anymore?"
Threats of violence in school are not infrequent on social media. In April 2018, DeSoto's high school and middle schools were on lockdown when a threat surfaced on Twitter.
Blackmon-Jones said each threat must be taken seriously and investigated. She added that officials were offering the students and employees identified on the threat additional support if needed, such as counseling.
Ralph C. Jensen is editor-in-chief of Security Today magazine.
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The first week of Bricks 4 Kidz day camp is right around the corner! The Madison Square Center for the Arts hosts the day camp and it will begin on June 1st. Starting at 9 a.m. with the Super Hero Academy Camp - ending at noon. There will also be a Mining and Crafting camp from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. Kids of all ages will enjoy this wonderful event to kick off their summer. The camps are ongoing throughout the month of June. To register online go to bricks4kidz.com/406. For more information email lfondren@bricks4kidz.com or call Lacey at 646-853-3375.
Soulshine Pizza Factory's 6th Annual Blues and Groove Festival will be June 5th from 5 pm - 10 pm! The event will benefit Prostate Cancer Awareness. Scheduled events include: 6:00 p.m. – A.J. and the Jiggawatts, 8:00 p.m. – Brother Sartin and the Soulshine Family Band featuring Andrew Pates. Come out to the township to support this great cause! For more information, call Soulshine Pizza Factory at 601.856.8646.
The next FFT will be a "JUNE the 4th" celebration! FFT will be starting a little earlier than in the past - 11am til 11pm with the earlier focus being on Fondren's food and music. Join the greatest neighborhood in Jackson for curbside lunch and tunes and get really great deals! All of the activities and artists + vendor stuff will kick off at 5+ for the "biggest and bestest" one ever!
Opening in 1962, Campbell's is the oldest and probably the most nostalgic bakery in the Jackson Metro. With a menu with anything from cookies and cupcakes to custom orders. They will take something you had from your childhood and put their own twist on it making it a whole new memory from bite to brain. Every baked good is made from scratch and in the traditional way. They do have gluten free options but not everything is gluten free. Last but not least, their petit fours are just about the best thing some of our staff has ever had (besides their iced teacakes of course). Give them a shout the next time you need to order baked goods for that birthday party or luncheon you're throwing!
An evening with good food and a great movie makes for a wonderful family outing, and you could not find a better venue for an outdoor movie than the brick streets of Olde Towne Clinton! Movies are shown free of charge and dinner is offered from selected restaurants and food vendors around town. Main Street Clinton will show The LEGO Movie at dusk (approx. 6:45 p.m.) on May 22. Dinner by LurnyD's Grille will begin at 6:00 p.m.
Come out for the Rock Your Block Party at the MS Museum of Art! The Downtown Business Association is the host. Dress up as your favorite part of downtown Jackson. Includes pop-up restaurants, live entertainment and a ribbon cutting. This is all happening Thursday, May 21, from 4-8pm! The cost is free. Come help welcome DBA Jackson into the world of businesses with a bang!
The C Spire Concert Series is bringing Miranda Lambert to Ridgeland! Presented by Alcatel-Lucent, this event is Saturday, May 23rd at Renaissance at Colony Park. Cost is $45 CSpire Green Space at 1018 Highland Colony Pkwy.


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Serpents in the garden and devils in the wilderness. No matter which year or which gospel, the first Sunday in Lent always feeds us stories of temptation and confrontation between Jesus and that figure who has been named "the devil," about whom there is much confusion — which, I assume, suits the devil quite well.
The devil is a staple figure in more conservative expressions of our Christian faith, in ways that often embarrass or anger more progressive Christians. We've seen the devil's name used to cover up a multitude of human sins, as anyone who looks different, prays different, lives different, or loves different gets lumped in with the devil. Satan, to too many, is just another name we use for anyone or anything unfamiliar or agitating. In the classic case of the pendulum swinging too far in the other direction, we who deplore this kind of scapegoating distance ourselves from anything that reminds us of it, making "the devil" a laughable stereotype of backward religion and denying our own daily struggles with temptation.
C.S. Lewis, the Christian author and apologist remembered perhaps best for his Chronicles of Narnia, described this dynamic well in his satirical novel The Screwtape Letters. First published during World War II in 1942, The Screwtape Letters takes the form of a series of letters from an elder devil, Screwtape, to his younger nephew, Wormwood. They are both bureaucrats in Satan's service, and Screwtape is advising his nephew in the devilish arts, how to win souls away from God.
Lewis calls the phenomenon I have observed in too many conservative Christian communities, whose "excessive and unhealthy interest" with the devil gives Satan too much power and credit, a kind of magical thinking and hails these sorts of people as "magicians" whose distraction with the devil borders on devotion.
But Lewis has a name for people like me, and maybe communities like ours, as well. People and parties committed to objective reality, cold hard facts, and psycho-social explanations for every variety of human experience he calls "materialists" — not in the sense of "materialism," the word we use for an unhealthy love of consumer goods, but in the sense of a slavish devotion to what can be seen and known and studied and mastered: the material world. Our condescension toward anything we do not believe or understand makes us susceptible to all kinds of attacks that we never see coming, even while we are in their grip.
About a third of the way into the book, Screwtape addresses this issue in one of his letters to his nephew.
It is with all these misgivings and misunderstandings about the devil that we approach the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Jesus in the wilderness, on the First Sunday in Lent.
In the garden we get the story of a serpent and a tree, or a wyrm in the woods, and the perversion of knowledge into shame. The stories from Genesis are so rich with symbolism and inexhaustible meaning that we'll be returning to them for most of this coming summer. There are many ways to make sense of this story, and one of them is that in the garden God marks the boundaries that distinguish between humanity and God.
"You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die" (Gen. 2:16-17). Fruit, or food, is equated with knowledge — both being necessary for life. God affirms humanity's need to be sustained, not only by food but also by intellectual engagement with the world. We are meaning-making creatures, who long to understand our experience. Perhaps alone among God's creatures, we reflect upon the meaning of our own existence. And that, God does not prohibit. But God issues a strong warning about our desire to claim mastery over what is good and what is evil. Those categories of thought lead almost inevitably to forms of judgment that are reserved to God alone, and once humanity sets out to know and to name good and evil all kinds of insidious harm occurs. We see this illustrated in the story as the woman and man eat the forbidden fruit and know themselves in a new way, in their nakedness, which they immediately move to cover.
This isn't the only way to interpret this story, but if we do read in this way we are led to reflect not only on the origins of human suffering, but on our own individual and communal suffering as well. In what ways does our strong desire to be able to label people and circumstances "good" or "evil" lead us into relationships that leave us vulnerable to shame, and anger, and violence? Can you think of a time when you followed the voice inside your head, or your gut, or your heart that seemed so sure it knew the truth about another person's life — only to discover that you were tragically wrong? If so, then you know what it's like to be tempted by wormwood, the serpent in the garden, an all-too-real experience that makes the question of the "reality" of the devil practically irrelevant.
Following his baptism, the event at which Jesus saw the Spirit of God descend and rest on him and heard God's voice name him as God's own Beloved, Jesus is led out into the wilderness where he was also tempted by the devil. This time, instead of fruit from a tree, the devil acknowledges Jesus' hunger, the result of his fasting. "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread." But Jesus answers, "It is written, 'One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" (Matt. 4:3-4) Food and knowledge are once equated with each other, but unlike the man and woman in the garden, Jesus does not take the bait to rely on his own knowledge, but on the wisdom of God.
Can you remember a time in your life when poverty, or isolation, or deprivation took you to a place where you were ready to give up on all that you know to be true? When you were ready to trade in your trust that God will provide with a lower faith in the reliability of the world's wisdom, in which there is only so much bread to go around and you should feel entitled to get yours before it's all gone? If so, then you've met the devil.
Next Jesus is taken to the holy city and set on top of the temple, where the devil goads him to demonstrate his divinity by throwing himself from the heights and forcing God to rush in and save him from his own death. Here the devil betrays a woeful lack of knowledge about how and where God chooses to work in the world. Rather than choosing a handful of people to love, and sparing them from death and suffering, God chooses to to love all of creation and to join us in the fullness of our experience, including and especially death.
Have you ever found yourself at the crossroads of a difficult decision, trying to talk yourself out of a necessary task by reassuring yourself that God would never want you to suffer so much? If so, then you've met the devil.
Finally, Jesus is taken up to a very high mountain and shown all the nations of the world. Satan, that liar, makes a ridiculous offer, that Jesus will be given the world if only he will bend the knee and worship him. This is the very baldest of lies, because we know that the devil is offering something that is not his in the first place. But, it's not so ridiculous a scenario, as the world is always trying to convince us that realists, pragmatists, materialists even, need to be prepared to deal with the cold hard fact that the world is a tough place, with no room for the ethics of love, forgiveness, justice and compassion that God in Christ Jesus is offering.
Have you ever found yourself in a position of authority, where you had the responsibility of making significant decisions that would affect the lives of many others, perhaps your entire family, or your workplace, or the neighborhood, or the world? Have you heard within yourself the inner struggle between the voice that calls you to do what is right, and the voice that calls you to do what is expected? If so, then you've met the devil.
Jesus, unsurprisingly, sidesteps all of the devil's lures and sends him scuttling off. We are not always as sure in our responses. Perhaps that is why we fear talk of the devil to some degree, because we suspect we've lost a match or two to his wiles.
In other words, the biggest lie of all is that it is somehow we who are locked in combat with the devil and all the powers of death, when in reality it is God who has already decided the outcome of that conflict. God is for us, and for all the world, and against that unshakeable fact all the devil's lures and lies are powerless. So we will jeer and flout and mock the devil, who has already lost the war.
The congregation in which I grew up, St. John's Lutheran Church in Des Moines, Iowa, used to take high school groups up to the Boundary Waters for weeklong canoe trips in the summer. We went through a Christian camping organization that provided the canoes, the backpacks, the food, and wilderness guides who were also trained to lead us in nightly bible studies. I don't remember the bible studies at all, but I do remember the joy of floating out on the water in the middle of the cold, blue lakes that separate the United States from Canada. Watching hawks draw circles in the sky. Listening to the crackle of the campfire and the unfamiliar combination of sounds and silence in the night.
In this Season of Creation, it's this morning's emphasis on the wilderness that I find most difficult to preach. The Sundays of this season move along a story arc that began with creation and alienation, and that end with passion and new creation. It was easy to talk about creation in the context of the forest trees, and alienation in the context of our relationship to the land. To try and imagine the wilderness as the place of passion is more difficult though – partly because we are so thoroughly entrenched in city life, not wilderness life; and partly because the wilderness is so densely occupied by metaphor that it's hard to talk about the wilderness as it is without turning it into a symbol for us as we are.
The more I thought about it though, the more I realized that it's not just difficult to talk about the wilderness without talking about humanity – it's actually impossible. Consider this: the first Sunday of this season, we focused on forests which are filled with what? Trees. The second Sunday we focused on land, which is comprised of what? Soil. Next week we'll consider the plight and the potential of rivers, which are made of what? Water. But today we are talking about the wilderness, which is filled with what?
Wild things? Wild animals? Wild plants? Wildness?
Wild isn't a thing, it's an idea. It's the place where we aren't. It's the runaway's refuge, the criminal's hideout, the refugee's journey, the traveler's nightmare. It is unmastered territory, which is precisely why it is often presented as the place where people go to master themselves. This, I suppose, is what makes the wilderness a place filled with passion. Passion, not only in the sense of being filled with desire, but also being filled with suffering – such as when we talk about Jesus' passion and death.
That's a pretty deep thought now, isn't it? Desire and suffering are flip sides of the same coin, and the wilderness is the unmastered landscape where human beings go to master the untamed geographies of their hearts and souls.
That's certainly what seems to be going on in the gospel reading this morning. Jesus rises from the waters of baptism to the sound of God's voice declaring that he is God's own beloved child, the one on whom God's favor rests. Immediately thereafter, the Spirit leads Jesus into the wilderness precisely so that he can be tempted by the devil. During that time, Jesus fasts for forty days and forty nights, getting empty so that he can be filled, being hungry so that he can be fed. Then he returns to civilized areas and begins his work.
Very coincidentally, I took part in a bible study on this passage from Matthew the week before last. I was with a group of pastors discussing leadership in the church, and the trainer working with us used this story to talk about how healthy ministry takes place. It's a three-act play: first the baptism, then the temptations, and finally the work.
Too often, when we think about leadership we jump straight to the final act, the part about the work. Sustainable leadership though, we were invited to think, comes first from the deep knowledge that you are baptized, that you are looked on with the eyes of love and claimed as one of God's own children. This is critical, that our work comes from a place of security and confidence that we are already claimed by God. Our leadership, our work, our relationships, our pastimes – all of that can feel hollow, empty, unsustainable if we are using them to try and fill a hole left by anxiety that there is something unseen, unknown, or unloved about us. In his baptism, as in ours, Jesus learns that he is God's beloved, now and for always.
But, what to do with that knowledge? What does it mean to be beloved of God? Is it license to conquer? Is it power to subjugate? Is it assurance of wealth or prosperity? Is it cause to look down upon others? Is it freedom from responsibility? The story of Jesus' temptations in the wilderness reflect the very real struggles each one of us has to face in our own lives. As one of the pastors in the bible study said, "you can't be tempted with things you don't want." Jesus is tempted with bread, religious authority and worldly power. Temptations ranging from daily necessities to lifelong ambitions, and certainly understandable desires for someone born, as a Palestinian Jew under Roman occupation, into hunger for change.
We might want different things, and so face different temptations. Perhaps we want stability above all else, so we are tempted to ignore opportunities for change and growth. Perhaps we crave freedom, so we are tempted to avoid commitments and obligations that might teach us steadfastness and responsibility. Perhaps we desire comfort, or admiration, so we amass wealth and miss openings to encounter God in the suffering of the world. Perhaps we want love so badly that we forego the time and honesty it takes to truly come to know and love ourselves. Perhaps we want power and respect so much that we treat those around us like objects, and trade community for control. Until we face these wants, these passions, these sufferings; until we remember that our truest identity is rooted in love, all our work in the world will be compulsive, unhealthy and unsustainable.
This three-act play of baptism, temptation and work can be applied in a variety of contexts. I certainly would invite you to spend some time thinking about your own life through the lens of this story, and consider your own wants, desires, sufferings and temptations. What do they reveal about the motivations behind your work, your rest, your relationships? What would happen if you brought a remembrance of your baptism into each of those arenas of life? How would your home, your office, your community be transformed for deeper ministry if it was rooted in love?
During this Season of Creation though, I want to apply this three-act story specifically to our relationships with God's creation, of which we are obviously a part. In a webinar on presence-full leadership earlier this week, MIT teacher and researcher Otto Scharer shared three disturbing numbers that illustrate the state of division in our world today.
The first number is 1.5 – Scharer called this the Ecological Divide, representing our disordered relationship with God's creation. 1.5 represents the rate at which we are consuming the planet's natural resources relative to how quickly they are regenerated.
The second number is 2.5 – Scharer called this the Social Divide, representing our disordered relationship with each other. 2.5 billion is the number of people living below the poverty line worldwide, and represents a failure of values on the part of the global community.
The final number is 3.0 – Scharer called this the Spiritual Divide, representing our disordered relationship to ourselves. The World Health Organization says that almost three times as many people die from suicide than from war and other forms of homicide.
Otto Scharer asserts, and I'm inclined to agree, that these numbers are connected. Our fractured relationships with the planet, each other, and ourselves reflect ways of living completely detached from any sense of being made in love for love, and point to the need for us to master the passions and temptations that lead to so much of our suffering and the world's as well.
Too often conversations about the environment treat the topic as one in which information alone is the answer. As if, all we needed was to be told that our patterns of waste disposal or our reliance on gasoline was killing the earth. I think about anti-smoking initiatives though, and suspect it will take more than information to change our behavior. Decades of warnings from the surgeon general didn't do much to deter people from smoking. It was acknowledging that cigarettes are addictive, it was public health campaigns that introduced the idea that smoking might take you away from your loved ones, it was legislation that shifted some of the costs of smoking-related illness back to smokers in the form of cigarette taxes that began to shift the tide.
I am convinced that the same things need to happen if we are going to change the patterns of behavior that are killing the earth. Yes, we need information about the rate of environmental degradation. We need movies like An Inconvenient Truth and Food, Inc.
Beyond that though, we need to call our addictions to cheap gas, cheap manufacturing, and cheap goods what they are. Addictions. We need to tell the truth about the ways that our patterns of production and consumption are alienating us from the rest of the world, where goods are produced in conditions few to none of us have ever had to endure. And we need to fearlessly enter the wilderness of our own hearts to ask what price we ourselves are paying in order to try and sustain these planet-destroying patterns of living. We live in illness-infused environments, anxious to know if there will be anyone to care for us once we can no longer fill our roles in the cycle of over-production and over-consumption, and as the World Health Organization's numbers show us, we are literally killing ourselves.
In the wilderness, Jesus fasts for forty days and forty nights, getting empty so that he can be filled, being hungry so that he can be fed. Then he returns to civilized areas and begins his work. We, too, are invited to take stock of what we are filling ourselves with and to begin the process of emptying ourselves to make room for what God is doing in and for the world.
People of God, in this Season of Creation the message is clear: the planet is in peril, and there is work to be done. But we do this work by faith, not from fear. The scope of the task before us is too large to take on if we don't plan for sustainability. As Christians, we find our sustenance, our most renewable resource, in the gift of life that comes to us at the font and the table, reminders that we are God's own beloved and that in God's economy there is always enough for everyone.


Continuing covering the improvements to Python tracing capabilities in the upcoming ParaView 4.2, in this post, we'll see how to control the trace verbosity.
What this setting basically controls if that when a new traceable module such as a source, reader, filter, view, etc. is to be added to the trace, which properties on this object do you want to trace.
(1) results in all properties being saved to the trace irrespective of whether you actually changed them using the Properties panel or custom user defaults. (2) saves any of the properties that were modified either by your actions in panels, or data specific defaults selected by ParaView (e.g. automatically selected arrays for processing), as well as changes you make on the Properties panel. This is a good default since it generally ends up saving properites that you would care about. (3) is more restrictive option than (2), where only the properties that you modify on the Properties panel will be saved, none of the custom defaults or auto-detected values.
And I've changed my custom user defaults for Sphere to use Phi and Theta resolutions of 80 instead of the default 8.
# trace defaults for the display properties.
That should hopefull help understand the difference. I had to trim down the trace produced by Option 1 a little to make it readable. BTW, that comments are indeed added by the trace and not manually inserted afterwords!


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Cougs earn fourth straight win
WSU defeats Miami in first game of Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship; will play No. 5 NC State on Saturday
WSU guard Krystal Leger-Walker (4) dribbles towards the hoop during a college basketball game against San Jose State University on Nov. 9, 2021, in Pullman.
DAYLON HICKS, Evergreen reporter
The Cougars women's basketball team (4-0) fought hard and pulled off the win against the Miami Hurricanes (4-1) 62-47 in the Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship on Thanksgiving Day.
The championship marks the second time in program history that the Cougars have played regular season contests in the Bahamas. Thursday's game between the Cougars and Hurricanes marked the second time that the two schools faced each other with the previous coming in 2019 at the Miami Holiday Classic.
The team as a whole had a good day with scoring, but Johanna Teder was the leader for the Cougars with 15 points. Charlisse Leger-Walker had a great game for WSU, as she secured a double-double with 15 rebounds and 13 points. Prior to Thursday's game, Leger-Walker scored 10-or-more points in 25 of her 27 career games with WSU. She also led the team in assists with five.
Leger-Walker's dominance from rebounding in today's game mainly comes from defense and how aggressive she is while playing defense.
"There's nothing she can't do," WSU head coach Kamie Ethridge said. "I mean defensively, if you just studied her defensively, she guards any position on the floor, she can keep people in front of her."
Bella Murekatete had a solid performance for the Cougars, recording 12 points. Murekatete proves each game why she is one of the most improved players in the Pac-12 this season as she currently averages a double-double at 15.7 points and 10.7 rebounds per game. Her defensive presence against the Hurricanes was there as well, leading the Cougars with four blocks.
WSU excelled in capitalizing on opportunities to put the ball in the hoop. The Cougars had 14 points off turnovers and 12 second-chance points which helped build momentum. Throughout the game, the Cougars were able to move the ball around and find the open shot. WSU also had 34 points in the paint as that helped the Cougars to add pressure on the Hurricanes.
WSU will face No. 5 North Carolina State at 3 p.m. this Saturday for their second game in the Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship.
Daylon is a multimedia journalism major from Antioch, California
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Cougars travel south
Cougs split away games 1-1


Jacob was not born an Israelite. He had to "earn it" the hard way. God did not call him Israel until he was 98 years old and had become the kind of person that fit the name. The first usage of this name Israel is not racial, national, political, or religious. It has to do with character and relationship with God.
Israel. "God commands, orders, or rules." Man attempts it but always, in the end, fails. Out of some forty Hebrew names compounded with "El" or "Jah", God is always the doer of what the verb means (cp. Dani-el, God judges).
Prevailed. Succeeded. He had contended for the birthright and succeeded (25:29-34). He had contended with Laban and succeeded (27). He had contended with "men" and succeeded. Now he contends with God—and fails. Hence, his name was changed to Isra-el, God commands, to teach him the greatly needed lesson of dependence upon God.
Jacob lost the wrestling match with the angel, but in losing, he won the prize. In losing, he won, for now he understood the sovereignty of God. He learned that he might succeed in overcoming men by his own strength and wit, but he could never give lip service to God's sovereignty while ordering Him around, as many do.
The prayer life of many Christians consists of telling God what He already knows in order to coerce Him into doing what they think He ought to do. When will we learn that God really does know what He is doing, and that He is not the helpless giant in the sky that many seem to think He is? We ought instead to hear His voice and find out what He wants and intends to do—and then pray that His will be done, and not ours. This is true recognition of His sovereignty. This is spiritual maturity. This is what it means to manifest the character of a true Israelite.
Jacob could never be Israel in his own strength or by the power of the flesh. Israel was a name that gave testimony to God's strength and man's weakness. Men usually think of the name Israel as meaning "ruling with God," as if this were some sort of privilege, where Israelites get to accumulate servants and slaves and be above other more ordinary men. It is not. It indicates that the Israelite is the servant and slave of Jesus Christ, his sovereign Master. Until man is fully conquered by Jesus Christ and apprehended by His love, he is not a true Israelite. Until he loses the wrestling match with God, he cannot be given the name of Israel.
In time "Israel" took on a new meaning. In the days of Moses the "children of Israel" meant those who were of the household of the descendants of Jacob-Israel. They were not all necessarily direct descendants of Jacob. After all, Jacob had inherited thousands of servants after his father Isaac had died. He, in turn, had inherited them from his father, Abraham.
Gen. 14:14 tells us that Abraham had 318 men of war in his household. That number does not include their wives and children and perhaps even their parents. It is highly probable, then, that Abraham had close to 2,000 men in his "tribe." This would have perhaps doubled by the time Isaac inherited them. And these could easily have doubled again by the time Jacob inherited them from Isaac. Thus, Jacob's household might have included about 8,000 in all.
Jasher 67:11 and 68:1-5 shows that Jochebed gave birth to Moses 130 years after Jacob went to Egypt. Eighty years later Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. This means Israel was in Egypt for 210 years, not 400 years as is commonly thought. The 400 years mentioned in Gen. 15:13 is from the birth of Isaac to the Exodus. It was also 430 years from the promise to Abraham to the covenant with Moses a few weeks after the Exodus (Gal. 3:17). Thus, the promise to Abraham occurred just 30 years before the birth of Isaac. Yet Isaac was born 190 years before Jacob went to Egypt, because Isaac was 60 when Jacob was born (Gen. 25:26), and Jacob was 130 when he went to Egypt (Gen. 47:9).
Eight generations of 20 years is only 200 years. The graves in Goshen that were excavated recently showed that the Israelite men averaged 3 or 4 wives each. This was shown in a documentary over Public Television in 2001. They could not possibly have gotten all their wives from within their own closed Israelite families, barring a miracle of the women bearing 3 or 4 girls to every boy. They must have gotten the extra wives from outside, probably many Egyptians (like Joseph's wife, Asenath). The Egyptians in those days were not dark skinned, so this would have had no effect upon their racial character.
We say all this, not to imitate a census bureau, but to show that "Israel" by this time was a nationalistic term, not a purely genealogical term. It was no longer even a term that indicated one's character or relationship with God. The book of Exodus and Numbers shows us conclusively that those "Israelites" were stubborn, rebellious people who were more Jacobite in their character than Israelite.
They carried the name of Israel because of what they were supposed to be—not because of who they were. They were supposed to have the character of Jacob after he wrestled with the angel, but they did not. They were supposed to bear testimony to the sovereignty of God, but they rebelled against Him.
It is the same with the term Christian. Many people call themselves Christians, but this term has now come to mean "a member of an organization that claims Jesus Christ as its founder." Unfortunately, it no longer seems to have much to do with one's character or relationship with God. Christians are supposed to act like "little christ's," but painfully, this is only too rare.
The people in Moses' day were Israelites, perhaps, by genealogy. They were certainly Israelites by nationality. But they were NOT Israelites in their relationship with God. And this is the crux of the matter. God is not interested merely in producing Israelites by genealogy or by nationality. He is interested in producing people who reflect the character of the term Israel.
Jacob was a believer long before he became an Israelite. So we find that God is not merely interested in producing believers—or Christians, as we would say today. His goal is to produce men and women who are called in the New Testament "the Sons of God." This is God's big dilemma. How does one take physical people and turn them into the Sons and daughters of God?
We will answer that question as we proceed, but first we need to continue our history lesson to show how the name Israel changed in its shades of meaning over time.
Five centuries after Moses, King Solomon died. He had been King of Israel, a united Israel that included all of the twelve tribes, plus Levi. But then the tribes of Israel revolted against his son, Rehoboam, because he refused to lower their tax burden. Only the tribes of Benjamin and Judah remained loyal to Rehoboam (1 Kings 11:29-39).
The Kingdom thus split into two nations. The ten tribes to the north retained the name of Israel. The two tribes to the south took the name of Judah. From this point on, when the prophets speak of Israel, or House of Israel, they are referring to the ten tribes to the north. When the prophets speak of Judah, or the House of Judah, they are referring to the two tribes to the south.
Thus, the name Israel took on a nationalistic meaning. No longer did it apply to the tribe of Judah or Benjamin. It applied only to the other ten tribes in the north, who had formed their own monarchy under Jeroboam.
This is very important to understand, because most Christians today mistakenly apply the prophecies to the House of Israel to the modern Jews, whose roots (even they claim) go back to the southern nation of Judah. Hence, "Jew" is a shortened form of "Judah." Modern Bible teachers mistakenly apply to the "State of Israel" the prophecies of the regathering of the "House of Israel." They ignore completely the fact that the House of Israel are the ten tribes that went into Assyria—not the two tribes that were taken to Babylon. The House of Israel never returned and were, as Ezekiel 34:16 called them, LOST SHEEP.
God prophesied through all the prophets that the lost sheep of Israel would be found—but never that the Jews would replace the Israelites. Thus, when the Jews called their new nation "Israel" in 1948, they did so in order to deceive the average Christian into thinking that they were fulfilling the prophecies of the regathering of the lost sheep of the House of Israel. It was a deliberate deception, because up to that point the Zionists had talked about the restored Kingdom of Judah.
Even so, as I have written before, true Judahites are those who accepted and submitted to the rulership of the King of Judah, Jesus Christ. The rest were cut off from the tribe, according to the law itself. Paul refers to this in Rom. 2:28. There was a conflict in Paul's day as to which sect represented the tribe of Judah. Was it those who rejected Jesus, or those who accepted Him? Those who rejected Him were the majority, and so historically they were able to retain the name of Judah in the eyes of men. But as far as God is concerned, it was the Christians who were the true representatives of Judah. To the original disciples and followers of Jesus (who were of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi) were soon added many others of different nations, grafted to the tree of True Judah. In time, the tree of True Judah became more populous than the dead branch of Judaism that had been pruned, or cut off.
For this reason, in my opinion the Jewish state has no right to call itself the State of Judah any more than the State of Israel. If their state had been founded by believers in Jesus Christ and by Christian methods, perhaps this might justify calling it "Judah." But this did not happen.
Instead, they came with the intent of dispossessing the Arab population, both Christians and Muslims. They provoked an Arab response and then blamed them for starting the fight. They finally engaged in terrorism against the British in the 1940's and called the British officers "murderers" when they hanged the terrorists that they caught. They even killed hundreds of their own people in order to blame the British government and make them look bad in the eyes of the world.
The Haganah was the military force of Ben-Gurion's Jewish Agency operating in Palestine at the time. He may have thought that the lives of 276 insignificant Jews were worth their weight in propaganda, but I suspect the families of the victims were of a different opinion. The truth of the sinking of the Patria was not publicly known for ten years, after which time it was reported by David Flinker of the Jewish Morning Journal, Nov. 27, 1950.
To the British, Menachem Begin was the "Number One Terrorist." To Begin, he was the Number One Freedom Fighter. At least he was open about his terrorism and did not deliberately seek to harm his fellow Jews. He despised the Jewish Agency and its Haganah for their hypocrisy and policies that changed with the political winds. When it was advantageous to them, they engaged in terrorism of their own, particularly in the time from Oct. 1945 to July 1946, even uniting their activities with the Irgun and Stern Gang, another terrorist organization commanded by Yitzhak Shamir, who later became an Israeli Prime Minister. But at other times, to curry favor, they would help the British find and imprison Irgun or Stern members.
The point is that terrorism will not establish the Kingdom of God. Terrorism, however, established the Israeli state. The preachers were sure that May 18, 1948 began a 1,260-day period to the middle of the "tribulation" when the Antichrist would build his temple on the site of the mosque in Jerusalem. It did not happen.
Christian preachers were equally sure that the Jews would repent by the end of seven years (1955) and that Christ would return. It did not happen. But instead of questioning their basic premise that that Israeli state was the fulfillment of the regathering of the House of Israel, they simply adjusted their theology further away from the truth.
After centuries of rebellion and rejecting God, Israel was cast off into Assyria, who settled them along the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. There they lost their God-given name, Israel. God stripped them of it because they were not living up to its testimony. In their rebellion, how could He allow them to keep using a name that means "God rules"?
This is how Israel began to be known by other names, and this is how God saw to it that they were "lost." The people were not lost. Only their name was lost. The people were known to the Assyrians—even a century before they deported Israel—by the official name Beth-Khumri, sometimes spelled in alternative ways like Bit-Humria. This name means "House of Omri," named as such after Israel's most successful monarch (1 Kings 16:28). Omri was the father of Ahab, who is more well known today.
In the Hebrew language of that time, Omri's name was actually pronounced Ghomri. The Assyrians thus referred to the land where they had been resettled as the land of Gamir and its inhabitants the Gamira. Later, the hard "g" sound was softened to "k" or "kh". Thus, the Celts (or Kelts) today are known as the Khumri, for they still retain that ancient name after their descendants migrated from Assyria into Europe, Britain and Wales. The Welch go by the name of Khumri even today.
Assyria was later conquered by Babylon, and Babylon in turn was conquered by Medo-Persia toward the end of Daniel's life (Dan. 5). Darius the Mede actually took the city of Babylon and ruled it until his son-in-law, Cyrus, returned from other campaigns. Cyrus allowed the people of Judah to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the city. His son, Cambyses ruled as co-regent with Cyrus from 530-528 B.C. Cyrus died in 528 fighting the Scythians. Cambyses then reigned another 6 years as sole regent of Persia.
Darius the Great of Persia then took the throne, and he reigned from 521-486 B.C. When he died, he was buried in a tomb on the side of a mountain called Behistun. The Behistun Rock listed in 3 languages all of the people who were subject to his rule. This included some portion of the ex-Israelites, who were now known as Gamira.
In the Babylonian inscription at Behistun, they are called Gimiri, but in the Persian table, these same people are called Saka. The third table in the Susian language calls them Sakka. Thus, the Gamira, or Gimiri, are also known as Saka and Sakka.
The Greek historians of that period spelled it "Sacae," (Scythians). The Roman historians spelled it "Saxons." These form the bulk of European peoples who migrated into Europe from the area in and around Assyria. They were not Assyrians. They were Israelites who had lost their name for refusing to live up to its true meaning. Being Israelites by genealogy did not give them immunity from God's judgment.
The point is this: if we must focus upon genealogy to find the lost House of Israel, then let us do it with some integrity. The Jews are not Israel either spiritually or physically. The physical Israelites (or ex-Israelites) are to be found among the Caucasian people of Europe and wherever they have spread throughout the world. They were given the name "Caucasian," because many of them migrated through the Caucasus mountains from Assyria into Europe.
And to some extent, these people have indeed been blessed in many ways, particularly in the fact that the Gospel of Christ spread and took shape in the European nations quite early. This was their key advantage. God saw to it that the Gospel took root there first.
However, having six Bibles for every family does not make us a Christian people. For the most part, this made us "cultural Christians," to make us feel good about ourselves while we continued to despise the divine law and substitute oppressive Church laws in its place. Only a few throughout history understood that the purpose of election was to empower a people to set creation free. The majority thought election meant the privilege of enslaving others who were not quite so elect.
God is not impressed with cultural Christians or genealogical Christians. He is looking for a relationship with people who truly live up to the name of Israel. He is raising up people who will truly be overcomers, even as Jacob was an overcomer. Such people do not have to be Israelites by genealogy in order to enter this race. Jacob did not qualify by genealogy, but by faith and obedience. He was the pattern in the Old Testament, the one through whom this whole Israelite story began.
The question before us is this: How is God fulfilling the prophecies to Israel? Is it enough to know who Jacob's physical descendants are? Can others become Israelites?


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Bridgewater Man Had 4 Firearms When Arrested after Police Standoff
Bridgewater resident Donald G. Shaffer, 61, faces multiple charges after he was arrested following a standoff with police on Dec. 2nd; police confiscated 4 weapons and 2,000 rounds of ammunition. Bridgewater resident Donald G. Shaffer, 61, faces multiple charges after he was arrested following ... Credits: Courtesy Somerset County Prosecutor's Office
BRIDGEWATER, NJ - A Bridgewater man has been charged with firearms possession and aggravated assault following a standoff Monday night after shots were fired from a garage on Country Club Road, according to a report from Somerset County Prosecutor Michael Robertson.
Donald G. Shaffer, 61, was charged with second degree possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose, third degree endangering another person, fourth degree aggravated assault and disorderly persons assault in the incident.
Robertson said Bridgewater Township Police responded to a 911 call to a home on Country Club Road Dec. 2 at 4:35 p.m. for a welfare check report that escalated to a shots fired call. A resident of the home, Robertson said, called police to say that Shaffer was in the attached garage and had access to multiple weapons.
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Police arrived at the scene, Robertson said, and heard a series of gun shots coming from the garage. They evacuated three people in the home (ages 38, 3, and 8 months) safely and then established a tactical perimeter around the home, while also requesting aid from surrounding Somerset County police departments and New Jersey State Police.
In addition, the Somerset County SWAT team was activated, along with County Crisis Negotiators and FBI Crisis Negotiators.
At about 6:25 p.m., Robertson said, Shaffer came out of the garage and was placed into custody by SWAT officers without incident. He was unarmed when he was taken into custody.
An investigation by Bridgewater Township Police, in conjunction with the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Unit and the Crime Scene Investigations Unit, found that Shaffer had fired several rounds in the confines of the garage. Two of those shots penetrated a garage door, and came in close proximity of one of the initial responding Bridgewater Township Police officers.
Police executed a Superior Court ordered search warrant, and found a revolver, a semi-automatic handgun, a shotgun and an AR-15 rifle, along with about 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
Shaffer was taken to an area hospital for medical evaluation under police guard. Once he is released from the medical facility, he will be taken to Somerset County Jail pending a detention hearing.
Robertson commended the initial responding Bridgewater police officers for their quick actions, along with the rapid law enforcement response, which resulted in the safe surrender of the suspect, and no injuries to anyone involved.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Bridgewater Township Police Department at 908-722-4111, the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Unit at 908-231-7100 or use the STOPit app with access code SOMERSETNJ. Information can also be provided through the Somerset County Crime Stoppers' Tip Line at 1-888-577-TIPS, and all calls will be kept confidential.
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