Day: January 2, 2014

Iraq suffers deadliest year since 2008. Double Christmas Day church bombings in Baghdad kill 37. Please pray for peace.

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(Washington, D.C.) — As the last of U.S. military forces departed from Iraq one year ago, al-Qaeda and other Radical Islamic movements have launched the worst wave of violence in Iraq in five years.

All Iraqis need our prayers, including the Christians who have been repeatedly targetedby the jihadists.

Two bombing attacks on Christians in Baghdad alone on Christmas Day left 37 people dead and scores wounded.

“Violence in Iraq has reached its worst level since 2008, the UN mission to Baghdad has said, reporting that more than 8,800 Iraqis were killed in 2013,” reports the UK Guardian. “The UN said 7,818 civilians died last year. The total including members of the Iraqi security forces surged to 8,868, with 759 people killed in December alone.”

“Al-Qaida in Iraq has found fertile ground in all this discontent and has attacked the Iraqi government …by killing members of its army…

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God Created

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God Created

Genesis 1:1

1.  The Bible is all about God; His Son; His Spirit and God’s work in the world and the universe.
2.  The Bible always assumes the existence of God without doubt.
3.  The Bible is the only authority for God that we have.
4.  According to Hebrew scholars this first verse is made up of seven Hebrew words; from which we can see seven key truths (from the HCSB Study Bible)

I.  GOD EXISTS (Heb. 11:6).

II.  GOD IS ETERNAL AND EXISTED BEFORE THE UNIVERSE WAS MADE (Heb. 1:10-12).

III.  GOD IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE BIBLE.

IV.  GOD HAS DONE WHAT NO ONE ELSE CAN DO; HE CREATED FROM NOTHING.

V.  GOD IS MYSTERIOUS; ONE, TRINITY, INVISIBLE, IMMUTABLE, OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT, OMNIPRESENT; AND UNEXPLAINABLE.

VI.  GOD IS CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH – ALL THAT IS (Psalm 33:6, 9;  Heb. 11:3).

VII.  GOD IS INDEPENDENT OF HIS CREATION – CREATION IS DEPENDENT UPON HIM (Acts 17:28).

Application –

i.  We in our existence owe it to the One who created us.
ii.  God in His mercy came down to us in the person of His Son, and died for our sins.
iii.  The Creator dying on a part of His creation, for His creation, to have fellowship and life with Him.
iv.  Mankind; The human race is dependent upon our Creator; He is not dependent upon us.
v.  Glorify God by receiving His one and only gift for reconciliation with Him – Jesus Christ death on the cross.

-Tim A. Blankenship

A message preached at Carr Lane Baptist Church in January 2011

Blessed are The Eyes that See, and The Ears That Hear What Jesus Says

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“Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.  For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.  Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.  And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, ‘By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: for this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.’  But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.  For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.”  ~Jesus  (Matthew 13:11-17)