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oth President-elect Barack Obama and takes - to break the back of this recession. President George W. Bush are focused on “We have a consensus, which is pretty rare, between conservative new measures to help the economy. economists and liberal economists, that we need a big stimulus Also today there’s more evidence that the U.S. package that will jolt the economy back into shape,” Obama said in is in a recession. The government reported that a Monday press conference. the gross domestic In fact, he says he wants product shrank at Congress to have a packan annual rate of age ready for him to sign 0.5 percent in the the day he moves into the third quarter. White House. What’s the GovAnd he’s announced an ernment to Do? economic team in record At his second news time, with such soothing conference in two superstars as Tim Geithner days, the Presidentto head Treasury and Larry elect is seeking to Summers to head the Naassure nervous tional Economic Council. Americans he’ll do whatever it takes Sam Stovall is the chief - spend whatever it CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

IRAN NOW CAPABLE OF ONE NUCLEAR BOMB

o date, Iran had enriched about 1,400 pounds of low-enriched uranium suitable for nuclear fuel, according to two conﬁdential reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency that were obtained by The Associated Press.

how to design a bomb, well, that’s another matter.” The report found the Islamic Republic was installing, or preparing to install, thousands more of the

about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities.” And it noted that the Islamic Republic continued to expand uranium enrichment, an activity that can make both nuclear fuel or ﬁssile warhead material. While that conclusion was expected, it was a formal conﬁrmation of Iran’s refusal to heed Security Council demands to freeze such activities, despite three sets of sanctions meant to force an enrichment stop.

Several experts told The Times the milestone was enough for a bomb, but Iran would have to further purify the uranium fuel and put it into a warhead design — a technical advance that experts in the West are unsure Iran has been able to achieve. “They clearly have enough material for a bomb,” Richard L. Garwin, a top nuclear physicist who helped invent the hydrogen bomb and has advised Washington for decades, told the newspaper. “They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know

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machines that spin uranium gas to enrich it — with the target of 9,000 centrifuges by next year. The report on Iran — which also went to the U.N. Security Council — cautioned that Tehran’s stonewalling meant the IAEA could not “provide credible assurances

Iran denies weapons ambitions, and Syria asserts the site hit more than a year ago by Israeli warplanes had no nuclear functions. But the two reports did little to dispel suspicions about either country. The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency also said Wednesday that a Syrian site bombed by Israel in 2007 had the characteristics of a CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

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YOUR VOICE OF HEALING WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? requires in receiving our healing.

“For if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a By being occupied by what we feel, we are actually glass. For he beholds himself, and goeth his way, and reinforcing the condition the devil has us in. We become straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. bound, limited, and restrained. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and Romans 6:18 declares to us that we continueth therein, he being not a ARE FREE! We are free from sickforgetful hearer, but a doer of the ness, and liberated from pain, Glory work, this man is blessed in his RTS A E H to God! We do not have to stay one deed.” (James 1: 23-25) TWO D more minute being bound by the E HEAL ages 5 any times in praying for indisymptoms of sickness and disease, if girls l l viduals who are being afﬂicted a m s we would just continue looking into the sed o Two n g a i with some aliment or sickness, I’ll d mirror of the Word of God. ere and 6 w urmurs durbring a mirror. Not a physical glass tm We could take a life lesson from mirror, but the mirror of the Word of ith hear al. The docw Abraham our Father in the faith, and God. The reason I bring this mirror, ysic h t p n a i o g p n him. He refuse to consider his i is that a lot of times the individual ed an ap The imitate g n a r r own body and he waxed strong in faith a that is trying to receive their healing ic. tors n i l C o y a LOOKING unto the promises of God. has become so preoccupied with ent at M ppointment m (Romans 4:18-21.) the sickness or pain that is plaguing ea

them, that they have forgotten and or have become blinded to who and what they are.

As I minister to them, I’ll attempt to do what James instructed us to do, and bring the Perfect Law of Liberty before their eyes. I’ll attempt to help them see who they really are, THE HEALED!

h day of t y, the mother or Pastor R , prayed for the self . and my for their hearts d girls an eart tests came sh The girl 00% OK out 1 SUS!!. E J U O Y THANK

consider”.

We also can follow after Sarah. We read in Hebrews 11:11, Where Sarah "received physical power… because she considered [God], Who had given her the promise, to be reliable and trustworthy and true to His Word.” (Amp)

The word “looketh” also means “to

If I am able to get people preoccupied with what the Word of God has said about them, and unoccupied with their symptoms, God is able to help them receive, experience, and walk in their healing!

You see, instead of considering her limitations, which were her age, her body, etc., she looked, or considered the promise of Gods Word and received the faith she needed to receive that promise in her life.

The Word “looketh,” here in James 1:25, means, “To bend over and peer into to get a better look.” When you begin to peer into the Word of God, you’ll begin to see yourself as a person who has been healed, and made FREE!

In Numbers 21:8 we read an account where thousands of Israelites were dying. So Moses, under the direction of God, put a brass serpent on a pole and raised it up before the people. In verse 8 we read: “And it shall come to pass that everyone that is bitten, when he LOOKETH upon it shall live.” Notice the condition for their healing was, “everyone who LOOKETH shall live.”

You’ll begin to see an image of health instead of sickness and pain. For example: Isaiah 53:3-5 & 1 Peter 2:24 tell us that God has already healed us.

And in Luke 10:19 Jesus Himself declares that He has given us authority over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt us.

No one would receive their healing, except on the condition that they LOOK and continue LOOKING at the brass serpent, which was a prophetic type of Christ. The serpent represents the curse of the law (sickness) In Galatians 3:13 we read where “Christ hat redeemed us from the curse of the law (sickness), being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone who hangeth on a tree.”

Glory to God! Are you beginning to see your reﬂection in the Word of total and complete healing? James 1:22-25 is telling us to look into this mirror. When we are preoccupied, and inﬂuenced by what we see in the Word of God, we will begin receiving what God has promised us, HEALING!

The Word looketh here in Numbers 21:8 literally infers “a continual stare” The Israelites were not to just glance at the brass serpent, they were to continually stare at it, giving it their full attention, until they were healed.

Are you occupied with the feelings of sickness today, or are you being consumed with 1 Peter 2:24 ,which declares; “BY HIS STRIPES YE WERE HEALED.” ? James instructs us to not only look but to keep on looking into this mirror, “…this man (then) is blessed in his deed.”

The same is true today. The healing process is completed as we, not only begin to look into the Perfect Law of Liberty, but to stay looking at the promises of God. We are to give the Word of God our full attention until we are that Word in our lives!

This is one of the requirements that God has established in His Word in receiving, and walking in divine health. You see, being occupied and inﬂuenced by the symptoms of sickness is actually reversing the condition, which God

Begin looking at the right mirror. Change your focus from the deception of sickness, to the reality of healing. Walk in the freedom of health, by looking into the Perfect Law of Liberty today! By Pastor Rory Synoground

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“And if need be, we’re going to make these Stovall said, “Well I think that the market kind of decisions to safeguard our ﬁnancial just got oversold on Thursday, November 20, and like a rubber band that’s stretched system in the future,” Bush said. too far it snapped back on Friday and Defending all the billions for bailouts, the Monday. Now the real question is, is it the President says he’s been warned the econbeginning of a new bull market or simply a omy could spiral into a downturn even worse rally within a bear market? And I think only than the Great Depression unless governtime will tell.” ment acts aggressively.

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He said “Most of My children do not know what it means to live by My Word. As a result they are being destroyed.” He went on to discuss some other things with me that night. As I sat and listened to Him, I realized that this is the message that needs to be taught to the Church in these last days. That night I committed to the Lord that I would take this message to the world.

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He was telling us to allow His Word - which is alive and full of creative power (Hebrews 4:12) to make its home within our hearts. He was telling us to spend time with it, to meditate on it, to ﬁll our minds and our mouths with it. To let His Word dominate our beliefs, control our thoughts, and guide our very actions. The Apostle Paul put it this way “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly…” Colossians 3:16. Most believers don’t have any idea what this means. We cry out for more of God, yet we have no idea how to receive that request. John 1:1 tells us; “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” We need to come to the understanding that God and His Word are one and the same. God is His Word, and His Word is God! If we want more of God, than we need more of His Word. Yet when we cry out for answers we miss it. We try to receive from God, and or experience Him, outside of His Word. We try to receive from God through our senses.

Pastor Rory Synoground Several years ago That’s one of the reasons the Lord ask me a quessome Christians fall short in extion. “Are My Words abiding in you?” I periencing the power of God in their lives. had such a desire to for more of God, that When we spend time abiding in His Word, I was crying out to Him, “Lord I want to we are literally spending time in the presknow you more.” I recognized the voice ence of God. And according to Habakkuk of the Holy Spirit asking me that question; 3:4; His presence is the hiding place of His “Are My Words abiding in you?” Then power. almost immediately before I could say Oral Roberts once said that “When the anything, He responded with a command. Word is really abiding in you, when its alive “Abide in My Word, and you will have and producing like it should, you can hear that intense relationship that you are the Word talking to you.” We all know what seeking.” it’s like when we get a song stuck in our I began weeping. That question changed mind. We just keep hearing it over and my life forever. In John 15:3.4,7 we read over again. where Jesus declares: Well, its much the same way when we start “Now ye are clean through the word abiding in the Word of God. We will hear which I have spoken unto you. Abide the Word over and over in our hearts speakin me, and I in you. As the branch can- ing to us. Many times, when I wake up in not bear fruit of itself, except it abide the morning I will have a song on my heart, in me. If ye abide in me, and my words a praise song to my Lord. But there are abide in you ye shall ask what ye will, also times when I wake up in the morning, and it shall be done unto you.” and all I hear is the Word of God speaking to me. The Word “abide” in John chapter 15 is our focus today. When Jesus told us to There have been times when I’ve been in a obey His commandments and keep His desperate situation, wondering what I was Word, He wasn’t just telling us to follow a going to do, when suddenly I’d hear a scripCONTINUED ON PAGE 13 bunch of religious rules and regulations.

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leading pro-life Christian who will mount violent attacks against activist organization has re- right-to-lifers.’” (Emphasis by pro-aborceived another death threat. tionist)

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Police are reviewing video in hopes of identifying suspects. Charges would be assault and vandalism, both misdemeanors.

The ‘true face’ of opponents Last Friday evening, homosexual activ- Randy Thomasson of the Campaign for ists and their supporters gathered at the Children and Families says the attack on Palm Springs City Hall, protesting voter Burgess is one of many incidents in California directed at supporters of traditional approved Prop. 8, which deﬁnes marriage as between a man and a woman. marriage. He notes that, among the rage and Phyllis Burgess went to the rally, and car- shouting displayed at the rally, protestors also used the “n-word” against black people. ried a Styrofoam cross through the Thomasson crowd. equates their As ABC afﬁliate KESQ-TV carried that rally live, homosexuals surrounded the 69-year-old woman, began pushing her, reportedly spit on her, and grabbed the cross from her arms and threw it on the ground.

behavior with a toddler’s temper tantrum, saying that homosexuals are demonstrating their deep intolerance for not only people who believe real marriage exists between a man and a woman, but also for people of faith and color.

Burgess remained calm throughout the melee. “I was really so overﬂowing with peacefulness in my heart that I just couldn’t see this,” she says. “It wasn’t in my mind, it really wasn’t.”Initially, Burgess said she did not want to ﬁle charges, but changed her mind after authorities encouraged her to do so . She says she went to the rally “just to get my remarks across at my city hall, where I have lived for 30 years.” She adds: “If it takes endangerment, should that stop me? I’m a senior -- we respect elder abuse in this city.”

“America needs to see the true face of the homosexual activists who are intolerant against people of faith and anyone who believes in real marriage between a man and a woman,” he contends. According to Thomasson, the peaceful marches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., are drastically different than the recent violent displays, mainly because King was seeking natural civil rights and homosexuals are demanding public endorsement of their “unnatural sexual behavior.”

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Jimmy: Mmmmm! That turkey smells good and it’s not even done yet. How long will it be? Mom: About the same length as it was before I put it into the oven, I suppose. After Thanksgiving dinner was ﬁnished, Mort saw his little brother Sid in the backyard, poking holes in the dirt and ﬁlling them in with birdseed. "Why are you planting birdseed?"; Mort asked."I’m growing next year’s turkey"; Sid

ith my four children - all two years apart in age - we have a very busy home, especially when we have to get ready for school and church in the mornings.

We have a lot of “if’s” and “then’s” at our house. “If” my son Nathan picks up his room, “then” he can watch TV. “If” my daughter Katie eats all of her food, “then” she can have dessert. “If” she studies her spelling, “then” she can go out and play. If and then. IF you put God ﬁrst, THEN He will crown you with success.

On school mornings, the kids drag “Just exactly how do I put God out of bed, hurry to get first?” you might ask. "If and then.... IF dressed and brush their Well, you can start teeth, gobble down a bowl you put God first, with saying “Good THEN He will of cereal, get their lunch morning Lord” when crown you with and backpack ready, and you wake up each success." finally out the door they morning. You can Cheri Ekbom go! Does it ever happen talk to God and ask like that at your house?I Him to guide your day and ask the But wait a minute, we forgot something - or Someone. What about God? In our rush to get out the door, did we even think about God? Did we even think to talk and acknowledge Him? As our Bible verse says today, “IF you want God to crown you with success success is everything that is good - THEN you have to put Him first.”

Holy Spirit to remind you of Jesus throughout the day.

You can ask God to help you make right choices. Try to make it a habit to think of God during the day, just as you might think of a best friend. Jesus is your friend, isn’t He? Put God ﬁrst, and just see how good your day really can be. God’s Word works!

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WallBuilders By Charlie Butts

The Founding Fathers on Jesus, This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible. This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.

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SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS; JUDGE; GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT It becomes a people publicly to acknowledge the over-ruling hand of Divine Providence and their dependence upon JOHN HART the Supreme Being as their Creator and JUDGE; LEGISLATOR; SIGNER OF THE Merciful Preserver . . . and with becomDECLARATION ing humility and sincere repentance to supplicate the pardon that we may obtain hanks be given unto Almighty God forgiveness through the merits and mediatherefore, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die and after that tion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. the judgment [Hebrews 9:27] . . . principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent �� and Christian like manner . . . to receive the �� same again at the general resurrection by �� the mighty power of God.

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to accept these inadequate thanksgivings, and to pardon whatever of sin hath mingled in them for the sake of Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Savior; unto Whom, with Thee, and the blessed Spirit, ever one God, be rendered all honor and glory, now and forever. Unto Him who is the author and giver of all good, I render sincere and humble thanks for His manifold and unmerited blessings, and especially for our redemption and salvation by His beloved Son. . . . Blessed be His holy name.

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Author and historian David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization which distributes historical, legal, and statistical information; and helps citizens become active in their local schools and communities. WallBuilders is a name taken from the Bible book of Nehemiah. And just as Nehemiah led a grassroots movement in Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of that city and restore its strength and honor; so, too, WallBuilders seeks to energize the grassroots today to rebuild that which makes America strong—its constitutional, moral, and religious foundations.

Christianity, & The Bible coming disobedient, was subjected to the degradation and evils which he and his posterity have since experienced. The Bible will also inform them that our gracious Creator has provided for us a Redeemer in whom all the nations of the earth should be blessed – that this Redeemer has made atonement “for the sins of the whole world,” and thereby reconciling the By conveying the Bible to people . . . we Divine justice with the Divine mercy, has certainly do them a most interesting act opened a way for our redemption and of kindness. We thereby enable them to salvation; and that these inestimable benlearn that man was originally created and efits are of the free gift and grace of God, placed in a state of happiness, but, benot of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve. The Bible will also [encourage] them with many explicit and consoling assurances of the Divine mercy to our fallen race, and with repeated invitations to accept the offers of pardon and reconciliation. . . . They, therefore, who enlist in   His service, have the highest encourage ment to fulfill the du¬ties assigned to their  respective stations; for most certain it is,  that those of His followers who [partici Mercy and grace and favor did come by Jesus Christ, and also that truth which verified the promises and predictions concerning Him and which exposed and corrected the various errors which had been imbibed respecting the Supreme Being, His attributes, laws, and dispensations.

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THE WEALTH OF THE EARTH IS SHIFTING by Dennis Burke, Ph.D.

t is so important for the Body of Jesus Christ to realize that we must handle the wealth of this world in order to reach this world. The revival we are entering is of such a great magnitude that believers everywhere are going to be required to grow in all aspects in order to participate. That will certainly mean ﬁnancial growth. The prophet Haggai spoke of this revival of the nations: ...Yet once, it is a while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will ﬁll this house with glory saith the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts. (Hag 2:6-9)

to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” Certainly, this verse reaches beyond the ﬁnancial realm. But the context is regarding giving. Our giving and honoring God with tithes and offerings is sowing to the spirit. Your money reaches into the spirit realm! You can see this is in the words of the angel of the Lord sent to Cornelius who had honored God: "There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. " (Acts 10:1-4)

Here is a man hungry for the reality of God, reaching out in the only way he knew. He prayed and he gave. The angel said that his praying and giving had built a memorial beGod declares that His glory will be fore God. He had entered into the spirit realm revealed in the nations. In the middle of this prophecy He speaks of the silver and with prayer and giving. The money he gave the gold being His. It may first seem to be went up before God in the Spirit and became out of place, but then you see that for the an evidence of his hunger and honor for God. nations to be affected, and for the glory of His faith and hunger for God resulted in the God to be revealed in the house of God, Apostle Peter receiving a vision that commisthe gold and silver must be moved out of sioned him to bring the gospel to the Gentiles the hands of the nations - the world - and as well as to the Jews (Acts 10:9-48). into the hands of His nation, the Church. Your praying and giving in faith bring your There is a shifting of wealth ahead in the needs into the presence of God. It is the very earth. Wealth is to come into the hands evidence that you are looking to Him and of godly men and women who will bring not to your own ability to meet your needs or glory to God with it. The wealth of this change your circumstances. When you honor earth is not here to satisfy the lusts and Him, He will direct you and guide your steps. greed of the perverted. It is here to bring There is a final aspect of what your giving will the freedom of Jesus Christ to the nado that I must include here. In 2 Corinthians tions. It is to bring glory to God. 9, the Holy Spirit through Paul summarizes If you will not be afraid of the responsibil- this principle: ity of wealth, God will show you how to "...He which soweth sparingly shall reap increase in a greater measure. also sparingly; and he which soweth Too many people have put the responsi- bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Evbility for their development and advance- ery man according as he purposeth in his ment in the hands of God, when He has heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of clearly put it in their hands. necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. Galatians 6:7 says it this way: “A man’s And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having harvest in life will depend entirely on sufficiency in all things, may abound to what he sows” (Phillips). every good work." The context of this verse is the money (2 Cor. 9:6-8) given to those who teach the Word of Paul said that all grace would abound toward God. You establish your own harvest by you. The various aspects of grace, that bring your giving to God’s work. God’s ability to you for any area of life, will In Galatians 6:8 Paul says, “For he that increase according to your giving and sowing soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh into the kingdom of God. reap corruption; but he that soweth

That puts the growth and advancement in your life within your inﬂuence. Your willingness to honor God with your wealth, and to reach out in faith to give, brings you to a place of God’s ability multiplying on your behalf.

Your harvest can change if you will choose to sow the right seeds. Let God’s grace for giving be multiplied in you.

Source: Grace Power Beyond Your Ability by Dennis Burke. To say it once again, Galatians 6:7 in the Excerpt permission granted by Phillips translation is the most powerful Dennis Burke Ministries and clear summary of this entire subject: “A man’s harvest in life will depend entirely on what he sows.”

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Three Things Dating is Not Dating is not really a biblical word at all. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong to go out with someone on a “date.” But it is important to remember what the Bible has to say about developing romantic friendships. If you begin dating without some clear guidelines and boundaries, you are headed for disaster. Take a quick glance at what dating is not: Dating is not for those who aren’t ready. In my opinion, dating shouldn’t even be a consideration until a young person is at least 16 years old.

Dating is not a great way to “really get to know someone.” Why? Because everyone is on best behavior during a date. If you really want to get to know someone, watch the person at school every day, or both of you get a job together at McDonald’s. Eight straight hours over a hot greaser full of fries will tell you the real tale.

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with a tinge of humor. Remind yourself about all the rewards that come with a good grade. When studying, write your key points down again. When studying, say your key points aloud multiple times. Pray and ask God to bring those things you’ve learned back to your remembrance (John 14:26).

That’s been “the Law” with my three teenage boys, and they’re doing just ﬁne with it. That doesn’t mean you can’t have good friendships with the opposite sex; just keep things in a group environment.

Dating is not all it’s cracked up to be. Think about two people out together who hardly know each other. They’re young and have limited social skills. They have to try to create awkward conversation for hours on end.

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4 Things To Learn At School That No One Teaches Make no mistake. Your teachers will give you important information that will prove valuable in the days to come: math, history, science, and trigonometry - okay, at least most of it will be valuable. There are also some great things you can learn at school that your teachers will not actually show you. Here they are: Learn the art of discipline. Take advantage of your free time during or between classes to ﬁnish your assignments. Learn to negotiate. Develop your skills working with teachers, coaches, and fellow students to “give and take” in order to reach your goals. Learn to say no. Classmates will ask you to cheat, lie, gossip, lust, vandalize - you name it. Put no in your vocabulary.

When you think of school you may thing of “tests.” The key to passing is the ability to remember what you learned a long time ago, Learn to love without respect of pereven if you were only half awake and it was sons. You will meet people every day a Monday morning. who don’t appeal to you. Love them with Christ’s love in spite of your feelSo here are some keys in doing just that: ings. That includes a witness of your Christian faith. Actually listen to the teacher while in the class.

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RUSSIA TO SELL HEAVY ARMS TO LEBANON by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

ollowing a meeting last week between leading Lebanese legislator Sa’ad Hariri and Russian leaders, Hariri was quoted by Russian media this weekend as saying Russia will sell heavy weaponry to Lebanon. Previously, Hariri said that he hoped Russia would help Lebanon claim Mt. Dov from Israel. Russia is expecting Lebanon to recognize the independence of the breakaway Georgian districts of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Hariri, the son of the assassinated popular former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, represents the Western-backed majority in the Lebanese parliament. Russia will “help the Lebanese army,” the Vremia Novosti newspaper quoted Hariri as saying, “which needs heavy weapons” such as tanks and artillery. American military aid, Hariri told Russian media, only consists of light arms. Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr is to visit Moscow in coming weeks, when the details of the arms deal will be finalized. The Russian state arms export firm, Rosoboronexport, has been boycotted by the United States government for arms deals with Iran, North Korea

and Syria.

In early October, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and urged him not to approve the sale of weapons to Iran and Syria. It was imperative, he told the Russian leader, to “prevent weapons from Syria from reaching extremist elements in Lebanon, such as Hizbullah.” Mt. Dov and Abkhazia-S. Ossetia - Quid Pro Quo? Last week, during an ofﬁcial visit to Moscow by Hariri and other legislators, Lebanese media strongly emphasized Hariri’s expression of his appreciation for Russia’s role in working towards an Israeli withdrawal from the Mt. Dov area (called “Shab’a Farms” in Lebanon) along the Israeli border with Lebanon. A report published by the Beirut-based English-language Daily Star was entitled, “Hariri Looks to Russia to Help Liberate Shab’a Farms”, although the article itself did not present any direct quote on the matter from Lebanese or Russian ofﬁcials. After his meeting with Hariri, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia was against foreign interference in Lebanese domestic affairs. It was not clear if he was referring to actions continued on page 14

Huckabee 2012 Continuned “I’m not frustrated by it,” Huckabee said. “It’s not a resentment on her part. It’s an envy.” Huckabee plans to stay on the national political stage through his shows he’ll host on Fox News Channel and ABC Radio. The former Arkansas governor ran a scrappy but underfunded presidential campaign this year, staying in the race until March, when McCain secured enough delegates to win the nomination. All the other serious Republican contenders had dropped out weeks before. Huckabee ran as a religious conservative, though many conservative leaders wouldn’t support him. Despite a lack of money, Huckabee won the leadoff caucuses in Iowa and seven other states. His book tour will take him to Iowa later this month. Huckabee and McCain had a cordial relationship during the campaign, but Huckabee clearly didn’t like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, another contender for the GOP nomination. In his book, Huckabee slams Romney for changing positions on issues such as abortion rights and gay marriage.

ﬂip-ﬂops!” Huckabee wrote. Romney’s record, he wrote, “was anything but conservative until he changed all the lightbulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.” A spokesman for Romney dismissed Huckabee’s comments in the book as “petty stuff.” “We need to focus on moving the party forward with new ideas,” Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said. “Unfortunately, Mike Huckabee seems more interested in settling scores than bringing people together.” Huckabee said Wednesday he was simply writing with the same candor he showed during the campaign. “There was obvious tension, and again, it wasn’t just me, but with other candidates, and so I addressed where that came from,” Huckabee said. “One of the things people came to believe that they would get from me was candor.” “If I had written this book and totally ignored some of the obvious issues that were there, I think people would have said the book lacked credibility and candor,” he said.

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ike Huckabee wouldn’t rule out a 2012 run for president Wednesday, but he acknowledged it could be hard to take back the spotlight from fellow Republican Sarah Palin. “I’m not ruling anything out for the future, but I’m not making any speciﬁc plans,” Huckabee told reporters at a brieﬁng to promote his new book, “Do the Right Thing.” “It’s not something I’m sitting around thinking about.” Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, said he expects Palin

to continue to have a leading voice in the Republican Party, though he acknowledged he was envious of her meteoric rise after Sen. John McCain brought her out of relative obscurity as governor of Alaska to run with him this year as the vice presidential candidate. Huckabee credited Palin with energizing McCain’s campaign and said that her surprise selection for the GOP ticket helped her to “leapfrog over the process” that other Republicans _ including himself _ had to endure to become national political ﬁgures.

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Still, “the features of the building ... are similar to what may be found in connection with a reactor site,” it said, suggesting facility’s size also fits that picture. The report took note of Syrian assertions that any uranium particles found at the site must have come from Israeli missiles that hit the building, near the town of Al Kibar. And it cited Damascus officials as saying the IAEA samples contained only a “very limited number” of such particles. But the report spoke of a “significant

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number of ... particles” found in the samples. The senior U.N. ofﬁcial said “the onus of this investigation is on Syria” and noted that the traces were not of depleted uranium — the most commonly used variety of the metal in ammunition, meant to harden ordnance for increased penetration. Satellite imagery made public in the wake of the Israeli attack noted that the Syrians subsequently removed substantial amounts of topsoil and entombed the building in concrete. But the report also suggested similar activities at three other Syrian sites of IAEA interest. “Analysis of satellite imagery taken of these locations indicates that landscaping activities and the removal of large containers took place shortly after the agency’s request for access,” it said. Beyond one visit in June to the Al Kibar site, Syria has refused IAEA requests to return to that location and examine the three other sites, citing the need to protect its military secrets. In addition, said the report, “Syria has not yet provided the requested documentation” to back up its assertions that the bombed building was a non-nuclear military facility. Iran denies such plans, saying it wants to enrich for a future largescale civilian nuclear program. But suspicions have been compounded by its monthslong refusal to answer IAEA questions based on U.S., Is-

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ture down on the inside of me. The still small voice of the Holy Spirit would be speaking the living Word of God to my heart.

That is precisely what I am talking about here friend. The only way we are ever going to know what God is saying about our situations, is if we are doing what Jesus At that moment I knew I had a decision to commanded us to do in John chapter 15 make. Do I act on the When we learn to live in At that moment Word of God, or by how the Word, then His Word I feel. After hearing the will begin speaking to us. I knew I had a Word of God, I knew what the answer was to my decision to make. Jesus said “Abide, live, situation. But I still had a Do I act on the or dwell in My Word choice. God was not goThen ask what you will Word of God, or ing to make me act on His and it shall be done.” Word. by how I feel. Start abiding in His Word. This is where you and I Be obedient to every Word have to choose to live by His Word, and not that the Holy Spirit brings to your mind. by our natural reasoning if we want to win. Make the quality decision to live your life by Well Rory, you may say, if I knew what God the Word of God, and you'll start experiencwas saying about my situation, I would do it. ing more of His liberating presence in your I just don’t know what God is saying about life today. my situation.

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all, regardless of border demarcations. A Hizbullah spokesman said last week that the group would not give up it arms until Lebanon had another force capable of confronting Israel.

by Syria, Israel or other foreign interventions. The Iran-controlled Lebanese terrorist organization Hizbullah, in the meantime, said recently that an Israeli withdrawal from Mt. Dov would only be a start. The group claims seven Arab villages in northern Israel are actually Lebanese. In any event, both Iran and Hizbullah have repeatedly made it clear that they do not believe Israel should exist at

Touching on Lebanese policy towards matters in the Slavic states, Hariri was quoted as saying that Lebanon may well recognize the independence of the breakaway Georgian districts of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Russian Vremya Novostei newspaper quoted Hariri as saying, “We will ﬁne tune contacts with South Ossetia and Abkhazia now. For example, delegations of Lebanese businessmen will be leaving for there soon.” Russia has backed the secession of the regions from Georgia, including launching a war in their defense in August of this year.

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n his last Thanksgiving as the Commander in Chief Tuesday, President Bush thanked U.S. troops for a “job well done,” noting that even though thousands of soldiers are returning home, the war is not yet over. During his visit to Fort Campbell, Ky., Bush offered comfort for troops coming back home and for those who are preparing to deploy again. In November alone, more than 10,000 soldiers had returned to the military base, most of them from Iraq.

stressed the importance of victory in the country. “Success will frustrate Iran’s ambitions to dominate the region. Success will show millions across the Middle East that a future of liberty and democracy is possible. Success will deny al-Qaeda a safe haven for launching new attacks,” Bush said. “Success in Iraq will mean that the American people are more secure at home.”

Over the next few weeks, the White House says 3,000 soldiers from the 101st Airborne will deploy to Afghanistan while 450 will be sent to Iraq. In In recent weeks, this post has been January, another 1,200 will be deployed to Iraq from Fort Campbell. the scene of heart-warming family reunions,” he said. “Many of you have recently ﬁnished deployments Bush called the work of the troops “historical” and and said he expected to Iraq. You performed with courtheir efforts in Iraq will resonate far age and distinction on the front lines of the war on terror. You have beyond the country and into history books. returned on success.” Still, the President warned that “the war in Iraq is not over” and

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EVIDENCE FOR CREATION A tremendous pyramid of evidence for design and recent creation is available for detailed study. Romans 1:20 states: “For the invisible things of him from the creation are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead: so that they are without excuse.” 1. Human Artifacts throughout the Geologic Column...Manmade artifacts - such as the hammer in Cretaceous rock, a human sandal print with trilobite in Cambrian rock, human footprints and a handprint in Cretaceous rock – point to the fact that all the supposed geologic periods actually occurred at the same time in the recent past.11 2. Helium Content in Earth’s Atmosphere... Physicist Melvin Cook, found that helium-4 enters our atmosphere from solar wind and radioactive decay of uranium. At present rates our atmosphere would accumulate current helium-4 amounts in less than 10,000 years.12 3. Expansion of Space Fabric...Astronomical estimates of the distance to various galaxies gives conﬂicting data.13 The Biblical Record refers to the expansion of space by the Creator14. Astrophysicist Russell Humphries demonstrates that such space expansion would dilate time in distant space.15 This could explain a recent creation with great distances to the stars.

Belong, Believe, & Be Free 4. Design in Living Systems...A living cell is so awesomely complex that its interdependent components stagger the imagination and defy evolutionary explanations. A minimal cell contains over 60,000 proteins of 100 different conﬁgurations.16 The chance of this assemblage occurring by chance is 1 in 10 4,478,296 .17 5. Design in the Human Brain...The human brain is the most complicated structure in the known universe.18 It contains over 100 billion cells, each with over 50,000 neuron connections to other brain cells.19 This structure receives over 100 million separate signals from the total human body every second. If we learned something new every second of our lives, it would take three million years to exhaust the capacity of the human brain. 20 In addition to conscious thought, people can actually reason, anticipate consequences, and devise plans - all without knowing they are doing so.21

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Lauren Richardson sustained a severe brain injury in August 2006, according to an Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) press release. The doctors then declared she would be in a “persistent vegetative state.” ADF attorney Matt Bowman tells OneNewsNow Lauren’s mother was ﬁghting to have Lauren’s feeding tube and water discontinued, but she had a change of heart. “The

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