Imagine finding a stethoscope that worked in a mysterious way. That’s what this guy did, and imagine his surprise in the end. Another great item sent in by Barbara Anable.
Have a listen to the stethoscope yourself. If you know how to use the full screen mode, it is highly recommended.
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……..If you aren’t one of the over 20 million people who have seen this via internet, I hope you become one. There are probably another 20,000,000 who have seen it in the artist’s country alone.
I define true art as something that “moves” you. Different things move different people. This is true art in my opinion.
I can’t remember who sent this to me months ago. For some reason, I just remembered it today. Don’t know how I forgot to share it.
Chris Reimers
Sand Artist Kseniya Simonova Moves Audience to Tears with Performance Last Year Winning “Ukraine’s Got Talent”
Miss Simonova, 24, drew a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II.
One video clip, of the many now in many places, has gotten over 15 million views
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Click here to watch this incredibly talented young lady (Make sure you watch it in fullscreen mode):
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……..Thank you, Mr. Schwennesen, for some perspective. The media had some of my friends thinking this spill was spoken of in the book of Revelation. Because there was so little information like this available, I had to rely on the Bible. I guess that’s not a bad source. The Bible makes it pretty clear that it couldn’t have been the sea of blood mentioned in its final pages. Thanks for your research on the subject.
Chris Reimers
The Catastrophe That Wasn’t: The Gulf Oil Spill in Perspective
by Paul Schwennesen
August 25, 2010
Nope, not even close. Put a drop of that oil onto a sheet of paper and carefully cut it in half.
Now do it again and toss that quarter of a drop into the deep end. Even this quarter droplet (about the size of the comma in this sentence) is about 10% too large, but NOW you have a sense of what 4.9 million barrels of oil in the Gulf looks like.
Now that we’ve grappled with the issue of scale, let’s look at the aftermath of this ‘catastrophe.’ According to the government scientists, seventy-five percent of that sliver of a droplet has now evaporated, been eaten by microbes, skimmed or burnt. (This estimate is in dispute, but every day the released oil is being reduced to get to that figure, if not beyond it.)
Now, you’re going to need to borrow your kid’s microscope for the rest of this exercise….
“Ah,” says the ecologist in you, “but oil is like poison to an ecosystem, and so any amount is disproportionately harmful.” Well, the science doesn’t agree, but let’s assume for the moment that you’re right. Ignoring that the vast majority of this poison-oil has already been happily consumed by portions of this delicate ecosystem, let’s pretend that oil is to the Gulf what botulinum toxin is to man (really bad news, as it’s the deadliest substance known).
Distributed uniformly, oil would contaminate the water of the Gulf at a ratio of eight thousand millionths per gallon. If the same concentration of botulinum existed in your swimming pool, you could safely spend the day in it without a second thought.
Sure, oil is not distributed uniformly, but shrill cries about the “collapse” of the Gulf’s ecosystem imply that it effects are. It is indeed true that every action has reverberating ecological consequences, but if we delude ourselves into thinking this means disintegration then we risk making poor policy choices.
Good Intentions, Good Analysis, Good Policy
Please don’t misunderstand. I am firmly in the camp of those who think the Gulf ecosystem is a wonderful and valuable thing that we should never take for granted. Furthermore, it’s not my intention here to dismiss or minimize BP’s bungle. Neither am I suggesting cleanup shouldn’t continue with the utmost diligence. After all, “scale” matters not one whit if that sliver of oil washes into your crab pots. Legally, BP should be held to account for their negligence and must make whole anyone whose property or livelihood they have harmed.
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Just last month I posted a story about the acceptance of gay marriage in Mexico and now this. It is increasingly clear that the United Nations is an anti-Christian organization, and that mankind is becoming like it was in the days of Noah. Read this and try not to weep. – CR
By Terrence McKeegan, J.D.
LEON, MEXICO, Sept. 3, 2010 (C-FAM) – Last week at the World Youth Conference, organized primarily by the Mexican government and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the main event for most of the estimated 5000 “participants” was the Interactive Global Forum, a massive expo with hundreds of booths and exhibits. A tour of the booths revealed what passes for “age-appropriate” sexual education in some UN circles.
Because the venue for the World Youth Conference had considerably more exhibit space than most UN conferences, it was a unique opportunity for organizations focusing on youth to put their best face forward. But in the expo hall, there were dozens of booths with pornographic or sexually explicit materials or presentations.
At the International Planned Parenthood Federation (the largest provider of abortion services in the world) booth, their table featured the sexually explicit brochure: “Healthy, Happy, and Hot”, which garnered headlines last March due to its distribution at a Girl Scouts side event at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
At a booth by an organization named “RECREA,” there was a table with a bowl of condoms and a wooden phallus. The walls of the exhibit booth were covered with pornographic and sexually suggestive photos. Nearby there were two glass cases featuring rubber models of male and female genitalia, as well as a bright assortment of condoms.
At the Fundacion Collectivo de Mujeres Jovenes booth, which was staffed by two middle-aged men, the presentation largely consisted of a collection of thong underwear hung up around the booth, as well as a “snakes and ladders” floor game with puffy dice.
The Quilombolas e Gays organization booth was unmanned, but included several official UNAIDS posters. One poster proclaimed, “Create a world… with access to comprehensive sexuality education. A world where health services are always available and affordable. Where all young people have access to condoms. Where confidentiality is respected. Where young people are celebrated for who they are.”
Other highlights of the expo included a live demonstration showing how to put a condom onto a phallus, an organization whose only “literature” consisted of pornographic post cards, and a booth with a large Twister-like floor pad, with cartoonish depictions of human genitals replacing the familiar colored circles of the classic game.
The scene described here was documented at the same time that the First Lady of Mexico toured the expo, guided by Purnima Mane, the Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA. A UNFPA conference dispatch stated that “reallocating existing resources, especially those spent on ineffective programmes such as ‘get tough’ policies against violence, and ‘abstinence only’ programmes against teenage pregnancy, can provide enough funds to make a positive impact.” The dispatch also recommended that UNFPA, “[shift] investment from its current emphasis on the age-groups 25-60 and those 61 and older to a much stronger emphasis on those between 6 and 17 years of age, and also those between 18 and 24.”
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10090303.html
Some of the contents of “Healthy, Happy, and Hot:”
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I’ve read more than a few articles about the peace talks “surrounding” Israel. I never like to be a “negative Nelly,” but I’m, sadly, in agreement with the title above. -CR
Friday, September 3, 2010
By Dr. James M. Hutchens
The Jerusalem Connection
Israel’s Interior Minister Eli Yishai said: “The shootings only prove that peace talks will lead to nowhere, because Hamas is the ruler on the ground, and won’t let the Palestinian Authority reach an agreement.”… “Let’s say [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] makes an agreement with us, where we make painful sacrifices. Hamas and all the other terror organizations will start attacking again – so what did we do? We must stand up for our principles and never give up on them: Stop terror, recognize Israel as a Jewish state, stop provoking violence, and start negotiations without conditions.”
God says: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem a unmovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. … On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.” [Zachariah 12:2-3, 6].
The Jerusalem Connection says: All presidents since Harry Truman have sought the major foreign policy achievement of being the architect of a mid-east peace settlement. All have failed. The present peace Summit must likewise be seen as an exercise in futility. The sons of Isaac will be reconciled to the sons of Ishmael only when the Messiah comes. On-going peace summits are merely speed bumps that slow the march to the inevitable conflagration that the prophets foretold. The best that can be hoped for in the meantime is the defeat, containment and dismantling of the terrorist infrastructure of Israel’s Jihadist foes. The visceral hate of Palestinians for Jews is embedded in their DNA. No peace summit will ever change that. Only the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ can change that. For believers however, we should pray what Jesus told us to pray, with the expectation that if he said pray for it, he intends to answer the prayer: “Be always on the watch and pray that you may have the power to escape all that is about to happen and that you may stand before the Son of Man.” [Luke 21:36].
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By Manny of “Kairos Now”
The vast majority of the so-called Body of Christ is like a great centipede slowly marching toward the cliffs of deception and whistling as it walks. At the head of the slick body of the great centipede, snug in the control room, are the leaders of this well-healed, fits-all-limbs spectacle. The leaders flash cue cards ordering a hasty change of tennis shoes. Slowly from the front to rear, the change comes like dominoes falling in succession.
Jesus warned us that there would be deception in the end times:
Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. (Matthew 24:11)
For false Christ’s and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. (Matthew 24:24)
Pollster George Barna has recorded the present state of the Body of Christ for us.
1. 34 percent of those who call themselves “born-again,” 53 percent of all Christians, and 73 percent of mainline Protestants believe that if a person is good, he will go to heaven. In other words, you do not need Jesus to go to heaven.
2. 66 percent of evangelicals do not believe that the bible is totally accurate; 74 percent of Catholics and 42 percent of all Christians agree.
3. 28 percent of “born-again” Christians, 65 percent of evangelicals, and 40 percent of all Christians believe that Jesus was a sinner when He walked the earth.
4. 52 percent of those who call themselves “born-Again,” 72 percent of Catholics, and 80 percent of all Christians do not believe that the devil is real, that he is only a symbol of evil.
5. 55 percent of “born-again” Christians and 61 percent of all Christians do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a person, only a symbol of God’s presence and power.
6. 35 percent of “born-again” Christians and 39 percent of all Christians do not believe that Jesus rose from the dead bodily.
Some modern Christian “beliefs” are pure blasphemies that no longer follow the Bible’s clear teaching. Many religious leaders have joined “ecumenical” movements claiming that you do not have to know Jesus to get to heaven; just live a “good life.” They have bitten into the lie and openly question the authority and accuracy of scripture. Sounds like the same questioning the serpent laid out for Eve and her husband.
Many are endorsing and performing same-sex marriages. Some groups are even ordaining openly homosexual clergy. Moreover, these are church leaders!
Where do you stand? Do you believe they are right? Will you join with them and just fall in step with great centipede?
These are crucial questions. There are many leaders who are so afraid of losing their tax-exempt status that they dare not say anything against the wave of the great Social Gospel and political correctness.
Jesus said:
Do not think that I come to come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in –law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be those of his own household. He who loves father and mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. (Matthew 10:34-37)
Many preachers share a salvation message that promises, “Become a Christian, and God will bless you. You will have everything you ever wanted.”
What is the true Gospel of the Kingdom?
In the early church, the only true gospel of salvation was that of the cross of Jesus. The Apostle Paul wrote:
Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1:22-24)
The true gospel of salvation is the cross! Paul wrote:
And I brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)
The apostle Paul was a man with a great ability to preach and teach. He was very wise. Why would he admonish us to work out our salvation in fear and trembling, and why did he avoid enticing words of man’s wisdom? Because he feared that he would somehow compromise the message of the cross.
Many preachers today have no such fear and trembling, they draw people into their churches with enticing words of man’s wisdom, rejecting the message of the cross and repentance in favor of the promises of blessings and prosperity for anyone who becomes a Christian. The proof is in the previous poll and its sickening results. Many preachers will not ever talk about sin, the cross, or the blood of Jesus.
Jeremiah 6:13-15 speaks of preachers of so-called peace. If you look up the definition of peace in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, the definition states peace is prosperity. Some have grown rich and refuse to turn back to God’s ways. For them surrendering your life to God has become passé. Hear what Jeremiah says in the very next verse: Thus says the Lord: stand in the ways and see, ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls.” But they said, “We will not walk in it.” (Jeremiah 6:16).
Some of those who continue to preach the unadulterated truth of repentance, sacrifice, and the taking up of one’s cross, have become unpopular, rejected, and even ostracized. Their congregations may not swell into thousands or even hundreds. They preach what the saints need to hear, not what they want to hear.
Satan’s greatest strategy is to deceive the whole world. Jesus repeatedly warned of the great deception in the end times. Sadly enough, the great centipede is goose stepping its way, flashing lights in the heals of its Reeboks, chanting “gay is okay, just come and sway this way, we have plenty of shoes that will fit in a politically correct way.”
The scriptures stand as given, but many pastors and church leaders are not walking in the truth. It is apparently too hard for them to digest and speak the Word as admonished by Paul in Ephesians 4:15 -”speaking the truth in love…” They speak of a watered down gospel and lead many to damnation. “Straight is the gate and narrow is the way, and few there be there in.”
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A “BUILDING” THAT CAN’T BE BOMBED
September 10, 2010Whoever planned the 911 attacks of nine years ago missed the most important “building,” figuratively speaking. They thought they hit the most important building, but they missed it by a long shot.
The “building” to which I refer is the church of Jesus Christ.
Two tall buildings, and others, were destroyed 9 years ago.
The church will never be destroyed. It is not a building. It is a group of people.
Jesus said, “…the gates of Hades will not overpower it.”
Some members of the church of Jesus Christ died 9 years ago. They were attacked and killed, but their souls were not destroyed.
The church can be and is being attacked today. It can’t be destroyed.
Most church goers today have trouble finding 2nd Timothy. It is a small book towards the back of the Bible that was written by Paul while he was imprisoned in Rome. They are his last words before martyrdom.
It would be good for everyone to read the four chapters of this little book today. It takes about 20 minutes.
From chapter 3:
1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…
Sure sounds a lot like our world today.
Those men who were responsible for killing over 3,000 Americans 9 years ago could not be described better.
In the final chapter (4) that he ever penned, Paul wrote:
3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires…”
This is a good description of many within “Christian” churches today. Many in those churches no longer believe in absolute truth.
The truth is:
An insidious attack took place in New York 9 years ago.
An insidious attack has been taking place within many of the churches for years.
Many think they are going to heaven because of their good deeds. The Bible says that no one will go to heaven because of their goodness.
We must get back to simple Bible truths.
When Paul wrote these final words, the many churches he had started were experiencing attacks from within and without. It is no different today.
Today’s news will be filled with stories of the events that took place 9 years ago. It should be a reminder. Life is vaporous (Ecclesiastes). There are no guarantees.
It should cause us to stop and examine our condition.
Do we know God?
Chris Reimers
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