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Flowers are springing up, birds are singing, and all around us, we sense that we’re finally crawling out of the gloom of the deadly global pandemic. We have lost loved ones, income, businesses, and education. What seems certain is that we will never truly recover. But is it actually certain? Or is that just today’s headline, and there’s more to the story? The power of Easter is the power of resurrection. Resurrection means the triumph of life over death. Because of the miracle of Easter, we have a promise, and the power, of resurrection life. No headline was gloomier 2000...

Actor Jim Caviezel, world-famous for his portrayal of Jesus in the blockbuster 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ, has confirmed that he is joining forces with director Mel Gibson to reprise his role in a sequel about the Resurrection, now on the drawing board. “There are things that I cannot say that will shock the audience," said the actor in a USA Today interview. “It's great. Stay tuned.” “The Resurrection. Big subject. Oh, my God,” said Director Mel Gibson in a 2016 interview. “We’re trying to craft this in a way that’s cinematically compelling and enlightening so that it...

A Good And Blessed Happy Easter! Jesus Christ Has Risen Indeed!

It was in a 1925 essay entitled “The Best Picture” that Aldous Huxley made the claim that a 1478 fresco painting by Piero della Francesca (1420–92), in the little Italian town of San Sepolcro (Holy Sepulcher) in the upper Tiber valley, was “the greatest picture in the world.” It is true that critics and connoisseurs before Huxley, and many after him, also made very high claims for Piero’s relatively few surviving paintings. Much of his work, sadly, was destroyed shortly after his death, and in the early 1800s vandalistic Napoleonic French troops fired damaging shots at his great fresco...

Be at peace in My Presence , learn to rest in My WellSpring , " I AM You in You " ! My Fullness AT REST in True Peace . Peace at rest is "Tranquility " ~ ~ ~

Check out this video from Turkey of a stray cat comforting his fallen friend. As I watched this video, it made me aware of the lost feeling those who do not believe in God must have when a loved one dies. After all, If they have no God to believe in, then they do not have comfort when they lose a loved one.   Further more, if they do not have Christ, then they also do not understand that through Him there will be a resurrection of the dead. Some to eternal life and others to eternal damnation.  I cannot...

The death and resurrection of Christ has been called into question by a radical new interpretation of a tablet found on the eastern bank of the Dead Sea. The three-foot stone tablet appears to refer to a Messiah who rises from the grave three days after his death - even though it was written decades before the birth of Jesus. The ink is badly faded on much of the tablet, known as Gabriel’s Vision of Revelation, which was written rather than engraved in the 1st century BC. This has led some experts to claim that the inscription has been overinterpreted....

A media company that produced a best-selling documentary asserting that Jesus Christ never existed today launches its "War on Easter," encouraging volunteer atheists to plant copies of the film "The God Who Wasn't There" in churches across the United States. Dubbing the effort "Operation Easter Sanity," Brian Flemming, a self-described "former Christian fundamentalist" and president of Beyond Belief Media, hopes to covertly place 666 copies of the documentary in churches by Easter Sunday, April 16. The number 666 is the biblical mark of "The Beast," which also is the name of another film by Flemming set for a 06-06-06 release....

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + CENTER FOR RECLAIMING AMERICA 3/24/05 Dear (redacted), For you and I the answer is easy, but this Easter Season, many thousands may not know where to find the answer... That is why we are writing you today. We need your help in spreading the word about a very special Easter broadcast of the Coral Ridge Hour. In light of Mel Gibson's amazing movie, The Passion of the Christ, and subsequent network and cable specials focusing...

Lately, even as I hear the war drums incessantly beating with regard to Iraq, I've heard numerous radio ads reminding all "young men" that registration for "selective service" is "the law". Could it possibly be that a ressurection of the draft is being contemplated? And if so will this draft be "selective" in the sense that it won't "select" the children of our national leaders(?) (as apparently was the case with Vietnam?) My own three boys are a few years from being eligable for such a draft, and I've shared with them my belief that the integrity of our leadership...