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Hi and shalom! Today is December 22 and nearly 32 degrees in my corner of the world. I was not intending to post until January but after receiving this week's Media Review from the Mission Organization, Caspari Center felt it necessary. Would you consider making a donation to the ministry of Caspari Center PO Box 147 Wheaton, Illinois to honor the 2 victims of this report, one of whom formerly worked with Caspari Center apparently. I think the ministry may need to know other believers care and also words of comfort may be appreciated if so led. If you google caspari center media review, you can get the web site and contact info that way. This is lengthy and the details are not pretty. See you next year. This week's Review includes a report on the assault on Kay Wilson - a former editor of the Media Review - and the death of her friend Kristine Luken after they were attacked by two men while hiking. (Most of the articles mistakenly spelled the name Christine Logan. The Review ha...

Hi and shalom! Today remains chilly in my corner of the blogosphere, 25 when getting out of the sack this morning. This time of year Holiday music is played on the radio, and I often think back to attending concert performances by the DSO (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) of Handel's Messiah, in the early-mid 1970s. There were plenty of solos amid the choral pieces, and the climax always seemed to be the audience standing and singing The Hallelujah Chorus with the performing orchestra and choir. Quite moving! Someone on a forum I participate reminded us that Yeshua HaMashiach is not only King Messiah but brother and servant Messiah to those who by faith believe in Him. Most the liturgical churches forget He is a Jewish Savior, think of Him as a baby and then a King, and are steeped in replacement theology though many of them have professed to come out of that. Perhaps like old habits, doctrine too dies hard. Where I attend the pastor neglected to mention Easter referring to a goddess...