Hope is the anchor of our souls.


Hello,

The Detroit Red Wings play the Washington Capitols this afternoon.

Have a great Sunday service,

Bill

Remember, love never fails.

Hi,

All of us will be cheering for the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday in the Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Kurt Warner is one of my all time favorite quarterbacks.

Have a great weekend,

Bill

Believers can operate according to the Law of Sacrifice.


Do You Know Your Bible?
Answers to previous quiz.

1. In Heaven. (Rev. 11:19)
2. In the breastplate. (Lev. 8:8)
3. Fire came down from Heaven and consumed the sacrifices; God's glory filled the place. (2 Chron. 7:1)
4. Fourteen. (1 Kings 8:65)
5. Asaph. (Ps. 50:1; 1 Chron. 6:4-6)


New Quiz: Meanings of Words #1
Answer these questions.

1. What name for Jesus, meaning "Anointed One", did Daniel use when writing about the end times?
2. What name for Jesus, did the Angel of the Lord use when speaking to the shepherds?
3. What patriarch, whose name means "laughter", was born to a woman who laughed when she learned she would be a mother?
4. What name for Jesus, meaning " God with us", was first used by Isaiah?
5. What did the name Barnabas mean?

Answers and a new quiz will be posted next Thursday!

Believers can operate according to the Law of Expediency.


Shalom,

The joy of the Lord is your strength. Remember, any good thing that happens in your life, give God the credit. Any bad thing that happens in your life, don't blame God.

May God's richest and best be yours,

Bill

Believers can operate according to the Law of Love.


Hello,

The Detroit Red Wings will be playing their first game after the All Star break tonight when they travel to Ohio to play the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Shalom,

Bill

Believers can operate according to the Law of Liberty.


Hi,

The Minnesota Vikings will be entering the 2009 season as NFC North Division Champions.

Have a great day,

Bill

Jesus is coming back soon!


Hello,

The Yankees of 2009 have a new stadium, two new starting pitchers and an All Star first baseman.

Have a great week,

Bill

Jesus is my Lord!


Hi,

The Detroit Red Wings lead the Central Division of the Western Conference with a 31-9-6 record and 68 points.

Have a great Sunday service,

Bill

Some of the fans of the Blaine Bengals boys high school basketball team.

Shalom,

The God of the Bible wants all of His children to be healthy. The world thinks they have a number of problems. Really, what they do have are many symptoms of one problem.

The one problem the world has is ignorance of God's Word. Solve that problem and the symptoms will go away.

Have a great weekend,

Bill

The Holy Spirit leads, guides and directs believers.

Do You Know Your Bible?

Answers to previous quiz.

1. Nebuchadnezzar. (2 Kings 24:11-14; Jer. 52:12-23)

2. By grasping the horns of the altar. (1 Kings 1:50)

3. Shiloh. (Josh. 18:1)

4. Mount Moriah. (2 Chron. 3:1)

5. Linen (Exod. 26:1) and goats' hair. (Exod. 26:7)

New Quiz: Places Of Worship #5

Answer these questions.

1. Where will the Ark of the Covenant ultimately be found?

2. On what article of the high priest's clothing were the Urim and Thummim placed?

3. How did God show His presence at the dedication of Solomon's temple?

4. How many days did the people celebrate following the completion of Solomon's temple?

5. What writer of Psalms was a supervisor of the music at Solomon's temple?

Answers and a new quiz will be posted next Thursday!

Heaven is a beautiful place.

Hi,

Jeremiah 31:36 says "Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day , and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, Who divides the sea when the waves thereof roar: the Lord of hosts is His name. If those ordinances depart from before me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever".

I am not one to say the Jews are right no matter what. But the starting point for discussion is that Israel has a right to exist, and they have a right to determine the terms of their own existence. As we do in America. Until that happens, one cannot begin to discuss the Palestinian claim.

Shalom,

Bill

Jesus wants you healthy, wealthy and wise!


Hi,

America is the "great melting pot" consisting of every race, creed and religious perspective under the sun. So, too, is Israel.

The statement that the Jews are being castigated on race when they are people "of a particular birth, irrespective of their faith, and those of a particular faith, irrespective of their birth" is accurate.

Therefore hardly "racist".

Any Arab argument against Arabs being second class citizens in Israel is immediately counter-balanced by the record of human rights extended to Jews in Muslim countries.

The radical Islamists claim to be "People of the Book". The "Book" being the Bible, including the Old Testament. Yet they say Israel has no right to exist as a nation. They should take a look into the "Book" they claim to follow. (Jeremiah 31:36)

Have a great day,

Bill

Rejoice in the Lord always!


Hi,

Americans don't like to remind themselves that we stole the land from the Indians, but nobody denies what a "native American" is.

One would guess it's all in how you define "native" but I wouldn't try that one on the Apaches, or even the Mexicans, when referring to the American Southwest.

The only reason we aren't behaving as the Israelis are is because the Mexicans aren't setting off bombs in Safeway supermarkets across California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico because we "stole" them from Mexico.

But what do you think America's response would be if they did? Would the UN call Americans a single "race" in order to lay charges of genocide, racism and ethnic cleansing against the Mexicans?

Have a nice day,

Bill

Love never fails!

Hi,

The 2009 Super Bowl will feature the Arizona Cardinals against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Have a great week,

Bill

See you in church tomorrow morning!


Hello,

The Detroit Red Wings play the San Jose Sharks tonight in a battle for 1st place in the NHL Western Conference.

Shalom,

Bill

Every day keep Jesus as your #1 focus.

Hello,

We had an outstanding Women of the Word meeting tonight at The Spoken Word Church.

Have a great weekend,

Bill

Sing to the Lord a new song! Come before His presence with singing!


Do You Know Your Bible?
Answers to previous quiz.

1. Almond blossoms. (Exod. 37:20)
2. Shittim wood. (Exod. 37:25)
3. A veil or curtain. (Exod. 26:33)
4. Brass. (Exod. 27:19)
5. Zerubbabel. (Ezra 3:2)


New Quiz: Places Of Worship #4
Answer these questions.

1. Who destroyed Solomon's temple?
2. By what act could someone claim sanctuary in the temple?
3. When the Israelites moved into the Promised Land, what city became the permanent home of the tabernacle?
4. On what site did Solomon build the temple?
5. What two types of materials were used to make the curtains in the tabernacle?

Answers and a new quiz will be posted next Thursday!

Every member of the Body of Christ is unique and special to God.

Hi,

Maybe the concept that Jews practice "racial superiority" doesn't bother the UN, but since I know Jews of virtually every single race including those of Arab countries, it bothers me. The main argument against Israel, from the Arab perspective, is that the Israelis stole the land from the "native" people of the region.

First, the question of the "native" people of the region. The Book of Psalms, chapter 137, penned three thousand years ago by a Jew/Israelite, says, "If i forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If i do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy."

The Jewish sacred writings of antiquity refer to Jerusalem some 767 times, compared to the Koran, which does not mention it once.

Americans don't like to remind themselves that we stole the land from the Indians, but nobody denies what a "native American".

Until next time,

Bill

God is a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.


Hi,

At the beginning of the twentieth century, "Palestinian" cities included Acre, Jerusalem, Amman, Damascus and Baghdad.

Syria was created by the British and subsequently given to France as the French Mandate. The Syrians declared independence after the British left in 1946, two years before Israel did the same thing. How are they different? They are both historically "Palestinian".

Either both the Arab Middle East and the Jewish homeland are equally valid, or equally invalid, since both were created by the same power at the same time. You can't have it both ways. But facts don't seem to bother the UN or the Arabs much. It seems that when facts get in the way, they are dismissed as "Jewish Propaganda".

The Palestinians chose Arafat to stand up for them. They don't need our help. Arafat did quite a good job at Durban. Israel was the only nation singled out for condemnation for it's "racist, genocidal practices".

Have a great day,

Bill

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!

Hello,

Let's continue our discussion about what is happening in the Middle East. The Kurds were no happier about it than were the Arabs of the Ottoman Empire who the world now refers to as the Palestinians. Nobody at the UN is calling for the redrawing of that map.

Three fourths of what became Iraq were Assyrians of Mesopotamia who woke up one morning as Iraqis. Where is the UN's indignation at Saddam's ethnic cleansing of the Kurds? Israel never wiped out any villages (Kurdish, Palestinian or otherwise) with poison gas.

Or is this all Jewish propaganda? Better tell the Arabs. Most of this is on the Arab-Net website, as well. They will want to revise that.

And Jordan was created by the British in 1921 as Trans-Jordan. Is it not really Jordan at all?

What is really hard to find in history is a nation of Palestine. If we use Palestine as it was through the Ottoman Turks from 1517-1917, there is no Jordan, Syria or Lebanon. I haven't heard those countries offering to dissolve themselves and give their land to the PLO.

Have a nice day,

Bill

Remember to keep Jesus as your Financial Expert.


Shalom,

Looks like another good week in January. Lots of things to keep everyone busy. Remember to spend time daily in intimate fellowship with the God of the Bible. He will operate through you and make you a blessing to each and every person you come contact with.

Have a supernatural week,

Bill

Jesus is Lord over Wisconsin!

Shalom,

The Detroit Red Wings host the Buffalo Sabres tonight at Joe Louis Arena.

Have a great Sunday service,

Bill

Jesus wants everyone healthy, wealthy and wise.

Hi,

We saw the global reaction when Iraq tried to undo the British freehand redrawing of the map of the Middle East when he reclaimed "Province 19" or what the British have called Kuwait since 1899.

It's important to remember also that Iraq was both "Mesopotamia" and "Palestine" until the British created the modern state, Iraq, carving it out of a number of different of provinces (there were no countries, just provinces) of the Ottoman Empire. The British completely forgot to draw borders for Kurdistan.

Have a great weekend,

Bill

Jesus is coming back very soon!


Do You Know Your Bible?
Answers to previous quiz.

1. Seven years. (1 Kings 6:38)
2. The Lord Himself is the Temple. (Rev. 21:22)
3. Every day. (Exod. 30:7-9)
4. David. (1 Chron. 23-24)
5. The people of Israel, through freewill offerings. (Exod. 35:39)


New Quiz: Places of Worship #3
Answer these questions.

1. What were the holders on the lampstand in the tabernacle designed to look like?
2. What material was used to make the altar of incense in the tabernacle?
3. What separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place?
4. What material was to be used to make the tent pegs of the tabernacle?
5. What son of Shealtiel is credited with helping to rebuild the temple after the Babylonian captivity?

Answers and a new quiz will be posted next Thursday!

Jesus is my Healer, Doctor and great Physician.

Hi,

The Palestinian Authority has never revised its Charter calling for Israel's destruction or denying its right to exist. Oh, they convened a meeting to discuss it. Then they said they had a meeting and agreed to change it. That was as far as they went.

The Arab world claims Israel is an "occupying power". The Durban Conference, in its modified declaration, makes the same explicit statement.

What about the claims of the Arab's to their homelands? The same British Government that created the modern Arab world in 1920 at the San Remo Conference in Italy, by decree, also created a Jewish homeland, the same way at the same conference.

The Jewish Palestine of the Balfour Declaration, as confirmed at San Remo, encompassed a much bigger chunk of ground than Israel claims today.

In Him,

Bill

The God of the Bible loves ALL believers and unbelievers. Is there any reason you can't receive Jesus as your Lord and personal Saviour right now?


Hello,

As the battle of Gaza continues, so does the rhetoric about "Israeli occupation" and "legitimate resistance" and all the other buzzwords that have been misused for so long that they've lost all genuine meaning.

Gaza isn't "occupied" by Israel. Israel abandoned Gaza to itself. For Gazans, there is nothing to "resist". Those are just words, but look who is repeating them. Heads of state. Leaders of important charity groups. Entire Protestant church denominations. The Archbishop of Canterbury!

Have a good day,

Bill

Jesus is Lord over Ladysmith, Wisconsin!

Hi,

The last few weeks I have been asked about the situation in the nation of Israel. I will be making statements about that situation over the next few days.

Israel is not fighting against Gaza, it is fighting for its own survival. Gaza just happens to be where the current threat is coming from.

One does not have to know the real history of the Middle East to know that the only "occupation" being opposed by Hamas is the occupation of Israel by Jews. The Western world knows the truth, but it prefers the propaganda version.

Have a nice day,

Bill

We had a great first service of 2009 at The Spoken Word Church this morning!

Hi,

The Minnesota Vikings lost a playoff game to the Philadelphia Eagles today at the Metrodome by a score of 26-14.

Have a great week,

Bill

The children of The Spoken Word Church love praising Jesus!!!


Hi,

The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Minnesota Wild tonight 3-2 in an exciting overtime shootout.

Have a great Sunday service,

Bill

Bill near one of the many beautiful lakes in North East Minnesota.

Do You Know Your Bible?

Answers to previous quiz.

1. A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons. (Luke 2:24)

2. Twelve. (Lev. 24:5)

3. One. (Exod. 25:31)

4. The high priest on the Day of Atonement. (Lev. 16:30-34)

5. He had shed too much blood. (1 Chron. 22: 7-8)

New Quiz: Places Of Worship #2

Answer these questions.

1. How long did it take Solomon to build the temple?

2. Why is there no temple in the New Jerusalem?

3. How often did the high priest burn incense on the golden altar?

4. Who was famous for making a detailed organization of temple personnel?

5. Who supplied the materials to build the tabernacle?

Answers and a new quiz will be posted next Thursday!

May God's richest and best be yours in 2009!


Hi,

The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 6-4 in an NHL outdoor game at Wrigley Field in Chicago today.

Have a great weekend,

Bill