Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Paul Crouch - Christian Leaders Mourn Loss and Honor His Memory

Christian Leaders Mourn Loss, Honor Memory of Paul Crouch

Paul Crouch, who co-founded the Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) with his wife, Jan, 40 years ago,passed away Saturday at 2:32 a.m. at the age of 79 after more than a decade of chronic heart problems.

Under his direction, TBN has become the most-watched faith network in the U.S. TBN reaches every major continent via 84 satellite channels and more than 18,000 television and cable affiliates around the world.

Christian leaders across denominations are offering their condolences to the family and honoring the memory of the Christian television pioneer.

Billy Wilson, Oral Roberts University

“I am deeply thankful for life of Paul Crouch Sr. and his passionate work sharing the gospel around the world through media. I am confident that his contribution to the growth of the global Spirit-empowered movement will continue to bear fruit as TBN continues into the 21st century. Our prayers are with the entire Crouch family during this time of loss.”

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

"Everyone at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association extends our condolences to the family of Paul Crouch Sr., who, along with his wife, Jan, founded the Trinity Broadcast Network in 1973. ... He and the TBN family have been longtime friends and supporters of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse."

Military Bible Association

Dr. Crouch had a passion for missions to the military, such that he visited the troops in Baghdad and invited military personnel on the air at TBN, which encompasses 26 global networks and affiliates around the world.

One such guest was retired U.S. Army Chaplain (Maj.) Jim Linzey, who recalls the honor of being with Dr. Crouch on Behind the Scenes and when singing on TBN with the Vanguard Chorale when he was a student at Southern California College:

"Dr. Crouch was a deeply spiritual man and extremely professional. He was absolutely a delight to be with and discuss anything in front of the camera. I appreciated the opportunity to talk about military ministry in the Middle East."

Linzey also opened the Praise the Lord program with prayer at Dr. Crouch's invitation.

GEB America

“The ministry of Paul Crouch Sr. is truly remarkable,” says GEB America President Ossie Mills. "GEB America founder and chancellor of the university that bears his name, Oral Roberts, was a pioneer in Christian television. Without a doubt, Paul Sr. took that concept to the next level and beyond.

“The entire family of networks of TBN throughout the world has and continues to impact the entire world for Jesus Christ. We are so deeply grateful for Paul Sr. allowing God to use his life to send His message of hope into homes everywhere. The GEB America family is praying for Jan, Paul Jr., Matt and their entire family and celebrates his life with them.”

Editor's Note: I watched TBN a lot during the '80's and beyond. We have much gratitude for the pioneering and courageous spirit Paul Crouch shared during his lifetime here on earth. Enjoy heaven for eternity Paul!

Steve Martin

Love For His People

Indeed. - "How Long..."

How Long Must Israel 'Give Peace a Chance'?

Tuesday, December 03, 2013 | Aviel Schneider, Israel Today

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Since US-brokered peace talks resumed at the end of July, Israeli and Palestinian delegations have held more than 15 sessions. The meetings, which took place in Jerusalem and Palestinian-ruled Jericho, focused on thorny “final status” issues: Jewish settlements, Palestinian refugees and the future borders of a Palestinian state; but the most dramatic debate was on Jerusalem.

US Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up the pressure on Israel to reach a deal within the nine-month framework (i.e., by the end of April 2014), warning that failure could spark a Third Intifada (Palestinian uprising).

“How many times does Israel have to make concessions until the world realizes that peace with the Muslim nations is almost impossible?” an official in the Prime Minister’s Office said to Israel Today. “The Arab states cannot come to terms with a Jewish state in their midst.”

The rest of this story can be read in the December 2013 issue of Israel Today Magazine.

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Is the Temple menorah from 70 A.D. there in Rome?

Holiness, mystery and ancient secrets: Inside the Vatican

Israel Hayom diplomatic correspondent Shlomo Cesana on his meeting with Pope Francis • "Jerusalem is important to both of us," I say. He smiles and recites a blessing in Latin: "Next year in Jerusalem."

Shlomo Cesana

Israel Hayom political correspondent Shlomo Cesana with the pope. "Jerusalem is important to both of us"

Photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom

When you enter the catacombs of the Vatican, it is impossible not to remember the best movies made about the Holy See, whether it be "Angels & Demons" starring Ayelet Zurer and Tom Hanks, which is based on the book by Dan Brown, or "The Da Vinci Code" by the same author.

Holiness, mystery and ancient secrets go hand in hand in the imagination as well as reality. In the end, it is all based on the tradition of the Hanukkah holiday, which commemorates the miracles of the Maccabees who purified the Temple in Jerusalem and lit the menorah there.

Two hundred and five years later, the menorah was pillaged and taken into exile in a march of triumph to Rome, where the event was commemorated in relief on the Arch of Titus. More than 2,000 years later, the prime minister of Israel gave a silver menorah to the pope at the Vatican. Reality trumps any fiction.

Now the prime minister of the Jews is asking the pope -- the leader of 1.2 billion faithful -- to save the world from the forces of evil emanating from Tehran, and not to rely on the good graces of heaven.

The connection between Jerusalem and Rome goes back to ancient times. The foundations of Western culture were laid in Jerusalem and Rome.

In Jerusalem, the ethical prophets gave added value to the Torah set down by our forefather Moses, whether in relations between one person and another or between a person and their God. The vision of peace on earth and the hopes for salvation of our nation and of the entire world. These values reached Rome and the seat of Christianity and were distributed from there to the entire world.

Pope Francis has brought a new spirit to the Vatican. The symbol of the Vatican, the key that Jesus gave Paul in Banias at the foot of Mount Hermon, hangs at the entrance to his office and reminds us again, like all the beautiful wall frescoes, of the connection to the Torah of Israel, to the land of Israel and to Jerusalem. With a wide smile he extends a hand to me. "Jerusalem is important to both of us," I say, as someone who wrote the book "A Guide to the City of Jerusalem." He smiles and recites a blessing in Latin: "Next year in Jerusalem."

Prime Minister Netanyahu also met on Monday with the pope, accompanied by his wife, Sara Netanyahu. The two told the pope about their son who won the National Bible Contest, and the connection between Jewish sources and the foundations of Christianity. In the meeting with Pope Francis, who is expected to visit Israel in May 2014, the prime minister asked him to stay in Israel for five days and not three as planned, in order to have time to visit additional sites that are holy to Christianity. "Come to the synagogue in Chorazin, Jesus visited there," the prime minister said.

Netanyahu also gave the pope a copy, in English, of a book that his father Professor Benzion Netanyahu wrote about the Spanish Inquisition, as well as a large silver menorah. The pope gave Netanyahu a medallion bearing the figure of Paul -- Jesus' most important disciple. Later, when the prime minister was meeting with his Italian counterpart Enrico Letta, his wife Sara had lunch with the Italian prime minister's wife, Gianna Letta.

The two of them spoke of the Hanukkah holiday, about strengthening women and about the fact that the two of them continue to work despite their husbands' job as prime minister: Letta as a journalist and Netanyahu as a child psychologist in Jerusalem.

More Amazing Photos by Shlomo and Sonia Narinsky -- Jewish Photographers Exiled by the Turks, Swept Up by the Nazis

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

More Amazing Photos by Shlomo and Sonia Narinsky

-- Jewish Photographers Exiled by the Turks,

Swept Up by the Nazis

Posted: 02 Dec 2013 04:08 AM PST

"A Vernomito (Yemenite) Jew in Jerusalem"
(Library of Congress, 1921)
See also "A
Spanish Jew of Jerusalem"

"A Bedouin in his happy mood,"
(Library of Congress, 1921)

A rabbi and his grandson
(Ynet News)

We first introduced our readers to theNarinskys' photographs in July 2013.

Last week we were contacted by Laurent Phillippe who introduced us to his Jewish post card blog which contains more photos taken by the Narinsky's. We're happy to present them here and to encourage readers to visit Phillippe's site.

To recap, Shlomo Narinsky was born in the Ukraine in 1885 and studied art in Moscow,

Jewish woman
(Phillippe collection, 1921)

Paris and Berlin before moving to Palestine where he set up a studio. In 1916, Shlomo and his wife were exiled to Egypt by the Turkish rulers. They returned to the Land of Israel after the British captured the territory in 1918.

In 1932, the Narinskys opened a studio in Paris, but Shlomo was arrested when the Nazis captured France. He was later exchanged for a German spy caught in Palestine after the intercession of David Ben-Gurion and Yitzchak Ben-Zvi. The Narinskys returned to Israel, eventually moving to Haifa where Shlomo taught as a photography teacher. He died in 1960, relatively unknown.

Laurent Phillippe's collection also includes many vintage postcards/photographs of Jewish life a century ago in North Africa and Europe.

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Jewish village of Yavniel established in the Galilee in 1901
(Phillippe collection, 1921)

Beneath Mt.Tabor in the Galilee
(Phillippe collection, 1921)

Monday, December 2, 2013

Jerusalem: 4000 Years in 5 Minutes

Jerusalem, a mosaic of different peoples, faiths, and nationalities. Nevertheless, despite this diversity, under the sovereignty of Israel, Jerusalem is a city that works. But has it always been this way?

Israel's Independence Day May 1948

Hanukkah's 6th night

The server candles and six candles

are lit the 6th night of Hanukkah.

Love For His People & Desire of All Nations (Jim Nesbit)

A good cup of coffee

(Artwork of Lion of Judah

Jim Nebit's - "Desire of All Nations"

You too can get Jim's artwork here:

James Nesbit Prophetic Art

Christmas in Bethlehem

Bethlehem Starts Christmas Season Early

CBNNews.com

Monday, December 02, 2013

The Christmas season is underway early in Bethlehem, as the town of Jesus' birth kicked off its celebration with a tree lighting ceremony Sunday.

Several thousand people gathered for the event in Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity. The church is built on the site where some Christians believe Jesus was born.

Last year, the tree lights were switched on in mid-December, but a Bethlehem official said the city is expanding the season to attract more visitors.

Christians make up a small minority of Palestinians, and Bethlehem is one of the only areas where Christmas is really celebrated.

Pope Francis meets Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Rome

Benjamin Netanyahu and Pope Francis

Netanyahu-pope meeting at Vatican explores Middle East, papal trip to Israel
December 2, 2013 Jerusalem Telegraphic Agency JTA

(JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pope Francis in their first face-to-face meeting talked about the Middle East and plans for a papal trip to Israel, among other issues.

Also at Monday’s closed-door, 25-minute audience at the Vatican, Netanyahu presented the pope with a book about the Spanish Inquisition written by his father, the late historian Benzion Netanyahu. The dedication read, ”To the great pastor and guardian of our common heritage.”

The Vatican said in a statement that the talks focused on the “complex political and social situation in the Middle East, with particular reference to the reinstatement of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, expressing hope that a just and lasting solution respecting the rights of both parties may be reached as soon as possible.”

During the meeting, Netanyahu reiterated the invitation to the pope to visit Israel that was extended earlier by Israeli leaders. Media have reported that the pope may make the trip in late May, but Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said no date for such a visit had been set.

Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, who also attended the audience, reportedly told the pope, “We are expecting you, we can’t wait.”

The Vatican statement said that “aside from indicating the Holy Father’s plans for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land,” the pope and Netanyahu considered “various questions” regarding the status of Christians in Israel.

It said they also discussed lingering financial and other questions that have stalled full implementation of a formal bilateral agreement between Israel and the Holy See “in the hope that the Agreement which has been in preparation for some time may be concluded forthwith.”

Following the meeting, Netanyahu held bilateral talks with his Italian counterpart, Enrico Letta.

Netanyahu on Sunday night lit Hanukkah candles at Rome’s main synagogue, where he reiterated warnings about the agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu kindled the menorah with Letta.

Speaking at the ceremony, the Israeli leader repeated his warnings that the recent deal on Iran’s nuclear program was a “historic error.”

Letta said he “knew Israel’s positions, doubts and fears.” He said the current economic and social crisis fed “extremism, hate and intolerance,” and he pledged to resist the “racism, intolerance and xenophobia” that were growing in Italy “in a worrying manner.”

Read more: http://www.jta.org/2013/12/02/news-opinion/world/netanyahu-lights-hanukkah-candles-in-romes-main-synagogue#ixzz2mMl2nqDU

Pope receives menorah as gift from Israel

Israel meets Rome - Benjamin & Francis

Israel Prime Minister and Pope Francis in Rome 2013

A menorah gift

Jerusalem Dateline Show: Spiritual Warfare in Rome

Chris Mitchell

CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief

Jerusalem Dateline Show: Spiritual Warfare in Rome

This week on Jerusalem Dateline: We take a special look at Rome, the world's second Holy City.

Take a tour of some of the most important sites in the Christian faith and the connections with Jerusalem, beginning with the Apostles nearly 2,000 years ago.

Also, spiritual warfare in Rome rages as the Catholic church fights the spread of satanic cults.

Plus, the story of a small band of Jewish believers who brought Christianity to Rome and the emperor who helped make it a global faith.