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On Saturday, March 26th 2009, a very interesting debate took place in Seattle and will be shown on ABC Niteline.

Part of the ABC “Face Off” series of debates, this particular event included new age guru Deepak Chopra, Pentecostal preacher turned “heretic” Carlton Pearson, former hooker turned Christ follower Annie Lobert and mega church Pastor Mark Driscoll.

As you can imagine, the reality of Satan’s existence was debated with Chopra and Pearson claiming that he doesn’t and Lobert and Driscoll claiming that he does.

After watching it, here are my initial thoughts:

• Chopra ends up looking like a complete idiot who thinks he is WAY more evolved in his conscious awareness then the average, but very simple, you and me.  He is smug, he is attacking and is downright rude and ignorant simply minimising the reality of Satan as a reality only for the “insecure.”
• Pearson’s “heresy” has to do with his turnaround in his thinking about the literal reality of the bible.  Although he seems like a nice guy, I felt for him in how this once powerful preacher now seems so confused in his theology – Satan has truly stolen this guys faith – and yet Pearson openly rejects the reality of Satan.  So ironic.
• Lobert is a surprise packet and speaks so openly about her former life and the reality of evil in it and how Jesus saved her from all her past. Raw and emotional, I was amazed at how much Jesus can save.
• And Driscoll, well what else can I say about my favourite preacher?  I’m super stoked that he gave it to Chopra the way he did.  Driscoll knows his stuff and is quick in his thinking and he clearly won this debate.

But that’s just my own opinion.  Watch the debate for yourself and come up with your own conclusions.  And once you do, please share…

Anyone following my blog knows that I am pro-Israel in my world view.  I believe they are God’s instrument in the world and the rebirth of the nation only shows that God is up to something again.

However I do call a spade a a spade and I came across a story which revolted me in a big way.

Check out the above picture – it’s a t-shirt worn by some rogue Israeli soldiers at completion of their basic training.  It shows a pregnant woman with cross hairs and titled, “1 shot 2 kills.”

It’s not official and investigations have shown that they are manufactured in small numbers and spread across multiple divisions – perhaps up to a dozen t-shirts a time.  Other t-shirts have the following:

• Soldiers standing over a woman with the caption, “”Bet you got raped!”
• A gun pointing to a head with the caption, “Confirming the kill.”

This kind of rhetoric is usually reserved for the enemies of Israel and so I found this report disappointing and disgusting.  Hamas and Hezbollah are experts in glorifying the death of innocents and it seems as if some of this has now rubbed off on silly undisciplined elements of the Israeli forces.

An anti-Israeli world view will point their anti-Semitic fingers at Israel for the smallest of things.  My concern is that actions like these only add fuel to the fire.  It’s good to see that the official response from the IDF is one of disgust and condemnation.  I wonder what the response would have been if the other side had done this – probably more jumping and dancing on the streets.

For more on this story, click here.

As an Aussie, I couldn’t give a toss about the whole Democratic or Republican debate during the recent US elections.  So it’s easier for someone like me to step back and take in a larger worldview.

And for some time now, I’ve believed that the post of the US President is simply a puppet position for the real wheelers and dealers of world power – the international bankers.

While all sorts of rhetoric crap was “debated” during the election race and all attention was diverted to issues which normally consume one sided Americans, plans were put in place to set up the next puppet President of “the free world.”

Record levels of disdain towards Bush and his administration, fuelled by pathetic wars as a result of a bogus terrorist attack on the US, set the public up for a massive swing to anything opposite to Bush and what he stood for.

Bush achieved much for the powers gunning for a New World Order.  But public opinion was stacked up so high against him that these powers needed to orchestrate the perception of a huge swing away from what Bush stood for.

Media, celebrities and any other opinion forming mechanism went full swing ahead in endorsing Obama and painting him as the messiah to all the problems of the US and indeed the world.  And the ultimate icing on the cake, was the fact that he is black – galvanising the perception that change had finally come.

But in reality, what has actually changed?  The “change you can believe in” is as apparent as the the weapons of mass destruction not found in Iraq.  Even worse is the fact that Obama has taken the policies of Bush to a new level – and most Americans don’t even know it.

Do yourself a favour, set aside 2 hours and watch the following clip.  Educate yourself and wake up America!  You have been totally deceived…yet again.

I came across the Passion 4 Christ Movement (www.p4cm.com) over at Poops blog the other day.

Been checking it out and enjoy the site greatly.  But the stand out to me so far is the talent of Blair Wingo. 

Blair is a model, actress, and, since being saved by Jesus, is the official spoken word artist of the movement – which is actually a local small church plant in LA.  Blair is just one of many talented people they have at the movement and I look forward to checking out more in due course

Check out some of Blair’s spoken word talent below: (for more video’s either check out the website listed above or visit the the P4CM YouTube channel here)

Want a glimpse into the greed which got us all into this financial mess we’re in right now?

Up until now, it’s been hard to rely on a succinct and lay explanation as to how on earth we got into this mess.  Well thanks to Flowing Data, here is a 11 minute video which finally made more sense to me then anything I’ve seen on the topic so far.

I know that things are heaps more complicated then what’s shown in the next 11 minutes, but this video sure does introduce you to the love of money on a scale probably not seen before.

The Good Book says…

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. 1 Tim 6:10a

The video will show you the love of money.  And it will show you the birth of a vicious cycle about to be unleashed on all of us.  I wander what kind of evil will be birthed as a result of this…