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- Briefing on Persian Gulf and Red Sea Nations
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Local Columnists
Is the Bible Pro-Slavery?
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
One of the claims made against the Bible is that it supports slavery. One of the ironies is the fact that the Bible was actually used to argue against slavery. The critics will claim it was also used to support slavery; however, this is more a case of those who supported slavery twisting the Bible to justify themselves.
The Basis of the Claim
The real question is: Does the Bible actually support slavery? Answering this question requires looking at what the Bible actually says. Unlike most claims against the Bible, this one is not totally without merit. The problem is that most modern translations do indeed appear to back up slavery.
The Five Laws of Thermodynamics
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
Officially, there are only four laws of thermodynamics, but there exists a principle of thermodynamics that deserves a place with the official four laws. The first reason for this is that it explains things that the four official laws do not fully explain. Specifically, it explains exactly how the application of energy to a system affects its entropy. It literally explains the difference between construction work and a bomb. The other reason why it deserves to be placed with the other four is that it explains how both the second and third laws work. Here we have a simple discussion of all five principles together.
The Red Sea Nations and the Iran Crisis
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- By Mike Scruggs
Part 4 of the Persian Gulf and Red Sea Nations
Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Israel
The Republic of Sudan
Sudan is a country in northeast Africa with 465 miles of coastline on the Red Sea. Sudan’s population was 52 million in 2025. Geographically, it is the third largest nation in Africa. It borders seven countries: the Central African Republic on its southwest, Chad to its west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea on its east, Eritrea and Ethiopia, to its southeast, and South Sudan on its south. Sudan is 97% Sunni Muslim with a small 3% Christian minority. About 70% of the population are Sudanese Arabs, About 28% are spread over dozens of tribes. The official languages are Arabic and English. Its famous capital of Khartoum has a greater metro population of 7.1 million. Khartoum is at the confluence of the White (western) Nile and the Blue (eastern) Nile and figured prominently in British administrative rule and British-Arab conflicts.
The Red Sea Nations and the Iran War Crisis
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Part 3 of the Persian Gulf and Red Sea Nations
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Dijbouti, and Eritrea
To see the truth clearly we must understand its context.
Yemen and the Queen of Sheba
Yemen was the legendary land of the Queen of Sheba (or Saba), a seeker of wisdom, who visited Israel’s King Solomon, son of David, during Solomon’s reign estimated to be about 970 to 931 BC. See 1 Kings 10:1-13 or 2 Chronicles 9:1-12. Her capital was probably near Marib, about 75 miles east of Yemen’s modern capital of Sanaa. In ancient times. Marib and the Sabeans were known for their lucrative frankincense and myrrh trade.
Yemen and the Houthi Rebels
Since the beginning of a civil war in September 2014, there have been two governments in Yemen. Both claim to be the legitimate government, but the U.S. and most of its Western and Persian Gulf allies, especially Saudi Arabia, recognize only the Presidential Leadership Coalition (PLC), which was in power before the civil war. Due to political instability, there have been no elections since 2003. The President of Yemen recognized by the U.S. is Rashad al-Alimi. The Supreme Leader of the Houthis is Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
How Ingrid Bergman Became a Christians – The Story of Missionary Gladys Aylward
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- By W.H. Lamb
One of the things my wife and I loved to do on Sunday afternoons for many years was to listen to recorded sermons from one of our favorite pastors. We always listen to the current message from our dear local pastor who sends it to us, but for many years we always watched the D. James Kennedy Ministries website (djkm.org) which contains the messages that this great hero of the faith recorded over his long ministry. (He went home in 2007). In addition to great Bible exposition, Dr. Kennedy always managed to weave Christian or American or world history into his messages, and they were always fascinating to us. He also often admonished his flock to be good citizens, stalwart patriots in the mode of our original Founding Generation. He was never hesitant to rail against the evils and injustices that our own government was committing against the American people. To my mind, D. James Kennedy was the sort of shepherd of the flock that all pastors should be, but that so few actually are, since for many years most pastors were more afraid of saying something “offensive” against “our” government than they were determined to preach “the whole Word of God”, apparently being afraid of losing their church’s IRS tax exemption.
The Science of Entropy and Applied Energy
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
Today, we are dealing with a topic that may scare some people. That topic is thermodynamics. It's a big word, but it is really not that difficult, particularly in the areas we are going to be talking about. While a really deep scientific dive into this topic can get highly mathematical and complicated, here we are going to keep it simple enough to understand even without a physics degree.
One of the issues that has frequently been raised against both evolution and its counterpart, the naturalistic origin of life called abiogenesis, is that the laws of thermodynamics present a problem for these ideas, particularly the second law. After all, they require a reduction of entropy that goes contrary to the natural tendencies expected from the second law.
If You’re A Modern “Liberal,” Be Ashamed!
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- By W.H. Lamb
In the Year of our Lord, 2026, our American nation finds itself (well, at least its citizens do) seemingly split down the middle over “politics”; more specifically split between those who call themselves conservatives and/or ”Americanists”, who honor and respect the “old ways” of freedom under law and limited government that were codified by our Founders in our no-longer-honored Constitution and transmitted to all of mankind through the centuries by God’s Eternal Word (our Holy Bible—also increasingly dishonored by skeptics and anti-Gods), and those who call themselves modern “liberals” (both theological and political), who essentially reject almost everything that conservatives believe in and honor—especially limited Constitutional government and Biblical Christianity.
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