Holy Week: the World Turned Upside Down review
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I expected more factual content in this book.  It basically gives different points of view from different type of people who were present during the last week: disciples, followers, high priest, etc.  If I was not aware of the background of each person, I would not really understand this book.
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The book is a well written and fascinating look at Biblical end times prophesy and Israel. Easy to read, difficult to put down.&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Four-Blood-Moons-Something-Is-About-to-Change/dp/1617952141/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change</a>&nbsp;Available for Kindle which is the version I purchased.  John Hagee has a way with words which helps make sense of the insane world we live in. I highly recommend the book.
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John Shorey is so undeniably structurally sound in his book. It's without a shadow of a doubt that we are in for some soon coming hard times. What's earth shaking is that we will be here for the first half of the tribulation in which we will be able to harvest a myriad of souls. Christians are, and have been, dying for their faith in Jesus even to this very day and month, March 2015! People of God prepare yourself. Position yourself to have provisions for the needy and lost. Do what and go where God is calling you to do and go! Now is the time! Do not tarry!
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We at Oral Roberts University were at odds about this recording when it came out around 1970.  Some of us (myself included) thought it was a great rendition of Christ's last week on earth.  Others thought it was sacrilidge because of it having rock music as its genre.  I loved it.
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What a great look into where the world is headed. Reverend Benson was a a visionary, though he may have rather underplayed the role of Islam in the coming world order.

Though it begins a bit slow, the book becomes very interesting as the new religion begins to unravel. Bearing a striking resemblance to the humanist religions which arose after the French Revolution. In fact, much of the new world order in Lord of the World seems to mirror the ideals of the French Revolution and Freemasonry.

Even still, this book is one of the best modern dystopias and is a great read for any Catholic or anyone who is interested in a Catholic perspective of the end times. If you find the Protestant ideas of the rapture and apocalypse as presented in Left Behind to be absolutely ridiculous, then this book may be for you!
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As a theological compatriot of Doug Pagitt's for many years, I've watched him grapple with new understandings of faith over time. In this book, Pagitt distills the centerpiece of Christianity: Jesus will turn you upside down. Pagitt writes honestly and vulnerably about flips in his own life  some are joyous, others are terrifying. But the point of faith, he tells us, is to be open to the moments in life when God dramatically changes our trajectory.

Some readers may go into this book assuming that Pagitt has gone from an "evangelical" Christian to a "progressive" Christian, but this book confounds those categories. The point of the book isn't that Pagitt moved from the "right" to the "left," but that he was open to the dramatic turns that God instigated within him.

This book is an easy, breezy read, great for small group studies, and readable for young and old.
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So if you want an Earth Shaking and Authoritative true Pray and Fasting move in your life, Get the book and follow along with the video's on youtube.  The Lord is still working in those who will lend an ear and humble themselves to seek His face for fasting and prayer.  I have never had a Divine Visitation from above and truly Jesus is the Son of God and is still producing earth quaking miracles for a New Beginning for your situation. It is for His Glory through Us, His People.  Time to get out the Padded Pews!!  No more snoring for God.  Wake Up People!

My miracle will have a global impact!!  Watch for It.  It is Done!!

Apostle Tim and Global Vision Ministries is a True Light in this very dark world.
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To be honest, the past week of hype has been a little bit exaggerated. Fr. Z seemed to be using a strange reverse psychology
whereby he cautioned his readers about the dangers of curiositas, while simultaneously providing US, UK and Italian links so
that everybody gets a Kindle and gets the book! He also said "I won't tell Marcantonio's name but I KNOW lol." Nobody will be
scandalized who is a regular reader of the traddie blogs, or even First Things (Reno), Catholic World Report (Olson, Schall),
the NC Register (Pentin et al.), and even Douthat of the NY Times. It's just a compilation of what the bloggers have been
reporting for the past 4 and 3/4 years or so, from Sandro Magister on down. For me, the Bergoglio pontificate hit me gradually. First there was the weird thing
about the kids who donated 3,000 rosaries and I said "that's weird for a Pope to mock their piety like that, even if he doesn't share it".
I mean, Ratzinger's a high-rational guy but he wouldn't say that. Then there was the interview in 9/13, and by 10/14 with the first session
of the synod it was clear that something wasn't right. During the spring and summer of 14 I began regularly checking Rorate, Eponymous,
Mundabor and eventually Corbinian's. Oddly, the trads and the mainstream liberal media tended to get Francis right (at least about the fact that there's discontinuity) where the formerly astute vaticanisti like John Allen and Rocco Palmo tried to keep squaring the circle (and most bishops and priests, etc., understandably
because we seek ecclesial unity). One of the turning points in the blogosphere was when the once-ubiquitous Amy Welborn, one of the
pioneers and the epitome of a center-right establishment figure, got all critical and negative on PF. By now Allen has acknowledged some
of the setbacks (gently!) and Rocco concedes there is a lot of "change". Then we have the weird phenomenon of folks like Sean Winters,
Jim Martin, Spadaro, Ivereigh etc. etc. who are more papal-fundamentalist than almost any right wingers from the past. I don't think many
women fall into this category, although Betta Pique comes to mind.

Perhaps the most important new information is the apparent report of Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, a mainstream center-left Jesuit
who appeared to be psychologically on the mark. It's true that there was a dispute between the Marxist and Peronist-populist
brands of liberation theology. The stuff on the cardinals and the conclave is interesting but for the most part not new to those
who have been following. Financial reform just isn't that interesting to me, but it is tied in with other forms of corruption and
scandal. The point is that it hasn't been successfully carried out.

The author is an Oxford-trained historian who's well-connected in Rome and those qualifications come through from time to time. Again,
I don't find it nearly as inflammatory as its title, but maybe that's from reading too many blogs. Perhaps the best service this book has
done is to convert the blog post format (whether traddie or con) into a more traditional book, even if it's only an e-book for now in English.
The Dictator Pope compiles in 141 pages a lot of the major events from the conclave, the synod, the attempted and promised reforms,
and ecclesiastical events like those with the Franciscans of the Immaculate and the Knights of Malta and various cardinals. It is a useful
marker as we approach the 5 year anniversary of this unique period in recent Church history.
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Three of the world's great faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - regard Jerusalem as holy, making it the world's single most sacred city. If a lasting peace ever comes to the Middle East, many predict that Jerusalem will become a leading hub of world travel as pilgrims from all three of these faiths visit these ancient sites.

As a traveler in Jerusalem - and a journalist who has reported from Jerusalem - I know that that one of the toughest challenges in our era is seeing past the in-your-face images of Jerusalem that are all too common. In sacred settings, we get stylized images reflecting the interests of our faiths - paintings of Jesus carrying a cross, let's say, in thousands of churches. In news media, unfortunately, we tend to get either images of conflict or images from holiday rituals. We don't see the deeper, larger, timeless richness of the holy city.

In my own library, among my most prized possessions are volumes on Jerusalem down through history, reflecting the work of cartographers, artists, photographers, scholars and writers. These books, often difficult to find, open up windows into Jerusalem that we simply don't see, if we don't seek out these sources.

That's the background for this strong recommendation that, if you care about Jerusalem as a city, you'll want to add this volume to your shelf. The book originally was published in 1999, but has been republished in a brand-new edition by Garnet Publishing. Get a copy while it's available, again.

Here's what makes this collection of images so important. These photos are drawn from the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), which has 19th Century roots in British evangelical missionary efforts - but evolved into one of the leading sponsors of explorations into "archaeology, manners, customs, topography, geology and natural sciences" of the Holy Land. A Who's Who of famous explorers and scholars worked through PEF sponsorship.

This means the collection of imagery has a remarkable balance. This isn't an inspirationally re-shaped series of images, designed to tell a particular religious story. This is a window into a larger, diverse history.

Here's an example: Christians interested in the Lenten story hear about Jesus leaving Bethany and eventually heading toward Jerusalem. In this book is a remarkable panorama of photos taken in 1864 approaching Jerusalem from the direction of Bethany.

If you've been to Jerusalem, you'll remember many of these locations and can peer backward through history at what they looked like, in many cases, well over a century ago - and, presumably, much closer to their settings thousands of years ago than they are at the moment.

But this isn't merely an academic exercise. There is real spiritual warmth in these photos. I don't think I'll soon forget an 1895, hand-tinted photo of Jews praying at the Western Wall in which the distinctively golden hue of Jerusalem's stones seems to glow right out of the printed page - reaching across time and space.
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Reviewed by Wayne S. Walker

Did you ever have one of those bad days when everything that could possibly go wrong does, and you wonder where God is and why He's letting these things happen?  Well, kids have days like that too.  In this moving tale, Billy, a typical ten-year-old boy, drops the bacon and eggs at breakfast, spills paint on the floor, loses the five dollars that his uncle gave him, gets his Frisbee stuck in a tree, and can't find his fishing rod.  So he wonders, "Why are You doing all this to me, God?" and in his anger sets off on a search to find God and figure out the reason for bad things.

So Billy hops on his bike and rides to the church.  What does the minister tell him?  And will he ever learn the answers to his questions?  Author Greg Long has been a circus clown, a theater performer, a children's film director, and a composer, but in spite of his successes, something seemed missing until one night when he found the missing piece by rediscovering his relationship with God.  And Greg is no stranger to difficult circumstances.  In 2009, due to the economy he lost his job, then his wife learned that she'd soon be out of her job, and they found out that they were having a baby. They were forced to sell their home and put all their belongings into storage. Somehow in the process of losing everything they found something bigger and so much better in a stronger relationship with Christ.

In Today I Found God, which won the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Gold Medal for the "Best Religious Children's Book of 2010," Long joins his rhyming text with the humorous illustrations by Nathan Wondrak to help kids find God for themselves through stories, love, and laughter.  "Why do bad things happen?" is one of the perennial questions that people of all ages ask, and this book should prove to be a very useful resource in helping children to understand it.  I give it two thumbs up.
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Packed with alternate views of many scholars and does a great job of filtering out scenarios that don't fit scriptures.  I almost didn't buy this book because it came out a year before Bill Salus book "Isralestine" which announced the Psalm 83 prophetic prayer which steered prophetic thinking more clearly.  I was wrong... Berner's book covered Psalm 83 also!  Not surprising, it was God who made the first publication then pointed to it with the 2006 discovery of a centuries old bible buried in an Irish bog.  That parchment was opened at Psalm 83 when it was found.  It was like God saying "look guys, it's time you see this".  Anyway, 2015 is when I read Berner's book and it is still relevant to events that have happened since it was published in 2007.  I was astounded at the insights that he written at the time of Bush II, as though he had just written them with today's events under Obama and ISIS.
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This is a wonderful book and I'm so glad I ordered it in advance.  Charles Eisenstein tackles all of the difficult questions and explains the shift in worldview or world story that is going on now.  Clearly, he sees matter as being as holy as spirit, and the two being inseparable in an intelligent universe.  His suggestions of how to move from the old worldview to the new are difficult and inspiring.  I recommend this book highly.  Jonathan Labman, LPC
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This book offers several important insights into Christ's last week, but for me the most important is that these days can be understood as protesting the existing establishment and offering a new vision of kingdom on this earth, not solely promising a future kingdom. The Christian church universal should include this interpretation of Christ's actions in the usual celebration of the events of Holy Week.
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Transforming wine into water?  Jesus' classic miracles are turned upside-down to leave readers chuckling with this clever twist on Gospel stories.  Follow the Savior as He gathers His disciples to establish a 21st century business with favorite Bible characters, such as Zacchaeus and the woman at the well.  As each chapter begins, the reader hunts for clues revealing which popular tale will be relived next.

The layout of this novel is broken into sections that allow readers of all ages to immerse themselves into each individual story while paralleling Jesus's New Testament ministry.  Even though the plots are already well-known, Dr. Dennis E. Hensley's storytelling style keeps readers engaged with unique perspectives from all characters.  Each character's personality is exposed through background oriented dialogue that drives readers through the book.  The end of this book leaves the reader wanting more of Jesus's story.
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Really good book. Really big on the Catholic religion though. End times theme. I enjoyed it and would read it again.
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This movie provided me with much food for thought and meditation on the Apocalypse and the coming birth of Antichrist.  The idea behind the movie is that Christ's blood traces which are left on the nails used to crucify him have been hidden in a secret box.  By unlatching the nails from the box, a secret society hopes to clone Christ to create the devil's child, the Antichrist.  Unfortunately, the movie proliferates the feminist myth which arose as a heresy in the Middle Ages and is expounded in the book _Holy Blood, Holy Grail_ that Jesus Christ had a child by Mary Magdalene.  Such counter-church myths are really largely responsible for the breakup of Christendom and the decline of traditional Christianity.  The Apocalypse is being heralded in by the Priory of Sion, not by the Catholic Church - Christ's true Church - which has stood fast in its resolute opposition to the growing force of secret societies.
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A revolutionary book turning my religious world upside down or maybe that's right side up!