“And it will come about in the last days that the mountain of the house of Yahweh will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it. Many nations will come and say, ‘Come and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh and to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us about His ways and that we may walk in His paths.’ For from Zion will go forth the law, even the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.” Micah 4: 1-2
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Giulio Meotti—London is like Mosul: Christians have Vanished:
The Islamic State has converted the most important church in Mosul, dedicated to St. Ephrem, to a mosque in order to celebrate the capture of the city a year ago. The cross that soared on the dome had already been uprooted, desks and furnishings had already been sold. The NGO “Aid to the Church in Need” reveals that the Islamic State has desecrated 45 churches in Mosul. All of the 60,000 Christians living in Mosul have fled, and the only trace left behind is imprinted on their homes: the infamous black “N”, the sign with which Isis has branded the “Nasrani ‘, the followers of the Nazarene. “Property confiscated by the Islamic State,” reads the writing on the wall.
In London, Christians have not been driven away from their homes. Yet, over 10,000 churches have already been closed in the United Kingdom and 4,000 will be shut down by 2020. It is the time of the investigation featured by the British weekly The Spectator, whose cover: “The Last Christian”, showed an old lady as the only faithful congregant in a magnificent cathedral. “It is often said that the congregations of Britain are shrinking, but this does not come close to expressing the level of the disaster that is facing Christianity in this country,” read the opening words of the Spectator story. “It will come to an end in 2067”.
Between 2001 and 2011, the number of Christians born in Britain fell by 5.3 million: that is, 10,000 every week. “Our cathedrals will survive, but it will not be true cathedrals because they will not have bishops,” says The Spectator. Anglicanism will disappear from Britain by 2033.
These projections are based on the best available statistics. Between 2012 and 2014, the percentage of Britons who identify themselves as Anglicans declined from 21 percent to 17 percent – a decrease of 1.7 million people. In the same period, the number of Muslims in Britain has grown by almost one million, according to a survey by the respected NatCen Social Research Institute. Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, the most outspoken of all the others, has just warned that the English Christianity “in a generation will be extinct”.
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SnyderTalk Comment: It’s happening all over the world, folks. Christians are under attack in the U.S., too.
Don’t think that it can’t reach you. It certainly can.
See “Boy Scouts Expected To End Ban On Gay Leaders”.
People who believe that Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton are Christians are out of their minds.
“You can tell a tree by its fruit.”
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Jennifer Rubin: Blaming failure of a rotten deal on Israel?!— As we learn more about the Iran deal — the side agreements, the lifting of the arms and missile embargoes, the loophole-ridden inspections regime — the more apparent it is that only people so enamored of their own work, so gullible to embrace the Iranians’ soothing words and so desperate for glory could have negotiated this deal. Rather than acknowledge the criticisms on the merits, the administration sinks lower and lower, casting aspersions on critics. When Secretary of State John Kerry announces that the world will blame Israel if the deal fails, we have left the realm of dignified debate. When he warns Israel not to act militarily in its own defense, he suggests that the United States won’t back up the Jewish state. (“That’d be an enormous mistake, a huge mistake with grave consequences for Israel and for the region, and I don’t think it’s necessary.”) In addition, as the conservative Free Beacon reported at the end of last week, Kerry now insinuates that the deal will fail not because it is a rotten one but because Israel manipulated lawmakers: “I fear that what could happen is if Congress were to overturn it, our friends Israel could actually wind up being more isolated and more blamed,” Kerry said. Michael Oren, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel who recently released a memoir, quickly condemned Kerry’s remarks in a statement. . . . “If American legislators reject the nuclear deal, they will do so exclusively on the basis of U.S. interests,” Oren said in the statement. “The threat of the Secretary of State who, in the past, warned that Israel was in danger of becoming an apartheid state, cannot deter us from fulfilling our national duty to oppose this dangerous deal.”
Yoni Hersch, Eli Leon, Shlomo Cesana, Daniel Siryoti and Israel Hayom Staff: Khamenei tweets graphic of Obama with a gun to his head—We welcome no war, nor do we initiate any war, but if any war happens, the one who will emerge loser will be the aggressive and criminal U.S.,” says tweet attributed to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accompanying the graphic. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted a graphic of the American president pointing a gun at his own head on his English-language Twitter account on Saturday.
SnyderTalk Comment: The only people who seem not to get the stupidity of the Iran deal are the president, people in his administration, and his supporters. Christians and Jews will pay the price for their foolishness.
David Bedein: From Tehran to UNRWA: The New US-UNRWA Accord—As the eyes of the world focus on the dysfunctional US-Iranian accord, yet another dysfunctional accord with the US government has escaped public scrutiny: The new accord, reached between the US government and UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, was recently posted on the web site of the US State Department. The US, the largest funder of UNRWA, (Reaching $400 million this year, one third of the UNRWA budget), could have predicated further funding of UNRWA on a humanitarian commitment to resettle UNRWA’s client population: 5.4 million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war, few of whom were even born by 1948 – into decent permanent living conditions. Yet the US-UNRWA accord mentions nothing of the kind. Instead, the US-UNRWA accord mandates that refugee status is inherited and that thousands of these descendants of Arab refugees who have wallowed in the indignity of refugee life for 66 years, must continue to live in refugee squalor “until a comprehensive and just solution is secured”, something which UNRWA will not allow to happen.
Giulio Meotti: Then and Now, Leftists Bowed Before Iranian Anti-Semites—It is a mystery how the Iranian Imam was able to attract the ranks of European and US leftists, libertines and materialists, structuralists and feminists, existentialists and militants of the sexual revolution, post-modernists and bourgeois moralists, and any kind of Communist. Thirty years ago large segments of European culture bowed in front of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This also explains the way today’s European andAmerican liberal intelligentsia are enthusiastic about the nuclear deal signed in Vienna. Leftist Intellectuals turned Khomeini into the religious antagonist of reactionary monarch Reza Pahlevi,accused of stealing and killing its own people. The left saw Khomeini in the guise of a vindicator, his beard like that of Che Guevara, in the act of driving away the reactionary and pro-American Shah.
Jack Engelhard—Obama’s Iran Deal: Who’s Buying This Wreck?— Credit King Solomon once again for his wisdom: “A twisted thing cannot be made straight.” This takes us directly to John Kerry and his pitch before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he tried to explain away his perfectly awful Iran Deal. The Senators, mainly Republicans Bob Corker, Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson and Democrat Bob Menendez, saw the lemon for what it is. They were not buying Kerry’s central argument that if Iran’s mullahs fail to behave properly, well, we’ll just go back in and teach them a lesson they’ll never forget. We’ll take it all back. We’ll re-impose sanctions. We’ll have them reimburse all the money and force them to unhook all their missiles. Why – in a snap we’ll simply undo everything. You betcha. Dream on, we said, those of us who watched the proceedings via C-Span. The cable news networks, including Fox, did not carry the hearing, except for a voice-cut here and there, and this was a mistake. They had a chance to provide a crucial public service. Instead, they chose regular programming and the usual commercials.
Boaz Bismuth: Turkey’s dangerous game—Another dramatic twist in the Middle East: Turkey has altered its policy toward the Islamic State group in Syria and is no longer sitting on the fence. It has joined, de facto, the international coalition fighting Islamic State. The Turkish air force on Friday began attacking the group’s targets in Syria. Things, however, aren’t so simple. Why fight on one front when you can fight on two. From the Turkish perspective, the new Middle East is problematic. On one hand the Turks need to hit Islamic State, and on the other hand they do not want to strengthen their historic enemy, the Kurdish PKK. What to do then? Very simply, attack IS and the Kurdish terrorist group, who coincidentally are themselves rivals. In recent days the Turks have been provided with good reason to join the fray: The terrorist attack carried out by Islamic State in the city of Suruç, a week ago, is reason enough to strike back at the group in Syria. Then, two Turkish police officers were shot to death in their sleep by PKK operatives; ample reason to also attack Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.
Burak Bekdil: How Turkey Fights the Islamic State—”Turkey says it fights IS. Maybe it does. But just randomly and reluctantly.” — EU ambassador, Ankara. Meanwhile, Turkey keeps on telling the world how it fights the Islamic State terrorists in Syria. Even more ridiculous than this claim is that some people apparently buy the Turkish fairy tales. In April, US Secretary of State John Kerry underlined that Turkey was an essential partner of the US in the fight against IS, and praised Turkey’s contributions. So it is natural that the Turks think they can always fool their allies: they help jihadist terrorists and in return get pats on the shoulder.
Bassam Tawil: Nuclear Iran: Is the U.S. Really Suicidal?—No wonder Iran’s Supreme Leader sent around a tweet of Obama pointing a pistol at his own head. Iran’s forcing itself on the rest of the world is a central part of Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution. The Ayatollahs’ wish has long been finally to defeat the divided Arabs, and then to move on to defeat Israel, and then the grandest prize of all — the “Great Satan,” the United States. Worse, apparently a “side deal” — classified for the Americans but not for Iran — enables Iran to provide its own soil samples to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to which it has been lying for decades. Even still worse, the parties to the agreement are required to help Iran protect its nuclear facilities should anyone try to attack them or sabotage them — including, presumably, any disenchanted signatories. Iran will have been rewarded for having violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and been given a red carpeted fast track to complete its nuclear bomb.
Herb Keinon: Steinitz: Israel Gets to Express Its Opinion on Threats to Its National Security—Efforts to muzzle Israeli voices in the U.S. debate over the Iran nuclear accord are unacceptable, illogical and even immoral, National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz told Israel Radio on Sunday. “To demand from a country which Iran threatens publicly to destroy, to wipe it off the map, that it not express its opinion on something so relevant for our national security, future and existence, is an illogical and even immoral demand.” “This hint that if the agreement will be rejected by Congress, then Israel will turn into a scapegoat, is unacceptable to us,” he said. “Congress is sovereign to make any decision. If it rejects it, that means there is a big majority among the Republicans and also many Democrats who think the accord is not good and is full of holes, and needs to be rejected.”
Geoff Earle and Kevin Fasick: Kerry Has “Intense Exchange” with Jewish Leaders over Iran Deal—Secretary of State John Kerry had an “intense exchange” when he tried to sell the Iran nuclear deal to 120 skeptical Jewish leaders in New York on Friday from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the group’s vice chairman, Malcolm Hoenlein, told the Post. The State Department had requested the meeting.
Yaakov Lapin interviews Maj.-Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan: After the Iran Agreement—Maj.-Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan, a former IDF deputy chief of staff, noted that without the U.S.-led diplomatic drive, which included waves of biting sanctions on Iran, Iran could have already gone nuclear. “Iran is still not nuclear, and this is an achievement.” However, “the deal is intolerable for Israel….Iran is the leading terrorist state, and received international approval to be a nuclear threshold state, despite the knowledge that Iran seeks to have nuclear weapons later on.” The Vienna agreement’s level of inspections is far from what is desired. “Inspections do not deter Iran. They allow it to cheat,” he said. Moreover, the mechanism described in the deal for identifying and declaring Iranian violations “does not lead anywhere.” “Those who trusted the U.S. for a good deal – there’s nothing to trust. All of the states in the Middle East do not trust Washington for their security.” Should the agreement be ratified and implemented, Israel will have to take on the responsibility of warning about Iranian nuclear violations, according to Dayan. Simultaneously, Israel should seek to tighten intelligence cooperation with the U.S. and establish ground rules about what should be done in case of an Iranian violation. The Vienna accord pushes Israel into a space in which the country must defend itself without coordination with the free world, Dayan said. Yet striking now is “not the right thing to do. We can only do it when there is no choice. We can seriously harm the Iranian nuclear program, but we can’t strike like the Americans for three consecutive months.”
Frederick W. Kagan: Taking the Deal or Opting for War: A False Dichotomy on Iran—President Obama has framed the debate over the Iran nuclear agreement as a choice between taking the deal or opting for war. He challenges critics to articulate an alternative to the deal, claiming that there isn’t one. This is a superb debating technique, but it is a false dichotomy. The choice at hand is between accepting this deal now or continuing to press and negotiate for a better deal later. Many critics of this particular agreement, including me, believe that it would be far preferable to sign a good deal with Iran than to go to war with Iran – but also believe that this is a very bad deal indeed. There is historical precedent for thinking about the issue in this way. The Nixon administration signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) in 1972, and the Senate ratified it. The agreement did not have the desired effect. The Soviet nuclear stockpile expanded dramatically and the period of detente supposedly ushered in by that agreement ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The Senate refused to ratify SALT II, ending the SALT process, but war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not ensue. Both Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan instead increased the pressure on the Soviet Union dramatically. The lesson is that walking away from bad deals does not inevitably lead either to war or to the end of negotiations. Opposing the current deal is thus not in any way equivalent to favoring war. Nor is it a refusal to negotiate with Iran. Given how bad this deal is, opposing it is the only rational position to take.
Natan Sharansky—Jews Stood Up to the U.S. Government 40 Years Ago, and Should Again on Iran:
- Like many Israelis and American Jews, I find myself in a precarious and painful situation. Those of us who believe that the nuclear agreement just signed with Iran is dangerously misguided are now compelled to criticize Israel’s best friend and ally, the U.S. government. As difficult as this situation is, however, it is not unprecedented. Jews have been here before, 40 years ago.
- In the early 1970s, Republican President Richard Nixon inaugurated his policy of detente with the Soviet Union, aiming to end the Cold War by normalizing relations. As Nixon moved to grant the Soviet Union most-favored-nation trade status, Democratic Sen. Henry Jackson proposed what became a historic amendment, conditioning the removal of sanctions on the Soviet Union’s allowing free emigration for its citizens. Jackson’s amendment sought to link improved economic relations to behavioral change by the USSR. The U.S. administration objected furiously.
- American Jewish organizations were reluctant to speak out against the U.S. government and appear to put the “narrow” Jewish interest above the cause of peace. Yet they realized that the freedom of all Soviet Jews was at stake, and they actively supported the policy of linkage. It was a Republican senator, Jacob Javits, who, spurred by a sense of responsibility for the Jewish future, helped put together the bipartisan group that ensured passage.
- In 1977, I was arrested and accused of high treason, allegedly as a spy for the CIA; in the indictment, Sen. Jackson was listed as my main accomplice. But in the end our cause was victorious and paved the way for the regime’s eventual collapse.
- Today, an American president has once again sought to achieve stability by removing sanctions against a brutal dictatorship without demanding that the latter change its behavior. And once again, a group of outspoken Jews – leaders of the State of Israel from the governing coalition and the opposition alike – are sounding an alarm. The U.S. can either appease a criminal regime or stand firm in demanding change in its behavior.
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SnyderTalk Comment: This problem is only getting worse. It’s time to put an end to this nonsense.
Don’t reward them by pretending that it’s not a big deal. It is a big deal.
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Right-wing activist Glick praises gov’t over Temple Mount policing
SnyderTalk Comment: He believes what the Bible says about the Temple so that makes hima “right-wing activist” in Israel.
The United States is not the only country with problems.
I wish Glick took the Bible’s teachings about the Name Yahweh seriously. He prefers the Talmud’s teachings instead. It’s all over the Tanach, and nothing supersedes Yahweh’s word.
Justice Ministry cracks down on terrorists
Palestinian Authority: Israel’s escalation will have disastrous consequences
Conservative synagogue in Israel booby trapped
Analysis: In post-nuclear agreement Middle East, ‘It’s Syria, stupid”
Former US secretary of defense: Releasing Pollard doesn’t make Iran deal any less of a disaster
Hamas official: Iranian aid to Gaza halted
Woman who called Muhammad a pig after Temple Mount visit: I could no longer stay silent
Deputy FM: ‘Dove of peace’ unlikely to emerge from meeting between Israeli, Palestinian officials
Lapid: Left can’t win an election – I’m running for prime minister
SnyderTalk Comment: Lapid has been running for a while. This isn’t news.
My friends went on vacation and all I got was this stupid ISIS flag
Netanyahu after settler clashes with police: ‘We oppose demolition of Beit El homes’
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Arab MKs to Visit Temple Mount to Protest Jewish Visitors
Temple Mount: Police Watch as Sheikh Teaches Terror to Children
Arab League to Meet Over Temple Mount Clashes
Bennett: No Connection Between Iran Deal, Pollard
Lapid Predicts New Elections by 2016
Rabbi Threatened Calamity if Victims Complained
Hundreds of Thousands Called Up for IDF Drill
Arab Terrorist Leaps to His Death Fleeing Police
Terror ‘Camp’ Season in Full Swing in Gaza
Islamists Call for ‘Reaction’ to Mohammed Insult
Iran Building $2.5 Billion Power Plant in Iraq
Mossad: Three Missing Iranian Jews Were Murdered
Kurds Cut Key ISIS Supply Route in Northern Syria
Hamas Opposes Moving UNRWA to Arab League
SnyderTalk Comment: The UNRWA is among Hamas’ best and most reliable allies.
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Obama calls Huckabee’s Iran deal Holocaust analogy ‘ridiculous,’ ‘sad’
Huckabee unrepentant on Iran deal Holocaust analogy
Khamenei tweets image appearing to show Obama committing suicide
Rouhani mocks US claim that all options are still on the table
Palestinian suspect killed during West Bank arrest operation
Government seeks to crack down on terrorism with new bill
IDF to probe more soldiers on Gaza war conduct
Arab MK denies Temple Mount ever held a temple
Jordan rails against Israel’s ‘violation’ on Temple Mount
Mossad: 3 Iranian Jews missing since 1990s killed en route to Israel
Who writes the law for the Land of Israel? Supreme Court case asks
Vandals attack Conservative shul in Modiin during Tisha B’Av service
Israeli, Palestinian negotiators hold low-key talks in Amman
American A-G says won’t interfere with Pollard release
In ‘revolutionary’ shift, cannabis to be sold in pharmacies
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As Jews Mourn Destruction of Temples, Palestinian Authority Denies They Ever Existed
IS and PLO flags on the Temple Mount
Arab parliament member denies Jewish claim to Temple Mount, sparking Israeli outrage
Jerusalem to Fund Non-Orthodox Institutions for the First Time
13 people killed in al Shabaab attack on Somalia hotel
ISIS militant ‘Jihadi John’ flees terror group
Afghan official: At least 20 dead, 10 wounded in wedding gunfight
David Cameron Goes on Offensive Against Anti-Semitism
Blaze destroys nearly 400 acres of forest near Jerusalem
Bahrain Disrupts Bid to Smuggle High-Grade Explosives
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Iran Deal Worth More than All U.S. Aid to Israel Since 1948
US, Turkey aim for IS-free zone in northern Syria
Turkey’s bombs reveal a failed Syria policy
HDP accuses gov’t of ‘dragging Turkey into civil war’
What Is NATO’s Article 4? Why Turkey Called For Consultations Under Rarely Used Provision
SnyderTalk Comment: Erdogan is about to get his comeuppance, or at least I hope he is.
Will his Muslim Brother, Obama, jump in to save him?
I hope he won’t, but I bet he will.
Down to Business: Missiles to Tourism Seen on China-Turkey Talks
Turkey: riots following funeral of pro-Kurdish protester
Turkey policeman killed in Istanbul clashes
Turkey Launches Bombing Campaign Against ISIS, PKK Bases
Turkey’s fight against IS not enough to stop militants
Turkey opposition ready for coalition
Attacked on all sides: Turkey on brink of full scale conflict
Turkey’s Erdogan, Russia’s Putin discuss situation in the Middle East
Medvedev says Russia hopes Slovenia will sign Turkish Stream agreement
Iran Economic Recovery Will Accelerate Its Missile and Drone Development
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Exodus 16
22 Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, 23 then he said to them, “This is what Yahweh meant: tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to Yahweh. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.” 24 So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and it did not become foul nor was there any worm in it. 25 Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to Yahweh; today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will be none.”
SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.
The importance of the Sabbath should be obvious. It’s the 7th day, not the 6th day. That’s not a minor point. Pretending that it doesn’t matter won’t change a thing.
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback. It’s also available for free in PDF format.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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