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The Berean – Hebrews 3:12-14 NKJV

  Hebrews 3:12-14

(12) Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; (13) but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (14) For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 
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“The deceitfulness of sin“! In this context, to be deceitful is to be seductively and enticingly misleading. Sin promises what it cannot deliver. It promises pleasure, contentment, fulfillment—life—but its delivery on these things is fleeting and ultimately unsatisfying. Its deceitfulness is the very reason why it has addictive qualities. It lures us on to try to capture what it can never deliver.

The pleasure is never quite enough to produce the contentment and fulfillment one desires. Thus, people are forced into greater and deeper perversions until it results in death. All along the way, from its inception to death, sin quietly produces hardness of heart. Like a callus that forms over a break in a bone or stiffens a person’s joints, sin paralyzes right action.

“Hardness” is translated from skleruno, from which name for the disease multiple sclerosis is derived. In a moral context, it means “impenetrable,” “insensitive,” “blind,” “unteachable.” A hardened attitude is not a sudden aberration, but the product of a habitual state of mind that reveals itself in inflexibility of thinking and insensitivity of conscience. Eventually, it makes repentance impossible. The will to do right is completely gone.

The will is the power or faculty by which the mind makes choices and acts to carry them out. An old adage says: “Sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny.” At first, against his will, a person engages in some forbidden pleasure out of weakness, curiosity, or sheer carnality. If the practice continues, he sins because he cannot help doing so; he is becoming addicted to it. Once a sin becomes a habit, he considers it to be almost a necessity. When it becomes a necessity, the destiny is produced.

— John W. Ritenbaugh

Anne Frank

The diarist girl in the attic

Anne Frank

Anne Frank (Photo: Anne Frank Fonds Basel)

Exactly 89 years ago, on July 6, 1942, a Jewish family went into hiding to escape Nazi persecution in the occupied Netherlands. The younger of the two daughters, blessed with writing talent, kept a diary of their 761 days there, the time they spent together before the Nazis found them. Her name was Anne Frank and today her diary is considered one of the most powerful testaments to the persecution of Jews.
 
Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was born in 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank as the younger of two sisters. Otto Frank was a liberal German Jew who fought for Germany in World War I. He served in an artillery unit where most soldiers were mathematicians or surveyors, and received a field promotion to lieutenant. He married Edith Holländer, heiress to a scrap metal and industrial supply company, in 1925. Their daughters Margot and Anne were born in 1926 and 1929.
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Otto Frank decided to flee with his family from the rising tide of antisemitism in 1933. They moved to Aachen in the extreme west of Germany, and eventually settled in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He found a job as the head of the Dutch branch of a German company called Opekta, which sold spices and pectin, a component in jam-making. He also started a company of his own, Pectacon, a wholesaler of herbs, pickling salts and spices.

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Anne’s father Otto Frank in World War I (Photo: unknown photographer)

In May 1940, Nazi Germany invaded and overran the Netherlands. Anti-Jewish measures soon followed. Otto saved his companies from confiscation by transferring directorship to Viktor Kugler, an old friend. He also started looking for a way to flee Europe with his family. He had an old college friend in the United States, who was the head of the Federal Housing Authority and a friend of the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, but after a long bureaucratic process he failed to come through for the Franks. The U.S. was still following isolationist policies at the time, and the State Department instituted restrictions against European refugees. Otto eventually did manage to get a single-person visa to Cuba, but it’s unclear if he has ever received it, and he wouldn’t have gone without his family, anyway.Johannes Kleiman, one of the family’s helpers, demonstrating use of the revolving bookcase that covered the entrance to the hideout (Photo: Maria Austria)

In December 1940, Otto moved the offices of his two companies to a canalside warehouse at the address Prinsengracht 263, an old building originally from the mid-17th century. Like many other buildings from that time and place, it had an annex at the rear, since that was the only direction in which the structure could be expanded. It was a narrow building: a goods and dispatch entrance at the front on the ground floor, with spice mills and a packing warehouse behind that. The second floor above all this held the offices. Otto had a “secret annex” established on the third and fourth floors and the attic of the rear expansion. It could only be entered through a hidden doorway behind a bookcase located in the front building, and had no connection to the lower floors of the rear structure. It was also surrounded by other buildings on all sides, making it impossible to spot from the street. Though spread over several floors, the hideout only had a total area of about 450 square feet.WebsiteFacebookModel of the warehouse (left) and the expansion building (right) (Photo: Wikipedia)

On July 5, 1942, Anne’s sister Margot received an order to report to a labor camp. Time was up: the entire family evacuated their home and moved into the secret annex (achterhuis, “back house” in Dutch) the next day. They agreed to share their hiding spot with other Jews. The van Pels family, Hermann, Auguste and their sixteen-year-old son Peter, were allowed to move in with them. They also accepted a middle-aged dentist, Fritz Pfeffer. Pfeffer was divorced and had a son, but the latter was already safe in Britain. Since he had no family with him, Margot ended up moving out from her and Anne’s room to sleep with her parents, and Pfeffer shared Anne’s room.Get a quote and book a tour without paymentPeter van Pels in 1942 (Photo: Anne Frank Huis Amsterdam)

The relationship between the two quickly became rather rocky. Anne, just undergoing puberty, was understandably unhappy about having to share her room with a middle-aged man. Additionally, Pfeffer was dismissive of Anne’s interest in writing, and wanted to reserve the writing desk to his own studies. His pedantic nature and orthodox Judaism were also in stark contrast with her impulsive personality and liberal views.Fritz Pfeffer with his son Werner, around 1938 (Photo: Anne Frank Foundation, Amsterdam)

The families greatly relied on the support of friends, all of them old friends or employees of Otto Frank. Viktor Kugler, already mentioned, kept the business running, and also came up with the idea of hiding the entrance to the secret annex behind a revolving bookcase. Bookkeeper Johannes Kleiman was the Franks’ contact person for emergencies, and did much to raise their spirits. Johan Voskuijl, a worker in the warehouse, built the bookcase to hide the entrance, but could only maintain regular contact with the annex’s inhabitants until the summer of 1943, when stomach cancer forced him to stop working. Bep, Johan’s daughter, was the youngest helper, and got along with Anne very well. She supplied the hiding families with bread and milk, and also subscribed to correspondence courses which some of the annex inhabitants then took, using her name as cover.An office in Otto Frank’s company, with several helpers: Viktor Kugler (left), Bep Voskuijl (center) and Miep Gies (right) (Photo: Anne Frank House, Amsterdam)

Jan Gies was a member of the Dutch resistance. He supplied the annex with books, news and often had lunch with them. Jan’s wife, Miep Gies, took Margot to the annex by bicycle when the family went into hiding, and supplied them with food, visiting multiple suppliers each day to make sure nobody would get suspicious at the quantity of food she was buying.Anne (in white hand), Margot (right) Otto (center, tall) and other guests heading to Jan and Miep Gies’s wedding on July 16, 1941 (Photo: Anne Frank Foundation, Amsterdam) 

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We know about the everyday life of the annex residents through Anne Frank’s diary. Anne got an autograph book shortly before going into hiding, and she used it as a journal. She had a talent for writing and wanted to become a journalist, even though she never showed her writings to others. Her diary gives us an insight into her daily life, news of the war, and the many tensions that arose from eight people living locked up together in a small space. She also recorded ruminations on God and human nature, her own burgeoning sexuality (a part that was cut from the first edition of the diary) and her first kiss from Peter van Pels. She also wrote about her poor relationship with her mother, whom she considered sarcastic and hard-hearted. Later entries, however, reveal that she realized she was also partly to blame for the tension between the two of them.Reconstruction of the bathroom in the secret annex (Photo: Allard Bovenberg)

Anne’s life of hiding came to an end on August 4, 1944, shortly after Allied troops broke out from their beachhead in Normandy and started racing inland. A police raid led by SS-Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer arrived at the warehouse, found the hideout and took its inhabitants. Even today, we don’t know for sure why or how the Nazis found the hiding families. Various individuals have been presented as likely traitors, including Bep Voskuijl’s younger sister Nelly, who was a Nazi collaborator and who might have phoned the police that morning. Another suspect was the warehouse’s stockroom manager, who got suspicious about people being inside after working hours. (The families often left the annex and roamed free after working hours, so it’s not impossible that they’ve accidentally left behind signs of their presence.) Another theory postulates that it was all plain misfortune: the warehouse had some illegal laborers and was also the site of ration coupon forgery. It’s possible that the raid was targeted at these activities and finding the annex was just a coincidence.Karl Silberbauer around 1939-1943 (Photo: unknown photographer)

The residents were sent to concentration camps, most of them to Auschwitz. Edith refused to eat and starved to death, giving all her food to Margot and Anne. The girls died in Bergen-Belsen a day or two apart, most likely killed by a typhus epidemic. Otto Frank was the only member of the family to survive. Fritz Pfeffer and the van Pels parents also died in the concentration camps. Young Peter van Pels died in Mauthausen, probably a few days after the camp was liberated by the U.S. Third Army.Margot and Anne Frank’s memorial at the site of Bergen-Belsen (Photo: Arne List)

Some of the helpers also saw hardship as a result of the involvement. Kleiman was arrested but eventually released because of his health problems and the insistence of the Red Cross. Kugler remained in German captivity until March 1945. His was being taken to Germany when his marching column was strafed by Allied planes, and he made his escape in the chaos. Miep Gies was interrogated by a police officer and only avoided arrest because she recognized from the man’s accent that they were born in the same city, the Austrian capital of Vienna. Accepting great risk, she willingly walked into the police station and outright tried to buy the freedom of the annex residents – unsuccessfully. Miep and Bep went back to the annex soon after to remove any personal items before the Germans could clear out the place. It was the two of them who found Anne’s diary, and it was Miep who kept it safe for the rest of the war, giving it back to Otto Frank unread.The original copy of Anne Frank’s diary (Photo: Anne Frank Museum in Berlin)

Visitors started showing up at the Franks’ old company warehouse shortly after the 1947 publication of the diary, and employees were happy to show them around. The building was threatened by demolition in 1955, and was saved by a public campaign. The house and the neighboring building are home to a museum today. Another relevant site, the Anne Frank tree, was a horse-chestnut tree that stood nearby and that Anne liked to look at from the attic window. The tree grew sickly over the decades and was blown down by a storm in 2010. Several saplings of it have been taken to various corners of the world, and now grow in locations including Liberty Park in New York, Washington, D.C. and Jerusalem.The Anne Frank tree in 2006 (Photo: Wikipedia)

Anne Frank’s tragic story and her diary inspired over twenty film and TV adaptations over the decades. The latest one, the 2016 German movie Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank, was written with support from the Anne Frank Foundation, and the producers were given access to the foundations entire archives for research. The most famous adaptation, however, remains The Diary of Anne Frankfrom 1959, which won three Academy Awards. Otto Frank wrote a letter to Audrey Hepburn, asking if she would play Anne. The role greatly resonated with Hepburn, since she and Anne were born a month apart from each other, and she also spent her adolescent years in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Hepburn eventually declined the role, as she felt she was too old to play it credibly and didn’t have the skills to depict Anne; the role was given to Millie Perkins.Millie Perkins and Joseph Schildkraut as Anne Frank and Otto Frank in the 1959 film. (Photo: Twentieth Century Fox)

Who Killed Ashli Babbitt?

For Immediate ReleaseContact: Jessica LycosDate: July 6, 2021jessica.lycos@mail.house.gov

Who Killed Ashli Babbitt?

PRESCOTT, AZ – Representative Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement in remembrance of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed in the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“Six months ago today, Ashli Babbitt, a 110-pound woman with nothing in her hands, not a rock, not a stick or a bat, was shot dead by a still unknown Capitol Hill police officer. Her death has been ruled a homicide. Yet, we have very little information about her death. Our fake news media has asked no questions or sought information about this tragedy. So, I have. And now President Trump has joined me in seeking the truth.  

In many instances, when a law enforcement officer kills an individual for any reason, that officer’s name is publicly released. There is then an investigation and the public is given updates, briefings and ultimately a copy of the investigation. But not in the case of Ashli Babbitt. Instead, there is a determined effort to cover up the full circumstances of this homicide and the American people won’t stand for it.  

Why won’t the Department of Justice identify the shooter?  Why won’t the Department of Justice release the nearly 14,000 hours of surveillance video taken on January 6? I have asked for this for months. Why haven’t the SWAT team members standing by Ashli at the moment of her murder been interrogated and their statements released? They were right next to her and saw no threat. Certainly, no lethal threat. Why were there no warnings given or escalation of command and force in proper law enforcement technique? Why have no charges been brought against the shooter for negligent homicide or more?  

It is unjust to sweep Ashli’s death under the rug by merely saying she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, as so many have. Her life mattered. We do not allow the execution of citizens by street “justice” in our country. We have rejected vigilantism and police abuse for generations. 

Ashli’s family and the American people deserve to know the truth about her death. A fair investigation is needed, and this cannot just be hidden from public scrutiny. Transparency is critical for the public to accept the conclusions. I will not stop my quest to find answers to who killed Ashli Babbitt,” said Rep. Gosar.

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The Mayo Clinic Diet for 5 July

JULY 05, 2021″You can make choices. You can create options to maximize your inner peace and serenity, your health, and your sense of self-worth.” — Edward T. Creagan, M.D.Healthy EatingIndulge your sweet tooth — the healthy waySweets such as cake, cookies, candy and doughnuts are loaded with “empty calories” — mostly from sugar and fat — because they’re not very filling and offer very little (if any) nutritional value. But don’t worry; you don’t have to give up treats entirely on the Mayo Clinic Diet — after all, healthy living is about balance! Read on for a sweet tooth-satisfying strawberry-banana milkshake recipe and learn how you can make your indulgences count.Learn how to be smart about sweets »Smart Choices 
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Want to boost the amount of vitamins, minerals and fiber in your recipes? Try some simple substitutions. Use whole-wheat flour for half of the all-purpose flour. Swap iceberg lettuce for arugula or spinach. And trade white rice for brown rice or wild rice. You can reduce fat, salt, sugar and calories without sacrificing flavor with simple ingredient swaps.

Time is like a river

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the  flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life. As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper’s cemetery in the Nova Scotia back country. As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being a typical man, I didn’t stop for directions.

 

I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch. I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late.

 

I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn’t know what else to do, so I started to play.

 

The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like I’ve never played before for this homeless man.  And as I played “Amazing Grace”, the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished, I packed up my bagpipes and started for my car. Though my head was hung low, my heart was full.

 

As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, “I never seen anything like that before, and I’ve been putting in septic tanks for twenty years.”

 

Apparently, I’m still lost….it’s a man thing.

 

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Ferrari

#AustrianGP 04.07.2021TEAM WORK Scuderia Ferrari came away from the Austrian Grand Prix with a further 14 points, courtesy of a fifth place for Carlos Sainz and an eighth for Charles Leclerc. The result was down to teamwork, the two drivers working together in the closing stages to secure fifth place, which on paper looked like the best result available given the performance of the SF21 at this track. The overall result could definitely have been better, but for a couple of incidents when Charles was forced off the track by another driver, which led to penalties being imposed by the stewards.  READ THE NEWS#essereFerrari

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“Life’s been a rollercoaster for me, but I think we can all agree on enduring ups and downs. I’ve yet to meet a person who hasn’t gone through something major in their life.” – Natalya Neidhart
Dear gentleman,

Life will come at you, in various ways. 

It’s unavoidable to go through the usual down and up-periods, but it’s the way how you handle the tough times that determines how smooth your ride will be. 

Ever heard of equanimity?

This is the moment of balance, let’s say it’s just in the middle between the up and the downs. A mental state of calmness and stability, that you can apply to every situation in life. 

Remember, the “good” and “bad” don’t define our lives. They are part of the bigger picture. Cultivating this will make it easier to navigate through the ride. 

How to defeat and conquer the rollercoaster of life? 

1. When in a downtime: Realizing that you are in a low moment, and that the ride will go up again will make it easier to overcome setbacks. Don’t be too worried, times will change. 

2. When in an uptime: Enjoy the moment that you are in right now, take a breath and take a moment to appreciate life. Don’t chase the high moments, they will change, just like you. 

Understanding that life has his tough moments, and everyone else on the rollercoaster of life experiences these. And we all handle our down-moments in different ways. For an ultimate relaxed mindset, pay close attention to your mood, and try to improve every day! 

Be a gentleman at heart. 

Marten Sethaven 
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