Senator Coburn - making Oklahoman's Proud!

Dr. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Senator (R): I want to send a couple of messages to my colleagues in the House. If you voted "no" and you vote "yes" and you lose your election and you think any nomination to a federal position isn't going to be held in the Senate, I got news for you, it's going to be held. If you get a deal for you or your district, I've already instructed my staff and the staff of seven other senators that we will look at every appropriations bill at every level, at every instance, and we will outline it by district and we will associate that with the buying of your vote. So if you think you can cut a deal now and it not come out 'til after the election, I want to tell you that isn't going to happen. And be prepared to defend selling your vote in the House.

One Commentator said this about Tom's statement... "Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma throwing down a gauntlet. When he says your nomination will be held, he means: "We're going to stop it. If you're gonna get a plum federal job for selling your vote to Barack Obama or Pelosi, you ain't going to get the job. We're going to hold it and we're going to tell everybody what you got, because every nomination has to go through us in the Senate, we're going to tell everybody what you got before the election so you better be prepared to defend selling your vote in the House." This is Tom Coburn, Senator from Oklahoma, and he is a doctor."

Now that makes me PROUD to be an Okie. God Bless you Tom - we are still praying for you to have the Wisdom to know when to speak up and when to be silent. Keep speaking up!

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Caesarea Maritima

"Caesarea by the Sea"

The pictures you see above are the result of the determination to build a super port on the easter coast of the Mediterranean by Herod. Herod wanted more cities of Rome in the region. Caesarea by the Sea also became the capital of the provice of Judea, the home of prefects such as Pilate (John 19:1).

Herod Agrippa 1 lived and died there (Acts 12:19-23). Philip the Evangelist, oe of the seaven, with his four daughters lived there (Acts 6:5, 21:8-9). Having witnessed the Ethiopian eunuch, Philip arrived there after his preaching mission (Acts 8). Paul passed through Caesarea several times (Acts 9:30, 18:22, and perhaps 21:8), was imprisoned there by Felix and questioned there by Festus (Acts 23:23, 25:1-7).

This city was covered by the "sands of time" for centuries. Sand that poured into the Mediterranean from the Nile and wind driven upon the beaches of Palestine. A Roman column was found by a farmer in 1949, and thus began the unearthing of this great city. There is also the ruins of a Roman Aqueduct that would have brought fresh water to the city by gravity.

Next time... Mount Carmel and the Valley of Megiddo...

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