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It’s essential to guard your heart. Even a small paper cut there can almost kill you. That’s why it’s crucial who you allow to reside there. However, if someone or something is already there causing you pain… know that Jesus will heal the hurt and His blood will supplement what you’ve lost.

Proverbs 4:23 – New International Version (©1984) Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

We posted a video yesterday of a January 29th service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church where Bishop Eddie Long was crowned a king by Ralph Messer — who claims to be a Rabbi bringing Torah truth to Christians.

“He’s no longer a commoner,” said Messer. “He’s not on the Earth! He’s raised from Earth into a Heavenly realm! He’s raised in a prophetic position…God has made a prophet out of you.”

During the ceremony Eddie Long was also wrapped in a sacred Torah scroll and carried upon a throne. Messer claimed the Torah scroll was 312 years old and “may still have the dust of Auschwitz and Birkenau,” referring to the Nazi extermination camps in Poland where millions of Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution spoke with several metro Atlanta Jewish leaders who found the ceremony offensive to Judaism, including Bill Nigut, Southeast Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League.

Rabbi Joshua Heller of Congregation B’nai Torah in Sandy Springs told the AJC that he would never wrap a Jewish person in a Torah scroll, saying he found the symbolism off-putting.

In a statement released through New Birth, Messer said critics misunderstood his intent.

“My message was about restoring a man and to encourage his walk in the Lord,” Messer said. “It was not to make Bishop Eddie L. Long a king.”

Messer added that Sunday’s ceremony “was simply a way of bringing honor to a man who had given his life to the Lord and had given so much to his church, the Atlanta metro area and throughout the world.”

Read the full story at the AJC.

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You can’t get upset when people don’t believe in you when your actions say you don’t even believe in yourself. Confidence is the identity of a people who realize that the God in them gives them TREMENDOUS SWAGGER! Believe in yourself, because your creator already does.

1 John 4:4 – You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

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Take care to monitor your self talk. Internal conversations become external realities. Allowing the wrong thing to simmer on your mind without proper ventilation will inevitably cause an explosion. Vent the bad stuff to someone qualified to handle it and replace it with words and thoughts of empowerment and hope.

Philippians 4:8 -  Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

During a January 29th service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Bishop Eddie Long was crowned a king by Ralph Messer — who claims to be a Rabbi bringing Torah truth to Christians.

“He’s no longer a commoner,” said Messer. “He’s not on the Earth! He’s raised from Earth into a Heavenly realm! He’s raised in a prophetic position…God has made a prophet out of you.”

UPDATE: Jewish Leaders Offended By Eddie Long’s “King” Ceremony [VIDEO]

Watch the video below and share your thoughts in the comments box:

RELATED:

New Birth Christian Academy To Reopen With Aurora Day School [VIDEO]

Bishop Eddie Long Returns To New Birth [VIDEO]

Eddie Long Protestors Nearly Run Over By Long’s Supporters! [VIDEO]

View The Eddie Long / Vanessa Long Divorce Papers Here! [PHOTOS]

Bishop Eddie Long Taking Leave From New Birth [VIDEO]

Vanessa Long Says Divorce Back On, Eddie Long Responds

Bishop Eddie Long’s Wife Withdraws Divorce Petition!

Bishop Eddie Long’s Wife Files For Divorce!

Eddie Long Seeks To Recoup Sex Abuse Settlement Money

Move over Real Housewives of whatever and make room for the women of the cloth.

TLC is capitalizing on the latest trend of reality shows and giving the world what it really wants to see with a new series “First Ladies” of the Atlanta area churches.

With True Entertainment, the same production company behind RHOA, behind it, how could it go wrong?

“We are excited to work with TLC to profile the lives of these strong-willed women,” True Entertainment president Steven Weinstock says. “With most praise in religious communities directed towards male preachers, we are thrilled to give these remarkable ladies the spotlight they crave and deserve.”

The series will follow the women who play the role of preacher’s wives and mothers at home. The real drama is how they manage both while keeping their cool.

An airdate has yet to be announced. But they need to hurry that up because it’s bound to be a popular one.

Source: Eurweb.com

Jeffrey Goldberg of “The Atlantic” does a wonderful job of describing what he refers to as racist “dog whistling” by leading Republicans.  The writer explains the manner by which America has walked away from blatant race-baiting, but is fully willing to elect a candidate who engages in “dog whistling,” or referencing race in ways that allow him to avoid accountability for the harmful effect of his remarks.

Golberg references the antics of Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who has taken dog whistling to another level.  In the world according to Gingrich:

Black people have lost the desire to perform a day’s work. Black people rely on food stamps provided to them by white taxpayers. Black people, including Barack and Michelle Obama, believe that the U.S. owes them something because they are black. Black children should work as janitors in their high schools as a way to keep them from becoming pimps. And the pathologies afflicting black Americans are caused partly by the Democratic Party, which has created in them a dependency on government not dissimilar to the forced dependency of slaves on their owners.

There is something beautifully educational about the presidential candidacy of Newt Gingrich.  The fact that his tactics are working serves as a clear reminder that racism is alive and well in America, and I rarely find anyone who (like three years ago) tries to convince me that we live in some kind of post-racial society.   The subtle racism that has frustrated many millions of African Americans for decades is being laid out on the table for all to see.  Like the five-year old who snaps a photo of the boogeyman under his bed, black people are able to point to right wing reactions to President Obama as all the proof of racism they need.

What we’re also seeing in America is a bit of a civil war.  The irrationality of racial hatred runs so deep that there are some who would rather see America crash and burn than to see a black man standing proudly in the White House.   The talk of assassinating our leader and defying the federal government has rarely been greater than it is right now.

Simultaneously, the battle against racism leads many black people to blanketly support any policy of the Obama Administration as if they are trying to score points for a basketball team.  Democracy has been thrown out the window in exchange for a state of racialized Martial Law, where people are not voting for Obama as much as they are voting against racist Republicans.  Like slaves huddled up in fear of their masters, we are terrorized by those who seek to use Republican racial animosity as a threat to get us to run for cover with the Democratic Party.

All the while, there is hope for America.  When a doctor gives you medicine to cure a virus, the disease typically flares up before it disappears.   When a vicious wild animal is being killed, it fights for its life before it dies.  The disease of racism is being directly confronted by the mere existence of a bi-racial president.  Like any disease, America’s racial virus has flared up and those who hold onto to the ideologies of our past are fighting like hell to keep those ideas alive.

What doesn’t kill a nation usually makes it stronger. One only wonders if this difficult period in our nation’s history is going to have a positive or negative long-term effect on our country.  Men like Newt Gingrich are naturally able to fuel the fire of racial animosity that burns inside those with a threatened sense of entitlement.   The evidence that America continues to heal is the fact that for millions of Americans, Newt Gingrich’s racial dog whistling simply does not work.

It is for all of these reasons that Gingrich’s racial politics may earn him a few fans in the south, but it won’t get him anywhere near the White House.  America is becoming a better country because of the Obama presidency, whether we like it or not.

Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Professor at Syracuse University. To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here.