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For
the kingdom of God is not meat and drink;
but
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
(Romans 14:17)
Challenging both secular wisdom and religious doctrines.
Will our descendants know Biblical moral virtue or
Political Correctness? (Includes Politically Correct Dictionary)
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July 29, 2008 - "The Church will Begin to Take On More of a
'Military Mentality' in the Coming Times"
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"The Church will Begin to Take On More of a 'Military Mentality' in the Coming Times" By Rick Joyner -
The Church will begin to take on more of a "military mentality" in the coming times. We are called to be an army, and in many ways we will start to reflect this in a much more serious and focused demeanor in the leadership and the people. There is something about conflict that does focus our senses. We have been in a war against darkness of the most desperate kind for the whole history of the Church, but not all seem to understand this or live as they would if they did understand it. This, too, will be changing as more of God's people come to this understanding.
Of course, as always, the visionaries will make the changes first. And, as is usual, they will probably be scorned and ridiculed at first. That comes with the territory and should not surprise us. However, our goal must always be to please the One who enlisted us, the Lord, and not care what other people think, even His people.
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DRILL, DRILL, DRILL! Reid: $5-a-gallon gas is no problem Senate majority leader says: 'We will have to wait and see' - Asked if he thinks he has the votes to block legislation lifting the moratorium on offshore oil drilling, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said: "We will have to wait and see." Wait and see? Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi oppose lifting the ban on domestic oil drilling – and they are hoping the American people will just quietly accept gas prices topping $5 a gallon or even higher. They say the key to lowering the price is conservation. WND's Joseph Farah is not accepting that and is organizing efforts to flood Congress with emails, phone calls, letters and text messages demanding action that can lead the country in the direction of energy independence.
News and commentary (News & Commentary)
"Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain." - Thomas Sowell Random Thoughts
The religious right is AWOL from the real war Chuck Baldwin - I want to begin this column with one of my all-time favorite quotes. It comes from the great German reformer Martin Luther. He said, "If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point."
Luther's trenchant statement reminds us that today's Christians, especially our Christian leaders, are conspicuously absent from the field of battle. Oh, they may host large crowds in their gatherings; they may deposit multiplied millions of dollars in their financial accounts; they may receive thunderous applause from politicians, but they have fled the battlefield at the point of attack.
For the record, the real battlefield today is not abortion. It is not homosexual marriage. It is not Social Security. It is not al Qaeda. It is not taxes. It is not inflation. It is not electing conservatives. It is not posting the Ten Commandments. It is not even the high cost of gasoline. That is not to say that those issues are not important and not deserving of our best efforts and attention, because they are. But those issues do not represent the major battlefield today.
The battlefield where the devil has amassed his greatest forces and is thrusting his deadliest armies is the surrender of our national sovereignty and independence, and the creation of global government. And it is our own political and corporate leaders that are facilitating this chicanery. Furthermore, by refusing to oppose this surrender, our Christian leaders are complicit as well.
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State changes description of marriage amendment In voter pamphlets, California's Secretary of State has changed the description of a proposed constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage, taking a decidely "pro-homosexual" position.
Walter Williams - “Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement.”
The visual generation -- the death of wisdom Michael Bresciani - When Chairman Mao of China wanted to reach an entire generation, many who were illiterate, he produced his communist message in "comic book" style. It resulted in an entire generation of youth jumping onboard Mao's red wagon and subsequently tearing down the culture and traditions and the very structures of one of the oldest societies in the world. In America it is mindless, Godless and feckless TV programming, You Tube and Hollywood's latest offering of films that pour images on an entire generation. The result is exactly the same as it was in China but on a much larger scale and with so much more to lose.
Obama's Trip: No Bounce, No Flags, No Wounded GIs He didn't want the American flag shown at his speech in Germany and at his press conference in Paris. He canceled a trip to visit wounded soldiers when he was told the press couldn't take pictures of him. And the American public thought the press coverage of his trip was simply "excessive."
Senator Obama, Citizen of the World - European socialists and Middle Eastern Muslims are wildly enthusiastic about Senator Obama, because he styles himself a citizen of the world who, like all liberal-progressive-socialists, aims for world government. American liberal-progressive-socialism, in the person of Senator Obama, is a carbon copy of European socialism, and Islamic jihadists recognize that socialism offers no opposition to their ruthless jihad to enslave the entire world. ...Whether one supports the liberal-progressive agenda or not, there must be clear-eyed recognition that it is pushing the United States toward abolition of national sovereignty. From Supreme Court advocacy of international and foreign country law as superseding the Constitution, to “sensitive” foreign policy that must be pre-approved by the UN, we are barreling down the slippery slope to socialist impoverishment and domination by foreign powers.
Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY - Election '08: Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code.
Top 10 Things to Expect From Obama Court by Amanda Carpenter - The conservative-leaning Committee for Justice is trying to rile supporters with a “Top 10” list of things to expect from the Supreme Court should Barack Obama be elected president and appoint his desired justices. CJ Executive Director Curt Levey wrote supporters an email Monday with the words “Obama court is a conservative nightmare” in the subject line. “That very real possibility should frighten conservatives all the more when they consider that 1) by the end of an 8-year Obama presidency, Justices Scalia and Kennedy would be 80 years old, an age most men never reach, and 2) given the damage the Supreme Court has done to the rule of law since 1969, imagine what the Court would do if it regained a “solid liberal majority,” Levey said.
Putting Adolescents at Risk by Dale O’Leary - Males who self-identify as “gay” before age 18 are highly likely to have been victims of sexual abuse and/or to suffer from untreated Gender Identity Disorder (GID). This puts them at high risk for a number of negative outcomes. When these problems are untreated, the boys often act out in ways that draw negative attention to themselves. The strict restriction of bullying and other mistreatment by fellow students is, of course, important, but it is equally important to address the underlying problems. Even if an adolescent boy does not suffer from sexual abuse or GID, sexual activity combined with the predictable adolescent irresponsibility carries a high risk. A study by Lemp and associates of sexual risk behaviors of young (ages 17-22) men who have sex with men found that 22% reported beginning anal sex with men when they were ages 3 to 14, of these 15.2% were already HIV-positive. Of those who began sex when they were 15-19, 11.6% were HIV positive. While of those who began sex with men when they were 20-22 only 3.8% were HIV positive. It is clear that every year a male with SSA delays sexual involvement reduces his risk of HIV.
The duty of armed self-defense - What are the chances you will ever be attacked by armed assailants in a situation in which no one else can help you and your only chance for survival rests in using your own loaded firearm? The chances are increasing all the time.
EarsToHear.net note: See Armed Citizen accounts and reports.
Indoctrination: "Mainstream" Media & Education? - (Education?) The good, the bad, and the ugly...Without a Heritage every generation starts over Will our descendants know moral virtue? The primary responsibility of education DOES NOT belong to schools. (Deuteronomy 6:5-7)
"A trained intelligence can do much, but there is no substitute for morality, character and religious conviction." President Calvin Coolidge
"Knowledge unenlightened by the truth of God is dark knowledge. We may have a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D., but without the Lord all we have is dark information. It may help navigate us in the world of darkness, but by itself will never lead us to the truth. Apart from the revelation of the Spirit of God, none of us could ever find our way into the light. Darkly educated people are like those whom Paul described to his young protégé', Timothy, as 'always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.'" (2 Timothy 3:7) Rediscovering the Kingdom by Myles Munroe
Homeschooling advocate: public schools all about the Benjamins A home-schooling advocate says a recent case in which half the students in a big city school district failed a test after being provided the answers is just more proof that U.S. public schools have failed miserably at educating students.
San Diego ‘Gay Pride’ Makes For Bad ‘Gay Parenting’ WARNING: GRAPHIC — AFTAH reporters troubled by many children exposed to homosexuality celebration - GAY SHAME DAY? Do homosexuals have special rights on “pride” days to engage in public indecency and other illegal behaviors? This exhibitionist running a booth in the pornographic “Freedom Zone” at the recent San Diego Gay Pride festival was masturbating and playing with himself in public as people looked on. No security officials were called in to stop him in the roughly half hour AFTAH reporters were there as he continued to fondle himself. (The Freedom Zone — it was actually called the “Freedom Xone,” suggesting its pornographic content — was blocked off from the rest of the festival area by black plastic divider walls.) Look for further photos on San Diego “gay pride” in the coming days. CLICK HERE to listen online to an interview by CWA’s Martha Kleder with Peter LaBarbera of AFTAH. Blocked Photo: Allyson Smith, AFTAH.
QUEERLY BELOVED 'Gay' marriage battle goes to kindergarten Voters worry education mandates may reinforce homosexual agenda A pamphlet set to be distributed by the California secretary of state warns voters that if they do not pass Proposition 8 in November to constitutionally define marriage between one man and one woman, thay will face an unexpected consequence: children as young as kindergarten will be subject to mandatory teaching on the virtues of homosexual marriage. Opponents of Proposition 8 are calling the education argument a smokescreen, a scare tactic and a fabrication.
EarsToHear.net note: Dear Californians, as if what is happening Mass-embarrassed-chusetts schools since May 15, 2003 hasn't been in the news?
"Politically Correct" - (Politically Correct with PC dictionary) Examples and results of using unrighteous deception which lack Biblical Moral Virtue. Remove the Light (Jesus) and darkness (politically correct secular humanism) inevitably ensues.
First corrupt their young minds, then subject their health to the "natural" results of that corruption (as politicians, school administrators, judges, and worse, parents appease because of "political correctness.")
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A Lady Under Fire A Washington Post columnist claims a supporter of the ban on gays in the military exhibited "rage" in Congressional testimony -- but The Hill reveals that the rage was on the other side. By Robert Knight
Elaine Donnelly reported for duty Wednesday. She went to a battlefield where most men who agree with her were AWOL.
Like her mentor, Phyllis Schlafly, she did not let others’ cowardice or indifference interfere with what she needed to do. Mrs. Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, told the truth at risk of ridicule or worse, keeping the faith that telling the truth matters no matter what.
Donnelly was one of two witnesses testifying before a House subcommittee in support of the military’s ban on homosexuality. The other three witnesses were pro-gay, as were most of the questions from the lawmakers.
...After the hearing, Mrs. Donnelly took Milbank’s and her opponents’ comments in stride. “I know what it’s like to be bullied by powerful men. I kept my composure,” she said. “What they’ve done is to make my main point, which is that if the ban is lifted, people who believe in traditional sexual morality will be abused and have no recourse, no defenders.”
That pretty much sums up the hearing itself, at which most of the Republicans fled and none challenged the assertions of the pro-gay witnesses and the liberal lawmakers who attacked Donnelly. Other than her co-panelist, retired Army Ranger Brian Jones, who also did a creditable job in his testimony, Donnelly stood alone.
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What would George Washington think of gays in the military? by Star Parker - “I would argue that most of the major costs dragging down our society today—whether its poverty, entitlements, health care, or housing—trace to our diminishing sense of personal responsibility and the erosion of traditional values. Our first great general, George Washington, would be considered politically incorrect today cautioning against believing ‘that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle’ and admonishing, ‘virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.’ ‘Gays in the military’ is more than a question of military morale. It’s about the character of this country that we have a military to defend. Who would question what George Washington would say about this important issue?”
Blog Shut Down by 'Christian' Apologist's Threat - MEDIA ADVISORY, July 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- Pastor Dustin Segers submits the following and is available for comment: How safe are our blogs? That question was raised again when on the evening of July 26, 2008, a popular religious blog was shut down by an Internet service provider. A complaint filed by Christian author and apologist, Richard Abanes, claiming that one article on the religious opinion site, Apprising.org, had slandered him, caused the web host, IPower, to send its publisher, Ken Silva, a 48-hour warning to remove the offending piece or be taken down. In that the piece was not believed to be slander at all, but rather religious and theological opinion, he refused to be forced into censoring his site by Richard Abanes. The site went down.
Extra, Extra...
e-VeriFILE.us - In recent decades, employers who played by the rules and hired legally were at a competitive disadvantage against employers who hired illegally. The e-VeriFILE program provides law-abiding employers a chance to turn the tables. Many employers are surprised by the level of public support and awareness there is for employers who strengthen the communities in which they do business.
E-Verify vs. e-VeriFILE - E-Verify The E-Verify program is the federal on-line program employers use to verify employment eligibility for new hires. e-VeriFILE The e-VeriFILE program is the non-affiliated program that provides a way for employers who participate in the E-Verify program to advertise to their customers and neighbors their good citizenship.
You can encourage employers to sign up for E-Verify by ordering and using "prod cards" at e-VeriFILE.us.
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