USA – – – UP BY TEN – – – AND LOSING

April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The United States of America has been blessed with ten generations that knew the meaning of sacrifice—that knew the price of freedom—that maintained eternal vigilance—that passed on the meaning of “a moral people”—that turned and returned to God in crisis and in prosperity—that never forgot where we came from and why we are here—that believed we are exceptional because we are founded on the Bible—that believed we are called by God to be a bastion of freedom against worlds of evil—that believed every American must fight for family and freedom—that understood the people’s government is good when the people are good.

 

The United States of America is “up by ten” because ten generations have maintained our heritage.

 

When one generation fails to pass on the torch of freedom to the next, that freedom and all its blessings vanish.

 

We are living in that generation now, and the USA—up by ten—is losing.

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EASTER—–JESUS—–RESURRECTION DAY

April 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Could God get your attention today, on Easter?

What, then, shall I do with Jesus?

What, now, shall I do with Jesus?

A)    Reject Him—and return to my life.

OR

B)    Receive Him—and turn from my life.

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“WHAT THEN SHALL I DO WITH . . . “

April 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

“What then shall I do with Jesus?

—Pilate

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MUSLIM – – – – – – – CHRISTIAN

April 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

According to Islam, a Muslim who becomes a Christian must be killed.

According to Islam, a Muslim may lie if it advances the cause of Islam.

BHOB* identified as a Muslim when he was in school.

BHOB bows to Muslims and caters to Islam whenever possible.

BHOB occasionally refers to himself as a Christian.

BHOB never faces death threats for saying he is a Christian.

BHOB is living out his Muslim roots, and he is advancing the cause of Islam when he lies that he is a Christian.

 

*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”

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HEART TRANSPLANT – – – TECHNOLOGY EDITION

April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

No, I haven’t been in the hospital, but my computer was.

New, bigger hard drive, and a son to install everything and work out the kinks.  Wonderful.

Thought for the day, on the marvels of technology, compared to life:

As our computer world (and all that comes with it) goes faster and faster to bring more stuff into our lives, we must identify and hold onto the things that cannot change.

01)  We can’t raise our children faster.

02)  We still have wisdom from the past, to pass on.

03)  Everything man made does have limits.

04)  Information may not increase intelligence.

05)  Personal peace is not proportional to speed.

06)  Busy does not equate with blessed.

07)  Search for meaning in the heart is not found on the internet.

07)  “Be still, and know . . . ”  (find the secret in His Book—Psalm 46)

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THE BLACK ROBED REGIMENT

April 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Pastors,

Does God have enough sovereignty in your life to call you (if He chooses) to activism to save America, like The Black Robed Regiment was used to create America 240 years ago?

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SURVIVAL—OR—SACRIFICE

March 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

What is the force behind the universe?

Which of these two statements is true, and which is false?

01)  The greatest EVOLUTION ever observed is this:  that a man lay down his life for his friends.

02)  “Greater LOVE has no man than this:  that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

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BIG QUESTION—ANSWER

March 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Have all the efforts of Congress, and talk shows, and conservative and Christian organizations actually stopped any of BHOB’s* agenda?

NO !

None of the efforts of Congress, and talk shows, and conservative and Christian organizations have actually stopped any of BHOB’s agenda.

What has been his agenda since day one of his campaign, through today?  It has been to fundamentally change America, beyond the point of recognition or recovery.

BHOB is proceeding with his agenda, unabated, and so far, unstoppable.

THEREFORE:

01)  We have to do things we have not yet done.

02)  We must have a leader who will unite all the people and organizations that care about America, so we can again “hang together, or we will all hang separately.”

03)  We must be prepared that the election in November may not save us.

04)  We must learn sacrifice from the committed Americans who originally pledged “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor,” and made good on that pledge.

05)  We must learn from history.  CHANGING AMERICA BACK will be harder than starting this great country.

06)  Every person who cares about this country must get serious about praying.  “God, what do You want to change in my life?  God, show me what you want me to do for my neighbor and for my country?”

 

Oh Beautiful, for heroes proved

In liberating strife;

Who more than self their country loved

And mercy more than life.

America, America, may God thy gold refine,

Till all success be nobleness,

And every gain divine.

 

*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”

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LOVE PRAYER

March 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

MY PRAYER TODAY 3-10-12 (very personal, hopefully inspiring to someone)

Lord, I deeply desire the very best You wish to give me. I want to live at the top of the life You have planned.

There are times You give me eloquence and lofty insight; sometimes You even let me sing loudly and boldly. But please don’t let me miss loving, or else I am just so much noise.

Lord, I have seen You work in my life; I have experienced supernatural living, and understanding which could only come from You. I have seen You move mountains; I have moved mountains because I believe in You. I can do anything through You. And—You have taught me how to love. Thank You. I humbly beg of You to let me love again. Without Your love in me and through me, all this other high and mighty stuff is nothing.

You have led me to care about people in all kinds of need, and You have arranged my life to be available to help in unusual times and circumstances. Often the rest of my personal life looks like a wreck—worthless. Is that intentional, Lord, so You can teach me to love?

Did You really say I should suffer long, silently, and still be kind? Is that what love is? Can Your love teach me to not think about how much more other people have—including how much more they think I should have? Lord, with love, let me not be a brag or brash or have to be right.

Let love so fill me that there will be nothing inappropriate in my life, seen or unseen. May love direct me to the welfare of others, not my own. With Your love in me, help me rise above the aggravations of others and the evils all around trying to occupy my thoughts.

With love I do not delight in sin, or wrongs done to me, or gossip. I think and get excited about the truth. Love filters out bad stuff, and lets only good enter the mind. (I use this list for testing thoughts—true, honest, promote justice, pure, lovely, produce a good report card, inspire virtue, worthy of praise.)

Lord, help me love enough to carry someone’s burdens.
Lord, help me love enough to believe in someone through tough times.
Lord, help me love enough to keep hope alive, for my life and for someone else.
Lord, help me love enough to hang in there when my strength is gone, but Yours is not.

I see a lot of things fail. Lord, thank You for showing me love, and giving me love, that does not fail. Everything else will disappear—explaining things, speaking of supernatural, understanding mysteries—it will all be gone.
Lord, thank You that I do not have to know it all, to love.

A few side notes, to put love in perspective:

I know and understand some things now—but it is so incomplete.
I can even explain some things now, for others’ benefit—but it is so incomplete.
Someday, Someone is coming—“incomplete” will be history.
I can see progress from my childhood to adulthood—in my speaking, in my understanding, in my thinking—thank God I grew up.

Likewise, imagine the difference between now and heaven:
Life is a smudgy mirror—we can’t even get an accurate view of ourselves.
In heaven, we’ll see Jesus, face to face, and we’ll look like Him, just like we’re supposed to. PERFECT LOVE—PERFECT MIRROR.
And our thinking will be perfect too. We’ll think like God. Imagine that.

FAITH really matters now, FAITH to get us through this life, FAITH to do great and small things for God and others, FAITH to get us to heaven, believing in the blood of Jesus.
HOPE really matters now, HOPE to keep us going, HOPE to keep our eyes on the prize ahead.
LOVE really matters now, to show the LOVE of Jesus in our life. His LOVE alone makes our LOVE count.

So, we need faith and hope and love now.
But only one is the greatest, even now.
And only one will be in heaven.

L O V E

Lord, thank You for loving me, thank You for teaching me how to love, and thank You for the blessed opportunity to love. I humbly ask You to let me love again. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

If you like, you can see this is a phrase by phrase parallel with I Corinthians 12:31-13:13 from His Book.

(No blog tomorrow—A personal day of memory for me)

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USA—AT THE CROSSROADS

March 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

USA—AT THE CROSSROADS (written 12-5-11)

be history——or make history
demise——or survive
throw away——or thrive
fade——or flourish

Not graphic enough, not shocking enough, bigger than the above, more at stake, much more required of US.

America, the USA, is now at a crossroads we have never faced before, and the choice is not even clear to most Americans. We are not at a “Y” in the road, with two gently diverging options, like just so many elections we’ve seen come and go in 236 years. No, we are at a “T” in the road, with two direct opposite paths 180 degrees apart. (A “T” in the road requires stopping, before you make a choice)

So, here are the crossroads options for the USA, in graphic contrast——

S U I C I D E – – – or – – – R E V I V A L

Please think about that for a moment before you read on.

For a decade I have been saying there is a death wish in Washington. It seems like caring about the real America is replaced by everything that’s bad for America, and more and more it seems intentional. I also saw the day was coming soon when the remaining restraints would be gone—the restraints holding back the euthanasia of America.

Legal euthanasia in medicine is debated, speculated, experimented, and becomes reality. Likewise, in Washington, the election of 2008 brought that about for the country. The death wish is now turned into the intentional, legal suicide of America.

“Changing America” won an election which may well be marked a point of no return. More and more credence is given to talk of fundamentally changing America, of doing away with capitalism, endorsing socialism, apologizing to our enemies, abandoning our heritage, and “choice” to continue the American Holocaust—the killing of babies and now even the killing of the family.

And how did we come to the point of relentlessly ridding God from all public life? Who let that happen? The Christian churches are almost unanimously silent about what is happening to our country at a rate that rivals blitzkrieg. That’s not how we got started, and that’s not how we will save our country.

The Black Robed Regiment led the American Revolution, by inspiring US with Biblical truths of life, freedom, capitalism, God-pleasing and God-inspired government. That was Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon they applied their sermons by leading militia training. Thank God we didn’t have the courts and cowards we have today.

These preachers were feared most by King George, because he could not defeat them, and that is why we won, with God’s blessing. And that’s not all.

Decades before the Revolution, we had an enduring revival called a Great Awakening. And that’s not all.

Decades before the end of slavery, we had an enduring revival called a Great Awakening. And that’s not all.

Decades before winning the World Wars, we had an enduring revival called a Great Awakening. IS THAT ALL?

Many of God’s people are praying right now for an enduring revival.

God, wake us up.

God, wake me up. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

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