We must give encouragement to each other, to be faithful witnesses as persecution and martyrdom draw close.
It’s not just news anymore to keep up with.
It’s Christianity as Jesus promised.
Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
We must give encouragement to each other, to be faithful witnesses as persecution and martyrdom draw close.
It’s not just news anymore to keep up with.
It’s Christianity as Jesus promised.
WHAT IF—
+We love God with everything?
+We are exactly where God wants us today?
+We are successful in His eyes when we fail in our eyes or in our critics’ eyes or in our creditors’ eyes?
+”What if the trials of this life—the pain, the storms, the darkest nights—are His blessings in disguise?”
Someone will depend on you to bring them to Jesus.
Decide to live authentically as a Christian.
Pray for healing, but don’t demand that God remove the very means to a closer walk with Him.
“I count all things but loss, . . .
That I may win Christ,
And be found in Him, . . .
That I may know Him,
And the power of His resurrection,
And the fellowship of His suffering , . . .”
The White House refers to any private citizen with a firearm as an AC—Armed Civilian.
You got it wrong, BHOB*.
AC—that would be Armed Constitutionalist.
I refer to any private citizen with a firearm as AN AMERICAN!!!
*BHOB—Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”
There are four constitutional rules for gun control.
ONE—You, an American, must own a gun.
TWO—You, an American, must be in possession of your gun.
THREE—You, an American, must have your gun loaded.
FOUR—You, an American, must have sufficient gun control when you use it, to stop a bad guy or a bad government trying to hurt you or your family or your free country.
We don’t need to go to war.
War is coming to us, literally.
And now it is our enemies who are saying,
“We have not yet begun to fight.”
Read about John Paul Jones, American ship captain in the Revolutionary War, who first said that line.
And then he tied his sinking ship to the enemy ship so they could keep fighting and win.
No one wants to talk about it.
No one knows how to prepare.
American Christians, learn from the Iraqi Christians, the Syrian Christians, the Egyptian Christians, the Iranian Christians, the Sudanese Christians, the . . .
Prepare for the same.
Watch and pray, together.
And pray some more.
Pray for all those Christians facing persecution and those facing martyrdom.
They will soon be praying for us.
And pray for American pastors to speak boldly what really counts, while our freedom to do so remains, but uncertain.
(These were going to be spread out in serial form, but you probably need to hear them all at once in progressive sequence.)
#1 You know you’ve met a real Texan . . .
He greets the August heat with, “Ah, this is why I live in Texas.”
(may be stretching it a bit when the heat lingers through September—updated 9-20-15)
#2 You know you’ve met a real Texan . . .
His views on citizenship and immigration are very clear:
+GOD
+GUNS
+FENCE
+FRIENDSHIP
+ENGLISH*
+EARN**
If you want to join us, believe all this, become a Texan.
*We can forgive you if you can’t speak Texan because you weren’t born here, but native Texans (and new) speak English.
**That means WORK. In Texas you can sweat without working, but you can’t work without sweating.
Note: Except for a fence on the south, these views apply to immigration across any Texas border.
And, we practice what we preach on all the above.
#3 You know you’ve met a real Texan . . .
His t-shirt says:
“SECEDE? Y’all are lucky we don’t invade”
#4 You know you’ve met a real Texan . . .
His political position is crystal clear and passionately positive:
“I would rather die fighting for the Republic of Texas than helplessly watch the United States of America surrender to Islam.”
#5 You know you’ve met a real Texan . . .
He believes it is time for Texas to close our embassy in Washington and expel all U.S. “diplomats” from our country.
#6 You know you’ve met a real Texan . . .
He recognizes and accepts the responsibility that Texas may be the last bastion of freedom in the world.
Ted Cruz had a conference call with over 100,000 pastors, urging them to pray and preach against the evil, the horror, of abortion and Planned Parenthood.
That is something God will pay attention to.
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