Leviticus 19:19 warns us, `You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sew your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.`
A similar statement is made in Deuteronemy 22:11, `You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.`
One could surmise from this that The Lord has a `thing` against certain types of clothing, salad blends, or perhaps even the tastey Beeffalo. However this would be missing the point for today, as we are no longer bound to Levitical Law because of The New Covenant in Christ.
Paul clearly brings these Old Testament Laws into New Covenant focus in Galatians 1:8-9, `But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have recieved, let him be accursed.`
These are strong, and clear words that leave very little room for error in interpretation. There is no arguable double meaning to confuse, no room to wriggle into something more comfortable, accommodating, or less exclusive. We know from all of Scripture that God, is a God of absolutes and accepts no substitutes when it concerns to His Word.
The Bible confirms we are made by God in His image. I believe this is why, in a sense, we seek what is pure and perfect in the world when it comes to what we desire from it.
No one seeks a new car with some mechanical defect, or a scratch in the paint. When we see something like this we walk by, and look to the next opportinity. Women who are moderately handsom do not grace the cover of magazines selling the latest fasions, or we might shun the clothes. When we look at diamonds, we seek to find the clearest, brightest, most cleanly cut specimen to adorn the finger of our intended, and the jeweler never seeks to use gold of marginal quality in his wears. As parents, we hope and pray that our children are born with all the fingers and toes in the perfect place, and in the right amount.
This being true, it is tragic we so easily and carelessly turn our hand against the perfection of The Word. Daily many will cut out those parts that seem somehow wrong to us, sew on odd limbs of interpretation, and fuse our weakly woven earthly agendas into the fabric of the ephod our Creator spun to fit us with great precision, and loving care. The result men of such arrogance produce is an ill fitting garment that may appear warm and wonderful at a glance, but upon closer inspection will always reveal its flaws. The shoddy sticthing of inept and foolish hands leave gaps in the panels, and these errors will not cease to expose the shameful sin of presumption, when the Masters` design is at last set before it for all to see.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Friday, December 08, 2006
Merry CHRISTmas
As much as I would like to take credit for this, I cannot. The original was sent to me in an e-mail, author unknown. It was somewhat dated, and so I felt the need for some revision. I hope as you read, it will bring a concern to your hearts, and a new resolve to stand firm against the culture that would profane the celebration of Christs` birth, and reduce it to nothing more than an annual secular social event.
`Tis not a month before Christmas, and all through the land,
too few Christians are praying, or taking a stand.
How sad the freedom to worship,
Slowly slips through our hands.
Our children are told by public schools not to sing,
about Shepards or Wisemen, Angels, or a King.
"It might hurt people`s feelings!" the teachers must say,
call December 25th, just another holiday.
All the shoppers will consume with cash, checks, and credit,
pushing folks to the floor, in a rush just to get it.
CDs, widescreens, a Playstation, some new clothes to be worn,
who remembers the name of The Gentle Newborn?
Retail giants promote holidays like Ramadan, and Kwanzaa,
in hopes to sell books, by Franken and Fonda.
Remember Target hanging trees upsidedown?
While at Best Buy the word `Christmas` can not be found.
At K-Mart and Lowe`s and Penny`s and at Sears,
no employee can wish you `Merry Christmas` this year.
Inclusive, sensitive, and diversity,
all words they will use to shame and intimidate me.
Now Matthews, Now Stewart, Now Olberman and Winfrey,
On Bieden, On Clinton, On Obama and Pelosi!
From the House to the senate, there arose such a clatter,
To blot out the Name of Jesus, from all public matters.
Soon we`ll face charges, as they stifle our faith,
forbidden to speak in public, of salvation and grace.
The true Gift of Christmas is shunned, then returned,
The Wonder of Christ, has still yet to be learned.
So as you celebrate the `season`, around an artificial tree,
Sipping your Starbucks, incline your ear to me.
Choose your words carefully, boldly, and joyfully this day,
yell out "Merry Christmas!", not happy holidays.
`Tis not a month before Christmas, and all through the land,
too few Christians are praying, or taking a stand.
How sad the freedom to worship,
Slowly slips through our hands.
Our children are told by public schools not to sing,
about Shepards or Wisemen, Angels, or a King.
"It might hurt people`s feelings!" the teachers must say,
call December 25th, just another holiday.
All the shoppers will consume with cash, checks, and credit,
pushing folks to the floor, in a rush just to get it.
CDs, widescreens, a Playstation, some new clothes to be worn,
who remembers the name of The Gentle Newborn?
Retail giants promote holidays like Ramadan, and Kwanzaa,
in hopes to sell books, by Franken and Fonda.
Remember Target hanging trees upsidedown?
While at Best Buy the word `Christmas` can not be found.
At K-Mart and Lowe`s and Penny`s and at Sears,
no employee can wish you `Merry Christmas` this year.
Inclusive, sensitive, and diversity,
all words they will use to shame and intimidate me.
Now Matthews, Now Stewart, Now Olberman and Winfrey,
On Bieden, On Clinton, On Obama and Pelosi!
From the House to the senate, there arose such a clatter,
To blot out the Name of Jesus, from all public matters.
Soon we`ll face charges, as they stifle our faith,
forbidden to speak in public, of salvation and grace.
The true Gift of Christmas is shunned, then returned,
The Wonder of Christ, has still yet to be learned.
So as you celebrate the `season`, around an artificial tree,
Sipping your Starbucks, incline your ear to me.
Choose your words carefully, boldly, and joyfully this day,
yell out "Merry Christmas!", not happy holidays.
Friday, December 01, 2006
Beware, the silken words of madmen
Recently the people of the United States recieved a letter from Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I urge any who have not read this document, to do so at once. www.uncommonthought.com is one of a few places where it can be found, read and printed.
As an American, a Christian, and a basically educated man, I am both afraid and concerned over the content of President Ahmadinejads` message. I am struck by the sophisticated presentation of his ideas, and the reasonableness of the mans suggestions, the smooth sincerity of his every word. My fear is not so much of him, but of the weak minded and dissolusioned men and women in our own nation that so easily fall prey to anything well packaged, pleasing to the eye, and tickelish to the ear.
Dr. Ahmadinejad speaks often of `God`. Even more of Divinity and spirituality, on the surface he seems a godly man. The cadance and soothing tone belie a terrifying truth. The god of this man is not the God of the Bible, but a god of prophets that command beliefe in him or death. Deny what you will, this is a basic tenant of the Muslim faith.
Iran is a theocratic dictatorship, ruled by fear and oppression like any other country where beliefs are told you. Free speech and practice of worship is not an option there, and if you refuse to adhere arrest, imprisonment and death are surely your lot. But, none of this is in the well crafted letter, as truth would spoil the illusion of its` intent. Though one point is completely evident , the thinly veiled hatred of the Jewish people cannot be contained. Nor will it be entirely lost on even the slightly gullible readers, as it makes them squirm just a little uncomfortably in their comfortable chairs.
This subtle servent of ill will would have us believe we share a common intrest in peace, as he appeals to the mothers and families of our servicemen and women in Iraq to call their children home. While with the other hand he doles out vast amounts of weapons and wealth to insurgents to kill and mutilate those same children in the streets of Bagdad.
Skillfully we are demonized to the world for the wrongful imprisonment and degrading of jihadists in the course of defence of our nations` security, yet those who are ultimately behind the kidnapping of journalists, aid workers, and engineers and their recorded and televised torture and beheadings are never mentioned. With a mouth open on both sides the Iranian president condemns terrorism on the right, while supporting Sryia on the left.
Gently he concerns himself with our accounts in Iraq, lightly salting the wound he hopes so soon to fully infect. President Ahmadinejad wrings blood caked hands in anticipation of our militarys` departure, eger to aquire the resorces of oil and bodies to fund and fuel a coming war he will wage first against the Jew, then the western world. This war is not an idle threat, it was his word.
Imperialism, fascism, and communism have all bred their cataclysms, some violent and genocidal, others cold and suffocating. Yet they will have been as a cloud passing before the sun when compared to the coming atrocities that loom large before the world today, if we continue to stumble forward with our eyes closed and our ears open to the silken words of madmen.
As an American, a Christian, and a basically educated man, I am both afraid and concerned over the content of President Ahmadinejads` message. I am struck by the sophisticated presentation of his ideas, and the reasonableness of the mans suggestions, the smooth sincerity of his every word. My fear is not so much of him, but of the weak minded and dissolusioned men and women in our own nation that so easily fall prey to anything well packaged, pleasing to the eye, and tickelish to the ear.
Dr. Ahmadinejad speaks often of `God`. Even more of Divinity and spirituality, on the surface he seems a godly man. The cadance and soothing tone belie a terrifying truth. The god of this man is not the God of the Bible, but a god of prophets that command beliefe in him or death. Deny what you will, this is a basic tenant of the Muslim faith.
Iran is a theocratic dictatorship, ruled by fear and oppression like any other country where beliefs are told you. Free speech and practice of worship is not an option there, and if you refuse to adhere arrest, imprisonment and death are surely your lot. But, none of this is in the well crafted letter, as truth would spoil the illusion of its` intent. Though one point is completely evident , the thinly veiled hatred of the Jewish people cannot be contained. Nor will it be entirely lost on even the slightly gullible readers, as it makes them squirm just a little uncomfortably in their comfortable chairs.
This subtle servent of ill will would have us believe we share a common intrest in peace, as he appeals to the mothers and families of our servicemen and women in Iraq to call their children home. While with the other hand he doles out vast amounts of weapons and wealth to insurgents to kill and mutilate those same children in the streets of Bagdad.
Skillfully we are demonized to the world for the wrongful imprisonment and degrading of jihadists in the course of defence of our nations` security, yet those who are ultimately behind the kidnapping of journalists, aid workers, and engineers and their recorded and televised torture and beheadings are never mentioned. With a mouth open on both sides the Iranian president condemns terrorism on the right, while supporting Sryia on the left.
Gently he concerns himself with our accounts in Iraq, lightly salting the wound he hopes so soon to fully infect. President Ahmadinejad wrings blood caked hands in anticipation of our militarys` departure, eger to aquire the resorces of oil and bodies to fund and fuel a coming war he will wage first against the Jew, then the western world. This war is not an idle threat, it was his word.
Imperialism, fascism, and communism have all bred their cataclysms, some violent and genocidal, others cold and suffocating. Yet they will have been as a cloud passing before the sun when compared to the coming atrocities that loom large before the world today, if we continue to stumble forward with our eyes closed and our ears open to the silken words of madmen.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Stewardship
I love the outdoors. When weather permits open water I fish like a madman. While I engage in this pastime I contemplate God, and His multitude of blessings on us in the world He created. Though our planet groans under the curse of sin, it is beautiful still. As the fall turns to early winter and the cover of leaves is shed, they expose the human shame of thoughtlesness. I am always shocked to see the vast amount of litter we heap upon Gods` creation, as if it were a matt on which to wipe our feet.
I am reminded of the late 1960`s commercial where a Native American sheds a tear over the soiling of this land and think, he must be an arid husk by now. I try to turn my gaze to a part of the riverbank, woods, or shoreline where I may not see beer cans or soda bottles, cigarette butts, plastic wrappers, discarded CD`s, or snarled fishing line. I have yet to find such a place on any public land, and I walk over alot of it in the nine or so months a year The Lord provides me to fish His waters.
Disconcerted, I look out over the gently rippling water to sooth the sadness. Not suprisingly the sharp corner of twisted metal pipe catches my eye just below the surface, partialy wrapped in a torn plastic shopping bag swaying in the current. Shiny bits of broken glass lie in the sand at my feet, intermingled with parts of a broken plastic bobber. On the surface of the pond, the heel of a foam rubber sandal floats, through a thin film a oil from an ill maintained outboard.
As far as I have been able to figure God gave us the title of stewards over His Earth, an awesome responsibility to be sure, but a simple one. Yet my face burns with shame before the Lord at our inept handling of this concept, that we can season after season so disdain and disrespect the Father who with His own hands, built for us so marvelous a place to dwell.
I am reminded of the late 1960`s commercial where a Native American sheds a tear over the soiling of this land and think, he must be an arid husk by now. I try to turn my gaze to a part of the riverbank, woods, or shoreline where I may not see beer cans or soda bottles, cigarette butts, plastic wrappers, discarded CD`s, or snarled fishing line. I have yet to find such a place on any public land, and I walk over alot of it in the nine or so months a year The Lord provides me to fish His waters.
Disconcerted, I look out over the gently rippling water to sooth the sadness. Not suprisingly the sharp corner of twisted metal pipe catches my eye just below the surface, partialy wrapped in a torn plastic shopping bag swaying in the current. Shiny bits of broken glass lie in the sand at my feet, intermingled with parts of a broken plastic bobber. On the surface of the pond, the heel of a foam rubber sandal floats, through a thin film a oil from an ill maintained outboard.
As far as I have been able to figure God gave us the title of stewards over His Earth, an awesome responsibility to be sure, but a simple one. Yet my face burns with shame before the Lord at our inept handling of this concept, that we can season after season so disdain and disrespect the Father who with His own hands, built for us so marvelous a place to dwell.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Sufficiency in Scripture
In recent weeks I have begun to notice a vast difference in what people have to say about Scripture, and what Scripture actually says to people. While it is understandable, from a Biblical perspective that the unsaved can not truly understand The Word of God, I find myself agonizing over the various assumptions of professing Christians. Bear in mind I am a fairly new believer, that God has not overburdened me with intelligence, and I sometimes find it hard to imagine why He would bother to save a soul as unworthy as my own, at the expense of His Sons` life.
It may well be that like a child in love for the first time, I am simply too inexpierienced in The Word to see the problems with it that so many of my brothers and sisters seem to find.
Charismatics seem to need to add something to Salvation in Jesus Christ, to validate it. Health and wealth proponents appear to see Gods` Word as a prospectus for long painless life on earth and increased income for its` own sake. And so many leaders of so many churches seem to feel the Scriptures need to be muted or rounded off on the edges, as to better fit into the man shaped hole culture creates for them.
I read my Bible most every evening, and pray every morning. I make two Bible studies a week and attend two services, taking notes on the points of the sermons. Because of this humble attempt at immersion in The Word, I feel I have at least a basic understanding of what God has given to us in His Book.
Quite possibly, I am just plain naive. Or I`m just to simple in my approach to the Bible. I feel what I find in The Word satisfies my soul without the need to segment, add or subtract anything. Maybe one day years from now I will find the need to curb my thoughts and opinions on the Bible God has given us, as not to offend or consternate those around me. Or to enrage those who do not want to believe in absolutes. Yet I can`t help thinking that if this ever becomes the case, I will be able to remember the simple comfort I find in The Scriptures today, and sufficiency in which they fulfill every need of my soul.
It may well be that like a child in love for the first time, I am simply too inexpierienced in The Word to see the problems with it that so many of my brothers and sisters seem to find.
Charismatics seem to need to add something to Salvation in Jesus Christ, to validate it. Health and wealth proponents appear to see Gods` Word as a prospectus for long painless life on earth and increased income for its` own sake. And so many leaders of so many churches seem to feel the Scriptures need to be muted or rounded off on the edges, as to better fit into the man shaped hole culture creates for them.
I read my Bible most every evening, and pray every morning. I make two Bible studies a week and attend two services, taking notes on the points of the sermons. Because of this humble attempt at immersion in The Word, I feel I have at least a basic understanding of what God has given to us in His Book.
Quite possibly, I am just plain naive. Or I`m just to simple in my approach to the Bible. I feel what I find in The Word satisfies my soul without the need to segment, add or subtract anything. Maybe one day years from now I will find the need to curb my thoughts and opinions on the Bible God has given us, as not to offend or consternate those around me. Or to enrage those who do not want to believe in absolutes. Yet I can`t help thinking that if this ever becomes the case, I will be able to remember the simple comfort I find in The Scriptures today, and sufficiency in which they fulfill every need of my soul.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Reaping what was sown
The Republican party was thoroughly trounced. As a Repub of course I am not happy with this, but it is not unexpected. Or unwarranted. The party is supposed to stand for moral and ethical value, small government spending and smart, well handled public service. If only some of the party members representing us had been told this, we would still hold the House and ( maybe) the Senate.
Reality is we don`t. I support our troops and the war in Iraq as necessary, but deplore the way it was sold to us, and the lack of direction taken from the generals in field. They are professionals, and their advice should have been heeded. As for Katrina, we are shamed before the nation as a party, I don`t know what happened there, and neither it seems does the Federal Government, as there is still much work to be done. Ethics and morals? there is no limit to the deception here. I don`t think there has ever been a group quite like this, Foly, Haggerty, Allen, Abramoff and friends, just to name some. Elected officials or not these men were supposed to be representing a higher standard. Yet with no concern for family, friends or party they crawled through the mud of homosexual sin, racism, fraud and deception when they thought no one was looking. Well God was looking, and as the unrepentant cannot escape the judgement of the Creator, elected officials have not escaped the judgement of the public.
I pray that we will take a long look at ourselves, we are a nation heading into dangerous times and we desperately need integrity and accountability in our leaders, policies and our souls. Facing us are the monsters of Political Correctness, gay marriage, legal infanticide, and terrorism. War against the traditional family values this country was founded on, and even against Christmas itself. Christmas! Without a trustworthy party to stand up for those who desire a culture of life and positive ethical and moral values, we may live to see our nation fall into the abyss of moral relativism. If we are not overrun with illegal aliens, or steamrolled by radical Muslim terrorists first.
Will the Democrats be able to pull our country together? I honestly hope so, but with a liberal value system guiding them, and no solid plan on foreign policy, The future is not looking much better in their hands.
We took a beating this midterm election because we deserved it, from every rotten politician that misrepresented the party values, to every single Christian that failed to vote.
As a conservative Christian, I place my Trust and faith in God and our savior Jesus Christ. As He is in charge, this is by His design and therefore is what is best for us, even if it is a hard lump to take at the moment. I will respect the position of those duly elected, though I may disagree with what they stand for. And, I will pray those coming to power will know and love the Lord, and that they will govern according to His will and now sow seeds of righteousness, that in the future, we will not reep the grapes of wrath.
Reality is we don`t. I support our troops and the war in Iraq as necessary, but deplore the way it was sold to us, and the lack of direction taken from the generals in field. They are professionals, and their advice should have been heeded. As for Katrina, we are shamed before the nation as a party, I don`t know what happened there, and neither it seems does the Federal Government, as there is still much work to be done. Ethics and morals? there is no limit to the deception here. I don`t think there has ever been a group quite like this, Foly, Haggerty, Allen, Abramoff and friends, just to name some. Elected officials or not these men were supposed to be representing a higher standard. Yet with no concern for family, friends or party they crawled through the mud of homosexual sin, racism, fraud and deception when they thought no one was looking. Well God was looking, and as the unrepentant cannot escape the judgement of the Creator, elected officials have not escaped the judgement of the public.
I pray that we will take a long look at ourselves, we are a nation heading into dangerous times and we desperately need integrity and accountability in our leaders, policies and our souls. Facing us are the monsters of Political Correctness, gay marriage, legal infanticide, and terrorism. War against the traditional family values this country was founded on, and even against Christmas itself. Christmas! Without a trustworthy party to stand up for those who desire a culture of life and positive ethical and moral values, we may live to see our nation fall into the abyss of moral relativism. If we are not overrun with illegal aliens, or steamrolled by radical Muslim terrorists first.
Will the Democrats be able to pull our country together? I honestly hope so, but with a liberal value system guiding them, and no solid plan on foreign policy, The future is not looking much better in their hands.
We took a beating this midterm election because we deserved it, from every rotten politician that misrepresented the party values, to every single Christian that failed to vote.
As a conservative Christian, I place my Trust and faith in God and our savior Jesus Christ. As He is in charge, this is by His design and therefore is what is best for us, even if it is a hard lump to take at the moment. I will respect the position of those duly elected, though I may disagree with what they stand for. And, I will pray those coming to power will know and love the Lord, and that they will govern according to His will and now sow seeds of righteousness, that in the future, we will not reep the grapes of wrath.
Monday, October 30, 2006
A teacher`s value
Much can be determined about civilization by the value placed on its teachers. I don`t mean the alleged value or what society may think it should be, but the actual importance, we as a nation attach to this inarguably critical position.
Every culture has had teachers of renowned. Even if the sound of their names have long ago died to any ear, the essence of the truly gifted teachers` lessons live on in the lives of the students they taught, sometimes beyond the lifespan of the nation or republic of their origin. Instructors of the sciences have passed on invaluable formulas, bards have given the world brilliant patterns of prose. Scholars and architects have contributed to humankind, disseminating vast knowledge of philosophy and spectacular structures. The seldom praised and underpaid middle class man or woman laboring daily in our towns` public school, spent at least part of today teaching your young son or daughter basic spelling, mathematics, art, music and or history. Why does this last sentence seem to pale in the light of the previous? It has everything to do with the priorities of our public interests, and the values of culture.
Today our society values that which entertains above what educates. From the Obscene yearly contracts of overvalued sports stars, to the vulgar royalties paid to popular actors, we as a culture are far more concerned with diversion than direction. This sad truth is slowly becoming evident in this country as we slide further down the list of the worlds educated developed nations, and take a back seat to places like China, Japan, and Germany in the developement of advanced technologies. Except for domination in the film and sporting industry, we seem only to excell in the field of new military hardware. At least this keeps us in a position of world power by capacity of force, if not brilliance.
So much of this tragic dilema has its` roots in a place far deeper than distraction, preoccupation or just plain negligence. Can we pay our teachers lavishly and expect better educated children? Possibly. Should we make the qualifications for this position more rigid? There are certainly some substandard instructers in todays schools. Should we institute a year- round education program for the students, a smaller pupil to instructor ratio, better equipped classrooms, more modern textbooks,a curriculum updated to the needs of this century? Obviously these thing could help, yet none of them truly address the underlying problem, the deterioration of our nations values.
We have available to us the best instruction there has ever been, provided by the best possible teacher we could have, who provides us with all we need to know about values and the teaching of our children. Yet the wisdom of our Creator and His Word are all but outlawed in the forum of education today. Because of this what is left for our kids, after the best substance of ethical and moral teaching has been stripped from the classroom, other than the cold facts of declining average national grades and a withering interest in the persuit of the knowledge of God, and the critical teaching He offers.
We have turned far from the education Jesus labored so hard to provide us with from the Father, and we can see the painful evidence of this in the world our children are growing up in . The teaching to children of strong ethical and moral truth as defined by the Bible must be the priority of the people in our country, if we are to continue as one nation under God, and truly come to understand the value of a teacher.
Every culture has had teachers of renowned. Even if the sound of their names have long ago died to any ear, the essence of the truly gifted teachers` lessons live on in the lives of the students they taught, sometimes beyond the lifespan of the nation or republic of their origin. Instructors of the sciences have passed on invaluable formulas, bards have given the world brilliant patterns of prose. Scholars and architects have contributed to humankind, disseminating vast knowledge of philosophy and spectacular structures. The seldom praised and underpaid middle class man or woman laboring daily in our towns` public school, spent at least part of today teaching your young son or daughter basic spelling, mathematics, art, music and or history. Why does this last sentence seem to pale in the light of the previous? It has everything to do with the priorities of our public interests, and the values of culture.
Today our society values that which entertains above what educates. From the Obscene yearly contracts of overvalued sports stars, to the vulgar royalties paid to popular actors, we as a culture are far more concerned with diversion than direction. This sad truth is slowly becoming evident in this country as we slide further down the list of the worlds educated developed nations, and take a back seat to places like China, Japan, and Germany in the developement of advanced technologies. Except for domination in the film and sporting industry, we seem only to excell in the field of new military hardware. At least this keeps us in a position of world power by capacity of force, if not brilliance.
So much of this tragic dilema has its` roots in a place far deeper than distraction, preoccupation or just plain negligence. Can we pay our teachers lavishly and expect better educated children? Possibly. Should we make the qualifications for this position more rigid? There are certainly some substandard instructers in todays schools. Should we institute a year- round education program for the students, a smaller pupil to instructor ratio, better equipped classrooms, more modern textbooks,a curriculum updated to the needs of this century? Obviously these thing could help, yet none of them truly address the underlying problem, the deterioration of our nations values.
We have available to us the best instruction there has ever been, provided by the best possible teacher we could have, who provides us with all we need to know about values and the teaching of our children. Yet the wisdom of our Creator and His Word are all but outlawed in the forum of education today. Because of this what is left for our kids, after the best substance of ethical and moral teaching has been stripped from the classroom, other than the cold facts of declining average national grades and a withering interest in the persuit of the knowledge of God, and the critical teaching He offers.
We have turned far from the education Jesus labored so hard to provide us with from the Father, and we can see the painful evidence of this in the world our children are growing up in . The teaching to children of strong ethical and moral truth as defined by the Bible must be the priority of the people in our country, if we are to continue as one nation under God, and truly come to understand the value of a teacher.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
PROBLEM PARTY
By the din of battle, we can surmize that it is election time again. As a Christian Conservative Republican going to the polls in a few weeks, there is much to consider. This will be a monunental point in time for the values voter, we will either continue in domination of house and senate and the governorship of Massachusettes, or we will see the stage set for disaster on the fronts of legitimate marriage, national security, sound social ethics, and religious freedom just to name a few.
Tune in to the news media if you dare, and you will hear the ranting of liberals and the expounding of conservatives on more issues than you could count on all your fingers and toes. It seems to me, that according to statistics, a great many people in this country do not vote, yet there are an awful lot of people complaining about an awful lot of things.
Let us examine this. If we do not vote, we need to shut our pie hole. If we can not be bothered to make our opinion clear at the ballot box, we should put our heads back in the sand and let the adults make the decisions. The Good Lord knows that there is trouble in our nation, and He has provided us a voice to address our concerns about our government. So if you love God, and this United states of America you need to get informed, and make a choice. Our way of life, our childrens security, and the moral future of this land depend on it.
Am I a happy camper around the Republican fire? Not always, to be honest. And we need to be honest. The morally reprehensible behavior of some men in our party is sickening, and undercuts the very foundations of its values. Unfortunately only dismissal and possibly incarceration are allowed by law. Have we become a governing elite that is to slow and preoccupied with glorifing its achievements to respond to the needs of its citizens in the face of disaster? To this shame we need to admit and repent. Is there a good reason why we drag our feet concerning the enforcement of established laws, and the secutity of our national borders? The usury of the desperate for the benefit of the wealthy has nothing to do with reason. And I feel sadly, that we were decieved by those in control of our party, about our military entry into Iraq. We as citizens of this country, did not need to be fed a story about alleged WMDs based on questionable, if not blatantly false intelligence. President Bush needed only to state the facts; that we had to level Saddams` regime because he was a tyrannical despot, and would continue to threaten regional and world stability, just as the Taliban would have. We desperately needed to establish a stand against the growing threat of radical Muslim Jihad, and without a doubt 9/11 gave us and the world all the reason we needed to do so. People, do not be swayed by the whining liberal media chatter, if Saddam as a political leader was not yet supporting Muslim extremest based terrorism, how long would it have been before he would have? Should we have waited for the inevitable ? We needed to wage war for the security of our nation then, and we need to be there now. Why did Democrats vote for the war option in the beginning , only to turn tail now? Why would anyone want to cheapen the price our military dead? Why would any group of Americans want to steer us further away from precepts of our Constitution or the Laws of God that our society was founded upon? who can be sure. But, where they would lead us today were they to gain power? This we can be sure about, if we think for one minute that it would be a better place than where we are now, we are sadly, and quite likely mortally, mistaken.
mkz.
Tune in to the news media if you dare, and you will hear the ranting of liberals and the expounding of conservatives on more issues than you could count on all your fingers and toes. It seems to me, that according to statistics, a great many people in this country do not vote, yet there are an awful lot of people complaining about an awful lot of things.
Let us examine this. If we do not vote, we need to shut our pie hole. If we can not be bothered to make our opinion clear at the ballot box, we should put our heads back in the sand and let the adults make the decisions. The Good Lord knows that there is trouble in our nation, and He has provided us a voice to address our concerns about our government. So if you love God, and this United states of America you need to get informed, and make a choice. Our way of life, our childrens security, and the moral future of this land depend on it.
Am I a happy camper around the Republican fire? Not always, to be honest. And we need to be honest. The morally reprehensible behavior of some men in our party is sickening, and undercuts the very foundations of its values. Unfortunately only dismissal and possibly incarceration are allowed by law. Have we become a governing elite that is to slow and preoccupied with glorifing its achievements to respond to the needs of its citizens in the face of disaster? To this shame we need to admit and repent. Is there a good reason why we drag our feet concerning the enforcement of established laws, and the secutity of our national borders? The usury of the desperate for the benefit of the wealthy has nothing to do with reason. And I feel sadly, that we were decieved by those in control of our party, about our military entry into Iraq. We as citizens of this country, did not need to be fed a story about alleged WMDs based on questionable, if not blatantly false intelligence. President Bush needed only to state the facts; that we had to level Saddams` regime because he was a tyrannical despot, and would continue to threaten regional and world stability, just as the Taliban would have. We desperately needed to establish a stand against the growing threat of radical Muslim Jihad, and without a doubt 9/11 gave us and the world all the reason we needed to do so. People, do not be swayed by the whining liberal media chatter, if Saddam as a political leader was not yet supporting Muslim extremest based terrorism, how long would it have been before he would have? Should we have waited for the inevitable ? We needed to wage war for the security of our nation then, and we need to be there now. Why did Democrats vote for the war option in the beginning , only to turn tail now? Why would anyone want to cheapen the price our military dead? Why would any group of Americans want to steer us further away from precepts of our Constitution or the Laws of God that our society was founded upon? who can be sure. But, where they would lead us today were they to gain power? This we can be sure about, if we think for one minute that it would be a better place than where we are now, we are sadly, and quite likely mortally, mistaken.
mkz.
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