I used to really enjoy listening to John MacArthur. He was an in-your-face kind of teacher and I was too Biblically illiterate to know better. One day, however, I heard him say something that simply stunned me. He said that unless you can go to seminary or Bible college and learn the Bible in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic then you need to come to church and do what he (John MacArthur) tells you the Bible says to do. Wow! That is by far the worst form of manipulation there is. So I decided to find out a little more about what lord MacArthur believes. Well it didn’t take long to find the legalism. He believes that men are to rule and reign the church world and women are inferior in the Kingdom and blah blah blah. Sort of makes one sick does it not? By taking on this antibiblical doctrine he has denied the supremacy of the cross which boldly declares that there is no more distinction between male and female in the Kingdom. Just because Paul "suffered" not that women should teach, meaning he didn’t force them to do it like he did certain others (Timothy for example) doesn’t mean that women weren’t allowed. There are several examples of this in the Bible.
Dr David Jeremiah is another. He denies the supremacy of the cross by extracting a fake tithe from the church goers. There’s nothing like a good old fashioned Malachi curse to get them to open their cheque books, right Dave?
The list goes on and on. Even the preacher of the cross himself, Jimmy Swaggart, actually bases his entire ministry on the cross and yet flat out denies it by extracting a tithe from his people. From Joyce Meyer to Mac Hammond they all deny the supremacy of the cross. I know they have needs. I know they need money. Did you know that Paul never took a dime from the church? He was a self employed tent maker. In fact he always paid his own rent with his own money. I’m not saying people shouldn’t be in full time ministry and I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t have nice things. I am saying the manipulation needs to stop. It’s just wrong and I think many of these people know it too. I talked to one pastor about it and he agreed with me but admitted he was in too deep and didn’t know how to pay the bills without extracting a tithe. How sad to deny the supremacy of the cross because of money. I guess you really can’t serve both after all.
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Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He’s now 82 years old and has a new book, ‘Where Have All The Leaders Gone?’.
Lee Iacocca Says:
‘Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder! We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, ‘Stay the course.’
Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned, ‘Titanic’. I’ll give you a sound bite: ‘Throw all the bums out!’
You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.
The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we’re fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving ‘pom-poms’ instead of asking hard questions. That’s not the promise of the ‘America’ my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I’ve had enough. How about you?
I’ll go a step further. You can’t call yourself a patriot if you’re not outraged. This is a fight I’m ready and willing to have. The Biggest ‘C’ is Crisis! (Iacocca elaborates on nine C’s of leadership, with crisis being the first.)
Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It’s easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else’s kids off to war when you’ve never seen a battlefield yourself. It’s another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.
On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A hell of a mess, so here’s where we stand.
We’re immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving.
We’re running the biggest deficit in the history of the country.
We’re losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.
Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble.
Our borders are like sieves.
The middle class is being squeezed every which way.
These are times that cry out for leadership.
But when you look around, you’ve got to ask: ‘Where have all the leaders gone?’ Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.
Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?
We’ve spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.
Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.
Everyone’s hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn’t happen again. Now, that’s just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you’re going to do the next time.
Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when ‘The Big Three’ referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?
Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debit, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.
I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn’t elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don’t you guys show some spine for a change?
Had Enough? Hey, I’m not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I’m trying to light a fire. I’m speaking out because I have hope – I believe in America. In my lifetime, I’ve had the privilege of living through some of America ’s greatest moments. I’ve also experienced some of our worst crises: The ‘Great Depression,’ ‘World War II,’ the ‘Korean War,’ the ‘Kennedy Assassination,’ the ‘Vietnam War,’ the 1970’s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11.
If I’ve learned one thing, it’s this: ‘You don’t get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it’s building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That’s the challenge I’m raising in this book. It’s a “Call to Action” for people who, like me, believe in America’. It’s not too late, but it’s getting pretty close. So let’s shake off the crap and go to work. Let’s tell ‘em all we’ve had ‘enough.’
Make your own contribution by sending this to everyone you know and care about. It’s our country, folks, and it’s our future. Our future is at stake!!
Well, it’s finally here. The anniversary of the incarnation of the perpetrator of the greatest intellectual meltdown ever. None other than Charles Darwin. Not only was it an assault on intelligence and reason, but also a full frontal attack on the known laws of physics which govern the universe foundationally. By taking a proverbial sledgehammer to the foundation pillars, Darwin set in motion the shock waves that led to the holocaust, abortion, and the list goes on and on. Teaching kids the theory of evolution is the single greatest act of child abuse ever thrust upon humanity.
I know I’m a day late here but it was with purpose that I delayed so that the occasion would get no recognition from me on the twelth. If you are celebrating the event in festive form you are identifying yourself with barbarians; human beings reaching down to identify with animals instead of reaching up to identify with God. You are religious in the most negative sense of the word possible. You’ve swallowed a lie and called it truth. You’ve believed a myth because it tickled your ears.
It is utterly amazing to me that anyone, in today’s age of scientific enlightenment, would continue to hold the false evolution dogma as truth in the face of overwhelming evidence against it. I’ve written books about this and I’ve debated scientists from around the world and the only solid psychological conclusion to be reached is a flat out denial of the facts to support such barbaric ideology can only be the result of mental illness. May God help us to find a cure.
During his invocation at the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama, Rev. Rick Warren had these six prophecies for the American People during the Obama administration. Warren said “when we…”. Not “if we” or “should we”, but “when we…” The implication is that it will happen. What will happen? This…
The American people “will” focus on themselves.
The American people “will” fight each other.
The American people “will” forget God.
The American people “will” believe prosperity is theirs alone.
The American people “will” fail to treat fellow human beings with respect.
The American people “will” fail to treat the earth with respect.
All of this was prophesied by the Rev. Rick Warren in the invocation of Pres. Barack Hussein Obama at his inauguration today, Jan 20., 2009. Let’s see what kind of prophet Warren really is. Time will tell.
This latest nonsense out of the UK: advertising the non existence of God. There’s a fool around every corner these days it seems. By fool I mean the Biblical definition of fool: “A fool says in his heart there is no God”.
Now the advertising is making it’s way across the US and Canada, which means the Biblical “fool” is on the march; spreading his foolishness into the hearts and minds of humanity. The soil is ready to receive the foolishness, I’m afraid. I just hope the church is ready when the religion of atheism lets humanity come crashing down to humiliating defeat when the reality of the existence of the almighty sets in and atheism is shown for the foolishness it really is. Read the whole story here…
There are African-Americans. There are Mexican-Americans. There are Italian-Americans. But is there such a thing as Christian-Americans?
This present U.S. election has brought Christianity to the forefront of political talking points. “Is Obama a Christian or Muslim?”. “Jesus was a community organizer, just like Obama”.
I’m going to step on a few toes here but so be it. The U.S. Of America is not now nor has it ever been a Christian nation. There’s no such thing as a Christian nation. Many of the signers of the Declaration of Independance were self avowed Free Masons. Make no mistake. Free Masons are not Christians. You cannot be both. If you study the tenents of Free Masonry you will see that the two lifestyles are not compatible unless you compromise the core principles of one or both.
The U.S., not unlike most free, prosperous nations, has a Christian herritage that came with the Pilgrims and Puritans; some of whom became politically engaged and so on.
The Bible is crystal clear about who and what a Christian is and to whom they belong and to what kingdom they owe their allegance.
A Christian is a human being who has been adopted out of the group that God regrets making (everybody) and adopted into a new group that God doesn’t regret making (the born-again group). A Christan is no longer a citizen of earth. No longer a citizen of humanity. We are aliens here. We are ambassadors here. Our home country is heaven.
So, are aliens permitted to vote? We are not permitted to involve ourselves in civillian affairs. Period.
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:3
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
2 Timothy 2:4
The Bible is not ambiguous on this point. If you are a Christian, you obey the laws of the land, no matter what country you happen to be in. Rendering unto Ceasar the things that are Ceasars doesn’t mean you have to use your vote on a candidate just because the country you live in gives you a vote. The Government of Canada says two men can legally marry. Does that mean two Christian men are allowed to marry? Of course not. Well, why not? What about pastors in Canada? Should they marry gay men? Why not? Wouldn’t they have to render unto Ceasar? What if Ceasar came up to Pastor Bob and told him he had to marry Adam and Steve? What then?
Ephesians 6:19 ¶And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20
Do you see how the whole “render unto Ceasar” quote doesn’t hold water when it’s applied to the vote? Are ambassadors allowed vote in their host country? Of course not. It’s your vote but does God want you to involve yourself in this? Obviously not. You are an alien here. You are not a Christian-American. You are a Christian. Period. Separate yourselves from government affairs. The facts of life are conservative anyway. Liberalism is the philosophy of the deranged. Pray for government leaders, kings and so on. God can work it all out. The government of man is on it’s way out. The government of our God will soon be upon us. Be patient. Love everyone the same no matter their party affiliation. Pray for the leaders of you host country. Amen.
My wife, Bonnie, prayed for ten years for God to deliver her from cigarettes. She tried everything from patches to gum. Nothing worked. Then she read this manuscript. She asked the Lord to show her what to fast from. She was also a huge coffee drinker. Coffee and cigarettes went hand in hand for her. It kept coming up from the Lord to fast from coffee but she kept ignoring it. The Lord wanted her to train her flesh to obey her. Then the Lord told me to advise her to fast from coffee, even though I did not know He was already talking to her about it. So, with that confirmation, she went ahead and gave up the coffee. Two days later, God delivered her from a thirty-four year addiction to cigarettes.
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