Wet Pants

Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is a

nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden,

there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his

pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because

he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's

never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find

out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find

out, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives.

The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his

head down and prays this prayer, 'Dear God, this is an

emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead

meat.'

He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with

a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered. As the

teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is

carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in

front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water

in the boy's lap.

The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to

himself, 'Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!'

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule,

the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him

downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his

pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and

knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is

wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that

should have been his has been transferred to someone else -

Susie.

She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. You've done

enough, you klutz!'

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the

bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, 'You did that

on purpose, didn't you?' Susie whispers back, 'I wet my

pants once too.'

You know the Bible tells us to treat others the way we would like to be treated…if everyone would live with this type of attitude…how great would the world be.

Be blessed,

Me

Currently listening : 20/20 By Trip Lee Release date: 2008-05-20

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Please read and repost- Obama and McCain

This was originated from my good friend Patricia Tyson-Messianic/International Composer.  Please take the time to read with an open heart and an ear for the voice of th' Holy Spirit on what YOU should do.

Be blessed,
Me

I don't blog often enough, but it was on my heart to do this.  I hope that you will receive what I say in the spirit of love that its said.  The Holy Spirit convicted me of my own part in slandering McCain, as I am an Obama supporter.  I posted this as a bulletin, and would like to share it with you, too.  Feel free to pass it on!

One thing that grieves my spirit, as a Believer in Yeshua -Jesus Christ, is the hateful, mean things that Christians say about Obama, especially, but mean things are said also of McCain. As an African-American, I know of the viciousness of racism, and see that it is pervasive and more sinister than ever. The interesting thing is that most racists don't think they are racist!! Please realize this, racism is in the eye of the beholder.  We may think we are saying un-racist things, but if it is offensive to someone, then you should just apologize, without exception!
Its one thing to disagree with the candidates' issues, but its another thing to resort to the horrible name-calling that I hear and read, spewing out of the mouth of those who profess salvation!

Not only is abortion murder, not only is homosexuality wrong, but murder is also war, murder is also racism, and murder is also hatred!!! Its a sin issue!! Hate the sin, yes. We must love the sinner, however.


Civil leaders are "ministers of God" (Romans 13:3-4). God removeth kings, and setteth up kings..." (Daniel 2:21). "For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another" (Psalm 75:6-7).  God places people in leadership for His specific purposes -- for His benefit, not theirs! 

Elected office requires more wisdom and courage than any person has. If one trusts in human wisdom, he will usually be frightened into doing the wrong thing. Yet, "...lean not unto thine own understanding" (see Proverbs 3:5-6).

Think of this...Obama has openly and unashamedly professed Jesus Christ as his Savior. Dare we say he is not saved? He is a baby Christian, I do believe, and needs to be discipled.  He should not try to give his interpretation of scripture, because he is not correct most times. McCain recently professed that he is "forgiven", and says that he is a Christian, although he is more quiet about his salvation. I can only hope that he is more than just a "church-goer". He has his own set of issues, and needs prayer, too.

None of us have arrived, spiritually. We sin daily. We all need to look inward, instead of condemning these men. Obama is not a "train wreck", he is a child of the King. If you see a fault with someone who is a Believer, pray for him. Keep your mouth off of him. Be ye kind one to another.


We are to be salt and light, yet I see the meanest Christians that I've ever encountered, on my-space! No wonder the world is laughing at us, and don't want to know who Jesus is!


God is in control. The heart of the king (or the president) is in HIS hands, and HE turns it whichever way HE chooses. He can change the heart of men...including Obama and McCain.

I am a native Chicagoan. When Obama was a grass-roots organizer, he came to my church on several occasions, which is not far from his home. As the pianist, I had a clear view of him, hands lifted in prayer and praise, on his knees on the altar, worshipping the same God that I serve. I didn't know who he was, except that he was a guest. Later, as he ran for Senator, he visited my church again, on a few occasions. One of his campaign people was on the praise team. Since he has run for president, his wife has visited my church and I didn't perceive the hunger in her, what I saw in her husband I don't doubt she loves the Lord, though.

My point is, in this blog, to watch what you say. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. I hear more criticisms of Obama from the 5-fold ministry, as well as the body of Christ, but these same people are not publically praying or fasting for him, I daresay. I will pray for both candidates, and ultimately trust in God, not man.

God never fails!


Shalom,

Patricia

Currently listening : 20/20 By Trip Lee Release date: 2008-05-20

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Pre-Order Lecrae’s 3rd Album "Rebel" Today!

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Join Lecrae in redefining "Rebel". When you hear the word, what do you think of? Jesus was a Rebel in his day. He lived for something else than the popular culture of the day. He stood against traditions that pointed away from true worship, and instead presented an authentic picture of living for God.

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Currently listening : Life on Life Release date: 2008-07-01

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Confessions of an Ex-Atheist

With the surge of militant atheism and the numerous books by atheists hitting the bookstores these days, this confessiion of an ex-atheist is more important than ever. This account by one ex-atheist who sought to find meaning and hope through science and secular humanism will open your eyes to the spiritual bankruptcy and emptiness faced by atheists.

Atheism today is not just a belief by some that there is no God and that our lives are merely a product of randomness and chance. Atheism has become a militant, angry, and arrogant denial of God and a condemnation of religious people and Christians in particular.

FROM SKEPTICISM TO WORSHIP

by
A.S.A. Jones

MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY

I was a devout atheist for over twenty years. In July of 1998, I finally managed to see the biblical truths that had managed to elude me. The following is an account of how I went from hardcore skepticism to hardcore worship of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

RATIONAL THOUGHT REPLACES THE GOD OF MY YOUTH

I was raised a Roman Catholic in a home where the name of Jesus Christ and God was never mentioned. I was encouraged to attend catechism and church every weekend, but the concept of God was never made completely real to me. I entertained the notion as any child would, but I just wasn't into the imaginary friend scene and by the time I was thirteen, I had concluded that God was merely a vicious adult version of the Easter bunny. I abandoned the lie, informed my upset parents that I would no longer be attending church, and began seeking truth.

In the absence of a religious belief to answer life's questions, I turned my mental energy to science. Science had an awesome track record of solving many problems and its resulting technology had provided tangible benefits to all of mankind. Science was the answer! I reasoned that if we could educate our populations and continue to make advances in medicine, agriculture and energy production, we would one day have the mythical Eden as our reality.

I threw myself into my studies, determined to become a scientific messiah who would one day deliver people from the bondage of disease. At the age of sixteen, my IQ and my grades made me eligible for my high school's early release program and I began my studies in biology and chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh.


RATIONAL THOUGHT REPLACES MY COMPASSION FOR OTHERS

I graduated from college with high honors and my prized science degree, but I had lost any motivation to apply that knowledge. I recalled staring at a swarming mass of termites one sunny day, thinking that, from a comparative distance, there was little difference between them and us. I smashed a few dozen with my shoe and ground them into the dirt. What did it matter if these died? What did it matter if they all died? People died every day. The end result would always be death for both the individuals and, eventually, the species.

Humanity had become nothing more to me than an organized network of molecules and enzymes. I viewed people as mere organisms going through their daily routines of metabolizing nutrients and expelling wastes, ovulating their eggs and ejaculating their semen. I knew the psychology of humans almost as well as their anatomies. The hidden things that pulled them this way and that were very evident to me. They were like guinea pigs, only more predictable, and my chief form of entertainment was to see how skillfully I could manipulate them. I knew that I was supposed to care about them, but I didn't. I couldn't. If mankind's goal was to alleviate its own suffering, a bullet to the head was more efficient and made more sense in my thinking than screwing around with medication or disease control.

What was the point of prolonging any one life? What difference did it make if a girl didn't live to marry or her mother live to see it? Of what value were temporary emotional experiences? They were simply the biochemistry of the brain reacting to sensory input and, upon that individual's death, any remaining memory of that experience would be thrown away along with the person who had experienced it. My extreme point of view had reduced people into throwaway metabolic units; I had become as cold and indifferent as the logic that I exalted.

If my education would benefit anyone, it would benefit me. I passed up an offer of a low paying research position for a secure and higher paying job in a chemistry lab. My brain rotted there for 40 hours a week for 10 years.


RATIONAL THOUGHT TURNS FROM SCIENCE TO PHILOSOPHY

Science had done nothing to answer the questions that raged in my head. Why should I care? How much should I care? Should I care at all? What is my purpose in life? Is there a purpose? How can I love people? Should I love people? Which people should I love? How can I forgive people? Should I forgive people? Have I done what is right? Have I done what is wrong? Is there a right or a wrong?

I turned to philosophy. I started with Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness". This man had won a Nobel Prize for basically taking white and logically demonstrating how it was really black. I tried several other atheist philosophers who tried to assign meaning to a life created by chance and I decided that they were all full of crap. If our life is the result of randomness and chance, it is meaningless, no matter how we try to convince ourselves otherwise.

That was fine with me. I was prepared to live my life by this truth and discovered that the prospect of a life without meaning can be a very freeing experience. I set out to take advantage of moral relativism and effectively destroyed any of my remaining conscience. Friends, let me tell you, I fell far, far away, but I didn't know it. I busied myself with one diversion after another, trying to fill my life with meaningless activity in order to forget how meaningless it was. In my desperation, I grew self-righteous and indignant. I was secretly envious of the morons who seemed blissfully unaware of their own meaninglessness. I wanted to shake them awake and get them to see how worthless their lives really were.


MY PHILOSOPHY TURNS ANTI-CHRISTIAN

The worst idiots were the Christians. I hated them because, in their ignorance of naturalism, they failed to see that there was no reason for the rest of the world to believe in their god, live by their standards or give a damn about what they had to say, yet there they were, acting as if they had a copyright on truth. Their pretentiousness sickened me, despite my being equally pretentious toward them. After all, I was justified in my pretentiousness! At least I could give logical reasons for not believing in the supernatural. I would challenge them to give reasons for believing in something that couldn't be seen and they would reply, "You can't see the wind but it's there." I would then try to explain to them that wind was created by differences in pressure and that there was plenty of scientific proof for the existence of wind but none for their god. Even the most intelligent Christians I knew had a difficult time articulating their reason for faith.

Most of the explanations I heard rested on the Bible's authority. "The Bible says... the Bible says... the Bible says." Who cared what the Bible said? I certainly didn't. "It's all a bunch of made up, superstitious baloney. Can't you see?" and I would then go into pagan origins, etc., and try to demonstrate that Jesus was a manufactured myth. I ended up knowing the Bible inside and out just to be able to debate against it.

My anti-Christian arguments became my ultimate diversion to a hopeless life. I learned that religious debate wasn't as much about truth as it was about language and presentation. I began seeing flaws in my own logic while trying to demonstrate certain instances of Biblical errancy, but that didn't keep me on the bench. To justify my desire to destroy Christianity, I had to find reasons to discredit it. I railed against its hypocrisy, the behavior of its followers, the wars fought in its name and I questioned the motives of its bloody god and the religion's effective outcome. In short, I began seeing it as the supreme evil, despite the fact that my own view of moral relativism did not permit a logical defense of the concept of evil.

THE PARADOX OF BIBLICAL JABBERWOCKY

One night, I was very tired and alone in my study. I didn't reach, as I usually did, for a book of religious argument. I grabbed Lewis Carroll's "Through The Looking Glass", plopped myself down in a comfy chair and sleepily began reading. I skimmed through the pages and stopped at Humpty Dumpty's explanation of 'Jabberwocky' to Alice. A thought occurred to me that if I were to read 'Jabberwocky' the same way I read the bible, it wouldn't make any sense at all. I put Carroll's book aside, folded my hands and stared at the wall, lost in thought.

The Bible didn't make sense to me. But why did it make sense to others? What were they seeing that I didn't? Did they so desperately want there to be a God that they had deluded themselves into thinking that there was one? It was New Year's Day, 1998. I made a resolution to read the entire Bible again, only this time I was going to read it as I would poetry or fiction, and not as a proposal of fact.

In the months that followed, I kept my resolution and I began noticing a change in my way of interpreting the Bible. Intellectually, I found that my mind could logically accept two very different interpretations of almost everything I was reading. One interpretation of any verse or passage would render the whole story as nonsensical. But the other interpretation allowed the whole story to make sense.

If my mind was capable of accepting interpretations that allowed the whole book to make sense, then what was it in me that wanted it not to make sense? This book was reading me as surely as I was reading it. Every time I found fault with its god, I ended up finding a fault of my own. What was I doing when I condemned this god for commanding Moses to kill? Was I arrogantly making my morality superior to that of the being who allegedly authored all of morality? Was I condemning the actions of an entire nation, which was trapped in a kill or be killed situation? What was it in me that wanted to express outrage at Jesus Christ for telling me that I had to give away everything to be considered worthy to follow him? Was it my own selfishness?

For weeks, I was on a high, the type of high that comes about by feeling that one is on the edge of making some sort of profound discovery. I wasn't sure what I was discovering but my perception of this world was changing. In July, I read these words of Jesus Christ, understanding them for the first time after having read them for years; "Who do you say I am?"

I SEE IT!

What I had to say about who Christ was, said more about me than it did about Him.

At this moment, I saw it. I saw what the truth of the Bible was! And I was humbled. More than humbled, I was broken. The truth wasn't about cud chewing bunnies or how much precipitation fell during Noah's flood. It was the truth about human nature and our efforts to rise above it! It was the truth about human spirit being led by divine spirit! It was the truth about each of us, imperfect in our love for one another, needing to be made complete by the perfect love of God! The truth was about how one man, without sin, had died for us so that we could live! The truth of the Bible was and is JESUS CHRIST!

The moment I was made aware of my despicable nature, I realized that Jesus had died for me. I never had recognized sin and, therefore, thought that Christ had died for nothing. But this man was able to see the horrible nature present in all of humanity and yet he had sacrificed himself to save us from ourselves. In a very real sense, my sinful nature had caused the death of an innocent man. I never believed in hell prior to this, but one of my first thoughts, after seeing how hellish a person that I was, was that I deserved to be in it.

A NEW CREATURE

I had been a fool. I had paraded around, thinking myself to be the sophisticate, oblivious to the trail of toilet paper clinging to my shoe. For the first time in my life, I became aware of my soul and how dirty it was when the light of Christ fell upon it. My accusing finger turned around and pointed right back at me. I sucked! Christianity wasn't what was wrong with the world! A lack of education wasn't what was wrong with the world! I was what was wrong with the world. I began praying for forgiveness to a god whose existence I had thought was intellectually indefensible. But He was very, very real. Within days, almost every viewpoint I had once so loudly announced, changed.

I could no longer justify my advocacy of abortion, homosexuality or pre-marital sex because I recognized these options for what they were, that being selfishness. I couldn't enjoy television because much of what it offered was an offense to the god I had discovered. But the most astounding change that took place in me was that I was freed from my cold indifference in matters of the heart. My atheistic philosophy had allowed me to lose my compassion for others. I no longer had the ability to love anyone, not even myself. I had become apathetic to life itself. For years, I had been dead, but because I continued to walk and talk, I didn't know it.

But now, I was born again and the spirit that was in me, which had allowed me to understand spiritual things, connected with the glorious and perfect higher consciousness of Jesus Christ. He restored my heart and my conscience. Christians speak of this as a veil being lifted, but, for me, it was more like the iron curtain was being torn down. For the first time in my life, I was seeing the world as it really was. I no longer saw people as a sum of their components or this life as a meaningless exercise, but I now saw both as something more valid than my rational thought had allowed. I had spent most of my years examining life, crouched over and focused on the microscope of logic, incapable of seeing the Big Picture that was going on around me.

The more I emptied myself of myself, the clearer the truth became. It had been my own selfish sin that had kept me from seeing it before. Jesus Christ became my God and my grand obsession, and for many months, I spent hours with my mind locked in meditation, trying to connect with Him in a more tangible way. I wasn't disappointed. There is a point that one can reach in prayer where there is nothing at all left of oneself, and it is in that moment that God makes Himself known.

For me, Biblical truth wasn't verified through historical accuracy, inerrancy or reliability of the Gospels, because my initial assumptions didn't include these things. I saw divine inspiration in the actual content of the words attributed to Jesus Christ. The fact that I, or anyone, was capable of understanding spiritual matters became my evidence for the soul.

Learning the things of the spirit dramatically changed my attitude and my outlook on life. It wasn't that the information available to me had changed, but that my perception had changed and as a result, I was changed. I was dead, but Christ woke me up! He saved me from my selfish self and I have given myself to Him because I am thankful for that which He has given me and hopeful for that which He has promised.

This testimony was written by A.S.A. Jones who runs a website dealing with issues such as Christian Apologetics, Religious Debate, and Christianity vs. Atheism. The website can be found at http://ex-atheist.com/

Be blessed,
Me

Currently listening : Life on Life Release date: 2008-07-01

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-A "Friend Status" That I Posted-

I posted a friend status that read, "Kindred wonders what woulod happen if the Colored Christians spent as much time promoting their real Savior as they do promoting Obama and his false sense of change!"

Some responded... and my favorite of those who responded was from Rhonda, who said the following...

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Wow Kindred.....love your honesty on your update!! This also goes for most people in the limelight and on big platforms of ministry. Too much idolatry in the church. Too much lifting man up. WE ALL NEED TO BE THINKIN about ruling as ambassadors of the Kingdom of God rather than the kingdoms of this world (including politics).

WHITE FOLK TOO!!! LOL!!!

Love ya, Rhonda

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Be blessed,
Me

Currently listening : 20/20 By Trip Lee Release date: 2008-05-20

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40 Days of Convicting Proof

Jesus showed himself alive. He gave convicting proof that He had truely risen. He eat food with people and walking the earth for 40 days AFTER He rose from the dead. MANY witnessed this miracle that seems impossible to our human brain.

Christ's final earthly words in scripture were:"It is not for you to know the times or dates my Father has set by His own authority. But U will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes to you. U will be my witnesses throughout all the earth."

After Jesus was taken up into Heaven, two Angels appeared to the on lookers saying, "Why do U stand here looking in the sky? The same Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven, WILL COME BACK in the same way you have seen Him go into Heaven"

Acts 1:3-11

Be blessed,
Me

Currently listening : 20/20 By Trip Lee Release date: 2008-05-20

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This is from Joined At The Hip Ministries, and my friend Excelsius

"IT . . . the reason I'm giving Draw Nigh away for free"

If you really think about IT, it's a sad commentary on us as a society.  With so much of IT readily available for public consumption, the underlying story is what we're seeing merely reflects how high in regard we hold IT.  The unfortunate truth is that IT'S disturbingly everywhere.  You can't miss IT: fashion, movies, email, music, billboards, commercials, magazines, etc.  And don't get all Joe Super Christian on me . . . you know exactly what the IT is.  I'm referring to sex, or as I like to call IT that incredibly amazing gift God created solely for those in covenant marriage (I Corinthians 7:1-2). 

There's an old saying "Sex sells".  The issue I have with IT selling is that IT's pretty apparent people haven't properly thought through the consequences.  Consider the following:

*Sex is the number 1 topic searched on the Internet.
*70% of all adult magazines end up in the possession of minors.
*300,000,000 X-rated videos have been distributed in the US (more than the entire US population).
*Over 50% of evangelical pastors report they viewed pornography last year.
*Kids ranging in age from 12-17-years old are the largest consumers of Internet pornography.
*28% those admitting to sexual addiction are women.
*Pornography is a $10 billion business - bigger than the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined. 
*20% of the Internet consists of pornographic content.
*A 1996 Promise Keepers survey at one of their stadium events revealed that over 50% of the men in attendance were involved with pornography within one week of attending the event.
*34% of female readers of Today's Christian Woman's online newsletter admitted to intentionally accessing Internet porn in a recent poll and 1 out of every 6 women, including Christians, struggles with an addiction to pornography.
*It is a currently held statistic that the average age of exposure to explicit materials for boys and girls is 5 years of age.

IT doesn't matter if you're walking with Jesus or not, IT is an issue for people everyone.  Furthermore, IT is a tricky problem to address.  When we are sick, we see a doctor. When we suffer emotionally, we seek a counselor.  But when the problem is sexual sin, we battle in silence and darkness.  The enemy loves a secret.  People might feel that no one will know and that they are not hurting anyone else. These are the deceptions that Satan uses to help set his trap (John 8:44). You don't have to go down to an adult store now and risk being seen in the parking lot when IT is readily available on the Internet at the office or at home. However, now that the Internet can present IT in the privacy of one's office and/or home, access has become a much greater temptation. 

The Bible is our record of the following: (1) God's creation of human beings; (2) Our Creator's establishment of a moral code of conduct for men and women; (3) God's covenant with the faithful and; (4) the failure of humankind to abide by God's law (Psalm 1:1-2; Matthew 4:4; Hebrews 4:12; John 1:1,14; James 1:21-25; II Timothy 3:16-17).  Scripture is abundantly full of accounts of sin, including the sins of a sexual nature.  There can be no greater evidence than the Bible itself that humanity has distorted and demeaned God's intentions for the relationships between men and women.  The Bible writers were quick to condemn those who use sex for lustful or perverted purposes.  Fortunately, the Bible is not just a Book of condemnation, but the story of how God redeemed men and women from their sins through Jesus Christ.

IT reminds me of a story about a psychiatric ward that had a unique way to test the mental competency of its patients. The patient was put into a room in which the sink is plugged and the faucet has been turned on. The patient was given a mop and instructed to clean up the water that was spilling onto the floor. Any patient who attempted to mop up the mess, without first turning off the faucet, was not considered mentally competent.

How about you? Are you trying to "mop up" weak areas in your life without turning off the faucet?  If so, "Draw Nigh" was created with you in mind.

I've gone back and forth for a couple of years on exactly what to do with this song.  On one hand, I've heard countless stories and personally know too many people that are dealing with issues of a sexual nature.  On the other hand, I don't want this song to resemble a key that unintentionally opens Pandora's Box for some unsuspecting individual.

With that said, I offer a word of caution.  Please be aware that I intentionally used some pretty graphic language (nothing vulgar or inappropriate) in the song to communicate the message of hope in Christ.  Should you choose to download this song, I pray that you enjoy it and it really ministers to the depths of your being. 

The last line of "Draw Nigh" says "Know that if you contact me and ask for prayer, anything you share with me is going to stay right here."  If you're struggling with sexual sins and desire to be set free, get at me.  I've compiled some resources that could very well be tools God wants to use to liberate you. 

To listen to "Draw Nigh", click the album cover below.  To download the song, right click on the album cover, then select "Save Link As". To pre-order and listen to samples from the Liberation album, click here.

Currently listening : In Conjunction By Excelsius

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It’s Hell Being Carnal
Current mood: blessed

Written by Mark Edgemon The Dumoss family, Fred and Ethel Dumoss cheated a little on their income tax. They saved fifteen dollars by doing so. They lied a little when paying tax on their car purchase to save themselves twenty bucks. They converted their garage into a family room, but never removed the outside garage doors, so the building inspector would never find out and access taxes and fees for the improvement to their house. They worried a lot about being discovered in their dishonesty or not being able to pull off the next scam. They would worry for hours prior to going out to their favorite buffet; whether or not they could get away with getting free soft drinks from the waitress. When they couldn't get free sodas, they would put up such a fuss, wanting to see the manager, even if that made them look worse. Saving a nickel here or a dime there made them feel like they were getting away with something. And the feeling was exhilarating. It also gave them ulcers, not knowing when they might get caught. Later on in life, they had stolen a total of $1,247.68 over a thirty-year period by God's estimation and He was a pretty good estimator. Then one day, they had to have their ulcers removed and be treated over the following ten days for preoperative infection. Their insurance wouldn't pay for it, so it came out of their own pocket in the amount of $12,756.32. Their ulcer operation was due to their dishonesty in the first place. 687 separate acts of dishonesty over a gut wrenching 30-year time frame, netted them a total of $1,247.68. Their health needs, because of their thieving lifestyles cost them $12,756.32 with a loss of $11,508.64 in money, as well as their health, 30 years of needless worrying and…oh yes…their immortal soul.

Currently listening : 20/20 Release date: 2008-05-20

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Homosexual Day of Silence - Is Your Child’s School on the list?

Because of the action of concerned parents, hundreds of schools have removed their school as a listed participant in the pro-homosexual "Day of Silence." You can join the fight for your children too!

On, Friday, April 25, several thousand schools across the nation will be observing "Day of Silence (DOS)." DOS is a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools.

When AFA alerted parents of this public school classroom disruption by homosexual student activists, many took action immediately! If you haven’t gotten involved, it’s critical that you do so today!

A simple phone call or letter to school administrators, telling them your child will not attend school the day it observes DOS, may be enough to cause some participating schools to change their plans. Sample letter here.

Please listen to a 60-second radio ad warning parents about Day of Silence, then forward this email to your local Christian or conservative radio station. Ask them to broadcast it as a Public Service Announcement (PSA)! MP3 file or WAV file

Click here for Frequently Asked Questions about the Day of Silence.

In the past week alone, over 200 schools have announced they are dropping plans to participate. Please, get involved for the sake or your children, and all children, today!

What should parents do? Check with your local school principal to see if your child’s school will be participating in DOS. If the school is participating, notify other parents about DOS and ask them to join in keeping their children out of school on that day.

1. Be sure of the date that DOS is planned for your school. (The national date is April 25, but some schools observe DOS on a different date.)
2. Inform the school of your intention to keep your child home on that date and explain why. Click here for a sample letter.
3. Explain to your children why you’re taking a stand: Homosexual behavior is not an innate identity; it is a sinful, unnatural and destructive behavior. No school should advance a physically, emotionally, and spiritually destructive sexual lifestyle to students.
4. Schools do not have to tolerate students remaining silent in class. Schools can adopt policies that require parental consent for students to attend any club, including those premised on sexual orientation or gender identity. Click here for more information from Attorney Mat Staver with Liberty Counsel who provides free information to parents, students, and schools regarding their rights associated with noncompliance on the Day of Silence.

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Mackey D’s is Trippin’!

Send an e-mail to McDonald’s.

McDonald’s has signed on to a nationwide effort to promote "gay" and "lesbian" business ventures.

According to McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner, McDonald’s will aggressively promote the homosexual agenda. In remarks on McDonald’s Web site concerning the company becoming a member of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Skinner wrote: "Being a socially responsible organization is a fundamental part of who we are. We have an obligation to use our size and resources to make a difference in the world...and we do."

The company gave an undisclosed amount of money to the NGLCC in return for being recognized as a major promoter of the homosexual agenda. In return, NGLCC placed Richard Ellis, vice president of communications of McDonalds USA, on the NGLCC Board of Directors.

Ellis was quoted as saying: "I’m thrilled to join the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get to work. I share the NGLCC’s passion for business growth and development within the LGBT community, and I look forward to playing a role in moving these important initiatives forward."

McDonald’s refused to comment to World Net Daily on the placement of its executive on the board of the "gay" advocacy organization but did send an e-mail confirming the corporation’s support for the agenda of the homosexual business lobby.

"McDonald’s is indeed a Corporate Partner and Organizational Ally of NGLCC. Our vice president of U.S. communications, Richard Ellis, was recently elected to its board of directors," said Heidi M. Barker, senior director of media relations for McDonald’s. NGLCC describes itself as promoting the LGBT community first and always, including same sex marriage.

NGLCC gives credit to sponsors such as McDonald’s for its financial and other support that helps in its work. "Through the commitment of our corporate partners, the NGLCC has been able to advance the ideas and causes of the LGBT business community," the Chamber said.

Take Action

• Very important! Call your local McDonald’s and ask why McDonald’s is using its size and resources to promote the homosexual agenda.
  
  
• Send an e-mail to McDonald’s.
  
  
• Forward this e-mail to family and friends.

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