Production has begun in Canada for the screen adaptation of Todd Burpo’s best-selling book Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back, which chronicles the near death experience that reportedly brought a 3-year-old boy face-to-face with Jesus Christ. …read more
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For centuries there has been much confusion when people try to reason the different accounts of Jesus’ resurrection as recorded by the apostles. The fact that they all seem to have a different story to tell does not help. Perhaps, a good way to consider their seemingly different reports is to view them like transparent overlays, similar to the one’s we have seen in books showing the skeleton, then the nerves and blood vessels, organs, muscular and finally the skin and hair.
The Gospels, similarly, are each reporting different events which had taken place around a major singular occurrence, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The fact is that these different events are recorded in God’s word and are therefore true. Perhaps the answer to the confusion is to consider that there were multiple trips made to the tomb.
The best way to determine the possible order of these trips to the tomb is to consider the different details that have been given about the time of day and light of the sun. Was the sun going down or coming up? These questions are actually quite easy to answer. However, we must remember that the Sabbath, like all the other biblical days, began and ended with sundown, see Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31 and Lev. 23:32.
Matthew clearly tells us that when the two Marys where first headed to the tomb it was “IN the end of the Sabbath.” Therefore, according to Matthew this trip took place Saturday evening prior to sunset, “IN the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week.”
The word translated “end” is the Greek word “opse,” # 3697 in Strongs Concordance. It means – late in the day; by extension, after the close of the day: –(at) even, in the end. The translated phrase “as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week” adds to the confusion of most people and caused them to think Matthew is talking about the sunrise, or “dawn” as we would refer to it. The Greek word here was translated “dawn,” while at times a correct translation, is not however of necessity the intent original. The implication of the word, since it follows “opse,” properly means to “draw on,” or, “as the first day approached,” without specifying a precise time. As a matter of fact, that is exactly how the same word here translated “dawn” is translated in Luke 23:54, “And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.”
In English the word “dawn” is frequently used to mean the beginning of something – like “the dawn of space travel” would be a reference to the first flight of man in space. This careful chronological statement, “IN the END of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of …read more
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Jesus came as a humble servant setting the example for us to follow. The opposite of Christ is anti Christ. Jesus Christ a lowly state. An anti Christ spirit, a self exalting state. Thus the clergy. …read more
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Sunday 7/28/13 Pastor Michael sermon Left Behind: What Happens to Non-Believers during the Tribulation Revelation 6:9-11
We are living in a time that there are things happening in our world that have never happened before. The killing of thousands and weather that causes mass destruction is happening all over the world. Jesus said these things would be happening in the end times. For believers we have no worry. We are protected from ALL of the destructions that happen in the end times. We, the believer, escape. The world wants us to be fearful but we will not fear. The Bible prophesized of the things that are happening. The love of many will wax cold. Today people kill each other with no problem and without a second thought. Men become lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God!
We must celebrate our Faith because our Faith is our ticket out of the terrible times to come. Our Faith will protect us from disaster! Christ died for us and snatched us back from near destruction. In the text, John sees the things that are to happen. He sees the seven seals opened by the Lamb, Jesus Christ, the Resurrected one. John sees the raptured, the believing ones that are caught up. The dead in Christ shall rise first and we who remain shall be caught up to meet Jesus in the sky. These are the born again believers that are taken up and don’t have to go thru the tribulation period.
Right now there are approx. 7 billion people living on earth today. Approximately 1.6 billion of them are saved. Almost 6 billion people will be left behind if the Rapture would happen today. Those people left behind fall into three categories:
1) The Person Who is Uncertain:
This is a non-believer that doesn’t want to make a commitment. He is seeking some religious experience but will stay neutral. He doesn’t commit to anything. An Agnostic=denying God’s personal existence. They don’t believe God is a personal God. Nicodemus was an agnostic. He came to see Jesus at night when no one would see him.
We know Jesus is Real, God is Real! And we know that He has picked us up, woke us up this morning and brought us to church today! We have a relationship with God and He comes and rescues us from our mess! We cannot see it but we know that it is real. We know it thru our heart and not our intellect. We are born again believers and we have FAITH!! We know it’s REAL!!
2) The Unwilling People:
They are skeptical to any beliefs concerning a God and don’t want to investigate anything. An Antagonist=they ask …read more
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Sunday 7/21/13 Pastor Michael sermon Seeing Is Believing=A Preview of Coming Attractions! Revelations 5:1-5
Seeing is believing means some things are so impossible unless you can see them. This is the reason why we have pre-views of movies to come. They want to show us pre-views of coming attractions, of the movies thought to be impossible to capture on the screen.
This is the state of our text today. John is being given a pre-view of what the world will look like in the end times and how things will happen in Heaven and in earth. John is on the island and no one is there but him and God. God took him up in the spirit to show him reel by reel of what is to happen in the end time. John was shown things that he could not understand, but he believed. It is like our faith in God. We can’t see Him and sometimes we don’t understand things that happen but we know God is with us. He is lifting us up and we believe in God’s Power.
John was given a pre-view of what is going to happen so he can little by little believe it. He sees Christ exalted in Heaven. He sees the main character in Heaven, Christ, exalted in Heaven. This is before the seals on the Book are broken. God shows him Christ first because it was about to get really crazy and chaotic. But Christ is still on the throne. When things go crazy in our life, Jesus is still in control and He is still on the throne. Christ has Power! He will empower us to get over the crazy stuff because if it doesn’t kill us, it will empower us and make us stronger! I know that nothing touches us unless He allows it. So He knows I can handle it and can take it! We can have the victory over all things! Christ is on the throne! Praise the Lord!
Vs. 2 The Book is like a Will being opened to determine the fate of people, of mankind and the earth. It’s like at a Will reading. People are there to get a blessing. Jesus is at the Will reading, the Book opening. Christ is the executor of the Will, to unseal the Book. Vs.3 No one could open the Book. The strong angel asked who could open the Book. Angel Gabriel will proclaim that no one can open the Book, the Will. This Will, this Book says who will be getting into Heaven and who will not! Jesus Christ is the only one worthy to be the executor, the one to open up the Will, the Book! He is the only one worthy to break the seals on the Book that determine the will of God toward the fate of mankind, the earth.
Vs. 5 The elder told …read more
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Of the several main points in the article from Nebula’s thread: Why millennials are leaving the church
This is the point in particular I’d like to discuss.
5. We want our LGBT friends to feel truly welcome in our faith communities.
I was actually discussing this with a close friend the other day. I guess it’s easy to demand of baby Christ followers the same maturity of one who has been transformed by the mind of Christ for years.
Sure, it is the same Holy Spirit in both the new and “mature” Christ follower… Yet God works in people’s lives in different ways and at a different pace.
For example, there’s a good friend of ours who accepted Christ as her Savior in 2010. She had a live-in boyfriend who wasn’t a Believer. It took her over 2 years (end of 2012) before she had the spiritual understanding, emotional fortitude, and financial resources to even consider completely breaking up with the guy. It has been a tough road for her as she’s a single mother but given the time along with the working of the Holy Spirit she made the right choice. This was a heterosexual relationship.
So here’s the thing. A person who’s LGBT actually feels welcomed into a church setting. (Note: I’m sure some denominations and churches are more welcoming than others) Over time through love, compassion, grace, and mercy that person comes to know the Lord through Jesus Christ. They have a partner they currently live with.
Here’s the thing… Do we demand they break off everything immediately to be baptized or accepted by fellow local church members as a true Believer? Or do we allow the Holy Spirit to convict that person of their clear errant behavior?
God bless,
GE
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Pastor Jeremiah Steepek (pictured below) transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning. He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service….only 3 people out of the 7-10,000 people said hello to him. He asked people for change to buy food….NO ONE in the church gave him change. He went into the sanctuary to sit down in the front of the church and was asked by the ushers if he would please sit n the back. He greeted people to be greeted back with stares and dirty looks, with people looking down on him and judging him.
As he sat in the back of the church, he listened to the church announcements and such. When all that was done, the elders went up and were excited to introduce the new pastor of the church to the congregation……..”We would like to introduce to you Pastor Jeremiah Steepek”….The congregation looked around clapping with joy and anticipation…..The homeless man sitting in the back stood up…..and started walking down the aisle…..the clapping stopped with ALL eyes on him….he walked up the altar and took the microphone from the elders (who were in on this) and paused for a moment….then he recited
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
After he recited this, he looked towards the congregation and told them all what he had experienced that morning…many began to cry and many heads were bowed in shame…. he then said….Today I see a gathering of people……not a church of Jesus Christ. The world has enough people, but not enough disciples…when will YOU decide to become disciples? He then dismissed service until next week…….Being a Christian is more than something you claim. I’ts something you live by and share with others
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
Business was tough for Kody and his wives on the season premiere of “Sister Wives.” The group was still trying to launch their jewelry business, SisterWife’s Closet, but online sales just weren’t cutting it. So the family decided to set up a booth at a women’s expo in Robyn’s hometown of St. George, Utah.
Unfortunately, St. George is also home to Warren Jeffs’ controversial FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) community. Polygamy is strongly frowned upon in that area. As such, the wives were basically shunned at the Expo.
Susan, a woman at the Expo, summed up her feelings quite succinctly. “I have no respect for them whatsoever,” she said of the Browns. “Polygamy is not a religion. It is a domineering, creepy way for old men to marry young women.”
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post
Link…http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/biblical-case/
The emphasis of this article will be on “conservative” views of government — the notion that the government can outlaw activities simply because those activities are sin. Later, I’ll publish an article that explicitly covers “leftist” Christian beliefs — the idea that the government should have strong welfare programs to “care” for the poor.
Peace, Violence, and Jesus Christ
Jesus taught a lifestyle of non-violence, peaceful “tolerance”, and a lifestyle based on love and mercy. When I say “tolerance”, I don’t mean verbally — I mean physically. Christ constantly spoke out about what was evil. He discussed and condemned sin repeatedly — especially the sin of the religious conservatives of the day, the Pharisees.
Jesus taught a remarkable philosophy at the time — that of peace. He explicitly said in the Sermon on the Mount:
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.”
Most commentators, including Spurgeon, agree with this on a literal and figurative level. A Christian should be a maker of peace. Of course, being a peace-maker doesn’t mean peace will occur — after all, Jesus died a violent death, and promised that His followers would endure hatred and violence from tyrants.
Self-Defense and Justified Violence
Jesus is often used as an example of pacifism because He allowed the government to kill Him. The idea that this justifies pacifism is absurd, because Jesus explicitely explained that He didn’t fight because He was on earth for the purpose of dying for the world — He had to allow them to kill him.
“My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
Jesus allowed them to kill Him because the establishment of the His kingdom required that He die and rise again three days later. This was part of the plan. His reasoning was not that violence in self-defense is bad — but completely about context.
He literally said: “If it were, my servants would fight.” In other words, when discussing earthly matters, violence absolutely can be justified, even by peacemaker.
There is literally only one example of Jesus using violence on anyone while He was on earth. That example is when He entered the Temple Courts, and saw that there were people in the temple buying and selling and “stealing” by using improper weights and measurements. Jesus’ response was ferocious. He pulled out a whip, and drove them out of the temple, flipping tables, and dumping the money-changers posessions onto the ground. He said:
“‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
I can’t imagine a more basic example of proper violence than this. Jesus wasn’t just anyone — He was the Son of God, and this was His house. Even then, the only violence done was on those who were literally robbers. Jesus used violence on thieves while they were in the act. And He was the Great …read more
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Posted 07/16/13: Major oil spill or similar tragedy coming shortly to – Asia.
Posted 07/16/13: Tragedy – Charity line seen for assistance in – USA
Posted 07/07/13: Rare major Earthquake in – West Africa and North Mid Atlantic Ridge
to occur shortly.
Posted 07/04/13: Major earthquake in America on scale of 6.6 – to strike America in quick order.
Because America has turned a deaf ear to God’s law, all those who have strayed, He sends earthquakes to awaken His people, and bring them back to the fold.
Repent and turn from sin, and your Father, God the Most High, will mitigate the chastisements He
brings against our nation, all His people he loves dearly. Like disobedient children, he sends
punishment to correct our sin. He will never give up on us, nor forsake us. We’re now in the last days. Our time
left is short. God has speeded up the clock and events will begin to unfold in rapid succession. Give your life to Jesus Christ and ask Him for forgiveness. In Jesus name, God Bless.
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The “Revenge” Season 3 premiere just got bigger. “The Bible” star Diogo Morgado, who played Jesus Christ in History Channel’s hit miniseries, will appear as a doctor when the ABC drama returns, TVLine reports.
According to the site, Morgado will play Dr. Jorge Velez in “Revenge’s” Season 3 premiere, which airs on Sun., Sept. 29.
Morgado is hardly the only “Revenge” newcomer: “Pan Am” alumna Karine Vanasse booked a multi-episode arc in Season 3 of “Revenge,” Deadline reports. The French-Canadian actress will play Margaux, a French businesswoman who comes to town to start a magazine and has a past with Daniel (Josh Bowman), according to the site.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post
Singer and songwriter Janie Chu says she sings about pain and suffering to end the social injustice of sex trafficking through the love of Jesus Christ. …read more
Source: The Christian Post
Sally Gary’s story is unique in that it is her own, but as a follower of Jesus Christ living with same-sex attraction, the Texas native undeniably has much to say that would resonate with countless other women who find that they, too “love God but like girls.” …read more
Source: The Christian Post
The American Civil Liberties Union and an Ohio school district have reached a tentative agreement on the fate of a portrait of Jesus Christ that hung in a local public high school. …read more
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The Mississippi man suspected of sending deadly ricin in letters to President Obama and a senator from his home state is no stranger to local police, who have long viewed him as a paranoid conspiracy theorist prone to violence.
Paul Kevin Curtis, a sometime-Elvis impersonator who appeared in a Mississippi federal court Thursday and denied wrongdoing, has penned numerous rants accusing the government of hounding him. Many of his screeds have ended with the same line his letter to President Obama reportedly did: “I am Kevin Curtis and I approve this message.”
An affidavit released by the Department of Justice quotes Curtis’ letters to Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and a judge as saying: “Maybe I have your attention now even if that means someone must die.”
Curtis has claimed unknown forces blew up his car, interfered in his personal relationships and rigged Elvis impersonation contests. His rants, which have appeared at ripoffreport.com on his Facebook page seem to stem from 2001, when, as a cleaner hired by a morgue, he claims to have found bags of body parts, including a severed head. After reporting his discovery to authorities, Curtis came to believe he was made a “person of interest where my every move was watched and videotaped.”
On Ripoffreport.com, a forum for people to complain about purported scams, a man who identified himself as Curtis detailed in 2007 how the alleged incident began his spiral.
“3 Years of research lead to countless court battles, cops harassing me weekly, death threats, personal & financial losses, several thefts, my home burned down, car exploded, marriage dissolved & bankruptcy,” he wrote.
Curtis claims he sought help from elected officials, including Wicker, who was his congressman prior to being elected to the Senate in 2007. Wicker told CNN he has met Curtis and believed him to have “mental issues.”
Curtis reportedly wrote that he is on the “hidden front lines of a secret war” on his Facebook page hours before federal agents arrested him at his home in Corrinth Wednesday. He is being held in the Lafayette County Detention Center.
“My mother wants me to SHUT UP. My brothers fear me. My sister hates me.. . .I have lost most of my friends,” he wrote. “I have spent more than $130,000 on legal fees in 13.5 years.. . .They destroyed my marriage, they distracted my career, they stalked, they trolled, they came into my home, took my computers, had me arrested 22 times and guess what? I am still a thorn in the corrupt anals! I will remain here until Jesus Christ decides its time for me to go.”
The letters to Obama and Wicker, which bore Memphis postmarks, have tested positive for ricin. The ones sent to Washington were opened in a remote facility and no one appears to have been harmed by them. The FBI has said there is no indication of a connection between the letters and the Monday bombing in Boston that killed three people and injured more than 170. The letters to Obama and Wicker were postmarked April 8,
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The Mormon church’s strict rules about email communication for missionaries have been loosened a bit to allow them to send emails to friends, priesthood leaders and new converts.
Previously, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionaries could only email immediate family members, though they’ve always been allowed to send written letters to friends and others.
LDS spokesman Eric Hawkins said Wednesday that missionaries must get permission from their mission president before sending emails to converts or people of the opposite gender, under the new rules.
And they are still restricted to sending emails through the church’s filtered email service and on the designated preparation day each week. Emails also must be sent from public computers at somewhere like a library where a fellow missionary can see the screen.
The missionary handbook shows that the rules stem from the expectation that missionaries are to devote all their time and attention to “serving the Lord, leaving behind all other personal affairs.”
The handbook also advises missionaries to never include anything confidential, sensitive or negative about the area where they are serving.
Missions are considered rites of passage for many Mormons, broadening their perspective on the world, strengthening their faith and helping prepare some of them for future leadership roles within the church.
Young Mormon men are expected, but not required, to serve missions while women have faced far less pressure to serve. Men serve two years while women go for 18 months.
In October, the church lowered the minimum age for missionaries: from 21 to 19 for women and from 19 to 18 for men.
The church said applications for new missions are up twofold since the announcement and more than 65,000 Mormon missionaries are serving around the world. About half of all new applications to go on missions have been from women, the church said. Previously, 15 percent of missionaries were women.
More than 20,000 additional missionaries have been called to serve, while another 6,000 are in the interview process.
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By Matt Barber
Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. – Psalm 73:6
“Gay pride” necessitates anti-Christian hate. It must. “Gay marriage” and other “sexual orientation”-based laws do violence to freedom and truth. They are the hammer with which the postmodern left intends to bludgeon bloody religious liberty and the Judeo-Christian sexual ethic.
According to the unequivocal moral precepts of the Judeo-Christian tradition – explicit throughout both the Old and New Testaments – homosexual behavior is sin. Sin is evil. Homosexual behavior is the central, defining characteristic of so-called “gay marriage.” Therefore, “gay marriage” is evil. Christians are obligated to avoid sin – to “do no evil.”
I know; it’s not popular to speak such simple truths in today’s politically correct world. But I’m not out to win a popularity contest.
Neither is Ms. Barronelle Stutzman. Ms. Stutzman is the Christian owner-operator of Arlene’s Flowers in Richland, Wash. She is, by all accounts, a lovely, sweet, elderly woman who both employs and regularly serves open practitioners of the homosexual lifestyle. Sadly, she has become the latest victim in a fast-growing string of secularist attacks against Christians and other morally minded people. If “same-sex marriage” becomes the law of the land, I can assure you that we will soon see a virtual explosion in the same kind of anti-Christian persecution Ms. Stutzman now suffers.
Recently, one of Ms. Stutzman’s frequent homosexual customers requested that she provide flower arrangements for his same-sex “wedding.” She politely declined, saying that her Christian conscience and “relationship with Jesus Christ” prevented her from any involvement with counter-Christian “same-sex marriage.” She was, quite simply, a Christian being Christian. The two hugged and parted ways.
Unfortunately, in our ever-”progressive” culture, being Christian has fast become a most dangerous proposition. As each homofascist demand is checked from liberals’ sin-centric wish list, it only gets worse.
As a result of her constitutionally guaranteed religious free exercise, Washington state’s newly elected Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed charges against Ms. Stutzman, seeking both a monetary judgment and an injunction to physically force her to violate her Christian conscience. He would compel her to either lend her artistic expression in support of counterfeit “gay marriage” – something Christianity steadfastly recognizes as mortal sin – or face further charges.
Speaking of steadfast, to her credit, Ms. Stutzman has stood firm. She has refused to cave under Ferguson’s tyrannical torment. Ferguson, on the other hand, has revealed himself to be a creep and a coward – a “progressive” bully who apparently gets off on abusing elderly women. He’s a disgrace to Washington state and should be thrown out of office and disbarred.
Still, this type of government persecution must be expected. Ferguson is a liberal. The liberal viewpoint is that any viewpoint, save the liberal viewpoint, must be criminalized and prosecuted.
Like many of us, Joseph Backholm with the Family Policy Institute of Washington has long warned about the consequences of radically deconstructing the institution of natural marriage. “Now that the law says marriage is genderless,” he recently wrote of Ms. Stutzman’s ongoing abuse, “those who
From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/religious-freedom-and-gay-marriage-cannot-coexist/
Nicolas Maduro hopes to ride a tide of grief into Venezuela‘s special presidential election Sunday and win voters’ endorsement to succeed the late Hugo Chavez, the adored larger-than-life leader who chose him to carry on the messy, unfinished Chavista revolution.
That will mean inheriting multiple problems left behind by Chavez, troubles that have been harped on by opposition challenger Henrique Capriles.
Although he’s still favored, Maduro’s early big lead in opinion polls sharply narrowed in the past week as Venezuelans grappled with a litany of woes many blame on Chavez’s mismanagement of the economy and infrastructure: chronic power outages, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages. Add to that rampant crime — Venezuela has among the world’s highest homicide and kidnapping rates.
Maduro, a former union activist with close ties to Cuba‘s leaders who was Chavez’s longtime foreign minister, hinted at feeling overwhelmed during his closing campaign speech to hundreds of thousands of red-shirted faithful Thursday.
“I need your support. This job that Chavez left me is very difficult,” said Maduro, who became acting president after Chavez succumbed to cancer March 5. “This business of being president and leader of a revolution is a pain in the neck.”
Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor who lost to Chavez in October’s regular presidential election, hammered away at the ruling socialists’ record of unfulfilled promises as he crisscrossed Venezuela. His campaign libretto included reading aloud a list of unfinished road, bridge and rail projects before asking what goods were scarce on store shelves.
Maduro, 50, hewed to a simple message, a theme of the October presidential campaign: “I am Chavez. We are all Chavez.” He promised to expand a myriad of anti-poverty programs created by the man he called the “Jesus Christ of Latin America” and funded by $1 trillion in oil revenues during Chavez’s 14-year rule.
His campaign mobilized a state bureaucracy of nearly 2.7 million workers that was built up by Chavez while he cemented a near-monopoly on power, using loyalists in the judiciary to intimidate and diminish the opposition, particularly its broadcast media.
There are no easy answers for the troubles besetting Venezuela even though the country has the world’s largest oil reserves.
Many factories in the heartland operate at half capacity because strict currency controls leave them short of the hard
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By Tim Powers
My assumption of the best example of a pledge would be by The Pledge of Allegiance. Is it taken seriously anymore by the majority of Americans or is it just something that we have been trained to do over the generations before starting a school day, sporting event, or NASCAR race? I’m sure that most of you who are engaged in the happenings of this country have seen the picture of our muslim/communist plant, Barack Hussein Obama, holding his hands down by his groin area while everyone else had their hand on their heart during the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. That gesture was nothing short of un-American.
A pledge should not be taken lightly. Our Military members have all taken a pledge to protect, defend and uphold our Constitution and have been successful in defending our rights for over 200 years. Our politicians have taken the same pledge, but in their case, not a very good track record when it comes to defending the Constitution.
Some of us have made a pledge to our spouses as well. How well has that worked out for some as of late? When this pledge means nothing, divorce is certain. Or what about the pledge that we made to God upon accepting Jesus Christ as our lord and savior? The word “Christian” meaning Christ like. Are we living up to that pledge? Are we even trying to?
When our founders were faced with the challenge of not only establishing a viable government, they also knew that they would have to fight to the death in order to secure the Liberty and Freedom that they so desired. So to this end, they all decided to “pledge” their lives,fortunes and sacred honors,(their individual covenants with their creator) in order to make this happen. Can you, or are you willing to take the same pledge that our Founders did? Will you stand by it at all cost? Only you and your Creator will ever know the true answer. As always,fellow Patriots, stay safe and be aware of your surroundings.
Elder Eldred G. Smith, the oldest Mormon church general authority and oldest known Utahn, has died at the age of 106.
Smith, who was born in Lehi, died Thursday night.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement praising him as a “valued friend” and “respected leader.”
During his 32 years as church patriarch, he traveled to every continent and gave more than 18,000 blessings. He had been an emeritus church patriarch since 1979.
Provo’s Daily Herald reports he had five children, 24 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren and 19 great-great grandchildren as of a year ago.
KSL reports he was the most long-lived general authority in the church’s history. Smith celebrated his 106th birthday on Jan. 9.
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