Monday, June 30, 2014

Perfect Love


Perfect Love – by Darlene Edmondson

“We love because He first loved us. ” (1 John 4:19 NIV)


Some people meander through life without ever knowing real love. Now, just in case you think this could never happen to you, especially Christians---hear me out. Quick question: do you feel complete, no-strings-attached, to-the-bone, unconditional love at all times? I’m not talking about the sporadic ‘feel-good or spine-tingling’ moments but the kind of faithful love that rearranges your life. 

A quick word study on agape love might help. Agape love has to do with the mind and not simply an emotion that arises spontaneously. This kind of love transcends all others and doesn’t depend upon our worthiness. Such love is beyond our ability to grasp with our intellect, but not beyond understanding it deep within our hearts. 

Like most people, I’ve done my share of superficial posturing. Pretending everything’s okay, yet, carrying a nagging sense of abandonment within. That is until a few years ago when a situation forced me into a ‘do-over’. Ever needed one of those? While letting go of selfish pride and hurt, I embraced God’s warming presence and made a deliberate decision to believe He loves me. Extremely freeing and peaceful, I might add. 

Contrary to popular understanding, the significance of ‘agape’ is that it’s primarily a love of the will. It is God’s nature to love and He does so by His willful pleasure as seen with the sacrificial gift of His Son. Love never fails. It bears all things, believes all things and endures all things (1 Corinthians 13: 7-8). Yes, love found its perfect expression in Christ’s death on the cross and that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16). 



America Engaged In Wars Without End

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June 19, 2014 - FixThisNation - Engaged In Wars Without an End?
Maybe we were doomed from the beginning. Calling our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan the “War on Terror” drew nervous resistance from those who likened it to another one of America’s most disastrous visions: the War on Drugs. More than a decade after our first troops landed in Afghanistan, the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange throws the biggest question into sharp relief: what the hell is this all about?
There was a time when we knew, or at least we thought we did. We were in Iraq to enforce worldwide sanctions against Saddam Hussein and to prevent the proliferation of ye olde weapons of mass destruction. We were in Afghanistan as a more direct result of 9/11, attacking the Taliban for their refusal to hand over Al-Qaeda ringleader Osama bin Laden. With bin Laden’s body having been fed to the sharks and Saddam Hussein long dead, isn’t it time to question just what we were (and, unfortunately, are) doing over there?
Yes, yes, the war in Iraq was over. We brought almost all of our troops home. Now, however, show me one thinking American that doesn’t believe we might be in for Round 2, Round 3, and I’ll show you an American who hasn’t been paying attention. Barack Obama may not have instigated this war, but he was fully in charge of seeing it into its home stretch. If you think he’s going to let his legacy reflect that a band of Sunni militants retook the country on his watch, think again. That legacy has been tarnished enough by Obamacare, an explosion in the national debt, failed economic recovery attempts, the ugly deterioration of our relationship with Israel…well, you could go on forever. He’s not going to let Iraq descend into full-scale religious war without U.S. troops on the ground.
Afghanistan – it now seems clear – is a war that can’t be won. The Taliban have only strengthened in the last couple of years, and the Bowe Bergdahl situation is not so much a bizarre anomaly as it is a damning indication that we don’t know what the end game is. Are we Afghanistan’s Western police force? Are we planning to eradicate the Taliban altogether? What constitutes a clear and true ending to the conflict? I’m afraid that no one in the current administration would be able to answer that question, and that leaves the door open to any number of possibilities. Including releasing major Taliban chieftains back into the wild, apparently. If there’s no particular plan, after all, then why not?
America has two ongoing policies that sometimes come into direct conflict – we don’t leave a brother behind, and we don’t negotiate with terrorists. We were forced into a situation where we had to choose one or the other in the Bergdahl scenario, and Obama chose to follow the former and ignore the latter. The major problem with this is that the Taliban aren’t done fighting. They will likely never be done fighting as long as there are men to fight. Therefore, what he did was nothing less than emboldening and strengthening the enemy. Alas, in these wars without end or meaning, the truth of that simple fact becomes obscured.
My comments: America has become a godless nation and as such God Almighty will not defend her. This means that America's enemies will proliferate all over the world. America's internal enemies will also proliferate. America will reap what she has sown until she REPENTS or she is destroyed.

Religious Persecution Rears Its Ugly Head In Ft. Lauderdale


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If you believe in the right of every American to practice the religion of their choice, you should already know about the Liberty Institute. Founded in 1972, the organization fights against the encroachment of religious persecution wherever it may be found. Unfortunately for kids like Floridian Giovanni Rubeo, that somewhere is increasingly the American public school system.
Rubeo, a 5th grader at Park Lakes Elementary in Ft. Lauderdale, had received a Bible as a Christmas gift in December. As his class allowed students to bring reading material of their own choosing, he opted to bring his treasured Bible. Sadly mistaken about the rules governing the separation of church and state, his teacher Swornia Thomas told him on April 8th that he was to put the Bible away. Telling Rubeo that religious books like the Bible were not allowed in her classroom, she instructed him not to bring the book to school in the future. To his credit, Giovanni did not take this infringement on his rights lying down.
Asked by her student to contact his father, Thomas left a voicemail for Paul Rubeo detailing her reasons for denying Giovanni access to his Bible. Not willing to settle for this answer, the senior Rubeo went to the school’s principal. He succeeded in getting the school’s legal team involved, but was unable to get the ruling overturned. Not about to give up without a fight, he went to the Liberty Institute. Now it’s likely spiraled beyond what Swornia Thomas and the Broward County School District really intended, but that’s exactly what happens when you step carelessly on the very rights that this country was founded upon
It’s important to understand what this is not. It is not about forced prayer in schools. It’s not about compelling others to read the Bible in a public school classroom. It’s not even about “In God We Trust.” In all the above situations, atheists and their cohorts have their legs to stand on. Are those legs compatible with what the founding fathers wanted for America? Maybe, maybe not. But this case isn’t about any of those things. The case of Giovanni Rubeo is about the right of an American school student to spend his free time reading a religious book. That’s all it’s about. The argument against this is…what, exactly?
In a letter dated from 1792, George Washington wrote, “Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated.” We see the truth of these words time and again on both sides of the aisle. They are no less relevant today than they were 200 years ago. When the government – in any of its branches, from the greatest to the least – enforces preferences of one religion over another (or no religion over some), it perverts the very spirit with which this country was created. Regardless of your personal religious views, you will probably agree that the practice of that religion should not be limited by overzealous teachers.
It remains to be seen whether Rubeo and the Liberty Institute will get satisfaction from the Broward County School Board without a legal battle, but Lean Right America stands with them in their pursuit of justice.
My comments: There is a concerted effort in America to silence Christians and eliminate them from the Public Square. Why? Because the Religion of Secular Humanism wants absolute control. What is the Religion of Secular Humanism? It consists of those godless ones who want everyone in America to be able to do as they please as long as the STATE approves. They do not want anyone telling them, as Chrsit Jesus does, that what they do is Evil. What units them? They are against God, His Chrsit Jesus, His Word, His Covenant and His Commandments.
This battle for Religious Freedom is as intense as the persecution that brought the early Christian settlers to America in the first place, who fled the heavy arm of the Church/State alliance in England. .   

On The Texas-Mexico Border: The View From The Front Line

On the Texas-Mexico Border: The View From The Front Line

 Drug cartels are helping would-be immigrants cross the border.
• Border officials: 3 of 4 people crossing the border are from countries other than Mexico.
• State lawmaker: “Texas is not waiting for Washington to act.”
Last weekend, I visited McAllen, Texas, a hotbed of activity in the recent immigration surge on the U.S. – Mexico border. I rode with U.S. Rep.  Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, on a boat with the Texas Department of Public Safety along the Rio Grande River and toured one of the busiest processing centers in the country as it dealt with the flood of illegal aliens from Central America.
Dir McCraw
Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, and Jose Rodriguez, regional commander of DPS (pictured left-right here), led the briefing on Operation Strong Safety, the surge operation ordered by Texas Gov. Rick Perry in June to address the growing crisis on the border. They told us the surge is aimed primarily at fighting the drug cartels and human smuggling operatives that control much of the Rio Grande Valley border.
McCraw and Rodriguez said these Transnational Criminal Organizations are fueling the influx of illegal aliens coming from Central America. They believe TCOs are behind the media stories and advertisements in countries such as Honduras that encourage people to come and that they serve as coyotes/human smugglers. Criminals benefit from immigration surges: When border officials are overwhelmed by a flood of immigrants, their attention is diverted from monitoring drug smuggling.
Aiming more law enforcement at these criminal organizations and shutting down their operations along the Rio Grande and larger Texas border will go a long way to address the Central American and unaccompanied children issue, said McCraw and Rodriguez.
“We’ve seen increased scouting of our activities by drug cartels,” Rodriquez said. “Their goal is to determine where we are and when we’ll be there, so they can figure out the best times to smuggle drugs and people through. The surge allows us to go after the organizers of these activities in a major way.”
According to McCraw, the “objective is not to inconvenience them [the drug cartels] but to hurt them. The drug cartel and human trafficking agents are a threat to communities not just on the border but across America.”
TX border side
This is the view from the dock of a park in McAllen that overlooks one of the widest areas of the Rio Grande River.  The land you see directly across is a park in Reynosa, Mexico, and the boat here belongs to the Texas Highway Patrol, which monitors the waterways.
Many of the unaccompanied children and family units are crossing in this area, and most immediately turn themselves in to the border patrol.
This video clip shows  a beach in Mexico approximately 200 to 300 feet across from the park in McAllen. The beach is a recreational and swimming area used by Mexican locals.  But it also is one of the main areas where smugglers bring immigrants from Central America and push them across the Rio Grande River in rafts or bring them across on jet skis.
DPS Marine official
As we traveled down the Rio Grande River on the Texas Highway Patrol boat, military officials described some of the specific challenges of securing this area of the border.  According to the young Marine featured here who works on the Texas border operation and who didn’t want to give his name, the most dangerous parts of the job are going after those smuggling drugs across the border.
Another challenge he and others on the border face is that a majority of illegal crossers are coming across U.S. Fish and Wildlife area refuges – areas where border officials have limited access to roads and where the types of vehicles allowed are severely restricted.
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These two homes, not more than 250 feet from the U.S. shoreline, belong to Mexican drug lords, the officials said.  They stand on the Mexican banks of the Rio Grande River.
Fishing
Even at its widest parts, the Rio Grande is often very shallow and easy to cross.  Standing in the middle of the river in this photo are two Mexican men fishing, with Mexico on the right and Texas on the left. There are walls and fence structures along parts of the Texas southern border, but most areas are open.
Rep. Bryan Hughes
One of the state lawmakers in our group was Rep. Bryan Hughes, a Republican who represents District 5 in Texas. When I asked him what he would want folks in other states to know about how this affects Texas and could affect them, he was thoughtful.
“Border security is not a state responsibility,” he said. “But the dereliction of duty by the feds affects us all. Texas is not waiting for Washington to act.”
The Lone Star State, Hughes said, is spending “hundreds of millions” on border security, and has just allocated “another $1.3 million per week for a surge in law enforcement resources.”
“Working with Border Patrol, county, local and state law enforcement, we will aggressively disrupt the drug cartels’ operations,” he said. “And we believe that will go a long way in reducing all illegal border crossings.”
For Texans in Hughes’ district, there are two top anxieties about the current border situation.
“My constituents are concerned about the safety and well-being of the thousands of unaccompanied minors who are flooding into Texas,” Hughes said. “Texans are also alarmed about the security risks to our country as drug smugglers, human traffickers and terrorists can more easily sneak across our southern border during this time of crisis.”
Front of DHS bldg
This is the Department of Homeland Security building in McAllen, currently the busiest such facility in the U.S. It processes more than 1,000 people a day.  When illegal immigrants are apprehended by the border patrol, this is where they are brought.
After arrival, officials find out where they’re from and if they have a criminal record. Normally, this process should take a day,  but because federal immigration authorities have not been able to handle the flood of immigrants, people are being kept here for three days or more.
When I was there in June, more than 300 illegal border crossers were being held here, most from Central America. They stay in holding cells with large windows so agents can monitor activities.  People are divided by age and sex, except for mothers with children.
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This is the sally port on the backside of the DHS building. Normally this is a secure area where vans and buses would enter to transport those in custody.  But because of the overwhelming number of illegal aliens crossing the border, it is currently being used to shelter more than 500 people.
It’s an open-air area with just fans to provide a reprieve from the Texas sun. There are no beds or cots: People are given silver blankets, like you’d see at a race event, to sit and lay on. There are no bathing facilities, just portable toilets. Many of those coming across have lice and other skin infections. To try to prevent the infections spreading, they are sectioned off from the larger group.
Albert Spratte
Albert Spratte, pictured on the left talking with Gohmert, is the sergeant at arms, Union 3307, for the National Border Patrol Council. According to Spratte, drug and human smugglers monitor the border and river crossing areas on the Mexico side, along with bus and train stops in Mexican border towns, to ensure no one comes across without paying the smugglers to get them across.
“We’re good at what we do,” Spratte said. “We’re being asked to do things we’re not supposed to do. We’re supposed to stop and detain. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is supposed to deport. The situation is worse than you think, and it’s not going to change until you start deporting people.”
As for the facilities where immigrants are held until ICE steps in,  “If we were a jail, we’d be closed down,” he said.
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According to officials I spoke with, three out of four of those crossing the borders are “OTMs–the term for “Other Than Mexican.”  At least one in four are children, 45 to 50 percent are family units, and the male/female ratio is roughly 60-40.
Although the current wave of border crossers is primarily from Central America, people from more than 140 different countries, including Bangladesh, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, have crossed the southern border. Earlier this month, 33 people from China were apprehended.
As to why so many from Central America are coming now, a top border offical told me, “They recognize they’ve overwhelmed the system. And they know they are going to be released and told to report, but a very minimal number of them ever do.” In other words, those released to family members in the U.S. are supposed to report to the local immigration and customs office once settled to begin their deportation process, but few ever do.
Since I’ve returned from the border, a number of people have asked me about the morale of border agents dealing with this crisis. I would say the majority, although seriously overworked, are encouraged by the recent attention the issue has gotten and the surge of law enforcement promised by the state of Texas.
A senior border official, who didn’t wish to give his name, summed up the view I heard from many there when I asked how his unit was handling the situation: “For border patrol, it’s a good news story.  We’re doing our job.
“For the federal government … not so much.”
My comments: Does this ever end? And what will be the long term effect on the U.S. as well as all these children and families. Does this turn America into a
Third World Country? Is that the goal?

Be Transformed By The Renewing Of Your Mind?


What’s On Your Mind? - By Denise Ferrell

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:2 (KJV)


When watching a courtroom scene on a television show, have you ever noticed that the judge will sometimes tell the jurors that they are to disregard a statement that has just been made? How is that possible? How do you “un-hear” what you have just heard? Though they may disregard it, and though they may strike it from the official record, it would seem almost impossible for it not to affect the thoughts of the jurors.

When we have a problem, how hard is it to focus on God instead of our problem? With God’s grace, I must make a conscious effort to consistently remind myself to get my eyes on Jesus and off of my circumstances, fears and obstacles. Once I have my thoughts on Him, I’m not finished. That problem, with its strength and persistence, is immediately trying to make its way back into my thoughts. If I’m to strike these unwanted problem-related thoughts from my mind, I have to ask the Lord to renew my mind and keep my thoughts on Him. He may do that with a hymn or a gospel song. He may do it with a verse of Scripture. We do have to deal with our problems, but they need not have possession of our minds.

Lord, help us keep our thoughts on You – not on our problems. Amen.

Newspaper: We Were Wrong To Endorse Obama

Sunday, 29 Jun 2014 09:46 PM

By Greg Richter - NewsMax



The Billings (Mont.) Gazette endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008, but now that he's been in office 5½ years, the bloom is off the rose.

The Gazette on Friday published an editorial admitting its mistake in backing Obama and detailing the reasons it came to that conclusion.

"Sometimes, you have to admit you're wrong," the editorial began. "And, we were wrong."

The paper said that it had believed things couldn't get much worse than they were under President George W. Bush, but "President Barack Obama's administration has us yearning for the good ol' days when we were at least winning battles in Iraq."

The editorial notes that the public is giving Obama lower ratings today than Bush received in 2006 when the Iraq war as going badly and he was stung by accusations of bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina.

The editorial said that a president should not be judged solely on approval ratings, but noted that Obama's high number of botched policies have contributed to that weak showing.

The paper lists the NSA spying scandal, the breakup of Iraq, the swap of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban leaders, the VA scandal, lack of stem cell research, a lack of White House transparency, and the failed Obamacare rollout among the president's failures.

It also criticized him for his administration's clampdown on coal-fired energy plant emissions while failing to approve more innovative and cost-saving alternatives such as the Keystone XL pipeline. 

"It's not just that Americans are in a sour mood about national politics," the editorial said. " Instead, Obama has become another in a line of presidents long on rhetoric and hopelessly short on action."

Billings isn't the first newspaper that supported Obama's candidacy to attack his policies, though others have been focused more on individual issues.

His hometown Chicago Tribune, which endorsed him 2008 and 2012, in October blasted him over the Affordable Care Act.

"People who have individual insurance coverage are finding that Obama's oft-repeated promise — 'if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan' — is just not true," the Tribune wrote.

The New York Times panned Obama's May speech to U.S. Military Academy graduates as weak on foreign policy, saying he "provided little new insight into how he plans to lead in the next two years."

The Washington Post in March said Obama's foreign policy is "based on fantasy."

My comments: What this article does not recognize is the godlessness of Obama and the Democrats as the reason for their FAILURE. Most viewing the National Scene think in terms of Politics, but Obama and the Democrats can only Fail because they are godless people, who dishonor God and His Word and it is God Almighty Who determines the course of a Nation.


In reality THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS NOT SPIRITUAL, NOTHING! Each of us personally, and the Nation corporately, will rise of fall based on whether or not we honor God and His Word. When the Antichrist ushers in his One World Government / Religion, it is SPIRITUAL! And it is coming soon.

When Will The U.S. Profligacy Come To And END?

Must Read: Fed Employees Rollout A Bold Idea To Trap The Entire Country’s Wealth

06.02.2014    BY KELLY BROWN - Wealth Reporter
Free market economists are not going to be happy about this...
A major financial news source just published shocking details about a research report by two employees at the Federal Reserve Bank. The 36-page report applauds the use of “capital controls” in global markets.
If you’re unfamiliar with the term “capital controls,” it’s probably because we tend to avoid them in the United States in favor of a free market economy.
Capital controls are simply laws that regulate and restrict what you are allowed to do with your money by regulating the flow of cash in and out of a national economy. The laws define such things as where you can invest your cash and how you can allocate your assets.
If you take a look around the globe, you’ll see several recent examples—almost always from countries experiencing a currency crisis:
  • In Cyprus...some citizens cannot withdraw or write checks for more than €300 per day from their own accounts. These controls were put in place after the Greek debt crisis of 2012 and are set to continue until year-end.
  • In Iceland...capital controls imposed in 2008 have blockaded offshore investors from selling $7.2 billion in assets.
  • In Argentina...citizens must pay an extra tax on vacations abroad.
  • In the Ukraine...recent tensions sparked a series of capital controls. Ukrainians must wait six working days before making any type of foreign currency purchases. In addition, they cannot exchange more than the equivalent of $5,800 USD within a given time period.
You might be wondering… how are these draconian laws “a useful tool for managing financial stability” as the recent Fed paper says?
Well, the Fed research claims that capital controls would protect the U.S. dollar from the effects of rapid cash movements...
Of course, the only countries that are worried about capital controls are those deeply worried about a currency crisis.
According to Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, “Capital controls signal that a country is very worried about preserving its foreign exchange....That means bad things are in the wind.”
For more than 50 years, Americans have never really thought twice about the value of our currency.
But times are rapidly changing. And most Americans don’t realize that the greatest weapon in our nation’s arsenal is not our military might or our education system, but the simple fact that the U.S. dollar is the world’s “reserve currency.” As such, our money forms the basis of the global financial system. And banks around the world hold our dollars in reserve against their loans.
That’s why, for the past few decades, we have been able to print and borrow trillions of dollars, with no real negative impact.
We are the only country in the world that does not have to pay for imports in a foreign currency. We can rack up enormous debts and then print more money.
But this exorbitant privilege could soon expire, because many of the most powerful countries around the world (including China and Russia) are looking for a new world reserve currency.
And when the U.S. dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency… when we can no longer print money and borrow absurd sums without consequence– we are in trouble.
One financial guru, Porter Stansberry, believes this currency collapse in America is actually going to happen much sooner than most people think. He says that’s how currency collapses happen… gradually… slowly… then all of a sudden. And Mr. Stansberry has an uncanny track record of predicting some of the biggest moves in the economy over the past decade. In 2006 he announced GM would go bankrupt and in 2007 he predicted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would also soon go bankrupt. Both of his predictions came to fruition.
Now Stansberry says the next big collapse could be America’s currency. And even though most Americans think this could never happen… not here…Stansberry believes new laws set to go in place on July 1st 2014 will dramatically accelerate this process.
A currency crisis will be bad for all Americans. But it will be especially devastating to seniors, most of whom are no longer working, rely on the government for income and healthcare, and have not diversified any money out of the U.S. dollar.
What is this law that was secretly passed by the Obama Administration… and how will it affect you, your money, and the U.S. dollar?
Stansberry and his Baltimore-based research team have put together a free slide presentation that explains everything you need to know. Get the facts and protect yourself here.
My comments: Common sense tell you that the U.S. cannot continue to print worthless dollars forever. Just as it cannot continue to spend more than it takes in forever or pay the interest on the ever expanding National Debt forever. There will be a day of reckoning. The U.S. printing of worthless money steals from everyone who holds U.S. dollars, it is an dishonest scale that God Almighty hates [Proverbs 11:1]. The U.S. is therefore a robber.  How America's profligacy will end is not known, but it will be a catastrophe for every American when it does. This reality is an indictment of Obama and all who lead America.

Pentagon: Young Adults Too Fat, Tattooed, Uneducated For Military

Saturday, 28 Jun 2014 01:10 PM
By Sandy Fitzgerald - NewsMax


The American military is facing a serious personnel issue: More than two-thirds of today's youth are too uneducated, have behavior issues, and are not physically fit enough for 
service.

"We're trying to make decision makers see this is a national-security matter — and they need to prioritize it," retired Maj. Gen. Allen Youngman told The Wall Street Journal. 

The major problem is obesity, reports military recruiters. But young adults are also being turned away because they lack high school diplomas, have felony convictions, and are on prescription drugs for ailments such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Still more do not meet the military's appearance standards. New rules issued in March  forbid large-scale tattoos or more than four visible on a soldier's arms or legs. Tattoos are forbidden on other parts of the body not covered by a uniform. 

In addition, potential recruits are being turned away because of extreme piercings, such as ear gauges that create large holes in people's earlobes.

As a result, the Defense Department estimates, about 71 percent of the 34 million young adults ages 17 to 24 would not be able to enlist if they tried, not counting people turned away for tattoos or other cosmetic issues.

Gen. Allen Batschelet, commanding general of U.S. Army Recruiting Command, said that the military is also having trouble attracting youths who are interested in serving, saying that only about one percent of young adults are both "eligible and inclined to have a conversation with us."

The Pentagon only recently began tracking eligibility, but experts say high school seniors now face the longest odds to quality for service since the draft ended in 1973.

About 180,000 eligible men and women volunteer for active-duty forces, with another 110,000 joining reserve and National Guard units.

And as foreign engagement increased in the Middle East in recent years, the military loosened its standards. In 2001, at least 90 percent who enlisted had finished high school, where in 2007, only 79 percent had graduated. But in 2001, the Army accepted recruits who had excess body fat.

"We have not adopted a zero-defect mentality. We evaluate each applicant from a 
whole-person perspective," said Defense Department spokesman Nathan Christensen. He noted recruiting targets have been met in recent years.

The obesity problem is still looming. In the past, said Youngman, drill sergeants could run extra weight off new recruits, but now, there are people trying to enlist who are more than 50 pounds overweight.

Recruits also are having problems passing the Armed Forces Qualification Test, which measures their reading and math skills.

"They aren't educationally qualified to join the military in any capacity, not just the high-tech jobs," said Youngman.


My comments: This reality begs the question: Who will defend America? This is the America created by Obama and the godless Democrats, who have turned  America's Public Education System into and Indoctrination Mill for godlessness. These young adults are the result of their godless ideology and decades long efforts. These are their prize students. 

Obama and the Democrats have been persecuting Christians since they entered office. Their Laws, Policies and Actions are against God, His Chrsit Jesus, His Word, His Covenant and His Commandments.

Ironically, they are eliminating the very ones who are capable and willing to defend America. Has God Almighty given godless America over to their own devices; their own ignorance and godlessness? Yes, He has!

America's godlessness will multiply their external enemies as God Almighty will not longer protect America because of her godlessness. Internally America is falling apart as always happens to a godless Nation. "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the END it leads to death." (Proverbs 14:12) America is on a godless path that only leads to DEATH.




Sunday, June 29, 2014

Satan's Counterfeit Church - Fulton Sheen

Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen
Communism and the Conscience of the West (1948)
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"[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church. . . . It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content."

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The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as "I am Who am," and the Devil as "I am who am not."
    Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first "red." Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as "the Prince of this world," whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself that he would deceive even the elect--and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion?
    The pre-Communist Russian belief is that he will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves. . . .
    . . . The third temptation in which Satan asked Christ to adore him and all the kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion--one that renders unto Caesar even the things that are God's.
    In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. . . . 
    . . . But the twentieth century will join the counterchurch because it claims to be infallible when its visible head speaks ex cathedra from Moscow on the subject of economics and politics, and as chief shepherd of world communism. 
(Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West [Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948], pp. 24-25)

My comments: Today, Obama, the Democrats, the Progressives the Liberals and the like have created the New Religion of godless, Secular Humanism. What units the Secular Humanists is that they are against God, His Christ Jesus, His Word, His Covenant and His Commandments.
 It renders to "Caesar" even the things that are God's. It is willing to FORCE Christians to do that which is against their Faith and Conscience. It is the sponsor of the Greatest Holocaust the world has known: The Abortion Murder of more than 57 Million children.
It is the promoter of Homosexuality and Same-sex marriage which are anathema to God. Secular Humanism is a man as "god" Religion where everyone does what is right in their own eyes as long as the STATE approves. And we have an Apostate Church, that pretends to belong to Chrsit, that is in agreement with them.
This Religion of Secular Humanism is the Religion that will usher in the son of Satan, the Beast of Revelation, the Antichrist, and his New World Order, His One World Government/Religion and will receive his "mark" and worship him, DAMNING themselves to an Eternal Hell.   

Netanyahu Blast Presbyterians For Israel Divestment

From NewsMax: 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the American Presbyterian Church for voting to divest from three companies that do business with Israeli West Bank security forces.
Speaking to journalists from around the world at the inaugural Jewish Media Summit in Jerusalem on June 22, Netanyahu said the vote was misguided, the Jewish Daily Forward reported.

"The only place [in the Middle East] where you have freedom, tolerance, protection of minorities, protection of gays, of Christians and all other faiths is Israel," he said.
He suggested that American Presbyterian leaders "take a plane, come here and let's arrange a bus tour in the region. Let them go to Libya, Lebanon, Iraq."

But the bus will need armored plates, he suggested. And the visitors should not say they are Christians. Then they should compare what they see to Israel, the "only beacon of freedom" in the region.

The 1.8 million-member church's leaders voted by a slim margin — 310 to 303 —on June 20 to divest the church from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola Solutions. Those firms sell products or services to the Israeli security forces that the church said are used to destroy homes and construct and monitor Israeli checkpoints and settlements.

The church will sell about $21 million worth of stock in the three companies.
Church officials stressed that they were not aligning themselves with the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which campaigns for a complete boycott of all Israeli goods, the Forward reported.

But in an opinion piece in the Forward published on Wednesday, Jane Eisner writes: "When Jewish treatment of Palestinians is judged worse than the way any other dominant group treats a minority, when it is deemed worthy of unique sanction, when other horrors around the world are ignored — how can I believe that this isn't about the Jews? And that, my Presbyterian friends, is anti-Semitism."

At the media summit, Netanyahu also said "it is the height of folly to allow one of the Islamist camps to have nuclear weapons," referring to Iran. "It will change history."

My comments: These Presbyterians are not Christian but Apostates, ignorant of Bible Prophecy. They are taking a STAND against God's PROMISE to Israel that she will exist FOREVER. In doing so they bring the CURSE of God upon themselves as do all who CURSE Israel.   

Obama EPA's Rules Are 38 Times Longer Than The Bible

From NewsMax:
Since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency "has proposed and promulgated numerous regulations" regarding pollution control, a report from the Congressional Research Service observes.
How numerous?

The EPA has issued 2,827 new final regulations, taking up 24,915 pages in the Federal Register, totaling an estimated 24,915,000 words, according to an analysis by CNS News.
The Gutenberg Bible, published in two volumes in 1455, contains 1,282 pages and 646,128 words.

So the new EPA regulations issued by the Obama administration contain about 19 times as many pages and 38 times as many words as the Bible.

The EPA regulations also have 22 times as many words as the entire seven-book Harry Potter series, and 5,484 times as many words as the U.S. Constitution, CNS News calculated.
The regulations cover greenhouse gases, air quality, emissions, hazardous substances, and other topics.

CNS pointed out that in addition to final rules, the Federal Register publishes proposed rules, notices, interim rules, corrections, and drafts of final rules. The analysis considers only final rules from the EPA, which include the likes of "Revised Steam Electric Effluent Limitations Guidelines."

Critics of the EPA "have reacted strongly" to the deluge of new regulations, the Congressional Research Service noted. "Many, both within Congress and outside of it, have accused the agency of reaching beyond the authority given it by Congress and ignoring or underestimating the costs and economic impacts of proposed and promulgated rules."

The CRS report acknowledged that "environmental groups and other supporters of the agency disagree that EPA has overreached.”

"In several cases, environmental advocates would like the regulatory actions to be stronger."
But the report also noted that The Wall Street Journal has charged that the EPA "has turned a regulatory fire hose on U.S. business."

And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce called the EPA's actions "a series of one-sided, politically charged regulations that are intended to take the place of legislation that cannot achieve a consensus in Congress.

My comments: This is how DICTATOR'S rule, through Regulations that are excessive and impossible to understand or follow, which puts all the POWER in the hands of the Regulator. The Regulator then interprets his excessive, INDECIPHERABLE regulations as he pleases and has ABSOLUTE CONTROL

God's Chosen People, Holy And Dearly Loved


We are dearly loved by Susan Barnes

"Therefore as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved." Colossians 3:12


God considers us his dearly loved children but often we don't see ourselves this way. Sometimes our view of God is distorted by our past experiences with our earthly fathers or other authority figures. If we have a distorted view of God as someone who is only slightly better than our human father then we will not have a right understanding of how much God loves us. Even the best parents were not able to love us perfectly.

However God is the perfect Father who always acts in our best interests. We never have to wonder about his motives or question his intentions. His dealings with us are always for our good.

If we had a personal relationship with a famous person it would be special yet we have the opportunity to have a relationship with the King of the universe. The fact that God even notices us is amazing but that he gave us his Son is overwhelming. Reflecting on the death and resurrection of Jesus deepens our appreciation of the Father's love.

In Ephesians 5:1 Paul tells us to act as "dearly loved children". Before we can behave like loved children we have to believe that we are. Regardless of what we may think of ourselves, we need to accept God's view and see ourselves as his dearly loved children.

The World Is A Spiritual Death Row

Since the Fall of Adam and Eve this World
Has been a spiritual Death Row for humanity;
Every human is born spiritually dead and headed to Eternal Death
Apart from Faith in Christ Jesus. Listen:

Whoever believes in Him [Christ Jesus] is not CONDEMNED,
But whoever does not believe STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY. (John 3:18)

We are all born CONDEMNED before the Living God.
The World is a spiritual Death Row for humanity 
Apart from Faith in Christ Jesus.

What is this Faith saves us from Death Row?

Now Faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed)
Of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see
And the conviction of their reality--
Faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses.
(Hebrews 11:1, AMP)

What is the substance of Faith?
It is the Kingdom of God, Christ in us,
The Spirit of God living in and through us. Listen:

And by Him we cry “Abba Father,”
The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Now if we are children, then we a heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ,
IF INDEED we share in His SUFFERINGS that we may also share in His Glory.
(Romans 8:15-17)

Therefore there is now NO CONDEMNATION
For those who are IN CHRIST JESUS.
Because THROUGH CHRIST JESUS the Law of the Spirit of LIFE
Set me FREE from the Law of Sin and Death.

For what the Law [the Ten Commandments] was powerless to do
In that it was weakened by the Sinful Nature,
[The natural man, in himself, has no ability to keep the Commandments.]

God did by sending His Own Son in the likeness of sinful man
To be a Sin Offering.
And so he CONDEMNED Sin in sinful man,
In order that the Righteous Requirements of the Law
Might be FULLY MET in us,

WHO DO NOT LIVE ACCORDING TO THE SINFUL NATURE
BUT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT.

[By receiving Christ Jesus by Faith, as Savior and Lord,
The blood of Christ Jesus cleanses us from our Sin,
But this magnificent sacrifice is only EFFECTIVE
If we live according to the Spirit.
If we do not live according to the Spirit, we NULIFY the blood of Christ;
We crucify Him again.]

Those who live according to the Sinful Nature
HAVE THEIR MINDS SET ON WHAT THAT NATURE DESIRES;
[This includes everyone in the World apart from Faith in Christ Jesus.]

But those who live in accordance with the Spirit
HAVE THEIR MINDS SET ON WHAT THE SPIRIT DESIRES.

THE MIND OF SINFUL MAN IS DEATH,
But the mind controlled by the Spirit is LIFE and Peace;

THE SINFUL MIND IS HOSTILE TO GOD.
It does not submit to God's Law, nor can it do so.

THOSE CONTROLLED BY THE SINFUL NATURE CANNOT PLEASE GOD.

You, however, are controlled not by the Sinful Nature but by the Spirit,
IF THE SPIRIT OF GOD LIVES IN YOU.

AND IF ANYONE DOES NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST,
HE DOES NOT BELONG TO CHRIST.

BUT IF CHRIST IS IN YOU, YOUR BODY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN,
YET YOUR SPIRIT IS ALIVE BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

And IF the Spirit of Him Who raised Jesus from the dead is LIVING IN YOU,
He Who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies THROUGH HIS SPIRIT, WHO LIVES IN YOU.

Therefore, brothers, WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION--
BUT NOT TO THE SINFUL NATURE, to live according to it.

FOR IF YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO THE SINFUL NATURE YOU WILL DIE;
But IF by the Spirit you PUT TO DEATH the misdeeds of the body,
YOU WILL LIVE,
Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.
(Romans 8:1-14)

Understand, that God Almighty, through Christ Jesus
Has spoken to every living person
And invited them to come OFF OFF DEATH ROW
And into the Kingdom of God, but only a FEW receive the INVITATION.

Most of humanity will live out their meaningless lives and go to the Hell
God prepared for Satan and his demonic horde.

If you belong to Christ; if His Spirit lives in and through you,
You, by the very life you lead, are inviting the CONDEMNED to God's Kingdom.
We pray that many will receive their invitation.

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion.(Psalm 2)
This World in its present form is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:31)
America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.
Save yourself from this corrupt generation! (Acts 2:40)
As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!
Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!