Fri, Aug 31st - 8:18AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
A panda bear walks into a restaurant and orders a meal. After eating he pulls out a gun, shoots the place to the ground, and runs away. Quickly the bartender runs after him yelling, "HEY YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!!" The panda turns around and yells "Yes I can. Look me up in the encyclopedia!" So, the bartender looks up "Panda" in the encyclopedia, and it reads "Panda: increasingly rare species of bear that can be found in the eastern part of Asia. It eats shoots and leaves.
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Fri, Aug 31st - 8:10AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
God doesn’t just work along side us. He works in us. Christianity in an inside job. Christians are all wrapped up in Christ.*
*"To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27 (NRSV)
"and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 (NRSV)"
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Thu, Aug 30th - 8:23AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! THE FATHERHOOD CYCLE
The Fatherhood Cycle
4 years: "My Daddy can do anything."
7 years: "My Dad knows a lot, a whole lot."
12 years: "Oh, well - naturally - Father doesn't know that either."
14 years: "Father? Hopelessly old-fashioned."
21 years: "Oh, that man is so out-of-date. What did you expect?"
25 years: "He knows a little bit about it - but not much."
30 years: "Maybe we ought to find out what Dad thinks."
35 years: "Let's ask Dad what he would do before we make a decision."
40 years: "I wonder what Dad would have thought about that? He was pretty smart."
50 years: "My Dad knew absolutely everything."
60 years: "I'd give anything if Dad were here so I could talk this over with him. I really miss that man."
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Thu, Aug 30th - 8:10AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
Do our efforts to win others to Christ justify our conviction that men are lost and doomed for hell without a knowledge of Christ as Lord and Savior?* (Doyle Purifoy)
*I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he." John 8:24 (NRSV)
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Wed, Aug 29th - 6:25AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! When I Die
An elderly man, 82, just returned from the doctors only to find he didn't have long to live. So he summoned the three most important people in his life to tell them of his fate:
1. His Doctor
2. His Priest
3. His Lawyer.
He said, "Well, today I found out I don't have long to live. So, I have summoned you three here, because you are the most important people in my life, and I need to ask a favor. Today, I am going to give each of you an envelope with $50,000 dollars inside. When I die, I would ask that all three of you throw the money into my grave." After the man passed on, the three people happened to run into each other. The doctor said, "I have to admit I kept $10,000 dollars of his money. He owed me from lots of medical bills. But, I threw the other $40,000 in like he requested. "The Priest said, "I have to admit also, I kept $25,000 dollars for the church. It’s all going to a good cause. I did, however, throw the other $25,000 in the grave." Well the Lawyer just couldn't believe what he was hearing! "I am surprised at you two for taking advantage of him like that. I wrote a check for the full amount and threw it all in!!!"
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Wed, Aug 29th - 6:14AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
The man or woman who puts God’s Kingdom first has a guaranteed income.* (Doyle Purifoy
*I can do all things through him who strengthens me.Philippians 4:13 (NRSV)
But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:33 (NRSV)
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Tue, Aug 28th - 7:54AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! 'DAH'
A father and son went deep-sea fishing. Out at sea, the father sees his son drilling a hole in the boat, when asked what he was doing, the son replied, "there's water coming into the boat, so I made a another hole for it to escape."
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Tue, Aug 28th - 7:44AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.*
*"Send out your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will get it back." Ecclesiastes 11:1 (NRSV)
"give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.” Luke 6:38 (NRSV)
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Mon, Aug 27th - 8:52AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man is without conflict of interest. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man is unselfish.*
*Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10 (NRSV)
....The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5:16 (KJV)
Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Philippians 2:4 (NRSV)
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Mon, Aug 27th - 8:47AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! DUMB DOG
A man went to visit a friend and was amazed to find him playing chess with his dog. He watched the game in astonishment for a while. "I can hardly believe my eyes!" he exclaimed. "That's the smartest dog I've ever seen."
"Nah, he's not so smart," the friend replied. "I've beaten him three games out of five."
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Sun, Aug 26th - 7:49AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
Chris had just turned 16 had long hair, and look like Joe Dirt. He went to his dad and asked: "Dad it is my 16th birthday! I would like you to buy me a car for my birthday.” So his dad replied, "Son, I will buy you any car that you want as long as you raise your grades AND cut your hair." Chris said ok. The next week, Chris brought home a report card he had raised all his grades from c's and d's to all a's. His father was very happy! Now Chris was so excited he told his dad what car he wanted a, convertible mustang (red). His dad said, "Chris you haven't cut your hair." Chris replied, "Well Jesus had long hair." His dad said, "yeah, and Jesus walked everywhere he went!"
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Sun, Aug 26th - 7:39AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
Dying is not as great an accomplishment as living!* (Peter Marshall) It is easier to die for Jesus than to live for Him. (Doyle Purifoy)
*"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." John 10:10 (NRSV)
"and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
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Sat, Aug 25th - 8:30AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
While getting a checkup, a man tells his doctor that he thinks his wife is losing her hearing.
The doctor says, "You should do a simple test. Stand about 15 feet behind your wife and say 'honey?’ Move 3 feet closer and do it again. Keep moving 3 feet closer until she finally responds." Remember how close you were when she gives you an answer. That will help me know how bad her hearing loss is.
About a month later the same guy is at the doctor again and the doctor asks, "Well, did you do that experiment with your wife's hearing?” The man says "yes". "How close did you get before she answered?" "Well, by the time I got about 3 feet away she just turned around and said "For the FIFTH TIME... WHAT???"
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Sat, Aug 25th - 8:23AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is in your own best interests to think of others first."* Doyle Purifoy
*"Do to others as you would have them do to you." Luke 6:31 (NRSV)
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Fri, Aug 24th - 6:54AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
A juggler, driving to his next performance, is stopped by the police.
“What are those knives doing in your car? Asked the officer.
“I use them in my juggling act,” says the juggler.
“Oh yeah?” “Let’s see you do it.” Says the policeman.
So the man starts tossing and juggling the knives.
A guy driving by sees this and says, “Wow, am I glad I stopped drinking. Look at the test they’re making you do now!”
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Fri, Aug 24th - 6:45AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
Follow Martin Luther's advice: "Pray and let God worry."* Quote: Jim Denison Denison Forum 8/23/1
*7Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 (NRSV)
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Thu, Aug 23rd - 8:01AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."* -- Les Brown
"Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is." 1 John 3:2 (NRSV)
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Wed, Aug 22nd - 6:21AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
A mother mouse and a baby mouse were walking along, when all of a sudden, a cat attacked them. The mother mouse goes, "BARK!" and the cat runs away.
"See?" says the mother mouse to her baby. "Now do you see why it's important to learn a foreign language?"
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Wed, Aug 22nd - 6:14AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
... to get, we must give; that to accumulate, we must scatter; that to make ourselves happy, we must make others happy; and that in order to become spiritually vigorous, we must seek the spiritual good of others. In watering others, we are ourselves watered.* Morning and Evening Devotional.
*25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Proverbs 11:25 (KJV)
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Tue, Aug 21st - 7:38AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
Three old timers chatting at restaurant! They sat down at a table while waiting to be served. One of them said;
Hay Jake! Isn’t this your 50th anniversary?
Jake replies! Yep.
Well, the old timer asked, what are you planning on doing?
Jake replies, well! I remember taking my wife to Arizona on our 25th anniversary.
The other old timer asked, Oh ya, so what are your plans for your 50th anniversary?
Jake replies, I’m going back to pick her up!!!!!!!
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Tue, Aug 21st - 7:26AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
THOUGHT FOR TODAY! For insofar as the church is conformed to the world, and the two communities appear to the onlooker to be merely two versions of the same thing, the church is contradicting its true identity. No comment could be more hurtful to the Christian than the words, ‘But you are no different from anybody else’. * John Stott
*2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2 (NRSV)
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Mon, Aug 20th - 8:41AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
A famous lawyer, who had been a public defender for years, dies. He finds himself standing at the back of an enormous queue outside the gates of Heaven. The queue before him is enormous. The number of people who die in a single day appalls him. He can barely see St Peter sitting up on a podium outside the gates with a large book. Every now and then St Peter glances down the queue to see how he is going. Suddenly he catches the eye of the lawyer. He looks very surprised. He jumps down from the podium and comes running along the line until slightly out of breath he arrives beside the lawyer. He embraces him. He pulls him out of the queue and motions for him to come to the front of the queue. Another person questions what is happening and another angel speaks to the person. Word is passed along the queue and the lawyer is surprised, as people start nodding and clapping. He becomes embarrassed by all the attention and asks St Peter why he is getting the special attention.
St Peter stops suddenly and looks concerned.
"You are a lawyer aren't you?' "Yes" the lawyer replies. "Does this happen to all lawyers in heaven?"
"Oh, no, "Said St Peter. "It's just you are the first one to ever get here."
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Mon, Aug 20th - 8:33AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business*. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
*"And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?" Matthew 5:47 (NRSV)
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Sun, Aug 19th - 10:05PM
WHY I AM A DEMOCRAT
WHY I AM A DEMOCRAT
Many of my Christian Brothers wonder and ask me how I could be a Democrat when they have two anti-Christian planks in their platform:
(1) Abortion on demand and
(2) support for gay marriage.
As I said, these planks are anti-Christian and I deplore them.
But I deplore more the immoral planks in the Republican Party. I deplore the recent budget they are proposing because it is immoral. I deplore their commitment to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act known as Obamacare. I deplore their commitment to continue the Bush Tax breaks to the wealthy, who certainly do not need them, and at the same time cut entitlement programs that help the poor which they need. These things are as immoral as abortion and gay marriage.
Doing away with Obamacare and Medicare will kill mature productive people. If I had not had Medicare and my insurance supplement, I would not only be bankrupt, I would be dead. I believe killing productive and mature adults by denying them affordable insurance is is at least as immoral that abortion, if not more so.
I am a Democrat because I believe they are the least of two evils. I believe both parties are evil, but I believe the Republican platform is more evil than the Democrat Platform.
The Republican platform that balances the budget on the back of poor people is anti-Christian. The Prophets of the Old and New Testament denounce the selfishness of the wealthy and the oppression of the poor. Matthew 25 exposes the oppression of the poor and show the immorality of the Republican's budget. The Bible confronts every Evangelical lawmaker with more than 2,000 verses that call us to defend the poor and vulnerable. The anointing words of Jesus' Commission is: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,” Luke 4:18 (NRSV)
Some Christians are so afraid they are going to help someone who does not deserve it. They are so afraid they are going to make people dependent. Jesus had no such fear. He said “so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.” Matthew 5:45 (NRSV) He healed ten lepers, and only one returned to give God the Glory. I would like a Biblical defense of the fear of helping someone who doesn't deserve it. Jesus died for all, and none of us deserve it. Whom did He save that deserved it? Whom did He heal that deserved it? Our fear of helping someone who doesn't deserve it in not like Jesus. It just excuses us from giving to the poor.
I am adding some things I have blogged before and will quote from a Sojourners article that support my conviction. I have already footnoted my comments by the Prophets and the New Testament.
Republican Budget is an Immoral Document note: The following remarks were given on Capitol Hill on Aug. 1st as part of a call from faith leaders across the religious spectrum urging Congress to extend the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit for low- and moderate-income Americans.
“A budget is a moral document.” That phrase was coined by the faith community and has become a refrain in the ongoing debates over deficits and budgets. But in this week’s House vote on extending the Bush-era tax cuts, we see one more example of the priorities and principles of the broader GOP budget and how they apply to the rich and to the poor.
Because of this, we must conclude that the Republican budget is an immoral document — in the way it treats the poor. I certainly don’t believe that all our Republican lawmakers came to Washington to hurt poor people, but it’s time for some of them to challenge the dominant forces in their party and face the consequences of such indefensible choices.
We have a genuine hope for a long-term bipartisan solution and, in particular, a moral non-partisan commitment to protect the poor and vulnerable from being expendable in these fiscal debates. We should also say that Democratic budgets have not been models of fiscal responsibility and social justice either. But what the House budget is calling for is morally objectionable on religious and biblical grounds — and people of faith from all political stripes should say so. In particular, to roll back tax credits for the poor to help fund tax breaks for the rich is morally reprehensible, and the faith community has to speak out.
Here is what the debate reveals from the highest moral lens: the House GOP budget wants to extend tax cuts and credits for the wealthiest people of our society while cutting tax benefits for the poorest — including millions of low-income working families with children at risk. Proven and effective tax credits, which can lift families out of poverty, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC), which have historically had bipartisan support, are now being dramatically reduced. All the while, tax cuts for the wealthy are further expanded and the amount of money the richest can keep from their estate taxes continues to grow. This is an egregious contrast and a starkly immoral budget choice.
To reward the rich even more while actually punishing the poor is a direct offense to all of our religious traditions. For Catholic lawmakers, it is a fundamental violation of Catholic social teaching, and the Catholic bishops have said so.
They called this budget choice “unwise” and “unjust.” Every Catholic lawmaker who votes for those misplaced priorities should be held accountable by their church. But that accountability can’t stop with Catholics.
The Bible confronts every Evangelical lawmaker with more than 2,000 verses that call us to defend the poor and vulnerable. If we say we believe the Bible, we simply can’t support policies that directly reward the rich and punish the poor: Christian lawmakers can’t keep going into their prayer breakfasts and leaving their Bibles at the door.
The Senate Democrats should be thanked for blocking these cuts and protecting tax credits for low-income families last week. But, to be honest, neither party has clearly and publicly stated a fundamental principle that the poor and vulnerable should be protected. In these critically important deficit debates, that principle is crucial and must be central to policy decisions.
Reducing excessive deficits is a moral act, but also how we reduce them is a moral issue. It’s time for both parties to commit themselves to this principle: We will not reduce the deficit in ways that increase poverty and economic inequality. This is the fundamental principle of the Circle of Protection, a broad table of more than 60 church leaders and organizations across the theological and political spectrum committed to protecting the poor and vulnerable in these crucial fiscal decisions. We will continue to press and pressure the leadership of both parties to uphold that principle.
Our nation has achieved bipartisan agreement to that principle in past deficit reduction, and we must do it again. This is a moral and religious imperative that we should hold all lawmakers to. The Circle of Protection will do that on both sides of the aisle.
In all of our decisions, the poor and vulnerable — the ones Jesus called “the least of these” — should be protected, especially by people of faith, regardless of their party affiliations and political philosophies. It’s time to cut through all the political clutter, ideology, and self-interest. The Christian leaders of the Circle of Protection feel called by God in saying this to our political leaders: It’s time to do the right thing and protect the poor.
Jim Wallis is the author of Rediscovering Values: A Guide for Economic and Moral Recovery, and CEO of Sojourners. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis.
I recall reading a book on psychology by Nathanial Branden. In his preface he gave his testimony. He said he was standing in line to be baptized. A young woman was being baptized ahead of him. When she came up out of the water her white robe clove to her body. He lusted after her. He swore off Christianity at that point and became a militant atheist.
Nathaniel Branden was a co-hart with Ayn Rand, also a militant atheist. Christians should be concerned that Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged ranked second only to the Bible in a major poll.search.barnesandnoble.com/My-Years-with-Ayn-Rand. Branden’s and Rand's book promote the psychology of self-esteem promoting selfishness and greed as virtues. A mature Christian will recognize immediately that selfishness and greed are anti-Christian, just the opposite of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Of further concern should be that the political philosophy of the party of demolition is based “…on the philosophy of the Russian-American philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905–1982). Her philosophy is: “…the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” Even a babe in Christ recognizes this as a godless philosophy.
Nations are not born again. Citizens are!
If our founding Fathers intended to establish a Christian Nation, a Theocracy or Christocracy, they wrote a very poor Constitution. If our founding Fathers intended to establish a Christian Nation, a Theocracy or Christocracy surely they could have done better than to write in the Constitution: “... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” This means that a Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Muslim, Atheist, or any other religious status can be a candidate for public office. How clear is this that they had no intention of establishing a Christian Nation?! If our founding Fathers intended to establish a Christian Nation, a Theocracy or Christocracy surely they could have done better than to write in the Bill of Rights: the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” This means Congress cannot make laws favoring one religion over another.
I am a Democrat because Abortion and Homosexuality are not the only immoral things that enter a Party Platform. I choose the be a Democrat because they are the lesser of two evils. My Christian integrity demands I support the lesser of two evils.
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Sun, Aug 19th - 8:24AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
Morty was in his usual place in the morning sitting at the table, reading the paper after breakfast. He came across an article about a beautiful actress that was about to marry a football player who was known primarily for his lack of IQ and common knowledge. He turned to his wife with a look of question on his face. "I'll never understand why the biggest jerks get the most attractive wives."
His wife replied, "Why thank you, dear!"
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Sun, Aug 19th - 8:15AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
There is a hard law…When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.* - Alan Paton
*12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. 14For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; 15but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:12-15 (NRSV)
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Sat, Aug 18th - 8:34AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
"Well," snarled the tough old sergeant to the bewildered private. "I suppose after you get discharged from the Army, you'll just be waiting for me to die so you can come and spit on my grave."
"Not me, Serge!" the private replied. "Once I get out of the Army, I'm never going to stand in line again!"
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Sat, Aug 18th - 8:28AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
THOUGHT FOR TODAY! "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."* JIM DENISON- DENISON FORUM
*10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going. Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NRSV)
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Fri, Aug 17th - 9:29AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
A man was walking down the street when he came across a body lying on the sidewalk. He ran to a phone and called
911.
The operator asked him where he was and the man replied, “I’m on Sycamore Drive.” “How do you spell that?” the operator asked.
“S-i-c-k…” the man began. “No, s-i-c-a…..” no, s-i-k-a…. oh heck, let me drag him over to Lake street and I’ll call you back.
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Fri, Aug 17th - 9:19AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
There are as many mansions in my Father's estate as there are children of God.* (Doyle Purifoy)
*"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." John 14:1-2
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Thu, Aug 16th - 6:41AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
It is easy to do right when you consider the alternative.*
*"The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin." Psalm 146:9 (NRSV)
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Thu, Aug 16th - 6:36AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
The two inventors of the bungee rope went to Spain to test their invention. They built a 50-foot tower and, once completed, one of the guys stood on the edge of the platform and dove into the air with the rope tied to his feet. The other guy, standing up on the platform, waited until his friend returned up so that he could grab him. The first time his friend sprung up, he tried to grab him but missed and noticed that his head was swollen. The next time, he missed again and again there was a bruise on his head and face. This time, with much concern, he dove forward to get his partner, pulled him in and asked, "What happened? Is the cord too long?" His partner replied with his face all bloody, "What is piñata?"
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Wed, Aug 15th - 6:46AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
In the front yard of a funeral home, "Drive carefully, we'll wait."
In a nonsmoking area, "If we see you smoking, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action."
On a maternity room door, "Push, Push, Push."
On a front door, "Everyone on the premises is a vegetarian except the dog."
At an optometrist's office, "If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place."
On a taxidermist's window, "We really know our stuff."
On a butcher's window, "Let me meat your needs."
On a fence, "Salesmen welcome. Dog food is expensive."
At a car dealership, "The best way to get back on your feet -- miss a car payment."
Outside a muffler shop, "No appointment necessary. We'll hear you coming."
On a desk in a reception room, "We shoot every 3rd salesman, and the 2nd one just left."
In a veterinarian's waiting room, "Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!"
In a Beauty Shop, "Dye now!"
On the side of a garbage truck, "We've got what it takes to take what you've got." (Burglars please copy.)
In a restaurant window, "Don't stand there and be hungry, come in and get fed up."
Inside a bowling alley, "Please be quiet. We need to hear a pin drop."
In a cafeteria, "Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria. Socks can eat any place they want."
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Wed, Aug 15th - 6:36AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
CHRISTIANS: "The worst that can happen to you is your entrance to the best that can happen to you. As Justin the Martyr said to the Roman emperor, 'You can kill us, but you cannot hurt us.'"* Jim Denison Forum
*John 11:26 (NRSV)
26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
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Tue, Aug 14th - 9:22AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! HEAD ON COLLISION
Through the pitch-black night, the captain sees a light dead ahead on a collision course with his ship. He sends a signal: “Change your course 10 degree east.”
The light signals back: “Change yours, 10 degrees west.”
Angry, the captain sends: “I’m a navy captain! Change your course, sir!”
“I’m a seaman, second class,” comes the reply. “Change your course, sir.”
Now the captain is furious. “I’m a battleship! I’m not changing course!”
There is one last reply. “I’m a lighthouse. Your call.
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Tue, Aug 14th - 9:11AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
"If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter"* -- Chekov
*"33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies." Romans 8:33 (NRSV)
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Mon, Aug 13th - 8:16AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! Job At the Zoo!
This guy needs a job and decides to apply at the zoo. As it happened, their star attraction, a gorilla, had passed away the night before and they had carefully preserved his hide. They tell this guy that they'll pay him well if he would dress up in the gorillas skin and pretend to be the gorilla so people will keep coming to the zoo. Well, the guy has his doubts, but Hey! He needs the money, so he puts on the skin and goes out into the cage. The people all cheer to see him. He plays up to the audience and they just eat it up. This isn't so bad, he thinks, and he starts really putting on a show, jumping around, beating his chest and roaring, swinging around. During one acrobatic attempt, though, he loses his balance and crashes through some safety netting, landing square in the middle of the lion cage! As he lies there stunned, the lion roars. He's terrified and starts screaming, "Help, Help, Help!" The lion races over to him, places his paws on his chest and hisses, "Shut up or we'll BOTH lose our jobs!"
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Mon, Aug 13th - 8:06AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.* -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
*"Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own." John 7:17 (NRSV)
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Sun, Aug 12th - 7:55AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
"The lure of power can separate the most resolute of Christians from the true nature of Christian leadership, which is service to others. It is difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below."* Chuck Colson
*25But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. 26It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, 27and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; 28just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.” Matt. 20:25-28
12After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. 14So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. 16Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. John 13:12 - 16 (NRSV)
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Sat, Aug 11th - 8:12AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! SUPPORTING A FAMILY
Jake had proposed to young Gina and was being interviewed by his prospective father-in-law.
"Do you think you are earning enough to support a family?"
the older man asked the suitor.
"Yes, sir," replied Jake, "I'm sure I am."
"Think carefully now," said Gina's father.
"There are twelve of us..."
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Sat, Aug 11th - 7:55AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
If you want to be like Jesus, do what Jesus does.* Rick Warren
*12Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14:12 (NRSV)
6whoever says, “I abide in him,” ought to walk just as he walked. 1 John 2:6 (NRSV)
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Fri, Aug 10th - 7:49AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
The enabling grace of God not only forgave me of my sin, but Jesus paid the debt and set me free. The new birth not only results in forgiveness of sins, but Jesus paid the debt and set me free.* 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NRSV)
*17So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!
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Fri, Aug 10th - 7:45AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! TRADING GAS CAPS
I have a friend who filled his car with gas at a self-service gas station.
After he had paid and driven away, he realized that he had left the gas cap on top of his car. He stopped and looked and, sure enough, it was lost.
Well, he thought for a second and realized that other people must have done the same thing, and that it was worth going back to look by the side of the road since even if he couldn't find his own gas cap, he might be able to find one that fit. Sure enough, he hadn't been searching long when he found a gas cap. He tried it on, and it went into place with a satisfying click.
"Great," he thought, "I lost my gas cap, but I found another one that fits.
And this one's even better because it locks..."
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Thu, Aug 9th - 8:53PM
Slaying the Righteous With the Wicked
Slaying the Righteous With the Wicked
Genesis 18:25 (NRSV)
25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
There is going on in our Nation something that is a far thing from what God would do...He would not slay the righteous with the wicked. Before He would bring hell fire and brimstone down on Sodom and Gomorrah, He would deliver the righteous first from the cities.
Before the courts right now is whether or not picture I.D.'s should be required at voting poles to prevent ineligible people from voting. It has been shown in Florida and other places that enforce this rule that citizens have been denied voting. One couple was denied to vote whom the people working the voter's table knew personally. Many elderly and handicapped people are hard pressed to get photo I.D.s. The rule denies innocent people their right to vote. There should be as great an effort to insure citizens can exercise their right to vote as there is to deny the ineligible to vote. In stead of delivering the innocent people from this judgment, many eligible voters are denied their right to vote along with the ineligible voters.
Instead of putting our emphasis of denying illegal aliens from voting there should be equal emphasis on making sure citizens are not denied their right to vote. Our policy of preventing illegal aliens from voting should not in itself be the stumbling block to citizens wanting to vote. Far be it from us to prevent citizens from voting by our policy to prevent illegal aliens from voting.
I am not saying that we should not have a policy that would prevent illegal aliens from voting. But our policy should not be the instrument that denies citizens their right to vote.
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Thu, Aug 9th - 7:42AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
A man was telling his neighbor, "I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me $4,000, but it's state of the art."
"Really?" answered the neighbor. "What kind is it?"
"Twelve-thirty."
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Thu, Aug 9th - 7:33AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.* -Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948)
*"But the aim of such instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith." 1 Timothy 1:5 (NRSV)
"Pray for us; we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things." Hebrews 13:18 (NRSV)
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Wed, Aug 8th - 6:43AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! WHERE'S MOMMY?
My six-year-old son seems to demand my attention just when I am most busy around the house. My standard reply has been, "I'm busy right now. Go ask your mother."
The disappointed look often on his face as I sent him away convinced me to change my priorities. I resolved to give him my immediate attention whenever he asked. My resolve was quickly tested. I had just climbed to the top of our two-storied house, paintbrush and bucket in hand. As I dipped my brush into the paint I heard his little voice call, "Daddy, Daddy."
Determined to keep my new resolution, I immediately laid paintbrush and bucket aside and climbed back down to the ground to see what he wanted. I got down on both knees, looked him straight in the face and asked, "Well, now what can I do for you, son?"
His reply: "Daddy, where's Mommy?"
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Wed, Aug 8th - 6:40AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
The central point of the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.* Oswald Chambers - My Utmost For His Hightest - October 19th.
*Matthew 7:21 - 27 (NRSV) 21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?’ 23Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.’ 24“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. 26And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”
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Tue, Aug 7th - 8:31AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer — you're in the wrong place." So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is becoming a pretty popular guy. One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and asks with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next." God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake — he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan says, "No way! I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him." God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue." Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"
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Tue, Aug 7th - 8:18AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."* -- Melody Beattie
*"give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NRSV)
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Mon, Aug 6th - 8:12AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
A man who was just married was flying to the Florida Keys for a business trip. His new bride was to accompany him the next day. When he got there he E-mailed his wife to let her know he made it there safely. When he sent the E-mail he miss-typed the address. In Boston, a grieving widow, whose husband has recently passed away, receives the E-mail.
She reads it, screams, and faints. Hearing her grandmother’s cry, the widow's 18-year-old granddaughter runs into the living room to see the computer on with a message. It reads:
Dear love, Just got here. Preparing for your arrival tomorrow. Can't wait to see you.
Love, Me.
P.S. Sure is hot down here.
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Mon, Aug 6th - 7:57AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."* -Ralph Waldo Emerson
*"A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Proverbs 18:24
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Sun, Aug 5th - 8:06AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
Seems an elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years.
He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%. The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased you can hear again."
To which the gentleman said, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will five times!"
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Sun, Aug 5th - 7:54AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
"Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain."* -- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun (Shared by Ding G.)
*"I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us." Romans 8:18 (NRSV)
"My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy," James 1:2 (NRSV)
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Sat, Aug 4th - 8:44AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
(CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS POST)When Albert Einstein was making the rounds of the speaker's circuit, he usually found himself eagerly longing to get back to his laboratory work. One night as they were driving to yet another rubber-chicken dinner, Einstein mentioned to his chauffeur (a man who somewhat resembled Einstein in looks & manner) that he was tired of speechmaking.
"I have an idea, boss," his chauffeur said. "I've heard you give this speech so many times. I'll bet I could give it for you." Einstein laughed loudly and said, "Why not? Let's do it!" When they arrive at the dinner, Einstein donned the chauffeur's cap and jacket and sat in the back of the room. The chauffeur gave a beautiful rendition of Einstein's speech and even answered a few questions expertly.
Then a supremely pompous professor asked an extremely esoteric question about anti-matter formation, digressing here and there to let everyone in the audience know that he was nobody's fool. Without missing a beat, the chauffeur fixed the professor with a steely stare and said, "Sir, the answer to that question is so simple that I will let my chauffeur, who is sitting in the back, answer it for me."
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Sat, Aug 4th - 8:36AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
"I have an idea, boss," his chauffeur said. "I've heard you give this speech so many times. I'll bet I could give it for you." Einstein laughed loudly and said, "Why not? Let's do it!" When they arrive at the dinner, Einstein donned the chauffeur's cap and jacket and sat in the back of the room. The chauffeur gave a beautiful rendition of Einstein's speech and even answered a few questions expertly.
Then a supremely pompous professor asked an extremely esoteric question about anti-matter formation, digressing here and there to let everyone in the audience know that he was nobody's fool. Without missing a beat, the chauffeur fixed the professor with a steely stare and said, "Sir, the answer to that question is so simple that I will let my chauffeur, who is sitting in the back, answer it for me."
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Sat, Aug 4th - 8:13AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
"You can no more separate yourself from your influence than you can separate yourself from your shadow as you walk in the noonday sun."* (George Truett)
*A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. Proverbs 22:1 (NRSV)
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Fri, Aug 3rd - 3:15PM
WHY I AM A DEMOCRAT
Many of my Christian Brothers wonder and ask me how I could be a Democrat when they have two anti-Christian planks in their platform:
(1) Abortion on demand and
(2) support for gay marriage.
As I said, these planks are anti-Christian and I deplore them.
But I deplore more the immoral planks in the Republican Party. I deplore the recent budget they are proposing because it is immoral. I deplore their commitment to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act known as Obamacare. I deplore their commitment to continue the Bush Tax breaks to the wealthy who certainly do not need them and at the same time cut entitlement programs that help the poor which they need. These things are as immoral as abortion and gay marriage.
Doing away with Obamacare and Medicare will kill mature productive people. If I had not had Medicare and my insurance supplement, I would not only be bankrupt, I would be dead. I believe killing productive and mature adults by denying them affordable insurance is is at least as immoral that abortion, if not more so.
I am a Democrat because I believe they are the least of two evils. I believe both parties are evil, but I believe the Republican platform is more evil that the Democrat Platform.
The Republican platform that balances the budget on the back of poor people is anti-Christian. The Prophets of the Old and New Testament denounce the selfishness of the wealthy and the oppression of the poor. Matthew 25 exposes the oppression of the poor and show the immorality of the Republican's budget. The Bible confronts every Evangelical lawmaker with more than 2,000 verses that call us to defend the poor and vulnerable. The anointing words of Jesus' Commission is: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,” Luke 4:18 (NRSV)
Some Christians are so afraid they are going to help someone who does not deserve it. They are so afraid they are going to make people dependent. Jesus had no such fear. He said “so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.” Matthew 5:45 (NRSV) He healed ten lepers and only one returned to give God the Glory. I would like a Biblical defense of the fear of helping someone who doesn't deserve. Jesus died for all and none of us deserve it. Whom did He save that deserved it? Whom did He heal that deserved it? Our fear of helping someone who doesn't deserve it in not like Jesus. It just excuses us from giving to the poor.
I am adding some things I have blogged before and will quote from a Sojourners article that support my conviction. I have already footnoted my comments by the Prophets and the New Testament.
Republican Budget is an Immoral Document Note: The following remarks were given on Capitol Hill on Aug.1st as part of a call from faith leaders across the religious spectrum urging Congress to extend the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit for low- and moderate-income Americans.
A budget is a moral document. That phrase was coined by the faith community and has become a refrain in the ongoing debates over deficits and budgets. But in this week’s House vote on extending the Bush-era tax cuts, we see one more example of the priorities and principles of the broader GOP budget and how they apply to the rich and to the poor.
Because of this, we must conclude that the Republican budget is an immoral document — in the way it treats the poor. I certainly don’t believe that all our Republican lawmakers came to Washington to hurt poor people, but it’s time for some of them to challenge the dominant forces in their party and face the consequences of such indefensible choices.
We have a genuine hope for a long term bipartisan solution and, in particular, a moral non-partisan commitment to protect the poor and vulnerable from being expendable in these fiscal debates. We should also say that Democratic budgets have not been models of fiscal responsibility and social justice either. But what the House budget is calling for is morally objectionable on religious and biblical grounds — and people of faith from all political stripes should say so. In particular, to roll back tax credits for the poor to help fund tax breaks for the rich is morally reprehensible, and the faith community has to speak out.
Here is what the debate reveals from the highest moral lens: the House GOP budget wants to extend tax cuts and credits for the wealthiest people of our society while cutting tax benefits for the poorest — including millions of low-income working families with children at risk. Proven and effective tax credits, which can lift families out of poverty, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC), which have historically had bipartisan support, are now being dramatically reduced. All the while, tax cuts for the wealthy are further expanded and the amount of money the richest can keep from their estate taxes continues to grow. This is an egregious contrast and a starkly immoral budget choice.
To reward the rich even more while actually punishing the poor is a direct offense to all of our religious traditions. For Catholic lawmakers, it is a fundamental violation of Catholic social teaching, and the Catholic bishops have said so.
They called this budget choice “unwise” and “unjust.” Every Catholic lawmaker who votes for those misplaced priorities should be held accountable by their church. But that accountability can’t stop with Catholics.
The Bible confronts every Evangelical lawmaker with more than 2,000 verses that call us to defend the poor and vulnerable. If we say we believe the Bible, we simply can’t support policies that directly reward the rich and punish the poor: Christian lawmakers can’t keep going into their prayer breakfasts and leaving their Bibles at the door.
The Senate Democrats should be thanked for blocking these cuts and protecting tax credits for low-income families last week. But, to be honest, neither party has clearly and publicly stated a fundamental principle that the poor and vulnerable should be protected. In these critically important deficit debates, that principle is crucial and must be central to policy decisions.
Reducing excessive deficits is a moral act, but also how we reduce them is a moral issue. It’s time for both parties to commit themselves to this principle: We will not reduce the deficit in ways that increase poverty and economic inequality. This is the fundamental principle of the Circle of Protection, a broad table of more than 60 church leaders and organizations across the theological and political spectrum committed to protecting the poor and vulnerable in these crucial fiscal decisions. We will continue to press and pressure the leadership of both parties to uphold that principle.
Our nation has achieved bipartisan agreement to that principle in past deficit reduction, and we must do it again. This is a moral and religious imperative that we should hold all lawmakers to. And the Circle of Protection will do that on both sides of the aisle.
In all of our decisions, the poor and vulnerable — the ones Jesus called “the least of these” — should be protected, especially by people of faith, regardless of their party affiliations and political philosophies. It’s time to cut through all the political clutter, ideology, and self-interest. The Christian leaders of the Circle of Protection feel called by God in saying this to our political leaders: It’s time to do the right thing and protect the poor.
Jim Wallis is the author of Rediscovering Values: A Guide for Economic and Moral Recovery, and CEO of Sojourners.Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis.
I recall reading a book on psychology by Nathanial Branden. In his preface he gave his testimony. He said he was standing in line to be baptized. A young woman was being baptized ahead of him. When she came up out of the water her white robe clove to her body. He lusted after her. He swore off Christianity at that point and became a militant atheist.
Nathaniel Branden was a co-hart with Ayn Rand, also a militant atheist. Christians should be concerned that Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged ranked second only to the Bible in a major poll.search.barnesandnoble.com/My-Years-with-Ayn-Rand. Branden’s and Rand's book promote the psychology of self-esteem promoting selfishness and greed as virtues. A mature Christian will recognize immediately that selfishness and greed are anti-Christian, just the opposite of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Of further concern should be that the political philosophy of the party of demolition is based “…on the philosophy of the Russian-American philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905–1982). Her philosophy is: “…the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” Even a babe in Christ recognizes this as a godless philosophy.
Nations are not born again. Citizens are!
If our founding Fathers intended to establish a Christian Nation, a Theocracy or Christocracy they wrote a very poor Constitution. If our founding Fathers intended to establish a Christian Nation, a Theocracy or Christocracy surely they could have done better than to write in the Constitution: “... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” This means that a Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Muslim, Atheist, or any other religious status can be a candidate for public office. How clear is this that they had no intention of establishing a Christian Nation?! If our founding Fathers intended to establish a Christian Nation, a Theocracy or Christocracy surely they could have done better than to write in the Bill of Rights: the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” This means Congress cannot make laws favoring one religion over another.
I am a Democrat because Abortion and Homosexuality are not the only immoral things that enter a Party Platform. I choose the be a Democrat because they are the lessor of two evils. My Christian integrity demands I support the lessor of two evils.
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Fri, Aug 3rd - 8:46AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! DEFINITION:
Profit: Archaic word no longer in use!
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Fri, Aug 3rd - 8:27AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
The ambiguity of culture Culture is ambiguous because man is ambiguous. Man is both noble (because made in God's image) and ignoble (because fallen and sinful). And his culture faithfully reflects these two aspects.* John Stott
* 26 Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
27 So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:26-27 (NRSV)
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. Romans 7:21 (NRSV)
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Thu, Aug 2nd - 8:06AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE! Obesity Test
If when you step out of the shower, your legs are still dry, you are obese!
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Thu, Aug 2nd - 8:04AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
Those predisposed to do His will understand what it is, and by the grace of God will do it.* Neil Anderson
*17Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. John 7:17 (NRSV)
6I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6 (NRSV)
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Wed, Aug 1st - 7:00AM
LAUGHTER DOES GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE!
A guy is passing a Mental Hospital surrounded by a wall and he hears the chanting inside, Thirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!
Curious to see what’s going on he finds a small hole in the wall, so he bends and peeks inside. Someone inside pokes him hard in the eye and everyone starts inside chanting, Fourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!
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Wed, Aug 1st - 6:52AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY!
"Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words."* St. Francis of Assisi
*19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19 - 20 (NRSV)
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