Monday, October 31, 2016

No S - - - - !!!!!!!!!!!!


No S - - - !!!!!!!!!!!!

A truckload of manure was dumped Saturday morning outside the Warren County Democratic Party headquarters in Ohio. The Clinton campaign probably sees this as a metaphor for the FBI's announcement on Friday that it is reviewing more emails that may be linked to their candidate. Last night, federal investigators obtained a warrant to begin searching a large cache of emails belonging to Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide.

A columnist for The Daily Beast is claiming today that Republicans have "weaponized" the FBI against Mrs. Clinton. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is accusing FBI Director James Comey of breaking federal law by disclosing the new email investigation.

Doesn't it seem fitting that Halloween comes a week before the election?

Rather than comment on partisan politics, I'd like to turn in a different direction this morning.

Consider this Halloween-appropriate item in the news: Families in Puerto Rico are arranging for the bodies of their deceased loved ones to be displayed at the pre-burial wake in real-life poses. One man was embalmed in a standing position with boxing gloves on his hands. Another was embalmed sitting at his mother's bar and playing dominoes.

Meanwhile, a man in China arranged his own funeral to see who would attend the ceremony. A man in Serbia did the same thing. Like them, you can attend your own funeral if you wish. The New York Times tells us about a South Korean program in which participants sit beside caskets, write their last testaments, don burial shrouds, then lie down in coffins. A grim-looking man dressed in a black robe hammers the lids closed. The participants lie encased in total darkness for ten minutes before they are released back to life.

Some fifteen thousand people have gone through the free program in the last four years. At the end of the session, the director tells the participants, "Now, you have shed your old self. You are reborn to have a fresh start!"

This contentious and calamitous electoral season will end a week from tomorrow. Whether our nation will have a fresh start or not is less certain. Religious liberty, the Supreme Court, abortion, and the institution of marriage could all be affected by the outcome of the race.

But no matter how worried you are for our nation, know this: we serve the omnipotent King of the universe. Christians are children of the God of eternity. No election threatens our Father's throne. No ruler supersedes his sovereignty.

That's why we are commanded to "fear God" and "honor the emperor" (1 Peter 2:17), not the reverse. We are to honor the position and authority of earthly authorities (Romans 13:1, 6–7), but we are to fear only God (Matthew 10:28). The Bible commends and encourages such reverence more than 120 times.

It may seem that Halloween and next week's election are related, but Christians should fear the latter no more than the former. Across this anxious week, your triumphant faith may be your strongest witness.

Ronald Reagan was right: "We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

Weiner / Abedin

An Aspect of the Weiner / Abedin Relationship

Anthony Weiner is, as evidenced by his vile behavior, low-life scum who happens, perhaps because of NY voters' inability to assess candidates before electing them, to be a representative of the people of New York. He is also Jewish.

Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's right hand woman is the daughter of high-placed muslim parents.

Muslim law requires any woman married to a Jew to be executed.

The fact that the daughter of such staunch muslims has been married to and borne a child to a Jewish man without being in any way chastised by, let alone killed by her outraged parents bears scrutiny.

Perhaps Mr. Weiner has been seen as a convenient dolt in the muslim scheme to undermine AMERICA because his proximity to state secrets, accompanied with his perversion and indiscretion would lead to effectively disseminating secret information.

How many foreign entities, posing as young teens, have been privy to the secrets on Mr. Weiner's server, placed there by Huma Abedin because of her affinity to islam and its goal of a "ONE WORLD ISLAMIC CALIPHATE?

Will we ever know how badly our safety has been compromised?

How will we find out? Perhaps when under attack.

This begs another question:

Is Hillary Clinton a simple-minded dolt herself who could not recognize the danger her trust of Huma Abedin posed to our nation, or has she been paid to betray state secrets as she has been paid to perform so many other treasonous acts against the UNITED STATES? 

Governmental Crime Boss

Governmental Crime Boss by Bill Wilson

Americans must suspend their disbelief as the FBI has reopened its criminal investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a most bizarre turn of events just days before the presidential election.

Her pay for play influence bribery scheme, acceptance of millions of dollars from terrorist sponsoring Islamic states such as Saudi Arabia, and a host of other self-enriching scandals appear to expose Hillary Clinton as a governmental organized crime boss.

Clinton's careless and seemingly criminal administration of America's most sensitive secrets, however, may be the final link that would make even the staunchest of Democrats finally believe that where there is smoke, there is hellfire.
 
The daisy chain of events emanate from Clinton's longstanding aide, Huma Abedin, whose ties to the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic terrorist organization and Clinton's rumored lesbian lover, failed to negatively impact the presidential campaign.

Until now.

Abedin's estranged husband Anthony Weiner is under FBI investigation for alleged sex texting a 15 year old girl where more Clinton emails were recovered. There allegedly were emails from unsecured servers from Clinton, Clinton's Chief of Staff at the State Department and Abedin that are suspected of containing classified information, a criminal offense.

FBI Director James Comey wrote Congress Friday to "supplement" his previous testimony about Clinton's case.
Comey wrote:

"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.

Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony."
 
Clinton has been blaming Russia for hacking emails to influence the election. But no state enemy would have to work very hard to hack emails from the way Clinton protects national secrets on private email servers and using unsecure email accounts.

To date, Clinton's criminal actions have been protected by the political machine that is using every legal and political measure to remain in power. This is governmental organized crime, and Clinton is the boss.

Clinton will never give up this con. She will deny, deny, deny and shift blame to the FBI, the Republicans and anyone else she can. The news media will help her.

As Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, "Take heed that no man deceive you."

Suspend your disbelief.

This is Clinton's America and we'll have a lot more governmental organized crime if she is elected. 
 
 

Prayer Initiative



Prayer Initiative
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:14,16

His life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:4-5

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. Proverbs 29:18

I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. Isaiah 43:19

Thank you, Lord, that in You America can once again become a "City on a Hill" - Your beacon to the world.

We petition You, Lord, to lead us according to Your plan, in Your timing, with the power of Your Holy Spirit. We know You are infinitely bigger and brighter than the darkness before us.

We ask that You remind us to keep our eyes and minds focused on what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and worthy of praise. Help us to elevate conversations and relationships to those higher things. May You be the prompter and completer of any daunting tasks before us. In You only may we find our voice to speak, our strength to move.

We pray for a vision of victory over the assaults on America's faith in You and Your will, Your ways, and Your provision for our needs. Teach us, Lord how to best fight efforts to separate this country, culture and people from You. Give us revelation power to lead our country back to You.

God in heaven, we pray that America may once again become a great beacon of Your standards.
As the world sees Your ways and Your love demonstrated in this great country, may all people be drawn to Your Son.

We pray for a compellingly attractive vision for the future of America based on the real America, founded and grounded on eternal truths. Bring us back, O Lord, to our First Love.

~~~

“We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshipped.” President Calvin Coolidge



"Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins immaculate blood of the lamb and purge my heart by the Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of thy son, Jesus Christ." President George Washington's daily prayer   

Today in History

Today in History
1517
Martin Luther posts 95 theses

On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approached the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nailed a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.

In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking payment—called “indulgences”—for the forgiveness of sins.

At the time, a Dominican priest named Johann Tetzel, commissioned by the Archbishop of Mainz and Pope Leo X, was in the midst of a major fundraising campaign in Germany to finance the renovation of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

Though Prince Frederick III the Wise had banned the sale of indulgences in Wittenberg, many church members traveled to purchase them. When they returned, they showed the pardons they had bought to Luther, claiming they no longer had to repent for their sins.

Luther’s frustration with this practice led him to write the 95 Theses, which were quickly snapped up, translated from Latin into German and distributed widely. A copy made its way to Rome, and efforts began to convince Luther to change his tune. He refused to keep silent, however, and in 1521 Pope Leo X formally excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church.

That same year, Luther again refused to recant his writings before the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany, who issued the famous Edict of Worms declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and giving permission for anyone to kill him without consequence. Protected by Prince Frederick, Luther began working on a German translation of the Bible, a task that took 10 years to complete.

The term “Protestant” first appeared in 1529, when Charles V revoked a provision that allowed the ruler of each German state to choose whether they would enforce the Edict of Worms.

A number of princes and other supporters of Luther issued a protest, declaring that their allegiance to God trumped their allegiance to the emperor. They became known to their opponents as Protestants; gradually this name came to apply to all who believed the Church should be reformed, even those outside Germany.

By the time Luther died, of natural causes, in 1546, his revolutionary beliefs had formed the basis for the Protestant Reformation, which would over the next three centuries revolutionize Western civilization.
 

Halloween

Today is Halloween.

Your children will go "trick or treating" this evening, and they will have a lot of fun "frightening" and collecting candy from your neighbors.

Please accompany them and their friends as they go about their delightful task of receiving treats from those who live around them.

 Be mindful of their inability to see clearly because of the masks they'll be wearing.

Crossing streets and tripping on costumes can be a hazard so guard them as they walk around your neighborhood.

Also check their candy and other goodies carefully to be sure it has not been tampered with.

Your precious ones will have a wonderful time if you guard them as they enjoy their Halloween activity.

Again Today

Again Today

I plan to post this every day until the election:

In 1983 Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offered the United States this prophetic warning:
"All attempts to find a way out of the plight of today's world are fruitless unless we redirect our consciousness in repentance to the creator of all; without this no exit will be illumined and we shall seek it in vain...

We cannot escape the consequences of our apostasy without paying a terrible price; the resources we have set aside for ourselves are too impoverished for the task.

We must first recognize the horror perpetrated - not by some outside force, not by class or national enemies, but within each of us individually...

We have surely brought everything upon ourselves of our own free will. We ourselves in our daily unthinking selfishness are pulling tight that noose.

How tragic it would be if the freest nation on earth were to sell it's birthright for the pottage of state socialism; how ironic if once again God's gift of free will were to become the agent of our own self-destruction."


Again Today

Again Today

I plan to post this every day until the election:

In 1983 Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offered the United States this prophetic warning:
"All attempts to find a way out of the plight of today's world are fruitless unless we redirect our consciousness in repentance to the creator of all; without this no exit will be illumined and we shall seek it in vain...

We cannot escape the consequences of our apostasy without paying a terrible price; the resources we have set aside for ourselves are too impoverished for the task.

We must first recognize the horror perpetrated - not by some outside force, not by class or national enemies, but within each of us individually...

We have surely brought everything upon ourselves of our own free will. We ourselves in our daily unthinking selfishness are pulling tight that noose.

How tragic it would be if the freest nation on earth were to sell it's birthright for the pottage of state socialism; how ironic if once again God's gift of free will were to become the agent of our own self-destruction."

An Endorsement for TRUMP


"PEOPLE LIKE DONALD TRUMP SHOULD RUN FOR OFFICE; THEY ARE HONEST AND CAN'T BE BOUGHT." Hillary Clinton, 2013

Salvation


Thank YOU, JESUS, for the "unspeakable gift," II Corinthians 9:15 that YOU have extended to all mankind, to every person who will receive it.

May each of us recognize our great need for the salvation YOU have purchased for us at the great price of YOUR OWN SINLESS LIFE, and may we be eternally redeemed by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB.

And may even those in the escalations of power recognize their utter helplessness in an ultimate sense. May they come before YOU with humility as they recognize their need, and may their lives be turned from destruction and eternal death to wholeness and eternal life.

May these, the nation's powerful leaders, align their positions to YOURS in order that TRUTH and RIGHTEOUSNESS may reign in every heart and every home in the land--from the president in the White House to the most humble citizen in his house.

When YOU are lifted up and glorified, JESUS, our nation will be restored.


"Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, but a gift for the guilty."

Beware the Useful Idiots

The progressives are doing an excellent job of implementing the directives of Saul Alinsky. Reducing AMERICA to a third world country is their ultimate goal and they are rapidly moving toward achieving it.

Donald Trump is hated by the progressives because he stands between them and the attainment of a depressed AMERICA and a dumb-downed, suppressed AMERICAN populace.

Hillary Clinton fully supports the Saul Alinsky plan for this country. If she is elected, be prepared to see more of your 'rights' wrenched away from you and your opportunity for prosperity diminished further.

If you are a person of faith in CHRIST, this quote by Hillary's vice- presidential candidate Tim Kaine should send chills down your spine:

"The future President of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton, will state an ultimatum to the Catholic Church. And that ultimatum will be to either change its stance on same-sex marriage or pack its bags and get out of America. And yes – the President of the country can do that.”

Religious liberty, the right to bear arms, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly--all of which and more are assured in our CONSTITUTION--will be vague memories to AMERICANS if the vile criminal, Hillary Clinton, is elected to the highest office of the land.

Are YOU a "useful idiot," a citizen who will vote away his freedom, who will surrender his power as a free man to the progressives whose aim is to neutralize him by devastating his nation?

The REAL REASON


The REAL REASON COMEY’s FBI RE-OPENED HILLARY’s CASE

ELDER PATRIOT – FBI Director James Comey had a come to Jesus moment as he watched the polls beginning to favor Donald Trump. Comey had figured everything would pass after Hillary Clinton was elected president. That all changed when Wikileaks did the work he refused to let his crack staff of cyber experts do and voters began breaking for Donald Trump in a major way.

There is more than enough evidence to not only bring a case against Hillary Clinton for major violations of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) of 1971 (codified in the U.S. penal code at sections 1961 et seq.).

Andrew McCarthy of National Review spelled out the case against Mrs. Clinton most convincingly this morning:

Hillary and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, operated the Clinton Foundation. Ostensibly a charity, the foundation was a de facto fraud scheme to monetize Hillary’s power as secretary of state (among other aspects of the Clintons’ political influence).

The scheme involved:
(a) the exchange of political favors, access, and influence for millions of dollars in donations

(b) the circumvention of campaign-finance laws that prohibit political donations by foreign sources

(c) a vehicle for Mrs. Clinton to shield her State Department e-mail communications from public and congressional scrutiny while she and her husband exploited the fundraising potential of her position

(d) a means for Clinton insiders to receive private-sector
compensation and explore lucrative employment opportunities while drawing taxpayer-funded government salaries.


Under RICO, an “enterprise” can be any association of people, informal or formal, illegitimate or legitimate — it could be a Mafia family, an ostensibly charitable foundation, or a department of government. It is a racketeering enterprise if its affairs are conducted through “a pattern of racketeering activity.”

A “pattern” means merely two or more violations of federal or state law; these violations constitute “racketeering activity” if they are included among the extensive list of felonies laid out in the statute. Significantly for present purposes, the listed felonies include bribery, fraud, and obstruction of justice.

Fraud encompasses both schemes to raise money on misleading pretexts (e.g., a charitable foundation that camouflages illegal political payoffs) and schemes to deprive Americans of their right to the honest services of a public official (e.g., quid pro quo arrangements in which official acts are performed in exchange for money).

Both fraud and obstruction can be proved by false statements — whether they are public proclamations (e.g., “I turned over all work-related e-mails to the State Department”) or lies to government officials (e.g., concealing “charitable” donations from foreign sources after promising to disclose them, or claiming not to know that the “(C)” symbol in a government document means it is classified at the confidential level).

The WikiLeaks disclosures of e-mails hacked from Clinton presidential-campaign chairman John Podesta provide mounting confirmation that the Clinton Foundation was orchestrated for the purpose of enriching the Clintons personally and leveraging then-Secretary Clinton’s power to enrich herself.

Hillary and her underlings pulled this off by making access to her contingent on Clinton Foundation ties; by having top staff service Clinton Foundation donors and work on Clinton Foundation business; by systematically conducting her e-mail communications outside the government server system; by making false statements to the public, the White House, Congress, the courts, and the FBI; and by destroying thousands of e-mails — despite congressional inquiries and Freedom of Information Act demands — in order to cover up (among other things) the shocking interplay between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

Under federal law, that can amount to running an enterprise by a pattern of fraud, bribery, and obstruction. If so, it is a major crime.

Like the major crimes involving the mishandling of classified information and destruction of government files, it cries out for a thorough and credible criminal investigation. More important, wholly apart from whether there is sufficient evidence for criminal convictions, there is overwhelming evidence of a major breach of trust that renders Mrs. Clinton unfit for any public office, let alone the nation’s highest public office.

All of this left Comey complicit in the scheme by having violated the public trust for refusing to push the investigation to its conclusion. Comey was aware of his liability in this regard but late last week when the potential for Donald Trump becoming president became likely, one of the agents he was closest to sat him down and laid his cards on the table.

The trusted agent told the director that there are at least 100 agents who were convinced Mrs. Clinton was unfit for high office and that she should be stripped of her security clearance. He also told him that these agents would be willing to work with a Trump administration to implicate Comey in the Clintons’ RICO scheme if he didn’t do the right thing before the election.

That’s when they came up with the Weiner – Abedin – Clinton angle to justify reopening the investigation.

Finally, game on!
 

Words to Ponder



"I act and no one can reverse it." Isaiah 43:13

Quotes of Presidents
“To anyone who truly loves America, nothing could be more inspiring than...this re-dedication of our youth, on each school morning, to our country's true meaning by pledging to our flag."  Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We are truthfully one nation under God and our institutions presuppose a Divine Being.”  Justice William O. Douglass

God As an Enemy

October 31
God As an Enemy by R. T. Kendall

“Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.” James 4:4

I have never had an enemy in the non-Christian world. Yet that fact doesn't cheer me up. All my enemies have been Christians. Sadly, Christians are not exempt from jealousy and ambition.

I sometimes wonder how many theological controversies—past and present—are, in reality, theological issues. The untold story in so many famous accounts is that there was often a spirit of rivalry that was masked as being a theological issue. The truth will come out in the courtroom of God.

I know that God has enemies. His enemy is the devil; the enemy of Jesus Christ is Satan. The enemy of the Holy Spirit is the devil, the enemy of the truth is the devil, the enemy of the church is the devil, and God's enemies are those who are against the truth.

God may choose to get our attention and increase our anointing by the rival spirit of an enemy. Now a rivalry can be a friendly rivalry, but sometimes it can lead to hostility.

A rival is a person who competes with you. And yet a friendly rivalry can be healthy: "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another" (Proverbs 27:17). Every rival in our lives may be seen as a thorn in the flesh to get us to pray harder.

There can be a strategic rivalry. Saul became jealous of David, and David became the enemy of Saul for the rest of his life. David's hero became his enemy, but it was God's way of refining David's anointing—the best thing that could have happened to him. God uses an enemy to refine us. That is why it is strategic.

Be sure that you are in Christ. Be sure that you are covered by the blood of Jesus. Be sure that all your sins are under His blood, because you surely don't want God as an enemy.

“Be sure then, that you know that your sins are forgiven and that you are walking in the light.” (1 John 1:7).

Excerpted from The Thorn in the Flesh (Charisma House, 2004).
 
 

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Today in History

Today in History
(If you think you're afraid, wait until you read this!)
1938
Welles Scares the Nation

Orson Welles caused a nationwide panic with his broadcast of “War of the Worlds”—a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth.

Orson Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells’ 19th-century science fiction novel War of the Worlds for national radio. Despite his age, Welles had been in radio for several years, most notably as the voice of “The Shadow” in the hit mystery program of the same name. “War of the Worlds” was not planned as a radio hoax, and Welles had little idea of the havoc it would cause.

The show began on Sunday, October 30, at 8 p.m. A voice announced: “The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air in ‘War of the Worlds’ by H.G. Wells.”

Sunday evening in 1938 was prime-time in the golden age of radio, and millions of Americans had their radios turned on. But most of these Americans were listening to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy “Charlie McCarthy” on NBC and only turned to CBS at 8:12 p.m. after the comedy sketch ended and a little-known singer went on. By then, the story of the Martian invasion was well underway.

Welles introduced his radio play with a spoken introduction, followed by an announcer reading a weather report. Then, seemingly abandoning the storyline, the announcer took listeners to “the Meridian Room in the Hotel Park Plaza in downtown New York, where you will be entertained by the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra.”

Putrid dance music played for some time, and then the scare began. An announcer broke in to report that “Professor Farrell of the Mount Jenning Observatory” had detected explosions on the planet Mars. Then the dance music came back on, followed by another interruption in which listeners were informed that a large meteor had crashed into a farmer’s field in Grovers Mills, New Jersey.

Soon, an announcer was at the crash site describing a Martian emerging from a large metallic cylinder. “Good heavens,” he declared, “something’s wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now here’s another and another one and another one. They look like tentacles to me … I can see the thing’s body now. It’s large, large as a bear. It glistens like wet leather. But that face, it… it … ladies and gentlemen, it’s indescribable. I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it, it’s so awful. The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is kind of V-shaped with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate.”

The Martians mounted walking war machines and fired “heat-ray” weapons at the puny humans gathered around the crash site. They annihilated a force of 7,000 National Guardsman, and after being attacked by artillery and bombers the Martians released a poisonous gas into the air. Soon “Martian cylinders” landed in Chicago and St. Louis. The radio play was extremely realistic, with Welles employing sophisticated sound effects and his actors doing an excellent job portraying terrified announcers and other characters. An announcer reported that widespread panic had broken out in the vicinity of the landing sites, with thousands desperately trying to flee. In fact, that was not far from the truth.

Perhaps as many as a million radio listeners believed that a real Martian invasion was underway. Panic broke out across the country. In New Jersey, terrified civilians jammed highways seeking to escape the alien marauders. People begged police for gas masks to save them from the toxic gas and asked electric companies to turn off the power so that the Martians wouldn’t see their lights. One woman ran into an Indianapolis church where evening services were being held and yelled, “New York has been destroyed! It’s the end of the world! Go home and prepare to die!”

When news of the real-life panic leaked into the CBS studio, Welles went on the air as himself to remind listeners that it was just fiction. There were rumors that the show caused suicides, but none were ever confirmed.

The Federal Communications Commission investigated the program but found no law was broken. Networks did agree to be more cautious in their programming in the future. Orson Welles feared that the controversy generated by “War of the Worlds” would ruin his career. In fact, the publicity helped land him a contract with a Hollywood studio, and in 1941 he directed, wrote, produced, and starred in Citizen Kane—a movie that many have called the greatest American film ever made.

Again Today

Again Today
I plan to post this every day until the election:

In 1983 Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offered the United States this prophetic warning:

"All attempts to find a way out of the plight of today's world are fruitless unless we redirect our consciousness in repentance to the creator of all; without this no exit will be illumined and we shall seek it in vain...

We cannot escape the consequences of our apostasy without paying a terrible price; the resources we have set aside for ourselves are too impoverished for the task.

We must first recognize the horror perpetrated - not by some outside force, not by class or national enemies, but within each of us individually...

We have surely brought everything upon ourselves of our own free will. We ourselves in our daily unthinking selfishness are pulling tight that noose.

How tragic it would be if the freest nation on earth were to sell it's birthright for the pottage of state socialism; how ironic if once again God's gift of free will were to become the agent of our own self-destruction."
 
 

Prayer Initiative

Prayer Initiative

Upright citizens are good for a city and make it prosper, but the talk of the wicked tears it apart. Proverbs 11:11

...I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds Hebrews 10:16

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. Proverbs 25:26

We will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Ephesians 4:14

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting... James 1:5-6

Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Romans 13:7

Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." Mark 12:17


Teach us, Lord, to value our role as citizens. Awaken in the electorate a desire to know the true principles upon which this country was built, and draw us to Your vision for the restoration of our beloved country.

Let us never take for granted the free land You have given us. Please show us, Lord, how to do our part to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and those to come.

We ask for leaders and a citizenry who truly understand our accountability before You for every vote we cast, or do not cast. Help us to wisely evaluate every candidate and policy against your Word. We ask for the wisdom to vote as You would have us vote.

We ask You to grant our citizens the wisdom to discern truth from spin and deception. Give us radar to know when a candidate or policy is counterfeit to the true founding principles and Constitutional roots of this land, borne out of faith in You and Your word.

Move our leaders and our citizens to rightly divide the responsibilities of government vs. the responsibilities of citizens as defined by You.

God Almighty, we plead with you to guide, guard, convict and correct all candidates, campaigns, consultants, political operatives and staff members. We ask You to draw them to integrity before the citizens of this country. Give them the will to honestly place their values and visions before us, free of manipulation and deception. We ask You to expose and defeat those who lie.

We pray, Lord, against the voter fraud that has so crippled our confidence in the electoral process. We ask You to expose and bring to justice those who would undermine free and fair elections. Please help us to restore integrity to the election process in America. Rid our system of corruption, we pray.

O Lord, give me the wisdom and the courage to confidently and winsomely take a stand for Your Truth with my fellow citizens. Use my voice, Lord, I pray.


~~~


“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature...If the next centennial does not find us a great nation...it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.” President James Garfield

Oh the Blood of JESUS


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JESUS' Blood and Righteousness


The world we live in is fallen.

The evidence of the corruption and evil around us becomes ever more profound. We anguish at the depth of depravity to which our government, our educators, our media, even some of our churches have fallen. We long for righteousness to be exalted in the land once again. We long for righteousness to be exalted in our hearts.

Yet, one thing we know, for the immutable WORD of our TRUE and LIVING GOD assures us, "When the enemy comes in like a flood, the LORD will raise up a standard against him."

It further tells us that, "Things shall wax worse and worse, and then the end shall come," that, "When you see these things come to pass, look up and lift up your head, for your redemption draws near."
JESUS has promised to return, and our hope is in HIM.

Politicians may disappoint us with their perverted promises of "hope and change."

Politicians may dismay us with their machinations which advance their own power but diminish the nation and its citizens.

We may disappoint and dismay ourselves because of the disquiet within us due to our helpless estate.
But JESUS will never fail.

As the angel said when JESUS ascended into heaven, "Why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same JESUS who has gone into heaven will return in like manner as you have seen HIM go." Acts 1:11.

Not one word of the BIBLE or its prophecies have failed. The promise of JESUS' return is sure.

No matter how fallen the world becomes, no matter how failed its leaders, JESUS remains our abiding HOPE, our unfailing TRUTH, our perfect PEACE, our enduring LOVE, our eternal SALVATION.

HIS people are covered by HIS CLEANSING BLOOD that makes us FREE!
Oh, the blood of Jesus, a sacrifice that saved us all.