Reagan's Gone, Bachman's Here

President Ronald Reagan's 1981 Christmas Address

I just watched the Obama's Christmas Proclamation for 2011. It was disheartening. We have a president who has no problem waxing eloquent praising Ramadan but is not Christian enough to make a positive statement about the importance of the birth of Jesus. Obama is no Reagan! 

As we head into another election campaign, I think we would do well to remember that the core religious beliefs of a president matter. If we value our faith and our freedoms, we must elect a new president with a Christian worldview to lead this nation during the turbulent days ahead. Not one who just talks about "faith" but one who has a track record of standing on Christian principles. 

The United States of America was founded on Christian principles. The freedoms we hold dear originated with the God of Christmas from Whom our inalienable rights derive. He is the God in Whom we trust! He deserves reverence, appreciation and obedience.

"America is great because America is good. If she ceases to be good she will cease to be great." Alexis de Toqueville

If we want to restore our nation to its former glory and power, we need to return God to our classrooms and to the public arena. Posting the 10 Commandments should not be forbidden in our schools and the freedom to pray should not be restricted. The constitution is on the side of conservatives. We need to take our freedoms back which have been stolen by liberal judges. Christians should have at least as much freedom to publicly practice their faith as Muslims do.  

The politically correct concepts of pluralism, multiculturalism, diversity, relativism and tolerance are stifling Christian freedoms! Secular elites through academia and the media are using these terms to muzzle Christians. Only Judeo-Christian beliefs and practices are considered unacceptable in the  public forum of our country today. 

Liberal judges forbid Christians to pray in schools and at football games and graduation ceremonies while enforcing special "religious rights" for anti-Christian groups like Muslims. Shouldn't the privileges based on diversity, multiculturalism and tolerance apply to our own culture as well? This anti-Christian trend needs to be reversed. Believers should speak up and vote based on their principles rather than their pocket books or their emotions.

These diabolical, dis-ingenuous, "newspeak" terms are undercutting American patriotism and destroying the world's only true melting pot by encouraging ethnic groups to resist integration into mainstream American society.

We desperately need a change of leadership!

We need a courageous, politically incorrect president committed to enforcing the constitution.

We need a president committed to shrinking the size of government and empowering the states.

We need a president who will lead the Congress to massively cut spending.

We need a president who will abolish Obamacare.

We need a president who will deliver us from the current liberal-socialist agenda!

We need a president who will call for an overhaul of the tax system.

We need a president who will lead Congress to cut the extraneous regulations strangling the free market.

We need a president who will appoint judges to make decisions squarely based on the constitution.

We need a president who values life!!!

We need a president who will appoint impartial Department of Justice officials to enforce our laws.

We need a president who will control the borders and work on settling illegal alien issues.

We need a president who will limit immigration to those who are able to adapt to our culture.

We need a president who is not ashamed of America and her historical accomplishments.

We need a president who will support Israel publicly and privately and stand by her friends.

We need a president who leads with confidence, strength and morality.

We need a president who won't try to appease terrorists.

We need a president who will sincerely lead the nation in celebrating our Christian Holidays. 

We need a president who will promote and participate in the National Day of Prayer. 

We need a president who will work to promote unity within the country.

We need a president who will reverse Obama's economically destructive executive orders.

We need a president who does not believe in man made Global Warming.

We need a president who will resist the Green Agenda and abolish the EPA. 

We need a president who will create an energy friendly environment to lower costs and create jobs.

We need a president who will deliver us from dependence on foreign oil which funds terrorism!

Basically, as my 14 year daughter says, "We need a president who is not Obama, who is a conservative, and who will kick the country back in line."

Based on all the qualifications I desire in a president,

Michelle Bachmann is my favorite candidate so far.

JESUS: KING, SAVIOR, MESSIAH, LORD!

Joseph, Mary, baby Jesus, and the shepherds

Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid.

Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”

                                                                                                       Luke 2:8-14



Star of Bethlehem

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem,  saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.”  Matthew 2:1-2

The poor, simple shepherds were led by the instructions of an angel to travel a short distance to find their Savior, their Messiah, their Lord!

The rich, wise men were led by a star to travel a great distance to find a new King! 

The lowly shepherds followed the angel's instructions and found Jesus! The wealthy, wise men followed the star and found Jesus!

Near or far, poor or rich: because of His love and goodwill toward mankind, all God's children are somehow made aware of their need of JESUS!  And, all who respond to Jesus in faith find what they need!

May you believe and find what you need today!

 For God so loved the world that

He gave His only begotten Son,

that whoever believes in Him

should not perish but have everlasting life. 

John 3:16

Merry Christmas!

Global Warming: A Heart Issue

If you are concerned about Global Warming and wondering what the Cap and Trade argument is all about, I'd like to share a few facts with you to answer some of your questions and encourage you to do your own research if you still have concerns.

First of all, let me start with some facts I found in a Wikipedia article on the "demonized" CO2 (carbon dioxide) which scares liberals "green" and makes them want to economically punish the world's industrialized countries.

"CO2 is an important component of Earth's atmosphere because it absorbs and emits infrared radiation ... thereby playing a role in the greenhouse effect."

"Natural sources of atmospheric carbon dioxide include
volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter,
and the respiration processes of living aerobic organisms; (breathing)

man-made sources of carbon dioxide include
the burning of fossil fuels for heating, power generation and transport,
as well as some industrial processes such as cement making."

"Plants convert carbon dioxide to...OXYGEN... which is subsequently used for respiration by... (animals and humans), forming a cycle."

Check out this fact! "Over 95% of total CO2 emissions are natural.
For example, the natural decay of organic material in forests and grasslands, such as dead trees, results in the release of about 220 gigatons of carbon dioxide every year."

"In 1997, Indonesian peat fires were estimated to have released between 13 and 40 percent of the average carbon emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels around the world in a single year."

Note: Huge fires regularly break out around the globe which can't be prevented, predicted or controlled. What can we do about that? Should we worry about it and "carbon" tax somebody? Before we panic, we should be aware of the following God provided solution.

"These natural sources (of carbon dioxide) are nearly balanced by natural sinks, physical and biological processes which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. For example, some carbon dioxide dissolves in sea water, and some is removed by plants via photosynthesis. The Earth's oceans contain a huge amount of carbon dioxide in the form of bicarbonate and carbonate ions — much more than the amount in the atmosphere."

"Ultimately, most of the CO2 emitted by human activities will dissolve in the ocean..."

That means if the carbon tax is implemented, industrialized nations will be carbon "capped and taxed" for causing a non-existent problem, and third world countries will be receiving a transfer of wealth by selling their unused "carbon credits" to industrialized nations based on a bogus premise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere

The CO2/Global Warming debate is another issue which divides liberals and conservatives. Many liberals  really believe we must take action to save the planet from global warming. And, they are, theoretically, willing to submit to economic ruin in an attempt to solve this "perceived" problem. (I say "theoretically" because I don't believe most of them really comprehend what the carbon tax system would do to our economy.) On the other hand, many conservatives believe global warming is a hoax being perpetrated on society by greedy, power hungry politicos like Al Gore.

Since 95% of CO2 is produced naturally, how can reasonable people really believe that mankind can make a difference by changing his ways? Is it likely that the 5% of CO2 produced by human activity could be the tipping point for climate change? If you were asked to devastate your family financially to pay for a cure which offered you a 5% chance of recovering from cancer, would you do it? Chances are even slimmer that the human race is causing and could, therefore, help cure a problem like Global Warming.

Even if the USA causes 25% of the 5% of emissions caused by human activity worldwide, that is only 1.25% of worldwide carbon emissions. Yes, 1.25%! And for that, the "greens" would have the middle class taxed to ruination and destroy our way of life. So far, our current economic slump has helped our Congress resist the Green Agenda, but, we need to be wise and diligent because the battle isn't over.

Please do an internet search on the Green Agenda if you haven't already. Al Gore and his ilk are behind all of this-- for financial and political reasons.

The Global Warming email leaks revealed how scientists were manipulating and falsifying data to support their global warming theory. If you get into the details, some scientists claim that the CO2 levels are increasing and causing global warming. While other scientists insist that temperature fluctuations are cyclical and there is no sustained pattern of warming. Some scientists believe solar flares are more likely causing the problem -- if there is one.  And since the sun warms the earth, that makes sense!

I have read much and listened to scientific lectures on the subject and there is no true consensus among scientists about climate change.

I think the big difference between greens politicos and conservatives on Global Warming boils down to religious beliefs. Environmentalists are more likely to believe in evolution and less likely to believe in a caring and engaged Creator God. For them, mankind is on his own, resources are limited and humans must fend for themselves in a cold, cruel world. Population growth is a serious threat. Fossil fuel use is dirty and dangerous. ETC.

On the other hand, Christian conservatives believe in a Loving Father, God, Who created the earth to be filled with His people. He created the earth with abundant and renewable resources such as water, plants and animals for the sustenance of all His creatures. He also created the earth with the capacity to produce fossil fuels to enhance our lives. And, He sustains the earth by "the Word of His power" as we gratefully and wisely make use of His provisions!

The Son (Jesus) is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. Hebrews 1:3 (NIV 1984)

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. Collosians 1:17

I'm sure it sounds simplistic to the worldly wise, but all of the world's dire problems could and would be solved if the majority of mankind would turn from their sinful, unbelieving ways and would put their trust in God. He cares for us!

The climate is under His control!

 Is your heart?

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

Matthew 11:28-30 NLT

World Systems Fail: Put Your Hope In GOD!

Did you hear President Obama’s “Teddy Roosevelt” speech given in Kansas? He tried to gain credibility for his extreme, progressive policies by noting that a progressive Republican president’s policies were similar to his own. He disarmingly smirked as he admitted that Roosevelt was called a socialist for those policies! That was before political correctness had such a chilling affect on speaking truth. But, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

He has the audacity to claim that he has Kansas values (deep roots in Kansas)! You think they are as deep as his roots in Kenya, or Indonesia, or perhaps Hawaii? He said he got his name from his dad and his values from his mom. Have you checked into what those values might be? His mother was a world traveling ”free thinker” whose political and religious values were outside mainstream America. His values; therefore, are not the Heartland USA values found in Kansas.

Obama, following his mother’s lead, is a socialist. He believes the government should solve all problems. He believes the promise of “cradle to grave” security (even though it is unattainable) can seduce Americans into voting for him and forfeiting their basic freedoms. He believes in using legislation and Executive Orders to redistribute wealth, which allows the government to take the hard earned wealth of some citizens and give it to others at home and abroad (mostly to Islamic nations).

As a socialist, he believes in using class warfare to promote his causes. Even though as a candidate he told us he would bring America together, he has been the most divisive president of my lifetime. For example, he encouraged racial tensions by allowing Black Panthers to intimidate white voters at the polls and his administration refused to prosecute them. He encouraged racial tensions by falsely accusing the police of mishandling a case involving a black professor trying to break into his own home. He also encouraged resentment from and toward Hispanics when he accused the State of Arizona of racial profiling for attempting to enforce Federal Immigration Laws. He has recently been encouraging class warfare by blaming those wicked wealthy people (capitalists!) for the 2008 economic downturn (which was actually caused by socialistic government interference with banks and mortgage companies). He encourages class warfare by repeatedly saying, “The rich should pay their fair share!” And, he has encouraged class warfare by supporting Occupy Wall Street!

Obama’s progressive/socialist policies are destroying our economy and robbing us of our freedoms. How many regulations can we bear and have any freedom left? The government is broke. Obama has helped take this nation to the brink of bankruptcy by: creating new government agencies, hiring more government employees, and by pushing a new, uber-expensive socialist program known generally known as Obama Care. (He can’t blame that one on Bush!)

The government’s bills are being paid with money borrowed in the name of taxpayers, and we know, ”The borrower is servant to the lender.”

In the name of recovery, he has spent us into a bottomless pit of debt without bringing new jobs into our economy. He spent a lot of the so-called stimulus money in foreign countries! He used large amounts of money to pay off unions and others who helped elect him. (That includes the money he spent on financially unsustainable and environmentally dirty “green” projects like electric cars which only benefited a handful of people and will never help the overall economy. Not to mention Solyndra!)

He has used the EPA, Executive Orders, and “proposed” regulations like Cap and Trade to block countless American jobs and prosperity for our economy. By limiting drilling for oil; formulating regulations to halt investment in new, cleaner coal based utility companies; discouraging Nuclear Power plants; and also by blocking the Canadian pipeline: he has deliberately hurt our economy!

None of these “green” measures are based on true concern for the world’s environment because he supports drilling for oil in Brazil and continuing to buy oil from the Middle East which drills for it! He supports Nuclear Power in other nations. And, he supports exporting our coal to China where it is burned and affects the atmosphere as much as it would if we burned it here. His policies are not green, they are socialistic! And, they are hurting our country.

On his fourth day in office he used an executive order to fund abortions around the world with US taxpayers money–which most Americans oppose. Combine this executive order with his Senate voting record of support for partial birth abortion, and his three votes to force medical workers to allow aborted babies accidentally born alive to die without medical care, and Obama Care, which forces taxpayers to pay for abortions; and he is the most pro-baby-killing president we’ve ever had.

He has sued Arizona and other states for trying to enforce Federal laws within their states that he refuses to enforce.

He released the 10 Russian spies arrested by the FBI in June of 2010 before they could even be debriefed to reveal their objectives and their contacts in our government. Why would he throw away the results of a successful ten year undercover investigation of Russian spies? Would they have revealed the anti-American activities of socialists and communists in his administration?

He undermined the USA and NATO security by agreeing to a treaty with Russia which cancelled our missile defense system and limited our potential for maintaining our arsenals. He has also spent us into so much debt we’ll have trouble maintaining our conventional defense over time.

He refuses to use the words terrorist, Islamic Radical, and War on Terror, even when Muslims try to blow up US targets and kill people within our borders or around the world.

He openly embraces Islam although Islam openly hates America! (They call us the Great Satan.) He bowed to the King of the Islamic nation of Saudi Arabia, a nation so exclusive and supremacist that no churches may be built within its borders, no Jews may visit the country, and non-Muslims are prohibited from visiting its sacred cities! Islam is a political/religious system seeking to dominate the world. Not something freedom lovers can embrace.

He also endangers America by wasting money having the TSA harass patriotic citizens in airports while allowing Muslims to serve in sensitive Homeland Security positions and welcoming unvetted Islamist refugees into our country! (No practicing Islamist should be in a USA security position! Duh.)

Americans cannot support Obama if they truly believe in our Constitutional Republic. I urge you to keep his past record before you. Please don’t allow yourself to be fooled by any centrist appearing policies he may pragmatically proffer. Remember, he has no problem making promises he won’t keep!

In the Kansas speech he once again pitched the idea that he and those “compassionate” Democrats just want us all to work together (collectivism) to equalize (lower) everyone’s standard of living; whereas those hard-hearted Republicans think everyone should be left to make it (prosper) on their own (individualism) and play by their own rules (have freedom under the rule of law).

He believes capitalism (the way of freedom and individualism) has been tried and failed! So, what’s left? Socialism!

If socialism is so great and capitalism is such a failure, how did America become such a wealthy nation with such a huge middle class? Try naming a wealthy socialist nation with a huge middle class! You can't.

Well, the election is over now and we are facing another 4 years of devastating social and economic  policies under this anti-American president. We have an Executive branch which undermines the rule of law (TSA, NSA, IRS, Benghazi, etc.) while it spies on law abiding American citizens, a Supreme Court which refuses to uphold the constitution, and a Congress which ignores the clear wishes of the American people on taxes, healthcare, immigration, energy policy, etc.

I am proud of all the patriot warriors trying to preserve our freedoms. I am thankful for the Tea Party Groups around the country and every other conservative organization still fighting the fight for right! I applaud them but I know our only hope is in God so I'll close with His Word which is far more important than anything we have to say.  

 In you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.

Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths;  guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. 

Remember, O LORD (Yahweh) , your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Psalm 25:2-3-6

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.  Romans 12:12

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Romans 15:13   

Broad Way to Destruction

Highway to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. 
Google Images

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Matthew 7:13-14

I've seen this picture of the highway to Mecca used to illustrate that Arabs practice apartheid and it clearly proclaims that message, but the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this picture was the words of Jesus about the broad way to destruction. As you can see, there is a broad way of four lanes for Muslims to get to Mecca and there is a narrow way, a one lane exit, for non-Muslims to avoid that mistake.

As the Bible says, "There is a way that seems right to a man (in this case a Muslim) but in the end it leads to death." Proverbs 14:12

Mecca is the home of Islam's Kaaba which houses the ancient black stone. It is the number one religious site for those who worship Allah so all Muslim's must, if humanly possible, make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lifetime.

Non-Muslims, who are classified by Muslims as unclean infidels (unbelievers) are not allowed to go to Mecca. (That's one rule most non-Muslims gladly obey!)

However, this rule reveals a major difference between Christianity and Islam. Christians welcome unbelievers into their assemblies so they can share truth with them and let them decide how they will respond to it. But, Muslims forbid unbelievers entrance into their activities unless they first confess, "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet." (Like Nancy Pelosi saying the congressmen must sign the health care bill before they could read it, that's exactly backwards!)

Only after one confesses belief in Allah can one enter the city of Mecca to see the Kaaba where Muslim pilgrims circle the interior courts of the building seven times saying rote prayers and kiss the ancient black stone before heading out to Mt Arafat to throw stones at a symbolic Satan so they can fulfill the 5th Pillar of Islam and become known as a Hajji (one who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca).

Since Islam is the anti-Christ religion, the laws of Islam are opposite the laws of the true God. 

Under the true God, Who is a God of love and freedom, everyone is free to make their own choice. Anyone can take the broad way to destruction if they choose to. They can reject the very existence of God and the need for a personal Savior, or they can follow the teachings of numerous religions like Islam which require the futile and deceptive practice of "works" to earn one's own salvation.

Then, of course, one is also free to respond to the drawing of God's Spirit and choose the narrow gate to life through Jesus Christ, Who provides salvation for all who put their trust in Him alone.

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

Jesus said, "I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.

He will come in and go out, and find pasture." John 10:9

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life.

He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; John 11:25

Do you believe the testimony and promises of Jesus? 

 You are free to believe or reject His message. But your choice has consequences.

Please choose eternal life!
 
Don't take the broad way to destruction.