Liberals plead for mercy for the poor illegal immigrants but letting people freely cross the border without registering hurts them as well as us. While they come seeking prosperity, they are not truly free as they are here illegally and can not move about freely for fear of being caught and deported. They can be arrested if stopped for a traffic violation or minor crime. They can’t get good paying jobs, are subject to blackmail to avoid being turned in, and cannot access many public services. Many are tricked into becoming slave workers and sex workers in exchange for transportation. They cannot apply for citizenship because they would have to verify residency in a foreign country which they cannot do. They hurt America because they take jobs from legal citizens, feel more free to commit crimes in sanctuary cities because they do not have to fear arrest, and cost their State and local governments for the Social services they use but do not contribute toward the cost of them. They are better in some ways but worse in others. It is a dead end they would not face if they came legally.
Immigration-I-A
Immigration continues to be an important issue. The issue has become very emotionally charged but little is being done to consider the facts. We need to deal with the issue with wisdom and reason, not through emotionally charged rhetoric because it has serious ramifications not only for our country but for the immigrants themselves. The Liberals support it because it provides lost cost labor and results in widespread support for the Democrat party that lets them in and provides them with a wide variety of benefits like food, housing, protection from federal agents. In return, the illegal immigrants increase the Census count in Democrat controlled States, allowing Democrats to get additional seats in the House of Representatives, get additional federal dollars that are distributed based on population, and they vote for Democrat candidates, even though they are not legally allowed to vote. While we should care for the stranger that is within our gates, allowing them to come in illegally hurts them as well as us.
Ascension Sunday -May 17
Sunday before Pentecost- Focus on mission-Ascension Sunday reminds us of Christ’s ascent to heaven and is the prelude to Pentecost when the church should be launching its summer evangelistic efforts. Before it starts, the church should be clear on it’s mission. After Jesus rose from the dead and showed Himself to His disciples, He appeared to them in Galilee-Matt. 28: 16-20 He gathered them and told them to go and make disciples of all nations, and to teach them all that He commanded them. During Pentecost, we concentrate on winning the lost. We are to seek the lost and lead them to the Lord. Once they receive Christ, we are to baptize them, symbolically illustrating their death and resurrection in Christ. During Kingdomtide we will focus on making disciples when we seek to teach them to do all that Christ has commanded us. That involves active training, not the passive attendance which is common in many churches today. Now is a good time to finalize plans for a summer campaign to reach those who do not know Christ. Every church board should open every meeting during Pentecost with the question “What can we do to win souls?”.
M-F Relations
– Liberals are pushing for including women in the draft. They say women should have equal rights. The draft is no voluntary, There is nothing stopping women from joining the military if they choose. Many women have served in the armed forces, some with distinction. That is their choice. It is attractive now because it provides college scholarships which enable women to get college educations and career training. It is however, very hard on women with children to leave them behind while they are stationed overseas. It is hard enough with the husband stationed overseas and the wife left at home. Many women serve in support roles far from the fighting and contribute important support for men in the field. Many also help with medical units close to the fighting but not actually in it. While women have served in combat in the Air Force, where they can come home to segregated housing, it is a different matter with ground combat. An army in the field cannot provide segregated housing for men and women under combat conditions. In addition, women are forced to face men in combat who are bigger and stronger than they are and who will show them no mercy. If they are captured, they face rape and torture from their guards. We are seeing this with the treatment of civilian women in Afghanistan and other places where women are not valued. The increasing number of women in combat has caused rape and sexual harassment to skyrocket. Command officers, who are usually men, often turn a blind eye to reports of rape and sexual harassment leaving women unprotected. As a result, women should not be forced into the armed services, and especially into combat roles.
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Sixth Sunday of Eastertide- May 10
Prepare-Too many churches simply wait until a position is open and then try to fill it. The problem with that is the same people continue to serve so there are very few in the church with experience and very few members are involved in the church’s ministry. Many people are afraid to take new positions because they have no experience and those that do accept the position don’t do well, often become frustrated, and soon quit or continue struggling along doing a poor job. It makes better sense to ask someone to train as an assistant under someone more experienced before the need arises. Someone who has never taught before will be more likely to accept an opportunity to learn then to take a class alone with no experience. When a position comes open, there will be people who have experience and can do well. They will often be more likely to take the position if they have worked in a classroom for a while under someone than if they have never helped in a classroom before. It also provides assistants to help the teacher, so they don’t have to do everything themselves.
Sanctity of Life GC-G
It is easier to sell abortion because the baby is not seen and many believe it is just a lump of tissue and do not consider it murder. However, abortion is only the tip of the iceberg. The philosophy behind it carries wider implications. It was spelled out in Planned Parenthood vs Casey (1992). It stated that the woman has the right to kill the baby right up to birth if it would interfere with her happiness. Once you declare that, it just becomes a matter of determining who is interfering with your happiness and how to dispose of them. Several States have legalized assisted suicide and California has just legalized killing a baby up to 28 days after birth. Minnesota has repealed its law protecting babies born after botched abortions and other States are considering laws allowing the killing of children after birth. Canada and Europe are way ahead of us because they have long since abandoned Christian values and allow assisted suicide and termination of the extremely sick and the critically ill, often without their knowledge or consent. The doctor can make the determination on his own. Once you accept a woman’s right to kill her unborn baby, one becomes increasingly less bothered by other killing. As time passes, it becomes increasingly easier to rationalize the killing of your boss, your coworkers, your fellow students, or even members of a crowd at the park or a concert, if you feel they are interfering with your happiness.
Politics-AB-AK
It is interesting to hear the response to renewed insistence on the need for the White House ballroom. They are claiming that President Trump is saddling the country with a huge unnecessary expense. We definitely need it and it is not at taxpayers expense. It is being built with donated funds. They never said anything when President Obama made extensive renovations to the White House at taxpayer expense. I have not seen a President so attacked and lied about as President Trump. This is the third assassination attempt. I don’t remember any President who faced two, let alone three assassination attempts. They have continually claimed he is destroying Democracy by protecting the security of our voting system to prevent fraud and rooting out fraud and government waste. It was President Biden that raided the Treasury of a couple billion dollars after he lost the election and before leaving office. A lot of it was never accounted for but a lot went to the campaign chests of prominent Democrats. They claimed he colluded with the Russians. Sorry, that was President Obama and Hillary Clinton and the accusations were funded by the Clinton Foundation. They claimed he incited a riot at the Jan 6 rally. Sorry, that was Antifa agitators funded by Democrats. President Trump urged them to go home. He also suggested they call out the National Guard but Nancy Peloisi refused to do it leaving the Capital with very little protection. They are claiming he is responsible for the high gas prices. Sorry, that was President Biden who shut down American oil fields and cancelled the Canadian pipeline to force us to buy from the mid eastern countries claiming he was protecting our environment. The war against Iran is only forcing up prices because we are dependent on mid Eastern countries for oil. It takes a while to restart oil fields once they are shut down. You don’t just turn on the faucet again. They claim he is threatening Social Security but it was President Biden that threw open our borders and offered Social Security to illegal immigrants who didn’t pay into it and plunged our country into further debt making it more difficult to redeem the government bonds that they used to secure the Social Security fund.