Democrats are already attacking President Trump’s cuts to the budget which are necessary because of President Biden’s reckless spending. They are claiming that cuts to the budget of the IRS will benefit the rich who will be able to get away with fraud because the IRS won’t have the personnel to audit them. That ignores the fact that President Biden added hundreds of IRS agents to audit and threaten churches and conservative non-profits with revoking their non-profit status if they did not comply with the liberal pro-abortion and pro-gay agenda. While churches are automatically considered non-profit, and not subject to audit, the IRS has added a lot of rules about how collections are handled and staff are paid to gain access to church records and intimidate them into being silent on social issues. They have even demanded copies of some pastor’s sermons to see if he is speaking out on social issues and inserted spies in churches to monitor the pastor’s sermons. While President Biden claimed that if Trump was elected, he would become a dictator, President Biden has shown open contempt for the law and acted more like a dictator then a President.
Politics-AB-AO
President Trump will probably go after President Biden and his son for their illegal influence peddling and Democrats are already gearing up to discredit it as the Republicans trying to discredit Democrats like they did to Donald Trump, however where they prosecuted Donald Trump with fake charges most of which they ultimately dropped because they could find no evidence of a crime, the Justice Dept. has had adequate evidence of Joe and Hunter Biden’s wrongdoing since 2020 and has tried to bury it by censoring social and public media and distributing fake news. Federal agents openly lied to the public stating that the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake news until whistleblowers produced the laptop and they could no longer deny it. Then they finally admitted it but would not let the media publish it. Unfortunately for them, they don’t control all the media yet. While they prosecuted Trump for possession of documents he was legally allowed to possess as President, they refused to prosecute Joe Biden for possession of documents he obtained when Senator and Vice-President which he was not allowed to possess legally. Hopefully they will also go after him for the billions of dollars that he funneled to voting blocks like college students to buy their votes, including two trillion dollars in the last three months of his term. Democrats will probably claim that he had immunity because of the Supreme Court ruling that a President cannot be prosecuted for acts he commits while carrying out his duties as President, however the Supreme Court ruled that he did not have the authority to cancel student loan debts or authorize the other expenditures, so it was not part of his duties as President and so should not be immune to prosecution.
First Sunday of Epiphany-January 12
Tell the Story-Epiphany celebrates the coming of the Wise Men when we remember that God revealed Himself to the Gentiles. It is a time we should reveal Him to those who do not know Him. Many people will see the manger scene and not understand what it means because they have no church background. A large percentage of people today have not attended church and do not know anyone that they know of who attends church. Many Christians assume those they meet at work and at school attend church somewhere but few of them do. Few churches today have Christmas eve services but those that do usually include only members and rarely have visitors. It is a great time to invite those who do not attend church to come and hear the Christmas story, especially those who have children. Christmas carols used to be sung in the schools and played in stores, but many have dropped or even banned those with a Christian message. Church members can get together and carol at nursing homes and in their neighborhood to tell the Christmas story. Songs should not be random but organized to tell the story.
Sanctity of Life-GA-J
Liberals say Euthanasia is the compassionate thing. However, there is a need for palliative care. Those who were terminally ill were once doped up to await the end, now they can get pain relief with consciousness so they can live out their life meaningfully. We need to kill the pain, not the person. Killing is the easy way out, fighting pain takes a prolonged struggle but it is worth it. Killing is cost effective but is cost the primary consideration when a person is terminal? Doctors who assist them threaten the moral integrity of the medical profession. Would you want a doctor treating you that will kill some of his other patients because he feels their treatment will be too expensive. Will he consider your case hopeless or your treatment too expensive and kill you?
Sanctity of Life-GA-I
Accepting Euthanasia is a Slippery slope. Dr Kovorkian started with those who were terminally ill and moved on to those who were only depressed. The desire for death doesn’t always mean they want help dying. They may feel death would be a release but not want to do it. Safeguards are ineffective and often ignored. Accepting voluntary requests often leads to involuntary acts since outside pressure often prevails. It is often difficult to determine if someone is a vegetable? People who were thought to be a vegetable in a permanent coma have woke up and said they heard everything but couldn’t respond. Some woke up years later and returned to leading a normal life. Some who they thought were untreatable were able to find treatment. Government-run health insurance programs pose a serious problem since decisions are based on cost-effectiveness without regard for the individual. A couple in England whose child was diagnosed with a critical disease. The government-run health board ruled he was not worth treating and ordered the hospital to remove his life support. The couple appealed to social media and hospitals in America and Australia offered to take the child, but the government refused to release the child and removed his life support. He died shortly after.
Sanctity of life-GA-H
Doctors in Canada euthanized about 15,000 people last year according to records. However, it is probably much higher as doctors don’t want to be known for killing their patients. Many are probably hidden like many abortion related deaths are in America. Mothers who die from botched abortions are often listed under innocent sounding titles like excessive bleeding from the uterus. It sounds innocent but hides the fact she was bleeding from a perforated uterus as the result of a botched abortion. Not all mercy killings are voluntary. For instance, there was a 61 year old man. The man was medically healthy but suffered from chronic depression. An Ontario court had recently struck down the requirement that the person have a terminal illness to be eligible for a medically induced death. The family was not informed of the fact until just before he was euthanized. When informed about it they begged doctors not to end his life, but they did anyway. Since chronic depression is often cyclical, there is no reason to believe that had he not been killed, the man would have changed his mind in a few days. Since socialized medicine rations health care based on whether the government board feels a life is worth the cost of the treatment, it approved ending his life because they didn’t feel that it was worth the cost of continuing to treat him. Our attention is constantly on abortion, but we often forget other issues like assisted suicide and mercy killing. Assisted suicide is assisting someone who wishes to die, while Euthanasia (mercy killing) is taking the life of one who is terminally ill or suffering, with or without their request.
Second Sunday of Christmastide-Jan 5
Tell Them What You Heard-Christmastide is a time when we remember that God revealed Himself to His people. God could have come into the palace of a king but chose rather to come in the manger as a baby to remind us that He wants us to serve rather than to lord it over others. He revealed Himself first to the shepherds to remind us that He cares for the lowest shepherd, as well as the greatest king. Once the shepherds heard the good news, they immediately went and worshiped Him. Then they went and told everyone all they had heard and seen. During the worship service, do you feel the Lord’s presence? After the service, have you gone out and told anyone what you have heard and what you have seen the Lord do?
Politics-AB-AN
It is unbelievable watching President Biden do everything he can to trash the country to prevent President Biden from succeeding in stabilizing the country. He has spent billions of dollars in the last month and a half with no authority to do so and doing so without regard for the spending limits imposed by the Balanced Budget Act, when only Congress has the authority to authorize federal spending. He also put all the unused building supplies Trump purchased to build the border wall up for auction to sell it for pennies on the dollar to force President Trump to purchase new materials. In addition, he put a 20 year ban on drilling in Nevada to make it difficult for President Trump to restore America’s oil independence and end our dependence on Arab oil. While he says Donald Trump will be a dictator and claims Trump will destroy our democracy, he has shown total disregard for the Constitution and federal law, as if he were the king and not an elected president.