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Politics-AB-AM
13
Dec
Nancy Pelosi has been bragging about how she took communion in spite of her Bishop’s ban. She and other Democrat leaders pretend to be Christians to attract the votes of Christians, but they discredit the church by pushing abortion, making people think that the church supports abortion. They also support government attacks on Christians by the IRS and the FBI, and show their contempt for the church by defying the orders of their church leaders and violating the teachings of their church. Yet many Christians are fooled by them and vote them back into office. By falsely portraying the teachings of the church, they are leading Christians into sin. In addition, Nancy Pelosi is defiling the sacraments by taking them unworthily. The Bible instructs us to search our hearts and confess any sin we find there before we take Communion yet she not only refuses to confess her sin but openly brags about it. God is not mocked and she will answer for her rebellion when she stands before the judgement seat. Earthly judges may turn a blind eye but God will not.
Third Sunday of Advent-Dec 15
11
Dec
Frankincense-Deity-God With Us
The second gift they brought was Frankincense in recognition of His Deity. Frankincense was the incense which the priests burned before the alter, symbolizing the prayers rising to heaven. In fact, all the rituals and ceremonies conducted by the priests in the temple were shadows of what is now going on in Heaven. Indeed, when Christ arose from the grave, He would ascend into heaven and would become our High Priest, standing before the throne of God in Heaven, interceding on our behalf, just as the High Priest had stood before the alter in the temple interceding for Israel, after he had offered the sacrificial lamb. It symbolized that Christ was God, come to earth in flesh, to dwell among us.
Politics-AB-AL
11
Dec
President Biden is again showing his contempt for the law and the good of this country. He is using his last few days to spend billions of dollars, with no authorization from Congress, to help his political friends. In only three and a half years, he had already increased the national debt to seven times what it was when he took office. Even President Obama who went on a spending spree only doubled the national debt, the highest increase of any previous president, and that took eight years. He seems determined to wreck the country and leave President Trump to pick up the pieces. He has also shown a total disregard for America’s security when he opened the borders and issued a blanket invitation to anybody that wanted to come in, including criminals, drug dealers, gun runners, terrorists, and more, who have come in among the real immigrants seeking a better life. He allowed a Chinese spy balloon to cross into the United States over Alaska and float leisurely across the United Stated stopping over our military bases where it could photograph them, record locations for possible future missile strikes, and record top secret military communications, before he finally ordered it shot down off the East coast. No one knows what all information it sent back to China before it was shot down. Now we are seeing swarms of drowns, apparently released by a ship or plane off our coast, which are lingering over our cities and he has made no attempt to intercept one to find out where they are from or what they are doing. They are as big as a kitchen table and could carry bombs, photograph cities for terrorist attacks, or even release a lot of smaller drones who could pose any kind of threat.
Freedom of Religion-B-Y
07
Dec
While many people cheer because Donald Trump won the election, they need to remember the limits of government. President Trump can remove many of the barriers that prevent the church from speaking out, and he can stop the constant harassment of churches by the IRS and the Justice Dept., but he cannot change the hearts of people. In the 1950’ and 1960’s, the church actively taught the value of life and the value of the rule of law. It was also taught in the schools and adhered to by the media and the courts. As a result, most people believed in them whether they attended church or not. Since then the expansion of abortion has eroded the belief in the value of life to where only about half of people value life. Many who no longer value life are active in churches who no longer teach the value of life. In addition, we have seen a rapid spread of liberal politicians and judges who no longer value the rule of law but feel they can violate the law whenever it suits their purpose. As a result, many people in America have lost their respect for the law. If people do not respect the law and see judges and politicians violate the law without any penalty, they feel they can too. We see that on our highways. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, most cars adhered to the speed limit whether there were police around or not. Today you know there are police up ahead if you are doing the speed limit and see break lights going on in al the cars that just passed you. President Trump can cut government funding to Planned Parenthood and prevent the mailing of abortion drugs to States that have outlawed abortion, but people will still get abortions under the table unless the women are provided with the services needed to keep their babies or put them up for adoption. In addition, women will still have sex outside marriage and end up getting pregnant and get abortions until they learn to value life and the sanctity of marriage. The government cannot do that. The church must teach the value of life and marriage, and the value of the rule of law. In addition, there must be a revival of people turning to God and recognizing the true value of life, marriage, and the rule of law.
Politics-AB-AK
07
Dec
While Donald Trump has won the election, it will not be a quick fix. While he can work to weed out corruption in our government, it will take time. President Trump will be able to correct some of the laws that violate the Constitution and the laws of this country, but he will have to contend with those who do not believe in the rule of law and feel they can bend or break the law when it interferes with their plans. Liberals have worked for 50 years to undermine the rule of law in this country and it will take years to fix since the various agencies are packed with people who support the liberal agenda. Most of them are protected by Civil Service so they can’t be fired. In addition, liberal presidents have instilled many judges who feel they are not bound by the Constitution and the laws of this nation and their States. Those judges are appointed for life and cannot be removed except for serious crimes. In addition, President Trump has vowed to stay within the law and the law severely limits what the President can do. He must rely on Congress to pass the laws and he does not have the large amounts of money that President Biden used to force Democratic Congressmen to support the party agenda even when the voters oppose it. Republican Congressmen rely on the donations of their constituents rather than funneling large mounts of tax dollars through Planned Parenthood into their campaign funds, which President Biden used to blackmail Democrat Congressmen to support the party agenda. As a result, while Republicans control the House and Senate, it is only by a small margin and they cannot guarantee all their members will support them. President Biden has committed the government to billions of dollars in debt with no authorization from Congress and has increased the national debt by seven times in only four years. In addition, increased taxes and government regulations have crippled our economy and it will take a lot of work to reduce taxes and cut expenses, as well as repealing a lot of government regulations to free up the economy to thrive again. That will be difficult and will take far more than the four years that Trump will have.
Second Sunday of Advent-Dec 8
05
Dec
Gold-symbolizing Jesus as the coming King-While hymns portray the Wise Men as Kings, they were more likely astrologers who were advisers to the Persian kings, sent by the kings as representatives bearing gifts. The songs say there were three but we don’t know how many. However the Wise Men brought gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Mirth in recognition of the roles that Christ would fulfill. The first gift they brought was Gold in recognition that He would be a King. Indeed, He would bring hope because He would subdue all the powers of the world and would become King of Kings and ruler over all creation. However, before He would wear a crown of Gold, He would wear a crown of thorns as He conquered death itself as the sacrificial lamb. While before, all we knew was the way of serving the flesh, Christ came to show us a better way through serving God. We can conquer the slavery to the flesh and live as God intended us as we allow Christ to be ruler of our life. A lot of people don’t know any other way than serving the flesh and won’t know there is a better way unless we step out into the world like Jesus did and show them.
Sanctity of Life-A-1-D
05
Dec
Debbie Wasserman Schultz head of the Democratic Party criticized a bill in Florida that would prohibit men from forcing their girlfriends to have abortions against their will. Apparently they believe a girl should have the right to choose to have an abortion, but she does not have the right to choose not to have an abortion. They feel men shouldn’t have any say if they are opposed to abortion and should not be able to prevent a woman from getting an abortion if she wants one. However, they feel men should be able to force a woman to have an abortion if they want it and she doesn’t. Apparently all they care about is that she gets an abortion and they get paid. While the laws of every State require abortion providers to notify parents and Children’s services when a child seeks an abortion, they do not and encourage underage girls to not reveal their age so they can list them as over 18. By doing so, they can avoid reporting and parental consent laws. As a result, rapists, and those engaged in sex trafficking, and incest can bring the girls in and avoid prosecution, since Planned Parenthood doesn’t report the underage pregnancy and the abortionist destroys the evidence. It also allows Planned Parenthood to bill Medicaid since the parents might find out about the abortion if they were asked to pay for it or they billed the parent’s insurance company. Their goal is not woman’s rights as they claim, but what will profit them.
Sanctity of Life-A-1-C
05
Dec
Most people do not know that Planned Parenthood’s ultimate goal from the beginning has been to stop the spread of the lower classes and racial minorities. Margaret Sanger, the founder, was very racist and a friend of Hitler. Planned Parenthood started in the inner-city areas by convincing Congress that funding birth control would save welfare dollars. Planned Parenthood was originally against abortion but when abortion was legalized, they saw it as a new way to eliminate unwanted babies and a very lucrative new source of funding so they reversed their stand on abortion and began pushing it. With the Hippie talk of free love, they saw an opportunity to expand their services into the suburbs and began pushing the idea that kids were going to have sex anyway so they needed to be protected. Few suburban kids were sexually active previously due to the fear of pregnancy but Planned Parenthood pushed it as a way they could have sex and not have to worry about pregnancy. However teens are not careful about taking them leaving them in high danger of pregnancy. As a result, the pregnancy rate among teens exploded. Planned Parenthood is now the largest abortion provider in the world. Many of their abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods and abortions among Blacks are far out of proportion to their proportion of the general population. Many clinics are also on public school and college campuses where they encourage kids as young as elementary school to enjoy sex and supply them with contraceptives funded by the government so they won’t worry about pregnancy, but don’t tell them about the high failure rate. Since then they have further increased their profits by selling the body parts of aborted babies. Recently they have expanded to push transgenderism in the schools to create gender confusion so they can profit off of gender altering drugs and surgeries. The vast majority of it is funded by tax dollars provided by politicians whose election campaigns are in turn heavily funded by Planned Parenthood with money received from the government.