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Ash Wednesday-Feb 14

12 Feb

Ash Wednesday-A received its name from the fact that Christians used to place ashes on their forehead as a symbol of mourning. The color for today is black symbolizing mourning because it is a time when we mourn our sin that caused Christ to die on the cross. The penalty for sin is death but Jesus paid the price to redeem us from the power of sin and death that we might have life. Some people give up something for Lent as a sacrifice to remind them of the price Christ paid, but Christ wants us to put sin out of our life all year, not just during Lent. Lent is a time to ask Jesus to cleanse us of all that is displeasing to Him. If fasting or sacrificing something helps to remind you of the cost Jesus paid, then do it but if it is just a ritual that doesn’t mean anything, find something that will. It should never be done as an open display of our piety before men, but should be done privately between us and God.

 

 
 

Politics-AB-AN

11 Feb

The justice department has again demonstrated  its double standard when it comes to its treatment of those accused. They continue to press their prosecution of Donald Trump for possessing documents from his administration. The documents were in a secure safe in the basement of his home. It has come to light that President Obama has a large store of such documents and so does President Biden, yet neither has been prosecuted since they claim that the President has the authority to declassify them and retain them. If it is not illegal for a former President to possess them, why did the justice department raid his home and seize them and why are they continuing to prosecute him. President Biden also had documents from his days as Vice-President in his garage in boxes where they could be available to anyone. It is also known that he hosted Chinese officials at his home which means they could have had access to them. In addition, President Biden had classified documents from when he was a senator. While the President has the authority to declassify and retain documents, a Senator does not. Those documents were in fact illegally held. In addition, President Biden also had notes from classified meetings at the Whitehouse. Participants of classified meetings who take notes in classified hearings must  secure them, since they are held to be classified documents as well, yet President Biden had his notebooks from when he was a Senator and Vice-President also stored in the unsecured garage. When an investigative Congressional committee investigated that, they concluded that he is an old man and forgetful and should not be prosecuted. It is interesting that they feel he is too old and absent-minded to be prosecuted for “misplacing” classified government documents, but he is not too old and absent-minded to run the country and control the nuclear button that could launch world war three. It sounds like it is time to remove him from office and bar him from running again. A man who can’t keep track of classified documents should not be running the country.

 

 
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Politics-AB-AM

11 Feb

Liberal States are threatening to ban Donald Trump from running citing the 14th Amendment as their justification. It is only one more example of where they twist the law for their own purposes. The 14th Amendment bars Senators and Representatives who have committed rebellion or insurrection from serving in those offices. First, it states that it applies to Senators and representatives. It does not mention Presidents or Vice-presidents so it cannot be applied here. You can’t bar someone from office using a law that does not apply to that office. In addition, Donald Trump has never been tried under the provision. You can’t simply proclaim someone guilty, and then apply the law to them. They have a right to face their accusers in a court of law. For that reason, the law is probably unconstitutional since it does not require someone be convicted, only that they have supposedly committed the act. That opens the door for anyone to exclude someone from any office because an election official decides that the person has committed some act which they feel qualifies as a rebellion or insurrection. Once you open that door, you have abolished any appearance of the rule of law. You basically have a dictatorship.

 
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Sanctity of Life-GC-E

09 Feb

They are now showing their true colors by pushing through legislation to allow them to kill babies born alive who survive abortions Once the baby is born, there is no way they can claim that they don’t know it is human. The bodies of five babies that appear to be full-term were found at an abortion clinic where it was suspected that babies born alive were being left to die. That appears to be the case with  the five babies. If so, they are evidence of criminal infanticide. However, the police, the medical examiner, and the Dept. of Justice have all refused to investigate the matter. Now, President Biden has ordered the bodies to be destroyed which will prevent an investigation. It is bad enough when babies conceived by rape are aborted and the bodies destroyed to prevent prosecution of the rapist, but this appears to be a case where babies were born alive and allowed to die, yet the authorities refuse to investigate it. Roe vs Wade said we could not tell when babies in the womb became a person so the courts could not protect them.  Abortions were then done openly (it was not legal because the States still had laws on the books  making it illegal but they could not enforce them due to Roe vs Wade) and people began to feel that if it was openly allowed, it must be alright. Roe vs Wade has been repealed so the laws can now be enforced however liberal courts feel free to continue to ignore the law. Once babies are born they are definitely a person and protected by law, yet abortionists continue to feel they can violate the law and not be prosecuted.

 

 

Sanctity of Life-GC-D

09 Feb

When abortion proponents pushed to get Roe vs Wade through the Supreme Court, they claimed the courts could not protect  unborn babies because we did not know when they became human. That was all a front to get abortion into the United States. You can’t say it was legalized because the Supreme Court did not say it was legal, they merely said the courts did not have jurisdiction because it could not be proven to be human. However, that argument doesn’t hold because we should presume on the side of caution so we don’t kill a human being by accident. A hunter who shoots someone by accident can’t claim they didn’t know it was a person. It is negligent homicide. It was easy to convince a lot of women that it was just a blob of tissue and not really a baby because no one could see it. The abortionist tore it apart and removed the pieces so it did not look human when it came out. However they overstepped their bounds by delivering full term babies backward and killing them before the head was delivered so they could claim that it was delivered dead. At that point it was full term and fully developed so their argument that we didn’t know if it was human or not was not valid. It was fully developed so we could tell it was human so they were in violation of the Constitution that guarantees  everyone the right to life. They were protected by liberal courts that overstepped their bounds and gave them a free pass. However we now have ultrasound  so we can see it and we can detect a heartbeat and brainwaves so we know it is human so that argument no longer holds. The fact is they want to get rid of unwanted babies and want a license to kill them. Republicans pushed a bill through the House to protect babies born alive.

 

 

Sixth Sunday of Epiphany-Feb 11

07 Feb

Reason For Living-The church today often fails to recognize that the elderly need a reason for living. Men who work their whole lives see their reason for living tied to their work. When they retire, they often lose that and need to find another. Without it, they often become depressed and die. The highest death rate for men is shortly after they retire because they often lose their will to live. The church needs the talents and abilities of those who retire, but often fails to utilize them. While women are more tied to family and not so tied to work and do not face the crisis at retirement that men do, they too often have talents and abilities the church could use. The church needs to consciously work to help those of all ages, but especially those who are retiring find areas for them to use their talents and abilities for God’s service and should have an ongoing committee dedicated to getting to know members and help them discover and use their talents for God.

 

 

Marriage-III-I

07 Feb

Marriage is an important institution which protects the husband and wife and any children. Children need a stable home to teach them to be responsible adults. As laws have been weakened, divorce has become easier and an increasing number of couples are getting divorced. As the number of mothers and fathers who are having to raise their kids alone increases, the children growing up in those families are unable to maintain a healthy marriage of their own. They eventually divorce and repeat the cycle creating an increasing number of divorces, until now the number of divorces is declining because an increasing number of adults decide to not get married in the first place. Many today are never marrying due to fear of their spouse being unfaithful. They figure that if they don’t get married, they won’t have to worry about getting a divorce.  They can just leave when they want to. They still have kids but without the protection of marriage. We are seeing the fallout in not only the increasing number of kids growing up in one-parent families caused by children who never learned to deal with problems because they learned from their parents that when the going gets rough, you bail out. We are also seeing an increase in violence because they learned to attack someone who doesn’t let you have your way by watching their parents fight. In addition, we are seeing an increase in lack of respect for authority because they never had any consistent discipline and never learned that actions have consequences. See my course on the family and gender at Course URL- https://www.udemy.com/course/value-of-family-and-gender/?referralCode=B59AC09CACA5C0C97BDD

 

 
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Marriage-III-H

07 Feb

Beginning with the hippy movement in the 1960’s, there has been an open attack on marriage. (DOMA) The Defense of Marriage Act of 1995 was a bipartisan effort signed by President Bill Clinton to protect marriage. It delayed the efforts of liberal politicians until it was overturned by the courts nineteen years later. We cannot take the institution of marriage for granted and assume our representatives will protect marriage. We are facing increasingly liberal courts that ignore the laws of this country and promote their own agenda. In addition, we are facing an increasing number of liberal politicians who ignore the rights and well-being of the voters who vote them in, in order to promote their own agenda and that of the special interest groups who fund their campaigns. Sadly, the voters are asleep and are not holding their representatives accountable, allowing politicians to vote in laws restricting the rights and threatening the well-being of their voters, without any fear of being held accountable. Politicians are increasingly avoiding discussing their programs, which they know the voters will reject, in favor of personal attacks against politicians who still seek the rights and well-being of the voters who voted them in. It is therefore important for voters to track the voting records of their politicians and vote out those who refuse to respond to the will of the voters.

 
 

sermon-Living the Great Commission-video

05 Feb

 

Sanctity of Life-A-3-F

03 Feb

Planned Parenthood is playing for sympathy by promoting how many rapes take place in States that outlaw abortion, and it is shameful how Planned Parenthood comes out about reported rapes saying they stand behind these women and support them. Pro-Abortion advocates are showing how little they care about those who are raped. Every day they get women who are being trafficked, who are brought in by their pimps. They abort the babies and send the women back to their pimps to continue being trafficked, when they could report them and get these girls off the streets. Every day they get young girls who have been raped and brought in by their rapists. Planned Parenthood workers tell the girls not to tell them they have been raped or are under age because then the worker’s would be required by law to report the rape and they don’t want to do that, they want to take the rapist’s money, abort the evidence, and send these girls back to the rapist so he can continue to rape them and hopefully bring them more business when the girls get pregnant in the future. Some girls said they had three or more abortions before they turned 18 because they have to go home after the abortion to the father, brother, or neighbor who first raped them but Planned Parenthood never reported them.  Pro-abortion advocates are even fighting efforts of Pro-life advocates to enact laws making it illegal for a rapist to force his victim to get an abortion against her will because it will cut into their business. Pro-abortion advocates say it victimizes the victim by making her carry a baby that results from rape but she is really being victimized again if she chooses to carry the baby and is forced to abort it in order to destroy the evidence and prevent prosecution of the rapist, because it allows the rapist to continue assaulting her and escape prosecution.